Blender 4.5 LTS arrives with Vulkan fully supported and lots of performance improvements

By Liam Dawe - 16 Jul 2025 at 10:04 am UTC

A big day in Blender land with the arrival of Blender 4.5 LTS, finally bringing Vulkan up to full supported status with it matching OpenGL. This will ensure Blender can continue building up advanced graphical features with good performance.

Blender is easily one of the most important open source projects out there, and it's great to see more and more game devs pick it up. Along with other industries. In case you missed it the Blender Studio team recently released DOGWALK made with Godot.

There's absolutely masses of new features, and plenty of features were tweaked to improve their performance for this release too. So the app should start up faster and remains smoother. A lot of UI work again went into this release to polish it up, make it more intuitive and accessible.

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Specifically on Linux they also added large cursors for hi-DPI monitors and support for the Hyper modifier key.

Check out all the changes on the Blender website.

Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.

Tags: Native Linux, Apps, Game Dev, Misc, New Release, Open Source

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tfk 7 hours ago

Ah. Such a cool project. I wish I was better at at.

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