The Blender Foundation just released Blender 4.3. This release is loaded with nice new features, the five best of which (IMHO) are:
- New windowing system with much improved user experience as well as the ability to drag of panels to new windows
- Grease Pencil 3.0. A rewrite of grease pencil, with a new UI tray of all the available brushes as well as a completely new erasing system as well as grease pencil now supporting geometry nodes
- Sculpting improvements. Like Grease Pencil, sculpting got the same UI brush panel that makes it easy to find and sort available brushes. There are also several new brushes added in this release
- New SLIM algorithm based UV Unwrap algorithm for more even distribution of textures we cover in more detail in this video here
- Vulkan backend is now available as an experimental feature
Of course this just scratches the surface of new features in Blender 4.3. You can read more details in the release notes.
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You can learn more about the top 5 new features mentioned above in the video below.