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Blender 5.2 LTS Released With Many Great Enhancements

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 14 July 2026 at 12:11 PM EDT. 3 Comments

Blender 5.2 is out today as the newest Long Term Support release for this leading, open-source 3D modeling software.

Blender 5.2 brings a wealth of improvements thanks to its ongoing brisk development pace and continued sponsorship by many organizations. With Blender 5.2 LTS some of the highlights include:

- Blender 5.2 overhauled its Screen Space Raytracing pipeline for addressing long-standing usability issues.

- A few critical bugs within the Fast Global Illumination (GI) code of Blender have been resolved with a more robust implementation. Fast GI has also been better optimized for speed and noise reduction.

- EEVEE lights now support camera ray visibility.

- EEVEE now supports the same instancing optimizations as Workbench and Overlay, leading to CPU-bottlenecked, instancing-heavy scenes being up to twice as fast.

- Blender 5.2 now supports online asset libraries with the ability to register remotely-hosted asset libraries while browsing them within Blender and downloading the assets on an as-needed basis.

- New input color spaces for Apple, ARRI, Blackmagic Design, Canon, and Sony cameras.

More details on the Blender 5.2 LTS changes can be found via the release notes.

Download Blender 5.2 from Blender.org and new Blender benchmarks coming soon of CPU and GPU data.

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