Blender is developed by a global community of contributors. Explore ongoing projects that shape upcoming releases and get involved in work happening beyond the Roadmap at developer.blender.org.
Ongoing Projects
CORE
Project Setup
Shared “project” environment for different blend-files. In Development
CORE
Dynamic Overrides
A simple and efficient way to override property values of any data-block, linked or local. On Hold
I/O
Collection Import
Bring Blender lib linking closer to importing data from other formats, plus allow more flexibility in the loading process. In Development
MODELING
Loop Tools
Porting the popular Looptools add-on into core Blender. In Development
Upcoming Projects
Completed Projects
CYCLES
Texture Cache
Use many high resolution textures with little memory, by loading only tiles at mipmap levels that are needed. Released in Blender 5.2 LTS
VR
Location Scouting
Support blocking camera vantage points while immersed in Virtual Reality. Released in Blender 5.2 LTS
GREASE PENCIL
Textured Brushes
Update Grease Pencil materials to increase quality and performance of textured brushes. Released in Blender 5.2 LTS
XR
Vulkan OpenXR Interop
Improve the performance when using Virtual Reality with the Vulkan Backend. Released in Blender 5.1
Blender Lab
Check out more projects under the Lab activities, the innovation space within the Blender project.
Note that Lab activities are not part of the current Blender roadmap, and do not have a release timeline or target.
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