Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland
'Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix: The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland -- no X11 support for HDR -- and Vulkan graphics accelerator. HDR support for Blender 5.0 on Linux is currently considered experimental. Enabling the HDR support on Linux for the Blender creator software requires having a High Dynamic Range display (of course) and be running on a Wayland desktop, enabling Vulkan API acceleration rather than OpenGL, and enabling the feature currently deemed experimental. ' -- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/06/26/2035245 Cheers, Peter
On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:44:42 +1200, Peter Reutemann quoted:
'Michael Larabel writes via Phoronix:
The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application ... '
I can remember, back in the day, when Blender’s version numbers went up like 2.50, 2.51 ... 2.60, 2.61 ... all the way up to 2.83. Then they started going up in larger jumps: after 2.83 came 2.90. After 2.93 came 3.0. Since then, the version numbers have been changing in the first digit after the dot, not the second digit any more. But after 3.6 came 4.0, and now after 4.4 we are going to get 5.0. This is all fine, except I wonder what’s going to happen to the file format. Because the field for holding the major version number only has room for one digit.
On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:35:03 +1200, I wrote:
This is all fine, except I wonder what’s going to happen to the file format. Because the field for holding the major version number only has room for one digit.
Welp, we have an answer ... Blender 5.0 is introducing a change to the file format. Gory details here <https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/src/branch/main/source/blender/blenloader_core/BLO_core_blend_header.hh>, but basically there are now 2 digits for the major version number, plus provision for further extensions to the file header. This and other changes mean older versions of Blender won’t be able to open files created by the new version. I gather 4.5 (the current version) has some forward compatibility to get around this, but only partially. Blender 5.0 is scheduled to go final before mid-November.
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