Last June, the Blender Foundation He launched the first LTS version of your software. A Long Term Support version is one that is supported for the longest time, which ensures that it will be more stable than other versions. But this does not mean that the arrival of new functions stops, and a few hours ago they launched Blender 2.90, another important update that has come with many improvements that we can read in the release note.
Among these improvements, according to the benchmarks, we have a better performance in practically all scenarios, especially in the use of Agent 327. Below you have a list of the most outstanding novelties that have arrived with Blender 2.90, among which we have many related to hardware support.
Highlights of Blender 2.90
- Intel's open source embre is now used for ray tracing on CPUs, which improves performance.
- Intel Open Image Denoise is now used in more sections.
- NVIDIA OptiX support is now available on all NVIDIA GPUs from Maxwell and newer, where as before it only worked on RTX GPUs.
- NVIDIA NVLink support for CUDA and OptiX.
- Cloth filter work.
- Redesigned Automasking.
- Improved the elegant brush.
- Other changes in the form of general fixes and improvements.
Blender 2.90 is now available for all supported systems from the author's website, which can be accessed from this link. From there, Linux users can download the tarball, so it may be a better option to install the Snap version (sudo snap install blender –classic). Considering how soon the Flatpak version is updated, it's surprising that it still hasn't appeared in Flatub, but will do so in the next few hours. Those who prefer to use the versions of the official repositories of their Linux distribution will still have to wait days (or even weeks or months) to be able to take advantage of all the news in Blender 2.90.