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Questions about using and managing different versions of Blender, past present and future. Use this tag for upgrade questions, installation questions, etc.

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When is 2.8's release date and how to make it more stable

On the 13th August (2018) Blender 2.8 Alpha 2 was released. The Alpha status means that the software is still not stable, and a lot of effort is being put in dealing with crashes and instabilities, ra …
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Learn Blender 2.7 now or wait for the 2.8 Beta release?

Learn now, and it's ok to start with 2.8 Blender 2.8 makes many changes to some fundamental aspects of how we interact with the software and with each workflow. Most notably: layers are gone and the …
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How old is Blender?

In the releases repository you can find versions as old as Blender 1.0! I doubt you'll be able to use it though, it's just for IRIX. … If you can't get old versions to work, there is somebody on Youtube that in 2014 tried to go back in time, reporting on their experiments: Blender 2.40, Blender 2.27, Blender 1.80. …
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Will add-ons from Blender 2.79 work or be compatible with Blender 2.8?

Yes All the addons that come with Blender, and that still make sense to have (e.g. not the Layer Management addon because Layers don't exist anymore), are planned to be updated and made available in t …
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Can I specify which version of Blender to run when rendering from a command line prompt (Lin...

Blender doesn't need to be installed, so even if you have one version installed on your system, you can have other versions that sit in your filesystem and can be run without further operations. … To get Blender 2.81a: on the compute machine: # go to your home directory (or a convenient other place) cd ~ # make a directory to store blender distributions, and enter it mkdir blender-versions cd …
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