The first Release Candidate for Blender 2.79 is now available. Please help test and report any bugs you may find.
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Bart Veldhuizen
I have a LONG history with Blender - I wrote some of the earliest Blender tutorials, worked for Not a Number and helped run the crowdfunding campaign that open sourced Blender (the first one on the internet!). I founded BlenderNation in 2006 and have been editing it every single day since then ;-) I also run the Blender Artists forum and I'm Head of Community at Sketchfab.
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There seem to be newer builds for Mac OS and Linux 64 Bit here:
https://builder.blender.org/download/
Of course - these always continue, even after a final release. Please test on the RC though.
If there are any bugs in the RC, would it affect the PC? sorry for my lack of tech knowledge. Also what should I do if my PC recommended that I shouldn't open 2.79 RC?
No! It can only affect the Blender file itself. And usually not even the Blender file get affected.
no, the program will just crash or simply not work properly.
open it anyway. that's likely just one of those default "we don't know what this is only open it if you trust the source" recommendations. which if the people who added that into the OS were honest about would have to be asked in front of opening every program.
There is absolutely no chance that the Release Candidate will actually harm your PC, even though it may (and probably will) contain bugs. You can safely use it, but stick with an earlier version if you're working on a project that's intended for production.
Thanks you guys. :)
Finally and right in time to finish my animation using denoising. :)
Working with Blender OutLiner is so hard , need some improves.like photoshop layer manager.
So far, so good. Rendering out an animation for a comp I'm working on. Principled shader performs well, though there's an overall performance boost when rendering with cycles (that might just be the principled shader replacing my janky PBR shader implementation :3) and filmic is also great :D