Blender 2.80 Bittorrent Downloads
Update: download mirrors are now in place and bittorrent downloads are no longer needed, so I stopped serving them. These links will no longer work.
As the Blender site is completely choked since the release of Blender 2.80, I’ve started working with the Blender Foundation on setting up temporary bittorrents for downloads.
Note: you can also download Blender from Steam.
Some notes:
- These are the official release files from Blender.org
- I’m not very experienced with this, so please bear with me if things go wrong ;-)
- Please keep your bittorrent client open when the download is finished and help other users (and me). If I don’t get enough people to help me seed these files and it kills my connection, I’ll have to shut this down again.
- Please download files for other platforms to and keep seeding them.
- I’m slowly adding new files as soon as I receive them from the BF.
Here are the bittorrent magnet links:
Great! Unfortunately not all of us can use BT – is it possible to add regular mirrors?
You can also get it on steam or windows store.
I added a note about this, thanks!
Windows store is 2.79b; does anyone know who pushes the builds to the store? I’d be happy to take over and oversee that if anyone who does it now would like.
I can’t help with a regular mirror, sorry.
Thank you Bart! Those links have been extremely helpful for me now that the official server is overloaded.
Did it work for you?
I’ve downloaded your torrent file in a few seconds! No ways to get it downloaded from the official server, it takes hours and it stops after a few MB…
I have also downloaded the other files and keep seeding them :)
Maybe you should advertise those links on twitter (https://twitter.com/blender_org/status/1156232354295402497) there are many users suffering from this issue.
I suggested to the BF that they share these links
MD5 is not really safe, but it’s better than nothing. These seem to be the official MD5 checksums for those files. It should let you check if the torrent files are equal to the ones distributed by blender.org.
6f8afe0326093e479cb5505a8c783336 blender-2.80-linux-glibc217-x86_64.tar.bz2
77c62e04a49e8284ef1474608d3a1b61 blender-2.80-linux-glibc224-i686.tar.bz2
2c8d8ae78e27ca14fc7e1d6e18290dc9 blender-2.80-macOS.dmg
426684bce310d658f5932621867196f0 blender-2.80-windows32.msi
83e1d09d41bf9911db09473a7c49c507 blender-2.80-windows32.zip
14a7e49abb000a937e90808211b8927f blender-2.80-windows64.msi
f21bde617f1a4d4cd0314deffe0df4db blender-2.80-windows64.zip
Thank you soooooo much I had 4mb left and downloaded the whole thing in under that time.
Starting to seed peps ;)
Seconds with the torrent, fifteen minutes for 40% of the server download. I’d suggest updating the download page to include a link to the BitTorrent and a plea for people to try the BitTorrent if it’s equally convenient.
I’m honestly a little surprised that Blender doesn’t always distribute using BitTorrent along side regular downloads. With Blender being so open, it seems like a great decentralized way to distribute the software
I stopped serving these files as download mirrors are now in place and they can handle the traffic.
Thanks for all your HELP ……. It is really appreciated.
Cheers
MR HOLLYWOOD
hi bart i have a question how to download it i looked at comments and understand that this is a good app
I don’t understand your question? This post is now 3 years old; I recommend downloading Blender from blender.org.