Changes, Improvements & New Features

Depending on where you live, July 15 may have already begun – or is just about to – marking the impending arrival of the long-awaited Blender version 4.5 Long-Term Support (LTS). As we await its launch, let’s take a look at some of the exciting new features, changes, and improvements the Blender Foundation is introducing with the release.

Expanding and enhancing virtually all of Blender’s toolsets, the release introduces rotation support for the Snap to Cursor operator, adds new operators – Separate, Join, Convert Attribute, and Split – for the new Curves type, provides additional control over vertex parenting in the Object Properties>Relations panel, and adds a new Boolean solver option to the Boolean Geometry Node and Modifier.

Moreover, the Point Cloud object type has been fully enabled and its experimental option removed, and the Image Editor’s Mask and Paint modes now display all selected and active object UVs regardless of object mode.

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