The Blender Foundation today released Blender 4.1 as a new update to its powerful, free, open source, and cross-platform 3D graphics desktop software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.
Arrival after more than four months Blender 4.0Blender 4.1 release is here to introduce quality of life improvements and performance improvements across the board to make Blender more useful and reliable, especially for modelers or animators.
Highlights of Blender 4.1 include a new file handling API that allows developers to extend the traditional drag-and-drop file “import” operators through the Blender UI, adding support for Alembic, Collada, Grease Pencil SVG, OBJ, OpenUSD, PLY, and STL formats file within the 3D Viewport and Outliner area.
This release makes bone collections hierarchical by displaying them in a tree instead of a flat list and allowing you to reorder them using drag and drop. Additionally, double-clicking an object or collection icon in the outliner will now select all of its children, which is one of the most requested features by users.
Blender 4.1 also adds a new “Bake Channels” operator to the Graph Editor that allows you to specify the bake range, define the distance between baked keys, remove keys outside the baked range, define the interpolation type for new keyframes, and bake modifiers for keyframes.
It also adds an option to create motion paths relative to the active camera, improves the speed of the Dope Sheet by calculating only keyframes that are visible in the current view, and adds a new option in the graph editor to auto-lock keystrokes on the X or Y axis.
Support for Cryptomatte, Defocus, Keying Screen, and Vector Blur nodes has been added to the Viewport Compositor, and the Keying Screen node has been updated to use Gaussian radial basis function interpolation to produce smoother time-stable keying screens.
For more details on the new features, fixes, improvements and other changes included in this release, see release notes. In the meantime, you can download Blender 4.1 now from official site.
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