Blender 4.5 RC1 With Better Vulkan Support

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Blender 4.5’s release candidate is available for testing! Featuring many improvements and being the next Long Term Support (LTS) release.
Changes include:

• Better Vulkan support, now on par with OpenGL, with features like OpenXR, Subdivision, USD/Hydra, and improved performance.
• Default graphics backend remains OpenGL, but Vulkan should be ready for production use with updated drivers on Windows or Linux.
• Linux users see Wayland and X11 improvements.
• New nodes added: Vector Math, Vector Rotate, Vector Mix, Value Mix, Clamp, Float Curve, and Blackbody.
• Dependency graph building is up to 18% faster with better multi-threading in Adaptive Subdivision and improved texture loading performance for Eevee.
• Liquid simulation in physics code is 1.25 to 1.5 times faster.
• New features include ProRes video writing, importing multiple SVG files, and various file handling improvements.
• Big Endian support is deprecated and will be removed in Blender 5.0.
• macOS support for Intel hardware is deprecated; Blender 4.5 is the last official release for Intel-powered Macs.

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Blender 4.5 LTS is officially out!

• Vulkan backend is now equivalent to OpenGL, supporting OpenXR, Subdivision, USD/Hydra, and more, with improved performance. OpenGL remains the default for Blender 4.5.
• Linux users see enhancements for Wayland and X11 platforms.
• Blender 4.5 introduces new nodes: Vector Math, Vector Rotate, Vector Mix, Value Mix, Clamp, Float Curve, and Blackbody.
• Dependency graph building is up to 18% faster in Blender 4.5 for data-intensive projects.
• Adaptive Subdivision has been improved with multi-threading for better performance.
• Eevee’s texture loading and shader compilation are now faster and multi-threaded by default.
• Liquid simulation performance in Blender 4.5’s physics code is 1.25 to 1.5 times faster.
• Blender 4.5 supports ProRes video output, multiple SVG imports, and various file handling improvements.
• Big Endian support is deprecated and will be removed in Blender 5.0.
• macOS support for Intel hardware is deprecated, with Blender 4.5 being the last official release for Intel-powered Macs.

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