What's new around Blender.https://www.blender.org/news/blender-survey-2026/?utm_medium=news<article id="post-97815 class=" post-97815="" post="" type-post="" status-publish="" format-standard="" has-post-thumbnail="" hentry="" category-news="" tag-devfund="" tag-survey="" morss_own_score="9.006211180124224" morss_score="11.807535683435482"> <h1>Blender Survey 2026</h1> <ul> <li>October 6th, 2026</li> <li><a href="https://www.blender.org/category/news/">News</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.blender.org/author/fsiddi/">Francesco Siddi</a> </li> </ul> <div class="entry-content" morss_own_score="5.602649006622516" morss_score="32.102649006622514"> html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" <figure><img src="https://www.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/blender_survey_2026.jpg"></figure> <p>Thanks everyone for participating! The results will be announced in November. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="8.0" morss_score="10.5"><strong>Blender Foundation announces its annual user survey, which aims to better understand:</strong></p> <ul> <li>The user community demographics: age group, geography and professional background</li> <li>Common use cases and workflows</li> <li>Users’ top priorities for further improvements</li> <li>How people connect with the Blender project and get involved as contributors</li> <li>How the community spends money (Blender Development Fund donations, marketplaces, training, etc.)</li> <li>The future direction of the Blender project</li> </ul> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="9.0" morss_score="11.0">The <strong>anonymized</strong> results will be shared publicly, both as an illustrated report with commentary and as a raw dataset. Log in with your Blender ID below to participate:</p> <figure><img src="https://www.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/blender_survey_no_bg.png"></figure> <p>Thank you for participating! Your input will help shape the future of Blender.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="7.0" morss_score="9.0"></p> <p>Francesco</p></div> </article> https://www.blender.org/news/blender-foundation-annual-report-2025/?utm_medium=news<article id="post-97732 class=" post-97732="" post="" type-post="" status-publish="" format-standard="" has-post-thumbnail="" hentry="" category-news="" tag-devfund="" morss_own_score="8.160919540229886" morss_score="10.832152416942215"> <h1>Blender Foundation Annual Report 2025</h1> <ul> <li>September 23rd, 2026</li> <li><a href="https://www.blender.org/category/news/">News</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.blender.org/author/blender/">Blender Foundation</a> </li> </ul> <div class="entry-content" morss_own_score="5.342465753424658" morss_score="21.460112812248187"> html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" <p>The 2025 Blender Foundation report is now publicly available. Download it at <a href="https://download.blender.org/foundation/Blender-Foundation-Annual-Report-2025.pdf">Annual report 2025 (pdf)</a>.</p> <figure><img src="https://www.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/blender-annual-report-2025-mockup-2880p-1280x853.webp"></figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="10.0" morss_score="10.0">Thanks so much for the support we’ve had from you and/or your organizations. Thanks to the Development Fund we could make a real impact; to improve the lives and creative endeavors of many people.</p> <p>Feel free to share this report with everyone.</p> </div> </article> https://www.blender.org/news/show-your-support-for-blender-projects/?utm_medium=news<article id="post-97713 class=" post-97713="" post="" type-post="" status-publish="" format-standard="" has-post-thumbnail="" hentry="" category-news="" tag-devfund="" tag-news-link="" tag-press="" morss_own_score="8.36734693877551" morss_score="10.938775510204081"> <h1>Show your support for Blender projects</h1> <ul> <li>September 21st, 2026</li> <li><a href="https://www.blender.org/category/news/">News</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.blender.org/author/blender/">Blender Foundation</a> </li> </ul> <div class="entry-content" morss_own_score="5.142857142857143" morss_score="32.06793650793651"> html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="8.730158730158731" morss_score="8.730158730158731">A donation to the <a href="https://fund.blender.org">Blender Development Fund</a> has always been a non-targeted form of support that the Blender project further distributes as it sees fit. This will stay the same: the established process brings balance to development activities, ensuring that high-demand features go hand in hand with the necessary but sometimes invisible maintenance and quality-of-life improvements.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="10.0" morss_score="10.0">However, from an individual donor point of view, the act of supporting a specific activity carries more weight and comes with a sense of purpose. It is also important for the Blender project to know which features have the most impact for supporters of the Blender Development Fund.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="10.0" morss_score="10.0">To address this, we recently added a “Show your support” feature to the donations page and the Blender Roadmap. Now, a donation can start from a project on the Roadmap page. Once the transaction is complete, it’s added to that project’s supporter count, shown as ‘likes’. This way, donations stay non-targeted, but still help increase a project’s visibility and highlight demand for it.</p> <figure><img src="https://www.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/projects_roadmap-edited-1280x499.webp"></figure> <div aria-labelledby="accordion-item-1" data-wp-bind--hidden="state.isHidden" data-wp-on--beforematch="actions.handleBeforeMatch" id="accordion-item-1-panel" role="region" class="wp-block-accordion-panel is-layout-flow wp-block-accordion-panel-is-layout-flow" morss_own_score="3.0" morss_score="10.0"> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="10.0" morss_score="10.0">In October, the “Show your support” feature was added to the Membership settings of the Blender Development Fund subscription. Supporters with an active membership can now pick their favourite project in the Dev Fund settings and change their choice once every 30 days.</p> <figure><img src="https://www.blender.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/devfund_fav_project_support-1280x720.jpg"></figure> </div> <p>Explore <a href="https://www.blender.org/roadmap/">the Blender Roadmap</a> and show your support for your favorite projects! We are excited to see what projects will be highlighted by you the most.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="8.0" morss_score="10.0">Natalie Rozvezeva</p> <p>Project Manager and Development Manager, Blender</p></div> </article> https://www.blender.org/news/introducing-the-blender-roadmap/?utm_medium=news<article id="post-96454 class=" post-96454="" post="" type-post="" status-publish="" format-standard="" has-post-thumbnail="" hentry="" category-news="" tag-devfund="" tag-news-link="" morss_own_score="8.125" morss_score="10.61556603773585"> <h1>Introducing the Blender Roadmap</h1> <ul> <li>May 26th, 2026</li> <li><a href="https://www.blender.org/category/news/">News</a></li> <li> <a href="https://www.blender.org/author/blender/">Blender Foundation</a> </li> </ul> <div class="entry-content" morss_own_score="4.981132075471699" morss_score="44.59877913429523"> html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd" <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="8.235294117647058" morss_score="8.235294117647058">Keeping track of Blender development has just become more accessible. We are happy to introduce the <a href="https://code.blender.org/roadmap/">Blender Roadmap</a> – a central, up-to-date overview of major ongoing projects and recently completed features.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="10.0" morss_score="10.0">Whether you are an artist curious about what is coming next, a studio planning pipelines, or a contributor wondering where to plug in, the roadmap offers a clearer picture of where Blender is heading on featured work and how you can get involved.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="9.0" morss_score="9.0">Move from a high-level overview to technical details in one click. Each project card links directly to the relevant project page, issue, pull request, or development blog post.</p> <a href="https://www.blender.org/news/introducing-the-blender-roadmap/?utm_medium=news#part-of-the-bigger-picture"><h2><strong>Part of the bigger picture</strong></h2></a> <p class="wp-block-paragraph" morss_own_score="10.0" morss_score="10.0">The Roadmap provides a curated view on featured projects and doesn’t cover everything happening in Blender. Development also involves triaging, maintenance, bug fixes, documentation, and day-to-day module work. That side of Blender development is equally essential: contributors are always welcome to join and help move the project forward.</p> <p>Let’s go on this journey together.</p> <p>Explore the roadmap: <a href="https://code.blender.org/roadmap/">https://code.blender.org/roadmap/</a></p> <p>Get involved: <a href="https://developer.blender.org/">https://developer.blender.org/</a></p> <p>Natalie Rozvezeva</p> <p>Project Manager and Development Manager, Blender</p> </div> </article>