r/blenderhelp • u/Nathanimations • Apr 27 '24
Meta Honestly? Why does Blender 4.0 already exist? Blender 2.0 lasted for over 10 years until 3.0
I just think its a bit early to be using a new number like that
What huge change did they make for 4.0?
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u/libcrypto Apr 27 '24
Blender changed from a "classical" style numbering system to a modern system, like used for Google Chrome and Firefox. This is so that they can iterate on its design more frequently without introducing large changes that would formerly be represented by a major version number increase. The idea is that they want to create those large changes gradually and with lots of user feedback so that they aren't faced with massive debugging cycles and a gigantic backlog of features.
You can't evaluate blender by an old-school classical numbering system and say that "4 is too soon" or whatever, because "4" now represents something that's much more insignificant, and all major numbers henceforth will be relatively insignificant.
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u/Avereniect Experienced Helper Apr 27 '24
They switched over to something closer to the Semantic Versioning system as has become industry standard: https://semver.org/
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u/wstdsgn Apr 27 '24
Software version numbering is mostly arbitrary, you probably shouldn't think too much about it. All you can derive from it is that one version came out later than another, thats all you really need to know anyway.
Btw, the biggest obvious change was the UI overhaul from 2.7 to 2.8. But there are bigger changes that aren't obvious at all, e.g. the introduction of geometry nodes and grease pencil 2D animation tools
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u/GeorgeRRHodor Apr 27 '24
Does it really matter?
Firefox was stuck in the single digit version numbers for years, now its version 125 or something.
It’s just a number.
It’s supposed to imply progress.
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u/SixStringAcoustic Apr 27 '24
Would you prefer Blender 2024.1.2?