Blender 4.3 Released / News / November 19, 2024 / BlenderThe Blender Foundation just released Blender 4.3. This release is loaded with nice new features, the five best of which (IMHO) are:New windowing system with much improved user experience as well as the ability to drag of panels to new windowsGrease Pencil 3.0. A rewrite of grease pencil, with a new UI tray of all the available brushes as well as a completely new erasing system as well as grease pencil now supporting geometry nodesSculpting improvements. Like Grease Pencil, sculpting got the same UI brush panel that makes it easy to find and sort available brushes. There are also several new brushes added in this releaseNew SLIM algorithm based UV Unwrap algorithm for more even distribution of textures we cover in more detail in this video hereVulkan backend is now available as an experimental featureOf course this just scratches the surface of new features in Blender 4.3. You can read more details in the release notes.Key LinksBlender 4.3 Release NotesBlender HomepageYou can learn more about the top 5 new features mentioned above in the video below.