--- title: "Blender 5.2 LTS Enters Beta With New Features" url: https://daily.dev/posts/blender-5-2-lts-enters-beta-with-new-features-8kcfyrlhc source_url: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.2-Beta type: article source: "Phoronix" published: 2026-06-04T14:48:26.668Z updated: 2026-06-05T14:20:51.086Z tags: ["open-source", "3d", "blender", "physics"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Blender 5.2 LTS Enters Beta With New Features **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Blender 5.2 has entered beta and will be the first Long Term Support (LTS) release in the 5.x series. Key highlights include a new experimental physics system focused on hair and cloth simulations, an overhauled Screen Space Raytracing pipeline, improved Fast Global Illumination with better speed and noise reduction, EEVEE camera ray visibility for lights, up to 2x faster CPU-bottlenecked instancing-heavy scenes in EEVEE, online asset library support with remote browsing and on-demand downloads, and new input color spaces for cameras from Apple, ARRI, Blackmagic Design, Canon, and Sony. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#3d](https://daily.dev/tags/3d), [#blender](https://daily.dev/tags/blender), [#physics](https://daily.dev/tags/physics) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/blender-5-2-lts-enters-beta-with-new-features-8kcfyrlhc)