Editing Blender (software) (section)

===Blender 2.8===
Official planning for the next major revision of Blender after the 2.7 series began in the latter half of 2015, with potential targets including a more configurable UI (dubbed "Blender 101"), support for [[physically based rendering]] (PBR) (dubbed EEVEE for "Extra Easy Virtual Environment Engine") to bring improved realtime 3D graphics to the viewport, allowing the use of C++11 and C99 in the codebase, moving to a newer version of [[OpenGL]] and dropping support for versions before 3.2, and a possible overhaul of the particle and constraint systems.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://code.blender.org/2015/07/blender-2-8-the-workflow-release/|title=Blender 2.8 – the Workflow release|publisher=code.blender.org|date=June 20, 2015|access-date=September 9, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://code.blender.org/2015/11/the-2-8-project-for-developers/|title=2.8 project developer kickoff meeting notes|publisher=code.blender.org|date=November 1, 2015|access-date=September 9, 2017}}</ref> Blender Internal renderer has been removed from 2.8.<ref name="bi-removed" /> ''Code Quest'' was a project started in April 2018 set in Amsterdam, at the Blender Institute.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.blender.org/press/announcing-blender-2-8-code-quest/|title=Announcing Blender 2.8 Code Quest — blender.org|last=Foundation|first=Blender|website=blender.org|date=12 February 2018 |language=en|access-date=2018-07-07}}</ref> The goal of the project was to get a large development team working in one place, in order to speed up the development of Blender 2.8.<ref name=":0" /> By June 29, 2018, the Code Quest project ended, and on July 2, the alpha version was completed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://code.blender.org/2018/06/beyond-the-code-quest/|title=Beyond the Code Quest — Blender Developers Blog|last=Foundation|first=Blender|website=Blender Developers Blog|date=29 June 2018 |language=en|access-date=2018-07-07}}</ref> Beta testing commenced on November 29, 2018, and was anticipated to take until July 2019.<ref name="release-2.8">{{cite web|url=https://code.blender.org/2019/04/2-80-release-plan/|title=2.80 Release Plan --- Blender Developers Blog|date=April 12, 2019|website=blender.org|access-date=April 18, 2019}}</ref> Blender 2.80 was released on July 30, 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blender.org/download/releases/|title=Release Notes|last=Foundation|first=Blender|website=blender.org|language=en|access-date=2019-08-14}}</ref>