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===Cycles X===
On April 23, 2021, the Blender Foundation announced the Cycles X project, where they improved the Cycles architecture for future development. Key changes included a new kernel, removal of default [[tiled rendering]] (replaced by progressive refine), removal of branched path tracing, and the removal of [[OpenCL]] support. Volumetric rendering was also replaced with better algorithms.<ref name=":2">{{cite web |last=Foundation |first=Blender |title=Cycles X |url=https://code.blender.org/2021/04/cycles-x/ |access-date=2021-05-01 |website=Blender Developers Blog |date=23 April 2021 |language=en}}</ref><ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/awMjwhJVRMw Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20210423165250/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awMjwhJVRMw&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|title=Cycles X| date=23 April 2021 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awMjwhJVRMw|language=en|access-date=2021-05-01}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite web |date=2021-04-23 |title=Blender Announces Cycles X: The Blazingly Fast Future of Cycles |url=https://www.blendernation.com/2021/04/23/blender-announces-cycles-x-the-blazingly-fast-future-of-cycles/ |access-date=2021-05-01 |website=BlenderNation |language=en-US}}</ref> Cycles X had only been accessible in an experimental branch<ref>{{cite web|last=Foundation|first=Blender|title=Blender Experimental Builds - blender.org|url=https://builder.blender.org/|access-date=2021-05-01|website=Blender Experimental Builds - blender.org|language=en}}</ref> until September 21, 2021, when it was merged into the Blender 3.0 alpha.<ref name=":3">{{Cite news |date=2021-09-21 |title=Cycles X now in Blender 3.0 alpha! |url=https://www.blendernation.com/2021/09/21/cycles-x-now-in-blender-3-0-alpha/ |access-date=2021-09-23 |website=BlenderNation |language=en-US}}</ref>