The motto “Performance meets stability in Blender 5.1“” is the headline over this new release.

After the major rebuilds (and the sometimes painful clear-cutting) for the jump from Blender 4.5 to Blender 5.0, the developers have now taken the necessary time to stabilize this work and make it more production-ready again, removing existing obstacles.

At the same time, a lot of emphasis was placed on performance, which can now be felt in many areas of Blender 5.1. That’s always a great thing!

However, that does not mean that some welcome innovations have also arrived in this release.

There are some exciting goodies, especially in the areas of Grease Pencil, Geometry Nodes, Video Sequence Editor and Sculpting:-)

However, for anyone who has to stay on Blender 4.5 LTS due to the increased and changed hardware requirements, there is nothing in my opinion that would force a direct update.

Here is the link to the official feature list:
https://www.blender.org/download/releases/5-1/

My picks for some Blender 5.1 overview videos

As always there are also some informative overview videos on YouTube:

What’s New in Blender 5.1! Official Overview by CGCookie

Blender 5.1 Features in LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES! By SouthernShotty

Blender 5.1, Five simple quality of life improvements by Christopher3D

Blender 5.1: NEW Rigging and Animation Features by CGDive

I hope you like, what you see 🙂

Learn Blender with me!

I would also like to point out my Blender online training. You can find my German-language courses here:
https://visualisierungs-akademie.ch/de/kurse?software=b45db5db-1c20-4778-88f1-23f4753a12f9

If you are looking for the same topics in English, please contact me (info (at) pixeltrain.net )!

Have fun!

Helge