Blender

What is new in this release:

With again over a thousand fixes and many important updates that were planned for the 2.8 series. In this release you will find UDIM and USD support, a new fluid and smoke simulation system, AI denoising and much more.

What is new in version 2.78:

• Spherical Stereo images rendering support for VR
• Grease Pencil is now a full 2D drawing & animation tool!
• Viewport Rendering improvements
• New Freehand curves drawing over surfaces!
• Bendy Bones, powerful new options for B-Bones
• Alembic support: import/export basic operators
• Cloth Physics: new Dynamic Base Mesh and Simulation Speed option
• New Add-ons, individual preferences, Python APIs changes, and a lot of new & updated add-ons!
• Many more features, improvements and the usual huge bug-fixes list

What is new in version 2.75a:

• Game Engine would crash for Objects using velocity clamping.
• Browsing render passes in Blender crashed.

What is new in version 2.74:

• Cycles got several precision, noise, speed, memory improvements, new Pointiness attribute.
• Viewport has new cool compositing features, outliner now manages orphan datablocks better.
• Modeling now allows custom normals, and transferring data layers between meshes.
• Massive improvements to hair dynamics and editing tools: a big step forward with more to come.
• A new tool "Cavity Mask" was added to sculpting/painting, along with other improvements.
• Great memory consumption optimization in Freestyle NPR stroke rendering.
• Grease pencil and Game engine improvements.