Blender Dev 0.9.0-Snapshot

Released: 2026-07-22

This pre-release adds online Blender release discovery and managed Blender installations, allowing compatible Blender versions to be refreshed, installed, and removed directly from the plugin settings.

Added

• Added online Blender release discovery with a persistent application-level cache and configurable minimum release.
• Added scheduled background refreshes, including an immediate refresh when no valid cache exists at startup.
• Added Settings controls to refresh and clear the version cache, with notification feedback and plugin logging.
• Added managed download, extraction, installation, and removal for host-compatible Blender distributions.
• Added compatibility-table rows for discovered minor releases while preserving declared Python metadata for built-in rows.

Changed

• Updated Blender version management to retain the newest discovered patch per minor release, fall back to the built-in compatibility table while offline, and update the installation status without reopening Settings.
• Updated the plugin description to reflect the current PyCharm project, run, debug, and Blender integration workflows.

Fixed

• Fixed Blender download URL generation and validation for the current host operating system and architecture.
• Fixed the plugin settings page so its content scrolls vertically when the available height is limited.

Removed

• None.

Known Issues

• This remains a pre-release and is not production-hardened.
• Managed Blender installations do not yet support in-place version updates.
• Live Blender integration and platform-specific archive extraction are not covered by the automated JVM and Python test suites.