Blender Dev 1.0.0-beta.1

Released: 2026-08-07

The 1.0.0-beta.1 release begins the final stabilization phase toward 1.0. The core feature set is largely complete, while the remaining work focuses on Python-version updates, Blender API stub integration, Run and Debug behavior, release hardening, and code-quality review.

Added

• Added a combined release workflow for building, validating, tagging, and publishing pre-releases to GitLab and the JetBrains Marketplace dev channel.
• Added destination-specific release options for repository-only and Marketplace-only publication or recovery.
• Added explicit publication confirmation, clean-worktree validation, local tag verification, and optional branch and tag pushing to the combined release workflow.
• Added JetBrains Marketplace signing and publishing configuration using protected certificate files and an environment token.

Changed

• Updated the IntelliJ Platform Gradle settings plugin from 2.16.0 to 2.18.1.
• Reworked Marketplace change notes to reference the full changelog instead of duplicating a release-specific summary in the build configuration.
• Extended release publication and validation to support ordinal SemVer alpha, beta, and rc versions while retaining compatibility with legacy snapshot version mapping.

Fixed

• None.

Removed

• None.

Known Issues

• Managed Blender installations do not yet support in-place version updates.
• Blender API stub integration and Python-version update workflows remain incomplete.
• Run and Debug integration still requires stabilization before the full 1.0 release.