Blender Dev 1.0.0-beta.2

Released: 2026-08-10

This beta expands Blender’s Run and Debug integration with dedicated command and extension-build configurations, while improving compatibility with PyCharm 2026.1 and making managed Blender installations more reliable. Plugin settings now present Blender discovery and version management as one workflow, with immediate installation-state updates and built-in system diagnostics.

Added

• Added a dedicated Run Blender Command configuration with an editable command selector, guided completion for built-in extension commands and options, validation, and support for installation-defined commands.
• Added a dedicated Build or Validate Extension configuration with operation-specific source and output path controls. Paths can be project-relative or absolute, with portable project-relative defaults.
• The Install Path now renders on the Settings Interface for the selected Blender version

Changed

• Synchronized Marketplace change notes directly from the full changelog instead of publishing only a link to it.
• Consolidated Blender discovery and version management into a single Blender Versions settings section.
• Refactored global Blender settings into focused UI, coordination, and operation components with explicit lifecycle ownership.
• Reorganized the Visual Flow of the Blender settings.
• Moved managed-installation actions beside the version table as accessible icon-only buttons.
• Updated Blender API stub package installation and removal to invoke pip through the selected Python interpreter.
• Updated debugger attachment and tool-window lifecycle handling to avoid removed or internal PyCharm APIs.
• Standardized plugin diagnostics around stable error codes for process execution, Blender runtime communication, installation scanning, configuration, project generation, notifications, and API stub management.
• Embedded generated plugin-version metadata for runtime resource extraction.
• Improved the Pyproject.toml file template to be more accurate to Blender’s style guide.
• Changed macOS DMG extraction by mounting images through diskutil, copying only Blender.app, parsing the attached disk identifier, and ejecting the image during cleanup.
  • macOS 27 Golden Gate deprecates the hdiutil cli tool, as such, the extraction pipeline now uses its newer alternative, diskutil.

Fixed

• Fixed managed installations so successful install and removal operations update the selected version row immediately.
• Fixed installation scans so the overall scan and each Blender version probe have bounded runtimes, active probes stop on cancellation, and interrupted scans preserve the previous detected-installation cache.
• Fixed archive extraction collisions by using an isolated temporary directory for each managed Blender installation.

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.
• Managed Blender archives are not verified against published checksums before extraction.
• Live Blender integration and platform-specific archive extraction are not fully covered by automated tests.