v2.2.0

What's Changed

💡 Features:

• Add a message to notify the existence of tray icon feature for Windows version
• Library Folder can now be relative to the Launcher location
• Improve Column Ordering, it's now possible to have ascending and descending ordering
• Add option to show archived builds for daily and Experimental Download

🛠️ Fixes:

• Fix a build ordering bug in the download tab
• Fix a bug caused by specific timezone on Windows

⚙️ Others:

• Documentation Update
• Improve GitHub Action to create automatic build
• UI improvement in the Settings menu
• Blender Launcher has been added to the Archlinux User Repository (maintained by @sakarimo)

v2.2.0-rc.3

What's Changed

• fix: scraped list not sorted by @dshot92 in #113
• Add option to scrap archive builds by @Victor-IX in #115
• Allow relative library folders by @zeptofine in #116
• Invert Columns Order by @Victor-IX in #120

Full Changelog: v2.2.0-rc.2...v2.2.0-rc.3

v2.2.0-rc.2

What's Changed

• Add a message to notify the existence of tray icon feature by @zeptofine in #107
• Fix build error for Linux by @sakarimov in #111
• Filter Windows build with CPU Architecture @zeptofine @Victor-IX in #106
• Adding a Dropdown menu to select the minimum blender version by @Victor-IX in #102

Full Changelog: v2.2.0-rc.1...v2.2.0-rc.2

v2.2.0-rc.1

This Release Candidate was primarily made due to an issue with locales being a blocking issue in registering new blender builds when your locale is something Python does not recognize. If you have encountered this, give this prerelease a shot!

What's Changed

• Attempt to pass inferred build info to downloaded builds by @zeptofine in 3de4838
• Using local timezones where UTC timezones are inappropriate by @zeptofine in 522706a
• add archlinux installation extras by @sakarimov in #101
• Pre release improvements by @Victor-IX in #97
• Documentation Update by @Victor-IX in #83

v2.1.24

What's Changed

💡 Features:

• Clicking on the Install Button in the download tab now navigates you to the Build in the Library.
• Improved Settings readability.
• New option to Disable automatic build Checking on Startup (Settings > Blender Builds).
• New option to only scrape Daily or Stable builds (Settings > Blender Builds).
• New settings to use Pre-release Updates for the Blender Launcher (Settings > General).
• New settings to use System Title Bar (Settings > Appearance).
• You can now open the last closed Blender file by shift-clicking on the Launch button.
• Every build is now editable.

🛠️ Fixes:

• Fixed Stable build fetching.
• Fixed installed versions being flagged as "installed" after uninstalling in the download tab.
• Fixed a bug preventing users from launching Blender 2.79 and older from the Launcher.
• Fixed the inability to move BL using internal moving panels on some Linux Distributions.

⚙️ Others:

• New icon in the Context Menu.
• Implemented Semver to manage the version of the Blender Launcher and Blender builds. (We used non-standard version numbers for this version and the previous one to prevent breaking the updater; we will return to a more standard versioning format in the next update).
• Blender Launcher Settings, Log, and Cache files are now located in the user folder.
  • Windows: %AppData%\..\Local\Blender Launcher.
  • Linux Config: $XDG_CONFIG_HOME or ~/.config/Blender Launcher
  • Linux Cache: $XDG_CACHE_HOME or ~/.cache
• Stable Build caching to reduce request amount and speed up the fetching of all the Blender builds.
• Improved Error feedback.
• Shift-clicking Check will now refresh Stable and Daily.
• Using argparse for parsing commandline arguments.

Edit: Uploaded a new version of the Ubuntu build due to segfaults (I love github actions so much...)

v2.0.24

What's Changed

💡Feature:

• Installed builds are now visible as "Install" in the Downloads tab.
• Added the possibility to add and initialize a custom Blender version in the user custom tab (Bforartists...).
• Added the possibility to launch a .blend file by dragging and dropping it onto a Blender version in the Library tab.
• Added a minimum scraper setting to hide stable downloadable versions that are older than the threshold.

🛠️Fix:

• Fixed multiple crashes.
• Fixed a bug where reloading a custom build would cause duplication of Favorites entries.
• Fixed documentation link.
• Fixed the Experimental and Patch Branch name

⚙️Other:

• (Linux) Updater now tries to select a specific linux release based on your distribution.
• Major codebase rework and uniformization.
• Switched project package and dependency manager from pipenv to pdm.
• Code formatting.

v1.16.1

What's Changed

Hot Fix patch

🛠️Fix:

• Fix a bug where .msi version where downloaded instead of the .zip one

v1.16.0

What's Changed

⚠Info:

• Blender Foundation is currently blocking the request on the /release website for the stables versions making it impossible to retrieve those versions, this issue will be fixed during the week

💡Feature:

• Using Blender's JSON API for gathering builds available from builder.blender.org

⚙️Other:

• Linux Version is now available

v1.15.3

What's Changed

⚠Info:

• Some Blender Websites are still not fully working after the recent DDoS attack you may not be able to download some of the Blender builds
• It can take some time to get all the Blenders versions so be patient when the program is checking for new versions
• Only the Windows version is available for now, I need to set up a Linux environment to build the Linux version
• Expect bugs, I was not able to test everything
• Blender Foundation is currently blocking the request on the /release website for the stables versions making it impossible to retrieve those versions, I'm currently trying to reach out to Blender to check with them how we can fix this issue

⚙️Other:

• Fore Disable Check For New Build Automatically (even if you reenable this option it will not work), this has been made to lower the number of requests

Blender Launcher v1.15.2

What's Changed

First version after Forking from the original project.
I will keep updating and improving this software, don't hesitate to give me feedback and create pull requests if you want to add your own feature to this repo!
You can also join my Discord if you want to follow the development

⚠Info:

• Some Blender Websites are still not fully working after the recent DDoS attack you may not be able to download some of the Blender builds
• It can take some time to get all the Blenders versions so be patient when the program is checking for new versions
• Only the Windows version is available for now, I need to set up a Linux environment to build the Linux version
• Expect bugs, I was not able to test everything

🛠️Fix:

• Fix Experimental and Daily not being loaded

⚙️Other:

• Raise the stable pull version to Blender 3.0 instead of Blender 2.79
  This is temporary, I had to do this because Blender is limiting the number of requests per minute due to the recent DDoS attack, otherwise, pulling all the versions is taking a very long time and blocking the Daily and Experimental versions from being pulled
• Remove the /patch build from the experimental section