Blender 4.0 RC1 would be a fitting headline....

justinclift · on Nov 14, 2023

There's no official RC1 build for download either, and hasn't been from the first of Nov (when it was supposed to be available).

I've been looking every few days from the 1st of Nov, and the Release Candidate date on the projects page was pushed back to the 8th, but not updated since then.

The official Projects page still lists the Blender 4.0 goal as only "92% Completed":

https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender/milestone/7

There's nothing on the Blender Blog about an RC1 being available for testing:

http://web.archive.org/web/20231114142752/https://code.blend...

Nor is there any mention in yesterday's weekly Devtalk:

https://devtalk.blender.org/t/13-november-2023/31960

If there really is a 4.0 release that's available now, then they've seriously gone wrong with the communication parts of their release process. :( :( :(

justinclift · on Nov 15, 2023

Looks like that really is the Blender 4.0 release.

But there's still absolutely no mention of it on the official blog:

https://code.blender.org

Nor of the RC1 being available at some point before.

WTF? :( :( :(

wccrawford · on Nov 14, 2023

I think the point is that it's no longer RC as of today. Someone else said that that page is lagging a little bit.

Zetobal · on Nov 14, 2023

...but it is because there is no release yet.

tokai · on Nov 14, 2023

"please use the original title, [...] don't editorialize."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html