This is a massive release and represents a huge overhaul of how Blender works from the UI to new technologies. It’s also a bit of a jarring change for everyone

This is a massive release and represents a huge overhaul of how Blender works from the UI to new technologies. It’s also a bit of a jarring change for everyone to get used to but it seems like it’ll be worth it. The new real time eevee renderer is an incredible achievement for the open source community and, I believe, its direct compatibility with the Cycles path tracing renderer is an industry first. (Your materials and textures just work between the two). The grease pencil tool and new 2D features are also some of the best. I once used 2.7* on a video conference call to annotate parts of a CAD model to finalise changes and it helped considerably. Really looking forward to the full release this year.