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What changed in version 2.00

• dagmx 7y ago
  Hard to find release notes as Blender 2.0 predates Blender being open sourced, where the company went under two decades ago now. An informal history can be found here https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/getting_started/about/history.html https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/latest/getting_started/ab... But Blender 2 is where it eventually went open source so I tend to read the version as "Blender2 82" vs "Blender 2.82"
  • outadoc 7y ago
    From your link: "2.00 – August 2000: Interactive 3D and real-time engine."
    • dagmx 7y ago
      Yeah but I'm not sure that was all, or if it necessitated a major version bump.
  • spectramax 7y ago
    Why are software people so parsimonous when dealing with versioning? That "." in versioning scheme has a purpose, but it is completely useless here. You might as well make the version 82 (or even better 8.2) because the "2." is meaningless. The "." allows you to differentiate major, minor and patch versions. Blender should be using 8.2 instead of 2.82. That helps with legibility and understanding to the user. Remember, versioning and tagging your commit is for the user, not for the software developers. Let me make my point clear by exaggerating the issue at hand... Imagine if Blender treated version 2.8285218588190159 as "major" version 9, the last digit. The preceding 5 have a chance of changing may be once a decade. It's bad.
    • fctorial 7y ago
      Well, it is an end user application, not a library. As for 79 to 80 being a major change, it was probably a coincidence which had nothing to do with 7 and 8. We might see the next major update at version 87.