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Blender 5.3 released with Gaussian Splat support
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- Blender 5.3 is out as the newest stable release, per Phoronix.
- The release adds NVIDIA DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction support.
- Vulkan is the default graphics backend in this release.
Why it matters
Blender users with NVIDIA GPUs get DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction for viewport rendering, and Vulkan becoming the default changes which graphics backend Blender uses out of the box.
Who’s affected
- Blender users
- 3D artists and developers using Blender