Now that Blender 4.4 is released is it safe to use it with Bonsai?
Is a new Bonsai install required?
Now that Blender 4.4 is released is it safe to use it with Bonsai?
Is a new Bonsai install required?
I parsed the python breaking changes and it seems it's only Animation, Grease Pencil and Video Sequence Editor related so I don't expect things to break too much. There are some changes related to the GPU module so decorators might be affected. https://developer.blender.org/docs/release_notes/4.4/python_api/#breaking-changes
4.2 is an LTS and 4.5 is slated to be an LTS. For an addon that is trying to target professionals does it not make sense to target compatibility with the LTS releases of Blender? Seems like extra overhead trying to work with every non-LTS version of Blender, when there is no obvious benefit to Bonsai. Even if there was, it would presumably necessitate dropping compatibility with 4.2?
I agree with @sjb007. It makes life easier and typically I guess the improvements between LTS do not have a direct impact in bonsai?
Thank you all for your thoughts so far. Having two installs of Blender is not a big deal, one Blender Bonsai LTS and the second, Blender latest version for non-BIM stuff I do
Blender does have bugfixes that do benefit us between non-LTS versions. At the same time, keeping up with Blender's releases incrementally mean we don't get lazy and leave a big upgrade to the last minute :) See https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/issues/6396 for details on 4.4.
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