Blender 5.2 LTS has received its full release, and it adds a host of new features that make it make it even clearer that this is the best free 3D app and the best free animation software for both 2D and 3D work all wrapped up in one open-source package.
An LTS release is usually about bug fixes and security patches, but this feels like a major release. Coming just after the announcement of plans for a feature-length Blender movie, it adds new Geometry Nodes for physics, a Thin Wall mode in Principled BSDF and a time-saving Texture Cache system in the Cycles render engine.
