Keeping Blender 2.79b up-to-date with modern compiler and libs, stability/security/performance -improvements are also welcome.

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CYBERDEViL 9da09e4f9d Update README.md and build.sh		4 months ago
blender-2.79b	f6fedf6796 Initial with vanilla 2.79b release	4 months ago
patches	2e4f70c581 Add FFmpeg patch to build with newer versions of FFmpeg (5 and 6)	4 months ago
README.md	9da09e4f9d Update README.md and build.sh	4 months ago
build.sh	9da09e4f9d Update README.md and build.sh	4 months ago
create_patches.sh	2e4f70c581 Add FFmpeg patch to build with newer versions of FFmpeg (5 and 6)	4 months ago

Blender legacy

Keeping Blender 2.79b up-to-date with modern compiler and libs, stability/security/performance -improvements are also welcome.

Start point:

https://download.blender.org/source/blender-2.79b.tar.gz
https://web.archive.org/web/20230405025010/https://download.blender.org/source/blender-2.79b.tar.gz

sha512sum blender-2.79b.tar.gz 
2db21ace446168dd683cdb5aad9dec001f8888ae4e9603a04ddb44fb78489ded827deb07e83712b0f1118a0e7bf66f2a5d935dc4ebb3a6703d72672ff414367f  blender-2.79b.tar.gz

Why

On older hardware (2008 era) Blender 2.79b runs much smoother (or even at all) then newer versions.
When you prefer the old GUI over the new one.
When you don't need all those fancy new features Blender >=2.8 has.

Progress

Progress is tracked on the testing branch.

Libs

Library	Version	Builds	Comment
FFmpeg	6	Yes	Needs testing, but it builds.
Python	3.11	Yes
Python	3.12	No
OpenCollada	1.6.68	Yes
OpenColorIO	2.2	No	For now use OpenColorIO 1.1 or build
			with `WITH_OPENCOLORIO=OFF`.
OpenEXR	3	Yes
OpenImageIO	2.4	Yes
OpenVDB	11	Yes

Compiler

Compiler	Version	Builds	Comment
GCC	13	Yes

Contributions

Help is more then welcome! Please open an issue first so we can prevent double work.

Development hints/notes

Notable Blender commits

Mon Apr 16 12:07:42 2018 +0000

159806140fd33e6ddab951c0f6f180cfbf927d38
"Removing Blender Game Engine from Blender 2.8"

Mon Apr 16 13:54:36 2018 +0000

28b996a9d2090efdd74115a653629ef9d7d871f7
"Disable GAME ENGINE from the build options"

Thu Apr 19 15:34:44 2018 +0000

51b796ff1528c52cc8b4079fab1003671652a4d9
"Remove Blender Internal and legacy viewport from Blender 2.8."

Search Blender git commits

Adjust the below commands as needed.

Prepare (clone the Blender git repo and cd into it):

mkdir ~/git
cd ~/git
git clone https://projects.blender.org/blender/blender.git
cd blender

The v2.79b tag commit is f4dc9f9d68bddaa206b692e1d077d1a1f2bb1528.

Commits between tag 2.79b and one year later

git log --after="22-03-2018 14:00" --before="22-03-2019 14:00"

Commits between tag 2.79b and one year later on specific file or dir

git log --after="22-03-2018 14:00" --before="22-03-2019 14:00" --follow -- source/blender/imbuf/intern/oiio/openimageio_api.cpp

Commits with specific string in it

Multiple examples, adjust any of these to your needs. The --grep string is case sensitive by default, use the -i flag to make it case insensitive.

git log --after="22-03-2018 14:00" --oneline -i --grep OCIO
git log --after="22-03-2018 14:00" --oneline -i --grep OpenColorIO
git log --after="22-03-2018 14:00" --oneline -i --grep OIIO
git log --after="22-03-2018 14:00" --oneline -i --grep OpenImageIO
git log --after="22-03-2018 14:00" --oneline -i --grep FFmpeg
git log --after="22-03-2018 14:00" --oneline -i --grep Python

Show a commit

adjust f4dc9f9d68bddaa206b692e1d077d1a1f2bb1528 to your needs.

git show f4dc9f9d68bddaa206b692e1d077d1a1f2bb1528

Create patch from a commit (and the previous commit)

adjust my.patch to your needs.
adjust 1e6108e97246fe544e39d5a6d9fb907847fd907b to your needs.

git format-patch --output=my.patch -1 1e6108e97246fe544e39d5a6d9fb907847fd907b

README.md