Release 5.2.0 (2026-05-19)

Branch: industrial-cg-platform
Build hash: bede48d67c1e
Build branch: industrial-cg-platform
Download: GitHub Release

What's New

Industrial CG Platform Branding

• Window title now shows Blender 5.2.0 Industrial CG Platform.
• Custom splash screen with Industrial CG Platform artwork.
• Custom Windows icons for .exe and .blend file association.
• CLI and crash reports include the branch suffix.
• Follows Goo Engine methodology: Blender remains the primary product identity.

ViewLayer Manager (BQt)

• Qt-based ViewLayer management tool integrated as a bundled System Extension.
• Launcher button in Blender's top-right header next to the native ViewLayer selector.
• Features: ViewLayer lifecycle, pass management, Shader AOV, lightgroups, Cycles light-pass AOVs.
• Preset system with save/update/apply/delete for pass configurations.
• Multi-select ViewLayer support for batch preset application.
• Engine-aware section visibility (Cycles vs. Eevee).
• UI translations: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, French.
• Correct bundled extension repo layout (fixes earlier system/system/ nesting bug).

I18N Updates

• Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) and French translations for:
  • Deep EXR UI labels and descriptions
  • Shadow Color UI labels and descriptions
  • Light Pass AOV and Lightgroup Light Pass AOV labels
  • Industrial CG Platform brand suffix

Shipped Features

Feature	Status
Deep EXR	✅ Shipped
Shadow Color	✅ Shipped
Lightgroup Lobe Passes	✅ Shipped
ViewLayer Manager	✅ Shipped
Industrial CG Platform Branding	✅ Shipped

Build Fixes

• Fixed 3 source regressions from the upstream origin/main intake:
  • intern/cycles/integrator/path_trace_tile.h
  • source/blender/makesrna/intern/rna_scene.cc
  • source/blender/render/intern/pipeline.cc
• Removed tracked branch-local BQt validation scripts from the source tree (moved to local-only validation).

Known Issues

• Windows only — This release is a Windows x64 ZIP package only. Linux and macOS builds are not available.
• BQt safe-mode log — The failed to get blender hwnd, creating new window message is expected behavior, not a failure.
• Build system — Ninja + VsDevCmd is the recommended build path. The Visual Studio generator may hang on some workstations.

Integrity

ZIP SHA256:

519D82A17F18C2F4B2F0D36C512BA6CAFFB209D70D0EBA9CC06AA8152C3D421F