Blender HDR and the reference white issue | About Blender's HDR support on Wayland
Blender HDR and the reference white issue | About Blender's HDR support on Wayland
The latest alpha of the upcoming Blender 5.0 release comes with High Dynamic Range (HDR) support for Linux on Wayland which will, if everything works out, make it into the final Blender 5.0 release on October 1, 2025. The post on the developer forum comes with instructions on how to enable the exper...
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Blender is getting HDR on Linux via Wayland before Windows! This isn't by accident, but shows how creating a system with a different design creates better results for users and application developers.
Firefox is in this same boat too. It will get HDR support on Linux* sooner than Windows. Firefox currently only supports HDR on MacOS.
Tldr: linux now handles hdr better than windows, and as a result blender us supporting hdr on linux, but not on windows.
Firefox will get HDR on Firefox?
Sorry, meant to say Firefox OS.
Anyways, fixed it.
Link is getting hugged to death. Mirror: