# Animux Genesis64 r16 is here

> Blender 5.2 LTS, Gaffer, five new renderers, MakeHuman II, a signed Animux package repository and a self-test that checks it all.

Release **r16** (`animux-genesis64-deb_21.iso`, 12 GB) is the largest update to Genesis64 so far.

## New

- **Blender 5.2.3 LTS** from blender.org replaces Debian's Blender 3.4, with the **MPFB 2** character add-on switched on.
- **Gaffer 1.7.5**, the studio lighting and look-development tool, with Cortex, OSL, OpenUSD and Alembic command-line tools.
- **Renderers**: LuxCoreRender 2.11, Mitsuba 3.9, appleseed 2.1 (command line) and pbrt-v4, next to Cycles, EEVEE and POV-Ray.
- **MakeHuman II** 2.0.1, the new stand-alone character creator.
- **Video**: Cinelerra-GG, Avidemux and the DJV review player. **2D**: TupiTube and Stopmotion. **Discs**: K3b.
- **Animux VFX Python** (`animux-vfx-python`) with OpenUSD, OpenImageIO, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO, MaterialX, Mitsuba and LuxCore together.
- **Sample scenes** and **Animux Self-Test** (*Animux Tools* menu).
- **The Animux Guide** (this website) is installed on every system, works offline and is readable by AI agents.

## Under the hood

- Animux's own settings (branding, menus, boot roles) are now **packages** from a signed **Animux repository**, so they can be updated with `apt` in future, without reinstalling.
- Every program from outside Debian is pinned to an exact version and checked against its published checksum when the ISO is built.
- **Fixed**: Farmerjoe could not start on earlier ISOs (missing Perl module); LuxCore crashed with the software OpenCL drivers.

## Tested

The self-test passes 29 of 29 tests in VirtualBox (BIOS, VMSVGA). Installation to disk and the first start of the installed system were tested with UEFI.

## Known limits

- Blender 5, appleseed, Mitsuba and LuxCore need a processor from about 2011 or later (SSE4.2, AVX).
- The Animux repository is not online yet; updates for Animux packages come with the next release.
- appleseed.studio, DVDStyler and Lucille are not included.
- `fail2ban` may report an error at start-up.