The official Blender release is now being downloaded over half a million times per month, and a total of 6.5M last year.

During the period of July 2016 and July 2017, Blender has seen the release of Blender 2.78 and a/b/c fix releases.

This is not counting:

Experimental Builds on Buildbot

Release Candidates and Test Builds

Other services offering Blender (app stores like Steam or community sites like GraphicAll)

Linux repositories

Below is the full report for each platform.