The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.78, released September 30th 2016! This release aims to be a very stable one, so that developers can focus better on Blender 2.8 work.

An updated Blender 2.78a was released on October 26, 2016.

That release has 69 important bug fixes.

The update Blender 2.78b was released on February 8, 2017. Due to an error in the binary, a ‘c’ version was released on February 28, 2017. Check the 2.78c changelog.