Release: Start of Blender 5.1 Beta

Splash by Blender Studio.

.gitmodules

@@ -2,19 +2,19 @@
 	update = none
 	path = lib/linux_x64
 	url = https://projects.blender.org/blender/lib-linux_x64.git
-	branch = main
+	branch = blender-v5.1-release
 [submodule "lib/macos_arm64"]
 	update = none
 	path = lib/macos_arm64
 	url = https://projects.blender.org/blender/lib-macos_arm64.git
-	branch = main
+	branch = blender-v5.1-release
 [submodule "lib/windows_x64"]
 	update = none
 	path = lib/windows_x64
 	url = https://projects.blender.org/blender/lib-windows_x64.git
-	branch = main
+	branch = blender-v5.1-release
 [submodule "lib/windows_arm64"]
 	update = none
 	path = lib/windows_arm64
 	url = https://projects.blender.org/blender/lib-windows_arm64.git
-	branch = main
+	branch = blender-v5.1-release

build_files/build_environment/cmake/download.cmake

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 
 ## Update and uncomment this in the release branch
-# set(BLENDER_VERSION 3.1)
+set(BLENDER_VERSION 5.1)
 
 function(download_source dep)
   set(TARGET_FILE ${${dep}_FILE})

release/datafiles/splash.png

@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
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-size 725744
+oid sha256:9ef16827177bfa1aa9404e46704965e5619865c30e951100795d60131f6c49af
+size 837352

source/blender/blenkernel/BKE_blender_version.h

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ namespace blender {
 /** Blender patch version for bug-fix releases. */
 #define BLENDER_VERSION_PATCH 0
 /** Blender release cycle stage: alpha/beta/rc/release. */
-#define BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE alpha
+#define BLENDER_VERSION_CYCLE beta
 /** Blender release type suffix. LTS or blank. */
 #define BLENDER_VERSION_SUFFIX