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Version 2026.11.02.1748, released 2 November 2026 · What's new

BetaReady for real work, and still changing quickly: updates come often. What beta means

Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. An NVIDIA card (GTX 900 series or newer) or an AMD card (RX 5000 series or newer) renders on the graphics card, every card at once; any other computer renders on the processor.

Installer

Tequila-Setup-<version>.exe

Mac

A Mac with Apple's own chips (M1 or newer) and a recent macOS. Renders with Cycles on the Mac's graphics.

Disk image

Tequila-<version>.dmg

Intel Mac

A Mac with an Intel processor and macOS 12 or newer. Renders with Tequila's own renderer: Cycles comes from Blender, whose current version no longer runs on Intel Macs.

Disk image

Tequila-<version>-intel.dmg

Linux

64-bit Linux with glibc 2.35 or newer: Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora 36 or later. NVIDIA and AMD cards render with Cycles.

The first time you open it

Your computer warns you, because Tequila isn't signed with a paid certificate yet.

Windows shows "Windows protected your PC": click More info, then Run anyway.
Mac says Apple could not verify it: click Done, open System Settings › Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway next to Tequila.

Installing and updating

Windows: run the installer. To update, run a newer one over it.
Windows, portable: extract the zip anywhere you can write to, a USB drive included, and open Tequila.exe. Nothing is installed: your settings, materials and plugins stay in the data folder beside it. To update, extract the newer zip over the same folder.
Mac: open the disk image and drag Tequila into Applications.
Linux: unpack the archive anywhere and run ./Tequila. ./install.sh adds it to the application menu.
Updates: Help › Check for updates fetches the newest version from GitHub, checks it against its SHA-256 and installs it. Your materials, plugins and settings are kept.

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From source

Build it yourself.

Tequila is written in Rust. You need the Rust toolchain and two prebuilt SDKs, Intel Embree and Open Image Denoise (both Apache-2.0), which a script fetches.

# Windows
pwsh scripts/fetch-third-party.ps1
# macOS and Linux
bash scripts/fetch-third-party.sh

cargo run --release -p tequila-app

That runs Tequila with its own renderer. Cycles and the OpenCASCADE STEP reader are built separately; the README has the details.