diff --git a/graphics/Blender/Blender.SlackBuild b/graphics/Blender/Blender.SlackBuild
index 15d2553188..06d9917ec5 100644
--- a/graphics/Blender/Blender.SlackBuild
+++ b/graphics/Blender/Blender.SlackBuild
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 PRGNAM=Blender
-VERSION=${VERSION:-2.83.4}
+VERSION=${VERSION:-2.83.8}
 BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
 
diff --git a/graphics/Blender/Blender.info b/graphics/Blender/Blender.info
index e2b592a93d..a00c8f5457 100644
--- a/graphics/Blender/Blender.info
+++ b/graphics/Blender/Blender.info
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 PRGNAM="Blender"
-VERSION="2.83.4"
+VERSION="2.83.8"
 HOMEPAGE="https://blender.org"
-DOWNLOAD="https://download.blender.org/source/blender-2.83.4.tar.xz"
-MD5SUM="ccfec7799c168eca11be172ed1247d4e"
+DOWNLOAD="https://download.blender.org/source/blender-2.83.8.tar.xz"
+MD5SUM="1a920506a3a695d629d5f312b9b45c01"
 DOWNLOAD_x86_64=""
 MD5SUM_x86_64=""
 REQUIRES="ffmpeg jack opencollada opus python-requests valgrind numpy3 SDL2 openimageio freealut tbb"
diff --git a/graphics/Blender/README b/graphics/Blender/README
index c89c1f1c39..dfaa1243f0 100644
--- a/graphics/Blender/README
+++ b/graphics/Blender/README
@@ -17,3 +17,7 @@ successful build. The CUDA handling above remains for cases which may:
     - use a newer CUDA version toolkit
     - require the existing cudatoolkit for other purposes
       (so need CUDA=no for Blender)
+
+Version 2.83.8 is the last SBo supported version of Blender for building
+from source code in Slackware64-14.2. A more recent compiler (gcc-9.3.1)
+is required for 2.90.x and later blender versions.