Reverting to pulling from Blender.org since Gemini led me astray that GitHub had the official releases (it does not)

blender/init.sls

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {% from "blender/map.jinja" import blender with context %}
 
-# 1. Download and extract directly from GitHub Releases
+# 1. Download and extract directly from download.blender.org
 blender_extract_tarball:
   archive.extracted:
     - name: {{ blender.archive_dir }}
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ blender_extract_tarball:
     - enforce_ownership_on: {{ blender.archive_dir }}
     - options: '--strip-components=1'
     - if_missing: {{ blender.archive_dir }}/blender
+    # Pass a modern browser User-Agent to bypass CDN bot filters
+    - http_headers:
+        User-Agent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36'
 
 # 2. Maintain generic symlink pointing to active version
 blender_opt_symlink: