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

blender/map.jinja

@@ -1,22 +1,26 @@
 {% set default_version = '4.2.0' %}
 
+{# Extract major.minor (e.g., '4.2.0' -> '4.2') #}
+{% set version_parts = default_version.split('.') %}
+{% set default_major = version_parts[0] ~ '.' ~ version_parts[1] %}
+
 {% set defaults = {
   'version': default_version,
   'install_root': '/opt',
   'bin_dir': '/usr/local/bin',
   'desktop_dir': '/usr/share/applications',
-  'download_url_base': 'https://github.com/blender/blender/releases/download'
+  'download_url_base': 'https://download.blender.org/release'
 } %}
 
 {# Merge pillar data under the 'blender' key over defaults #}
 {% set blender = salt['pillar.get']('blender', default=defaults, merge=True) %}
 
 {# Derived variables #}
-{% set tag_name = 'v' ~ blender.version %}
+{% set major_version = blender.version.split('.')[0] ~ '.' ~ blender.version.split('.')[1] %}
 {% set archive_name = 'blender-' ~ blender.version ~ '-linux-x64.tar.xz' %}
 
 {% do blender.update({
   'archive_dir': blender.install_root ~ '/blender-' ~ blender.version ~ '-linux-x64',
   'symlink_dir': blender.install_root ~ '/blender',
-  'download_url': blender.download_url_base ~ '/' ~ tag_name ~ '/' ~ archive_name
+  'download_url': blender.download_url_base ~ '/Blender' ~ major_version ~ '/' ~ archive_name
 }) %}