• To show the explicitely what is a script and what core blender functionality, there is a python icon to depict menu entries that are actually python scripts, integrated with the UI. The same icon is also used for the Script window.
• When you hold your mouse over a number button or a string button, you can use CTRL + C and CTRL + V to copy and paste values between them.
• You can now select what lamp type you add when creating new lamps through the add menu.
• Bugfix: Sometimes menus would flip while being open, which was very annoying. They have been made to not flip anymore.
• Bugfix: "frames/second" in sound window was hardcoded to 25
• Bugfix: pulldown menu in action window "View All" didn't work
• Bugfix: The use of swatches in ColorPicker was sometimes difficult in previous version, this has been improved.
• Bugfix: Part of the NLA window used a wrong colour when using themecolors.
• Bugfix: In some OS/hardware configurations the editbuttons or headers would flash when adding bones to an armature
• Bugfix: NLA padplus/padminus didn't work correctly. To fix this, it has been changed to pageup/pagedown and normal plus/minus, which should be more in line with the rest of the UI.
• Bugfix: made solid drawmode objects with wires visible and selectable again
• Bugfix: While pressing esc during an opengl preview render the header of the 3d view would get corrupted, and on occasion also the info window header
• Bugfix: header print for extrude along face normal was sometimes incorrect

• Bugfix: using the border render feature and the backbuf could crash sometimes.
• Bugfix: escape from border render didn't put half-rendered result in final pic.
• Bugfix: When rendering from localview, the lamp layers were not evaluated properly for "Layer" option in Lamps.
• Bugfix: sometimes when using raytracing there would be random small, bright dots.
• Bugfix: wrong clipping of volumetric spothalo shadow.

• When you deform an object that is being duplicated, the duplicates will deform too according the duplicator
• Fractal subdivide used to work in one direction only, but [Relic] submitted a patch that made it work in both negative as well in positive directions, so it is now much more useful for ie. creating landscapes
• Bugfix: On non-US-keyboards the < and > keys would get registered. There are a few more keys left, but at least these two keys are now being handled by blender on non-US-keyboards, too
• Bugfix: metaballs behaved wrongly when scaled, giving strange results (1577)
• Bugfix: PET numerical input was wrong, affecting all three axes, when only one should've been changed during numerical input
• Bugfix: vertexpaint on large mesh would crash, the limit has been increased from 64K to 512K, which is still an arbitrary limit, but shouldn't get reached so soon
• Bugfix: Files that were saved whil using the radiotool wouldn't load properly anymore
• Bugfix: deleting all vertices in curve path would either crash blender, or cause memory getting corrupted
• Bugfix: copy full scene didn't update links in constraints

• Added buttontype definitions (ColorPicker support)

• When a user uses an apple with 16MB VRAM or less, Blender won't get started in maximized mode.
• Sometimes it would feel like the SHIFT key got stuck for some reason. This has now been fixed, together with a better mouse warp.

Added CIRCLE, ARC, ELLIPSE and LWPOLYLINE to dfx import (Martin DeMello)

Many scripts got updated ie for import/export etc.

There have been a great many commits during the previous development period, and I'm sure I've missed some of those. There have been about 20 committers during the period, and quite a many patches have been submitted, reviewed and applied to the tree.