Blender 2.45 Release Candidate

Posted on July 31, 2007 Category: Blender News

By: Ton Roosendaal

Thanks to the switch to SVN, we now can easier maintain a 'stable' branch of Blender sources, from which we're preparing a 2.45 release.

Blender 2.45 is going to be a bugfix release, to stabilize the 2.4x series.
No new feature have been added, but serious effort has been put in tracking bugs and fixing them. Some performance issues have also been addressed.

Here you can get the 2.45 release candidate:
download.blender.org/release/Blender2.45rc/

The actual 2.45 release is scheduled on the start of Siggraph (around August 4).

The most important Bug Fixes in 2.45 are:

• SSS work with panorama render
• Remove artifacts with negative lights using SSS
• Disable SSS better for preview rendering, so it does not slow down other preview render at all.
• Fix error in Transform Constraint with planar constraints when the plane was perpendicular to the viewport.
• Fix a Vector blur error in "Ztransp" that produce black lines (on edges) appeared, which didn't get blurred away.
• Fix a error in the Particle System that cause bad result in command line renders especially or in rendering first frame of animation.
• Fix Verse crashing in 64 bits Linux.
• Math node now has reflective behavior.
• Importing 3DS files with lamps failed.
• Bundled python modules were not included in 2.44 by accident, making some scripts fail in 2.44 that worked in 2.43 (Windows Only, when Python was not installed)

A complete list of bugfixes for this release can found here.