Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License.

Various Bugs:

• Dozens of bugs fixed based on "Coverity Scan" (automatic code testing)
• The .deb Linux builds didn't include FFMPEG
• Windows: Reading DV-AVI now works with all files, including from Movie Maker
• Negatively scaled objects resulted in incorrect boolean output.
• Surface option for Force Fields crashed on non-mesh objects, so hide it if not applicable. Also made it support surf, curve, font objects.
• DXF import/export: several fixes and update

Render Bugs:

• AO render gave wrong pixels on first sample it takes in a tile
• Texture nodes noise function was not correct for Bricks node
• Texture nodes translate node works now
• Particle hair strands missed first segment when rendering as regular geometry (not strand render)
• Particles using modifiers/UV slowed it down unnecessary

Game Engine Bugs:

• Anisotropic friction with zero values caused objecs to jump to infinity
• Materials using Object texture coordinates caused crash
• light in skinned object only work properly after running the action once.
• Avoid crashing BGE on Mobile Intel GMA 950/945 Express GPU
• Lights in non-glsl mode didn't move anymore, missing matrix update.
• Changing the scale of a sleeping object wasn't working with bullet.
• Dynamically added sensor objects didn't have their physic shape synchronized with movement.
• Loading older blend files (from the blender Gamekit 1.0 demos) that use Sumo crashed on playback
• Shadow face flag ignored object's scale.
• Sound Actuator negative events would play a sound when no sound had played yet.
• Sound Actuator with loop-end  stop on negative events.

Game Engine Python Bugs:

• Camera functions getScreenPosition, Ray and Vect fixes
• Bug in KX_GameObject.get() and ListValue.get() returning python types float/int/string.
• Pythons sys.path creation was broken in windows (caused YoFrankie game to not start)
• Action Actuator setChannel() function was broken in a number of ways.
• Deprecation warnings were printed twice.

Game Engine Bullet Bugs:

• Fix for Torque and 6DOF constraints
• Applied torque breaks rigid bodies in game engine

Sequencer Bugs

• Scrubbing sound could create an echo
• Fixed two cases with crashing FFMPEG
• "duplicate strip" always increase the user count for ipo now.
• Work around crash in dv-reader of ffmpeg, that can happen, if some frames don't contain audio
• free_imbuf_seq() didn't free all scenes. That will lead to steady memory growth in case of nested timelines with several scenes.
• Big Proxy fixes, addressing hopefully most complaints on mailing list and in tracker
• Fixed color balance tool. Problem was: we pretended to do Lift/Gamma/Gain,
  but in reality we did (1-Offset)/Power/Slope. (slightly modified ASC CDL). So now, the GUI is able to switch modes between ASC CDL-mode and real Lift/Gamma/Gain.
• Syncing audio to 3D window works again

New:

• Compositor: UV Map node now has better handling of edge cases (where UV values meet sky background)
• Wavefront OBJ support to import & export curves as OBJ native curves (rather then a bunch of edges)
• Wavefront OBJ X90 option for export to write files without rotation.
•  Sequencer: effect strips had no filter option, which was therefore added. So you can apply color balance on effect filter output
• GE Python support for __contains__ "prop" in gameOb and "OBCube" in scene.objects syntax.
• GE Python support for dictionary style get() cont.actuators.get("key", default), works for sensors and object controllers too.
• Action actuator getChannel("name") function to get the bone loc,size,quat for a bone.

Program Information Category: Tools and Utilities Type: Free Version: 2.49a Size: 10.5MB Works on: Windows, Linux, Mac Product page: here