2.43: The Countdown has Begun

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screenie.pngIt’s almost there! I’m guessing that more than 15 people have been working frantically for the last few days to get the 2.43 release AND the new www.blender.org website ready. We’re in the final stages of collecting and placing the release packages, testing the new website and adding the final content – expected release time is later today. Stay tuned!

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    • http://mathiaspedersen.com MathiasPedersen

      Can’t wait! :)

      //Mathias

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      Sheesh you’re fast ;)

    • blendercross

      Great news!!!!!!!!!!!

    • knittl

      hot damn.
      i’m checking the website every minute

    • http://www.cginsomniac.com Brian

      *refreshes blender.org repeatedly*

    • http://mickael.lebihan.club.fr/index.html kaeru

      Come on my little 2.43 , break that egg , you can do it …

      Peace :-) .

    • blender man
    • http://pitel.borec.cz Pitel
    • http://martsmonde.free.fr MARTS

      Cool great news :)
      Respect ;)

    • http://www.nathan.nl.tt JD-Multi

      I’m curious how this new website theme looks like, I guess: black, bleu/gray-ish, orange with white text. :) Hehe.

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      Hehe – we were already wondering how long it would take until everyone would figure out that link ;-) The website and releasenotes will follow in a few hours – we’re getting *close* now!

    • Cubedude04

      The above link didn’t work =(

      At least it will be there in the morning and then i will have to wait all day at school until i get home before i can use it

      Oh well its worth it =D

    • Bel (A.K.A. _Bellboy_)

      I wonder what site is this (http://geheim.blender.org/) , a testing one? It looks like you can download 2.43 there…is it the official one?

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      Is “geheim” Dutch?
      If so, it means the same in german ^^

      WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    • panzi

      After I read in the blender developers mailinglist that the version currently in CVS is what 2.43 gonna be, I did a checkout and compile. It’s 2.43 with it’s new splash and all. :)

    • knittl

      geheim seems to be dutch (and german ;D)
      thumbsup guys. love it

    • Bel (A.K.A. _Bellboy_)

      Ooops…just saw the translation for geheim :P. Now i really feel bad about this, like opening a Pandora’s box or something :S…
      Great design on the site :)

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      Please let us know if you find any bugs on ‘geheim’!

    • http://mathiaspedersen.com MathiasPedersen

      Hmm…there are still Typo3 tests there…heh.

      //Mathias

    • http://www.nathan.nl.tt JD-Multi

      Hahaha, loads of people are soo curious that they went beyond just waiting and tried all possibilities to actually find everything they are waiting for. Well I’m wondering if this is what it should be. :) Hehehe really hellarious.

    • Bel (A.K.A. _Bellboy_)

      “My Funky Platform is Better Than Yours!” liked that one, in Typo3 :P
      By the way, the server was super fast last night, the download of 2.43 took a little more than one second, an average of 7 megabytes per second…i couldn’t believe my eyes…

    • Cubedude04

      Works now and got it

      It’s great =D

      *starts the countdown for 2:44*

    • brzyy

      Can`t wait here to!

    • Artis

      Inscape 0.45, Blender 2.43, if GIMP 2.4 would be released soon it would be the golden month of open source graphics!

    • Wereaser

      I just downloaded the RC4 version mere hours ago and now there’s final version. :P There’s 1.1 megabytes of size difference in the packages so I guess they aren’t the same version.

      Great work and thanks to everyone who contributed. I’ll go play with the new toy now. =D

    • atlantic

      [b]the new blender site will go online on 15:10pm today.[/b]

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @atlantic – I wouldn’t count on it; we still have a lot to do!

    • http://www.jasonmhirst.co.uk ~J~

      Excellent news! Downloading now. :)

    • http://blendernewbies.com Kernon

      tick tock tick tock …

      :))

    • Tynach

      YYYYYAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!

    • The Verb

      Excellent , Finally a new look for blender.org ^_^

    • Tynach

      Not fast anymore… Probably everyone’s downloading it!

    • blend user

      So I’m supposing the holy grail of all this is to one day jump into the 3d world?…

      and after that, I’m guessing it’s to take stuff out sort of like a dream…
      just think… modeling your dreams from brain to blender… then… lol, I should stop now.

      Thanks for making blender free (whoever’s responsible :) ) -now if we could only do tons of good cartoons in the artist forum..

      I’m actually more greatful that there are people out there who’d do all this for free and expect nothing back! -till recently, I couldn’t see myself doing that. That is why I think a lot of people still like blender..

      -it’s not what it is, it’s what it stands for:)

      (actually I think it’s for what it does.. hee hee:) )

    • koichi_chan

      http://geheim.blender.org/
      i cant wait xDDD

    • Tynach

      Heh… Today is also the Lunar New Year.

    • Alden

      *does the happy release dance*

      Downloading from the above links… (dial up sucks!!) I guess I’ll have to wait for the release notes before I have any idea of what I’m doing with the new features :-p

    • http://techmeologysite.tripod.com/ Techmeology

      I noticed that the image preview function on http://geheim.blender.org/ doesn’t work properly (just thought you might like to know). From the release notes, it looks like this will be another big release (some good things don’t come to an end:-)! A big thank you to all the developers! I’d better get reading…

    • panzi

      Please let us know if you find any bugs on ‘geheim’!

      None of the images in the gallery/features are working! They are obviously a javascript links and I let Firefox redirect new windows into new tabs, but this normally works just fine. The images in the old blender.org gallery are opened in a new tab as they should. I don’t want to disable this feature in Firefox but I do want do watch the new images!!

      Beside that, the new page looks awesome! And the new blender release is of course awesome, too! :)

    • http://www.pablosbrain.com pablosbrain

      Congrats on the release! Can’t wait to see the new site!
      And, Just curious. Will blender3d.org be using the latest build of Typo3, 4.0.4? And once you get the site up, would it be possible to maybe see some of the template files you use? I’ve been struggling with figuring out Typo3. Its a very powerful system and I am slowly figuring things out. :)

    • panzi

      Ok, none is not true. Most of them. Maybe the pictures which are not working are just not uploaded yet.

    • panzi

      The background color of the python scripts descriptions is not good. It’s a very light blue and the text is white. And the headings are an light blue, too. It’s very hard to read.

    • panzi

      The columns of the community/artists page are suboptimal. I think it would look better if there where a space between the columns and how they are ordered are a bit confusing and cluttered.

    • panzi

      PS: If it would be like community/user-community it would be perfect.

    • Gat

      yes!!!!! (I hope they fixed the link between Yafray)

    • panzi

      More and more pictures start to work. It seems as they are currently being uploaded. :)

    • yeah

      \o/

    • panzi

      features-gallery/features/feature-videos

      What language is this?

    • Christov

      This is brilliant,
      i’m sitting on the edge of my seat.!
      Thanks in advance. I don’t think it is an over-statement when I say that you guys are making the world a better place.

      -cheers

    • http://techmeologysite.tripod.com/ Techmeology

      Looks like the problem I found has been fixed now. Another big thank you and well done to the Blender Developers!

    • Rob

      Congratulations, nice design and btw, thanks for all the work

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      @panzi:
      6 posts in 12 min xD
      Please wait for more infos to make less but longer entrys ;)

      The dark-grey Bg is very good, but I think, the text shouldn’t be white, but bright-grey, as white starts hurting…
      (Just about 0.75 0.75 0.75 grey… = 25%)

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      The “Feature Videos” page times out for me.

      Concerning the overall graphics, the only thing I would probably change currently is make the header graphics (“Feature Videos”, “Blender” etc. at the top of the pages) PNGs instead of JPGs. The compression is very clearly visible on the title text and doesn’t look nice.

      Oh, the “Feature Videos” page loaded now, but it takes several minutes every time, there’s probably something odd going on there.

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      (panzi: The language on the videos page is Latin, heh)

    • yeah

      this version http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43/
      is the rc or the final? (from the 16th )

    • panzi

      @Alexander Ewering
      I see.

      @Kram1032
      Ok, but because geheim isn’t reachable at the moment I post my last comment on it for now, even though it’s a short one:

      There seems to be a bug either in the flash-moviplayer, flash itself or firefox. I watched a few vids and firefox suddenly needed more than 1GB RAM (I only have 1GB physical RAM). Simply closing the tab didn’t help, had to close firefox. Very strange thing, indeed.

    • http://blenderartist.org BLENDER

      common babe cant wait just refreshing the page rapidly …..

      common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..common..
      refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..refresh..

    • yeah

      the texture folder of the 2.43 is less supplied than the 2.42 ^^

    • Cloudsk!pper

      Ahhh when it will be released ? ^^

    • http://www.adamdoyle.net Advs89

      If we would start using coral cache, then maybe I would have gotten to see the “geheim” before it was overwhelmed with traffic…

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      @Advs89: it’s not overwhelmed – it’s down because we’re working on it (it’s still a development domain so don’t expect production level availability until the release). We also have been donated another 200mbit of download capacity for download.blender.org today so I’m pretty convinced that things will be smooth today..

      It’s gonna be fun! ETA: about one hour from now.

    • Cloudsk!pper

      What means ETA ?
      And you mean in 1 hour, Blender 2.43 and the homepage will be released ?

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      ETA = Estimated Time of Arrival

      Yes, I think we’ll be ready in about one hour from now (if we can find our sysadmin who’s having dinner somewhere now ;-)

    • yeah

      -

      you can download it now here:
      http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43/
      (for those who can’t wait^^)

      -

    • John

      @Yeah

      There was a texture folder in 2.42? *goes digging*

    • yeah

      @john

      yes, go to ==> ../plugins/texture

      i use the .zip version, not the .exe
      (i dont like the installations ;p)

    • Cloudsk!pper

      I wait for the offical Release. :)

      @Bart
      Thank you very much.
      Oder auf Deutsch… Vielen Dank. :P

    • Daniel Looney

      OMG I can’t wait, I’m gonna be checking like 10 times today!!!

    • http://www.gnuzilla.info Ivan ÄŒukić

      I would suggest you to put orange feed icons to break the monotony of the bottom part of the page. Cheers!!!

    • B-headed

      wah.
      now you need control-q to quit?
      are these key changes reflected somewhere?
      waaah

      I like it though :)

    • http://blendernewbies.com Kernon

      I love the new look of the website! Great job!

    • yeah

      @Cloudsk!pper

      it is the official release…

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      panzi: That’s a Firefox/Linux problem. Any Flash site/content slightly more complicated than a banner will slow down/crash firefox on Linux sooner or later.

    • koichi_chan

      only one minute xD

    • qwequ777

      can only be a matter of seconds now….
      :D

    • koichi_chan

      or hours -__-

    • blendercross

      … a few minutes ago i “get contact to the new site”.
      I like the new design of that site very much. Thanks to anyone who was/is in involved…great job.

      And the gallery for January – WOW, great pieces of work there.

      Man, what a day! ( … by the way – did we get here a new responses record? )

    • basvdijk

      Blender.org looks down ;)

    • http://www.jasonmhirst.co.uk ~J~

      LOL! I can’t believe how it’s Sunday night, we should be at the pub, but instead we’re pressing F5 :)

    • elfenonmeno

      i think release note image will be more amazing,there are a lot of good stuff who arent in release log and in gallery,im talking about renderdemaon work

    • basvdijk

      Not down anymore… @~J~ you are damn right :P Want a beer? ;)

    • panzi

      @Alexander Ewering
      I have no problems with Firefox+Flash+Linux+YouTube. But I do have problems with Firefox+Flash+Linux+ComedyCentral.

    • http://applegrew.blogspot.com/ AppleGrew

      woooooooo. I can’t wait and from the small preview of website it looks nice. :) I really can’t wait to see both.

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      A little “bug”:
      I can’t see the whole page, but I also can’t scroll down, except using 3rd Mouse Button, changed cursor to bottom of screen…
      I hope, you know, what I mean ;)
      I can’t scroll with just rolling the Mouse wheel.

    • bleen
    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      How often do you guys want to repost this links?
      *lol*

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      We’re running our last checklists now! Start counting :)

    • Johan

      10 …

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      10

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      9

    • Johan

      8

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      8

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      Here we go!! ENJOY!

    • elfenonmeno

      cant waaaaaaait!

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      xD
      7

    • Johan

      7 6 5 4 3 2 1

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      HAPPY NEW BLENDER!!!!
      xD

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      But it hasnt changed!?

    • yeah

      lol
      servers are going to explode

    • basvdijk

      Quite fun to notice everyone all over the world is waiting :P

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      Reloading AND….
      Loading -.-

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      “warten auf emo.blender.org”
      emo???? xD

    • elfenonmeno

      100000000000000000000 are waiting

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      ????
      What’s this?
      Tons of Links and beyond them, the old page?
      O.o

      “Kram1032 Edit Link Feb 18th, 2007 at 6:08 pm

      @panzi:
      6 posts in 12 min xD
      Please wait for more infos to make less but longer entrys ;)”

      and

      “Kram1032 Edit Link Feb 18th, 2007 at 9:04 pm

      How often do you guys want to repost this links?
      *lol*”

      I know, I’m ot doing anything else xD

    • Johan

      Houston we have a problem

    • http://www.cginsomniac.com Brian

      OOOOOH. It looks like they are transferring it over!! OOOH!! *hits F5…*

    • yeah

      the longer F5 i have waited xD

      the page can’t load, please guys cut your connections and let me see access the site lol^^

      @basvdijk> you are from which country?
      (im from france)

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      Wohoo!
      Black!
      But not finished loading -.-

    • http://www.blendernation.com Bart

      Hmmm, there’s a bit of network voodoo going on here – we’re working on it!

    • basvdijk

      @yeah The Netherlands

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      Network Voodoo? xD
      Candyman is on the strrets! OMG!!!!

    • yeah

      back to the backup^^

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      And the old one is back -.-

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      And it returns black xD
      (note the rhyme)

    • elfenonmeno

      what is network vodoo?

    • Puke

      /me waits patiently

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      A big weird bug?

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      /me waits impatiently

    • punk

      >-

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      And re back upped….

    • elfenonmeno

      cant wait anymore,im going to dead!
      im from senegal,africa!

    • bob

      How did you guys find the geheim subdommain?

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      What’s the time and temperature, there?

    • elfenonmeno

      26 degres celcius, 20h34

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      123 responses!!!!!!!!!!!! xD

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      4°C + 21:35, here^^
      (Austria)

    • yeah

      7°c here

      hehe!! xD

    • elfenonmeno

      waouh very cold!

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      Yes, but actually, this is quite warm for this season^^
      26° is normal for summers^^

    • elfenonmeno

      26 in cold season,im in tropical land

    • elfenonmeno

      what happen for website?

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      yes, I know^^
      That was, why I’ve asked^^
      Now, I’d want to be there, but I wouldn’t like to come @ summer…. toooooooo hot^^

    • elfenonmeno

      yeahhhhhhh!sometime 45degres celcius but the ocean is very close to me

    • yeah

      you’re calling me? ^^ lol

    • http://www.jasonmhirst.co.uk ~J~

      It’s up! :)

    • yeah

      enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      2.43 is officially out !!!!!!!! \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/

    • yeah

      very good job for the blender team !!!
      the design of the site is very nice !!!!!

    • v_strakh

      Yupi! :) :) :)
      Hooray!.

    • http://www.sf-galere.net Kram1032

      Typically:
      I’d have a shower and it works xD
      WOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    • buergi

      yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaa blender 2.43 rulez!
      and thumbs up the new website looks also very cool! i love the orange-blue-black contrast!!!

    • buergi

      oh and it seems that the bcon image on projects.blender.org isn’t working
      pls check the http://www.blender.org/_gfx/developer/bcon/ directory!

    • MisteR_2

      Just so you all know, building 64-bit from source isn’t going to work right away, I think. Downloaded it (timestamp shows a couple hours before the binaries went up) and it gives this message in console.

      “64 bits compiles will give incorrectly saved .blend files. Do not use it. For testing purposes please remove this line from creator.c”

      I don’t know how to submit a report for this and I’ve got to be out the door for work. Do what you will with the information.

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      Concerning the new site: It’s a bit too simplistic for my taste ;-)

      http://pub.instinctive.de/simple.org.jpg

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      Holy shit!

      THE WEBSERVER IS MISCONFIGURED! blender.org doesn’t point to the right VHOST!!!

    • Sanne

      MisteR_2,

      about 64 bit, it’s intentional, see here:
      http://projects.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2007-January/017258.html

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      So many posts!

      Great news and great work.
      A big thank you to all blender heroes !

    • MisteR_2

      Thanks for the link Sanne. I’ll just wait until it’s in portage for 64-bit then. 2.43 is still very nice!

    • http://www.instinctive.de Alexander Ewering

      Ahh, it got fixed.

      BTW, that “holy shit” wasn’t meant like “holy shit, you are stupid” – it was just “holy shit, I’ve been refreshing blender.org for 3 hours and still a placeholder page” :)