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2.43: The Countdown has Begun
147 Comments Published by Bart on February 18th, 2007 in Blender Foundation, Community, Development
It'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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Can't wait! :)
//Mathias
Sheesh you're fast ;)
Great news!!!!!!!!!!!
hot damn.
i'm checking the website every minute
*refreshes blender.org repeatedly*
Come on my little 2.43 , break that egg , you can do it …
Peace :-) .
I think it already released :
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43/
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43/ :]
Cool great news :)
Respect ;)
I'm curious how this new website theme looks like, I guess: black, bleu/gray-ish, orange with white text. :) Hehe.
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!
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
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?
Is "geheim" Dutch?
If so, it means the same in german ^^
WOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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. :)
geheim seems to be dutch (and german ;D)
thumbsup guys. love it
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 :)
Please let us know if you find any bugs on 'geheim'!
Hmm…there are still Typo3 tests there…heh.
//Mathias
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.
"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…
Works now and got it
It's great =D
*starts the countdown for 2:44*
Can`t wait here to!
Inscape 0.45, Blender 2.43, if GIMP 2.4 would be released soon it would be the golden month of open source graphics!
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
[b]the new blender site will go online on 15:10pm today.[/b]
@atlantic – I wouldn't count on it; we still have a lot to do!
Excellent news! Downloading now. :)
tick tock tick tock …
:))
YYYYYAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!
Excellent , Finally a new look for blender.org ^_^
Not fast anymore… Probably everyone's downloading it!
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:) )
http://geheim.blender.org/
i cant wait xDDD
Heh… Today is also the Lunar New Year.
*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
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…
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! :)
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. :)
Ok, none is not true. Most of them. Maybe the pictures which are not working are just not uploaded yet.
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.
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.
PS: If it would be like community/user-community it would be perfect.
yes!!!!! (I hope they fixed the link between Yafray)
More and more pictures start to work. It seems as they are currently being uploaded. :)
\o/
features-gallery/features/feature-videos
What language is this?
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
Looks like the problem I found has been fixed now. Another big thank you and well done to the Blender Developers!
Congratulations, nice design and btw, thanks for all the work
@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%)
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.
(panzi: The language on the videos page is Latin, heh)
this version http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43/
is the rc or the final? (from the 16th )
@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.
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..
the texture folder of the 2.43 is less supplied than the 2.42 ^^
Ahhh when it will be released ? ^^
If we would start using coral cache, then maybe I would have gotten to see the "geheim" before it was overwhelmed with traffic…
@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.
What means ETA ?
And you mean in 1 hour, Blender 2.43 and the homepage will be released ?
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 ;-)
-
you can download it now here:
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43/
(for those who can't wait^^)
-
@Yeah
There was a texture folder in 2.42? *goes digging*
@john
yes, go to ==> ../plugins/texture
i use the .zip version, not the .exe
(i dont like the installations ;p)
I wait for the offical Release. :)
@Bart
Thank you very much.
Oder auf Deutsch… Vielen Dank. :P
OMG I can't wait, I'm gonna be checking like 10 times today!!!
I would suggest you to put orange feed icons to break the monotony of the bottom part of the page. Cheers!!!
wah.
now you need control-q to quit?
are these key changes reflected somewhere?
waaah
I like it though :)
I love the new look of the website! Great job!
@Cloudsk!pper
it is the official release…
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.
only one minute xD
can only be a matter of seconds now….
:D
or hours -__-
… 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? )
Blender.org looks down ;)
LOL! I can't believe how it's Sunday night, we should be at the pub, but instead we're pressing F5 :)
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
Not down anymore… @~J~ you are damn right :P Want a beer? ;)
@Alexander Ewering
I have no problems with Firefox+Flash+Linux+YouTube. But I do have problems with Firefox+Flash+Linux+ComedyCentral.
woooooooo. I can't wait and from the small preview of website it looks nice. :) I really can't wait to see both.
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.
http://download.blender.org/release/Blender2.43/
How often do you guys want to repost this links?
*lol*
We're running our last checklists now! Start counting :)
10 …
10
9
8
8
Here we go!! ENJOY!
cant waaaaaaait!
xD
7
7 6 5 4 3 2 1
0!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HAPPY NEW BLENDER!!!!
xD
But it hasnt changed!?
lol
servers are going to explode
Quite fun to notice everyone all over the world is waiting :P
Reloading AND….
Loading -.-
"warten auf emo.blender.org"
emo???? xD
100000000000000000000 are waiting
????
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
Houston we have a problem
OOOOOH. It looks like they are transferring it over!! OOOH!! *hits F5…*
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)
Wohoo!
Black!
But not finished loading -.-
Hmmm, there's a bit of network voodoo going on here – we're working on it!
@yeah The Netherlands
Network Voodoo? xD
Candyman is on the strrets! OMG!!!!
back to the backup^^
And the old one is back -.-
And it returns black xD
(note the rhyme)
what is network vodoo?
/me waits patiently
A big weird bug?
/me waits impatiently
>-
And re back upped….
cant wait anymore,im going to dead!
im from senegal,africa!
How did you guys find the geheim subdommain?
What's the time and temperature, there?
26 degres celcius, 20h34
123 responses!!!!!!!!!!!! xD
4°C + 21:35, here^^
(Austria)
7°c here
hehe!! xD
waouh very cold!
Yes, but actually, this is quite warm for this season^^
26° is normal for summers^^
26 in cold season,im in tropical land
what happen for website?
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^^
yeahhhhhhh!sometime 45degres celcius but the ocean is very close to me
you're calling me? ^^ lol
It's up! :)
enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2.43 is officially out !!!!!!!! \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/
very good job for the blender team !!!
the design of the site is very nice !!!!!
Yupi! :) :) :)
Hooray!.
Typically:
I'd have a shower and it works xD
WOOOOOHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaa blender 2.43 rulez!
and thumbs up the new website looks also very cool! i love the orange-blue-black contrast!!!
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!
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.
Concerning the new site: It's a bit too simplistic for my taste ;-)
http://pub.instinctive.de/simple.org.jpg
Holy shit!
THE WEBSERVER IS MISCONFIGURED! blender.org doesn't point to the right VHOST!!!
MisteR_2,
about 64 bit, it's intentional, see here:
http://projects.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2007-January/017258.html
So many posts!
Great news and great work.
A big thank you to all blender heroes !
Thanks for the link Sanne. I'll just wait until it's in portage for 64-bit then. 2.43 is still very nice!
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" :)