I just returned from a short vacation, so I’m a bit late to the party :) Here’s this week’s biggest news though: Blender 2.67 has been released!

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The release of Blender 2.67 has been slightly delayed due to a critical issue on 32 bits systems.

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Blender 2.67 testing is going well, GSoC deadline is this week!

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The Blender Foundation has released the first Release Candidate of Blender 2.67. Major improvements are the inclusion of FreeStyle(!!), subsurface scattering for Cycles, optimizations in the motion tracker and the new 3D printing toolkit.

Remember, this is a test release – proceed with caution.

Links

• Blender 2.67 Release log (Work in Progress)
• Blender 2.67 RC1 Download

Now that the FreeStyle integration is really happening, it’s time to select a great artwork for the 2.67 Splash screen!

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More 3D printing tools! BCon 4 reached today! Google Summer of Code Started!

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Your weekly update straight from the heart of Blender’s development community!

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Blender 2.67 is now in BCon3 (stablize new features, bug fixing) – release should happen in 3-4 weeks from now.

My personal favorite today: ‘freestyle is in SVN’. For non-developers and/or people who are new to Blender: this means that the code for the new non-photorealistic renderer Freestyle is now officially included in the Blender codebase and can be checked out and compiled.

Don’t like compiling Blender yourself? Ready to use builds containing this new feature should be available soon from the Blender Foundation BuildBot, or from GraphicAll (but be careful: these aren’t well-tested releases, but development ‘snapshots’).

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A first peek at Cycles subsurface scattering shading!

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An update on the progress of Blender 2.67 targets: PyNodes, Freestyle, 2D paint and Pie Menus.

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