Some interesting projects are approaching completion.

There's a lot of work going on, and it seems like there's a special focus…

http://vimeo.com/18532854

There's a lot of energy going into a fix for bump mapping, but developers aren't…

Blender 2.56a has just been released: A quick-fix release of 2.56, fixing one bad bug…

A real-time demonstration of particla fluids using OpenCL (GPU hardware acceleration): http://vimeo.com/17906099

An important bugfix for 2.56 forces a 2.56a release, probably tomorrow.

The Blender Foundation has just released Blender 2.56 Beta, which fixes over 440 bugs.

Will Blender 2.56 arrive later this week?

The Projects.blender.org migration is complete! The archaic backbone of Blender's development has been replaced with…