Dev:Ref/Release Notes/2.40

Blender 2.40 Release Notes

The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.40!

Download the 2.40 Release

Blender has had another long development cycle resulting in a release

packed with rewrites, new features and improvements. The major additions this release are the Character Animation rewrite, the added Fluid Dynamics system, improved editing and rendering of Particle Based Hair, and the Modifier Stack.

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Here are the links to the wiki pages of interest.

Animation

Rig Editing Inverse Kinematics - assorted and constraints Posing NLA, Action, Timeline

IPO Drivers IPO Curves Timeline

Deformations

Weight Paint Shape Keys

armature, envelope, curve and lattice based deformation methods

Particles and Dynamics

Soft Body Dynamics Fluid Dynamics General Particles

Particle Hair GameEngine - mostly about bullet

Editing Tools

Subdivide and Loop Tools

Organic Extrude and misc tools Transforms

Other

UV/Image Editor, Image File Formats

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Blender 2.40 release news

All the 2.40 release news from different websites. Feel free to add one.

• CGTalk - Blender 2.40 released
• Golem.de - 3D-Software Blender 2.4 erschienen
• Heise Online.deOpen-Source-3D-Software Blender mit neuen Funktionen
• Newsforge.com - Blender 2.40 Released
• Softpedia - Blender 2.40 Final
• Slashdot.org - Blender 2.40 Final