blender 2.5

Blender 2.5 Alpha 2

The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.5 Alpha 1. This release is the second official testing release of the Blender 2.5 series, representing the culmination of many years of redesign and development work.

March 3 update: 2.5 alpha 2, this version fixes a bad bug in "2.5 alpha 1" causing texture images to not save in .blend files.

What to Expect

• Big improvements - The 2.5 alpha 1 release has 100s of essential fixes compared to the alpha 0.
• Missing/Incomplete Features - Although most of it is there, not all functionality from pre-2.5 versions has been restored yet. Some functionality may be re-implemented a different way.
• Bugs - We've fixed a lot lately, but there are still quite a few bugs. This is alpha software, we're still working on it!
• Changes - If you're used to the old Blenders, Blender 2.5 may seem quite different at first, but it won't be long before it grows on you even more than before.

Get Involved!

There's still a lot that needs to be done before reaching the next release target, a stabilised complete version of current functionality. You don't like bugs, and neither do we, and your help in reporting bugs can help us get Blender 2.5 as stable as possible, as fast as possible.

• First: check this log, - you can find Known Issues at the bottom of the following feature description pages.
• Second: check if the bug or issue has been added on our todo list in wiki.

This will save you (and us!) from reporting known issues.

Bugs can be posted in the bug tracker or using Help → Report a Bugfrom inside Blender 2.5.