An even newer intermediate version of Blender, the popular free 3D modeling and animation package, is out.

In this version:

• very nearly 200 bugfixes, even though corrupted OBJ exporter slipped through;
• RNA Properties API has changed, read here for details;
• lots of names have been changed on the RNA level, there is a helper script to fix paths available from the Help menu;
• Audaspace/Game Engine API project, developed during Google Summer of Code 2010, was merged.

The fixed OBJ script can be fetched from here to replace the existing file in /scripts/ops/io_scene_obj/.

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