New version of Blender, the popular free libre 3D modelling and animation package, was released today with over 340 bugfixes and 0 new features.

It seems that the team is heading for the final release now. One thing you have to know about 2.55 is that 64bit Linux builds are non-functional at the moment and are soon to be replaced.

You can download the new version here.

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