Blender 2.69 RC1 has been put up by the Foundation about 3 days ago, so we started working on having it available on our farm as well. This didn’t take long and the new version is available on our farm right now.
Please note that this is a release candidate, so it might contain bugs. Use it on your own risk, and for testing purposes only.
Here’s what is new in this version:
- It’s faster. Our benchmarks indicate a speed improvement over 2.68, so your renders will finish faster.
- Cycles improvements for SSS, such as bump mapping support
- Hair rendering gets a simpler UI.
- Branched Path Trace integrator is available on GPU.
- A few more nodes added: Blackbody, Vector Transform, Combine / Separate HSV
- And a few others
Check it out and let us know in the comments how it works for you.
