Download Blender 2.55 beta

The Blender Foundation has released the third beta release in the 2.5 series of the open source and cross platform 3D program Blender. The application is intended for 3d modeling, animation, rendering, post-production, interactive creation and playback. More information about the extensive possibilities of Blender can be found on this page are being found. This program includes the open source animation movies Elephant’s Dream, Big Buck Bunny and the recently published cinder created. In version 2.5.5 beta, the emphasis has been on smoothing out the creases and many bugs have been fixed.

Fixed Issues

Since Blender 2.54 Beta over 340 bugs have been fixed. This includes fixes to particles, sequencer, the scripting API, 3D view, Outliner, hotkeys, keyboard, GUI issues and many more.

• Since 2.54 Beta
• Since 2.53 Beta

Known Issues

Although we work hard on fixing all issues, there are still some things we know already are not fixed. Please refrain from reporting these, if you find issues in Blender 2.55 Beta that are on this list.

• Potential crashes when opening new window (user preferences, rendering, window duplication)
• COLLADA import and export is not complete

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