Blender Foundation recently released Blender Version 2.77a with set of new features available for the users. Here is the official release note of Blender Foundation.
The Blender Foundation and online developer community are proud to present Blender 2.77, released March 19th, 2016! The 2.77a update was done on April 6, with a number of important bug fixes. In this release:
- Cycles: Better Subsurface Scattering, GPU support for Smoke/Fire and Point Density.
- Grease pencil stroke sculpting and improved workflow.
- OpenVDB caching for smoke/volumetric simulations.
- Reworked library handling to manage missing and deleted datablocks.
- Redesigned progress bar.
- Edit mode boolean tool, better decimate modifier.
- Improved extruding and weight painting tools for sculpting/painting.
- Support for Windows XP and the SCons build system was removed.
- Blender now requires OpenGL 2.1 minimum
- And: 100s of bug fixes and other improvements!
For detailed set of Features and release notes visit https://www.blender.org/features/2-77/
