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[edit] 2.49 Release

[edit] Blender 2.49 Contributors

(note: names listed alphabetically)

[edit] Sponsors

These companies or individuals have hired or sponsored developers for work on 2.49:

• Blender Institute Amsterdam, full time Blender support and development by Brecht van Lommel and Ton Roosendaal.
• CineSoft Kerala India, supported Campbell Barton to add EDL and Jpeg2000 support in the Sequencer
• Entertainment Arts Research Inc. subsidiary Twilight 22 Studio: Atlanta; AAA Game Fire Wire District 22 optimization to BGE and additional features.
• Okno Brussels, an organization for art and media technology sponsored Benoit Bolsee for the integration in Blender of the video texture plugin, originally created by Zdeno Miklas (Ashsid).
• SAT, Society for Arts and Technology, within the SAT[Metalab] immersion research program, sponsored Dalai Felinto for Game Engine Dome rendering.

[edit] New Significant Contributors

These individuals have made a significant contribution to Blender for the first time this release cycle - welcome to the team :)

• Dalai Felinto (GE Dome rendering)
• Mitchell Stokes - moguri (GE API)

[edit] Active Significant Contributors

These individuals have contributed a substantial amount of code for the current release and/or bug fixing and/or are active module maintainers and/or play a major role in building releases.

• Andrea Weikert (Windows platform & MSVC - elubie)
• André Pinto (shrinkwrap - jaguarandi)
• Benoit Bolsee (Game Engine speedup, logic, GE Api, VideoTexture, Bullet integration - ben2610)
• Brecht Van Lommel (GLSL support, UV tools; paint tools; IK; sequencer - brecht)
• Campbell Barton (projection painting, scripts, python api, game logic, uv tools, video sequencer - ideasman_42)
• Chris Want (GSoC coordination, Make Files - Hos)
• Daniel Genrich (boolean modifier, cloth, fluids - Genscher)
• Diego Hernan Borghetti (X11, releases, stable branch, bugfixing - Bdiego)
• Erwin Coumans (GE creator, Bullet Physics SDK main author - erwin)
• Geoffrey Bantle (Mesh tools - Briggs)
• Giuseppe Ghibò (Mandriva build maintainer and r19800 TrueType patch http://www.joeghi.com/blender - Joeghi)
• GSR (Code cleanup, make - gsrb3d)
• Janne Karhu (Particle system - jahka)
• Jean Michel Soler (shrinkwrap/deform modifier Py API, SVG importer, OSX intel build)
• Joshua Leung (Animation Improvements, Grease Pencil - Aligorith)
• Joe Eagar (Grease Pencil bugfix)
• Ken Hughes (Linux platform manager, Python Mesh Module - khughes)
• Kent Mein (Solaris platform manager, security fixes - Sirdude)
• Martin Poirier (Etch-a-ton, Transform, snapping - theeth)
• Matt Ebb (UI & render improvements - broken)
• Nathan Letwory (Scons build system, Windows release build - jesterKing)
• Nicholas Bishop (Sculpt and Retopo)
• Peter Schlaile (ffmpeg upgrade; sequencer bugfixes + upgrade (custom strip proxies); - schlaile)
• Remigiusz Fiedler (Collada, DXF importer/exporter - migius)
• Robin Allen (Texture Nodes - Frrr)
• Stefan Gartner (Irix platform manager - sgefant)
• Timothy Baldridge (Irix platform manager)
• Ton Roosendaal (Blender creator and lead dev - ton)
• Willian Padovani Germano (Python - ianwill)

More contributors: (scripts, patches)

• Alberto Santos Martín (Python API Patches - dnakhain)
• Alex Fraser (Python API patch; text plugin - z0r)
• Keith Boshoff (Patches - Wahooney)
• Matt D. (Windows mousewheel bug, vector math node bug - foom)
• Nathan Vegdahl (Patch, Colorband showing correct gradient)
• Simon B. Nielsen (OS X bugfix - Vert)
• Stani Michiels (binding for DXF-DWG converter - Stani)
• Wayne Dennis (Patch, Makefiles for Cygwin/MingW - Pixel_2ACF3)
• Xavier Thomas (Patch, compositor filter node fix)

[edit] 2.48 Release

[edit] New Significant Contributors (2.48)

These individuals have made a significant contribution to Blender for the first time this release cycle - welcome to the team :)

• Benoit Bolsee (Game Engine bug fixing, logic states, character animation)
• Hamed Zaghaghi (Sun Sky & atmosphere, Ocean sim (branch) - zaghaghi)
• André Pinto (Shrinkwrap & Simple modifiers - jaguarandi)
• Davide Vercelli (Lightcuts (branch) - unclezeiv)
• Maxime Curioni (Freestyle render API integration (branch) - mxcurioni)
• Ian Thompson (Python text editor improvements - quorn)
• Enrico Fracasso (GE Web plug-in - eof)

[edit] Active Significant Contributors

These individuals have contributed a substantial amount of code for the current release and/or bug fixing and/or are active module maintainers and/or play a major role in Release Management and or Site/Wiki Maintenance. (Note that this is a work in progress - please add any omissions and move any misclassification :) )

• Andrea Weikert - (Image browser, Icons, Windows platform & MSVC - elubie)
• Ben Batt - (modifer stack upgrade - artificer)
• Bill L.Nieuwendorp (MDD import/export)
• Bob Holcomb (Nodes; MD2 import; - scourge)
• Brecht Van Lommel - (GLSL support, UV tools; paint tools; Inverse kinemations; sequencer enhancements - brecht)
• Campbell Barton - (Python Scripts and Python API, UV Tools, sequencer enhancements - ideasman_42)
• Charlie C - (Game Engine Graphics updates - snailrose)
• Chris Want - (Make Files - Hos)
• Daniel Genrich (cloth sim, fluids integration - Genscher)
• David Millán (Sequencer transform effect - damiles)
• Diego Hernan Borghetti (X11, releases, stable branch, bugfixing - Bdiego)
• DJ Capelis - (Linux Maintainer - DJCapelis)
• Ed Halley - ( - Halley)
• Erwan Jacq - (French Translation - eon)
• Erwin Coumans - (Bullet Physics - erwin)
• Festila Catalin - ( Romanian Translation - Mythcat)
• Geoffrey Bantle - (Mesh tools - Briggs)
• Jacques Beuarain - (CMake - jbinto)
• Jens Ole Wund - (Softbodies - bjornmose)
• Jean-Michel Soler (numerous scripts - jms)
• Jiri Hnidek - (Metaballs; Verse - Jiri)
• JLuc Peuriere - (dependency graph - lukep)
• Joe Eager ( Properties - joeedh)
• Joilnen Leite (Font preview - pidhash)
• Joseph Gilbert (Python Animation API - Ascotan)
• Joshua Leung (Animation Improvements, Grease Pencil - Aligorith)
• Juho Vepsalainen (Blender Nodes - BeBraw
• Ken Hughes (Linux platform manager, Python Mesh Module - khughes)
• Kent Mein (Solaris platform manager, imaging - Sirdude)
• Markus Ilmola - (MilkShape3D importer; Soft halos; - Glome)
• Martin Poirier (Transforms code; snapping - theeth)
• Matt Ebb (UI improvements - broken)
• Nathan Letwory (Scons build system, Windows release build - jesterKing)
• Nicholas Bishop (Sculpt and Retopo)
• Nils Thuerey (Fluid Dynamics - n_t)
• Peter Schlaile - (sequencer upgrade; speed control - schlaile)
• Pieter Visser (Collada 1.4)
• Remigiusz Fiedler - (DXF importer/exporter - migius)
• Roland Hess (animation related features; blenderpeople - harkyman)
• Stephen Swaney (Python API - stivs)
• Tom Musgrove (script maintenance and release management - LetterRip)
• Ton Roosendaal (Blender creator and lead dev - ton)
• Willian Padovani Germano - (Python API and scripts - ianwill)

More contributors:

• Luca Bonavita (mindrones)
• Werner Höhrer
• Olivier Saraja (OlivS)
• Purple
• Quartz
• RCRuiz
• Rui Campos (rcas)
• Sionix
• Spiderworm
• Zaz

[edit] Developer Platforms

These individuals use and develop for these specific platforms (as a minimum). Even though it's a limited list, it will give users a clear indication that they're safe with a similar system:

• Developer: OS Flavor Chip Graphics Card
• Nathan Letwory
  • Vista Home Premium (32bit), AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ ATi HD 3400
• Joshua Leung
  • Vista Home Premium (32bit), 2.16 GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 2GB Ram, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600 256MB,
• Michael Fox
  • Linux32 (OpenSuSE11.0), 2.8Ghz CeleronD, 512MB ram , GeForce6200 256MB
• Dustin Martin
  • OSX 10.5, Dual Quad Intel Mac Pro 2.8, GeForce 8800 GT, 16GB RAM, MacbookPro and MacPro both have the WWDC development preview of Snow Leopard
• Dustin Martin
  • [ OSX 10.5, OSX 10.6, Vista-64] Dual Quad Intel Mac Pro 2.8, GeForce 8800 GT, 16GB RAM
  • [ OSX 10.6, XP], Macbook Pro 2.4, GeForce 8600M, 4GB RAM
  • OSX 10.5, MacMini 1.8, Intel GMA 950, 2GB RAM
• Dalai Felinto
  • Vista Home Premium 64bits, Intel Core 2 Duo CPU P7350@2.00GHz, 4GB Ram, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, 4.0G RAM
  • Ubuntu Linux 8.04 (same specs)
• Lars Krueger
  • Gentoo Linux, Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, NVIDIA 7300, builds from portage and from SVN
• Brecht Van Lommel
  • Ubuntu Linux (32+64 bit), Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
  • OSX 10.4, PPC G4, ATI Radeon 9600 (Mobility 9700)
  • Vista 32 bit, Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT
• Kent Mein
  • Ubuntu Linux 64 bit, Intel Core 2 Duo, Nvidia Guadro FX 1400
  • OSX 10.5, Macbook(Intel Core 2 Duo), Intel GMA X3100
  • SunOS 5.8+, Sunblade 150, ATI PGX (PCI 8-bit)
• Diego Borghetti
  • Linux Slackware 12.1, Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, nvidia 8400 GT
  • Linux Ubuntu 7.10, Athlon 64 X2 5200+, nvidia 8600 GT
• Ken Hughes
  • Ubuntu Linux 32-bit, Intel Core 2 Duo, nVidia GeForce Go 7600
  • Ubuntu Linux 64-bit, AMD Athlon 64 X2, nVidia GeForce 6600
• Campbell Barton
  • Slackware (gcc 4.3.2, linux 2.6.27, xorg7.4), AMD 64 X2 3800+ (32bit), GeForce 8800-GT 1gig.
• Timothy Baldridge
  • SGI Irix 6.5 Origin350 8x 700Mhz R16000 (Headless)
  • SGI Irix 6.5 Octane 2x 300Mhz R10000 V8 Graphics
• Andrea Weikert
  • Windows XP 32 bit, AMD Athlon 5200+ 64 Dual Core, NVIDIA Quadro FX1500
  • Ubuntu 7.10 (probably upgrade soon to Ubuntu 8.10), AMD Athlon 5200+ 64 Dual Core, NVIDIA Quadro FX1500
  • Windows XP 32 bit, Intel Pentium 4, ATI Radeon 9000
• Benoit Bolsee
  • Windows XP SP3, AMD Athlon XP 2600+, ATI Radeon 9200 128Mb
• Farsthary
  • Ubuntu Linux 8.04 Pentium D 945 1 Gb ram Ati X1550

[edit] Inactive Significant Contributors

These individuals have made a substantial contribution in the past, but were inactive or made only a small contribution for the current release cycle

• Aemilia
• Alejandro Conty Estevez - (yafray - jandro)
• Alexander Ewering - (misc - 3D text - intrr)
• Alfredo de Greef - (yafray - eeshlo)
• Arne Schmitz - ( - aschmitz)
• Benoit Foucque - (Lip Synchro Script - Dienben)
• Chris Burt - (wood texture - Desoto)
• Daniel Dunbar - (Modifier Stack and fast subsurf - zuster)
• Ed Blake - (DXF importer - kitsu)
• Hans Lambermont - ( - h_xnan)
• joao eduardo - (gameengine fixes - dreamkatana)
• Johnny Matthews (mesh tools - guitargeek)
• Kester Maddock (Game Engine Maintenance - kester)
• Marc Freixas (Boolean code - mfreixas)
• Mika Saari (internationalization - mikasaari)
• Mikael Lagre - (Collada 1.3)
• Ricki Myers - ( - themyers)
• Robert Wenzlaff ( - rwenzlaff)
• Rob Haarsma ( - phase)
• Roel Spruit (mesh tools - goofster)
• Simon Clitherow ( - aphex )
• Stefan Gartner ( - sgefant)
• Toni Alatalo - (script and API maintenance - antont)
• Wouter van Heyst - ( - larstiq)
• Jorge Bernal (Minnaert & Wardiso shaders - lordloki)

• Stefano Selleri - (knife tool script S68)

• R3gis - (animation trajectory script - R3gis)
• Jean-Baptiste Perin (Empties to Armatures - Perin)
• Loic Berthe - Bevel Center Script

• Arben Omari - Direct X import/export
• Evan J. Rosky - Discombobulator
• Greg MacDonald - FLT importer
• Anthony D'Agostino - numerous import and export scripts
• Bart - VRML Export and X3D export
• Bruce merry - ply import and export
• Dino Ghilardi - fig export
• Elira - XSI export

[edit] Code Contributors

These individuals have contributed a patch or bug fixes or minor scripts

• Frank Papenmeier, multiple material Ipos per mesh
• A Vanpoucke - axis copy script
• Daniel Salazar - LWO motion format export
• Guillermo S. Romero
• Jonas Petersen - envelope symmetry
• Mal CanDo - game engine bug fixes, XSI script improvements
• Radek Barton - open inventor export
• Stani Michiels - Python Library for generating DXF drawings

[edit] Significant Documentation Contributors

Significant Documentation Contributors are individuals who have done a great deal of writing, editing, or translating of the Documentation

• Colin Litster (Cogfilms)
• Guillermo S. Romero
• Werner Höhrer (Hoehrer)
• Roger Wickes (Roger) aka PapaSmurf
• Kenneth Styrberg (Styken)
• Philip Beichel (Beichel)

[edit] Other Contributors

• 2006 Blender Summer of Documentation: 10 grants of 500 euro each, sponsored by http://TheLinuxFund.org and Blender Foundation.

[edit] 2.46 Release

[edit] Core Development Team

• Andrea Weikert (image browser, windows maintainer)
• Ben Batt (modifier stack maintainer, bug fixes)
• Benoit Bolsee (Gameengine maintainer, compiling ffmpeg for windows, bugfixes)
• Brecht Van Lommel (lead developer; numerous new animation and rendering tools for Peach, renderer maintainer, extensive bug fixing)
• Campbell Barton (UV recode; numerous new tools for Peach; Python API and Scripts Maintainer, extensive bug fixing)
• Chris Want (Makefiles maintainer, bug fixes)
• Daniel Genrich (cloth system, cloth maintainer, fluids maintainer)
• Diego Hernan Borghetti (bugfixes, release manager)
• Geoffrey Bantle (Mesh tools maintainer, FLT scripts updates, bug fixes)
• Hans Lambermont (FreeBSD platform maintainer)
• Janne Karhu (Particles upgrade, particles maintainer)
• Jean-Luc Peurière (OSX ppc platform maintenance, NDOF Integration, bug fixes
• Jens Ole Wundt (Softbody improvements, bug fixes)
• Joe Eagar (id property maintainer, bug fixes)
• Jiri Hnidek (metaball maintainer, bug fixes)
• Joilnen Leite (particles api update)
• Joshua Leung (animation tools maintainer; numerous new animation tools for peach)
• Juho Vepsäläinen (Composite nodes maintainer, bug fixes)
• Hamed Zaghaghi (Game Engine Maintainer, ge filters)
• Ken Hughes (Python API maintainer, bug fixes)
• Kent Mein (platform maintainer, various small fixes)
• Mal Duffin (game engine bug fixes)
• Martin Poirier (Transform tools, bug fixes)
• Matt Ebb (UI maintainer, glossy reflection/QMC raytracing, nodes)
• Nicholas Bishop (Sculpt tools, retopology tools, and multires-mesh maintainer)
• Nathan Letwory (pynodes, scons maintainer)
• Nils Thuerey (Fluid Maintainer)
• Peter Schlaile (ffmpeg library integration; video sequence editor maintainer; color correction tools)
• Remigiusz Fiedler (dxf import maintainer)
• Ricki Myers (text editor maintainer)
• Robert Holcomb (Composite Nodes maintainer, bug fixes)
• Roland Hess (animation tools patches)
• Simon Clitherow (Bug fixes, Window platform maintenance)
• Stephen Swaney (Python API maintainer, bug fixes)
• Stefan Gartner (bugfixes)
• Stephane Soppera (Python API bugfixes, and api additions)
• Tom Musgrove (Release Manager, Python scripts maintainer)
• Ton Roosendaal (Project Lead)
• Willian P. Germano (Python API maintainer, pynodes, bug fixes)

[edit] Sponsors

• Brecht van Lommel and Campbell Barton were sponsored by the Digital Pioneers fund.

[edit] Patch submitters

• Adriano Macchietto - Timeline Performance Patch
• Alfredo de Greef - Glare, Lens Distortion, Tonemap, Fast Gauss blur nodes, directional blur
• Amorilia - support for uncompressed DDS format
• Andre Pinto - bugfixes
• Andrey Izrantsev (bdancer) - Glossy controls Python API
• aurel - bugfix
• Bernhard Rosenkränzer (bero) - bugfix
• Bill Nieuwendorp (slow67) - bugfix
• Boris van Schooten - bugfix
• brian hayward (bthayward) - Mesh replacement in BGE will react properly to armature deform
• Cedric Paille - particle API
• Changlin Zhou - bugfix
• Claudio Andaur (malefico) - SetPivot, GetPivot
• Cyril Brulebois (cyrilbrulebois) - Improvements for the German translation
• Daniel Salazar (zanqdo) - New Lightwave Motion importer, fixes to Lightwave Motion exporter
• David Anderson (davywavy) - external texture plugin thread-safe modifications
• David Bryant (digikiller) - New Empty Types - Sphere and Cone
• Dolf J. Veenvliet (macuno) - camera script, collada full python notice
• Domino Marama - added the function addMultiresLevel for python
• Ed Britton - drag immediately
• Ettore Pasquini - NDOF support (written on behalf of 3Dconnexion)
• Erwan Jacq (eon) - french translation update
• Fahrezal Effendi - zoom to mouse
• forTe - script templates; metaball creation script
• Frank Richter - bake selected to active; glPush/PopClientAttrib
• Gerhard Völkl - m3g script update
• Giuseppe Ghibò - bugfix; autothreads (written on behalf of Mandriva)
• Guillermo S. Romero (GSR) - bugfixes; stamp info
• Ian Calvert - "rake" setting to sculpt mode
• ILdar AKHmetgaleev (akhil) bugfix
• Jacob Biesinger: dLoc/dRot/dScale Ipo in the GE
• Jason R (scabootssca) - enable negative axis radar sensor; Realtime SetParent function in the BGE
• Jetze van Beijma - bug fixes
• JMS - "compressfile" parameter for Blender.Set()
• John Croisant muting NLA strips via Python API
• José Ignacio Romero (cyborgar) - getLinearVelocity() now can provide local velocity as well
• Kostas Gerontis - greek translation updates
• Kostis Karvouniaris - greek translation update
• Leandro Inocencio (cesio) - bugfix
• Markus Schulz - move texture buttons
• Malcolm Tredinnick (malcolmt) bugfix
• Mario Lapin - bugfix
• Markus Ilmola - "soft" option for halos, which avoids ugly intersections with geometry, and makes halos look more volumetric.
• Matthew Chadwick (celeriac) - bugfix
• Markus Ilmola (glome) - milkshape3d importer
• Michalis Kamburelis bug fix
• Millán Escrivá, David (damiles) - Custom Names for Nodes and Blur Node to support Relative (percent)
• Olivier Saraja (olivs) - Corrected a few tooltips
• Ovidiu Sabou - Speedup patch for GE in OpenGL Display Lists; GE memory reduction
• Paul Rotering (pryon) - knot vector access for SurfNurb
• Rob Hausauer (paprmh) - bugfixes; Invisibly stamp render information into jpg and png files.
• skejoe - bugfix
• Stefan Gartner (sgefant) - Solaris 10 x86 support (Makefiles)
• Stephan Kassemeyer - curve modifier for sculpting
• Teppo Känsälä (teppoka) - no 'Auto IK' for solitary (unconnected) bone; X-Axis Mirror Support for Various Operations in Armature EditMode
• Thomas Knight (epat) - bugfixes
• Tomas Zabojnik (zabo) -bugfix
• Vilem Novak - Bilateral Blur node
• Vladimir Espinosa - keying object layers from python
• Wim Van Hoydonck - tooltip fixes

[edit] 2.42 Release

[edit] Core Development Team

   * Andrea Weikert (image browser, windows maintainer)
   * Ben Batt (modifier stack maintainer, bug fixes)
   * Benoit (Gameengine maintainer, bugfixes)
   * Brecht Van Lommel (lead developer; numerous new animation and rendering tools for Peach, renderer maintainer, extensive bug fixing)
   * Campbell Barton (UV recode; numerous new tools for Peach; Python API and Scripts Maintainer, extensive bug fixing)
   * Chris Want (Makefiles maintainer, bug fixes)
   * Daniel Genrich (cloth system, cloth maintainer, fluids maintainer)
   * Diego Hernan Borghetti (bugfixes, release manager)
   * Geoffry Bantle (Mesh tools maintainer, bug fixes)
   * Jean-Luc Peurriere (OSX ppc platform maintenance, NDOF Integration, bug fixes)
   * Jens Ole Wundt (Softbody improvements, bug fixes)
   * Janne Karhu (Particles upgrade, particles maintainer)
   * Joe (id property maintainer, bug fixes)
   * Jiri Hnidek (metaball maintainer, bug fixes)
   * Joilnen Leite (particles api update)
   * Joshua Leung (animation tools maintainer; numerous new animation tools for peach)
   * Juho Vepsalainen (Composite nodes maintainer, bug fixes)
   * Hamed Zaghaghi (Game Engine Maintainer, ge filters)
   * Ken Hughes (Python API maintainer, bug fixes)
   * Kent Mein (platform maintainer, various small fixes)
   * Mal Duffin (game engine bug fixes)
   * Martin Poirier (Transform tools, bug fixes)
   * Matt Ebb (UI maintainer)
   * Nicholas Bishop (Sculpt tools, retopology tools, and multires-mesh maintainer)
   * Nathan Letwory (pynodes, scons maintainer)
   * Nils Thuerey (Fluid Maintainer)
   * Peter Schlaile (ffmpeg library integration; video seqeunce editor maintainer; color correction tools)
   * Remigiusz Fiedler (dxf import maintainer)
   * Ricki Myers (text editor maintainer)
   * Robert Holcomb (Composite Nodes maintainer, bug fixes)
   * Roland Hess (animation tools patches)
   * Simon Clitherow (Bug fixes, Window platform maintenance)
   * Stephen Swaney (Python API maintainer, bug fixes)
   * Stefan Gartner (bugfixes)
   * Stephane Soppero (Python API)
   * Tom Musgrove (Release Manager, Python scripts maintainer)
   * Ton Roosendaal (Project Lead)
   * Willian P. Germano (Python API maintainer, pynodes, bug fixes)

[edit] Patch submitters

   * Adriano Macchietto - Timeline Performance Patch
   * Amorilia - support for uncompressed DDS format
   * Andre Pinto - bugfixes
   * Andrey Izrantsev (bdancer) - Glossy controls Python API
   * aurel - bugfix
   * Bernhard Rosenkränzer (bero) - bugfix
   * Boris van Schooten - bugfix
   * brian hayward (bthayward) - Mesh replacement in BGE will react properly to armature deform
   * Cedric Paille - particle API
   * Changlin Zhou - bugfix
   * Cyril Brulebois (cyrilbrulebois) - Improvements for the German translation
   * David Anderson (davywavy) - external texture plugin thread-safe modifications
   * David Bryant (digikiller): New Empty Types - Sphere and Cone
   * Domino Maram adds the function addMultiresLevel for python
   * Ed Britton - drag immediately
   * Erwan Jacq (eon) - french translation update
   * Fahrezal Effendi - zoom to mouse
   * Frank Richter - bake selected to active; glPush/PopClientAttrib
   * Giuseppe Ghib - bugfix
   * GSR - bugfixes; stamp info
   * Ian Calvert - "rake" setting to sculpt mode
   * ILdar AKHmetgaleev (akhil) bugfix
   * Jason R (scabootssca) - enable negative axis radar sensor; Realtime SetParent function in the BGE
   * Jetze van Beijma - bug fixes
   * JMS - "compressfile" parameter for Blender.Set()
   * John Croisant muting NLA strips via Python API
   * José Ignacio Romero (cyborgar) - getLinearVelocity() now can provide local velocity as well
   * Kostas Gerontis - greek translation updates
   * Kostis Karvouniaris - greek translation update
   * Leandro Inocencio (cesio) - bugfix
   * Markus Schulz - move texture buttons
   * Malcolm Tredinnick (malcolmt) bugfix
   * malefico - SetPivot, GetPivot
   * Mario Lapin - bugfix
   * Markus Ilmola - "soft" option for halos, which avoids ugly intersections with geometry, and makes halos look more volumetric.
   * Matthew Chadwick (celeriac) - bugfix
   * Michalis Kamburelis bug fix
   * olivs - Corrected a few tooltips
   * Ovidiu Sabou - Speedup patch for GE in OpenGL Display Lists; GE memory reduction
   * Paul Rotering (pryon) - knot vector access for SurfNurb
   * Rob Hausauer (paprmh) - bugfixes; Invisibly stamp render information into jpg and png files.
   * skejoe - bugfix
   * Stefan Gartner (sgefant) - Solaris 10 x86 support (Makefiles)
   * Stephan Kassemeyer - curve modifier for sculpting
   * Stephane SOPPERA (soppera) - bugfixes; Add MultiLayer image type to python and batch rendering
   * Teppo Känsälä (teppoka) - no 'Auto IK' for solitary (unconnected) bone; X-Axis Mirror Support for Various Operations in Armature EditMode
   * Thomas Knight (epat) - bugfixes
   * Tomas Zabojnik (zabo)  -bugfix
   * Vilem Novak - Bilateral Blur node
   * Vladimir Espinosa - keying object layers from python

[edit] 2.41 Release

Credits Developers who contributed to this release:

• Campbell Barton - mesh sculpting, tri2quad, many script updates, some bug fixes
• Charlie Carley - Game Engine: Armature fix, GLSL shaders, blender materials
• Erwin Coumans - Game Engine: Bullet rigidbody dynamics and collision detection
• Ken Hughes - some bug fixes
• Lagan - Game Engine: Viewports / splitscreen, Alpha test (sorting), Double sided lighting
• Nathan Letwory - set chaining
• Tom Musgrove - Release Management, Release Notes, script addititions and misc

[edit] 2.40 Release

Credits Developers who contributed to this release:

• Alexander Ewering (3D Text improvements, bug fixes)
• Alfredo de Greef (Radiance file support, Yafray export fixes)
• Andrea Weikert (string library, bug fixes)
• Austin Benesh (Python Scripts)
• Bill Currie - Bug FIx
• Brecht Van Lommel (IK Engine, LCSM and UV Editing, bug fixes)
• Campbell Barton (BVH I/O Update, Archimap unwrapper, BPython API)
• Chris Burt (Radial Blend texture)
• Chris Want (Tuhopuu cvs support, Makefiles, bug fixes)
• Daniel Dunbar (Mesh drawing recode, Modifier stack)
• DJ Capelis (Linux platform maintenance, bug fixes, 64 bits support)
• Eckhard M. Jaeger - tweaks to modifier UI
• Erwin Coumans (Bullet Physics, Game engine fixes)
• Jean-Luc Peurriere (Dependency Graph, OSX platform maintenance, bug fixes)
• Jens Ole Wundt (Softbody improvements, Image paint, bug fixes)
• Janne Karhu (Particles upgrade groundwork)
• Jiri Hnidek (Window merging tool, Blender-Verse, bug fixes)
• Johnny Matthews (Meshedit Subdivide Core, Edgeslide, Widgetmaker Script, Python api)
• Joilnen Leite (Sort by extension on window file select)
• Jospeph Gilbert (Python Armature API, Python Mathutils, bug fixes
• Jorge Bernal - game compiling fix)
• Ken Hughes (Python API Mesh module, bug fixes)
• Kent Mein (libtiff support, various small fixes)
• Marc Freixas (Boolean recode)
• Martin Poirier (Transform tools, bug fixes)
• Matt Ebb (Lamps, Camera and Object center visualisations, sequence strip cutting, text UI controls and menu updates)
• Matthew Plough - SWAP_COPY
• Mika Saari (Unicode character support for Font Object)
• Nathan Letwory (Bug fixes)
• Nils Thuerey (Fluid Simulation)
• Pontus Lidman (Python script)
• Roland Hess (Floor Constraint, Ghost Bug fix)
• Simon Clitherow (Bug fixes, Window platform maintenance)
• Shaul Kedem (File compression,Sequencer frame reversal)
• Stephen Swaney (Python API, bug fixes)
• Stephane Soppero (Python API)
• Tom Musgrove (Python scripts, Release logs, Buttons code cleaning)
• Ton Roosendaal (Animation recode project, particles, hair, bug fixes)
• Toni Alatalo (Python API, bug fixes)
• Vidar Madsen (Fix for animating static particles)
• Willian P. Germano (Python API, bug fixes, docs)
• Yehoshua Sapir (Python script)