Blender 2.57 stable released

[vilvoh]

The Blender Foundation and online developer community is proud to present Blender 2.57. This is the first stable release of the Blender 2.5 series, representing the culmination of many years of redesign and development work.

We name this version "Stable" not only because it's mostly feature complete, but especially thanks to the 1000s of fixes and feature updates we did since the 2.5 beta versions were published.

The next 2 months we will keep working on finishing a couple of left-over 2.5 targets and we expect to get feedback and bug reports from users to handle as well. If all goes well, the 2.58 version then can be the final release of the 2.5 series, with a massive amount of new projects to be added for an exciting cycle of 2.6x versions. Target is to release updates every 2 months this year.

http://www.blender.org/development/release-logs/blender-257/

[IgorEliezer]

No kitchen sink splashscreen? O noes! D:

[IgorEliezer]

Blender 2.57a with 100 bugfixes is out.

http://www.blendernation.com/2011/04/22/blender-2-57a-released

[jamespetts]

Hmm - I've just downloaded 2.57b, and have rather a problem - the interface is corrupted: most of the text and menus are missing, as are the individual controls for objects, rendering, etc: the panels are mostly blank. Has anyone else had this difficulty?

[IgorEliezer]

I didn't have any trouble with 2.75b.



Have you tried "Menu File > Load factory settings"?

[jamespetts]

I can't get the file menu, as all the menus are blank :-(

[IgorEliezer]

:S

Press space bar, a context menu will pop up. This menu can search commands as you type in. Then type in "Load Factory Settings", and click on the option "Load Factory Settings", and then OK.

If whole context (menu, layout etc) has been recovered, press Ctrl+U to save it.