Blender 2.77 was released this weekend as the newest version of this wildly popular, cross-platform, open-source 3D animation program.

Blender 2.77 delivers Cycles rendering improvements, new GPU capabilities and rendering abilities, faster OpenGL rendering of the UI, better anti-aliasing, new design tools, new features for Blender's Game Engine, multi-threading improvements, and much more.

You can get a detailed look at the changes of Blender 2.77 via this Blender.org features page while you can download it here.