POVRay wrote:
> 
> > > Just curious: how many beta steps occured in 3.1 version? [hint hint]
> >
> > True, there probably weren't as many, but with all these complicated new
> > features, what exactly would you expect?
> >
> 
> Did it go to 'g' as it was known as 3.1g?

POV-Ray v3.1 went through 6 public beta versions before final release.
Once it was released officially there were still some rather serious
bugs found and fixed. Each official release that has an upgrade is
assigned an alpha designator with the first official release build
designated with an "a". There were (I seem to recall) a couple of
revisions that did not even make it out to the public. For example
I think POV-Ray v3.1c was skipped and went straight to POV-Ray v3.1d
from v3.1b. POV-Ray v3.1g was the last official build released of
the v3.1 versions of the program. It is not unthinkable that even
after the official release of v3.5a that there will still be some
final revisions released afterwards to squash serious unwanted
bugs.

-- 
Ken Tyler

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