POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : POV-Ray v3.5 now available : Re: POV-Ray v3.5 now available Server Time
6 Aug 2024 08:18:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: POV-Ray v3.5 now available  
From: Kevin R 
Date: 9 Jul 2002 18:41:24
Message: <3D2B66CE.7070709@hotmail.com>
YEEEEEAH!

And perfect timing, too, since now I have time to spend working with it!

Mad props to all involved! :-)

- Kevin R.

Chris Cason wrote:
> It is with pleasure that the POV-Team announces that POV-Ray version
> 3.5 is now officially available for the Windows, Macintosh and Linux
> platforms.
> 
> In development for well over two years, v3.5 is a major improvement
> over all previous versions, not only in features, but in stability
> and the quality of the documentation and included example files. Of
> course, we don't claim it to be bug free (see our known bugs list at
> our web site), but given our extensive alpha, pre-beta and beta program
> we feel that what we are releasing today is a stable, well-tested piece
> of software that can be used with confidence.
> 
> Since our first internal alpha version (early 2001), we have built 6
> alphas, 14 private pre-betas, 16 public betas, and 6 release candidates
> to get us to today's final 3.5 release. During this time we read,
> reviewed, and in many cases answered over 12,000 newsgroup postings in
> our private and public beta test forums, resulting in many hundreds of
> bug fixes and improvements.
> 
> The POV-Team would like to extend its heartfelt thanks to all those who
> helped to make this possible, and particularly to our dedicated group
> of pre-beta testers, who not only performed testing functions but also
> made major contributions to the scene and documentation files, not only
> during the pre-beta stage but right up to the days before the final
> release.
> 
> I would also like to extend my personal thanks to the POV-Team members
> who worked long and hard on this since we started on it all those years
> ago. Your dedication is truly appreciated.
> 
> -- Chris Cason
>    POV-Team Co-ordinator
> 
>


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