It has taken a long time but we now have the new version ready, we 
intend to make a short beta phase (about a week, this of course depends 
if there are problems).  Those who want to test can find the new version at:

http://megapov.inetart.net/

You will see we also updated the website with a new sample scene gallery 
and some other useful information.

We encourage those who have some experience with POV-Ray to test the 
beta version - this will help us to find possible flaws which might be 
there since it was quite some time since the last release.  Please 
report problems to povray.unofficial.patches.

We have a few known issues:

- the documentation is still not complete, the post processing patch is 
missing there for example.
- there are a few problems with CAMERA_VIEW_PATCH.  You can use it but 
it might lead to unexpected results.

And as a preventive answer to the FAQ "why was patch xxx not included in 
this version":

Patch xxx was:

- buggy
- incomplete
- published too late to be included
- incompatible to POV-Ray 3.6
- no one found the time to add it
- did not appear useful

(Of course not all together - select what you think fits best).

Christoph

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