I just released Irrlicht version 1.0. It includes some few new features and bugfixes since the last release and has been carefully tested. Some of the new features are:

• Enhanced software rasterizer: 32 bit rendering, dynamic lights, more materials (Thx to Thomas Alten!).
• Support for the Code::Blocks IDE
• Microsoft .dll hell awareness (no more abort and ‘d3dx9_xx.dll not found’ messages), Irrlicht will also operate if some of these dlls can not be loaded.
• Better support for orthogonal rendering and drawing to foreign windows, useful for creating 2D games, editors and 3D tools using Irrlicht.
• Improved Irrlicht.NET (root scene node, view frustrums, bounding boxes, …)
• More precise picking
• gcc 4 support
• Bugfixes, other small implemented feature requests

For a complete list, please take a look at the changes.txt file. Happy downloading. I’m quite happy to get this release out, and also wrote down a small summary of the development of Irrlicht until now, why Irrlicht 1.0 has been released now, and what will be done in the future, on my blog.

Other news:

• Frank Dodd created a FreeBasic wrapper for Irrlicht.
• Guest accounts on the irrlicht forum are disabled now.
• A new version IrrGI, a gui editor for Irrlicht has been released