A new version of the Irrlicht Engine is now available for download from the download page. There are lots of new features, bug fixes and optimizations. Here is a short list with the highlights of the new release:

• The engine is now able to load 3DS files, with their materials and textures.
• There is now a tool for generating new fonts for the engine included in the SDK.
• New scene nodes (Skyboxes) and scene node animators (texture animators).
• Experimental stencil buffer shadows with the Direct3D device.
• Sphere mapping.
• Interfaces for extensions with new texture and mesh loaders.

The webpage was also updated: There are some new tutorials available on the tutorials page, the milestones for version 0.3 can be viewed on the development page, and I added an acknowledgements section on theauthor page.