This major release introduces tons of cool new features. As it is highly experimental, it is not recommended for production use.

• Support for running Panda3D apps in a browser via web plugin
• Fully automatic shadow mapping
• Easy to use distribution and packaging framework
• Integrated support for NVIDIA PhysX
• Support for GLSL shaders
• Geometry shaders, both in Cg and GLSL
• Improved Cg support
• Hardware geometry instancing support
• Runtime fullscreen toggle
• Unix/X11 resolution querying/switching support
• Experimental Unix/X11 support for relative mouse mode (via xf86dga)
• New, cleaner import conventions, replacing PandaModules
• Parallax mapping
• Support for OpenGL ES 1 and 2
• Experimental Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
• New collision solid: box
• Working FreeBSD support
• Blur / Sharpen postprocessing filter
• Many improvements to the Shader Generator
• Fixes and improvements to DistributedObject network system
• New AI libraries
• Added MeshDrawer2D
• Most Panda objects now work with the pickle/cPickle and copy modules.
• Windows build now compiled for Python 2.6
• Tons of new features and bugfixes