Quote - "Yes, and projection painting is there in v2, IIRC - no need to get v2.5 just for that. (Though there are probably other good reasons to do so!)"

Yep, pretty sure it was in version 1 as well, from what I recall. actually 2.5 is not much of a jump from version 2, there are a few new features, such and normal map baking and things like that but not a lot that make it particularly better for poser map production.