From the February 5th Blender meeting notes:

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Blender 2.62 is hours away from the Release Candidate: among other things, it brings the Carve library to handle booleans. This library is faster and better the previous booleans and, among other features, handles nicely ngons which brings us to...

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Quote - BMesh: is near final now! Campbell committed last big hurdle, for particle/hair support.

• Proposal: the next 2.63 release gets an exclusive BMesh-focus, other work should be done respecting it, or wait for 2.64 (especially bigger features that need testing time).
  Once BMesh is in trunk, we could move to BCon3 immediate (testing/fixing period, no new features added) and release 2.63 in less than two months.

Putting together ngons and booleans, in a few weeks Blender will be capable of handling a totally different modeling workflow from the past, very similar to the one of Wings3D/SketchUp.

In addition, BMesh is the precodition for many enhancements currently on hold, both for hard surface and organic modeling tasks.

This is a ground shaking announcement: when you download the new version of a program and, to all practical purpose, find yourself with a brand new application capable of functionalities which in the past you could only dream of.

Bye.

GIMP 2.7.4, Inkscape 0.48, Genetica 3.6 Basic, FilterForge 3 Professional, Blender 2.61, SketchUp 8, PoserPro 2012, Vue 10 Infinite, World Machine 2.3, GeoControl 2