A brief look at Houdini 11

Houdini is probably one of the most powerful software when it comes to procedural modelling.

Having shown an increased popularity over the course of the years, SideFX has released a new, better version of Houdini. We can think of it as an enhanced version of Houdini 10 on steroids.
So what are the main features and major changes?

Blender 2.53 beta

Recently the latest beta version of Blender 2.5 was published and we're finally done with the alpha stage.
After three alpha versions, Blender 2.5 becomes beta, to the joy of the users worldwide. Even if I personally thought that even in the alpha stage, 2.5 was really decent, I downloaded 2.53 without hesitation.