Blender foundation has announced that a version 2.79 test build is now available. You can download it here, and see all the new features in the release notes. Any bugs or feedback can be reported using Blender’s bug tracker site.
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Awesome!
The greatness of Blender is not just the release itself, but the new addons included in each new release, check this list, this tools are great!
https://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Ref/Release_Notes/2.79/Add-ons
Cheers!
Animal rigs in Rigify, Principled BSDF shader, Cycles denoiser, improved Alembic support are essential additions. Especially animal rigs, as far as I know, are unique of their kind.
Ok I remembered that there are also CAT rigs in 3ds max. And in many cases they are superior (there is no rig for hexapod and insects in blender). But in all cases only these two applications have animal rigs.