This is a gallery of Blender splash screens from version 2.5 to 2.6. You will see many great improvements of Blender render result in this gallery. But if you are looking for splash screens of Blender older versions, you can find it on Blender Splash Screens 2.04 – 2.49.

Blender 2.5 has gone a total re-coding. Initiated in 2007 and taking off in 2009, Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 has new GUI layout. The process matured in 2011 with the first stable Blender 2.57 release. One notable improvement should be mentioned is, Blender new path tracing render engine Cycles has been added on Blender 2.61 release.

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Blender 2.5 Alpha 0 (November 2009)
GUI layout has been re-designed in this release.

 

Blender 2.5 Alpha 1 (February 2010, aka 2.51)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.5 Alpha 2 (March 2010, aka 2.52)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.5 Beta (July 2010, aka 2.53)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.5 Beta (September 2010, aka 2.54)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.5 Beta (October 2010, aka 2.55)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.5 Beta (December 2010, aka 2.56)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.57 (April 2011)
This was the first stable release of Blender version 2.5.

 

Blender 2.58 (June 2011)
Warp modifier was added to this release.

 

Blender 2.59 (August 2011)
3D mouse support was added to this release.

 

Blender 2.60 (October 2011)
3D audio and speaker objects were added to this release.

 

Blender 2.61 (December 2011)
The new Cycles Render Engine was added to this release.

 

Blender 2.62 (February 2012)
Many new UV editing tools were added to this release.

 

Blender 2.63 (April 2012)
Bmesh modelling (full support for N-sided polygons system) was added to this release.

 

Blender 2.64 (October 2012)
Full VFX pipeline support was added to this release.

 

Blender 2.65 (December 2012)
Fire simulation was added to this release.

 

Blender 2.66 (February 2013)
Cycles hair rendering was added to this release.

 

Blender 2.66a (March 2013)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.67 (May 2013)
Freestyle render engine (non-photorealistic rendering) was added to this release.

 

Blender 2.67a (May 2013)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.67b (May 2013)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.68 (July 2013)
Several features were improved, but no notable new features were added to this release.

 

Blender 2.68a (July 2013)
This was a bugfix release, no notable features were added.

 

Blender 2.69 (October 2013)
Several features were improved, but no notable new features were added to this release.