Codename Baldur

First major release

For more information, see the manual
See SW & HW Requirements
See platforms supported
See Ogre 2.1 FAQ

• Hlms (High Level Material System) to generate shaders automatically. Replaces RTSS and manual shaders
• PBS - Physically Based Shading
• New Compositor. More flexible, faster and powerful
• Refactored Ogre 1.x to increase performance by several factors; using cache friendly techniques (Data Oriented Design), SIMD instructions, AZDO (Aproaching Zero Driver Overhead), auto instancing, and multithreading
• Windows Vista/7/8/10 support, macOS via Metal and OpenGL, iOS via Metal, Linux via OpenGL
• Many new features: Area lights, Parallax Corrected Cubemaps, Forward Clustered lights, HDR, Exponential Shadowmaps and more

Relevant posts:

• https://www.ogre3d.org/2015/02/09/ogre-2-1-now-publicly-available-previously-dubbed-azdo-branch
• https://www.ogre3d.org/2015/03/05/ogre-progress-report-february-2015
• https://www.ogre3d.org/2015/04/05/ogre-progress-report-march-2015
• https://www.ogre3d.org/2015/07/08/ogre-progress-report-june-2015
• https://www.ogre3d.org/2016/01/01/ogre-progress-report-december-2015
• https://www.ogre3d.org/2016/03/14/ogre-progress-report-march-2016
• https://www.ogre3d.org/2016/12/23/ogre-progress-report-december-2016
• https://www.ogre3d.org/2018/01/01/ogre-progress-report-december-2017