Modeling:

• Edge Bevel- New 'Edge Shape - Square' mode makes adding holding edges for SubD cages a breeze.
• Bridge Tool- Expanded functionality with new 'auto connection' and 'continuous bridge' options.
• Contour Tool- Retopology booster generates section silhouettes based on slices of a surface.
• Topology Pen- New 'Point' and 'Fill' modes make retopology work even faster.
• Boolean commands- Boolean, Solid and Axis Drill have new controls and options.
• Freeze command- New 'Tessellation' option toggle allows freezing a deformed mesh without affecting its current Sub-D state.
• Work Plane Tool- Allows for interactive placement of the Work plane using a transform widget.
• Pen Tool- Retopology enhancement, 'Select New' option allows for selection toggling while the tool is still active.
• Vertex Tool- Now creates single point polygons instead of straight vertices.
• Mirror Vertex Map- New command allows users to easily mirror a vertex map to any destination.
• Split Vertex Normals- New options for adding creased and smoothed edges to an existing vertex normal map.
• Clipboard Enhancement- Copy and Paste of Edges will now result in a string of two-point polygons.
• Copy & Paste Behavior- New Preference option to control what is selected/deselected in a Copy/Paste procedure.
• Merge and Unmerge- New Item List menu command to combine and break apart mesh pieces within a layer.

• Convert to Multiresolution- New commands converts any type of image based sculpting to the superior MultiRes format.
• Sculpting Masks- Users can now interactively paint sculpting masks defining areas that wont be affected.
• Sculpting HUD- Viewport palette for visually controlling MultiRes levels as well as important Brush controls.
• Paint tool Performance improvements now also work with the sculpting tools making sculpting much faster across the board.

• Particles- Newly introduced procedural Particle system is fully integrated into the dynamics system allowing for interactions between particles and rigid bodies.
• Fluid Solver- Combined with a Particle Simulation, Dynamic Fluids can be achieved by adding the new Fluid Solver.
• Flocking- New Particle Flocking behavior that creates groupings of particles in motion.
• Particle Modifiers- Modifiers can be added to Point Clouds and Particle simulations providing greater control.
• Dynamics- Overhauled dynamics system is now more robust and many times faster.
• Forces- New 'Wind' force and 'Curve' force options provide additional controls to Particle and Dynamic Simulations.

• Audio Support- Audio files can now be added to a scene for sync and exported with Quicktime video files.
• Graph Editor- Completely reworked graph editor with many new functions and controls to enhance the animation workflow.
• Dope Sheet- New enhancements to the Dope Sheet/Track View give users better control over the visible length of time.
• Pose Tool- New Dynamic Pinning options allows users Dynamic Parenting-like functionality when posing and animating.
• Add User Channel- New channel 'Type' options make Users Channels even more flexible.
• Timeline Rollovers- When 'Show Rollovers' is enabled, highlighted elements will also display any associated keyframes.
• Time Tool- Middle Mouse Button click automatically scrubs the timeline at the correct speed when animating.
• Dynamic Parenting- New drag and drop interface for easier Dynamic Parenting.
• Motion Path Editing- Bezier-style motion path editing directly in the 3D viewport.
• Keying Hierarchy- Hierarchy controls allow users to designate which items in a hierarchy receive keyframes automatically.
• Keyframe Tool- The Keying Tool provides a convenient interface for keyframing directly in the 3D viewports.
• Channel Sets- Groups of channels from a variety of items can be gathered and displayed in the Channel Haul interface.
• Key Sets- Provide a convenient and quick way to assign keyframes to multiple channels at once, even on unrelated items.
• Channel Sound- Audio Channel Modifier allows users to use any waveforms amplitude as a channel controller.
• New Modifiers- Waveform, Math Operators, additional Matrix controllers, Expression, Random and more.

• Item Based Shading- Users can now easily apply Shaders outside of the Shader Tree making it possible to make single items invisible to the camera for instance without any Shader Tree layer shenanigans.
• Texture Offset- New layer Effect type allows any texture map values to displace those of another layer.
• Variations Texture- New Shader Tree layer allows users to add easily add color variations to multiple objects without masks.
• Scattering Filter Distance- New Hair Shading option helps to reduce or eliminate noisy renders when using Fur.
• Occlusion Texture Cache- New cache options for Occlusion can speed up renders and smooth out the resulting shading.
• Fur Vertex Map controls- New Fur options allow vertex weight maps to be used to controls density and length.
• Material Mode- The Shader Tree has a new 'Material' mode view that displays layers by Tag and/or Item selection.
• Shader Tree Folder- More easily organize layers in the Shader Tree.
• Shading Library- Scenes can contain a Library of Materials, like Presets, that can be easily applied and modified.

• Render Preview- Greatly enhanced Preview viewport allows saving and loading of progressive renders, respects the Render items Antialiasing settings, allows Drag&Drop functionality, and provides a modal progress bar when rendering animations.
• Render Curves- New option to 'Render Curves as Polygons' allowing users to use Displacement Maps. Radius Gradient option allows users to easily control the radius of the resulting curve along its length.
• Improved Physical Daylight Illumination Model- The old method has been completely replaced by a much more realistic model.
• Environment Fog- Fog can now be applied as part of the Environment material with a new 'Layered' fog option.
• Environment Importance Sampling- New option for Global Illumination produces cleaner results using far less rays.
• Animateable Render Camera- Current Render camera can be animated and assigned to individual Passes.
• Render Proxies- Users can convert individual layers to render-time Proxies, external files that only load when rendering.
• Vignetting- Physically accurate vignetting is avaialable as an option for the Final Color render output.
• Bake Geometry Cache- Convert complex rendertime geoemtry, such a Displacement and Fur to actual Mesh Items.

• 701 Interface- New streamlined workspaces refine modo's already fluid workflow for even greater accessibility and speed.
• Enhancement to viewport icons to maximize/minimize windows within a group and open the viewports Options panel.
• Layout Switcher- New shortcut for layout switching increases productivity and screen real-estate by eliminating tabs.
• Embedded gradient editors allow the easy modification of values for many items, such as curve width along its length, emission strength of particle along a curves length, tapering of Fur fibers and many more.
• Drag to Toggle- Users can now simply drag over multiples of layers in the Items List to automatically toggle them all.
• Colored Coded Layers- Coloring of layers in Lists viewports can be applied using the contextual menus.
• Point-At Popovers- New Popover type of viewport points at the button that spawned the window.
• Item List Keyboard Navigation- The keyboard arrow pad can now be used to navigate the Items list selections.
• Viewport Display Options- New viewport controls to independently customize the display of active and inactive layers.

• Python Support- New Python interpreter allows much faster and broader Python support.

Modeling:

• Edge Bevel- New 'Edge Shape - Square' mode makes adding holding edges for SubD cages a breeze.
• Bridge Tool- Expanded functionality with new 'auto connection' and 'continuous bridge' options.
• Contour Tool- Retopology booster generates section silhouettes based on slices of a surface.
• Topology Pen- New 'Point' and 'Fill' more...