Well! I've just read the news about this year's Google Summer of Code :) There are quite exciting things that will be developed in Blender during this event: Camera Tracker, BGE features and polish, animation system cleanup, retopology and mesh tools (hopefully with Bmesh!)... and much more!! Here you have the entire list and people involved:

Hi again! It's time for sculpting!! Blender has a quite nice sculpting system, very easy to use, and very powerful. On this tutorial, we'll take a tour over the basic tools, and how to use the Sculpt Mode. Then, at the end of the video, I've put a quick timelapse, showing the main workflow for sculpting in blender a simple character's face. In future tutorials we'll make some retopo work with it :D

Hi again!!

Blender 2.57 has been finally released! It's the first "stable" version from the 2.5x series :D It features some UI cleaning, some new features, and a looot of bugfixes!


Click this image for watching the official Blender 2.57 features page