По-русски: prman 10 вышел и уже можно качать (я не знаю, откуда). RAT 5 выйдет приблизительно через 2 недели.
> Dear Pixar Customer:
>
> We are pleased to announce the release of PhotoRealistic RenderMan
> version 10.0, and its immediate availability for download from our
> website.
>
> Maintenance customers are eligible to upgrade to this release for
> free by contacting Wendy Wirthlin, mailto:wendyw@pixar.com for
> downloading instructions and new licenses. Others may be purchase
> upgrades to release 10.0 from Lola Gill in RenderMan Sales,
> mailto:lola@pixar.com.
>
> PhotoRealistic RenderMan 10.0 delivers a host of new features, and
> performance enhancements. Some of the new features in this release
> include:
>
> * TIFF Textures.
> * Class Specifier 'Facevarying'
> * Unlimited Arbitrary Output Variables
> * Conditional RI Evaluation
> * Inline RIB Archives
> * Renderer Checkpointing
> * Rendering Contexts
> * Non-raster Oriented Dicing
> * Soft Shadow speedup and improvements
> * Shading Language Enhancements
>
> On behalf of the entire products team, I'd like to thank you for using
> Pixar products. We probably don't say it enough, but we truly appreciate
> your support as a customer. We are really excited about this release, and
> we hope you enjoy the new features.
>
> We are already hard at work on the next RenderMan and RAT releases.
> RenderMan Artist Tools version 5.0, is currently in final testing phases,
> and will be available in approximately two weeks.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ray Davis
>
> Dear Pixar Customer:
>
> We are pleased to announce the release of PhotoRealistic RenderMan
> version 10.0, and its immediate availability for download from our
> website.
>
> Maintenance customers are eligible to upgrade to this release for
> free by contacting Wendy Wirthlin, mailto:wendyw@pixar.com for
> downloading instructions and new licenses. Others may be purchase
> upgrades to release 10.0 from Lola Gill in RenderMan Sales,
> mailto:lola@pixar.com.
>
> PhotoRealistic RenderMan 10.0 delivers a host of new features, and
> performance enhancements. Some of the new features in this release
> include:
>
> * TIFF Textures.
> * Class Specifier 'Facevarying'
> * Unlimited Arbitrary Output Variables
> * Conditional RI Evaluation
> * Inline RIB Archives
> * Renderer Checkpointing
> * Rendering Contexts
> * Non-raster Oriented Dicing
> * Soft Shadow speedup and improvements
> * Shading Language Enhancements
>
> On behalf of the entire products team, I'd like to thank you for using
> Pixar products. We probably don't say it enough, but we truly appreciate
> your support as a customer. We are really excited about this release, and
> we hope you enjoy the new features.
>
> We are already hard at work on the next RenderMan and RAT releases.
> RenderMan Artist Tools version 5.0, is currently in final testing phases,
> and will be available in approximately two weeks.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ray Davis
>