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 = !OpenSceneGraph 2.8 release adds osgAnimation and osgVolume rendering libraries, DICOM support and much more. =
 
-PERTHSHIRE, Scotland - Early February 2009 - !OpenSceneGraph Professional Services announces the release of !OpenSceneGraph 2.6, the industry's leading open-source scene graph technology, designed to accelerate application development and improve 3D graphics performance. !OpenSceneGraph 2.6 written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon OpenGL, offers developers working in the visual simulation, game development, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling markets - a real-time visualization tool which eclipses commercial scene graph toolkits in functionality, stability and performance. !OpenSceneGraph 2.6 runs on all Microsoft Windows platforms, Apple OS/X, GNU/Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and FreeBSD operating systems.
+PERTHSHIRE, Scotland - Early February 2009 - !OpenSceneGraph Professional Services announces the release of !OpenSceneGraph 2.8, the industry's leading open-source scene graph technology, designed to accelerate application development and improve 3D graphics performance. !OpenSceneGraph 2.8 written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon OpenGL, offers developers working in the visual simulation, game development, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling markets - a real-time visualization tool which eclipses commercial scene graph toolkits in functionality, stability and performance. !OpenSceneGraph 2.8 runs on all Microsoft Windows platforms, Apple OS/X, GNU/Linux, IRIX, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and FreeBSD operating systems.
 
 === Open-source development delivers industry-leading features and performance ===
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     * Improvements to DatabasePager tailored for low latency paging.
     * Improved stats collection and on screen reporting.
+    * Support for the OpenGL geometry instancing extension.
+    * Improvements to COLLADA support.
     * Build reporting using CDash
     * New Packing support using CPack