Additionally, assimp features various __mesh post processing tools__: normals and tangent space generation, triangulation, vertex cache locality optimization, removal of degenerate primitives and duplicate vertices, sorting by primitive type, merging of redundant materials and many more.
-This is the development trunk containing the latest features and bugfixes. For productive use though, we recommend one of the stable releases available from [assimp.sf.net](http://assimp.sf.net) or from *nix package repositories.
-The current build status is:
+This is the development repo containing the latest features and bugfixes. For productive use though, we recommend one of the stable releases available from [Github Assimp Releases](https://github.com/assimp/assimp/releases).
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-And we also have an IRC-channel at freenode: #assetimporterlib . You can easily join us via: [KiwiIRC/freenote](https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net), choose your nickname and type
-> /join #assetimporterlib
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__[open3mod](https://github.com/acgessler/open3mod) is a powerful 3D model viewer based on Assimp's import and export abilities.__