Ogre 2.1 has been made officially available. The new release of the open source rendering engine includes:

• HLMS - high level material system to generate shaders automatically
• Physically Based Shading
• New, more flexible and faster compositor
• Refactored with cache friendly techniques, SIMD instructions, AZDO, auto instancing, and multithreading
• Area lights
• Parallax Corrected Cubemaps
• Forward Clustered lights
• HDR
• Exponential shadowmaps
• And more

Learn more from the blog announcement at https://www.ogre3d.org/2020/04/26/ogre-2-1-baldur-released​ and more detail on the new features at https://www.ogre3d.org/2015/02/09/ogre-2-1-now-publicly-available-previously-dubbed-azdo-branch.