It's been a while since I've done any work on this but I've actually had quite a few improvements that I've made locally that I never made patches for. I had to update to the latest development snapshot but now I'm starting to push my backed up changes to trac.
Some of the things I've got coming up:
Shadow Filtering
I replaced the old box filter with an 8 sample poisson disk filter. This should yield significantly smoother shadows with soft edges.
Depth of Field
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