I hope you won't miss LIGHTWAVEBOX blog once you discover the NEW OFFICIAL LIGHTWAVE 3D BLOG
It starts with a very interesting article about the development of Lightwave 3D by ROB POWERS
"Cycles GPU rendering supports Volume and Subsurface Scattering now. The User Interface comes with optional Pie Menus now and the Tooltips have been improved. For Modeling, a new intersection tool has been added in Edit Mode. Texture painting workflow has been streamlined with easy access to painted images and UV layers. The Compositor now comes with a Sun Beam node. Freestyle NPR rendering is now available with Cycles as well. Additionally, Blender 2.72 features three new addons."