Recent developments sees sIBL integrated into Blender, allowing Blender users to create realistic lighting with the same one-click setup that 3DS or Maya users enjoy, sporting the Smart-IBL workflow.
Raise your glasses, brothers! Blender just joined the exquisite ranks of sIBL-supported programs
sIBL provides a centralized library and management hub for HDR images, as well as creating IBL lighting solutions with a click.
Thanks to the efforts of Jed Frechette, sIBL can now be used inside of Blender with nearly all the features of the other versions. Jed does note that the required template files are distributed separately from both the Blender addon and the main sIBL GUI application, but once there has been some feedback, Jed hopes to get these included in the main sIBL GUI application.
Check out the post over at HDRLabs for sIBL for Blender, and also the Blender Wiki here.