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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView 3.10.0 Release Candidate 1 binaries for download on the ParaView download page. The 32bit Linux binary is still missing after a package generation snafu but will be available shortly. Also, Final 3.10 binaries should be available within the next week or two if all goes well.</span></div>
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Release Notes:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">ParaView 3.10</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">This release features notable developments, including mechanisms to incorporate advanced rendering techniques, improved support for readers and several usability enhancements and bug fixes.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">For the 3.10 release, we have added 60 new readers. The new readers include: ANSYS, CGNS, Chombo, Dyna3D, Enzo, Mili, Miranda, Nastran, Pixie, Samrai, Silo, and Tecplot Binary. A full listing of supported readers can be found in the ParaView Users Guide. We also added the ability for developers to create ParaView reader plugins from previously developed VisIt reader plugins. You can find a full guide on how to do this on the VisIt Database Bridge: <a href="http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/VisIt_Database_Bridge">http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/VisIt_Database_Bridge</a></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">With this release we have rewritten the ParaView User's Guide and are making it freely available for the first time. The complete guide can be obtained in the help system or online at:</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Table_Of_Contents">http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Table_Of_Contents</a>.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">We have included a Python-based calculator which makes it possible to write operations using Python. The Python calculator uses NumPy, which makes it is possible to use advanced functions such as gradients, curls, and divergence easily in expression. Also the NumPy module is packaged in the ParaView binary and is importable from the ParaView Python shell.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">There should also be a marked performance improvement for users dealing with large multi-block datasets. We have cleaned up the rendering pipeline to better handle composite datasets, avoiding the appending of all blocks into a single dataset as was done previously.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">To better utilize multiple cores on modern mutli-core machines, by default ParaView can now run using a parallel server, even for the built-in mode. This enables the use of all the cores for parallel data processing, without requiring the user to start a parallel server. ParaView binaries will also be distributed using an MPI implementation, making this feature available to users by simply downloading the binaries. Since this is an experimental feature, it is off by default, but users can turn it on by checking the Auto-MPI checkbox in the application settings dialog.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">Additionally, the 3.10 release includes several usability enhancements. 3D View now supports smart context menus, accessed by right-clicking on any object in the 3D View to change its color, representation, color map and visibility. Left-clicking on an object in the 3D View makes it active in the pipeline browser. Within the spreadsheet view, sorting is now supported and an advanced parallel sorting algorithm ensures that none of the benefits of the spreadsheet view, such as streaming and selection, are sacrificed. Python tracing and macro controls are now exposed from the main menus, no longer hidden under the Python shell. For an exhaustive list of the new features and bug-fixes, please refer to the change log at: <a href="http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php">http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php</a>.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">For developers interested in adding support for advanced multi-pass rendering algorithms to ParaView, this release includes a major refactoring of ParaView's rendering pipeline. View and representations have been redesigned and users should see improved performance in client-server mode from reduced interprocess communication during rendering.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">LANL's MantaView interactive ray tracing plugin has been restructured to make it easier to use. Version 2.0 of the plugin is now multi-view capable and no longer requires ParaView to be run in a client/server configuration. Similarly both of LANL's streaming aware ParaView derived applications have been merged into ParaView proper in the form of a new View plugin. The underlying streaming algorithms have been rewritten to be more usable and extensible. Both plugins are available in standard binary package for the first time in this release.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; ">As always, we rely on your feedback to make ParaView better. Please use <a href="http://paraview.uservoice.com/">http://paraview.uservoice.com/</a> or click on the "Tell us what you think" link on <a href="http://paraview.org/">paraview.org</a> to leave your feedback and vote for new features.</span></div>
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