FYI, ParaView users and devs, new VTK release is planned soon.<br>
<br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">David Cole</b> <<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com">david.cole@kitware.com</a>><br>Date: Jan 28, 2008 2:45 PM<br>
Subject: VTK 5.2 Release Planning<br>To: vtkusers <<a href="mailto:vtkusers@vtk.org">vtkusers@vtk.org</a>>, Vtk Developers <<a href="mailto:vtk-developers@vtk.org">vtk-developers@vtk.org</a>><br><br></span>Dear VTK users and developers,<br>
<br>
We are planning to create the VTK-5-2 branch in about a month (around
the end of February), followed by a month or so of bug fixing activity,
followed by the first release candidate for the VTK 5.2 release in
early April, 2008.<br>
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As part of that plan, we would like to ask you, the VTK community, to contribute to a successful release by doing the following:<br>
- Review the non-resolved bugs in the bug database and make notes on those you really want to see fixed.<br>
- Help us make the "What's New in VTK 5.2" section of the Wiki page
complete (did we forget something that you know is new in 5.2?) --
contribute to the Wiki at
<a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_5.2_Release_Planning" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_5.2_Release_Planning</a><br>
- Help us get (and keep!) the dashboards to a state of blissful green.<br>
- Promptly add any newly found bugs or last-minute feature requests to the bug database.<br>
- Keep reading and responding to the mailing lists.<br>
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We will be triaging the bug database to prioritize which bugs we will
fix. If you would like to see a particular bug addressed before we
release 5.2, please visit the bug database and "vote" for that bug
sometime in the next week or two. To "vote", visit
<a href="http://public.kitware.com/Bug" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://public.kitware.com/Bug</a>, sign in (or sign up for an account and
then sign in), and add a note to any bug that you would like to see
fixed. That will show us what the interest level is in fixing that
particular bug. Obviously, bugs with little or no interest expressed
are less likely to be addressed than bugs with much interest expressed.<br>
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New features in VTK since the 5.0 release include:<br>
- Infovis kit<br>
- Views kit<br>
- New Widgets architecture and more than a dozen new widgets<br>
- New Utilities: freerange, verdict, libxml2, metaio, sqlite<br>
- Updated Utilities: freetype, zlib<br>
- More than 300 new C++ classes.<br>
- More than 100 new C++ tests running on most dashboards<br>
- Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping support and Mac OSX support<br>
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For all of us VTK-ers at Kitware and around the world, thanks for your continued contributions,
<br><span class="sg">
<span>
David Cole<br>
Kitware, Inc.<br>
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