<div dir="ltr"><div>With reference to OpenGL, will the new updates via 4,4 or 5 be compatible with Windows 7(or 8) or does it expect a newer version of OpenGL on the target system?<br></div>thanks<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 July 2015 at 19:29, Utkarsh Ayachit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com" target="_blank">utkarsh.ayachit@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">Folks,</span><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">Since we're getting close to the next release, I just wanted to send out an email to let everyone know how we're planning to do the next release.</div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">+ We'll do a ParaView 4.4 release will all features/fixes planned for the next release. This will use the older rendering code (same as previous release) that doesn't using OpenGL 2+ features.</div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">+ Following the same pattern as VTK, soon after (at the same time, if possible), we'll release ParaView 5.0. This will be ParaView 4.4 but with OpenGL2 backend. </div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">The main reason for this separation would be to have a fallback in case showstopper issues are noticed with the major rendering changes and for legacy systems that don't have a newer OpenGL.</div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">Any thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? If things go according to plan, release candidates should start popping up mid/late August.</span><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">Utkarsh</div></font></span><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">p.s. <span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">Originally, we also intended to upgrade ParaView 5.0 to use Qt 5, by default. However, there are a few outstanding issues with Qt 5 (some in Qt 5 itself, and some in our testing code) and hence the upgrade to Qt 5 has been tabled for now.</span></div></div>
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