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Dear VTK users and developers,<br>
<br>
The VTK 5.0.1 patch release is now available for download from the
VTK web site:
<a href="http://www.paraview.org/HTML/Download.html" eudora="autourl">http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php</a>.
There are several changes
(some of which are explicitly listed below) included in this release.<br>
<br>
<b>changes from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1:</b><br>
1) Fix problem with Borland compiler when using VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE<br>
2) Enable building with BUILD_EXAMPLES ON and BUILD_TESTING OFF<br>
3) Enable building with VS2005/AMD64 (thanks to Peter Klotz)<br>
4) Fix out-of-bounds indexing in the VectorKey classes<br>
5) Enable building with Borland 2006<br>
6) Fix bug #2879 - BUILD_SHARED_LIBS on MinGW<br>
7) Fix a wrong try-compile result on the SGI<br>
8) Add AbortExecute support to image iterators<br>
9) Fix bug #2524<br>
10) Important performance bugs fixed in vtkImageReslice<br>
11) Slight math rounding error fix in vtkImageBlend<br>
12) Eliminate many warnings when building with VS2005<br>
13) Add vtkSimplePointsReader<br>
14) Fix bug #3041<br>
15) Fix incorrect NumberOfThreads usage in VolumeRayCastMapper classes<br>
16) Fix crash in vtkOrderedTriangulator<br>
17) Fix wrong parametric center coordinates in some cells<br>
18) VTK 4.4 used to pass field data - changed the new pipeline to do
the same<br>
19) Fix incorrect STL iterator usage in vtkGenericEdgeTable<br>
20) Fix crashes that can occur in Release builds in vtkDebugLeaksManager<br>
21) Enable building with Tcl/Tk 8.3 by adding
Utilities/TclTk/resources/tk8.3<br>
22) Add CPack support for building installers<br>
23) Many changes to make it easier to use the new pipeline architecture<br>
24) Many changes to make the code consistent with the VTK User's Guide<br>
25) Fix several dashboard warnings<br>
++) ...and many other minor bug fixes...<br>
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We hope you enjoy this new release of VTK.<br>
<br>
- David<br>
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