<div>Dear VTK users and developers,<br><br>The VTK 5.2.1 patch release is now available for download from the VTK<br>web site: <a href="http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php" target="_blank">http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php</a>. The following changes<br>
are included in this release.<br><br>*changes from 5.2.0 to 5.2.1:*</div><div>1) Fix Borland compile problem in vtkConvertSelection.cxx</div><div>2) Fix links on main Doxygen page</div>
<div>3) Eliminate compiler warnings in generated code</div><div>4) Invoke EndInteractionEvent *after* the WidgetState is changed</div><div>5) Fix issue 7511: vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter crash</div><div>6) Fix issue 7512: make vtkPlaneWidget sphere resizing smoother</div>
<div>7) Fix issue 7518: vtkDataReader memory errors</div><div>8) Fix sharedforward with a space in the path. Thanks to Brad King.</div><div>9) Enable kwsys' SystemInfo</div><div>10) Add install rules for vtkExportKit.cmake and <a href="http://vtkKit.cmake.in" target="_blank">vtkKit.cmake.in</a></div>
<div>11) Add install rules for vtkEncodeString and vtkTestDriver.h</div><div>12) Fix incorrect documentation tag file name</div><div>13) Fix problem with passing null object to java wrapped methods</div><div>14) Get GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE from OpenGL rather than using a hard coded value</div>
<div>15) Propagate render window size changes to the render window interactor</div><div>16) Fix issue 7638: ensure correct resource context when switching OpenGL</div><div> contexts on Windows</div><div>17) Add missing WM_SETCURSOR handler to vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow</div>
<div>18) Improvements to FindMySQL.cmake</div><div>19) Improve vtkAVIWriter: Allow programmatically setting the compressor</div><div>20) Improve vtkAVIWriter: Allow user to choose codec</div><div>21) Fix crash: do not pass invalid parameters to strftime</div>
<div>22) Add Tcl/Tk 8.6 support</div><div>23) Fix issue 7887: numerical error in vtkContourValues</div><div>24) Fix issue 7705: vtkfreetype compile problem on Mac</div><div>25) Fix issue with compiling vtkOpenGLExtensionManager on Solaris 10</div>
<div>26) Implement GetBounds in Widgets/vtkPolygonalHandleRepresentation3D</div><div>27) Remove vtklibxml2 dependency on libhistory and libreadline</div><div><br>*changes from 5.0.4 to 5.2.0:*<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>
- Improvements to PLY file support<br>- Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping support<br>- Mac OS X-specific fixes:<br>-- Defaults to building using Cocoa instead of Carbon<br>-- Can now be compiled against the 10.5 SDK<br>
-- Can now be built as a Universal Binary<br>-- Initial support for Resolution Independence in 10.5<br><br>We hope you enjoy this new release of VTK.<br><br>- David<br><br></div>