<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style="font-family:'Lucida Sans',Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">The VTK maintenance team is happy to announce that VTK 8.0 has entered the release candidate stage.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">You can find the source, data and documentation tarballs here:</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important"><a href="http://www.vtk.org/download/#candidate">http://www.vtk.org/download/#candidate</a> </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Take a look at the <a href="http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK/API_Changes_7_1_0_to_8_0_0">VTK wiki</a> for a complete list of API changes in v8.0.0 over the previous version.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Please try this version of VTK and report any issues to the list or the <a href="https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/issues">bug tracker</a> so that we can try to address them before the VTK 8.0.0 final. Kindly set the <a href="https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/milestones/6">8.0 milestone</a> on the issues and merge requests to ensure that they are tracked during the remainder of the release process.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">The official release notes will be available when VTK final is released in the next few weeks. In the meantime, here is a preview of the significant differences over VTK 7.1.0:</p>
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<li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important;margin:0.5em 0px!important">VTK now allows use of some C++11 features and compiler optimizations. Take a look at the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nzinw-dR5JQRNi_gb8qwLL5PnkGMK2FETlQGLr10tZw/edit#heading=h.gc38h63576nk">VTK Software Process</a> document to see all the VTK C++11 features. This also means, beginning version 8.0.0, VTK requires a C++11 capable compiler to compile.</p>
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<li style="margin:0.5em 0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important;margin:0.5em 0px!important"><a href="http://m.vtk.org/">VTK-m</a>, a toolkit providing specialized algorithms and data processing features for modern multi-threaded processors and HPC systems is now a part of VTK.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">And many other improvements and bug fixes across the code-base.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">We hope you enjoy this release of VTK!</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">As always, contact <a href="http://www.kitware.com">Kitware</a> and the mailing lists for assistance. </p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1.2em!important">Thanks,<br>VTK Maintenance Team</p>
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