<div dir="ltr"><div class="markdown-here-wrapper" style="font-family:"Lucida Sans",Cantarell,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 the second release candidate has been tagged for VTK 8.0.</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">Changes new to this release candidate include </p>
<ul style="margin:1.2em 0px;padding-left:2em">
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">Deprecated <code style="font-size:0.95em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(218,218,218);background-color:rgb(232,232,232);border-radius:3px;display:inline">vtkFiltersMatlab</code> and <code style="font-size:0.95em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(218,218,218);background-color:rgb(232,232,232);border-radius:3px;display:inline">vtkFiltersStatisticsGnuR</code> modules</li>
<li style="margin:0.5em 0px">Removes deprecated classes like <code style="font-size:0.95em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(218,218,218);background-color:rgb(232,232,232);border-radius:3px;display:inline">vtkStreamer</code>, <code style="font-size:0.95em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(218,218,218);background-color:rgb(232,232,232);border-radius:3px;display:inline">vtkStreamPoints</code> and <code style="font-size:0.95em;font-family:Consolas,Inconsolata,Courier,monospace;margin:0px 0.15em;padding:0px 0.3em;white-space:pre-wrap;border:1px solid rgb(218,218,218);background-color:rgb(232,232,232);border-radius:3px;display:inline">vtkStreamLine</code></li>
</ul>
<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 <a href="http://www.vtk.org/mailing-lists/">VTK mailing list</a> 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 8.0 release process. Further, please base / rebase all 8.0 target branches off of the <a href="https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/tags/v8.0.0.rc2">v8.0.0.rc2 tag</a> (or earlier) to ensure minimal merge conflicts with the release branch.</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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