<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Hi folks,</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">VTK <span class="gmail-il">8.1</span>.<span class="gmail-il">0</span>.<span class="gmail-m_312084748171612255gmail-il">rc3</span> is up on the downloads site and tagged in git. Please give it a try and report any problems that you find to us via the gitlab issue tracker with an "<span class="gmail-il">8.1</span>" milestone tag. Developers, use the same tag to let us know of any fixes that you want integrated to the release branch in time for <span class="gmail-il">8.1</span>.<span class="gmail-il">0</span> final in about a week. If nothing major comes up, this will be retagged as <span class="gmail-il">8.1</span>.<span class="gmail-il">0</span> final. We expect the next release, VTK 9.<span class="gmail-il">0</span>.<span class="gmail-il">0</span>, to be out in a few short months.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The reason for <span class="gmail-il">rc3</span> is that we decided to deprecate vtkHyperOctree. It has long been superseded by vtkHyperTreeGrid, which is being actively maintained and updated, unlike its predecessor.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">thanks</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">David E DeMarle</span><br></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Kitware, Inc.<br>Principal Engineer<br>21 Corporate Drive<br>Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662<br>Phone: 518-881-4909</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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