[ITK] [ANNOUNCE] ITK 4.6.1 has been released!

[Matt McCormick]

On behalf of the Insight Toolkit Community, we are happy to announce
the release of ITK 4.6.1!

This is a patch release that addresses critical issues. The 4.6.1
release fixes DICOM, MetaIO, TIFF, and PNG IO issues, 32-bit WrapITK
build errors, Python wrapping warnings, CMake configuration with
COMPONENTS, performance and memory consumption of the ITKv4
implementation of the mutual information matching metric, and a many
other issues.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who contributed to this
release. We are particularly grateful for the collaborations with the
3D Slicer, Debian, GDCM, and MINC communities to address these issues.
Questions and comments are welcome on the ITK mailing lists.

The release files can be downloaded from:

  http://itk.org/ITK/resources/software.html


The next feature release of 4.6.0 is scheduled for June.


Enjoy ITK!



Changes from v4.6.0 to v4.6.1:

Arnaud Gelas (5):
      BUG: fix gdcm version in GDCMImageIO.
      COMP: missing cast when calling gdcm::DataElement::SetByteValue
      BUG: GDCMImageIO was not working properly when m_KeepOriginalUID is false
      BUG: split include directories into appropriate cmake variables HDF5
      BUG: missing gdcm libraries when using system GDCM

Brad King (2):
      COMP: Fix vxl_config_macros usage of CMake check macros
      BUG: Fix itk_module_config for repeated calls

Bradley Lowekamp (8):
      ENH: Adding License file from upstream MetaIO
      ENH: Adding script to update MetaIO from upstream
      ENH: Remove ITK MetaIO to prepare for upstream import
      COMP: Fix variable type for Set/Get macros
      BUG: Use METER of sCAL scale unit
      BUG: Use PNG_SCALE_METER for PNG sCAL unit
      BUG: Fix overflows computing size of read tiff image
      BUG: Use array delete operator for array new allocations

Christopher Mullins (2):
      COMP: Allows latex to compile for ITKSoftwareGuide
      COMP: Wrap MeshBase templates

David T. Chen (1):
      DOC: Fixed HistogramThresholdImageFitler

Gert Wollny (1):
      COMP: Fix SSE2 build errors with WrapITK on GCC 4.9. (ForRelease)

Girish Mallya (1):
      BUG: Tests added for BinaryImageToLabelMapFilter for single-row images.

Hans Johnson (12):
      COMP: Add tolerance for comparing floating point
      PERF: Remove non-threadable algorithm components
      PERF: Remove large foot print of PDF derivatives.
      PERF: Revert Remove large foot print of PDF derivatives.
      STYLE: Test against almost equal for floating point values
      STYLE: Non-exact floating point testing
      PERF: Distribute initialization per thread buffers
      ENH: Remove unnecessary mutable qualifier.
      STYLE: Remove comment with no meaning.
      ENH: Moved accumlator logic to main MI class
      ENH: Allow staggering of accumulations per thread.
      PERF: Zero reset thread buffers during finalize

Matthew McCormick (31):
      BUG: ArchiveTestingData.py future imports must occur at the beginning.
      DOC: Remove Image2.cxx reference from Book 2.
      DOC: Fix Software Guide page overruns in IterativeClosestPoint3.cxx.
      DOC: Remove references to Book 1 sections from Book 2.
      DOC: Make BinaryThresholdImageFilter not floating.
      DOC: Fix Software Guide figure caption for FlipImageFilter.
      DOC: Avoid duplicate figure description in ResampleImageFilter2.cxx.
      DOC: Remove duplicate figure in
LaplacianRecursiveGaussianImageFilter2.cxx.
      DOC: ImageRandomConstIteratorWithIndex table reference.
      BUG: Bump GCCXML to 2014-08-06.
      BUG: Fix invalid assignment of second VoronoiBoundaryOrigin.
      BUG: Call clear instead of empty on PatchBasedDenoising EmptyCaches().
      BUG: Fix Size() in ImageToListSampleAdaptor for VectorImage's.
      BUG: Fix alpha assignment for RGBA TIFF.
      BUG: Fix Nifti IO read with large images.
      BUG: Improve thread-safety and performance of
PCAShapeSignedDistanceFunction.
      DOC: itk::statistics -> itk::Statistics.
      DOC: Remove duplicate text in LaplacianRecursiveGaussian example.
      DOC: Fix Software Guide page overruns in IterativeClosestPoint{1,2}.cxx.
      BUG: TransformFileReader does not clear its TransformList.
      BUG: Prevent dangling pointer in HDF5TransformIO.
      COMP: Fix missing prefix in ITKv3ImageRegistration20Test.
      BUG: Do not return SmartPointers in TimeVaryingVelocityFieldTransform
      STYLE: Improve style in BinaryImageToLabelMapFilter.
      BUG: Fix BinaryImageToLabelMapFilter on 1D image.
      ENH: Improve precision of the joint PDF sum
      BUG: Fix BinShrinkImageFilter for different input/output image types.
      COMP: Fix transform type for ITKv3/IterativeClosestPoint2.
      COMP: Add missing wrapping for TransformIOBaseTemplate.
      BUG: gdcm::StringFilter recognizes backslash delimiter.
      ENH: Bump ITK version to 4.6.1.

MetaIO Maintainers (1):
      MetaIO (reduced)

Michka Popoff (4):
      BUG: Improve SWIG version check
      BUG: Add VTK_VERSION for older VTK versions
      BUG: Update VTK minimum version (for release)
      BUG: Fix memory leak in MetaImageIO after exception

Vladimir S. FONOV (1):
      BUG: Fixing incorrect MINC style inverse transform