[ITK] [ANN] SimpleITK 1.0 Release Candidate 2

[Lowekamp, Bradley (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C]]

We are pleased to announce the release of the SimpleITK 1.0 Release Candidate 3!

This is expected to be the final release candidate before version 1.0! Please download and test the binaries.

For this release candidate in addition to the source code distributions, the language specific “front-ends” and a wide selection for binary Python wheels, we have added Conda packages too.

The Conda python packages have been uploaded to the `SimpleITK` channel under the `dev` label. (https://anaconda.org/simpleitk/repo/files?type=all&label=dev) The proper package can be downloaded with:

conda install -c simpleitk/label/dev simpleitk


A complete set of binary Python wheels are available for download and testing. It is important to have the latest version form pip to ensure correct wheel compatibility. To install the SimpleITK package run:

pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --pre -f https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK/releases/tag/v1.0rc3 SimpleITK


There are a number of language specific "front-ends” which can be used to build SimpleITK:
- Python - https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKPythonPackage
- R - https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKRInstaller
- Lua - https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKLuaRock
-Conda - https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKCondaRecipe


Release Candidate 3 Notes:

- Additional Improvements:
  - Added multi-hash ExternalData support for sha512
  - Added R Documentation files
  - Update Python and Java documentation strings files
  - Doxygen fixes
  - Fix allowing undefined symbols when building standalone language wrapping
  - More minor bug fixes


Release Candidate 2 Notes:

 - Additional Improvements:
  - Updated ITK version along 4.11 release branch
  - Reorganized examples directory
  - Reorganized filter libraries to match ITK modules
  - Improved compilation with more specific ITK module usage
  - Now using modern CMake 3 style properties for exported libraries

- API Changes
  - Depricated CMake variables with "SITK" prefix, now consistenly using the "SimpleITK" prefix for configurable CMake variables
  - Removed `ImageSeriesReader::GetGDCMSeriesFileNames` parameter `loadPrivateTags` parameter. This removes an overloaded version of the class method.
  - Added `sitkWallClock` enum for a sentinel value for random number seed to indicate initialization from the clock


Release Candidate 1 Notes:

* Key Improvements:
  - Improved Python data bridge
    - New Python method `GetArrayViewFromImage` provides copy free read-only access
    - Updated Python data structures to use `memory view` objects
  - Building SimpleITK wrappers:
    - R devtools based installer (https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKRInstaller).
    - Python: scripts for building wheels (https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKPythonPackage) and a Conda recipe (https://github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITKCondaRecipe).
 - Support use of virtual image domain in the `ImageRegistrationMethod`.
 - OnePlusOneOptimizer added to registration framework.
 - Improved support for R: propogating C++ exceptions into R, additional R tests.
 - Additional tests for Java.
 - Python and R notebooks repository illustrating the basics and more advanced functionality of SimpleITK (https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/SimpleITK-Notebooks).
 - Added continous integration via CircleCI.
 - Updated version and improved integration of Google Test.
 - Updated ITK version to 4.11
 - Updated minimal required CMake version to 3.0, and numerous CMake changes to support various build configurations.
 - Updated to usage of SWIG 3.0.11 ( using the latest SIWG is strongly recommended for R )
 - Reorganized examples directory into example based sub-directories with multiple languages
 - Improvements to documentation transmogrification scripts
 - Many bug fixes and improvement to the build system!

* API changes:
 - R methods which previously unnecessarily returned self return void.
 - New method `Image::GetNumberOfPixels`
 - New method `LabelMapContourOverlayImageFilter::SetColormap`
 - New method `LabelMapToRGBImageFilter::SetColormap`
 - New method `ImageRegistrationMethod::SetVirtualDomain`
 - New method `ImageRegistrationMethod::SetVirtualDomainFromImage`
 - New seed parameter to `ImageRegistrationMethod::AddMetricSamplingSeed` method
 - `CastImageFilter::SetOutputPixelType` method no longer accepts the pixel ID by value, uses only enumerated type.


Please try out SimpleITK 1.0rc3, and report any issues!

Enjoy!

Bradley Lowekamp
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