[Insight-developers] ITK 4.1 RC01 has been tagged and is available for testing!

[Matt McCormick]

The ITK 4.1 release candidate 1 has been tagged, and is available for
testing.  To obtain the source code,

 git clone http://itk.org/ITK.git
 cd ITK
 git checkout -q --detach v4.1rc01

For more details, please see

 http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK/Git


*Important note:*  Please do not expect backward compatibility with
these release candidates.  The API may still undergo changes as
improvements are made.

Release candidates will be tagged approximately every week, provided
that the software quality dashboard is in decent shape

 http://public.kitware.com/dashboard.php?name=itk


Testing and feedback are encouraged.  Impressions or patches will help
improve the result as refinement and bug-fixes are made for the final
release.

Please include the tag name used when providing feedback.


A list of changes since v4.0.0 follows:

Andriy Kot (1):
      ENH: itkMaskFeaturePointSelectionFilter: initial submission

Arnaud Gelas (6):
      DOC: fix doxygen warning
      DOC: Add formula for the curvature term
      DOC: update doxygen configuration file for Doxygen 1.6.1
      ENH: Possibility to provide a propagation image
      PERF: Minor speed improvement in LabelObject / LabelMap
      DOC: fix doxygen warnings

Baohua Wu (1):
      ENH: added convergence checking in itkGradientDescentOptimizerv4

Bill Lorensen (2):
      COMP: Unterminated string causes valgrind defect.
      BUG: Wrong size for parameters.

Brad King (3):
      ENH: Teach ExternalData to expand DATA{} inside strings
      ENH: ExternalData: Add "-stamp" suffix to build outputs
      ENH: ExternalData: Add option ExternalData_BINARY_ROOT

Bradley Lowekamp (10):
      COMP: Fixing compilation warning in the thresholding calculators
      DOC: Updated documentation for ThresholdMaximumConnectedComponents
      ENH: Adding support for VectorImages to LabelToRGBImageFilter
      ENH: VectorConnectedComponet filter to work with VectorImages
      BUG: Fixing UpperBoundary parameter in ThresholdMaxCC filter
      BUG: Fix mismatch in internal image types for IsolatedWatershed
      BUG: Some Set by scalar methods were not modifing the time of filter
      ENH: adding support to LabelOverlay for VectorImage output
      ENH: Adding Image::Rebind to support smoothing vector images
      ENH: Adding Image::Rebind to support smoothing vector images

Brian Avants (5):
      ENH: adding a multi-start optimizer
      ENH: multi-optimizers w/registration tests
      ENH: fix jacobian wrt params + img-grad reorientation
      ENH: updates for algorithm correctness.
      BUG: cleaning up the tv field registration

Cory Quammen (4):
      STYLE: Fixed typo in test variable name
      COMP: Added undefined type
      ENH: Added Deconvolution module
      ENH: Added linear deconvolution filters

David Doria (1):
      DOC: Add Doxygen comments to some functions.

Félix C. Morency (1):
      ENH: Added itkVTKImageToImageFilter and Python wrapper to VtkGlue

Gang Song (1):
      BUG: return false if dividing by zero in ANTS CC

Gaëtan Lehmann (5):
      ENH: Add required named inputs managements in ProcessObject
      BUG: fix module name in module2module.py
      ENH: add wrapping backward compatibility macros
      STYLE: fix InitializationBiasedParticleSwarmOptimizer doxygen name
      BUG: fix WRAP_ITK_INSTALL_PREFIX content

Hans Johnson (13):
      PERF: Updated lbfgsb to fix bug
      COMP: Be compliant with ANSI standard
      COMP: Removed clang compiler warnings.
      BUG: Remove uninitialized memory print.
      BUG: Virtual was missing on derived class
      COMP: Removed HDF5 unused types.
      COMP: Improve coverage of Kernel
      BUG: 32bit windows bug introduced
      DOC: Fixed documentation to match code behavior
      DOC:  Fixed minor documentation issues
      BUG: Added test to expose overlooked bug
      BUG: Propogated bug from ITKv3 Optimized BSplines
      COMP:  Mismatch array length traversal

ITK Migration V4 (1):
      DOC: Modify BinaryMorphologicalOpeningImageFilter comments.

Kent Williams (3):
      COMP: cleanup based on CLang warnings
      COMP: Disable GNU extensions for CLang++
      ENH: Add Clone Method to transform hierarchy.

Luis Ibanez (1):
      ENH: Scripts to generate Git Statistics.

Matthew McCormick (11):
      ENH: Bump CMakeLists.txt version to 4.1.0.
      DOC: Fix log_{10} e doxygen LaTeX formula.
      PERF: Thread Whitaker level set ComputeIteration.
      BUG: LevelSetDenseImage test recognize zero values.
      COMP: Fixing missing include in itkMaskFeaturePointSelectionFilter.
      BUG: Only add MRC to registration factories with ITK_USE_REVIEW ON.
      BUG: Check pthread_create return value.
      PERF: Thread LevelSetEvolution::ComputeIteration for multiple domains.
      ENH: Use compensated summation in  MutualInformationImageToImageMetric.
      STYLE: Fix KWStyle errors.
      BUG: Fix VideoFileReader memory leak.

Michael Stauffer (11):
      ENH: Add itkCompensatedSummationTest2
      BUG: Fix the mapping of sampled points in ImageToImageMetricv4.
      BUG: Fix itkCompensatedSummationTest2
      ENH: Add MattesMutualImageToImageMetricv4
      ENH: Add options for scales & learning rate estimation behavior
      BUG: Fix sampled point list creation in ImageToImageMetricv4
      BUG: Metricsv4: set default metric value to max
      PERF: itkTimeVaryingBSplineVelocityFieldImageRegistrationTest duration
      COMP: Fix warnings
      BUG: Remove zero-point assert in JointHistorgram metricv4
      BUG: Address valgrind errors in V4 registration framework.

Nick Tustison (5):
      ENH:  Adding time-varying B-spline transform.
      ENH:  Adding SyN registration method.
      BUG: Assignment ordering was not correct.
      ENH:  Adding gaussian interpolators.
      BUG:  array subscript is out of bounds.

Sean McBride (1):
      BUG: disabled use of undefined signed overflow in nrrd test

Xiaoxiao Liu (2):
      ENH: Add a video filtering module.
      BUG: Fix OpenCVVideoIOTest windows compiling errors.