[Insight-developers] [Announcement] ITK 4.1.0 has been released!

[Félix C. Morency]

Good news! Good job to everyone.

-F

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Matt McCormick
<matt.mccormick at kitware.com> wrote:
> We are happy to announce the release of the InsightToolkit 4.1.0!
> Download links can be found at:
>
>  http://itk.org/ITK/resources/software.html
>
> This release is the first since ITK 4.0.0 and includes a number of bug
> fixes and new features.  Related to the transition to Git, it also is
> the first release to deviate from the even-only minor
> release number.
>
> Notable changes:
>
> -  A plethora of bug fixes.
> -  VTK Bridge support improved -- currently requires VTK Git master.
> -  A number of improvements to the Registrationv4 framework.
> -  A new TimeVaryingBSplineVelocityFieldTransform.
> -  New Deconvolution filtering module with a number of classes.
> -  Performance improvements to the LevelSetsv4 framework.
> -  Better WrapITK support.
> -  A new video filtering module that includes a method to use standard
> filters in a video pipeline.
>
>
> Some performance regressions were identified that were related to the
> use of GetInput() and GetOutput() in the inner loop of a filter.  If
> you find similar behavior, please report it to the mailing list and
> issue tracker.
>
>
> On the compiler front, Clang support continues to improve.  Issues
> have been identified with parallel Visual Studio 10 builds.  It
> appears that Visual Studio 10 has difficulty handling the many
> projects that result when BUILD_TESTING and BUILD_EXAMPLES are ON.
> The current workaround is to set
>
>  Tools>Options>Projects and Solutions>Build and Run>Maximum number of
> parallel project builds
>
> to 1 or turn BUILD_TESTING or BUILD_EXAMPLES to OFF.
>
>
> InsightApplications (from the ITKApps repository) has also seen a
> number of updates to ITKv4, mostly thanks to the work of Bill Lorenson
> and Arnaud Gelas.  When building InsightApplications, it is
> recommended to use the “superbuild” by pointing CMake to the directory
>
>  InsightApplications-4.1.1/Superbuild
>
> as the target source directory.
>
>
> New contributors with merged patches include
>
> - Andriy Kot
> - Felix Morency
>
> In the upcoming 4.2 release, we will actively re-engage the community
> and will be seeking out new contributors.
>
>
> A list of commits since v4.1rc04 follows:
>
> Bill Lorensen (1):
>     BUG: CPack was not set up propery for ITKv4
>
> Bradley Lowekamp (12):
>     BUG: Adding tolerance to the VectorThreshold level-set test
>     COMP: Address warnings in PreWarpTest
>     BUG: Adding tolerance to ThresholdSegmentationLevelSetWhiteMatterTest
>     COMP: attributes don't do anything in forward declarations
>     COMP: fix warning of signed unsigned comparison
>     BUG: Adjust intensity tolerance for SimpleImageRegistrationTest
>     COMP: Use SizeValueType for indexing in Neighborhoods
>     ENH: adding additional dart metric for image error statistics
>     BUG: Corretly choose best baseline for difference image
>     COMP: Fix warning in BalloonForceFilte about vd being unintialized
>     BUG: prevent divide by zero in computing mean
>     BUG: Set the number of components-per-pixel for SeriesReader
>
> Cory Quammen (1):
>     DOC: Fixed indices in pad image filter diagrams
>
> Gaëtan Lehmann (1):
>     COMP: fix missing vtkImagingPythonD lib link
>
> Matthew McCormick (2):
>     BUG: Add TimeVaryingBSplineVelocityFieldTransform to wrapping exclusion.
>     COMP: Warn about VisualStudio parallel build issues.
>
> Michael Stauffer (2):
>     BUG: Rename and fix v4 Demons metric to MeansSquares
>     BUG: yet still more debugging for itkSimpleImageRegistrationTest
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Félix C. Morency, M.Sc.
Plateforme d’analyse et de visualisation d’images
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