[Insight-developers] [ANNOUNCE] ITK 4.4.0 has been released!

[Matt McCormick]

The InsightToolkit (ITK) 4.4.0 has been released!

The 4.4 release is a major milestone that marks the hard work of many
outstanding community members.

Links to the Sourceforge.net tarballs can be found on the download page:

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


We will discuss what is new in 4.4.0 on Tuesday, June 11 at 3PM
Eastern Time (GMT -5).  To take part, join the “ITK BarCamp”
GooglePlus Community, and join the “What’s New in Release 4.4.0”
Event.  A link to the YouTube live stream of the event will also be
posted at

  http://www.itk.org/ITK/resources/webinars.html


In summary:

We are excited to announce two new ImageIO modules available in the
main repository.  The MINC ImageIO module provides a bridge to the
MINC file format, a powerful medical imaging format used by the MINC
library, another open source library with many features similar to
ITK.  The new MINC module, which has Image IO and Transform IO
capabilities, is considered experimental and must be enabled by
turning Module_ITKIOMINC ON in CMake’s configuration.  This will
automatically build the MINC library, which is now available on Mac,
Linux, and Windows.  The HDF5-based MINC2 file format is supported,
but support for the NetCDF-based MINC1 file format is not supported
because NetCDF is not distributed with ITK.

Another new ImageIO module that expands the reach of ITK is the SCIFIO
module.  SCIFIO is a refactoring of the Bio-Formats library.  This
module provides access to a wide range of file formats encountered in
life sciences/microscopy environments.  This experimental feature is
available a Remote module; to enable it, set the Fetch_SCIFIO CMake
variable to ON.  Many improvements and fixes are ongoing for this
module; Git master is recommended for those interested in this module.

A number of improvements were also made to DCMTK ImageIO, but this
module remains experimental on disabled by default.  To try DCMTK
ImageIO support, turn the CMake option Module_ITKIODCMTK ON.  For Unix
platforms, the supporting DCMTK library will automatically be built as
a CMake ExternalProject.  On Windows, the DCMTK library must be built
independently of the ITK build system.  Then, specify the location to
the external build after setting the CMake option ITK_USE_SYSTEM_DCMTK
ON.

A number of performance improvements were made to QuadEdgeMesh
processing and memory copy functions.  A new ImageScanlineIterator is
available.  This iterator can be used in many of the cases where an
ImageRegionIterator is applied, but it has better performance.

The approach to split image regions for parallel processing is no
longer hard coded to make multiple options available.

An API design change was started to improve the implied functionality
of the GetObject methods.  The non-const “GetObjectMacro” has been
replaced with a “GetModifiableObjectMacro” that will result in a
GetModifiableXXX method instead of a GetXXX method.  This makes the
non-const nature of the method and the circumvention of pipeline
update semantics explicit for both the code author and those reading
the class API.  This was implemented in a backwards compatible way,
and it will only be enforced if ITK_FUTURE_LEGACY_REMOVE is defined.

Support for the Google Double Conversion library was added to improve
the reading and writing of double values as ASCII text with the
intention to improve the precision of the text transform file format’s
serialization.

It is now easier to identify filter inputs by both a string name or an
integer index.  The internal methods to store and retrieve inputs by
either string or index was correspondingly refactored, and performance
was also improved.

JPEG ImageIO now writes and reads image spacing in a manner similar to
the TIFF ImageIO.

An extensive amount of code cruft was removed and coding style was
made more consistent; ITK gets more stylish and classy with every
release!

The ExternalData method to store large testing data outside of the Git
repository is now in upstream CMake 2.8.11.  Our internal version has
been updated to the improved version in CMake.

The minimum CMake required version was bumped to 2.8.8 on Windows and
2.8.5 otherwise.  This may be increased even higher in the near future
to ensure all CMake features utilized operate correctly.

Known assertion failures occur when compiled under Visual Studio in
the Debug configuration.  This will be fixed in 4.4.1.  If this has a
significant negative impact on your work, please consider contributing
a Nightly dashboard build under this configuration.  As previously
scheduled, Visual Studio 2005 is no longer be supported.

Support for building against system third party libraries continues to
improve.  Further improvements are expected for version 4.5.

All tests are now passing again on the Nightly big-endian dashboard system.

InsightApplications (ITKApps) has seen fixes in the FLTK superbuild
and the TCL wrapped applications.



Changes in ITK from v4.3.0 to v4.4.0 from the Git log:

Ali Ghayoor (7):
  	ENH: Get the internal transforms of SyN registration filter
  	COMP: Fix all valid cppcheck warnings in "Module/Filtering" directory
  	COMP: Fix all valid cppcheck warnings in "Module/Core" directory
  	COMP: Fix all valid cppcheck warnings in "Module/Segmentation" directory
  	COMP: Fix all valid cppcheck warnings in "Module/Registration" directory
  	COMP: Fix all valid cppcheck warnings in ITK (last patch)
  	COMP: Fix all valid cppcheck warnings in "ITK/Module" directory

Arnaud Gelas (4):
  	PERF: improve performance of couple of methods of itk::QuadEdgeMesh
  	PERF: couple of speed up improvements for QuadEdgeMesh processing
  	PERF: avoid doing GetPoint and SetPoint for the same point
  	ENH: Simplify template parameters in itk::PointsLocator

Bill Lorensen (20):
  	ENH: Prevent duplicate loading of dynamic libraries
  	COMP: Fix compile error in PhilipsRECImageIO
  	COMP: Fix compile error in PhilipsRECImageIO
  	BUG: Memory leak after failed RegisterFactory
  	BUG: Warn on directories
  	ENH: Refactor DoubleToString into NumberToString
  	DOC: Escape hash in comment
  	STYLE: Apply kwstyle to Modules/Core tests
  	STYLE: Apply kwstyle to Modules/Filtering tests
  	STYLE: Apply kwstyle to Modules/Segmentation tests
  	STYLE: Apply kwstyle to Modules/IO tests
  	STYLE: Apply kwstyle to Modules/Numerics tests
  	STYLE: Apply kwstyle to Modules/Registration tests
  	STYLE: Apply kwstyle to some tests
  	BUG: Memory leak after failed RegisterFactory
  	COMP: Remove copy_n wrapper for standard std::copy
  	COMP: Make the test stable by removing random source
  	COMP: More baselines
  	COMP: Another baseline
  	COMP: Missing return error after exception

Brad King (14):
  	BUG: ExternalData: Do not match directory names when resolving DATA{}
  	STYLE: ExternalData: Cleanup stray TODO and typo in comments
  	STYLE: ExternalData: Remove unused private interface
  	ENH: ExternalData: Improve series matching using an explicit syntax
  	ENH: ExternalData: Allow ()-groups in series match regex
  	ENH: ExternalData: Allow DATA{} syntax to reference directories
  	ENH: Configure new ExternalData series parsing for ITK baselines
  	BUG: ExternalData: Collapse ../ components in DATA{} paths
  	BUG: Fix "git gerrit-push" for content links with spaces
  	STYLE: Add detail to the vxl update instructions
  	STYLE: Add more detail to the vxl update instructions
  	ENH: ExternalData: Partly generalize hash algo/ext handling
  	ENH: ExternalData: Attach download rules to content links in IDEs
  	ENH: ExternalData: Preserve escaped semicolons during argument expansion

Bradley Lowekamp (78):
  	STYLE: Use ITK_ prefix for FFTW cmake variables and defines
  	BUG: Change default boundary condition to ZeroFlux
  	ENH: wrapping itkImageSeriesWriter
  	BUG: incorrect CMake variable for system jpeg include
  	DOC: Correct description of Bitwise binary filters
  	BUG: incorrect CMake variable for system jpeg include
  	COMP: GetTimeVaryingVelocityField methods did not compile
  	ENH: Creating templateless region splitter classes
  	ENH: Adding image region splitter for separable filtering
  	PERF: Do not spawn threads that will not be used.
  	ENH: ImageIO's now use ImageRegionSplitter base
  	COMP: Specify export for Specialized Array output operators
  	ENH: making old ImageRegionSplitter compatible with new splitter
  	BUG: initials Direction IVAR
  	STYLE: never a space before;
  	COMP: Address unused parameter warning in GPU code
  	BUG: Do not create static initialized ITK objects
  	ENH: Converted Multidimensional splitter to new base class
  	ENH: moving old ImageRegionSplitter to Deprecated Module
  	BUG: Only thread 0 should report progress.
  	PERF: Use std::fill for image filling
  	BUG: Only thread 0 should report progress in LabelMapFilters
  	COMP: Adding missing header
  	BUG: Using CMake variable in external builds with autoconf environment
  	BUG: initialize InverseCovariance size with degenerate matrix
  	ENH: Adding numeric_traits specializations for "long long"
  	ENH: instantiate vnl types with "long long" on all platforms
  	Revert "ENH: Use named inputs in BinaryReconstruction filters."
  	BUG: initialize InverseCovariance size with degenerate matrix
  	BUG: Using CMake variable in external builds with autoconf environment
  	COMP: Address unused parameter warning in GPU code
  	BUG: Only thread 0 should report progress in LabelMapFilters
  	BUG: Only thread 0 should report progress.
  	COMP: Adding missing header
  	ENH: Adding support for instantiating long long pixel types
  	BUG: VerifyPreconditions checks required named inputs
  	PERF: Adding performance oriented ScanlineIterator
  	COMP: Remove copy_n wrapper for standard std::copy
  	COMP: Missing ProgressReporter header
  	COMP: Suppress linker warning from fftw external project
  	COMP: Add missing ImageRegionIterator header in test
  	BUG: Don't allocate empty names in Get I/O Names methods
  	COMP: Make GPUFunctorBase destructor virtual
  	PERF: Changing filters to use ImageScanlineInterator
  	COMP: GCC_XML external project does not use BUILD_EXAMPLES
  	BUG: Scanline iterator in STAPLE filter not advanced to next line
  	PERF: Use ImageScanlineIterator in ImageAlgorithm::Copy
  	PERF: Use iterators into name map for index inputs
  	ENH: index can be associated with required input
  	PERF: Add global variable of index names in ProcessObject
  	COMP: fix unused result warning in ProcessObject
  	ENH: Remove names inputs specialized comparison
  	DOC: Updated input methods doxygen
  	PERF: Use ImageAlgorithm::Copy in JoinSeries filter
  	PERF: Change default index i/o prefix to just "_"
  	PERF: Use ImageAlgorithm::Copy in CastImageFilter
  	COMP: Fix failing implicit conversion from NULL
  	BUG: restore gnu aligned attribute
  	PERF: ImageAlgorithm::copy to use std::copy for conversion
  	PERF: Store indexed outputs in array for constant time access
  	COMP: GCC_XML compilation error with type_traits
  	BUG: Add unsigned int concept check to LabelVoting filter
  	COMP: Disable conversion warning for std::copy in ImageAlgorithm
  	BUG: Use correct types for TIFF Tags and buff math
  	BUG: Use local var for TIFF va_list parameter
  	BUG: Use correct bytes for BigEndian magic number
  	COMP: Fix int to char narrowing error and warning
  	COMP: Fix int to char narrowing error and warning
  	COMP: Fix scanf conversion specification to %u
  	COMP: Fix scanf conversion specification for id types
  	BUG: Remove extraneous print statement in tiffio
  	BUG: Incorrect va_arg type used in TIFF and LSM
  	BUG: JPEG2000 bool type in C is now unsigned char
  	BUG: add a test to demonstrate ThreadedIteratorPartitioner bug
  	BUG: Fix written other magic number in FreeSurferBinaryMeshIO
  	COMP: Fix assert in LSM, = in err of ==
  	BUG: IteratorPartitioner extra thread don't advance
  	BUG: C++ bool is 4 bytes on osx ppc

Brian Helba (11):
  	STYLE: Ensure documentation \author tags are parsed
  	STYLE: Remove unnecessary overloads in favor of implicit conversion
  	PERF: Replace deep copy with const const signature
  	ENH: Re-enable LoadPrivateTags option in GDCMImageIO
  	STYLE: Slightly refactor ImageFileWriter::Write to simplify logic
  	ENH: Always enable Get*FromTag methods in GDCMImageIO
  	DOC: Fix misspelling in MorphologyImageFilter
  	DOC: Fix misspelling in ObjectMorphologyImageFilter
  	STYLE: Remove unnecessary function call in GDCMImageIO
  	STYLE: Remove calls to deprecated functionality from DICOM Examples / Tests
  	ENH: Allow Get*FromTag to accept uppercase hex

Cory Quammen (1):
  	COMP: Bumped up minimum required CMake version

Cyrille Faucheux (2):
  	ENH: allow the ClampImageFilter to use user-defined bounds (#3016).
  	ENH: Move the ClampImageFilter to the ImageIntensity module (#3016).

David Cole (4):
  	BUG: Avoid using def file when BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is off
  	BUG: Do not undefine _WIN32_WINNT
  	BUG: Avoid using def file when BUILD_SHARED_LIBS is off
  	BUG: Do not undefine _WIN32_WINNT

David Fuentes (2):
  	ENH: Allow block matching on diff size images
  	ENH: wrapping itkMaskFeaturePointSelectionFilter itkBlockMatchingImageFilter

Dirk Padfield (6):
  	BUG: CSVFileReader was reading all values as NaN
  	DOC: Made AnisotropicDiffusion documentation consistent with code
  	ENH: Enable MetaIO to read filenames with spaces using regex
  	BUG: CSVFileReader was reading all values as NaN
  	ENH: Added m_RequiredFractionOfOverlappingPixels to MaskedFFTNCC
  	BUG: SignedMaurerDistanceMap in 4D

Google double-conversion Maintainers (1):
  	Google double-conversion (reduced)

Hans Johnson (21):
  	COMP: Remove unnecessary BORLAND code
  	COMP: Make type conversions explicit/consistent
  	PERF: Optimize loop index computations
  	COMP: Remove unnecessary BORLAND code
  	COMP: Incomplete variable name change.
  	COMP: Incorrect warning presented for cppcheck
  	STYLE: The FFTW libs should be co-located with ITK
  	COMP: Fix robustness of DCMTK internal builds
  	ENH: Get function accessible from const objects
  	COMP: Missing patch for ITK_FUTURE_LEGACY_REMOVE
  	STYLE: Reduce redundant code identified by cpd
  	BUG: Return a modifiable object or provide const
  	STYLE: Improve SoftwareGuide documentation
  	COMP: Type mis-match for comparison operator
  	STYLE: Enforce using ITK macros when available
  	COMP: Type mis-match for comparison operator
  	BUG: ITK_FUTURE_LEGACY_REMOVE must cmake configured
  	BUG: Expose BSplineInterpolateImageFunction test
  	COMP: Linkage ITK_ABI_EXPORT to ITKCommon_EXPORT
  	BUG: itk_tiff.h should not be in itkTIFFImageIO.h
  	DOC: Fix line length issues for the SoftwareGuide

Ho Cheung (7):
  	BUG: GradientVectorFlow should calculate timestep based on image dimension
  	STYLE: GradientVectorFlow - Add const correctness
  	STYLE: GradientVectorFlow
  	PERF: GradientVectorFlow - Remove redundant initializations
  	BUG: itkPolyLineParametricPath infinite loop for degenerate paths
  	BUG: Fix ITK Path test failures
  	BUG: ITK unable to detect number of threads under Unix in recent glibc.

ITK Migration V4 (4):
  	DOC: Modify ContourMeanDistanceImageFilter comments.
  	DOC: Modify MattesMutualInformationImageToImageMetric comments.
  	DOC: Modify MaskImageFilter comments.
  	DOC: Modify BSplineTransformInitializer comments.

Jan Margeta (1):
  	COMP: Added missing header <functional> in itkAnchorCloseImageFilter.h

Julien Finet (2):
  	ENH: Add unit test to itkThresholdImageFilterTest
  	ENH: Add MaskingValue to MaskImageFilter

Julien Malik (2):
  	BUG: Remove itkLoad definition in JPEG2000ImageIOFactory
  	ENH: Add missing NumericTraits for complex

Julien Michel (2):
  	BUG: Fix InverseDisplacementFieldImageFilter bug
  	BUG: Fix InverseDisplacementFieldImageFilter bug

Kent Williams (21):
  	COMP: Turn on -fpic in options for DCMTK External Project
  	BUG: using InputPixelType to hold label count can overflow.
  	COMP: Update DCMTK version to incorporate new fixes.
  	COMP: Use portable method to find source dir & find DCMTK headers
  	COMP: Start using ITKConsortium github to retrieve DCMTK.
  	BUG: Regressions with respect to building DCMTK
  	COMP: Added patch from Dirk Padfield
  	ENH: use find_package(DCMTK NO_MODULE)
  	ENH: Add double-conversion library for precise Float output
  	COMP: replace in-line access methods with itk Macros
  	COMP: The install path for DoubleConversion lib was wrong.
  	COMP: removed warnings on Windows due to generic vs excp obj throw.
  	COMP: check for this == &rhs as much as possible.
  	COMP: Replace memcpy with std::copy in ImportImageContainer.
  	COMP: Replace memcpy calls with std::copy
  	COMP: Further changes to the use of std::copy_n
  	COMP: Add preprocessor symbols to double-conversion for OS X PPC
  	COMP: Add DoubleConversion merge from upstream documentation
  	BUG: Return of NaN by DiffusionTensor3D::GetFractionalAnisotropy
  	BUG: Dicom method for Dir Cosines made non-orthogonal directions
  	COMP: Install openjpgDllConfig.h

Kris Zygmunt (1):
  	PERF: Provide better default config for patch-based denoiser

Luis Ibanez (1):
  	ENH: Maurer for Danielsson in Surface Distance.

Manuel Grizonnet (4):
  	BUG: Inconsistency detected by ld.so due to static const string
  	BUG: Inconsistency detected by ld.so due to static const string
  	BUG: Inconsistency detected by ld.so due to static const string
  	BUG: Inconsistency detected by ld.so due to static const string

Marco Feuerstein (1):
  	ENH: JPEG IO now writes and reads spacing, similar to the TIFF IO (ITK-3023)

Marius Staring (3):
  	ENH: expose parameter in Bilateral filter
  	PERF: Replace fill and copy with std alternatives
  	BUG: B-spline interpolator should use direction

Mark Hiner (1):
  	ENH: Add SCIFIOImageIO.

Matthew McCormick (47):
  	COMP: Fix wrapping configuration warnings about itkMeshBase, etc.
  	COMP: Fix HDF5 unused function for long long on Unix.
  	ENH: Bump CMake version numbers to 4.4.0.
  	BUG: Remove unused metric test content link.
  	COMP: Add DLL to PATH for Python tests on Visual Studio.
  	BUG: Do not nullify the DCMTK ExternalProject UPDATE_COMMAND.
  	BUG: Fix DCMTK lib_prefix identification.
  	COMP: Fix HDF5 unused function for long long on Unix.
  	BUG: Remove unused metric test content link.
  	COMP: Add DLL to PATH for Python tests on Visual Studio.
  	ENH: Bump CMakeLists.txt ITK version to 4.3.1.
  	STYLE: Fix errors detected by KWStyleCodeTest.
  	COMP: VectorIndexSelectionCastImageFilter extra itk namespace.
  	STYLE: Fix alignment in itkMask{Image,Negated}ImageFilter.h
  	ENH: Doxygen configuration update to 1.8.3.1.
  	BUG: Fix FFTW install paths in ITKConfig.cmake (ITK-2995).
  	DOC: Doxygen detection of DirectionTolerance as private.
  	ENH: Get Direction and CoordinateTolerance are const methods.
  	BUG: Add missing header to the third party TIFF install.
  	COMP: More fixes to mesh wrapping warnings.
  	BUG: Temporarily disable Python utility tests.
  	COMP: Avoid explicit instantiation and specialization for Array.
  	ENH: Add utility script to create JRE tarballs.
  	ENH: Use named inputs in BinaryReconstruction filters.
  	STYLE: Remove redundant itk namespace.
  	DOC: CreateTestDriver srcs should have the .cxx extension.
  	COMP: Must reinterpret the pointers to match
  	COMP: Fix project linking against ITK that does not use VtkGlue.
  	COMP: Fix project linking against ITK that does not use VtkGlue.
  	BUG: Fix FFTW install paths in ITKConfig.cmake (ITK-2995).
  	ENH: Bump version in CMakeLists.txt to 4.3.2.
  	DOC: Doxygen expansion of itkGetModifiableObjectMacro.
  	ENH: Remove unused wrapping code. ITK-3032.
  	ENH: Use named inputs in BinaryReconstruction filters.
  	COMP: Distance maps filters cannot wrap 1D.
  	DOC: Remove reference to MeanDistanceImageFilter.
  	STYLE: Fix KWStyle errors.
  	STYLE: Remove entries from the old MINC2ImageIO.
  	BUG: Remove MINCIO from the default registered modules.
  	BUG: Add EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL to ThirdParty/MINC.
  	BUG: Include SCIFIO in the auto-registered factories if the module
is enabled.
  	BUG: Visual Studio itkClampImageFilterTest failures.
  	STYLE: itkClampImageFilter.hxx in the wrong module.
  	COMP: Add _CRT_NO_SECURE_WARNINGS when building GCCXML.
  	COMP: Prevent ITK_USE_64BITS_IDS with Wrapping on Windows.
  	STYLE: Too many blank lines in itkCastImageFilterTest.cxx.
  	COMP: Bump MINC third party to fix warnings.

Nick Tustison (4):
  	ENH:  Adding masking capabilities with confidence mask option.
  	BUG:  Masks need to be warped.
  	ENH:  Permitting access to shrinking per dimension.
  	BUG: Valgrind error.

Nicolas Rey (1):
  	STYLE: Minor style fixes

Paul Novotny (3):
  	COMP: Fix TIFF on big endian systems
  	COMP: Build fails with ITK_USE_SYSTEM_TIFF
  	COMP: Fix TIFF on big endian systems

Prathamesh Kulkarni (1):
  	COMP: QuickViewTest new baseline.

Sean McBride (4):
  	STYLE: fixed minor spelling: XCode -> Xcode
  	COMP: fixed clang warning about NULL to bool conversion
  	BUG: Handle missing Analyze 7.5 flipped directions
  	COMP: Handle missing Analyze 7.5 flipped directions

Tim Allman (3):
  	DOC: Modify BSplineTransform comments.
  	DOC: Modify JointHistogramMutualInformationImageToImageMetricv4 comments.
  	DOC: Modify JointHistogramMutualInformationImageToImageMetricv4 comments.

Tom Vercauteren (2):
  	COMP: GPUPDEDeformableRegistrationFilter.cl fails to "compile".
  	COMP: GPUPDEDeformableRegistrationFilter.cl fails to "compile".

Vladimir S. FONOV (2):
  	ENH: Adding libminc and updating MINC IO support.
  	BUG: Making 2D Minc IO work properly

Xiaoxiao Liu (2):
  	ENH: Sync python scripts with python3.
  	ENH: Sync python scripts with python3.

Yan Xu (1):
  	COMP: static cast unsigned int to int




Changes in ITKapps from v4.3.0-apps to v4.4.0-apps:

Bill Lorensen (3):
  	COMP: VTK6 API change
  	ENH: Add TCL Wrapped examples
  	BUG: Missing includes for ITK4.4

Hans Johnson (1):
  	COMP: Mac 10.8 fixes were incorporated in FLTK

Jamie Snape (1):
  	BUG: Propagate build, linker, and OSX settings to external projects

Matt McCormick (6):
  	COMP: Re-add the FLTK patch for some Macs.
  	BUG: ITK External build only depends on VTK if being built.
  	COMP: Update FLTK SVN configuration.
  	ENH: Bump VTK ExternalProject to 5.10.1.
  	COMP: Use FLTK zip file stored on Midas3.
  	ENH: Bump ITK superbuild version to 4.4.0.

Roland Kwitt (1):
  	COMP: Shadowing warning in GLSliceView.h

Stephen R. Aylward (1):
  	COMP: Fix FLTK build error on Mac/Clang.

Xiaoxiao Liu (1):
  	ENH: Print out accurate image IO error message.



Changes from v4.3.0 to v4.4.0 from the Jira Issue tracker:

[ITK-3002] - Make itkGetObjectMacro issue compile time warnings
[ITK-3003] - Add itkGetObjectMacro to the ITK_LEGACY_REMOVE option
[ITK-3085] - itkBSplineExponentialImageRegistrationTest Timeout on
RogueResearch11
[ITK-3086] - QuickViewTest test failure on farsight-mint
[ITK-3087] - itkLargeMetaImageWriteReadTest4 test failure on
dash5win7x64.kitware
[ITK-3088] - itkClampImageFilterTest test failure on lhcp-win7vm2.nlm
Win32-VS9-Release-Shared VS10-Release-Shared
[ITK-3089] - itkLSMImageIOTest on eldorado.kitware Ubuntu-g++-4.6.2-Debug
[ITK-3090] - itkTimeVaryingVelocityFieldImageRegistrationTest test
failure on eldorado.kitware Ubuntu-g++-4.6.2-Debug
[ITK-3091] - itkLSMImageIOTest test failure on RogueResearch9,
Mac10.6-gcc-rel-x86_64-static
[ITK-3093] - itkTIFFImageIOSpacing test failure on mini0.nlm,
MacOSX-cross-rosetta
[ITK-3094] - itkMeshFileReadWriteTest04 test failure on mini0.nlm,
MacOSX-cross-rosetta
[ITK-3095] - itkMeshFileReadWriteTest02 test failure on mini0.nlm,
MacOSX-cross-rosetta
[ITK-3096] - itkDiscreteGaussianImageFilterTest2 test failure on
mini0.nlm, MacOSX-cross-rosetta

Bug
[ITK-2889] - Bug in BSplineInterpolateImageFunction ?
[ITK-2919] - Build with JOM fails to properly generate ITKTargets.cmake
[ITK-2943] - Add migration guide related to "itkTestMain.h"
[ITK-2975] - itk::CastImageFilter creates bad output
[ITK-2978] - ImageSeriesFileReader MetaDataDictionary Array
Incorrectly Handles Missing Fields
[ITK-2983] - ITKVtkGlue not adding VTK_LIBRARIES
[ITK-2988] - tiff name pollution
[ITK-2989] - A factor of 1/standard_deviation is missing from the
kernel pdf estimator in MutualInformationImageToImageMetric
[ITK-2992] - tif_config.h is not install
[ITK-2995] - Install tree ITKConfig.cmake is wrong for FFTW
[ITK-3004] - Direction cosine matrix generated using the images DICOM
tag "image orientation (patient)" or (0020,0037) is not necessarilly
orthogonal
[ITK-3009] - itk::InverseDisplacementFieldImageFilter does not work properly
[ITK-3011] - Maurer for Danielsson in Surface Distance
[ITK-3012] - ld error on exit when using itkBinaryErodeImageFilter and
itkBinaryDilateImageFilter
[ITK-3015] - Modules/IO/PhillipsREC/src/itkPhilipsPar.cxx contains nonsense code
[ITK-3017] - ITK_ABI_EXPORT is used directly when ITKCommon_EXPORT
should be used
[ITK-3020] - ImageRegistration2D bug
[ITK-3021] - itk::ImportImageContainer use of memcpy seen as harmful
[ITK-3028] - BUG: B-spline interpolator should use direction
[ITK-3064] - BSplineDeformableTransform writes out a warning every
time a point in an image is transformed, causes memory allocation
errors
[ITK-3065] - TestImportImageContainer cannot handle memory reallocation
[ITK-3066] - BSplineDeformableTransform::InsideValidRegion icm with
even spline orders and ITK_USE_CENTERED_PIXEL_COORDINATES_CONSISTENTLY
[ITK-3068] - Cannot resample a VectorImage
[ITK-3069] - itkMersenneTwisterRandomVariateGenerator is not thread safe
[ITK-3070] - IPLCommonImageIO fails to read GE Signa CT file series.
[ITK-3071] - PolyLineParametricPath converges too slow
[ITK-3072] - itkTransforms could supply a spatial Jacobian.
[ITK-3083] - Clean Dashboard for 4.4 release
[ITK-3118] - inconsistent behavior of all filters derived from
itk::BinaryFunctorImageFilter

Improvement
[ITK-2896] - Add missing NumericTraits for complex
[ITK-2940] - MaskedFFTNormalizedCorrelationImageFilter should be
templated on MaskType
[ITK-2964] - CMake warnings about "Perhaps should you turn on more
WRAP_* options" not helpful.
[ITK-2977] - itkMatrix sometimes requires extra VNL includes, leading
to confusing linker errors
[ITK-2980] - STYLE: Make FEM Get/Set codes use itkMacros wherever possible
[ITK-2993] - Add Masking value to MaskImageFilter
[ITK-2996] - Improve speed bilateral filter (itk::BilateralImageFilter)
[ITK-3001] - itkGetObjectMacro pervasively hides the itkGetConstObjectMacro
[ITK-3008] - Apply cppcheck to ITK
[ITK-3016] - Allow the ClampImageFilter to use user-defined bounds
[ITK-3073] - Const Correctness Warning

New Feature
[ITK-2985] - Get the internal transforms of the itkSyNImageRegistrationMethod
[ITK-3005] - Add ITK icon to ITK wiki, doc and examples
Task
[ITK-2560] - Remove ITK_TEMPLATE_TXX
[ITK-2979] - Fix doxygen documentation
[ITK-3032] - Duplicate Source Code Versions of itkImagetoVTKImageFilter



Enjoy ITK!