[Insight-developers] [ANNOUNCE] ITK 4.4 Release Candidate 2 (RC2) has been tagged

[Matt McCormick]

The ITK 4.4.0 release candidate 2 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 v4.4rc02

For more details, please see

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

Please test the release candidate and share your experiences on the mailing
list, issues tracker, and Gerrit Code Review.  Please include the tag name when
providing feedback.

Please help identify issues by submitting an Experimental build to the dashboard
with:

  ctest -D Experimental

and notifying the mailing list.  Testing your own applications against the RC is
also appreciated.

Depending on feedback from the community and the condition of the dashboard at
the end of the week, this may be the final release candidate for 4.4.0

A list of changes since v4.4rc01 follows:

Bill Lorensen (1):
      COMP: Missing return error after exception

Bradley Lowekamp (7):
      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

Hans Johnson (1):
      DOC: Fix line length issues for the SoftwareGuide

Ho Cheung (1):
      BUG: ITK unable to detect number of threads under Unix in recent glibc.

Matthew McCormick (3):
      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.

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

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