[Insight-developers] [Announcement] SimpleITK 0.8.0 Release

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

We are happy to announce the SimpleITK 0.8.0 Release.

SimpleITK is a simplified layer built on top of ITK, intended to facilitate its use in rapid prototyping, education and interpreted languages. SimpleITK provide binaries for several wrapped languages to enable users to rapidly get started using ITK. 

Information on how to get started and download the binaries:
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/SimpleITK/GettingStarted#Binaries

For Python upgrading can be as easy as running:
 $ easy_install -U SimpleITK

Improvements:
* Support for events and command call-backs. More information can be found here: http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/CommandPage.html
** Includes lambdas for Python, and derived delegate classes for CSharp, Java, Ruby and Python.
* Support for compiling OSX Mavericks, by enabling C+11 automatically.
* Improved support for C++11
* Improved support for setting dimensional vector parameters as scalars in the OOP interface
* Improved ProcessObject base class features in OOP interface
* Swig 2.0.12
* Wrapping for R will automatically be enabled if detected due to increased stability with SWIG update.
* Improved printing of enum types.
* Automatically enabling >4GB image on windows.
* Newly wrapped filters BinShrinkImageFilter, CyclicShiftImageFilter, DiscreteGaussianDerivativeImageFilter, LabelVotingImageFilter, and WarpImageFilter.
* Threshold measurement available in automatic thresholding filters
* Experimental Support for generating Python wheels
* ITK 4.5.1

Compatibility:
* The operator "~" was incorrectly implemented as a logical not. This has been corrected to be a bitwise not operator for images.
* The KernelEnum types as an object member has been deprecated.
** In-favor of namespace enum: http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/namespaceitk_1_1simple.html#a38998f2c7b469b1ad8e337a0c6c0697b

Updated Documentation:
* http://www.itk.org/Wiki/SimpleITK/GettingStarted/Visual_guide_to_building_on_Linux
* http://www.itk.org/Wiki/SimpleITK/GettingStarted/A_visual_guide_to_SimpleITK_with_CSharp
* http://simpleitk.github.io/SimpleITK-Notebooks/41_Progress.html

Binary distribution for many platforms and languages are available for downloading:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleitk/files/SimpleITK/0.8.0/

Release Doxygen Documentation:
http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen08/html/index.html

Additional Release Note:
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/index.php?title=SimpleITK/ReleaseNotes&action=submit#SimpleITK_-_Version_0.8.0_Release

Enjoy!
Brad