[Paraview-developers] ParaView 2.0.3

[Amy Squillacote]

Dear ParaView users and developers,

We are nearly ready to cut the ParaView 2.2 CVS branch.  We are just 
waiting until we get the Dashboard cleaned up a little more.  In the 
meantime, we have enough changes on the ParaView 2.0 branch to create a new 
patch release.  The ParaView 2.0.3 release is now available for download 
from the ParaView web site: http://www.paraview.org/HTML/Download.html. 
There are several changes included in this release.

changes from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3:
1) The SPCTH reader is working again.
2) When you click the Delete button for a reader/source/filter or choose 
"Delete All Modules" from the Edit menu, memory is appropriately released.
3) Lookmarks are automatically saved at the end of a UNIX session.  (This 
was already happening for Windows sessions.)
4) The vtkGaussianCubeReader now uses its vtkTransform to map the atoms' 
coordinates back to the Grid domain (bug #1594).
5) In ParaView/Utilities/Xdmf/Ice/CMakeLists.txt, a typo was corrected so 
that we now have matching {}'s.

changes from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2:
1) In loading EnSight data sets, both "tensor per node" and "tensor symm 
per node" are acceptable in the .case file.
2) All expected glyphs are av available to the glyph filter, not just arrow 
and line. (bug #1774)
3) The command-line options --cave-configuration and -cc have been 
re-enabled, although they are deprecated and will be removed in ParaView 
2.2. (See next change.)
4) The variables for cave setup are to be specified in the XML 
configuration file.  See attachment.  This configuration file should be 
passed to each executable run to start ParaView (e.g., pvserver 
"/path/to/file/config.pvx", pvclient "/path/to/file/config.pvx", etc.).
5) The list of machine names in the render server (or data server if the 
render server connects to the data server) is to be specified in the XML 
configuration file.  The use of a separate machines file has been 
deprecated, but it will continue to work until the release of ParaView 
2.2.  See attachment.
6) In the Exodus reader, array selection widgets have been added for side 
sets and node sets.
7) When a second contour filter is applied to a data set, all the 
point-centered scalar arrays are available to it. (bug #1809)
8) A correction has been made to the tooltip for the "LOD threshold" 
slider. (bug #1474)
9) The volume rendering editor was unusable (and sometimes crashed) when 
cell-centered variables were used.  This has been corrected. (bug #1844)
10) It is now possible to run in cave mode with more than one display.

changes from 2.0.0 to 2.0.1:
1) The size of the precompiled binary files for linux has been 
significantly reduced. The .gz file went from 64.3 MB to 22.1 MB. The .Z 
one is down to 33.7 MB from 108 MB.
2) When "Play Demo" is selected from the Help menu, the Demo1.pvs file is 
correctly located, and the demo runs.
3) On Windows, all the ParaView-related executables are included in the 
precompiled binaries.
4) On Windows, the Uninstall executable actually uninstalls ParaView 
(including removing it from the Start menu and the registry).
5) The auto-accept feature has been turned off for the array calculator. 
Using auto-accept with this filter caused ParaView to produce errors 
because it tried to evaluate the expression in the calculator before it had 
been completely entered (bug #1549).
6) The problem with Cache Geometry in animation in client / server mode 
where the animated parameter stops changing has been corrected (bug #1502).
7) Clicking the "Label Point Ids" check box no longer crashes the 
application (bug #1657).
8) When probing with a line, you can now select which array(s) to display 
in the XY plot. The results can be exported to a CSV file, which is 
readable by MS Excel.
9) The PVD reader loads all parts, not just the first one (bug #1742).
10) In pvTestDriver.cxx (used in ParaView's regression testing), a 
correction was made to the code determining which tests are allowed to have 
errors and still pass.
11) The "Save SM State" item has been removed from the File menu. This is a 
development feature and was not intended for the release.

We hope you enjoy this new patch release of ParaView.

- Amy
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