[Paraview-developers] ParaView 3.8.1 RC1 Available for download

[Dave Partyka]

Hello All,

The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView
3.8.1 Release Candidate 1 binaries for download on the ParaView download
page. Final binaries should follow shortly.

http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html

Release Notes:

ParaView 3.8.1 is a patch release over 3.8.0 with a a small set
of improvements. Some of noteworthy improvements/fixes are:

ParaView now comes HDF5 1.8.5. This enables developers to create
readers/plugins for ParaView that use newer versions of HDF5 easily. Also we
are now including the C++ and the high level (hl) versions of the libraryfor
those who wish to use their newer API.

Among the improvements are two new file formats. The first is a netcdf based
reader for MPAS format ocean and atmosphere data sets. The second, available
in source form only is a reader plugin that allows ParaView to read
multi-resolution wavelet compressed VAPOR data format files. Thanks to John
Clyne and Dan Legreca for contributing the VAPOR plugin.

We have improved the support for animation scripting through Python. The new
API is more coherant with the rest of ParaView Python API avoid the need
for script writers to know the minute details of how to create animations
using proxies. Tracing capabilies for animation were also revised.

GPU volume ray cast mapper for voxel datasets now works in tile display mode
as well.

In keeping with our on going improvements of the ParaView's
charting capabilities, we have included a few more fixes regarding labels
and axes placements.

We also cleaned up ParaView build and install rules so that developers
don't have to worry about 'rpath' anymore. Also "make install" has been
vastly improved on all platforms.

This release also includes a material interface extraction filter thattakes
a cell data volume fraction and generates a polydata surface. It also
performs connectivity on the particles and generates a particle index as
part of the cell data of the output. It computes the volume of each particle
from the volume fraction. The filter is accessible from the Material
Analysis category in the Filters menu.

As always, we rely on your feedback to make ParaView better. Please use
http://paraview.uservoice.com/ or click on the "Tell us what you think" link
on paraview.org to leave your feedback and vote for new features.
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