[Paraview] ANN: ParaView 3.12.0 RC-3 available for download

[Ivo Roghair]

Hi,

Please accept my apologies if this message has reached you before (I sent a
similar reply to the 3.12RC2 announcement but it seems to have been
rejected from the list due to file size).

When I try and load an ascii .vtu file with multiple 'pieces' (to account
for multiple separate meshes), the 3.12 versions crash with a segmentation
fault on Ubuntu 11.04 Linux 64 bit (using the provided binaries from the
site). Such files have never been a problem before (versions 3.2 - 3.10.1).
I attached a smaller example this time.

Kind regards,
Ivo

2011/10/28 David Partyka <david.partyka at kitware.com>

> The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView
> 3.12.0 Release Candidate 3 binaries for download on the ParaView (
> http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html). ParaView 3.12 can
> be considered as a bug-fix release with over 180 issues resolved. The
> detailed list can be found at
> http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php?version_id=85.
>
> With Python being one of the preferred means of interacting with ParaView,
> we've added support to create animation tracks that use Python scripts to
> build highly customized animations.
>
> Plugins support is one of the strong points of ParaView and with this
> release, we've made it easier to load deployed plugins on the server
> processes as well. All distributed plugins are now listed on the client as
> well as the server side.
>
> The release includes updates to LANL's streaming framework.
> The multiresolution streaming view now automatically adjusts resolution
> to match the projected image size. Also, VTK filters are now able to modify
> meta-information which means they can modify the data while still allowing
> the streaming framework to cull and prioritize pieces. An example is a new
> spherical warp filter that projects flat data onto the globe while
> correctly tracking piece bounding boxes.
>
> Also, there are updates to support users of the cosmology and windblade
> formats. For example the MaskPoints filter (used to place glyphs and in
> other places) was updated with new options that improve random sampling in
> parallel. Likewise VTK's Gaussian Splatter filter is now exposed in
> ParaView which makes it easy to visualize point set data with imaging
> filters. The cosmo and windblade readers have also been revised.
>
> This version includes some major changes under the covers. ParaView 3.12
> includes improvements to the underpinnings of ParaView ServerManager. The
> communication layer under the ParaView ServerManager was upgraded to
> minimize communication as well as making it easier to debug and trace
> messages being exchanged between client and server. We now use
> Google Protocol Buffers, for example, to exchange messages between client
> and server.
>
> In addition, there are several small but notable improvements included in
> this release for example, the views now use caching to avoid re-renders
> from repaints due to menus and dialogs popup up on the screen; volume
> rendering of uniform grids now supports shading; ability to enable specular
> highlights when using scalar coloring and others.
>
> The updated userguide can be accessed at:
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Table_Of_Contents
> Or in PDF form at:
> http://paraview.org/files/v3.12/ParaView%20Users%20Guide%20v3.12.pdf
>
> The development team has adopted a git-workflow-based development process
> that is integrated with the ParaView Bug Tracker (http://paraview.org/Bug).
> The workflow enables us to track every change that goes into ParaView and
> maintain a stable repository.
>
> Additionally, the following issues have been addressed since RC2.
>
> 12670 SPTimeseries tests failing
> 12636 fix incompatibility with OCCT 6.5.2
> 12678 Build issues using external png on OSX
> 12667 cross compilation fails
> 12671 Prism now working correctly in client-server mode.
> 12630 Default PARAVIEW_INSTALL_THIRD_PARTY_LIBRARIES to OFF
> 12652 coprocessing writers menu is not enabled after creating a filter and
> hitting the Apply button
> 12650 Multiple file plot over line seg faults
> 12651 Crash toggling displayed variables plot over line.
> 12638 ServerConfiguration XML (PVSC) not correctly using random default
> values.
> 12626 remove cosmo plugin
>
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