[Paraview] Update: Upcoming ParaView Releases (4.4 and 5.0)

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Folks,

Since we're getting close to the next release, I just wanted to send out an
email to let everyone know how we're planning to do the next release.

+ We'll do a ParaView 4.4 release will all features/fixes planned for the
next release. This will use the older rendering code (same as previous
release) that doesn't using OpenGL 2+ features.

+  Following the same pattern as VTK, soon after (at the same time, if
possible), we'll release ParaView 5.0. This will be ParaView 4.4 but with
OpenGL2 backend.

The main reason for this separation would be to have a fallback in case
showstopper issues are noticed with the major rendering changes and for
legacy systems that don't have a newer OpenGL.

Any thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? If things go according to plan,
release candidates should start popping up mid/late August.

Utkarsh

p.s. Originally, we also intended to upgrade ParaView 5.0 to use Qt 5, by
default. However, there are a few outstanding issues with Qt 5 (some in Qt
5 itself, and some in our testing code) and hence the upgrade to Qt 5 has
been tabled for now.
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