[vtk-developers] VTK 5.0.2

[David Cole]

Dear VTK users and developers,

The VTK 5.0.2 patch release is now available for download from the VTK 
web site: http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php. The following changes are 
included in this release.

*changes from 5.0.1 to 5.0.2:*
1) Use correct libs and include dirs for X on Mac OSX if VTK_USE_X is ON
2) More changes to make the code consistent with the VTK User's Guide 
and textbook
3) Fix bug 3501: vtkAmoebaMinimizer - perform initial function 
evaluations at the simplex vertices
4) Fix bug 3323: MPEG writer was leaking memory
5) Fix bug 3356: CanReadFile in vtkPNGReader had wrong access
6) Fix bug 3538: code error. Thanks to wwyang for patch.
7) Make sure CTest 2.4 loads the testing customization
8) Update API of DICOM reader for access to Image Orientation (Patient).
9) Fix bug: in Floor function, use union to avoid violation of aliasing 
rules
10) Fix bug 3690: in vtkFieldData::AllocateArrays(int nSize)
11) Fix bug 3259
12) Fix bug 3716

*changes from 5.0.0 to 5.0.1:*
1) Fix problem with Borland compiler when using VTK_LEGACY_REMOVE
2) Enable building with BUILD_EXAMPLES ON and BUILD_TESTING OFF
3) Enable building with VS2005/AMD64 (thanks to Peter Klotz)
4) Fix out-of-bounds indexing in the VectorKey classes
5) Enable building with Borland 2006
6) Fix bug #2879 - BUILD_SHARED_LIBS on MinGW
7) Fix a wrong try-compile result on the SGI
8) Add AbortExecute support to image iterators
9) Fix bug #2524
10) Important performance bugs fixed in vtkImageReslice
11) Slight math rounding error fix in vtkImageBlend
12) Eliminate many warnings when building with VS2005
13) Add vtkSimplePointsReader
14) Fix bug #3041
15) Fix incorrect NumberOfThreads usage in VolumeRayCastMapper classes
16) Fix crash in vtkOrderedTriangulator
17) Fix wrong parametric center coordinates in some cells
18) VTK 4.4 used to pass field data - changed the new pipeline to do the 
same
19) Fix incorrect STL iterator usage in vtkGenericEdgeTable
20) Fix crashes that can occur in Release builds in vtkDebugLeaksManager
21) Enable building with Tcl/Tk 8.3 by adding 
Utilities/TclTk/resources/tk8.3
22) Add CPack support for building installers
23) Many changes to make it easier to use the new pipeline architecture
24) Many changes to make the code consistent with the VTK User's Guide
25) Fix several dashboard warnings
++) ...and many other minor bug fixes...

We hope you enjoy this new release of VTK.

- David