[vtkusers] VTK 5.2.0

[T.R.Shashwath]

On Friday 29 August 2008 00:41:27 David Cole wrote:
> Dear VTK users and developers,
>
> Finally! Kitware is pleased to announce the first official release
> of VTK 5.2.
>
> The VTK 5.2.0 release is now available for download from the VTK
> web site: http://www.vtk.org/get-software.php. This release contains
> many improvements and additions compared to VTK 5.0. The following
> changes are included in this release.
>
> *changes from 5.0 to 5.2:*
> - Infovis kit
> - Views kit
> - New Widgets architecture and more than a dozen new widgets
> - New Utilities: freerange, verdict, libxml2, metaio, sqlite
> - Updated Utilities: freetype, zlib
> - More than 300 new C++ classes
> - More than 100 new C++ tests running on most dashboards
> - Improvements to PLY file support
> - Many bug fixes, including much improved Java wrapping support
> - Mac OS X-specific fixes:
> -- Defaults to building using Cocoa instead of Carbon
> -- Can now be compiled against the 10.5 SDK
> -- Can now be built as a Universal Binary
> -- Initial support for Resolution Independence in 10.5
>
> For full details on the new classes and tests, and other additional
> information, see the Wiki page:
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/VTK_5.2_Release_Planning
>
> We hope you enjoy this new release of VTK.
>
> - David

A big thanks to Kitware for this... I've been looking forward to using the new 
widget architecture in production code...

Shash