[vtkusers] VTK 5.2.1

[David Cole]

Dear VTK users and developers,

The VTK 5.2.1 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 5.2.0 to 5.2.1:*
1) Fix Borland compile problem in vtkConvertSelection.cxx
2) Fix links on main Doxygen page
3) Eliminate compiler warnings in generated code
4) Invoke EndInteractionEvent *after* the WidgetState is changed
5) Fix issue 7511: vtkSmoothPolyDataFilter crash
6) Fix issue 7512: make vtkPlaneWidget sphere resizing smoother
7) Fix issue 7518: vtkDataReader memory errors
8) Fix sharedforward with a space in the path. Thanks to Brad King.
9) Enable kwsys' SystemInfo
10) Add install rules for vtkExportKit.cmake and vtkKit.cmake.in
11) Add install rules for vtkEncodeString and vtkTestDriver.h
12) Fix incorrect documentation tag file name
13) Fix problem with passing null object to java wrapped methods
14) Get GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE from OpenGL rather than using a hard coded value
15) Propagate render window size changes to the render window interactor
16) Fix issue 7638: ensure correct resource context when switching OpenGL
      contexts on Windows
17) Add missing WM_SETCURSOR handler to vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow
18) Improvements to FindMySQL.cmake
19) Improve vtkAVIWriter: Allow programmatically setting the compressor
20) Improve vtkAVIWriter: Allow user to choose codec
21) Fix crash: do not pass invalid parameters to strftime
22) Add Tcl/Tk 8.6 support
23) Fix issue 7887: numerical error in vtkContourValues
24) Fix issue 7705: vtkfreetype compile problem on Mac
25) Fix issue with compiling vtkOpenGLExtensionManager on Solaris 10
26) Implement GetBounds in Widgets/vtkPolygonalHandleRepresentation3D
27) Remove vtklibxml2 dependency on libhistory and libreadline

*changes from 5.0.4 to 5.2.0:*
- 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

We hope you enjoy this new release of VTK.

- David
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