[vtkusers] announce: vtk 8.1.0.rc2 is ready to try

[David E DeMarle]

Hi folks,

VTK 8.1.0.rc2 is up on the downloads site and tagged in git. Please give it
a try and report any problems that you find to us via the gitlab issue
tracker with an "8.1" milestone tag. Developers, use the same tag to let us
know of any fixes that you want integrated to the release branch in time
for 8.1.0 final in a few weeks time. If nothing major comes up, this will
be retagged as 8.1.0 final. We expect the next release, VTK 9.0.0, to be
out in a few short months.

The biggest reason for rc2 is that in it we have deprecated Tcl.
The entire set of changes over rc1 are as follows.

$ git shortlog v8.1.0.rc1..v8.1.0.rc2
Ben Boeckel (2):
      tcl: deprecate for 8.1
      Merge topic 'deprecate-tcl' into release

David E. DeMarle (2):
      Merge branch 'upstream-tiff' into release
      Merge topic 'bump-tiff' into release

Forrest Li (2):
      Remove legacy classes from ParallelGeometry
      Remove vtkPUnstructuredGridGhostDataGenerator from docs

Julien Finet (2):
      Fix crash in transforms when doing DeepCopy after Identity
      Merge topic 'fix-transform-identity' into release

Ken Martin (1):
      Merge topic 'remove_deprecated_from_filters' into release

Sankhesh Jhaveri (4):
      Provide access to the shader program in UpdateShaderEvent callback
      Added test that demonstrates ability to set shader uniforms from
python
      Invoke UpdateShaderEvent from volume mapper
      Merge topic 'expose_shader_api_release' into release

Sean McBride (2):
      Fixed, again, a slightly incorrect assert
      Merge topic 'release-lut-assert' into release

Tiff Upstream (1):
      tiff 2017-12-05 (818c6fed)


David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
Principal Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909
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