VTK 5.2 Release Planning: Difference between revisions

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== OpenGL requirements ==
== OpenGL requirements ==


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Revision as of 18:52, 14 May 2008

Planned Schedule

  • Announcement email: January 28, 2008
  • Create VTK-5-2 branch: end of February, 2008
  • Fix bugs in priority order: through the end of March, 2008
  • Stabilize the dashboards and release the first release candidate for VTK 5.2: early April, 2008

What's New in VTK 5.2?

New features in VTK since the 5.0 release include:

  • 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

API Changes

See this section in the Frequently asked questions (FAQ)

OpenGL requirements

See this section in the Frequently asked questions (FAQ)