<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Good morning,<div><br></div><div>We are happy to announce the SimpleITK 0.5 Release Candidate 1.</div><div><br></div><div>The goal of the candidate is to allow users to test building and certain features before the release and binary packaging is performed.</div><div><br></div><div>The release candidate is available as a tag in the git repository. To obtain the source code:</div><div><br></div><div>git clone --recursive <a href="http://itk.org/SimpleITK.git">http://itk.org/SimpleITK.git</a></div><div>cd SimpleITK</div><div>git checkout -q --detach v0.5rc01</div><div><br></div><div>Specifically, we have greatly improved the robustness and features in the sitk::Show method for better support on Windows and more options to customize the behavior. While we have done our best to test these facilities across multiple platforms and configurations the additional testing on users systems would be very helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>For more information on Building SimpleITK can be found here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/SimpleITK/GettingStarted#Build_It_Yourself">http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/SimpleITK/GettingStarted#Build_It_Yourself</a></div><div><br></div><div>And more information about the new Show methods can be found here in the doxygen:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/namespaceitk_1_1simple.html#a7bacfc4685cff93e46d7401865f9579e">http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/namespaceitk_1_1simple.html#a7bacfc4685cff93e46d7401865f9579e</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Our primary focus since the last release has include:</div><div><br></div><div>Adding new ImageFilters</div><div>Fixing compilation with VS 9 2008</div><div>Improving Show()</div><div>Adding support for wrapping for R</div><div>And many more improvements...</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you,</div><div>Brad</div><div><div><br><div>
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