<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>We are happy to announce SimpleITK 0.8 Release Candidate 1.</div><div><br></div><div>Please checkout the binaries and provide feedback for issue, before the forth coming release.</div><div><br></div><div>Improvements:</div><div>* Support for events and command call-backs. More information can be found here: <a href="http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/CommandPage.html">http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/CommandPage.html</a></div><div>** Includes lambdas for Python, and derived delegate classes for CSharp, Java, Ruby and Python.</div><div>* Support for OSX Mavericks, by enabling C+11 automatically.</div><div>* Improved support for C++11</div><div>* Improved support for setting dimensional vector parameters as scalars in the OOP interface</div><div>* Improved ProcessObject base class features in OOP interface</div><div>* Swig 2.0.12</div><div>* Wrapping for R will automatically be enabled if detected due to increased stability with SWIG update.</div><div>* Improved printing of enum types.</div><div>* Automatically enabling >4GB image on windows.</div><div>* Newly wrapped filters BinShrinkImageFilter, CyclicShiftImageFilter, DiscreteGaussianDerivativeImageFilter, LabelVotingImageFilter, and WarpImageFilter.</div><div>* ITK 4.5.1</div><div><br></div><div>Compatibility:</div><div>*A issue is that the operator "~" was incorrectly implemented as a logical not. This has been corrected to be a bitwise not operator for images.</div><div>* The KernelEnum types as object member has been deprecated.</div><div>** In-favor of namespace enum: <a href="http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/namespaceitk_1_1simple.html#a38998f2c7b469b1ad8e337a0c6c0697b">http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/namespaceitk_1_1simple.html#a38998f2c7b469b1ad8e337a0c6c0697b</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Binary distribution for many platforms and languages are available for downloading:</div><div><a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleitk/files/SimpleITK/0.8rc1/">https://sourceforge.net/projects/simpleitk/files/SimpleITK/0.8rc1/</a></div><div><br></div><div>To installed in Python the correct egg needs to be manually downloaded for Source Forge.</div><div><br></div><div>The binaries of Linux are now compiled on Redhat 6 instead of Ubuntu 12.04 for improved compatibility (Debian Wheezy). Currently the x86_64 binaries are available, the i686 are forth coming.</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>The release candidate is available as a tag in the git repository or a source bundle on SourceForge. To obtain the source code via git:</div><div><br></div><div>git clone <a href="http://itk.org/SimpleITK.git">http://itk.org/SimpleITK.git</a></div><div>cd SimpleITK</div></div><div>git checkout -q --detach v0.8rc1</div><div><br></div><div><div>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>The current Doxygen is available here:</div><div><a href="http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/annotated.html">http://www.itk.org/SimpleITKDoxygen/html/annotated.html</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy!</div><div>Brad</div></body></html>