VTK 5.2 Release Planning: Difference between revisions

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Announcement email: January 28, 2008
- On the developers' mailing list
- On the users' mailing list
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

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

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