ITK/Release 4/Migration Plan/Release Notes
Release Notes
This page captures release notes for the intermediate releases of ITKv4
ITK 3-20 Git
This release is simply a Git tag that is equivalent to the stable release of ITK 3.2
ITKv4 Alpha-01
The main changes made in this release are
Removal support for Deprecated Compilers
Code that was intended to provide support for several outdated compilers was removed. The compilers that are no longer supported in ITKv4 are
- Borland 5.5
- Visual Studio 6.0
- Visual Studio 7.0
- SGI CC compilers
- Sun CC 5.6
- Metrowerks
Statistics Framework Updated
The original statistics framework was removed and replaced with the one that was refactored in 2007.
Details on the refactoring process are available at
Refactoring Statistics Framework 2007
and a guide on how to migrate to the new framework is available at
Some CMake Options Removed
The following CMake configuration options were removed
- ITK_USE_STATISTICS_REFACTORING
ITKv4 Alpha-02
Updated openjpeg
The openjpeg library in the Utilities directory was updated to the openjpeg-v2 version of July 2010.
Updated to GDCM 2.0
GDCM, the library that provides DICOM support in ITK was updated to GDCM 2.0. Release notes of GDCM 2.0 can be found at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=GDCM_Release_2.0#tags