ITK/Release 4/Migration Plan/Release Notes

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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Code that was intended to provide support for several outdated compilers was removed.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

Migration Users Guide

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

Added JPEG2000ImageIO