[Paraview] ANN: ParaView 3.12.0 RC-3 available for download

[Ivo Roghair]

No problem, you can use it for anything you want to.

Ivo

On 10/31/2011 03:09 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Thanks Ivo. I was able to reproduce the problem. I would like to add a
> regression test to VTK for this type of files. Can I use your sample
> dataset and add it to the VTKData (and/or ParaViewData) repositoriies?
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Ivo Roghair<ivoroghair at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Please accept my apologies if this message has reached you before (I sent a
>> similar reply to the 3.12RC2 announcement but it seems to have been rejected
>> from the list due to file size).
>> When I try and load an ascii .vtu file with multiple 'pieces' (to account
>> for multiple separate meshes), the 3.12 versions crash with a segmentation
>> fault on Ubuntu 11.04 Linux 64 bit (using the provided binaries from the
>> site). Such files have never been a problem before (versions 3.2 - 3.10.1).
>> I attached a smaller example this time.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Ivo
>> 2011/10/28 David Partyka<david.partyka at kitware.com>
>>>
>>> The ParaView team is pleased to announce the availability of the ParaView
>>> 3.12.0 Release Candidate 3 binaries for download on the ParaView
>>> (http://paraview.org/paraview/resources/software.html). ParaView 3.12 can be
>>> considered as a bug-fix release with over 180 issues resolved. The detailed
>>> list can be found
>>> at http://www.paraview.org/Bug/changelog_page.php?version_id=85.
>>> With Python being one of the preferred means of interacting with ParaView,
>>> we've added support to create animation tracks that use Python scripts to
>>> build highly customized animations.
>>> Plugins support is one of the strong points of ParaView and with this
>>> release, we've made it easier to load deployed plugins on the server
>>> processes as well. All distributed plugins are now listed on the client as
>>> well as the server side.
>>> The release includes updates to LANL's streaming framework.
>>> The multiresolution streaming view now automatically adjusts resolution
>>> to match the projected image size. Also, VTK filters are now able to modify
>>> meta-information which means they can modify the data while still allowing
>>> the streaming framework to cull and prioritize pieces. An example is a new
>>> spherical warp filter that projects flat data onto the globe while correctly
>>> tracking piece bounding boxes.
>>> Also, there are updates to support users of the cosmology and windblade
>>> formats. For example the MaskPoints filter (used to place glyphs and in
>>> other places) was updated with new options that improve random sampling in
>>> parallel. Likewise VTK's Gaussian Splatter filter is now exposed in ParaView
>>> which makes it easy to visualize point set data with imaging filters. The
>>> cosmo and windblade readers have also been revised.
>>> This version includes some major changes under the covers. ParaView 3.12
>>> includes improvements to the underpinnings of ParaView ServerManager. The
>>> communication layer under the ParaView ServerManager was upgraded to
>>> minimize communication as well as making it easier to debug and trace
>>> messages being exchanged between client and server. We now use
>>> Google Protocol Buffers, for example, to exchange messages between client
>>> and server.
>>> In addition, there are several small but notable improvements included in
>>> this release for example, the views now use caching to avoid re-renders from
>>> repaints due to menus and dialogs popup up on the screen; volume rendering
>>> of uniform grids now supports shading; ability to enable specular highlights
>>> when using scalar coloring and others.
>>> The updated userguide can be accessed
>>> at: http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Table_Of_Contents
>>> Or in PDF form
>>> at: http://paraview.org/files/v3.12/ParaView%20Users%20Guide%20v3.12.pdf
>>> The development team has adopted a git-workflow-based development process
>>> that is integrated with the ParaView Bug Tracker (http://paraview.org/Bug).
>>> The workflow enables us to track every change that goes into ParaView and
>>> maintain a stable repository.
>>> Additionally, the following issues have been addressed since RC2.
>>> 12670 SPTimeseries tests failing
>>> 12636 fix incompatibility with OCCT 6.5.2
>>> 12678 Build issues using external png on OSX
>>> 12667 cross compilation fails
>>> 12671 Prism now working correctly in client-server mode.
>>> 12630 Default PARAVIEW_INSTALL_THIRD_PARTY_LIBRARIES to OFF
>>> 12652 coprocessing writers menu is not enabled after creating a filter and
>>> hitting the Apply button
>>> 12650 Multiple file plot over line seg faults
>>> 12651 Crash toggling displayed variables plot over line.
>>> 12638 ServerConfiguration XML (PVSC) not correctly using random default
>>> values.
>>> 12626 remove cosmo plugin
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