Folks, Just wanted to let everyone know we're closing on a ParaView 4.4 release candidate (think next week or two). If you spot any major issues, or there's something you're keen on committing, you should do that now.
Utkarsh On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayac...@kitware.com> wrote: > Folks, > > Since we're getting close to the next release, I just wanted to send out an > email to let everyone know how we're planning to do the next release. > > + We'll do a ParaView 4.4 release will all features/fixes planned for the > next release. This will use the older rendering code (same as previous > release) that doesn't using OpenGL 2+ features. > > + Following the same pattern as VTK, soon after (at the same time, if > possible), we'll release ParaView 5.0. This will be ParaView 4.4 but with > OpenGL2 backend. > > The main reason for this separation would be to have a fallback in case > showstopper issues are noticed with the major rendering changes and for > legacy systems that don't have a newer OpenGL. > > Any thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? If things go according to plan, release > candidates should start popping up mid/late August. > > Utkarsh > > p.s. Originally, we also intended to upgrade ParaView 5.0 to use Qt 5, by > default. However, there are a few outstanding issues with Qt 5 (some in Qt 5 > itself, and some in our testing code) and hence the upgrade to Qt 5 has been > tabled for now. _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Search the list archives at: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview
