VTK 5.2 Release Planning

Planned Schedule

Announcement email: January 28, 2008
- On the developers' mailing list
- On the users' mailing list
Create VTK-5-2 branch: end of April, 2008
Merge requested fixes from CVS HEAD
Release VTK 5.2.0: August 28, 2008
- Developers' list
- Users' list

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 infrastructure for selection of arbitrary subsets
Substantially improved support for composite data objects
New Utilities: freerange, verdict, libxml2, metaio, sqlite
Updated Utilities: freetype, zlib, libtiff
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