9.0#

Released on 2020-05-01.

9.0.0#

See Discourse for release notes.

9.0.2#

VTK 9.0.2 collects fixes to 9.0.1 which have been made since its release. Of particular interest are the fixes to macOS rendering, support for the macOS arm64 platform, and updates for API changes in external libraries.

New classes#

  • Added a vtkImageProbeFilter which works like vtkProbeFilter, but for vtkImageData

New support#

  • enum class setters and getters are now supported via vtk{Get,Set}EnumMacro

Fixes#

  • The QVTKRenderWidget.h is now installed.

  • vtk3DLinearGridPlaneCutter guards against nullptr points and cells

  • The composite date mapper now iterates over data blocks properly

  • vtkStringArray::Resize takes tuple elements into account

  • vtkArrowSource now supports scalong and rotation around the origin or the arrow’s center point

  • The VTK::DomainsChemistryOpenGL2, VTK::RenderingContextOpenGL2, and VTK::RenderingOpenGL2 modules are added to the Rendering group to avoid missing implementations of rendering components

  • vtkCutter enables point merging when requested through a vtkPointLocator which merges points

  • vtkAxesActor bounds calculations improved to avoid assumptions about range values

  • vtkWindowLevelLookupTable out-of-range colors are now initialized properly

  • vtkImageReslice::RequestInformation is refactored handle common image information passing

  • vtkImageReslice creates a new interpolator in ::GetInterpolator; this new interpolator now uses the same interpolation mode as vtkImageReslice itself

macOS#

  • macOS wheels are now built and uploaded by VTK’s CI

  • Fixes for macOS OpenGL state tracking (related to GL_SCISSOR)

  • Multisampling on macOS with Intel graphics turned off for volume rendering

  • OpenGL state tracking on macOS with layers is improved (rather than using the wrong context between layers)

  • OSPRay is disabled when running under macOS Rosetta

Third Party#

  • HDF5 has been updated to address errors on newer Xcode compilers

  • HDF5 macOS universal2 compilation fixes

  • VTK::mpi now disables C++ bindings for SGI MPT as well

  • Usage of numpy.character is removed (deprecated in NumPy 1.19)

  • Avoidance of APIs deprecated in Python 3.9

  • Compilation with newer libfreetype resolved (FT_CALLBACK_DEF usage removed)

9.0.3#

A minor patchset on top of 9.0.2 to fix problems with the new release process’ configuration when building the wheels.

Wheels#

  • Disable VTK_DEBUG_LEAKS in wheel builds

  • Remove long-deprecated API usage in the Python bindings