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VisIt Changelog

What's new in VisIt 2.5.1

Jun 29, 2012
  • Several enhancements have been made for Windows, including better SSH connectivity, metadata identifying VisIt programs, and PySide support.
  • Multiple bugs related to AMR meshes have been fixed.
  • The CGNS, ANSYS, and CRASH readers have been improved.

New in VisIt 2.4.2 (Mar 7, 2012)

  • This is primarily a bugfix release which resolves issues in several areas.
  • VisIt can now build without Mesa, enabling broader support for Ubuntu.
  • VisIt's rendering performance has been improved, making version 2.4.2 at least as fast as versions prior to VisIt 2.4.0.
  • Text annotations have been fixed so they are no longer truncated.
  • A number of improvements have been made to the handling of variables restricted to specific materials.
  • Material selection now works correctly with AMR data sets when changing time steps.
  • Errors have been corrected in the GMV, Nek5000, and Wavefront OBJ plugins.

New in VisIt 2.4.0 (Nov 21, 2011)

  • This release contains many enhancements and bugfixes.
  • It was upgraded to VTK 5.8.0.
  • Windows distributions now contain a parallel compute engine based on MSMPI.
  • Cumulative query selections were enhanced so they can cache intermediate results obtained from executing filters over time.
  • Queries provide a more uniform interface in the Python interface.
  • 2D multi-resolution rendering capability was added for 2D AMR data.
  • The Streamline plot now works with AMR data.
  • Libsim now allows mesh-sized ghost zone arrays to be used.

New in VisIt 2.3.1 (Jul 27, 2011)

  • This release is primarily a bugfix release and resolves outstanding issues in several areas.
  • Errors in the Volume plot and Streamline plot were fixed, as were errors in the Threshold and IndexSelect operators.
  • Other fixes were made to Libsim and various reader plug-ins.

New in VisIt 2.3.0 (Jul 13, 2011)

  • This version includes several enhancements and bugfixes.
  • Selections have been enhanced to support cumulative queries, which are time-aware selections that use multiple variables and histograms to reduce data.
  • Pick over time now supports multiple variables.
  • VisIt can now start a remote compute engine through a gateway machine.
  • Libsim was enhanced to have SWIG-generated Python bindings, support for dynamic user interfaces, and improved startup functions.
  • Several database reader plug-ins were improved, including the Cale, GMV, Velodyne, Nek5000, and Xdmf readers.

New in VisIt 2.2.2 (May 3, 2011)

  • This release is primarily a bugfix release and resolves outstanding issues in several VisIt database readers, including ParaDIS, Miranda, and EnSight.

New in VisIt 1.12.0 (Aug 13, 2009)

  • This release offers a new, richly featured, parallelized Streamline plot that can integrate across domain boundaries.
  • It offers a new Poincare plot for analysis of magnetic fusion datasets.
  • The ParallelCoordinates plot was optimized, and can now display focus highlights.
  • Many improvements have been made to VisIt's database reader plugins.
  • In addition, dozens of bugs were fixed.

New in VisIt 1.11.0 (Nov 15, 2008)

  • This release includes several new features and bugfixes in addition to performance enhancements for AMR data.
  • The Volume plot now supports lighting when using ray casting, and the plot is also more efficient when rendering uchar data.
  • Various improvements to annotations have been made.
  • Specifically, plot legends can now be displayed horizontally.
  • The Slice, Threshold, and Tube operators provide new options.
  • The Silo, PDB/Flash, ITAPS, MFIX, PlainText, Tecplot, and SAMRAI readers have been enhanced or had bugs fixed. VisIt can now read data from the Gadget 2 SPH code.

New in VisIt 1.10.0 (Sep 4, 2008)

  • This release includes many feature enhancements and bugfixes.
  • The Streamline plot has been vastly improved to support creation of streamlines across domain boundaries, parallelism, and better numerics.
  • VisIt's user interface can now be translated into other languages using Qt linguist.
  • This release attempts to use the loopback network interface (127.0.0.1) to avoid socket issues.
  • It can use the IceT rendering library on clusters.
  • Many file format readers have been improved, including Tecplot (support for binary files), XDMF, PlainText, FLASH, and EnSight.