User:Waldyrious/VTK version history

Todo

 * add git references for v4 series
 * fix git tag (should approximately match the release date) vs. git branch (equivalent to CVS's "cut")
 * fill reference metadata (author, etc.)

Useful info

 * VTK Roadmap
 * See also: Timeline MediaWiki and Timeline Ubuntu Linux
 * Places to recover data from (web archive?):
 * "old vtkdevelop list at gsao.gso.med.ge.com"
 * "www.visualizationtoolkit.org is now live. It is an alias for public.kitware.com (...) so we can finally shut down vtk.scorec.rpi.edu"
 * https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/tags?page=3
 * https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/tags?page=3
 * https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/tags?page=3
 * https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/tags?page=3

Release pages on the VTK wiki

 * Release 2.4 (todo: confirm if VTK or ITK)
 * TODO: add more pages following this nomenclature

API changes

 * Improvements in VTK 5.6 — VTK wiki
 * VTK/API Changes 5 8 0 to 5 10 0 — VTK wiki
 * VTK/API Changes 5 10 1 to 6 0 0 — VTK wiki
 * VTK/API Changes 6 0 0 to 6 1 0 — VTK wiki
 * VTK/API Changes 6 1 0 to 6 2 0 — VTK wiki
 * VTK/API Changes 6 2 0 to 6 3 0 — VTK wiki
 * VTK/API Changes 6 3 0 to 7 0 0 — VTK wiki

New classes

 * New classes in the VTK 5.2 release — VTK wiki
 * New classes in the VTK 5.8 release — VTK wiki
 * New classes in the VTK 5.10 release — VTK wiki

Some roadmap items, possibly turned into release notes/changelog entries
VTK 4.4 (intermediate release, end of year)
 * convert APIs to double
 * remove old callbacks (mostly done but not checked in)
 * blanking (done I think)
 * ref count observers (done)
 * switch collections to use iterators
 * improve copyright (done)

VTK 4.8 (intermediate release, end of February)
 * create mesh class to combine polydata with ugrid
 * volume rendering changes (maybe in 4.4)

VTK 5.0 (major release, end of June)
 * new pipeline mechanism
 * time support
 * true AMR support

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