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--- 2008-03-11 Release 7.12.0 ---
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Coalescing after just over a year of concentrated development efforts,
this release unveils a plethora of Windows-specific enhancements, bug
fixes, and additional tools ported. Notably, the Windows improvements
include fixing various issues with file management and porting many
more ray tracers, geometry converters, framebuffer tools, and MGED
classic mode support.
This release also includes a new geometry converter for the United
Kingdom's INTAVAL format from Her Majesty's Ministry of Defence. The
new importer was jointly developed by TNO PML and IABG mbH and is
included in the BRL-CAD sources as a contributed module.
Of the numerous bug fixes and feature enhancements in this release,
one of the biggest productivity enhancements is the addition of the
MGED "clone" and "tracker" commands. Clone is a very powerful yet
simple command that provides an intuitive means for performing deep
copies of objects. Tracker provides an interface for replicating
objects along a spline path. These 'new' commands originate from
modifications originally developed by the now defunct Geometric
Solutions, Inc., and after receiving considerable updates and rewrites
are now once again available to users.
Finally, this release also marks a major change to the BRL-CAD source
code repository with a move from CVS to Subversion recently completed.
The conversion was successfully completed with the entire history of
BRL-CAD development preserved, accounting for nearly 25 years of
continuous active development.
* automatic redraw updates after Geometry Browser edits - Bob Parker
* improved Geometry Browser mouse behavior in mged - Bob Parker
* make fast4-g use GIFT_material=1 and los=100 - Sean Morrison
* fixed Mac OS X 'ogl' framebuffer crash - Sean Morrison, Bob Parker
* removed ogl framebuffer multiple window 'm' option - Sean Morrison
* tree -d option in mged for limiting tree display depth - Cliff Yapp
* added mouse color query support to OpenGL framebuffer - Bob Parker
* fixed X11 framebuffer colormapping bug - Bob Parker
* libpng updated to 1.2.25 - Erik Greenwald
* fixed several mged I/O bugs for stdin/stdout/stderr - Bob Parker
* nirt now uses bounding sphere for -b backout option - Erik Greenwald
* document the signals rt responds to for progress - Sean Morrison
* libpng updated to 1.2.24 - Erik Greenwald
* TCL/TK updated to 8.5.1 - Erik Greenwald
* mged now runs in the foreground by default - Erik Greenwald
* fixed g-dxf bug where incorrect object name is assigned - Bob Parker
* fixed browser-based mged help on Mac OS X - Sean Morrison
* added rest of BRL-CAD's geometry converters for Windows - Bob Parker
* added more missing framebuffer tools to Windows port - Bob Parker
* rtwizard enhancements for ghosting and display - Bob Parker
* mged reports failure if ray-tracer returns non-zero - Sean Morrison
* improved mged corrupt geometry file handling - Sean Morrison
* improved dbconcat object suffix and prefix options - Sean Morrison
* Tcl/Tk updated to 8.5 final from 8.5b1 - Erik Greenwald
* fixed PIX image file creation bug on Windows - Bob Parker
* ported rtwizard to function properly on Windows - Bob Parker
* fixed mged text-editing commands on Windows platform - Bob Parker
* removed duplicate points text-editing ARBs in mged - John Anderson
* improved mged ted line-ending support using wordpad - Bob Parker
* fixed g_diff bug where some differences were missed - John Anderson
* fixed bug evaluating metaball normals - Erik Greenwald, Ed Davisson
* improved metaball primitive rendering - Erik Greenwald
* fixed bug in mged rcc-cap command when using 't' option - Bob Parker
* mged classic mode now works on Windows platform - Bob Parker
* fixed Windows-specific raytrace framebuffer delay - Bob Parker
* new tracker tool for extracting NEWS tracker data - Sean Morrison
* converted source repository from CVS to Subversion - Sean Morrison
* new 'dir2ae' mged command for getting az/el from dir - Sean Morrison
* new 'ae2dir' mged command for getting dir from az/el - Bob Parker
* fixed empty name crash when using mged 'lt' command - Sean Morrison
* Pro/E plugin allows spaces in part name mapping file - Sean Morrison
* Pro/E plugin creates 'top.#' if 'top' already exists - Sean Morrison
* fixed asc2g bug on Windows that caused a crash on exit - Bob Parker
* fixed bugs in several Utah Raster Toolkit tools - Pedro Giffuni
* fixed mged start-up initialization bug on Windows - Daniel Roßberg
* graceful handling of mesh normal failures - Sean Morrison
* fixed variety of g-iges and other exporter crashes - Sean Morrison
* fixed crash-on-exit cleanup bug in g-off exporter - Sean Morrison
* fixed crash when xpush was called on a primitive - Erik Greenwald
* fixed Windows port 'opendb' command crash - Bob Parker
* added configurable max_dist depth option to rtedge - Erik Greenwald
* added rest of BRL-CAD's ray-tracers to the Windows port - Bob Parker
* enabled embedded framebuffer support in Windows port - Bob Parker
* fixed garbled output during parallel crash reports - Sean Morrison
* fixed memory deallocation bug in the raytracers - Bob Parker
* renamed 'hd' hexadecimal dump utility to 'hex' - Sean Morrison
* renamed procedural 'wall' generator to 'masonry' - Sean Morrison
* mged 'tol' command now accepts multiple tolerances - Sean Morrison
* TCL and TK updated to 8.5b1. itcl/itk to dev 3.4. - Erik Greenwald
* fixed non-normalized vector bugs with ARBN objects - John Anderson
* pix-png warns if PNG is smaller than the PIX input - Sean Morrison
* new tgf-g INTAVAL importer - TNO PML, IABG mbH
* removed longjmp warning message from applications - Sean Morrison
* upgraded bundled incrTcl to version 3.3 - Erik Greenwald
* fixed bug with -g/-G cell size options to rt - John Anderson
* 'tree' command without args now shows e'd objects - Sean Morrison
* new pix-fb -p option to pause before exiting - Karel Kulhavy
* fixed mged 'B' command behavior with -A and no args - John Anderson
* updated bundled libpng to version 1.2.21 - Erik Greenwald
* removed raytrace image continuation code - Erik Greenwald
* new mged 'clone' command for performing deep copies of objects
- Adam Ross, Sean Morrison, Erik Greenwald
* new mged 'tracker' object routing command - Sean Morrison
* fixed crash in mged ls -A attribute listing command - Sean Morrison
* fixed dbconcat of empty combinations, crash in mged - John Anderson
