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Docs/source/releases.rst

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 Andinet Enquobahrie,
 Hong Li,
 Shusil Dangi
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+Release 2.0.0
+-------------
+
+**Announcement: iMSTK 2.0.0**
+
+This release adds major features for the physics and rendering modules. Parallel
+support is also added. Major improvements to the CMake build and install steps have been
+implemented. Many modules have been refactored for clarity and to reduce reducdency.
+
+For more information, visit our website: http://www.imstk.org/
+
+**New Features**
+
+- Rigid body dynamics with Physx backend
+- Debug rendering support
+- Octree-based collision detection
+- Multithreading support (using Intel TBB)
+- Smoothed Particle Dynamics for fluids
+- Customizable on-screen text
+- New simulation modes for simulation manager to allow flexibility
+- VR support for Vulkan backend
+- Particle systems  for visual effects
+- Lens distortion for use in VR (Vulkan backend)
+- Vulkan renderer compressed texture support
+
+**Improvements or Refactoring**
+
+- Improved CMake build and install
+- Enable compiler flags to report W4-level warnings 
+- Remove cyclic dependencies between modules
+- Add color to stdout on windows
+- Refactored Position based dynamics classes
+- Refactor rendering specification using visual model
+- Modifications to the code formatting rules
+- Refactor geometry mapping classes
+- Remove unused files and classes
+- Disable building tests for external dependencies
+- Update the vrpn to the latest to fix linux build
+- Update VTK backend to 8.2.0
+- Remove ODE external library
+
+**Bug Fixes**
+
+- Fix undefined behaviour of PBDModelConfig
+- Use vtkPolyData instead of vtkPolyLine for VTKdbgLinesRenderDelegate
+- Fix compilation with BUILD_EXAMPLES Off
+
+
+**Contributors for this release**
+
+Venkata Sreekanth Arikatla
+Nghia Truong
+Nicholas Boris Milef 
+Aaron Bray
+Ruiliang Gao
+Johan Andruejol
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