VisIt 1.2.6 Release Notes

Welcome to VisIt's release notes page. This page describes the important enhancements and bug-fixes that were added to this release.

Features added in version 1.2.6

- Gradient and resampling operations have been drastically sped up for rectilinear grids. Both operations are over 100x faster.
- Pick can now distinguish between block-logical and domain-logical indices. The Pick window also has new controls to allow the user to select what is displayed.
- Expressions with multiple variables now support different centerings.
- The Minmax query now outputs the correct set names for the given SIL.
- Axis label scaling can now be set manually.
- The view window now understands xtrans, ytans, and zf commands.
- VisIt now provides a "recenter" expression that allows you to change the centering for a variable.
- VisIt now shows a hidden vis window when that vis window is made active.
- The Mili database reader plugin is now available on GPS at LLNL.
- The BoxLib database reader plugin is now available on AIX systems at LLNL.
- The mesh quality expressions, which are added to the scalar plots' variable menus, are now better organized.
- VisIt can now show the anchor points along a lineout.

Bugs fixed in version 1.2.6

- VisIt adds new plots to old windows.
- The compute engine crashes with identity expressions.
- Using the Vector plot with the Threshold operator crashes the compute engine.
- VisIt's software volume renderer hangs VisIt.
- Lineout gives bad results with plots that have AMR databases.
- Using the Vector plot with the Isosurface operator crashes the compute engine.
- Doing pan and zoom is not intuitive.
- The Minmax query sometimes causes VisIt to hang when running the compute engine in parallel.
- You can hang VisIt if you issue commands too quickly.
- Mesh lines can bleed through thin regions.
- Actual extents do not play well with command line view setting.
- Time slider requests are queued if you start paging the time slider.
- Lineout does more work than is necessary.
- Session files can produce visualizations with the wrong settings when VisIt finds a system config file.
- Restoring sessions repeatedly causes view problems and an eventual viewer crash.
- The File panel does not show new time states for a .visit file after reopening the file.
- You can't run VisIt in distributed mode to a remote machine that is protected by a firewall.
- The Onionpeel operator does not correctly recognize block-global coordinates.
- ?The File panel does not show all time states for virtual databases that have more than one file per time state.
- avtPointToGlyphFilter does not work with cell data.
- If you specify an output directory for saved images, stereo images are not saved there.
- Sometimes there are extra tick marks on the 3d axis.
- Sometimes pieces of the 3d axes are corrupted.
- VisIt renders the current plots while restoring a session file.
- Navigation mode was not saved in a session file.
- Changing the "smooth data" toggle in the Volume plot attributes window should cause the plot to re-execute.
- VisIt's CLI uses the whole CPU while waiting for a calculation to complete.
- View keyframes are not copied to a new window when using window cloning.
- The -dump flag is not used when relaunching engines that originally used the -dump flag.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version of VisIt: VisIt 1.2.5 Release Notes.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the next version of VisIt: VisIt 1.2.7 Release Notes.