VisIt 1.0 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 1.0

- VisIt has been ported to the MS Windows operating system.
- VisIt now supports variable expressions.
- VisIt now has documentation for the VisIt Python Interface.
- Visualization window attributes such as the view can now be copied to other visualization windows.
- Mesh plots can now use OpenGL display lists and are now much faster.
- Pick can now report on material variables.
- VisIt supports groups.
- VisIt supports point meshes.
- VisIt has a new cone operator that can intersect plots and optionally project them to a flat surface.
- VisIt has a new index select operator.

Bugs fixed in version 1.0

- Picking on sliced 3D plots gives bad pick information.
- Subset plots of domains are broken.
- On Linux, applying transform to 2d plots causes VisIt to hang.
- The onion peel operator can malfunction when auto-update is turned on.
- Visit CLI does not launch on benares, a red hat 7.1 laptop
- Doing a lineout on an expression variable crashes the viewer.
- Viewer crashes when performing a lineout when plots are hidden.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version of VisIt: VisIt 0.9.12 Release Notes.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the next version of VisIt: VisIt 1.0.1 Release Notes.