VisIt 2.13 Release Notes

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

Sections

- Features for all users
- Features for advanced users
- Changes in GUI behavior
- Changes to file format readers
- Changes to plots
- Changes to operators
- Changes to expressions
- Changes to picks and queries
- Other bug fixes
- Changes for build_visit
- Changes for VisIt developers

General features added in version 2.13

- Database read/export options that contain enums will now be presented with the string form of the enum via the cli. Setting the option will accept an int or a valid string and print error messages if either is invalid for the option being set.
- General Feature 2

Advanced features added in version 2.13

- Advanced Feature 1
- Advanced Feature 2

Changes in GUI behavior for version 2.13

- GUI Change 1
- GUI Change 2

File format reader changes in version 2.13

- File Format 1
- File Format 2

Changes to VisIt's plots in version 2.13

- Boundary plot had unused attributes in support of Point glyphing removed: pointSize, pointType, pointSizeVarEnabled, pointSizeVar, pointSizePixels. No-longer-needed attributes boundaryType and filledFlag were also removed. Old python scripts, session and config files with these attributes set should still work.
- FilledBoundary plot had no-longer-needed attributes removed: boundaryType, filledFlag. Old python scripts, session and config files with these attributes set should still work.
- Subset plot had no-longer-needed attribute filledFlag removed. Old python scripts, session and config files with this attribute set should still work.
- Possible breaking change! Legacy support for non-material (eg domains, levels) vars was removed from Boundary and FilledBoundary plots. Old session files and python scripts specifying non-material variables for Boundary or FilledBoundary plots will fail. Changing the plot type in scripts or session files to Subset should allow them to work.
- Possible breaking change! Legacy support for material vars was removed from the Subset plot. Old session files and python scripts specifying material variables for Subset plot will fail. Changing the plot type to FilledBoundary should allow them to work.

Changes to VisIt's operators in version 2.13

- The Threshold operator was enhanced to allow users to input a list of ranges to threshold a single variable on. For example, to only select zones with values in the range 1 to 5 and 7 to 10, you would specify "1:5, 7:10".

Changes to VisIt's expression language in version 2.13

- Expression Change 1
- Expression Change 2

Changes to VisIt's picks and queries in version 2.13

- Query Change 1
- Query Change 2

Other bugs fixed in version 2.13

- VTK export options have been modified to more explicitly state the combination of Legacy+[Ascii/Binary], XML+[Ascii/Binary]
- Bug Fix 2

Build features added in version 2.13

- Build Feature 1
- Build Feature 2

Changes for VisIt developers in version 2.13

- Developer Change 1
- Developer Change 2

Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version of VisIt: 2.12.1.