VisIt 1.0.5 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 1.0.5

- VisIt now displays a progress window for launching compute engines and metadata servers. The window is displayed if launching a process takes longer than 6 seconds and it features a cancel button that allows the user to cancel the process launch and return to VisIt.
- Mesh plots are faster since normals are only calculated when needed.
- 2D plots are generated faster.
- The Main Window's Windows menu now has an option to clone a window which creates a new window containing the plots and settings of the active window.
- Plots can now be copied to other windows via a new option in the Windows copy menu.
- Windows that are posted on startup are now the right size.
- A better error message is displayed for negative log Pseudocolor plots.
- Reference lines now have an option to display labels.
- VisIt now supports Hydra style interdomain connectivity.

Bugs fixed in version 1.0.5

- VisIt sometimes has trouble launching its metadata server and compute engine on remote computers.
- The view sometimes resets unexpectedly.
- Unexpected error message with Pseudocolor plot.
- Caching material interface reconstruction in parallel when generating ghost zones is broken.
- The compute engine sometimes crashes when creating ghost zones.
- The compute engine sometimes crashes when releasing data.
- Large memory footprint for material interface reconstruction.
- Index Select of a material Subset plot does not work.
- Lineout is incorrect.
- Vectors are not properly drawn for some 2D curvilinear databases.
- Odd failure when animating Pseudocolor plot.
- Lighting affects 3D text.
- Saving out multi-part files creates .visit files that cannot be read.
- The Windows version now has a single Windows taskbar entry.
- Transparency can get screwed up about variable centering.
- Limits are grayed out in the Contour plot window when they do not apply.
- The active tab in the view window change each time the user changes a field.
- Crystal Eyes stereo mode now works.
- Locking windows skips some windows after windows have been deleted.
- Moving colortable endpoints now has an effect.
- The Rendering window's stereo buttons are disabled when stereo rendering is turned off.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version of VisIt: VisIt 1.0.4 Release Notes.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the next version of VisIt: VisIt 1.0.6 Release Notes.