VisIt 2.7.2 Release Notes

Welcome to VisIt's release notes page. Release 2.7.2 is primarily a bug fix release to release 2.7. It fixes additional bugs in release 2.7. Look here to see a complete list of changes in release 2.7.

Configuration changes in version 2.7.2

- A launch profile was added to the host profile for LLNL's max system for using the pvis partition.
- A launch profile was added to the host profile for LLNL's zin system for using the pvis partition.

Bugs fixed in version 2.7.2

- Creating database correlations on Windows from the CLI, when databases are opened using relative paths, has been fixed.
- Session files with time varying data can be restored via the CLI with different sources and have their time sliders work correctly.
- An engine crash on Windows was fixed when cmfe expressions were passed an invalid filename.
- A bug was fixed where a plot got put in perpetual 'pending' state when NamedSelections' 'Automatially apply updated selections' was checked before the selection had been applied to a plot.
- VisIt's Annotation window has been fixed so that it is once again possible to select axis tick marks that are both inside and outside of the 3D bounding box.
- The silent uninstall option on Windows (/S from command-line) now works again.
- A problem with material selection in plots from files containing a mix of multi-block and single-block meshes at the same dir-level and also containing standard block grouping was corrected (ticket #866) .
- The internallauncher was modified to correct a bug where the -N option was improperly set when using aprun to launch VisIt. Thanks Jean Favre for the fix.
- The 2D and 3D zoom interactors once again unzoom the image when pressing the Ctrl key and the left mouse button.
- Making movies with movie templates works again on Windows.
- A small number of errors were fixed in the visit-install script. The "arl" and "asu" configurations are now supported with the "-c" option. The help text is now up-to-date and the configuration options are now listed in alphabetical order.
- The ADIOS reader was fixed so that it now properly reads 3D uniform and rectilinear meshes.
- A bug was fixed with a previous fix to the OnionPeel operater in VisIt 2.7.1 where it didn't properly handle the case where the seed cell was specified as a global cell number and material interface reconstruction was applied.
- A bug with material indexing related to phony materials in the CaleHDF5 database reader was resolved.

Enhancements in version 2.7.2

- The Cosmos++ reader has been extended so that accepts either combined or separate grid and data files. When static meshes are used, a single grid dump can now be provided, regardless of the number of data dumps.
- Two new 2D quad mesh quality metrics (min_corner_area and min_sin_corner) were added.

Changes for VisIt developers in version 2.7.2

- The build_visit script was modified to build MPICH 3.0.4 instead of 3.0.1 so that MPICH would build on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 systems.
- The build_visit script was modified so that the MPICH library it builds is compatible with the Uintah library.
- The build system was modified to add -DMPI_NO_CPPBIND and -DMPICH_SKIP_MPICXX to VISIT_PARALLEL_CFLAGS and VISIT_PARALLEL_CXXFLAGS so that the xdmf_writer sample programs could be built with more versions of MPI.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version of VisIt: VisIt 2.7.1 Release Notes.