VisIt 1.2.7 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 1.2.7

- The iso volume operator has been added to VisIt.
- The performance of the material interface reconstruction, contour and slice operators has been improved by about 5 - 10 percent.
- The reading of unstructured meshes from Silo files has been improved by about 10 percent.

Bugs fixed in version 1.2.7

- The values for eff_stress from Mili files are incorrect.
- VisIt should not issue a warning message when the number of entries in a zonal variable equals the number of entries in the mesh excluding ghost zones.
- VisIt uses invalid variable extents when material selecting a variable where the number of entries in a zonal variable equals the number of entries in the mesh excluding ghost zones.
- VisIt does not handle quad cells that are stored in the file as hexes.
- VisIt is slow opening a Mili file.
- VisIt should report the domain number when reporting an error in a data file.
- 2D vectors should be drawn on top of the mesh to improve the visibility of the vectors.
- VisIt crashes when PickByNode and PickByNode queries are given out of range index values.
- The contour levels are incorrect when using log scaling on expression variables.
- VisIt sets the window limits incorrectly for curve plots when run in parallel.
- Creating a boundary plot of an index selected variable doesn't work.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version of VisIt: VisIt 1.2.6 Release Notes.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the next version of VisIt: VisIt 1.2.8 Release Notes.