VisIt 1.0.3 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 1.0.3

- VisIt now supports database plugins.
- Material interface reconstruction is faster.
- The Subset plot can now show groups.
- VisIt now provides a query for volume of a material.
- VisIt now has a file information window that provides information about the open file.
- The current working directory is available as an option in the File Selection window.
- The Contour plot now has an opacity slider for the single color option.
- VisIt now has a '-dir' command line option that allows the location of VisIt to be specified on remote machines.
- The password window now shows the username when it is appropriate.
- The Silo database plugin can read in legacy expression definitions.

Bugs fixed in version 1.0.3

- Reflected Subset plots caused the engine to crash.
- The test suite crashes VisIt.
- Subsetting a Pseudocolor plot can crash the engine.
- The Threshold operator gives a confusing error message when an invalid variable is used.
- The GUI hangs when changing files too quickly.
- Lighting causes 2D plots to be too dark.
- The Windows version of VisIt cannot connect to remote machines.
- Object lights are not working correctly.
- Cannot do transparent and thick lines at the same time.
- Ambient light intensity does not affect Pseudocolor plots.
- Confusing error message with BadIndexException.
- Recent paths that have spaces are not read back in properly.
- Subset plots of materials in subdirectories cause an extra popup menu in the variable menu.
- The test results Web page should sort past results from newest to oldest.
- The VisIt User's Manual needs to be updated.
- Help generation tools don't work with FrameMaker 7.0.
- Config files on Windows platform are not saved in the right place.
- Subset plot gives confusing error message when there is no data.
- Pieces of interactive tools are obscured by transparent plots.
- Annotations for thin meshes are badly skewed.
- Bounding box navigation mode generated two redraws with transparency enabled.
- 2D vector defvars don't show up for point2d.silo.
- Problems with mesh quality metrics and reduced connectivity points.

Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version of VisIt: VisIt 1.0.2 Release Notes.

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