Kitware has just announced the official release of VTK 6.0.0. This version boasts lots of bugfixes and cleanups, along with such important features as new text rendering support, modern OpenGL support in Mesa, GPGPU processing, and improved time-varying format support.
6.0 is the first major release since 5.0 in December 2005. The great extent of refactoring that went into VTK’s pipeline and build system is what makes this a major release. The pipeline changes cleanly separate the Algorithm, DataObject, and Executive classes. The build system changes automate and simplify intra-library build time dependency analysis. Together they facilitate adding new features to and removing unwanted features from VTK.
Head on over to their site to get it now.
