2.8.3 Release

Target release date: 31 March 2010.

Status: Testing In Progress

The 2.8.3 release adds new features and bug fixes to the 2.8.2 release. 2.8.3 includes API changes; applications built with OSG 2.8.2 might require modification to build with 2.8.3 (especially osgAnimation-based applications).

Please check out from the 2.8 branch, and test building/running with your applications. Report any issues to the osg-users mailing list. Thanks for your help!

SVN Checkout

2.8.3 development is being done on the 2.8 branch. To test the current development head revision, checkout an OSG tree using the URL:

http://www.openscenegraph.org/svn/osg/OpenSceneGraph/branches/OpenSceneGraph-2.8

Features

• Mac OS X 10.6 support.
• New FBX plugin.
• New ply plugin (through r11237).
• New ffmpeg plugin.
• Latest 3ds plugin, with new writer capability.
• Latest osgAnimation NodeKit.
• Latest ImageIO plugin.
• Latest QuickTime plugin.
• Latest Inventor plugin.
• Workaround for multisampled FBO driver bug on Mac OS X.
• Fixes for ac, 3dc, dds, and OpenFlight plugins.
• Fixes for OcclusionQueryNode.
• Fix for osgUtil::Optimizer.
• Fix for osgDB::concatPaths().

Schedule

All dates are 2010.

Date	Status	Description
12 March	Passed	All change requests posted.
17 March	Passed	All code changes committed.
22 March	Done	All Xcode and genwrapper changes committed.
22 March	Added	Revisit merging r11207 (OS X static initializer mod).
22 March	To be tagged 23 March	Release candidate 1.
23-30 March	In progress	Testing period.
31 March		Release.

Status

"Latest" means the module was taken from svn head 11206, unless noted otherwise.

Status	Description
Done	MSFBO fix for Mac OS X
Done	* r10664 First appeared in 2.8.2b
Done	Latest osgAnimation
done	* Several revisions merged as a block file copy.
Done	* r10671 Core changes required for osgAnimation.
Done	* r10672 Core changes required for osgAnimation.
Done	* r11009 (only the portion applicable to the BVH plugin, so that it is now compatible with current osgAnimation).
Done	* r10362, fix node callbacks for osgAnimation.
Done	* r10487 Update to osgAnimation examples.
Done	* r10625 Update to osgAnimation examples.
Done	* r10697 Update to osgAnimation examples.
Done	* r10722 Update to osgAnimation examples.
Done	* r10753 Update to osgAnimation examples.
Done	* r10923 Update to osgAnimation examples.
Done	* r11009 Updates to osgAnimation examples.
Done	Latest FBX plugin (modified to use the old osgDB::ReaderWriter::Options namespace).
Done	* r11111 Core changes required for FBX plugin.
Done	* Fix for building FBX plugin on Mac OS X.
Done	* r11261 fix for building on OS X.
Done	* r11251, r11252, r11262 various workarounds and fixes.
Done	Mac OS X 10.6 support.
Done	* r9879 Support for OS X Cocoa windowing.
Done	* r9895 add'l mods for DarwinUtils.
Done	* r10208 bug fix for GraoicsWindowCocoa.
Done	* r10340 add'l mods for DarwinUtils and Cocoa.
Done	* r10417 add'l mods for DarwinUtils and Cocoa.
Done	* r10456 bug fix for GraoicsWindowCocoa.
Done	* r10622 bug fix for DarwinUtils.
Done	* r10858 add'l mods for GraoicsWindowCocoa.
Done	* r10887 add'l mods for GraoicsWindowCocoa.
Done	Latest Imageio plugin.
Done	* r9880 Imageio plugin base.
Done	* r10623 bug fix for Imageio.
Done	* r10854 enhancement for Imageio.
Done	* r10855 bug fix for Imageio.
Done	Latest QuickTime plugin.
Done	* r9769 bug fix for QuickTime.
Done	* r9932 enhancement for QuickTime.
Done	* r10788 bug fix for QuickTime.
Done	* r10891 bug fix for QuickTime.
Done	* r11019 bug fix for QuickTime.
Done	* r11035 bug fix for QuickTime.
Done	* r11182 Updated FindQuickTime.cmake.
Done	Fixes for OcclusionQueryNode.
Done	* r10933 Changes for DataVariance and static_cast.
Done	* r11127 Fix flickering issues from LOD, near plane.
Done	Fix for osgUtil Optimizer.
Done	* r11131 Fix for FlattenStaticTransforms handling of multiparented Transforms.
Done	Latest Inventor plugin.
Done	* r11032 Major enhancements to Inventor plugin.
Done	* r11033 Updated FindInventor.cmake.
Done	* r11034 Bug fix for Inventor plugin.
Done	Fix for osgDB concatPaths().
Done	* r10818 Fix for concatPaths, add getcwd functionality.
Done	Fixes for ac, 3dc, dds, and OpenFlight plugins.
Done	* r10010 fix for 3dc plugin.
Done	* r10758 fix for ac plugin.
Done	* r11175 fix for ac plugin.
Done	* r10264 Fix for dds plugin.
Done	* r9959 Fix for OpenFlight plugin.
Done	* r10084 Fix for OpenFlight plugin.
Done	* r10283 Fix for OpenFlight plugin.
Done	* r10440 Fix for OpenFlight plugin.
Done	* r10491 Fix for OpenFlight plugin.
Done	* r10761 Fix for OpenFlight plugin.
Done	* r11159 Fix for OpenFlight plugin.
Done	New ply plugin (through r11237).
Done	* r10012, r10013, r10014, r10040, r10041, r10079, and r10080.
Done	* r10149 and r11237.
Done	Updated 3ds (with writer capability).
Done	* r9906, r10076, and r10088.
Done	* r10057 osgDB enhancement (required for 3ds).
Done	* r10128, r10805, r10853, r10914, r10932, r10938, r10941, r10942.
Done	* r10945, r11056, r11123, r11173, r11180, r11194, r11203.
Done	* Backport 3ds usage of OSG_NOTIFY to osg::notify.
Done	New ffmpeg plugin.
Done	* r9816, r9817, r9818, r9826, r9827, r9837, r9838, r9839, r9840
Done	* r9841, r9842, r9843, r9847, r9850, r9854.
Done	* r9856, r9857, r9860, r9861, r9865, r9869, r9885
Done	* r9910, r9912, r9933, r9948, r9960, r9965, r9968
Done	* r9969, r9990, r10030, r10053, r10082
Done	* r10161, r10391, r10392, r10408, r10414, r10422
Done	* r10538, r10809, r10851, r10892, r10925, r10961, r11165, r11177
Done	Xcode updates for new osgAnimation.
Done	Updated wrappers for new osgAnimation.
Done	Fix for static initializers on OS X.
Done	* r9894, r9904, r11207, r11263, r11273.
	Additional changes
Done	* Fix typo (Matrices->Materials) in StatsHandler (part of r10601).
Done	* r10173 Convenience macros in Version header.
Done	* r10927, fix for OpenThreads on OS X.
Done	* r10520 Fix some memory leaks.
Done	* r9855 Remove CMake reference to src/osgPlugins/OpenAL.
Done	* Updated osgmovie example.
Done	* r10006 fix for 64bit OS X builds.