June 26th, 2012· fixed type F picture generation with rtwizard - Bob Parker
· Improvements to NURBS raytracing - Keith Bowman
· Updated libpng to version 1.5.10 - Cliff Yapp
· Added MUVEStoORCA matrix support to librtserver - Jim Hunt
· fixed BOT raytracing mistakes when using TIE - Keith Bowman
· fixed ARS bounding box size affecting overlap handling - Cliff Yapp
· fixed raytracing crash in 64 bit Windows - Cliff Yapp
· fixed MGED's manual page viewer on 64 bit Windows - Cliff Yapp
· fixed intermittent segmentation fault in MGED - Richard Weiss
· now sorting top level object alphabetically in rtwizard - Cliff Yapp
· improved handling of rgb/color attributes by adjust cmd - Cliff Yapp
· fixed referenced object highlighting in archer treeview - Bob Parker
· added optional scaling parameter to autoview command - Sean Morrison
· fixed extrude object bug rendering at near right angles - Bob Parker
· added -h option to nirt to suppress header printing - Cliff Yapp
· fixed nirt attribute reporting for specified attributes - Cliff Yapp
· fixed ebm/dsp/vol/hf corruption on 64-bit big endian - Sean Morrison
· improved tab-completion behavior for mged and archer - Sean Morrison
· improved table output formatting for 'analyze' command - Tom Browder
· modified rtweight to handle incorrect lines - Tom Browder
· fixed crash in coil when using -S and -l options - Cliff Yapp
October 31st, 2011· added a new 'ringworld' procedural geometry generator tool that creates the Ringworld described in the 1970's novel by Larry Niven. next release is expected to be a minor bump with the various major features.
July 11th, 2011· improved fusing of coplanar faces (tessellation)
· fixed rtwizard issues with unknown units and freezing
· fixed problem with mater command setting color - Cliff Yapp
· fixed crash rendering scenes with all invalid lights - Sean Morrison
· improved reliability of ARS tessellation/conversion - Richard Weiss
· improved tessellation performance and reliability - Richard Weiss
· replaced 'erase_all' command with 'erase -r' - Brandon Hinesley
· improved 'ls' command error reporting in archer - Brandon Hinesley
· fixed related object highlighting in archer's tree view - Cliff Yapp
· added closedb command to archer - Brandon Hinesley
· improved behavior of opendb command in archer - Brandon Hinesley
· improved archer/mged manual page browser behavior - Brandon Hinesley
· added man documentation command to archer - Brandon Hinesley
· improved File->New dialog in mged - Brandon Hinesley
· all cmake files now included in dist - Erik Greenwald, Sean Morrison
April 12th, 2011· add a -f force flag to forcibly overwrite a pre-existing comb if the new name would result in an existing object getting overwritten. also fixed a memory free crash bug if final_name is NULL.
February 10th, 2011· new pinewood boxcar example geometry database - Cliff Yapp
· add mk_arb5, mk_arb6 and mk_arb7 to libwdb - Cliff Yapp
· added xclone command to mged for xpushed deep copies - Bob Parker
· fixed clone infinite loop for combinations - Sean Morrison, C. Yapp
· wrap mged resource paths with spaces - Bob Parker, Elena Bautu
· new -k 'cutaway view' option added to rt - John Anderson
· improved mged classic mode display manager selection - Sean Morrison
· fixed mged crash when getting forms of sketch objects - Bob Parker
· new -u units option added to rtarea - Sean Morrison
· added uniform binary object creation to mged GUI - John Anderson
· added e, l, o, i options to mged saveview command - Sean Morrison
December 8th, 2010· allow the command table to have a negative max count, effectively implying unlimited.
August 5th, 2010· improved mged command console cut-and-paste support - Bob Parker
· fixed mged command input last character bug - Bob Parker
· improved gqa file support for blank/comment lines - Bob Parker
· fixed several SMP threading bugs in gqa command - Bob Parker
· added centroids and moments of inertia to gqa command - Bob Parker
· fixed mged 'prefix' command to write renamed objects - Bob Parker
· update usage of tops command in geometry browser - Cliff Yapp
· fix description of u option in bo command's man page - Cliff Yapp
· add tool for automatic coil creation using pipe - Cliff Yapp
· fixed bugs with external tool invocation in mged - Sean Morrison
· mged 'make' command no longer doubles the view size - Sean Morrison
· added -R no-resize option to mged e/B/draw commands - Sean Morrison
· mged 'tops' command -g and -u options are deprecated - Sean Morrison
· added -Ap plot visualization option to mged gqa command - Bob Parker
· added new 'gqa' quantitative analysis command to mged - Bob Parker
· fixed mged view initialization bugs - Bob Parker
· integer values in mged without floating point noise - Sean Morrison
· fixed source distribution compile/install path error - Sean Morrison
· fixed mged switch error running the Primitive Editor - Sean Morrison
February 25th, 2010· added dbot_dump to Archer for dumping displayed BoTs - Bob Parker
· added support to Archer for exporting view in OBJ format - Bob Parker
· new mvall command -f filename option for bulk renaming - Bob Parker
· fixed invocation of external editor for MGED commands - Cliff Yapp
· fixed BoT raytracing solidity failure on grazed edges - Keith Bowman
· increased 'rcodes' and 'edcodes' maximum line length - Sean Morrison
· increased maximum path depth supported by 'wcodes' - Sean Morrison
· extensive work on MGED Docbook man page conversions - Janine Gettier
· fixed unoriented BoT badmagic raytrace failure - Sean Morrison
· translation of mged tutorials 3 and 6 to Spanish - Jesica Giudice
January 20th, 2010· fixed gqa units argument parsing bug on 64-bit Linux - Sean Morrison
· bot_dump exports BoTs referenced within combinations - Bob Parker
· mged 'garbage_collect' validation care and bug fixes - Sean Morrison
· fixed mged 'view' command bugs setting quat and ypr - Sean Morrison
· improved rt reporting and exiting after prep failure - Sean Morrison
· fixed sorting bug in idents/regions/solids commands - Keith Bowman
· translation of mged tutorials 1 and 2 to Spanish - Jesica Giudice
· benchmark suite includes sysctl hardware information - Sean Morrison
· independent scaling of x/y/z axes for sca command - Richard Weiss
· ADRT cut mode now paints intersected regions - Erik Greenwald
· improved metaball primitive conversion support - Erik Greenwald
· new data_axes command added to archer - Bob Parker
· additional improvements to the step-g importer - Keith Bowman
· fixed mged "Pick Edit-Primitive" crash after killall - Sean Morrison
· configure --enable-strict-build compilation option - Sean Morrison
· librt now queries env LIBRT_DEBUG for more flags - Erik Greenwald
· pixdiff outputs matching pixels at half-intensity - Sean Morrison
· fixed rate interpolation bug in tabinterp - Emton
· runtime toggling of display managers - Cliff Yapp
May 12th, 2009· ix trimming bug in tire tread for wide tires - Cliff Yapp
· archer interactive edit support for arb8, tor, ell, ehy - Bob Parker
· improved asc2g handling of large BoT conversions - Keith Bowman
· conversion of mged and archer to use new ttk widgets - Bob Parker
· fixed crash in raytracing of pipe when duplicate hit points returned
· Cliff Yapp, Sean Morrison
· mged 'dbconcat' command no longer requires an affix - Bob Parker
· added 'l' describe support for the pnts primitive - Richard Weiss
· restored mged mirror command trailing axis options - Sean Morrison
· swapped meaning of -p and -o arguments to 'mirror' - Sean Morrison
· major overhaul of archer's appearance and layout - Bob Parker
· removal of archer's separate experience modes - Bob Parker
· add a left handed winding flag to the coil tool - Cliff Yapp
· add a clear command to MGED's command line - Cliff Yapp, Bob Parker
· initial implementation of a new 'pnts' primitive for point clouds
March 24th, 2009· improved mged command console cut-and-paste support - Bob Parker
· fixed mged command input last character bug - Bob Parker
· improved gqa file support for blank/comment lines - Bob Parker
· fixed several SMP threading bugs in gqa command - Bob Parker
· added centroids and moments of inertia to gqa command - Bob Parker
· fixed mged 'prefix' command to write renamed objects - Bob Parker
· update usage of tops command in geometry browser - Cliff Yapp
· fix description of u option in bo command's man page - Cliff Yapp
· add tool for automatic coil creation using pipe - Cliff Yapp
· fixed bugs with external tool invocation in mged - Sean Morrison
· mged 'make' command no longer doubles the view size - Sean Morrison
· added -R no-resize option to mged e/B/draw commands - Sean Morrison
· mged 'tops' command -g and -u options are deprecated - Sean Morrison
· added -Ap plot visualization option to mged gqa command - Bob Parker
· added new 'gqa' quantitative analysis command to mged - Bob Parker
· fixed mged view initialization bugs - Bob Parker
· integer values in mged without floating point noise - Sean Morrison
· fixed source distribution compile/install path error - Sean Morrison
· fixed mged switch error running the Primitive Editor - Sean Morrison
· fixed g_diff crash when comparing objects - Sean Morrison
· improved g_qa usage message and missing density message - Bob Parker
· fixed mged font preferences menu when ".mgedrc" present - Bob Parker
· fixed oed docs bug noting lhs/rhs must be displayed - John Anderson
· added the nmg_fix_normals command to mged - Erik Greenwald
· upgrade libpng to 1.2.35 (Security fix) - Erik Greenwald
February 9th, 2009· fixed errors in handling of hyp primitive translations - Cliff Yapp
· g_tool now guesses if a change was evolutionary - Erik Greenwald
· added >, = and
November 8th, 2008· remove -empty option from mged "search" command - Cliff Yapp
· add -nnodes node count option to mged "search" command - Cliff Yapp
· upgraded libpng to 1.2.32 - Erik Greenwald
· fixed memory leak with in-memory geometry databases - Daniel Roßberg
· mged help menu is restructured for improved usability - Cliff Yapp
· update openNURBS to version 4.0.2007.0718 - Cliff Yapp
· handle (i.e., ignore) comments in asc2g conversions - Erik Greenwald
· fix crash in iges-g when run with -n option - John Anderson
· enhanced documentation management system within mged - Cliff Yapp
· conversion of documentation to Docbook format, editing, and review - Cliff Yapp, Janine Gettier
· improved benchmark suite usage and instructions - Sean Morrison
· improved mesh normals from Pro/E exporter - Bob Parker
· fixed 'bspline' surface primitive wireframe plot bug - John Anderson
· removed bot-raw, functionality replaced by bot_dump - Sean Morrison
· abort during non-planar collapse or simplify of NMG - John Anderson
· jove is deprecated and will no longer be maintained - Sean Morrison
· plugged attribute memory leak in all database tools - Daniel Roßberg
· DSP tessellation honors cut type and handles zeros - John Anderson
· fixed 'gets' command input bug in mged - Sean Morrison, Bob Parker
· improved fast4-g DOS file line-ending support - Sean Morrison
· numerous documentation fixes to manual pages - Cliff Yapp
· bot_dump exporter for extracting BoT meshes unevaluated - Bob Parker
· fixed bug parsing long command lines in mged - Sean Morrison
· tessellation support for the DSP primitive - John Anderson
· additional logging options in Pro/E exporter - Bob Parker
· Pro/E exporter enhancements for dynamic tess tolerance - Bob Parker
· new search command enabling Unix find style searches - C. Yapp
· mged no longer requires PATH for internal commands - Sean Morrison
· mged 'edcolor' command turns into 'color -e' - Sean Morrison
· nirt dest command now avoids overwriting existing files - Cliff Yapp
· fixed mged_players error on tra in classic mode mged - Bob Parker
· fix attr behavior when setting the region attribute - C. Yapp
· identified fix for "Illegal instruction" bug in rt - Simon Clubley
· mged get_regions and reid ignore duplicate regions - Sean Morrison
· added procedural geometry tools to the Windows port - Bob Parker, Andre Castelo
· integrated tgf-g with the default compile/install - Daniel Roßberg
· deprecated the mged '-n' option, use '-c' instead - Sean Morrison
· added the ability to invoke mged through icons/menus - Sean Morrison
· new -a option to mged 'killtree' for killing references - Bob Parker
· added new 'killrefs' command to mged - Bob Parker
· added -C color option to the mged 'E' command - Bob Parker
· fixed curvature calc bug in ehy primitive - Timothy Van Ruitenbeek
· added compilation support for MSVC 9 - André Castelo
October 1st, 2008· renamed mged binary command to bo for binary objects - Sean Morrison
· fixed error in parsing remotefb location specification - S. Morrison
· add w option to tire to allow disabling wheel generation - C. Yapp
· tweak tread 2 in tire tool; avoid artifacts on tread wall - C. Yapp
· fixed mged 'dbconcat' hang when not specifying an affix - Bob Parker
· fixed primitive selection solid_illum bug in mged - Bob Parker
· fix bug in tire tool's geometry causing 'nicks' in tread - C. Yapp
· increased raytrace performace of pipe primitive - John Anderson
· fixed bugs handling invalid extrude objects - Sean Morrison
· fixed dependency bug in library pkg-config files - Sean Morrison
· platform installers use consistent naming conventions- Sean Morrison
· added new -c character option to the loop command - Dawn Thomas
· tire now checks for files instead of overwriting - Cliff Yapp
· add new nirt formatting options, -L listing option - C. Yapp
· fixed nirt's dest cmd's handling of file name string - Cliff Yapp
· modified mged nirt command to include air in results - Bob Parker
June 23rd, 2008· added '-l' list option to mged dbfindtree command - Bob Parker
· fixed minor memory leak during raytracing - Daniel Roßberg
· added '- t' rtcheck option to produce text plot output - Bob Parker
· added gap reporting option to nirt - Cliff Yapp
· added mirror command to archer - Bob Parker
· improve behavior of interactive nirt backout command - Cliff Yapp
· renamed mged dbbinary command to binary - Sean Morrison
· fixed rt/rtedge clipping bug - Bob Parker
· new mged mirror command options for arbitrary vectors - Bob Parker
· fix -k rt option to work for surface normal lighting - Cliff Yapp
· add tire proc-db for easy tire/wheel model creation - Cliff Yapp
· added query pixel support to the Windows framebuffer - Bob Parker
· mirror across a distance along a given axis in mged - Bob Parker
May 7th, 2008· new pinewood boxcar example geometry database - Cliff Yapp
· add mk_arb5, mk_arb6 and mk_arb7 to libwdb - Cliff Yapp
· added xclone command to mged for xpushed deep copies - Bob Parker
· fixed clone infinite loop for combinations - Sean Morrison, C. Yapp
· wrap mged resource paths with spaces - Bob Parker, Elena Bautu
· new -k 'cutaway view' option added to rt - John Anderson
· improved mged classic mode display manager selection - Sean Morrison
· fixed mged crash when getting forms of sketch objects - Bob Parker
· new -u units option added to rtarea - Sean Morrison
· added uniform binary object creation to mged GUI - John Anderson
· added e, l, o, i options to mged saveview command - Sean Morrison
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