[itom-discussions] itom version 3.0.0 released

[Robin H. <ha...@it...>]

The 'itom' team is pleased to announce the next version 3.0.0 of 'itom'. 
More than 400 commits have been
pushed into the open source Git repositories since the last version 2.2.1.

The most important changes are:

* Python will no longer be installed by an installer instead it is 
copied into a subfolder called Python3
* Added a paramEditorWidget for easy access of parameters provided by a 
plugin instance
* 1d- and 2dQwtPlot default style settings are now accessible via the 
itom settings
* Added new dataObject functions like copyMetaInfo or dstack
* All icons are optimized for high dpi monitors
* Itom-Package 'cameraToolbox' added. This can be used for the 
determination of distortion. We also added a demo
* Added a plugin for easy access of monochrome cameras supporting the 
GenICam interface
* Added a plugin for the Thorlabs power meter PM100D
* Added a plugin for the use of a NITWidySWIR camera
* Improvements in the Itom1D- and Itom2DQwtPlot


Many camera plugins are now compiled with the up-to-date drivers. See 
the changelog
(http://itom.bitbucket.io/latest/docs/00_releaseNotes/changelog_300.html 
<http://itom.bitbucket.org/latest/docs/00_releaseNotes/changelog_220.html#plugins>) 
or the specific plugin documentations for more information.



The Windows setup is now compiled with the following C++ components:

* compiled with Qt 5.6.1-1
* contains OpenCV 3.1.0
* PointCloudLibrary 1.8.0, visualization using VTK 7.0 (OpenGL 1.1)

The all-in-one installer is now shipped with the following Python packages:

* Python 3.6.1
* Pip 9.0.1
* Numpy 1.11.3 + MKL
* Scipy 0.19.0
* six 1.10.0
* pytz 2017.2
* Matplotlib 2.0.0
* Frosted 1.4.1
* PyParsing 2.2.0
* dateutil 2.6.0
* Pies 2.6.7
* cycler 0.10.0
* scikit-image 0.13.0
* decorator 4.0.11
* networkx 1.11
* Pillow 4.1.0
* dask 0.14.1
* Toolz 0.8.2
* OleFile 0.44
* PyWavelets 0.5.2

For the compilation the all-in-one development environment 
MSVC2013-Qt5.6.1 from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/itom/files/all-in-one-build-setup/ has 
been used.

Please uninstall a previous version of itom using the Windows uninstall 
tool. If you have a Python
on your computer, you can uninstall this (if not needed for other 
applications).

Python packages can be installed or upgraded using the itom-internal 
Python package manager. Most python packages
including their dependencies can therefore automatically be downloaded 
from pypi.python.org <http://pypi.python.org>.

If you want to use big packages with a high amount of C-Code included 
(like Numpy, Scipy or Matplotlib) under
Windows, please download the corresponding wheel archives from 
http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ 
<http://www.lfd.uci.edu/%7Egohlke/pythonlibs/> and install
them using the itom internal Python package manager tool.

This version is tagged with 'v3.0.0' in the source repository, the 
current setup versions for Windows 32bit and
64bit are available at bitbucket.io/itom/itom/downloads 
<http://bitbucket.org/itom/itom/downloads>.

A changelog with the most important changes and added features is 
available in the current documentation:
http://itom.bitbucket.io/latest/docs/00_releaseNotes/changelog_300.html 
<http://itom.bitbucket.org/latest/docs/00_releaseNotes/changelog_220.html>.

The main project website is:
itom.bitbucket.io <http://itom.bitbucket.org>

This version of the setup contains all freely available plugins and
designer plugins. A list of available plugins including usage requirements
can be found at http://itom.bitbucket.org/plugins.html.

Feel free to install the new setup or compile the current version from 
trunk (Windows or Linux).

If you have any questions, issues or itom related topics, write an email 
to this mailing list (itom-discussions@...)
or report bugs at https://bitbucket.org/itom/itom/issues. If you want to 
get further information, like release notes...)
please subscript to the mailing list at 
https://sourceforge.net/p/itom/mailman/.


Best regards

Johann Krauter, Heiko Bieger, Marc Gronle and Robin Hahn
Institut für Technische Optik, University of Stuttgart