[itom-discussions] itom 3.1.0 released

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

The 'itom' team is pleased to announce the next version 3.1.0 of 'itom'.
More than 500 commits have been
pushed into the open source Git repositories since the last version 3.0.0.

The most important changes are:

* Added the possibility to plot y data over x in the itom1DQwtPlot
* Added the commands plot1, plot2 and plot25 to plot data in a plot of desired type
* Color palettes are designable via a new designer tool
* A timestamp can be added to images acquired via the snapshot dialog
* Optimization of GeniCam
* Added a plugin for accessing PMD cameras
* New itom icon
* FFTW can now be applied on all three dimensions of a 3d dataObject
* Many bugfixes


Many camera plugins are now compiled with the up-to-date drivers. See
the changelog
https://itom.bitbucket.io/latest/docs/00_releaseNotes/changelog_310.html
or the specific plugin documentations for more information.



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

* compiled with Qt 5.9.0
* contains OpenCV 3.2.0
* PointCloudLibrary 1.8.0, visualization using VTK 7.1.1

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

* Python 3.6.2
* Pip 9.0.1
* Numpy 1.13.3 + MKL
* Scipy 1.0.0
* six 1.11.0
* pytz 2017.2
* Matplotlib 2.0.2
* Frosted 1.4.1
* PyParsing 2.2.0
* Pies 2.6.7
* cycler 0.10.0
* scikit-image 0.13.1
* decorator 4.1.2
* networkx 2.0
* Pillow 4.3.0
* dask 0.15.4
* Toolz 0.8.2
* OleFile 0.44
* PyWavelets 0.5.2

For the compilation the all-in-one development environment
MSVC2015-Qt5.9.0 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
fromhttps://pypi.python.org/pypi

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 'v3.1.0' in the source repository, the
current setup versions for Windows 32bit and
64bit are available at https://bitbucket.org/itom/itom/downloads/.

A changelog with the most important changes and added features is
available in the current documentation:
https://itom.bitbucket.io/latest/docs/00_releaseNotes/changelog_310.html

The main project website is:
https://itom.bitbucket.io/

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

In a few days we will also upload our new Homepage, therefore the Homepage is currently not fully updated!

Best regards

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