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--- 2014-06-02 Release 7.24.2 ---
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This patch release includes a plethora of significant bug fixes and
improvements to BRL-CAD including fixing ADRT/TIE fast triangle ray
tracing on 32-bit platforms, fixing an issue in our FASTGEN converter
that affected the import of very complex geometry models, upgrading
one of our third-party dependencies (libpng) in response to a
vulnerability report, and improving the 'comb' and 'search' commands
with new options for restructuring and searching geometry.
Enhancements continue to be made to our boundary representation (BREP)
NURBS infrastructure in support of hybrid representation modeling and
improved geometry interchange with other CAD systems.
* improved rcodes output to inform user what changed - Cliff Yapp
* fixed inside command for ellipsoid primitives - Cliff Yapp
* restored suppressed mged output after some commands - Cliff Yapp
* added rtwizard -s square image size option - Cliff Yapp
* documented image size options in rtwizard man page - Cliff Yapp
* added view center specification dialog to rtwizard - Cliff Yapp
* increased rtwizard window size for button visibility - Cliff Yapp
* image conversion -R/-G/-B options now require weight - Mohit Daga
* improved option consistency for image processing tools - Mohit Daga
* improved pipe ray tracing grazing hit behavior - Keith Bowman
* upgraded libpng, now at version 1.6.10 - Erik Greenwald, Cliff Yapp
* improved solid NURBS geometry ray tracing behavior - Keith Bowman
* fix z-clipping bug in mged's X display manager - Cliff Yapp
* added attribute sorting option to the 'attr' command - Tom Browder
* changed 'bwfilter' tool offset option from -o to -O - Mohit Daga
* gattributes section 5 man page renamed to attributes - Tom Browder
* changed 'benchmark' defaults: 2% deviation, 5 frames - Sean Morrison
* improved bwrect to handle redirected input and output - Mohit Daga
* upgraded boost to version 1.55.0 - Tom Browder
* fixed TIE mesh raytrace crashes on 32-bit platforms - Sean Morrison
* fixed pixscale and bwscale to not output ioctl error - Mohit Daga
* improved fast4-g import of numerous region groups - Richard Weiss
* fixed archer hidden line edit getting redrawn as shaded - Nick Reed
* fixed adrt/TIE polygonal mesh memory management bug - Richard Weiss
* fixed fast4-g importer parsing of blank input lines - Richard Weiss
* added -o flag to 'bb' command for oriented bounding box - Cliff Yapp
* allow search to see hidden combs with the -a flag - Cliff Yapp
* added comb -l lift option to change region designation - Cliff Yapp
* improved NURBS ray tracing grazing hit behavior - Keith Bowman
* print current grid information in gqa output - Cliff Yapp
* added -f option for flattening combs to 'comb' command - Cliff Yapp
* added support for -bool operation filtering in search - Cliff Yapp
* added new g-raw geometry converter - Jon Engbert, Daniel Roßberg
* improved g-stl usage and documentation - Jon Engbert
* added -c and -r region flag options to the comb command - Cliff Yapp
* added -p/-P point/line plot options to 'burst' tool - Sean Morrison
* added -w wrapping option to the 'comb' command - Cliff Yapp
* archer respects LIBRT_BOT_MINTIE environment variable - Bob Parker
* new 'cchannel' procedural geometry tool for C-Channel - Emory Huff
* improved 'comb' command error messages - Talwinder Saini
* pl -> plot3 rename for utilities and docs - Tom Browder, Cliff Yapp
* exposed 'coil' command within mged & archer - Alexandrus, Cliff Yapp
* added centroid reporting to 'analyze' command output - Csaba Nagy
* added arb8 centroid 'analyze' command reporting - Silviu Ungureanu
* pipe centroid, volume, & surface area analyze reporting - Csaba Nagy
* added ebm centroid 'analyze' command reporting - Michael Huang
* improved help option consistency across numerous tools - Carl Moore
