VTK Patch Release

The VTK 5.0.4 patch release was announced on January 22, 2008. Changes from 5.0.3 to 5.0.4 are listed below. We are planning to create the VTK-5-2 branch in CVS soon in preparation for the (upcoming) release of VTK 5.2.

• XML precision fix
• Suppress deprecation warnings when using cl with Unix Makefiles generator
• Java weak reference issue
• Use vtkIdType instead of int for correct 64-bit id builds
• Fixed and simplified vtkOpenGLExtensionManager and updated OpenGL header files
• Remove legacy include of GL/glaux.h
• Add static method VTKTypeID and merge long long bug fix in vtkTypeTraits.h
• Fix incorrect file names in the vtk*Kit.cmake files
• Replace MPProcessors() for better Mac OSX 64-bit compatibility
• Selected Utilities/kwsys/SystemTools.cxx fixes for KWWidgets file browser dialog
• Fix problems when multiple observers invoke further events recursively on the same object
• Fixed bug in vtkTransform::GetOrientation when matrix is not positive semi-definite
• Set the upper limit of vtkMergeCells::PointMergeTolerance to VTK_LARGE_FLOAT
• Eliminate memory leak in vtkUnstructuredGrid::BuildLinks