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<tr valign=top><td><b>8.0</b> (?/?/?)</td><td>

<b>Breaking changes:</b>
<ul>
<li>Don't run and test on VS2013 anymore. As VS2013 still lacks some C++11 features, we remove it from our list of supported platforms</li>
</ul>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>TriConnectivity: Added two functions split_edge and split_edge_copy to mask the PolyConnectivity functions of the same name (Prevents creation of valence 2 vertices on trimeshes)</li>
</ul>

<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>PLY Reader: Allowing the PLY reader to read custom face ( Thanks to morgan Leborgne for the patch)</li>
<li>PLY Reader: Fixed endless loop on unknown property list type</li>
<li>PLY Reader: Fix hang when reading directly from istream (Thanks to Paul Loré for the patch)</li>
<li>OM Writer/Reader: Update file format version to 2.0. Older files can still be read, but older OpenMesh versions cannot read new format.</li>
<li>OM Writer/Reader: Fixed inconsistent writing/reading of edge properties</li>
<li>OM Writer/Reader: Add option to store status</li>
</ul>

<b>Tools</b>
<ul>
<li>SmartTagger: Added the SmartTagger class to tag primitives (O(1) reset )</li>
</ul>

<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Rename the DEPRECATED macro into OM_DEPRECATED to prevent a macro clash with Intel MKL (Thanks to Morgan Leborgne for the patch)</li>
</ul>


</tr>


<tr valign=top><td><b>7.1</b> (2018/05/29)</td><td>

<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>OBJ Reader: Fixed slow OBJ reader (Thanks to Etienne Danvoye for the patch) </li>
</ul>

<b>Documentation</b>
<ul>
<li>Updated build instructions.</li>
</ul>

<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Default to C++11 in cmake files</li>
<li>Remove old qmake project files. Unmaintained for a very long time</li>
<li>Replaced Qt finders</li>
<li>Added VS 2017 to CI builds</li>
</ul>

</tr>



<tr valign=top><td><b>7.0</b> (2018/04/19)</td><td>

<b>Breaking changes</b>
<ul>
<li>The minimal standard for C++ has been raised to C++11. Compilers not supporting C++11 or higher are no longer supported</li>
<li>Removed the python bindings from this project. They have migrated to a <a href="https://www.graphics.rwth-aachen.de:9000/OpenMesh/openmesh-python">seperate project</a>.</li>
</ul>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>Implemented a cast from polyMesh to Mesh and vice versa using static_cast(polymeshInstance) or static_cast(trimeshInstance)</li>
<li>make all negative handles invalid, not just -1</li>
<li>Several warnings fixed (Including the checked iterators)</li>
<li>split_copy and split_edge_copy operations now also copy internal properties.</li>
<li>copy face properties in split_copy(EdgeHandle, VertexHandle)</li>
<li>fix halfedge indices in OpenMeshTrimeshCirculatorHalfedgeLoop CWAndCCWCheck</li>
<li>Fix wrong behaviour of HalfedgeLoopIterators by changing the template parameter</li>
<li>Added 1-4 triangle split funtion(splits all edges at Midpoints)</li>
<li>Boost range support (Thanks to Bastian Pranzas for the patch)</li>
<li>Made the face and edge split operations that copy properties also copy builtin properties</li>
<li>calc_sector_angle: Check for real division by zero not with epsilon that was way to large</li>
<li>Don't return invalid iterators for empty element ranges</li>
<li>Mark halfedges as deleted after collapse</li>
<li>Let default range-based for skip deleted elements and add a version that includes deleted elements</li>
<li>Moved length() by norm() to external functions. This allows us to support other vector types instead of Vec3d (e.g. via Eigen) </li>
</ul>

<b>Utils</b>
<ul>
<li>enable c++11 features of many classes for Visual Studio 2013</li>
<li>Fixed broken version macros (Thanks to Frederik Salomonsson for the fix)</li>
<li>Fixed Build on gcc-7.2 (Thanks to Gero Müller and Martial Tola for the patches)</li>
<li>Small compilation fix for MINGW64 cross-compilation(Thanks to Manuel Massing for the patch)</li>
</ul>

<b>Tools</b>
<ul>
<li>Subdivider: New Midpoint subdivision scheme</li>
<li>Subdivider: Use double as default type</li>
</ul>

<b>Geometry</b>
<ul>
<li>QuadricT: implement Q+Q and Q*scalar operators for convenience.</li>
<li>Vector11T: Make converting ctor only accept 2 arguments</li>
<li>Only compute normals for faces that are not deleted</li>
</ul>


<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>ImporterT: Modified the add_face function of importerT to always return a valid FaceHandle</li>
<li>ImporterT: Return a valid FaceHandle when adding non-manifold faces.</li>
<li>BaseExporter: Added accessor functions for HalfEdgeHandles and faceTexCoords to base exporter and exporter template.</li>
<li>OBJ Writer: Fail if vertex color export was requested (Thanks to Manuel Massing)</li>
<li>OBJ Writer: Added functionality to store FaceTexCoords to objwriter</li>
<li>OBJ Writer: Applied fix for bad or missing vertex tex coords (Thanks to Gero Müller for the patch)</li>
<li>OBJ Writer: Fix vertex texture coordinates export in OBJ writer</li>
<li>OBJ Loader: range check for vertex colors and normals in OBJ loader</li>
<li>OBJ Loader: fixed handling of negative indices in OBJ loader</li>
<li>OM Writer: Fixed OMWriter when no faces are available (Thanks to Jamie Kydd for the patch)</li>
<li>OM Writer: Added Mark to the format header to identify end of stream correctly (Thanks to Jamie Kydd for the patch)</li>
<li>PLY Reader: Skip reading extra elements after face</li>
<li>PLY Reader: Return error when reaching EOF</li>
<li>OMFormat: Fix implicit fallthrough warning on gcc(Thanks to Manuel Massing for the patch)</li>
</ul>

<b>Unittests</b>
<ul>
<li>Added unittest to write and read faceTexcoords with a test obj file</li>
<li>Added unittest for split_edge_copy operations on Tri and PolyMeshes</li>
</ul>

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Updated Logo</li>
<li>Only Issue Warning if compile Order for MeshIO.hh is violated. Check will be removed if no errors are reported.</li>
</ul>

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<tr valign=top><td><b>6.3</b> (2016/10/04)</td><td>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed type pun warning with gcc-6</li>
<li>Fixed incorrect type of hash function for boost causing a warning with clang</li>
<li>gcc 4.7 fix</li>
</ul>

<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>STL Reader: Identify stl files containing solid keyword as ASCII type</li>
<li>Importer: Failed faces will be added on the fly now to correctly handle properties on them.</li>
</ul>

<b>Utils</b>
<ul>
<li>PropertyManager: Add C++11 range-based set_range() version.</li>
<li>PropertyManager: Add initializing createIfNotExists() versions.</li>
</ul>

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed undefined MSVC macro warning (Thanks to Xan for the patch)</li> 
</ul>

<b>Python</b>
<ul>
<li>Added link directories and log file to build system</li>
<li>Made member function pointer types explicit. This gets rid of a preprocessor conditional and prevents bug in msvc.</li>
</ul>

<b>Unittests</b>
<ul>
<li>Added unittest to trigger gcc alignment bug</li>
</ul>

<b>Documentation</b>
<ul>
<li>Updated documentation of BaseKernel's property functions to hint at PropertyManager.</li>
</ul>

<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Removed unnecessary include dir from Core Cmakelist (Thanks to Xan for the patch)</li>
<li>Added a little safeguard against GCC optimizer bug to CMakeLists.txt</li>
</ul>

</tr>

<tr valign=top><td><b>6.2</b> (2016/07/11)</td><td>

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed build error with Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (Fixed VS2015 Update 3 build error)</li>
</ul>

<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed mingw compilataion error</li>
</ul>

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Added size_t hash_value functions to support boost unordered_set and map</li>
</ul>


</tr>

<tr valign=top><td><b>6.1</b> (2016/05/31)</td><td>

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>New logo for OpenMesh and switched to VCI schema</li>
<li>Fix Internal Compiler Error in Visual Studio 2015 Community edition (Enterprise version does not trigger this error)</li>
</ul>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>PolyMesh: Copy per-halfedge and per-face properties to new elments during triangulation (Thanks to Max Limper for the patch)</li>
</ul>

<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>PLY Reader: Handle nr newlines (Thanks to Christian Feurer for the patch)</li>
<li>PLY Reader: Fixed binary reader errors in ply reader. (Thanks to Michael Kremer for the patch)</li>
<li>Throw error when no readers are available (Thanks to Christian Feurer for the patch)</li>
</ul>

<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Some fixes for min gw (Thanks to Xan for the patch)</li>
<li>Several changes to support mingw on windows again. (Thanks to Christian Feurer for the patches).</li>
</ul>

<b>Infrastructure</b>
<ul>
<li>Build drag and drop installer for Mac in Daily Builds</li>
</ul>

<b>Documentation</b>
<ul>
<li>Move documentation of PropertyManager factory functions to PropertyManager Doxygen page</li>
</ul>


</tr>


<tr valign=top><td><b>6.0</b> (2016/29/04)</td><td>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>Added a couple of methods to enable more efficient adding of batches of vertices (Without resizing property vectors) </li>
</ul>

<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>Obj reader: added texCoord3d functions to objloader</li>
<li>PLY Reader: Don't emit warning for every complex face but warn only once in the end.</li>
<li>Importer: Integrate non-manifold faces while importing and not at the end. Fixes missing properties on non-manifolds. (Thanks to Max Limper for the patch, Merge Request 51)</li>
</ul>

<b>VectorT</b>
<ul>
<li>Full C++11 rewrite of VectorT (Keeping C++98 backward compatibility)</li>
<li>Split VectorT implementation into two files (One c++98 and one c++11)</li>
<li>Added += operator to mesh iterators (C++11 only) </li>
</ul>

<b>Unittests</b>
<ul>
<li>Added several unittests for VectorT</li>
<li>Added Benchmarks for VectorT</li>
<li>Added test for property iterators</li>
</ul>

<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Updated c++11 ifdefs to use c++11 (starting with VS1015)</li>
</ul>

<b>Python Interface</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed segfault in decimater due to a bad pointer</li>
</ul>

<b>Utils</b>
<ul>
<li>Add factory functions for creating PropertyManagers without restating the mesh type in C++11</li>
</ul>


<b>Apps</b>
<ul>
<li>VDPM Analyzer: Fixed VS2015 internal compiler error with C++11</li>
</ul>

</tr>


<tr valign=top><td><b>5.2</b> (2016/04/28)</td><td>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed ugly typo in __decrement function of Basehandle. Seems to be unused in the rest of the code.</li>
<li>drop VectorDimensionsT metaprogram in favor of vector_traits in normal computation function</li>
</ul>


<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>PLY Reader: Fixed CR LF newline handling for binary file headers.</li>
<li>Obj writer: Fix OBJ material files and face color (Thanks to Sven-Kristofer Pilz for the patch) </li>
<li>Obj writer: Fix OBJ writer bug file extension removal (Thanks to Katharina Breininger for the patch) </li>

</ul>

<b>Tools</b>
<ul>
<li>Decimater: Added missing preprocess collapse call in size_t DecimaterT<Mesh>::decimate(size_t _n_collapses)  (Thanks to Andrej Ivanis for the hint)</li>
</ul>



<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed Typo in cmake install for smoother (Thanks to Takashi Michikawa for the fix).</li>
</ul>

<b>Documentation</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed order of smoother parameters in the documentation. (Thanks to Takashi Michikawa for the info).</li>
</ul>

</tr>


<tr valign=top><td><b>5.1</b> (2015/17/12)</td><td>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>Added clean_keep_reservation() (remove all elements from the mesh but keeps the properties. In contrast to clean() the memory used for the elements will remain allocated</li>
<li>Reduced number of include statements to speedup compilation</li>
<li>Removed unused member variable next_cache_count_ member of PolyConnectivity and made it local</li>
</ul>

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug preventing from building with 2 dimensional vectors (e.g. vec2i) </li>
<li>Heap: Minor cleanup (some consts)</li>
<li>Added static versions of ArrayKernel::edge_handle and ...::halfedge_handle</li>
<li>Reduced number of includes</li>
</ul>

<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>OMWriter: fix crash in OMWriter when writing an empty mesh with colors</li>
<li>Binary writers: Fixed double swap in string specialization. Added Unittest.</li>
</ul>

<b>VectorT</b>
<ul>
<li>take VectorT argument by reference for non-member vector scalar multiplication</li>
</ul>

<b>Unittests</b>
<ul>
<li>Added some basic linear algebra tests for VectorT</li>
<li>Added tests for vec2x construction</li>
</ul>

<b>Documentation</b>
<ul>
<li>Add some more documentation about primitive deletion. Closes #14</li>
</ul>

<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed missing debug dll for autobuilders</li>
</ul>

<b>Python Interface</b>
<ul>
<li>Exposed Decimater to python</li>
</ul>

</tr>



<tr valign=top><td><b>5.0</b> (2015/11/18)</td><td>

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Moved repository to git</li>
</ul>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug where range iterators contained an invalid element when the range was empty</li>
<li>Reintroduced and polished the StatusSet API (Thanks to Martin Marinov)</li>
<li>More efficient implementation of opposite_halfedge_handle (Less instructions required)</li>
<li>PolyMeshes: More robust algorithm for computing surface normals (Fixes bad normals on concave polygons)</li>
</ul>

<b>VectorT</b>
<ul>
<li>Modernized VectorT constructors for C++11 (Less redundancy, make some of the VectorT constructors constexpr)</li>
<li>C++11: Added _htmlColor literal operator.</li>
<li>C++11: Added explicit static_cast along with static SFINAE checks to VectorT constructor.</li>
</ul>

<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>loaded properties are presistant per default</li>
<li>remove unnecessary c headers</li>
<li>PLY Writer: fix crash when saving a mesh and a custom property was removed before, extend unittest for this case</li>
<li>PLY Writer: add custom property (with pod data type) support for binary ply files closes #2496</li>
<li>remove redundant code refs #2525</li>
<li>Off Writer: Removed redundant code</li>
<li>Made STLReader, OBJReader reuse stringstreams to improve performance</li>
</ul>

<b>Unittests</b>
<ul>
<li>add obj writer unittest</li>
<li>add unittest for write stla</li>
<li>Fixed bug where Some C++11 unittests were not build and used</li>
<li>Added more unittests c++11 ranges vvrange and vertexrange</li>
</ul>


</tr>


<tr valign=top><td><b>4.1</b> (2015/07/27,Rev.1318)</td><td>
<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed bug in polymesh normal computation. Added more unittests for normal computation.</li>
<li>Get rid of some windows preprocessor warnings</li>
</ul>

<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>Options: Fixed bad enum</li>
</ul>


<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Removed fixbundle calls if not building apps.</li>
</ul>

</tr>


<tr valign=top><td><b>4.0</b> (2015/07/08,Rev.1308)</td><td>

<b>LICENSE</b>
<ul>
<li>OpenMesh has been relicensed to BSD-3</li>
</ul>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed crash when writing with multiple threads to mostream. closes #2293 (Note: This fix is only active with C++11 support) </li>
<li>fix "relink failed" condition closes #1244. This patch fixes a rare condition in add_face, where a non-manifold configuration could be created. </li>
<li>Added CW and CCW Circulators ( These new iterator versions also fix the problems that circulators could get valid again, if iterating past the end,
    they are also faster, as the require one check less then the old ones.)</li>
<li>Implement a warning on the operator-- of the old iterators. It was possible to use them to iterate from begin into negative direction. At boundaries,
    that did not work correctly and visited one entity twice. The warning can be disabled via cmake or define (-DNO_DECREMENT_DEPRECATED_WARNINGS ).</li>
<li>Fixed wrong normal calculation in calc_face_normal for Poly Meshes. closes #2427</li>
<li>Fixed various warnings with vector casts</li>
<li>General: Get rid of some compiler warnings</li>
<li>VectorT: fix compile error on vector scalar multiplication when scalar type differs of vector scalar type and the scalar was lhs. closes #2367</li>
<li>Removed dead and uncompilable code regarding the status set. refs #2511 </li>
</ul>

<b>IO</b>
<ul>
<li>Readers/Writers: extend "can_read/can_write" function. returns true, if no explicit filename is given, but just the extension. closes #2431 </li>
<li>Writers: Avoid std::endl in various writers to avoid flushing the output stream on every line. (Thanks to Roman Zoller for the hint).</li>
<li>OBJReader: fix reading mtl files with texture only for obj files</li>
<li>OBJReader: fix crash, if obj file contains degenerated faces</li>
<li>OBJReader: improve performance for small vectors/faces</li>
<li>OBJReader: load vertex color values as float in range of [0..1] instead of integers [0..255]</li>
<li>PLY Reader: Ascii reader now supports custom attributes</li>
<li>PLY Writer: add custom property support for ascii version</li>
<li>PLY Reader: unify int8_t/signed char/char in ply reader and writer. </li>
<li>PLY Reader/Writer Binary: change type int8_t to signed char from type char closes #2499 </li>
<li>STL Writer: Add a space after the solid keyword to make some readers happy. </li>
</ul>

<b>Utils</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixing PropertyManager so that it cooperates with bool properties even on unforgiving implementations (such as clang).</li>
</ul>


<b>Tools</b>
<ul>
<li>Don't use auto_ptr when compiler supports C++11. Replaced by unique_ptr.</li>
<li>Fix for Smoother set_relative error (Thanks to Leonardo Cecchinato for the fix) </li>
<li>Improved SmootherT.hh Documentation</li>
<li>Fixed old OM3 port warning in smoother</li>
<li>Decimater: ModProgMesh - Fixed write on 64-bit systems</li>
</ul>

<b>General</b>
<ul>
<li>Fixed various build warnings</li>
<li>Moved several iostream includes to cc files or removed them where not necessary (or switched to omlog and omerr)</li>
</ul>

<b>Documentation</b>
<ul>
<li>Example for locking vertices in decimater</li>
<li>Added extra hint about status flags when collapsing edges</li>
<li>Updated tutorial on reading and writing meshes with python bindings</li>
<li>Updated the tutorial with further information on how to build the python bindings</li>
<li>Added missing requestsfor polyMesh in collapsee docu</li>
<li>Add feature support list for readers/writers</li>
<li>add info about requesting standard properties and loading a mesh with options - refs #2512</li>
<li>add info about texture information in OBJ file format - closes #2369</li>
<li>add info about texture index property refs #2512</li>
</ul>

<b>Unittests</b>
<ul>
<li>fixed a bug in the unit test test_add_face.py</li>
<li>Added tests for tutorials about flip and collapse</li>
<li>Added basic smoother compile test</li>
<li>Added unit test for bool PropertyManager::set_range.</li>
<li>Added write unittest for binary stl files</li>
<li>Added c++11 test file</li>
<li>Use the acg macro to add the unittests to make sure flags are passed through (e.g. to enable c++11)</li>
</ul>

<b>Build System</b>
<ul>
<li>Python Bindings: strip pythonlibs version string of possible other characters than 0-9 and .  (e.g. '+')</li>
<li>Python Bindings: don't require boost-python</li>
<li>Python Bindings: updated the cmake file so that cmake finds boost python installations with the names python2 and python3</li>
<li>Python Bindings: fixed a cmake warning on os x (Policy CMP0042: MACOSX_RPATH)</li>
<li>fix windows warning about unknown preprocessor define</li>
<li>Default to release build type if not selected via cmake. Only on non Win platforms</li>
<li>No copy after build required for doc, as its copied by doxygen anyway</li>
<li>Got rid of the old ACGMakefiles, as they were not maintained anymore</li>
</ul>


</tr>

<tr valign=top><td><b>3.3</b> (2015/01/16,Rev.1204)</td><td>

<b>Core</b>
<ul>
<li>change name of the types "True" and "False" to "TrueType" and "FalseType" to clarify, that these are types and avoid conflicts</li>
<li>Fixed two missing this pointers</li>
<li>Removed several unused variables</li>
<li>PolyConnectivity: Fixed constness of EntityRange begin() and end() methods.</li>
<li>VectorT: add specializations for 5/6 dimension vectors</li>
<li>VectorT: added const getter for data_vector()</li>
<li>VectorT: <b> Modified Vector constructors!</b> The constructors now check the size of the vector at compile time not run time. This might produce compiler errors but ensures that the vectors are initialized correctly.</li>