Prepare release 7.6.2

Author: tpaviot

AUTHORS

@@ -10,10 +10,12 @@ Jeremy Wright
 Martin Siggel
 Matthis Thorade
 Thomas Krijnen
-Thomas Paviot
 Trevor Laughlin
-jelle feringa
+Jelle Feringa
 nxsofsys
 Thomas Severin
+Kristoffer Andersen
+Tanneguy de Villemagne
+Simon Klein
 
 Please report any missing name

INSTALL.md

@@ -19,14 +19,13 @@ Requirements
 pythonOCC needs the following libraries or programs to be installed before you
 can compile/use it :
 
-*   the python programming language (<http://www.python.org>). Python 3.x is required. Python 2
-is officially dropped since the release 7.5.0.
+*   the python programming language (<http://www.python.org>). Python 3.x is required.
 
-*   OpenCascade 7.5.2 (<https://dev.opencascade.org>), direct source download at https://git.dev.opencascade.org/gitweb/?p=occt.git;a=snapshot;h=0dc2c377fc5a2d8cf065f4ec005e356240cb484c;sf=tgz
+*   OpenCascade 7.6.2 (<https://dev.opencascade.org>)
 
     IMPORTANT: OpenCASCADE has to be compiled using flag -D BUILD_RELEASE_DISABLE_EXCEPTIONS=OFF
 
-*   SWIG 3.0.11 or higher (<http://www.swig.org>),
+*   SWIG 4.0.2 or higher (<http://www.swig.org>)
 
 Optional
 --------

NEWS

@@ -1,3 +1,18 @@
+Version 7.6.2 - August 2022
+===========================
+
+This release requires opencascade-7.6.2.
+
+* wrapper: port to opencascade-7.6.2
+
+* wrapper: improved support for enums
+
+* MeshDataSource: new numpy based module for fast STL mesh loading (thanks @kleinsimon)
+
+* LayerManager: new module (thanks @Tanneguydv)
+
+* misc cleanup, typos, small fixes all over the code base
+
 Version 7.5.1 - March 2021
 ==========================
 

README.md

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 [![Azure Build Status](https://dev.azure.com/tpaviot/pythonocc-core/_apis/build/status/tpaviot.pythonocc-core?branchName=master)](https://dev.azure.com/tpaviot/pythonocc-core/_build?definitionId=2)
-[![Conda installer](https://anaconda.org/pythonocc/pythonocc-core/badges/installer/conda.svg)](https://anaconda.org/pythonocc/pythonocc-core)
-[![Downloads Badge](https://anaconda.org/pythonocc/pythonocc-core/badges/downloads.svg)](https://anaconda.org/pythonocc/pythonocc-core)
+[![Conda installer](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pythonocc-core/badges/installer/conda.svg)](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pythonocc-core)
+[![Downloads Badge](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pythonocc-core/badges/downloads.svg)](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/pythonocc-core)
 [![Language grade: Python](https://img.shields.io/lgtm/grade/python/g/tpaviot/pythonocc-core.svg?logo=lgtm&logoWidth=18)](https://lgtm.com/projects/g/tpaviot/pythonocc-core/context:python)
 [![Codacy Badge](https://api.codacy.com/project/badge/Grade/67c121324b8d4f37bc27029464c87020)](https://www.codacy.com/app/tpaviot/pythonocc-core?utm_source=github.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=tpaviot/pythonocc-core&utm_campaign=Badge_Grade)
-[![Binder](http://mybinder.org/badge.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/tpaviot/pythonocc-binderhub/7.5.1)
+[![Binder](http://mybinder.org/badge.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/tpaviot/pythonocc-binderhub/7.6.2)
 [![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.3686916.svg)](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3686916)
 
 pythonocc-core
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ About
 
 pythonocc provides 3D modeling and dataexchange features. It is intended to CAD/PDM/PLM and BIM related development.
 
-Latest release : [pythonocc-core 7.5.1 (march 2021)](https://github.com/tpaviot/pythonocc-core/releases/tag/7.5.1)
+Latest release : [pythonocc-core 7.6.2 (August 2022)](https://github.com/tpaviot/pythonocc-core/releases/tag/7.6.2)
 
 Features
 --------
@@ -29,18 +29,18 @@ pythonocc provides the following features:
 Try online at mybinder
 ----------------------
 
-Click [![Binder](http://mybinder.org/badge.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/tpaviot/pythonocc-binderhub/7.5.1) to open a jupyter notebook running latest pythonocc-core 7.5.1, gmesh (<http://gmsh.info/>) and latest IfcOpenshell (<https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/tree/v0.6.0>) dev branch.
+Click [![Binder](http://mybinder.org/badge.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/tpaviot/pythonocc-binderhub/7.6.2) to open a jupyter notebook running latest pythonocc-core 7.6.2, gmesh (<http://gmsh.info/>) and latest IfcOpenshell (<https://github.com/IfcOpenShell/IfcOpenShell/tree/v0.6.0>) dev branch.
 
 Download/install binaries for Linux/OSX/Windows
 -----------------------------------------------
 
-pythonocc provides precompiled [conda packages](https://anaconda.org/pythonocc/pythonocc-core) (they depend on third part libraries made available from the dlr-sc and conda-forge conda channels) for python 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9. This will get you up and running in minutes whether you run win32/win64/linux64/osx64. Here is an example for python 3.7:
+pythonocc provides precompiled [conda packages](https://anaconda.org/pythonocc/pythonocc-core) (they depend on third part libraries made available from the dlr-sc and conda-forge conda channels) for python 3.8, 3.9 and 3.10. This will get you up and running in minutes whether you run win32/win64/linux64/osx64. Here is an example for python 3.7:
 
 ```bash
 # first create an environment
-conda create --name=pyoccenv python=3.7
+conda create --name=pyoccenv python=3.9
 source activate pyoccenv
-conda install -c conda-forge pythonocc-core=7.5.1 occt=7.5.1
+conda install -c conda-forge pythonocc-core=7.6.2
 ```
 
 Other channels provide pythonocc-core packages, check https://anaconda.org/search?q=pythonocc-core.
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ We use the following online resources:
 pythonocc, oce and opencascade dependencies
 -------------------------------------------
 
-pythonocc-core 7.5.1 depends on the official OpenCascade-7.5.1 library (<https://dev.opencascade.org>)
+pythonocc-core 7.6.2 depends on the official OpenCascade-7.6.2 library (<https://dev.opencascade.org>)
 
 Former releases rely on oce (OpenCascade Community Edition), available at  
 [oce C++ library / CAD kernel](https://github.com/tpaviot/oce).