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Final cleanup pass of the 3.1 release notes. (#4205)
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<a name="General_features"></a>
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<p><b><font size="4">General features added in version 3.1</font></b></p>
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<li>Binary distributions have been added for CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 19.</li>
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<li>Added binary distributions for CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 19.</li>
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<p><b><font size="4">Changes in GUI behavior for version 3.1</font></b></p>
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<li>The VCR play/reverse play buttons are now inactive when there are no active drawn plots.</li>
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<li>The following windows were restructured to reduce their height and allow for better usage on laptops: Pick, Preference, Host profiles configuration setup, Poincare operator, LCS operator, Limit Cycle operator and Integral Curve operator.</li>
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<li>The help menu now refers to the VisIt Sphinx manual.</li>
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<li>Modified the VCR play/reverse play buttons so that they are now inactive when there are no active drawn plots.</li>
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<li>Restructured several windows to reduce their height and allow for better usage on laptops. These include the Pick, Preference, Host profiles configuration setup, Poincare operator, LCS operator, Limit Cycle operator and Integral Curve operator windows.</li>
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<li>Modified the help menu to refer to the VisIt Sphinx manual.</li>
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<p><b><font size="4">File format reader changes in version 3.1</font></b></p>
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<li>Corrected a bug with the VTK reader parsing .vtm files when the 'DataSet' tag doesn't have a 'file' attribute.</li>
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<li>An OpenPMD reader was added to VisIt. OpenPMD files are automatically recognized when the have the "pmd" or "opmd" extensions.</li>
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<li>The ADIOS2 reader was updated to use ADIOS2 2.5.</li>
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<li>The Silo reader handling of 2/3D tensor and symmetric tensor data was improved and corrected.</li>
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<li>Added the OpenPMD reader to VisIt. OpenPMD files are automatically recognized when they have the "pmd" or "opmd" extensions.</li>
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<li>Updated the ADIOS2 reader to use ADIOS2 2.5.</li>
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<li>Improved and corrected the handling of 2/3D tensor and symmetric tensor data in the Silo reader.</li>
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<p><b><font size="4">Changes to VisIt's plots in version 3.1</font></b></p>
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<li>The Pseudocolor plot can now render lines as tubes and ribbons and points as glyphs in mixed-topology unstructured grids and poly data.</li>
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<li>The Pseudocolor plot can now glyph points when <i>Draw objects as</i> is set to <i>Points</i>.</li>
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<li>Enhanced the Pseudocolor plot so that it can now render lines as tubes and ribbons and points as glyphs in mixed-topology unstructured grids and poly data.</li>
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<li>Enhanced the Pseudocolor plot so that it can now glyph points when <i>Draw objects as</i> is set to <i>Points</i>.</li>
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<li>Changing the opacity for a Pseudocolor plot no longer affects the glyph type of glyphed points.</li>
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<li>Corrected an issue with installing host profiles after deleting or moving the .visit folder while VisIt is running.</li>
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<li>Removed the visual artifacts of the Expressions window that were present on first draw.</li>
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<li>Removed the visual artifacts of the Expressions window that were present when the window was first rendered.</li>
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<li>Corrected a memory leak with Pseudocolor plots.</li>
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<li>Corrected a bug with MPEG movies being generated upside down with incorrect colors.</li>
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<li>Corrected a memory leak associated with reading ghost cells and nodes in the LibSim reader.</li>
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<li>For Pick, fixed the 'output object' output for tensor variables, and fixed a bug where array variables may get treated as vectors or tensors.</li>
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<li>Corrected a bug with the Pick 'output object' output for tensor variables.</li>
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<li>Corrected a bug with Pick where array variables were sometimes erroneously treated as vectors or tensors.</li>
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<p><b><font size="4">Build features added in version 3.1</font></b></p>
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<li>Modified build_visit to enable OpenSSL by default since Python depends on OpenSSL and Python is enabled by default.</li>
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<li>Enhanced build_visit to enable OpenSSL by default since Python depends on OpenSSL and Python is enabled by default.</li>
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<li>Corrected a bug in build_visit that prevented OSMesa and MesaGL from building from within a Git checkout.</li>
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<li>Added a patch to build_visit so that Qt builds on CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 19.</li>
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<li>Modified build_visit so that it would build Adios2 on Mac OS X.</li>
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<li>Suppressed the Qt warning 'Empty filename passed to function'. Also added additional context information to the Qt log message if available.</li>
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<li>Corrected compile errors when using Open MPI 1.6.5.</li>
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<li>Silo plugin code sections for recognizing variable types in metadata was re-factored to a single function.</li>
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<li>Re-factored sections of the Silo reader for recognizing variable types in metadata to a single function.</li>
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<li>Corrected problems compiling Adios2 on Mac OS X 10.13.6</li>
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