Merge pull request #1100 from AcademySoftwareFoundation/v8.1.0_rc

V8.1.0 rc

Author: danrbailey

CHANGES

@@ -3,23 +3,21 @@ OpenVDB Version History
 
 Version 8.1.1 - In development
 
-
-
-Version 8.1.0 - In development
+Version 8.1.0 - June 11, 2021
 
       As of this release, support for grid ABI=5 has been removed.
 
     New features:
     - Added tools::erodeActiveValues() to match the existing
       tools::dilateActiveValues(). New erosion tools support all tile policies
-      and edge/vertex neighbour patterns.
+      and edge/vertex neighbor patterns.
     - Added support for automatic filtering of active tiles in tools::Filter
       by setting tools::Filter::setProcessTiles. Active tiles are densified
       on demand, only when necessary.
     - Added tools::visitNodesDepthFirst and tools::DepthFirstNodeVisitor which
       visit nodes in a tree or sub-tree in single-threaded depth-first order.
     - Significant performance improvements to AX volume kernels, primarily due
-      to improved vectorisation. Performance scales depending on the available
+      to improved vectorization. Performance scales depending on the available
       host CPU instruction set and scalability of the AX kernel. Trivial
       assignments profile upwards of 3x faster on AVX.
     - Introduced Active Tile Streaming for volumes kernels. AX can now
@@ -83,7 +81,7 @@ Version 8.1.0 - In development
       performance regression.
     - tools::deactivate now also works with a MaskTree.
     - Fixed a memory leak in the OpenVDB AX parser
-    - Fixed an occurrence of undefined behaviour in the OpenVDB AX visitor
+    - Fixed an occurrence of undefined behavior in the OpenVDB AX visitor
     - Fixed some memory leaks in the OpenVDB and OpenVDB AX unit tests
     - Fixed a bug in AX which could cause string allocations in loops to overflow
       the stack
@@ -115,14 +113,14 @@ Version 8.1.0 - In development
       OpenVDB AX code in Houdini on VDB grids.
     - Updated the VDB Smooth SOP to support the filtering of active tiles.
     - Fixed a parameter warning in VDB AX SOP.
-    - Transfer Surface Attributes in Convert VDB SOP could use uninitialised
+    - Transfer Surface Attributes in Convert VDB SOP could use uninitialized
       memory.
     - VDB Activate SOP now uses the multi-threaded tools::deactivate for much
       faster performance.
     - Improved the formatting and updated the OpenVDB AX SOPs help card.
-    - The AX SOP utilises the new Active Tile Streaming feature for Volumes.
+    - The AX SOP utilizes the new Active Tile Streaming feature for Volumes.
       Grids will only be densified in areas where unique values are created.
-    - VDB Activate SOP dilation will affect tiles, changing its behaviour
+    - VDB Activate SOP dilation will affect tiles, changing its behavior
       from previous versions, but producing a more expected result.
     - VDB Activate SOP has a world space dilation option.
     - Introduced the VDB Merge SOP that merges multiple grids in parallel and
@@ -162,7 +160,7 @@ Version 8.1.0 - In development
     - Added an option OPENVDB_ENABLE_UNINSTALL to allow the toggling of the
       uninstall build target.
       [Contributed by Jérémie Dumas]
-    - Improved the behaviour of locating static zlib libraries when
+    - Improved the behavior of locating static zlib libraries when
       USE_STATIC_DEPENDENCIES is enabled.
     - Fixed an issue where extra hboost libraries could not be found when
       building against Houdini 18.5 on Windows.

doc/changes.txt

@@ -6,11 +6,9 @@
 @par
 <B>Version 8.1.1</B> - <I>In development</I>
 
-
-
 @htmlonly <a name="v8_1_0_changes"></a>@endhtmlonly
 @par
-<B>Version 8.1.0</B> - <I>In development</I>
+<B>Version 8.1.0</B> - <I>June 11, 2021</I>
 
 @par
 <BLOCKQUOTE>
@@ -22,7 +20,7 @@ New features:
 - Added @vdblink::tools::erodeActiveValues() tools::erodeActiveValues@endlink,
   to match the existing
   @vdblink::tools::dilateActiveValues() tools::dilateActiveValues@endlink. New
-  erosion tools support all tile policies and edge/vertex neighbour patterns.
+  erosion tools support all tile policies and edge/vertex neighbor patterns.
 - Added support for automatic filtering of active tiles in
   @vdblink::tools::Filter Filter@endlink
   by setting
@@ -31,7 +29,7 @@ New features:
 - Added tools::visitNodesDepthFirst and tools::DepthFirstNodeVisitor which
   visit nodes in a tree or sub-tree in single-threaded depth-first order.
 - Significant performance improvements to AX volume kernels, primarily due to
-  improved vectorisation. Performance scales depending on the available host
+  improved vectorization. Performance scales depending on the available host
   CPU instruction set and scalability of the AX kernel. Trivial assignments
   profile upwards of 3x faster on AVX.
 - Introduced Active Tile Streaming for volumes kernels. AX can now dynamically
@@ -103,7 +101,7 @@ Bug Fixes:
 - @vdblink::tools::deactivate() tools::deactivate@endlink now also works with
   a MaskTree.
 - Fixed a memory leak in the OpenVDB AX parser
-- Fixed an occurrence of undefined behaviour in the OpenVDB AX visitor
+- Fixed an occurrence of undefined behavior in the OpenVDB AX visitor
 - Fixed some memory leaks in the OpenVDB and OpenVDB AX unit tests
 - Fixed a bug in AX which could cause string allocations in loops to overflow
   the stack
@@ -140,15 +138,15 @@ Houdini:
   OpenVDB AX code in Houdini on VDB grids.
 - Updated the VDB Smooth SOP to support the filtering of active tiles.
 - Fixed a parameter warning in VDB AX SOP.
-- Transfer Surface Attributes in Convert VDB SOP could use uninitialised
+- Transfer Surface Attributes in Convert VDB SOP could use uninitialized
   memory.
 - VDB Activate SOP now uses the multi-threaded
   @vdblink::tools::deactivate() tools::deactivate@endlink for much faster
   performance.
 - Improved the formatting and updated the OpenVDB AX SOPs help card.
-- The AX SOP utilises the new Active Tile Streaming feature for Volumes. Grids
+- The AX SOP utilizes the new Active Tile Streaming feature for Volumes. Grids
   will only be densified in areas where unique values are created.
-- VDB Activate SOP dilation will affect tiles, changing its behaviour
+- VDB Activate SOP dilation will affect tiles, changing its behavior
   from previous versions, but producing a more expected result.
 - VDB Activate SOP has a world space dilation option.
 - Introduced the VDB Merge SOP that merges multiple grids in parallel and is
@@ -185,7 +183,7 @@ Build:
 - Added an option OPENVDB_ENABLE_UNINSTALL to allow the toggling of the
   uninstall build target.
   <I>[Contributed by Jérémie Dumas]</I>
-- Improved the behaviour of locating static zlib libraries when
+- Improved the behavior of locating static zlib libraries when
   USE_STATIC_DEPENDENCIES is enabled.
 - Fixed an issue where extra hboost libraries could not be found when building
   against Houdini 18.5 on Windows.