ebrahim
(Ebrahim Ebrahim)
June 23, 2026, 9:40pm
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We’ve temporarily disabled regular Preview and Stable builds of Slicer (and associated extensions) while we prepare the Slicer 5.12 Stable release.
The Slicer repository will be tagged, and the release process will start shortly afterward.
You can track progress in the pinned release issue: Release Slicer v5.12 · Issue #9180 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub
Thanks for your patience
ebrahim
(Ebrahim Ebrahim)
June 24, 2026, 5:38pm
2
Preview builds are now re-enabled.
We are continuing to work on the Slicer 5.12 stable release
ebrahim
(Ebrahim Ebrahim)
June 24, 2026, 9:03pm
3
Slicer 5.12 is now available!
In the coming days the community will be putting together a release announcement.
3D Slicer is a free, open source software for visualization, processing, segmentation, registration, and analysis of medical, biomedical, and other 3D images and meshes; and planning and navigating image-guided procedures.
So Slicer 5.11 stable release is skipped?
This does look a bit confusing to me:
pieper
(Steve Pieper (Isomics, Inc.))
June 25, 2026, 11:32am
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That should resolve later today or tomorrow. The Preview will be renumbered to 5.13.0. 5.12 will be the last Qt5 based Slicer, and 5.13 will become the active refactoring (expect some breaking changes in the API) for a Slicer 6.0 release based on Qt6.
Sam_Horvath
(Sam Horvath (Kitware))
June 25, 2026, 1:59pm
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The Previews are odd-numbered, the stables are even numbered.
Sam_Horvath
(Sam Horvath (Kitware))
June 25, 2026, 2:03pm
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There also seems to be an issue with the download site updating to 5.13, working on this
ebrahim
(Ebrahim Ebrahim)
July 8, 2026, 11:19am
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Here are the commits I am planning to include before I tag 5.12.1:
@lassoan @Sam_Horvath @pieper @jamesobutler please let me know if I missed any that you had in mind
ebrahim
(Ebrahim Ebrahim)
July 8, 2026, 8:19pm
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This evening, regular macOS preview and stable builds of Slicer and associated extensions will be disabled in favor of a patch release.
Nightly Windows and Linux builds may be unaffected.
To track the progress, see Patch Release Slicer v5.12.1 · Issue #9271 · Slicer/Slicer · GitHub
ebrahim
(Ebrahim Ebrahim)
July 9, 2026, 2:11am
10
Incremental stable builds seem to be still running now for windows and linux, with the scheduled nightly task is about to start in an hour … so I am are disabling those as well to get the patch release completed. Regular linux and windows preview and stable builds will be disabled for tonight, not just macOS. Sorry for any inconvenience; ty for your patience everyone!
ebrahim
(Ebrahim Ebrahim)
July 9, 2026, 1:48pm
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The nightly builds have been re-enabled so the dashboards should be back to normal tomorrow