Slicer 5.8: Summary, Highlights, and Changelog

[jcfr (Jean Christophe Fillion Robin (Kitware))]

Changelog: 5.8.1

• Core
  • Improvements
  • Fixes
  • Documentation
• Infrastructure
  • Packaging
  • Continuous Integration (CI)
  • Dependencies

Core

Improvements

• Make maximum file length configurable (PR-8283)
• Update Slicer.crt CA bundle (PR-8269)

Fixes

• Prevent loading DWMRI volumes as sequences (PR-8274)
• Fix crash in SystemTools::RemoveADirectory (PR-8275)
• Fix scene loading warning message (PR-8272)
• Prevent additional error message in DICOMReaders.py (PR-8271)
• Fix saving to .mrb files with long node names (PR-8270)
• Fix typo in “Grow From Seeds” help text (PR-8261)

Documentation

• Dynamically generate links to Slicer Doxygen based on ReadTheDocs version (PR-8263)
• Fix links to Slicer Doxygen in the developer guide (PR-8262)
• Fix various broken documentation links in the developer guide (PR-8264)
• Update Transforms module API documentation to add missing Doxygen links (PR-8266)
• Add documentation for the Help menu (PR-8276)

Infrastructure

Packaging

• Improve NSIS Windows installer with application branding (PR-8268)

Continuous Integration (CI)

• Update GitHub CI workflow to be release specific (PR-8259)

Dependencies

• Update VTK backporting fix to support building on Linux with clang (PR-8265)
• Update vtkAddon (PR-8273)
• Update BRAINSTools from 2024-05-31 to 2024-11-09 and include macOS build fix (PR-8267)
• Update python-cmake-buildsystem anticipating a Python version update (PR-8260)