# SlicerSALT 2.2.1 Release: Summary and Changelog

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**Category:** SlicerSALT\
**Created:** [September 16, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicersalt-2-2-1-release-summary-and-changelog/8450 "2019-09-16T18:32:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 16, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/slicersalt-2-2-1-release-summary-and-changelog/8450/1 "2019-09-16T18:32:59Z")

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The SlicerSALT team is proud to announce that version 2.2.1 is [now available for download](http://salt.slicer.org/download). This release introduces new features in almost all of our modules as well as dozens of bug fixes for better performance and stability. The development of SlicerSALT is supported by the NIH National Institute of Biomedical Imaging Bioengineering [R01EB021391](https://projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_description.cfm?aid=9741133&icde=46482797&ddparam=&ddvalue=&ddsub=&cr=3&csb=default&cs=ASC&pball=) (Shape Analysis Toolbox for Medical Image Computing Projects).

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Improved population analysis module. It now allows to easily perform shape space exploration in all the main modes of variation within a population of geometries.

# **Changelog**

**Features**

- Python 3.0 support

- Improved jump-start with each SALT module

- [Improved SurfaceToolbox with new filters](https://blog.kitware.com/slicersalt-surface-toolbox-revamp/)

- Shape Variation Analyzer

- Data Importer

- Shape statistics

- Skeletal representations

- Shape Population Viewer

- Improve extension integration

## **Fixes**

- Shape statistics crash fixes and stability

- Data importer stability changes,

- Shape Population viewer had bugs in the color customization that have now been fixed

- Rename/re-categorize SlicerSALT modules [[commit]](https://github.com/Kitware/SlicerSALT/commit/531328bfc72c90fc08cac96212ac2a802c98f8aa)

- Disable non-shape modules from Slicer that still remained in SlicerSALT 1.0.0

- Rigid alignment module bug and stability fixes

# **Acknowledgements**

- UNC
  - Martin Styner & lab
  - Steve Pizer & lab
  - Tengfei Li

- NYU Tandon School of Engineering
  - James Fishbaugh
  - Guido Gerig

- Kitware
  - Beatriz Paniagua
  - Jared Vicory
  - Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin
  - Sam Horvath

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