ANNOUNCE: DREAM3D-NX v7.0.0-RC8 is available for download.

[Michael Jackson]

Dear DREAM3D Users,
  BlueQuartz Software is delighted to release the latest release candidate for the commercial version of DREAM3D-NX. This version has no limitations attached to it. It will stop working on FEB 19, 2024. (60 days from today).

The user manual comes with the download and can be viewed online at https://www.dream3d.io/nx_reference_manual/Index/

The current python binding instructions can be viewed at https://www.dream3d.io/python_docs/

** Major Feature **

• This version of DREAM3D-NX can now import your pipelines from previous versions. We do our best to try and translate the pipeline but note that there might be some settings that got removed or changed between the versions.
  
• Many visualization updates and optimizations are also included in this release.

Any questions should be posted to this group or to our GitHub discussions forum at https://github.com/BlueQuartzSoftware/DREAM3DNX-Issues/discussions

Below are the additions & corrections to this version of DREAM3D-NX.

### DREAM3D NX

| Description | Git Commit Hash |
|-------------|-----------------|
| ENH: Add SIMPL Pipeline conversion UI support (#546) | 05bda10c |
| BUG: Update the global axes grid bounds after reloading the pipeline output (#558) | a6872618 |
| ENH: Add Advanced Visualization Preset Options (#557) | a814ca93 |
| ENH: Add a ruler tool to visualization global source types (#548) | d04b3cac |
| ENH: Update Qt Advanced Docking version (#541) | e09ecc9b |
| DOC: Add a CMakeUserPresets.json file to help build VTK (#552) | f42005a5 |
| DOC: Fix broken links on the <www.dream3d.io> website | 71066523 |
| STYLE: Update title color for central Parameter widget based on state of filter (#543) | 906b6a25 |
| BUG: Fix indexing bug when dragging multiple items where the item selected to drag is the last item (#549) | cd31f314 |
| PERF: Fix slow switching between split views. (#537) | 9b76b4ca |
| Call updateDownstreamGridAxesBounds directly after applying filter instead of through vtk observer to avoid render loop (#540) | 2167a2d5 |
| DEV: Update to RC-8 versioning (#539) | df896bb4 |

### complex

| Description | Git Commit Hash |
|-------------|-----------------|
| ENH: Implement SIMPL pipeline conversion (#779) | d11a7a8dd |
| ENH: ITKImportImageStack Flip about X|Y Axis speed optimization (#799) | 2ecb34507 |
| DOC: Detailed descriptions for several filter's parameters (#797) | 693671664 |
| ENH: Allow test data to be downloaded from a different URL. (#789) | 1192311e3 |
| PYTHON: Add API to DataStructure, Document API, add example uses. (#792) | c1bdb5a08 |
| BUG: Ensure Sphinx is installed during the conda build process. (#791) | ab76de704 |
| ENH: Fixes to allow ITKImageProcessing to compile against ITK 5.3.0 (#784) | b43f1dad7 |
| Add create_child_path method to be able to modify DataPaths in Python. (#788) | 87026e508 |
| VCPKG: Add Default registry and add OpenSSL as an option (#776) | 7b1b9573a |
| BUG: ReadEspritDataFile - If spacing is zero, reset to 1.0 (#782) | a0675ea12 |
| BUG: Fix Import Fiji Montage Origin and Grayscale conversions (#777) | 462b70b84 |
| ENH: Update method names to dump a DataStructure hierarchy to text or .dot (#780) | b32d15bd5 |
| ENH: Cleanup warning messages for ReadTextDatArray and CreateDataArray (#781) | 749a340ba |
| FILTER: Initialize Data (Initialize Data Rework) (#769) | a06a6d536 |
| ENH: Updated vcpkg baseline for fmt 10.1.1 (#775) | bcc6bae79 |
| BUG: Fix issue where some plugins were not getting wrapped with Python (#773) | 415439adf |
| BUG: ErodeDilateBadData - Fix initialization of ignored data arrays. (#771) | 0e847aa3d |


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Mike Jackson                    mike.j...@bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software         www.bluequartz.net
President/Owner               Dayton, Ohio
Principal DREAM.3D Developer