On behalf of the ParaView development team, I am excited to announce that the next release of ParaView will be a major release: ParaView 6.0!
ParaView 6.0 will include some significant changes:
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A new and improved default color map and background color.
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A single pvserver binary that will use OpenGL or EGL if available and fall back to software rendering with osmesa when GPU acceleration isn’t available.
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Additional support for novel discretizations (e.g., discontinuous Galerkin) including GPU-based higher order function evaluation and tessellation shaders to render curved shapes without needing expensive subdivision on the CPU.
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…and many more!
Some behind-the-scenes changes of note to developers and others who base post-processors on ParaView are:
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Full support for Qt 6. Binaries available on www.paraview.org will be built with Qt 6.
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Compiler support for C++17 is now required.
As with every new version of ParaView, backwards compatibility has been preserved as much as possible so that ParaView state files and Python scripts from ParaView 5.x versions will continue to work in the new version.
Look for release candidates for ParaView 6.0 sometime in April 2025 with a final release in May 2025!