# Update VisIt Bridge?
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [December 19, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064 "2018-12-19T18:07:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064/1 "2018-12-19T18:07:54Z")
Is it time to update the VisIt Bridge? Many of the readers in current ParaView are OLD…
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### Author:  [@Andy\_Bauer](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Andy_Bauer)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064/2 "2018-12-19T20:42:30Z")
As a side note, there’s an [issue](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18657) to better deal with ghost information in the VisIt bridge which the funding should come through for soon…
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064/3 "2018-12-19T20:56:01Z")
We’re based on VisIt as of r30784 (Apr 2017). Rebasing should now be much easier than before since our patches are actually split out. Sending most of them upstream probably be done as well.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2018, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064/4 "2018-12-19T20:57:27Z")
Did we update all readers of the visit bridge? I was thinking that some of them were OLD.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064/5 "2018-12-20T22:27:01Z")
I synchronized all VisIt code when that was done. If upstream hasn’t touched it, that’s what we get. You can see our import into Git [here](https://gitlab.kitware.com/third-party/visit). I’ve pushed to `trunk` what they have on their server as of today. If there are readers you’re interested in that are newer on that branch, we can rebase.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064/6 "2018-12-20T22:29:50Z")
How much time does it take to merge in the new visit readers? hours, days, weeks, or months?
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [December 27, 2018, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064/7 "2018-12-27T20:31:07Z")
At least hours, but unlikely weeks. Depends on how bad conflicts are and how much upstream has changed their buildsystem in the last 20 months.
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### Author:  [@wascott](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/wascott)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2019, 6:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/update-visit-bridge/1064/8 "2019-01-02T18:45:18Z")
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18681](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/issues/18681)