Release notes v2.0.0a6#

Quick Overview#

GitHub stats for 2026/01/23 - 2026/03/06 (tag: v2.0.0a5)

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The following 8 authors contributed 65 commits.

We closed a total of 26 issues, 18 pull requests and 8 regular issues; this is the full list (generated with the script tools/github_stats.py):

Pull Requests (18):

#1146: Fix: Billboard bounding box not accounting for visual size
#1147: BF/MTN: Bounding box for gpu streamtube actor
#1141: NF: Gizmo Introduction.
#1120: Fix: Opacity/alpha transparency not applied in primitive actors
#1125: Fix: remove redundant local.position offset in actor_from_primitive (multiple centers)
#1056: UI: Adding TexturedButton2D and TextButton2D
#1118: UI: Adding LineSlider2D
#1103: fix: correct typo in boys2rgb - z4 should be z2*z2 not z*z2 #857
#1087: Stremtubes GPU bug fix for issue #1067
#1037: Sphere billboard (Impostor)
#1097: Fix: handle None and tuple colors in point actor(#1092)
#1086: Fix progress bar to update in-place on Windows terminals
#1098: NF: API to read back from gpu
#1094: DOC: Fix broken links and typos in Contributing guide and README
#1079: RF: Size based splitting of streamtube actor.
#1052: UI: Adding TextBlock2D
#1076: REL: Release Preparation for 2.0.0a5.
#1075: BF: Slicer flickering in the nearest interpolation.

Issues (8):

#1145: Billboard actors have incorrect initial camera framing (excessive zoom)
#1119: Opacity/alpha transparency not applied in primitive actors
#1124: actor_from_primitive applies double position offset when using multiple centers
#1067: GPU streamtubes does not provide colors in the geometery.
#857: Wrong boys2rgb colormap
#1092: Point actor fails if the colors are not provided.
#1042: Download during fetch_viz_models is too verbose
#1078: Buffers run out if the size of streamtubes/streamlines is huge.