Just in time for Siggraph, we're excited to announce that OpenEXR 2.3 has
been released and is available for download.

This release contains over 280 commits (including close to 50 merged PRs),
the largest in many years, as we've tried to address as many issues as
possible that had been lingering for a while. We've performed internal
testing at several companies, but we understand that large releases like
this are seldom bug-free, and welcome any feedback if you encounter any
issues.

We especially want to call out and recognize our friends who made this
release possible and provided the lion's share of the effort, especially
Kimball Thurston and Peter Hillman at Weta Digital, Nick Porcino, and those
at Lucasfilm/ILM who helped shepherd this along.

Release notes are here, with a few highlights listed below:
https://github.com/openexr/openexr/blob/develop/CHANGES.md

*Features/Improvements:*

   - ThreadPool overhead improvements, enable custom thread pool to be
   registered via ThreadPoolProvider class
   - Fixes to enable custom namespaces for Iex, Imf
   - Improve read performance for deep/zipped data, and SIMD-accelerated
   uncompress support
   - Added rawPixelDataToBuffer() function for access to compressed
   scanlines
   - Iex::BaseExc no longer derived from std::string.
   - Imath throw() specifiers removed
   - Initial Support for Python 3


*Bugs:*

   - 25+ various bug fixes (see detailed Release Notes for the full list)


*Build Fixes:*

   - Various fixes to the cmake and autoconf build infrastructures
   - Various changes to support compiling for C++11 / C++14 / C++17 as well
   as GCC 6.3.1
   - Various fixes to address Windows build issues
   - 60+ total build-related fixes (see detailed Release Notes for the full
   list)


The website is still being updated, but if you want to download
pre-packaged tarballs you can find them here:

IlmBase 2.3.0 source code release:
https://github.com/openexr/openexr/releases/download/v2.3.0/ilmbase-2.3.0.tar.gz

PyIlmBase 2.3.0 source code release:
https://github.com/openexr/openexr/releases/download/v2.3.0/pyilmbase-2.3.0.tar.gz

OpenEXR 2.3.0 source code release:
https://github.com/openexr/openexr/releases/download/v2.3.0/openexr-2.3.0.tar.gz

OpenEXR_Viewers 2.3.0 source code release:
https://github.com/openexr/openexr/releases/download/v2.3.0/openexr_viewers-2.3.0.tar.gz


For those of you attending Siggraph, we're also hosting an OpenEXR BOF on
Tuesday and look forward to discussing new topics in person!

Francois.
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