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 OSG News
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+!!!OpenScneneGraph 1.1 release introduces .....
+
+AYRSHIRE, Scotland - July 2006  - [=OpenSceneGraph=] Professional Services announces the release of [=OpenSceneGraph=] 1.1, 
+the industry's leading open-source graphics library with [=OpenGL=] 2.0 and [=OpenGL=] Shading Language support. [=OpenSceneGraph=] is designed to accelerate application development and improve 3D graphics performance. [=OpenSceneGraph=] 1.0, written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon [=OpenGL=], offers developers working in the visual simulation, game development, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling markets a real time visualization tool which rivals established commercial scene graph toolkits in functionality and performance. [=OpenSceneGraph=] 1.0 runs on all Microsoft Windows platforms, Apple OS/X, GNU/Linux, IRIX, Solaris and [=FreeBSD=] operating systems. 
+
+New OpenFlight loader with support for version 16.1, including OpenGL Shader Lanaguage support.
+
+TerraPage update to version 2.2
+
+Support for OpenGL Shander Lanaguage uniform arrays
+
+New Quake3 BSP loader
+
+New observer_ptr<> smart pointer which holds a pointer to an object, but does
+does affect its reference, so doesn't take any ownership of it.  If the object
+goes out of scope then the observer_ptr<> is automatically set to 0.
+
+Improved support for multi-threaded, multi-pipe applications, including performance improvements and automated configuration of threading.
+
+Bug fixes.
+
+
+
 !!!High performance open-source graphics toolkit [=OpenSceneGraph=] hits 1.0!
 
 AYRSHIRE, Scotland - December 9th, 2005 - [=OpenSceneGraph=] Professional Services announces the release of [=OpenSceneGraph=] 1.0, the industry's leading open-source graphics library with [=OpenGL=] 2.0 and [=OpenGL=] Shading Language support. [=OpenSceneGraph=] is designed to accelerate application development and improve 3D graphics performance. [=OpenSceneGraph=] 1.0, written entirely in Standard C++ and built upon [=OpenGL=], offers developers working in the visual simulation, game development, virtual reality, scientific visualization and modeling markets a real time visualization tool which rivals established commercial scene graph toolkits in functionality and performance. [=OpenSceneGraph=] 1.0 runs on all Microsoft Windows platforms, Apple OS/X, GNU/Linux, IRIX, Solaris and [=FreeBSD=] operating systems.