Final changes for glvis-4.5

[tzanio]

📆 Target release date: February 6, 2026

🟡 In Progress:

🔴 TODO:

📆 After the Release:

• Update pyglvis
• Update glvis-js
• Spack PR to add GLVis v4.5

⚪ Optional:

• Hotkey clash for 2D vector data #350 ← @camierjs
• Configurable line width with modern OpenGL #232 ← @publixsubfan
• [WIP] Improved transparency with dual depth peeling #166 ← @publixsubfan
• Support time navigation #325
• Incorrect visualization of submesh transferred to mesh #324
• Button to enter command #287
• Update CI to test installation with both GNU make and CMake #241
• Add style check to PR CIs
• Updating GLVis mesh vector or scalar solution without drawing a new mesh #272
• Support for visualization of particle data
• Adaptive geometry refiner
• Raytracing?!
• Better vector graphics output
• Improved testing with random keys

🟤 Postponed:

• Future Improvements 🚀 #133
• Calling VisualizationSceneSolution3d from own application #274
• Refactoring to remove global state #170 ← @publixsubfan

🟢 DONE:

• Website PR, Website changes for glvis-4.5 web#24 ← @tzanio
• Update release date in CHANGELOG: Final changes for GLVis 4.5 #360
• Finalize and merge this PR into master ← @tzanio
  • Point data submodule to master
• Update CONTRIBUTING.md (e.g. the code directory structure)
  • Code structure tree
  • References to Doxygen
• Review lines listing hack/hacky (see grep -Ri hack .)
• Update incrementally gl2ps with pre 1.4.3 #358 ← @camierjs
• Update Copyright to 2010-2026 #356 ← @tzanio
• Update release number to 4.5 (see ea057e4)
• Cleaned up default palettes #349 ← @najlkin
• DOFs numberings displays #339 ← @camierjs
• Refactoring with scripts and stream commands help #335 ← @najlkin
• Palette cli #344 ← @justinlaughlin
  • Loading of custom palettes by commands
• Enable q/Q key mode #353 Enable q/Q key mode ← @camierjs, @najlkin
• EGL headless visualization #336 (+ Screenshot does not behaves reliably in glvs script #254) ← @najlkin
  • CGL headless visualization #338 ← @najlkin
• Visualization of complex functions #352 ← @najlkin
• Removed dependency on general/text.hpp. #355 ← @najlkin
• Added single color alpha palettes #354 ← @najlkin
• Set maximum and minimum in GLVis for time-dependent problem #277
• Proper stream parsing in glvis-js #340 + Stream commands unavailable in glvis-js #315 ← @najlkin

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Pull request overview

This PR finalizes the version updates for the glvis-4.5 release, scheduled for January 31, 2026. The changes consistently update version numbers across configuration files, build metadata, and documentation.

Key Changes:

• Version number updated from 4.4 to 4.5 across all relevant files
• CHANGELOG updated with new version header for 4.5 release
• Release badges updated in README and CONTRIBUTING documentation

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 6 out of 6 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

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File	Description
vcpkg.json	Updates package version to 4.5
share/Info.plist	Updates macOS bundle version string to 4.5
share/Info.cmake.plist.in	Updates CMake template bundle version string to 4.5
README.md	Updates release badge to display v4.5
CONTRIBUTING.md	Updates release badge to display v4.5
CHANGELOG	Adds version 4.5 release entry with placeholder release date

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[tzanio]

@najlkin -- should we mention #349 in CHANGELOG?

[najlkin]

@tzanio , I think not, it was minor and on the developer side only.

[najlkin]

Do we want to keep doxygen mentioned in CONTRIBUTING.md?
<a href="https://glvis.github.io/doxygen/html/index.html"><img alt="Doxygen" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/code-documented-success.svg"></a> - remove? (It points to 4.2 version 🫠 )
- [ ] All significant new classes, methods and functions have Doxygen-style documentation in source comments. - we might keep it (or remove "Doxygen-style")
- [ ] List major new classes in doc/CodeDocumentation.dox *(rare)*. - remove?
- [ ] Update and push documentation to glvis/doxygen. - remove?

[najlkin]

About hacks:

• Those in aux_js.cpp have been removed in Proper stream parsing in glvis-js #340 🙌
• The rest is old and proven over time 😄

[tzanio]

@najlkin, can you resolve the conflicts?

[tzanio]

@camierjs and @justinlaughlin -- can you please review?