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CMake v2.8 released

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From CMake homepage:

Version 2.8.0 of CMake, the build configuration tool used by the KDE project, Scribus and a number of other Qt-based projects, has been released. Major changes:

  • Official CMake GUI is now based on Qt 4 on all platforms
  • New "--build" option which can "build any CMake build tree from the command line, regardless of the generator used"
  • Visual Studio 2010 support
  • Improved Eclipse support
  • New CTest options to run tests in parallel and to improve error and warning reports on CDash
  • Support for Git, Bazaar and Mercurial in CTest/CDash
  • Improved support for mixed C/Fortran projects
  • Faster Makefile dependency scanning
  • Improved Find modules
  • Three new policies (see here as opposed to here for 2.6).

Full RC-by-RC changelog here. Downloads (source, Windows and Mac installers, tarball binaries for Linux and various Unix platforms) here.