What’s New in PV-WAVE?
PV-WAVE provides repeatability for writing data visualization applications. Find out what the latest features are and how to get started.
PV-WAVE 2026.0 (Pre-Release Build)
PV-WAVE 2026.0 is a pre-release build intended to provide support for modern Linux environments and address a critical licensing issue affecting some existing PV-WAVE installations. This build is recommended for customers who require Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 support or who are impacted by the licensing issue described below.
New Features and Enhancements
- Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 with GCC 11.
Licensing Issue Resolution
A defect in the PV-WAVE license checking mechanism may cause certain versions of PV-WAVE to incorrectly report that a perpetual license has expired after June 29, 2026. Upgrading to PV-WAVE 2026.0 and applying a new license file resolves this issue. PV-WAVE 2026.0 is not affected by the defect and is currently one of the recommended upgrade paths for impacted customers.
Customers unable to upgrade may contact Perforce Support regarding version-specific patches that are being prepared for selected supported releases.
More information on the issue can be found in this knowledge base article.
Accessing PV-WAVE 2026.0
PV-WAVE 2026.0 is available through the Perforce Support Portal. Customers who need portal access may need to complete the standard portal-access provisioning process before downloading the build.
PV-WAVE 2023.4
PV-WAVE 2023.4 adds support for invoking optional opi_init and opi_fini functions when an option library is loaded and unloaded (respectively).
Windows:
Moved Socket and SSL_connect option library initialization and cleanup code to new opi_init and opi_fini functions to address unexpected disconnects that could occur in the networking option libraries.
RELEASE NOTES
PV-WAVE 2023.3
Platform Updates
- Visual Studio 2019
- Visual Studio 2022
Features and Enhancements
- All known CRITICAL severity CVEs in PV-WAVE or its dependencies have been addressed or mitigated
- Solaris|Windows: Libxml2 has been upgraded to version 2.11.5
- HDF5 has been upgraded to HDF5 1.8.23
- Windows: TCL/TK, used in VTK7, has been upgraded to 8.6.13
- Third party dependencies in the Image and Photo options were updated:
- Windows and Solaris: libpng upgraded to libpng 1.6.40
- Windows and Solaris: LibTIFF upgraded to LibTIFF 4.0.9
- Windows and Solaris: zlib upgraded to zlib 1.3 Solaris: libjpeg upgraded to libjpeg 8d
- SSL_connect was upgraded from OpenSSL 1.1.1s to 3.0.12
PV-WAVE 2023.2
Platform Updates
- Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 / GCC 8
- Oracle 19c
- PV-WAVE is now built with GCC, removing a dependency on the Oracle Solaris Studio Runtime
- Only 64-bit version of PV-WAVE is supported on Linux
Features and Enhancements
Linux
- SSL_connect now uses a local system OpenSSL library
- Interapp examples leverage CMake for their build infrastructure
- PV-WAVE now uses a local system Open Motif library
- SSL_connect was upgraded from OpenSSL 1.1.0f to 1.1.1s
- HDF4 was upgraded from HDF 4.2r0 to 4.2.15
Windows
- Socket operations have been updated to leverage the winsock2 library
PV-WAVE 2023.1
PV-WAVE 2023.1 upgrades HDF4 from HDF4.2r0 to 4.2.15. This includes updating dependent third party libraries required by the HDF4 library. On Windows the socket operations have been updated to leverage the winsock2 library.