CMake 2.8.1 available for download

[Bill Hoffman]

On behalf of myself, Ken, Brad, Dave, Alex, Zach and the rest of the
CMake team, we are pleased to announce that CMake 2.8.1 is
available for download at:

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html

Here are the changes for CMake 2.8.1:

Changes in CMake 2.8.1
- Fix failing test on cygwin
- Add a new search path for MPICH2

Changes in CMake 2.8.1 RC 5
- Fix FindQt4 to work with OpenGL on the mac
- Add .git .bzr and .hg to the list of default CPack ignore directories.

Changes in CMake 2.8.1 RC 4
- CTest: Do not hide test GUI windows (fixes 2.8.0 regression)
- Documentation: Clarify CMAKE_MODULE_PATH variable
- FindQt4: Add support for QtDeclartive module
- FortranCInterface: Fix PathScale detection
- Suppress GNU flag -fPIC on Windows (fixes 2.8.1-rc1 regression)

Changes in CMake 2.8.1 RC 3
- Add CMAKE_XCODE_ATTRIBUTE_<attr> interface to set compiler (#9125)
- Fix Eclipse files for targets in subdirectories (#9978)
- Fix custom command rule hashes to avoid extra rebuilds
- Print non-make generator name in initial compiler test

Changes in CMake 2.8.1 RC 2
- CPack: Avoid deleting long PATH values with NSIS (#10257)
- CTest: Fix and test cost-based test scheduler
- CTest: Fix and test git updates for case of out-dated index
- CTest: Fix regression caused by fix for (#2336) in rc1
- CTest: Setup command-line dashboard support with Git
- FindCUDA: Improve docs, use -rpath on Apple, fix dependency scanning
- Fix OS X deployment-target and sysroot defaults (#9959,#9898,#10155)
- Recognize the Compaq Fortran compiler

Changes in CMake 2.8.1 RC 1
- Add "NMake Makefiles JOM" generator
- Add PathScale compiler support
- Add per-configuration OUTPUT_DIRECTORY properties
- Add per-target OSX_ARCHITECTURES property
- check_type_size(): Handle mixed-size universal binaries
- CPack: Document Mac generators
- CPack: Improve RPM spec files
- Create CMAKE_FORCE_Fortran_COMPILER for cross-compiling
- CTest: Add --http1.0 command-line option
- CTest: Add --timeout command-line option
- CTest: Do not munge UTF-8 output in XML files
- CTest: Document CTEST_USE_LAUNCHERS option
- CTest: Fix killing of whole test process trees
- CTest: Handle failure of running invalid executables
- CTest: Honor the -C arg to ctest (#2336)
- CTest: Improve host system introspection
- CTest: Optionally randomize test order (--schedule-random)
- CTest: Skip tests with unsatisfied REQUIRED_FILES test property
- CTest: Submit arbitrary results with ATTACHED_FILES test property
- ctest_build(): Enhance signature
- ctest_start(): Add APPEND option
- ctest_start(): Move CTEST_CHECKOUT_COMMAND from ctest_update
- ctest_update(): Submit global tree revision in Update.xml
- Cygwin: Do not export all symbols from DLLs (#10122)
- Cygwin: Name DLLs with SOVERSION, not VERSION (#10122)
- Detect 32/64-bit Windows with Intel compiler
- Eclipse generator enhancements
- ExternalProject: Add TIMEOUT parameter
- FindCUDA: Respect CUDA version differences
- FindCURL: Find import libraries on Windows
- FindDCMTK: Look in more places
- FindGTest: Handle spaces better (#10065)
- FindGTK2: Look in fink locations on Mac OS X
- FindHDF5: Follow find-module API conventions
- FindJava: Support for versioned find
- FindJNI: Honor find_package() REQUIRED and QUIET options
- FindMPI: Improve Windows support
- FindOpenSSL: Fix MinGW support
- FindPythonLibs: Look in config for static library
- FindQt4: Misc enhancements, sync with KDE vesion
- FindRuby: Fix version convention on Windows
- FindX11: Improve documentation
- Fortran: Detect address size (#10119)
- FortranCInterface: Honor user flags
- Improve VS 2010 beta2 support
- link_directories(): Treat relative paths consistently (CMP0015)
- Modernize FindLibXslt and FindLibXml.cmake
- Refactor platform info to simplify adding new compilers
- Support cross-compiling versioned DLLs
- UseQt4: Provide dependencies only for static Qt (#10021)
- Address issues:
   #2336, #3571, #5041, #7541, #8725, #9011, #9042, #9054, #9163,
   #9171, #9450, #9697, #9764, #9782, #9792, #9862, #9894, #9913,
   #9916, #9917, #9918, #9949, #9965, #9970, #9982, #9985, #10003,
   #10014, #10021, #10032, #10055, #10060, #10065, #10114, #10119,
   #10122, #10126, #10136.