From Paul Martz, "The attached fixes a few issues that are present when ref_ptr implicit casting is disabled."
From Miha Ravsel, "While trying to create my custom serializer class, i created some dummy data which accidentally popped-up bug in InputStream readObjectFields function.

Bug description:
 Let's say we have class A
namespace Bug
{
class A : public osg::Object
{
public:
  //...
  typedef std::vector<osg::ref_ptr<A> > AList;

protected:
  AList _alist;
  //...
}
}

REGISTER_OBJECT_WRAPPER( A,
                        new Bug::A,
                        Bug::A,
                        "osg::Object Bug::A" )
{
       ADD_LIST_SERIALIZER(A,Bug::A::AList);
}


Bug:
We create say 3 instances of class A: A1,A2,A3 and then we add A2 and A3 and A1 as child instances of A1 so we get next structure:
A1
 |- A2,A3,A1

we call osgDB::writeObjectFile(A1,"/data/a.osgt") -> saved correctly( third element in list is saved as unique id that references parentClass

now we call
A1 = osgDB::readObjectFile("/data/a.osgt");

Everything is deserialized correctely except last element in list which should be same instance as parent A1.

The attached code resolves this issue by passing UniqueID in readObjectFields method and saving object in _identifierMap as soon as we have valid object instance so we can make reference to parent object from any child instance.
"
From Sergey Polischuk, "In and Out control points were computed incorrectly for some animation channels with cubic bezier interpolation"
From Mathieu Marache, "I was trying to play with the configuratiion files from the data but
couldn't load them with osgviewer's -c CLI switch, this correction
should make the alias work :-)
"
Moved the

    state.applyTextureMode(0,GL_TEXTURE_2D,osg::StateAttribute::ON);

into the #if defined(OSG_GL_FIXED_FUNCTION_AVAILABLE) block to solve problems under GLES and GL3.x/GL4.x
Cleaned up CMake warning
Added support for checking the possible endian reversal the OSG_HEADER_LOW and OSG_HEADER_HIGH when reading binary files written out from systems that have a different endian to the system reading it.
Added support for using  glGenerateMipmap instead of GL_GENERATE_MIPMAP_SGIS on GLES2
Added s/getByteSwap to teh InputStreamOperator base class and use of this method in the InputStream::start(InputStreamOperator*) method to ensure the bytes are swapped consistently.
Added fin.imbue(std::locale::classic()); to avoid problems with parsing of .obj files
From Thomas Hogarth, build fix for IOS build
Added build problem with using float Matrix.
From Guillaume Millet, "When using the texture Atlas builder, it will convert from REPEAT to
CLAMP all textures using only texcoord between [-0.001 1.001] to give a
chance to create an Atlas.
If the atlas creation failed for other reason (texture size, only one
compatible texture, ...) the texture remain modified in CLAMP mode.

But if you use texcoords between [0.0 1.0] using CLAMP mode instead
REPEAT it is not safe because you will have a blend to the border color
at extremities.
If we want to have exactly the same rendering after changing mode from
REPEAT to CLAMP we should use the CLAMP_TO_EDGE mode instead of CLAMP to
avoid blending to border color at extremities.

Please find as attachment the proposed patch against latest svn version.
"
From Glenn Waldron, "Attached are modifications to ZipArchive to make it safe for mutli-threaded access.
Here's a summary:

* Uses a separate ZIP file handle per thread
* Maintains a single shared (read-only) index, created the first time through
* Stress-tested with the DatabasePager using 24 threads under osgEarth

I also updated the member variables to use OSG's leading-underscore convention."
Improved the handling of endian swap of osg::Array
Updated ChangeLog and AUTHORS for dev release
Removed redudent spaces at ends of lines
From David Callu, "I found a bug in osg::Program.

in osg::Program::PerContextProgram :

typedef std::vector<UniformModifiedCountPair> LastAppliedUniformList;
should be
typedef std::map<unsigned int, UniformModifiedCountPair> LastAppliedUniformList;

Intel driver can use index uniform value > 200000.
With a std::vector, this index uniform value generate an out of memory error

Nothing in OpenGL or GLSL specification define index uniform value rules.
And all other implementation that deal with uniform index in osg::Program
use a std::map.
This fix could have a little performance impact but this is the cost
to pay to work with
all driver."
From Luc Frauciel, "In 3ds plugin, asGeometry() is used on a drawable but the resulting pointer is not tested for nullity.
It leads to a crash when writing osgText::Text or Shapes"
From Luc Frauciel, "I've modified dxf writer :

- correction to writeFace : the fourth point was defined with an incorrect code (http://www.autodesk.com/techpubs/autocad/acad2000/dxf/3dface_dxf_06.htm)
- if no layer name was found, an empty string was used, with is incorrect according to dxf specifications and was rejected by Autodesk DWG TrueView
- the plugin was writting polygons and triangles as LINE, as if PolygonMode GL_LINE was active, and didn't use 3DFACE primitive.
   I changed this behaviour to write 3DFACE  as default, and LINE when  PolygonMode GL_LINE is active.
  when reading back the file with osg, the result is now consistent with the source

Tested with osg plugin, FME (Safe software), Autodesk DWG TrueView
"