A new minor version has been released. You'll find it here:

	CloudCompare 2.13.2 installer version	CloudCompare 2.13.2 7z archive version
Windows 64 bits (unified: stereo and non-stereo displays)
Mac OS 64 bits (intel / arm64)	kindly generated and hosted by Paul Rascle
Linux 64 bits	flathub packages are availble for Linux. [Flathub] type "flatpak install flathub org.cloudcompare.CloudCompare"
Sources	git repository: https://github.com/CloudCompare/CloudCompare/releases/tag/v2.13.2 (for compilation instructions, refer to the BUILD.md file)

The wiki documentation is also the only reliable documentation and (almost) up-to-date!

Your support is greatly appreciated. Many thanks to all our supporters who made donations

The 2.13.2 version is a minor release that brings some improvements as well as some more bug fixes.

Here are the improvements:

• substantial improvement of the cloud merge operation (thanks to Thomas Watson)

• symbolic link files (or shortcut or alias) should now be properly handled

• command line:
• increase the timestamp resolution of the registration matrix filename and the best fit plane information filename so as to avoid overwriting them if generated very quickly
• new sub-option -NO_LABEL after -O
• prevents any label from being loaded/created automatically (in case some text columns are present in the input file)
• for ASCCI files only

• Korean translation updated (thanks to Yun-Ho Chung)

• The Animation plugin now uses ffmpeg 6.1

• The 'Normals computation' dialog should remember whether the normals orientation should be resolved or not

• PCD files can now be loaded or saved with local characters.
• PCD files will also be saved as compressed files by default now.

And here are the bug fixes:

• The LAS dialog could be be wrongly initialized with a point format of 0 in some cases (if FWF data was present).
• In command line mode, this could result in missing waveforms when saving. Thanks to Paul Leroy for the fix ;-)
• The Rasterize tool was not letting the user use '0' as the max edge length parameter for the Delaunay-based raster interpolation mode (forcing the user to set a high value to keep all triangles)
• The scale value in the bottom right corner of the 3D view (orthographic mode) was wrong if the screen height was larger than the width
• After the -FEATURE command line command was run, the automatically exported filename of clouds was containing some duplicated contents
• The Poisson Reconstruction progress dialog 'cancel' button was ineffective (the process cannot be canceled). It is now hidden.
• Per-vertex colors were never saved in a Maya (MA) file
• Loading a corrupted STL file could result in a corrupted mesh or a crash
• The Compass plugin had minor but numerous memory leaks
• The torus primitive mesh topology was broken
• LAS files: the synthetic flag could be mistakenly set at save time if some non-zero classification values were present
• The envelope/contour extraction routine of the Cross Section tool could fail or crash in some cases
• Canupo: some scalar fields were not properly removed/cleaned in some cases

Best wishes to all,

Daniel
CloudCompare admin

PS: if you can't read this message properly, you can read it here: http://www.cloudcompare.org/release/notes/20240708/index.html