# ITK 5.0 Alpha 1: Modern C++

**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-5-0-alpha-1-modern-c/843
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** c-plus-plus-11, release, itk-releases
**Created:** [April 17, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-5-0-alpha-1-modern-c/843 "2018-04-17T21:04:26Z")
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### Author: ![lassoan](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/lassoan/32/27_2.png) [@lassoan](https://discourse.itk.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [April 30, 2018, 1:16pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-5-0-alpha-1-modern-c/843/7 "2018-04-30T13:16:16Z")

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Awesome! Thanks to all ITK developers for their hard work.

It is very useful to know that performance improvement is so significant, as it bumps up priority of ITK update in 3D Slicer.

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