# When is the official 5.4.0 Release coming?

**URL:** <https://discourse.itk.org/t/when-is-the-official-5-4-0-release-coming/6654>\
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**Created:** [May 22, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/when-is-the-official-5-4-0-release-coming/6654 "2024-05-22T14:45:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![imikejackson](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/imikejackson/32/35_2.png) [@imikejackson](https://discourse.itk.org/u/imikejackson)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/when-is-the-official-5-4-0-release-coming/6654/1 "2024-05-22T14:45:31Z")

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I googled around a bit for the release schedule for ITK and came up with:

> **[Milestones - InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK](https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/milestones)**
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> Insight Toolkit (ITK) -- Official Repository. ITK builds on a proven, spatially-oriented architecture for processing, segmentation, and registration of scientific images in two, three, or more dim...

But nothing really past that. We are patiently waiting for both the 5.4.0 official release and the anaconda packages that go with it so that we can move up from 5.2.1.

Hoping to also have VCPKGs of ITK also updated around the same time.

Having read through the release document for ITK I understand that it is a huge undertaking to get all of these packages in the queue and released. I am curious what the time table for the official 5.4.0 might be?

Thank You.

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**Author:** ![blowekamp](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/blowekamp/32/79_2.png) [@blowekamp](https://discourse.itk.org/u/blowekamp)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/when-is-the-official-5-4-0-release-coming/6654/2 "2024-05-22T14:59:10Z")

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Hello,

The update for the 5.4.0 tag has already been merged into the libitk-feedstock for conda-forge:[libitk v5.4.0 by regro-cf-autotick-bot · Pull Request #89 · conda-forge/libitk-feedstock · GitHub](https://github.com/conda-forge/libitk-feedstock/pull/89)

It’s not clear to me why the build are not published yet onto anaconda, but hopefully soon. Let me know if you see an issue with the feedstock.

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**Author:** ![matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/matt.mccormick/32/7_2.png) [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/when-is-the-official-5-4-0-release-coming/6654/3 "2024-05-22T17:26:15Z")

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In addition to the tag, the Python packages are available. Other release components are being minted. The Git tag will not change – it can be used, if that is all that you need. We will make the release announcement when everything is available.

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**Author:** ![eplanteur\_cs](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/eplanteur_cs/32/4646_2.png) [@eplanteur\_cs](https://discourse.itk.org/u/eplanteur_cs)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 9:05am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/when-is-the-official-5-4-0-release-coming/6654/4 "2024-11-14T09:05:49Z")

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Hello,

Any update on why the 5.4 version is not yet uploaded on anaconda ? I noticed the [libitk feedstock](https://github.com/conda-forge/libitk-feedstock)’s last version is 5.4 but the [itk feedstock](https://github.com/conda-forge/itk-feedstock)’s last version is only 5.3 (whereas the official pypi’s version is 5.4). Am I missing something ?

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/matt.mccormick/32/7_2.png) [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 2:57pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/when-is-the-official-5-4-0-release-coming/6654/5 "2024-11-14T14:57:22Z")

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Hello @eplanteur_cs ,

The technical details are complicated, but we are progressing to improve them so that faster and more maintainable releases of the `itk` conda-forge package are possible. For example, we recently added [pixi](https://pixi.sh/latest/) support for local development and to enable testing in CI, which uses the conda-forge toolchains.

For now, please use the `itk` packages from PyPI.

Thanks,  
Matt

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**Author:** ![eplanteur\_cs](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/eplanteur_cs/32/4646_2.png) [@eplanteur\_cs](https://discourse.itk.org/u/eplanteur_cs)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/when-is-the-official-5-4-0-release-coming/6654/6 "2024-11-14T17:41:00Z")

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Thank you for your answer !

I am currently working on updating a project from python 3.11 to 3.12, which is why I need itk 5.4. The issue is that the project is quite complicated and requires building some packages with `conda build` and one of them ([OTB](https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/)) needs itk. We can’t, at the moment, switch to `pip`, but maybe pixi could be an intersecting alternative. We already identified it as a potential new package manager, as we still want to switch away from conda.