Freesurfers,
At long last, a new version of Freesurfer is available for download!
For a list of what it contains, see this page:
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/ReleaseNotes
To download it, see this page:
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/fswiki/Download
And remember our home page is here:
http://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Our advice concerning your data and different freesurfer versions is the same: do not mix versions when processing a set of subjects in your project.
The v5.2 default stream (recon-all -all) does not produce significantly different results from the v5.1 stream, so there is no compelling reason to re-run the default stream on your subject data. However, v5.2 contains quite a few new features and atlases, which you can run on data processed by v5.1. See ReleaseNotes page for details or email the list:
http://mail.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/freesurfer
Thank you to everyone who downloaded and tested the beta release of v5.2.
The Freesurfites