Hugin-2011.0.0 RELEASE NOTES ABOUT Hugin is more than just a panorama stitcher. A new version is available. Hugin can be found at * SourceForge: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ * Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/hugin DOWNLOAD The 2011.0.0 source tarball can be downloaded * from SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2011.0/hugin-2011.0.0.tar.bz2/download * from Launchpad at http://launchpad.net/hugin/2011.0/2011.0.0/+download/hugin-2011.0.0.tar.bz2 This is a source code release. For executables see below. This tarball is equivalent to rev/changeset 5243:67a96ebdac74 in our Mercurial repository, where it is also tagged 2011.0.0 Verify its SHA1SUM 22e1ad3846291a9bbe58570683e213921a6f0116 hugin-2011.0.0.tar.bz2 EXECUTABLES Users communities produce executables for their respective platforms. These executables are then added to the download section on SourceForge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/ A number of users have built recent snapshots and executables are likely to be announced within a few days of this tarball release. Watch http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx for the announcements of binary releases. If you don't see a binary for your platform it has most likely not been produced yet. Consider stepping up to the task. Instructions at http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Supported_Platforms Announce your build on http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx SPLASH SCREEN To promote artists using Hugin the project has adopted a user-contributed artwork to enrich the splash screen of this release. Read more about the Seattle Sunset panorama and author/contributor Jeff Boyd at http://hugin.sourceforge.net/releases/2011.0.0/ TRANSLATIONS Many translations have been updated for this release. CHANGES SINCE 2010.4.0 Despite some known issues (see section KNOWN ISSUES below) this release brings many major new features worth releasing now. Hugin's own control point generator CPFind has been significantly improved; the last project from the 2010 Google Summer of Code has been integrated; many general improvements have been made. _Improved Built-in Control Points Generator_ CPFind's detection ability has been significantly improved, especially for wide angle (> FOV 65°) images, fisheye images, and rotated images. Anecdotal evidence shows it to be more accurate than any other CP detector ever used with Hugin. A thorough, scientific comparison against other CP detectors is welcome. If you have well formed comparison results, please publish a link on the Hugin mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/ _Improved Fast Preview_ An Overview pane has been added to the Fast Preview window. Users can now interact with the panosphere like in a virtual reality viewer in real time and visualize all areas of the panorama with little distortion, including the zenith and nadir that are typically excessively distorted in the flat preview. It is now possible to drag individual images or arbitrary groups of images on the panosphere in the fast preview. A new gray point picker has been added for visual white balance correction. _Registration of Stereo Images_ align_image_stack is commonly used for the alignment of slightly misaligned images, e.g. for creating a High Dynamic Range image from multiple exposures when the camera was hand held. It has been extended with additional functionality for the registration of stereo images. _Other Improvements_ * Man pages are now compressed and the generation is integrated in the CMake process (Linux). * New Thoby projection modeling 10.5mm Nikkor fisheye lens. * Improved support for some keyboard shortcuts. * New Preferences: output file format (LDR only). * This release has the usual bugfixes and adds minor features. _Libraries and Build_ * CMake 2.8 or newer is now required * Support has been added for gcc-4.6 compiler * Libpano13 needs to be at least 2.9.18 CONTROL POINTS GENERATORS Since 2010.4 Hugin ships with its own 'Patent Free' control point generator. Third-party generators are still supported through the plug-in architecture. CPFind is the recommended control point generator and the only one endorsed by the Hugin project team. UPGRADING Upgrading from previous versions of Hugin should be seamless. If you do have problems with old settings, these can be reset in the Preferences by clicking 'Load defaults'. It is strongly recommended to set the default control point detector to Hugin's CPFind. COMPILING Users compiling from source refer to the dependencies listed at http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Dependencies and the build processes listed at http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Build_your_Own_Test_Builds More information in the README and INSTALL_cmake files in the tarball. KNOWN ISSUES AND WORKAROUNDS On some versions of OSX, Hugin can't stitch the project. Workaround: 1. Save the project file in Hugin 2. Open the project file in PTBatcherGUI (File / Add Project / select .pto file) 3. Click the run button to stitch. details at https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin/+bug/697039 Plane overview is wrong if opening fast preview window the first time https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin/+bug/726183 Panosphere Overview window seperated from the content https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin/+bug/726997 An updated list of issues deemed to be critical, including discussions and workarounds is in the issue tracker. https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin/+bugs?search=Search&field.importance=Critical THANKS Thanks to all the contributors to this release and members of the hugin-ptx mailing list, too many to mention here. Hugin can be found at http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ and at https://launchpad.net/hugin