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Hugin-2010.4.0beta1 RELEASE NOTES
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Hugin is a panorama stitcher and more. A new version is available.
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Tracking of bugs, patches, and features requests for Hugin has switched from
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SourceForge to Launchpad. Hugin's needs have outgrown the SourceForge
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tracker. The project is grateful to SourceForge for providing it with a
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nurturing infrastructure since inception. We hope that the more modern and
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feature-rich tracker on Launchpad will enable the project to work through the
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backlog of over 200 tickets and process an increasing amount of tickets more
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Please report bugs and feature requests at https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin
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New strings have been added. Please help us translating the new strings into
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your language. Instructions at
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http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_translation_guide
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The 2010.4beta1 source tarball can be downloaded from sourceforge at
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2010.4_beta/h...
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This is a sourcecode release. The project has limited resources and relies on
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third parties to produce binaries for the different platforms. Instructions at
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http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools . If you have a
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build to contribute for your platform, contact the Hugin developers team on
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http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx .
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A number of users have pledged to provide binaries within a few days after
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this tarball release. Announcements of these binaries are expected in the
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coming days on http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx . If you don't see a
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binary for your platform announced, it is most likely that nobody produced one
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yet. Consider contributing one yourself.
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This tarball is equivalent to rev/changeset 4611:95c7c055a9d9 in our Mercurial
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repository, where it is also tagged 2010.4beta1
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Verify its SHA1SUM 82eab19c8d9401d7a5b9d9d835e1c8ade4b87f1a
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This release of Hugin is dedicated to Milko K. Amorth (1960-2010). Details in
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CHANGES SINCE 2010.2.0
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This is our third release in 2010. For the first time Hugin can be considered
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feature-complete. A third-party control points generator is no longer
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necessary. This release delivers some major new features, integrates some
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projects from the 2010 Google Summer of Code, and includes many general
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_Built-in Control Points Generator_
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For the first time Hugin does not depend on a third-party control points
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generator. cpfind is the result of years of ongoing efforts and Google Summer
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of Code projects aimed at delivering a 'patent-free' control points generator.
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Third-party control point generators are still supported.
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Instead of passing an often incomplete and incompatible set of parameters
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through the command line, the built-in control points generator has direct
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access to all project information and tools. It speeds up and optimizes
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multi-row matching. It uses Celeste to identify the sky. Unlike most of its
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predecessors it is multi-threaded and takes advantage of modern multi-core
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Additionally, Hugin now has the ability to save and load control-point
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generators settings from disk, reducing confusion and errors due to the
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changes in the command line interface of the third-party control points
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_Improved Unattended Operation_
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Many features improve unattended (batch) operation including:
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* The Batch Processor has been improved and can now automatically detect
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* The Assistant is now batchable as well, so more operations can be automated
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* More robust Makefiles to drive the stitching process (see Refactored Makefile
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_Improved Interaction and Functionality_
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Many features improve user interaction (real-time) including:
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* Masks have been extended with two new types to support stacks in the Masks
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* Numeric Transform now supports translation (mosaic mode).
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* Photos are now loaded in a background thread. This means that Hugin
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projects can be used immediately without waiting for all the photos to be
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* The Stitcher tab is now rearranged and with less jargon to clarify the
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* Better compliance with native user interface guidelines on Windows, OS X and
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* Hints in the Preview window now suggest improvements.
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_Improved Reporting of Stitching and System Information_
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*System information is shown in About window.
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*Stitching now reports more information about the current system.
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*Stitching log can be saved for better bug reporting.
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_New Command-Line Tools_
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* cpfind is a command line interface to Hugin's native 'patent-free'control
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* icpfind uses the different control point detectors and heuristic control point
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detector strategies from the command line. It does not introduce new
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functionality, it allows running the different control points detectors with a
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unified command structure from the command line.
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_Refactored Makefile Library_
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Hugin stitches panoramas by chaining together individual commands. The
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stitching process is driven by make a tool known for automatically assembling
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software not images. The list of targets and the commands to reproduce them
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are described in a declarative language called a Makefile. Hugin leverages the
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benefits of make for the stitching process. Makefiles make the process easy to
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stop and start, postpone or continue on different machines and generally makes
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everything very flexible and efficient. If a panorama has been only partially
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edited, the Makefile ensures that only those steps that have changed are
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computed again. Make enables advanced application such as automated stitching
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and distributed stitching.
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With this release, the stitching logic has been recreated with a new C++
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library for creating Makefiles. This should enable better and more precise
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control over the various stitching tools and scripting of other aspects of
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_Libraries and Build Improvements_
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* Hugin uses the wxWidgets GUI toolkit. Support has been added for wxWidgets
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2.9. It is still experimental. Hugin still supports wxWidgets 2.7 and
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* Support for gcc-4.4.4 and gcc-4.5.1 compilers.
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* boost 1.34 minimum version required. At least the following boost libraries
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* Hugin defaults to saving TIFF files with LZW compression instead of PACKBITS.
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This requires a libtiff with LZW support.
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* On Linux/Unix systems, libaries are now installed in a private location.
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This simplifies things for users who want to run multiple versions of Hugin
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Hugin has had the same logo and icon almost since inception. Unfortunately
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the source files have gone lost in time. Cristian Marchi contributed SVG files
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of new logo and icons that are an evolution of the original artwork by Dr.
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Luca Vascon. To celebrate the first feature-complete release of Hugin the
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project has adopted a new visual appearance. Moreover all artwork source has
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been collected into ./artwork-src. To facilitate contributions from graphic
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designers the generation of the actual buttons and icons has been streamlined
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This release has the usual bugfixes, adds minor features, and provides some
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more command-line tools for scripting panorama projects.
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_Control point generators_
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Hugin ships now with its own 'Patent Free' control point generator. You can
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still install and configure one of the following control-point generators as
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* Autopano freeware version
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The project will continue to support the plug-in architecture.
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Upgrading from previous versions of Hugin should be seamless. If you do have
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problems with old settings, these can be reset in the Preferences by clicking
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For users compiling from source: note that the minimum version of wxWidgets
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supported is 2.7.0, libpano13 needs to be at least 2.9.17, and that Hugin
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requires GLEW the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library, freeglut the OpenGL
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utility toolkit, and libGLU the OpenGL utility library.
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See the README and INSTALL_cmake files for more information.
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Thanks to all the contributors to this release and members of the hugin-ptx
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mailing list, too many to mention here.
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Hugin can be found at http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
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