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date:       Tue Dec 28 08:38:46 2010 -0500
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Release Notes for 2010.4.0_rc3

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+Hugin-2010.4.0_rc3 RELEASE NOTES
+
+Hugin is a panorama stitcher and more.  A new version is available.  This is a
+release candidate and may be declared a final release in a few days.
+
+MIGRATION TO LAUNCHPAD
+
+Tracking of bugs, patches, and features requests for Hugin and related tools
+(Enblend-enfuse and Panotools) has switched from SourceForge to Launchpad.
+Hugin's needs have outgrown the SourceForge tracker.  The project is grateful
+to SourceForge for providing it with a nurturing infrastructure since
+inception.  We hope that the more modern and feature-rich tracker on Launchpad
+will enable the project to work through the backlog of over 200 tickets and
+process an increasing amount of tickets more efficiently.
+
+Please report bugs and feature requests at https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin
+
+TRANSLATIONS
+
+New strings have been added.  Please help us translating the new strings into
+your language.  Instructions at
+http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_translation_guide
+
+DOWNLOAD
+
+The 2010.4.0_rc3 source tarball can be downloaded from sourceforge at
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2010.4_beta/
+
+This is a source code release.  The project has limited resources and relies on
+third parties to produce binaries for the different platforms.  Instructions
+at http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools .  If you have a
+build to contribute for your platform, contact the Hugin developers team on
+http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx .
+
+A number of users have pledged to provide binaries within a few days after a
+tarball release.  Look for announcements of these binaries on
+http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
+
+This tarball is equivalent to 4779:072e972a07ab in our Mercurial
+repository, where it is also tagged 2010.4.0_rc3
+
+Verify its SHA1SUM
+
+47f25c0a8b97c27108e567bcd22203c87f268d07  hugin-2010.4.0_rc3.tar.bz2
+
+CHANGES SINCE 2010.4.0_rc3
+
+Bugfixes
+  * Reverted changes to Images Tab xrc. (Matthew Petroff)
+
+Translations
+  * updated French translation (Jean-Luc Coulon)
+
+DEDICATION
+
+This release of Hugin is dedicated to Milko K. Amorth (1960-2010).  Details in
+the About menu.
+
+CHANGES SINCE 2010.2.0
+
+This is our third release in 2010.  For the first time Hugin can be considered
+feature-complete.  A third-party control points generator is no longer
+necessary. This release delivers some major new features, integrates some
+projects from the 2010 Google Summer of Code, and includes many general
+improvements.
+
+_Built-in Control Points Generator_
+
+For the first time Hugin does not depend on a third-party control points
+generator.  cpfind is the result of years of ongoing efforts and Google Summer
+of Code projects aimed at delivering a 'patent-free' control points generator.
+Third-party control point generators are still supported.
+
+Instead of passing an often incomplete and incompatible set of parameters
+through the command line, the built-in control points generator has direct
+access to all project information and tools.  It speeds up and optimizes
+multi-row matching.  It uses Celeste to identify the sky.  Unlike most of its
+predecessors it is multi-threaded and takes advantage of modern multi-core
+hardware.
+
+Additionally, Hugin now has the ability to save and load control-point
+generators settings from disk, reducing confusion and errors due to the
+changes in the command line interface of the third-party control points
+generators.
+
+_Improved Unattended Operation_
+
+Many features improve unattended (batch) operation including:
+* The Batch Processor has been improved and can now automatically detect
+projects.
+* The Assistant is now batchable as well, so more operations can be automated
+and run unattended.
+* More robust Makefiles to drive the stitching process (see Refactored
+Makefile Library below
+
+_Improved Interaction and Functionality_
+
+Many features improve user interaction (real-time) including:
+* Masks have been extended with two new types to support stacks in the Masks
+tab.
+* Numeric Transform now supports translation (mosaic mode).
+* Photos are now loaded in a background thread.  This means that Hugin
+projects can be used immediately without waiting for all the photos to be
+read.
+* The Stitcher tab is now rearranged and with less jargon to clarify the
+process.
+* Better compliance with native user interface guidelines on Windows, OS X and
+Linux.
+* Hints in the Preview window now suggest improvements.
+
+_Improved Reporting of Stitching and System Information_
+
+*System information is shown in About window.
+*Stitching now reports more information about the current system.
+*Stitching log can be saved for better bug reporting.
+
+_New Command-Line Tools_
+
+* cpfind is a command line interface to Hugin's native 'patent-free'control
+point detector.
+* icpfind uses the different control point detectors and heuristic control
+point detector strategies from the command line. It does not introduce new
+functionality, it allows running the different control points detectors with a
+unified command structure from the command line.
+
+_Refactored Makefile Library_
+
+Hugin stitches panoramas by chaining together individual commands.  The
+stitching process is driven by make a tool known for automatically assembling
+software not images.  The list of targets and the commands to reproduce them
+are described in a declarative language called a Makefile.  Hugin leverages
+the benefits of make for the stitching process. Makefiles make the process
+easy to stop and start, postpone or continue on different machines and
+generally makes everything very flexible and efficient.  If a panorama has
+been only partially edited, the Makefile ensures that only those steps that
+have changed are computed again.  Make enables advanced application such as
+automated stitching and distributed stitching.
+
+With this release, the stitching logic has been recreated with a new C++
+library for creating Makefiles.  This should enable better and more precise
+control over the various stitching tools and scripting of other aspects of
+panorama creation.
+
+_Libraries and Build Improvements_
+
+* Hugin uses the wxWidgets GUI toolkit.  Support has been added for wxWidgets
+2.9.  It is still experimental.  Hugin still supports wxWidgets 2.7 and
+recommends 2.8.
+* Support for gcc-4.4.4 and gcc-4.5.1 compilers.
+* boost 1.34 minimum version required.  At least the following boost libraries
+   * filesystem
+   * graph
+   * iostreams
+   * regex
+   * signals
+   * system
+   * thread
+* Hugin defaults to saving TIFF files with LZW compression instead of
+PACKBITS.  This requires a libtiff with LZW support.
+* On Linux/Unix systems, libaries are now installed in a private location.
+This simplifies things for users who want to run multiple versions of Hugin
+simultaneously.
+
+_New Visuals_
+
+Hugin has had the same logo and icon almost since inception.  Unfortunately
+the source files have gone lost in time.  Cristian Marchi contributed SVG
+files of new logo and icons that are an evolution of the original artwork by
+Dr. Luca Vascon. To celebrate the first feature-complete release of Hugin the
+project has adopted a new visual appearance.  Moreover all artwork source has
+been collected into ./artwork-src.  To facilitate contributions from graphic
+designers the generation of the actual buttons and icons has been streamlined
+and scripted.
+
+_Other Improvements_
+
+This release has the usual bugfixes, adds minor features, and provides some
+more command-line tools for scripting panorama projects.
+
+_Control point generators_
+
+Hugin ships now with its own 'Patent Free' control point generator. You can
+still install and configure one of the following control-point generators as
+'plug-ins':
+* autopano-sift-C
+* panomatic
+* libpanomatic
+* match-n-shift
+* Autopano-SIFT
+* Autopano freeware version
+
+The project will continue to support the plug-in architecture.
+
+_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'.
+
+For users compiling from source: note that the minimum version of wxWidgets
+supported is 2.7.0, libpano13 needs to be at least 2.9.17, and that Hugin
+requires GLEW the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library, freeglut the OpenGL
+utility toolkit, and libGLU the OpenGL utility library.
+
+See the README and INSTALL_cmake files for more information.
+
+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/