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[Hugin-cvs] /hgrepo/h/hu/hugin/hugin: edit of release notes draft for 2011.0...
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From: <hug...@li...> - 2011-03-01 01:28:23
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branch: details: http://hugin.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/hugin/hugin/hgrepo/h/hu/hugin/hugin/rev/2ce39763d5c3 changeset: 5064:2ce39763d5c3 user: Yuval Levy <yu...@us...> date: Mon Feb 28 20:28:17 2011 -0500 description: edit of release notes draft for 2011.0beta3 diffstat: doc/releases/hugin-2011.0.0_beta3.txt | 208 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 208 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diffs (213 lines): diff -r 464db7608fe8 -r 2ce39763d5c3 doc/releases/hugin-2011.0.0_beta3.txt --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/doc/releases/hugin-2011.0.0_beta3.txt Mon Feb 28 20:28:17 2011 -0500 @@ -0,0 +1,208 @@ +Hugin-2011.0.0_beta3 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 + + +SCHEDULE + +https://launchpad.net/hugin/2011.0 + +The purpose of the schedule is to make the process as predictable as possible +so that contributors can plan for their own contributions (e.g. translations +and bug fixes) and distributors can plan for the binary builds. + +The schedule is just an indication. The release will happen when it is ready. + + +DOWNLOAD + +The 2010.4beta3 source tarball can be downloaded +* from sourceforge at +http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2011.0_beta/hugin-2011.0.0_beta3.tar.bz2/download + +* from launchpad at +http://launchpad.net/hugin/2011.0/2011.0beta3/+download/hugin-2011.0.0_beta3.tar.bz2 + +This is a source code release. For executables see below. + +This tarball is equivalent to rev/changeset __EDIT__ in our Mercurial +repository, where it is also tagged 2011.0beta3 + +Verify its SHA1SUM +__EDIT__ + + +EXECUTABLES + +Users communities produce executables for their respective platforms. + +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 + + +TRANSLATIONS + +Updated since the last beta tarball: +* British English (Garreth Jones) +* Deutsch (Carl von Einem) + +New strings have been added. Now is a good time to help update your language. +Instructions at http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_translation_guide + + +VISUAL APPEARANCE + +To promote artists using Hugin the project will adopt a user-contributed +artwork to enrich the splash screen of this release. Selection of the +artwork is by popular vote. + +Vote at http://www.photopla.net/hugin/2011.0.artwork.html + +Details at +http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/t/44f1834f0d18c2d8 +http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/t/2c24c7938309a241 + +Entries are still accepted and voting goes on until a few days before the +first release candidate. + +If you miss this cycle you will get an opportunity to enter your +artwork for the next release cycle. + + +DEDICATION + +This release of Hugin is dedicated to Claudius Ptolemaeus and Marinus of Tyre. +Details in the About menu. + + +CHANGES SINCE 2010.4.0 + +Only two months have passed since our last release and yet there have been +major changes. 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 point 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 that has +the endorsement of 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_ + +For users compiling from source: +* Hugin uses the wxWidgets GUI toolkit version >=2.7.0. + 2.9 support is experimental. 2.8.11 is recommended. +* boost >=1.34 is required. The following boost libraries are used: + * filesystem + * graph + * iostreams + * regex + * signals + * system + * thread +* Hugin requires a libtiff library with LZW support. +* Hugin depends on libpano13 version >=2.9.18 +* Hugin requires GLEW the OpenGL Extension Wrangler Library, + freeglut the OpenGL utility toolkit, and libGLU the OpenGL utility library. +* On Linux/Unix systems, libraries are now installed in a private location. + This simplifies things for users who want to run multiple versions of Hugin + simultaneously. +* On Linux/Unix systems, Hugin can be compiled with gcc-4.4.4, gcc-4.5.1, + and gcc-4.6. +* On Windows, Hugin can be compiled with MSVC 2008 and MSVC 2010. + The (free) Express Edition is enough, although it lacks OpenMP support. +* The build process requires CMake version >=2.8 + +For more information, see the README and INSTALL_cmake files and +http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Build_your_Own_Test_Builds + +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 + + +CHANGELOG SINCE 2011.0beta2 + +__EDIT__ \ No newline at end of file |