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changeset:  5334:a3d4e6c0da0a
user:       Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>
date:       Sun Jun 19 20:23:43 2011 -0400
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hugin-2011.2.0_beta1 release notes

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+Hugin-2011.2.0_beta1 RELEASE NOTES
+
+Hugin is a panorama stitcher and more.  A new version is available.
+
+
+SCHEDULE
+
+https://launchpad.net/hugin/2011.2
+
+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 2011.2beta1 source tarball can be downloaded
+* from sourceforge at
+http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2011.2_beta/hugin-2011.2.0_beta1.tar.bz2/download
+
+* from launchpad at
+http://launchpad.net/hugin/2011.2/2011.2beta1/+download/hugin-2011.2.0_beta1.tar.bz2
+
+This is a source code release.  For executables see below.
+
+This tarball is equivalent to rev/changeset 5332:b5df442ec624 in our Mercurial
+repository, where it is also tagged 2011.2beta1
+
+Verify its SHA1SUM
+ed32ac77b836bf0ae6aa43c8a368cf2df80e76ab  hugin-2011.2.0_beta1.tar.bz2
+
+
+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
+
+New strings have been added.  Now is a good time to help update your language.
+Instructions at http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_translation_guide
+
+
+RELEASE MANAGEMENT
+
+I've been running most of the releases of the past two years.  I will be
+stepping down from this role latest September 6, 2011 because of other
+time committments.
+
+There is a possibility that 2011.2 will be left orphaned in the middle of
+the release cycle, and Hugin needs volunteers to step in for future releases.
+
+If you want to step up to the task, I will be happy to hand over to you
+immediately and mentor you through this release process.  Please contact us
+at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
+
+The process is documented in detail at
+
+http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Release
+
+And you can count on me mentoring you through it.
+
+
+USER-CONTRIBUTED ARTWORK
+
+To promote artists using Hugin the project embellishes the
+application's splash screen and the official release notes
+on the Hugin web page with one artwork generated with Hugin
+and selected by popular vote.
+
+For this release, the runner up from the previous vote
+will be used.
+
+Users have contributed a number of interesting ideas to
+the selection process for the future and a permanent
+contribution and voting facility will be set up for
+future editions.
+
+
+CHANGES SINCE 2011.0.0
+
+Little time has passed since our last release and yet there is new major
+functionality.  Hugin has received a Python scripting interface and new
+lens calibration tool.  A critical bug affecting a significant number of
+Mac users has been fixed and many general improvements have been made.
+
+
+_Lens Calibration Tool_
+
+Lenses are designed to follow a perfect geometric model.  For rectilinear
+lenses, a straight line in the depicted scene should be straight in the
+picture.  This is not always the case:  most lenses have an inherent
+deviation from the perfect model, resulting in imperfections such as
+pincushion or barrel distortion in rectilinear lenses.
+
+Adherence to the perfect geometric model is desirable for aesthetic purposes
+and indespensible to achieve proper alignment when stitching images.
+Hugin can calculate lens distortion parameters on the fly when optimizing
+a project, however this requires more control points and more computational
+effort than a project starting with a calibrated lens, and is prone to more
+errors.
+
+The new lens calibration tool calculates the distortion parameters of a
+lens based on an input image.  The input image must contain straight
+lines, ideally many of them at different distances from the center of the
+lens, covering at least 1/4 of the image.  The calculated parameters are
+valid for a given combination of focal distance, aperture (F-stop), and
+sensor.
+
+The values, saved into a lens profile, can be used in Hugin to achieve
+a better stitch, or on single images taken with this lens / settings
+combination to achieve a more aesthetically pleasing outcome.
+
+
+_Python Scripting Interface_
+
+Hugin now exposes some of its data structure and functionalities through
+a Python module.  To get started with scripting, start your Python
+interpreter and type:
+
+   >>> import hsi
+   >>> help (hsi)
+
+Standalone Python programs can access a panorama object with Hugin's
+functionality.  It is possible to develop complete command line and
+even GUI tools based on this module.
+
+
+_Python Plugin Interface_
+
+Hugin can now run Python scripts inside the application.  In an enabled
+Hugin binary, a new "Actions" menu gives access to system-wide plugins
+distributed with Hugin.  Moreover, plugins can be written, modified,
+customized in the user's own directory.
+
+Currently there are only a few plugins available, but we expect the
+body of available plugins and functionality to grow organically as
+the interface is being made available to the general public.
+
+
+_Other Improvements_
+
+* PTBatcherGUI has matured to become the default processor for
+  stitching projects.
+* ICC profiles saved in output.
+* Support for newer Olympus camera.
+* Improved auto cropping.
+* Fix for critical issue affecting stitching on Mac OS X Leopard.
+* Many more improvements and bug fixes.
+
+
+_Libraries and Build_
+
+The Python interface introduces new dependencies:
+* SWIG >2.0
+* Python
+
+
+_Control point generators_
+
+Since 2010.4 Hugin ships with its own control point generator CPFind.
+Third-party generators are still supported through the plug-in architecture.
+CPFind is the recommended control points 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 recommeded 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.
+* Building the Python module is optional.  SWIG>2.0 and Python are required.
+  To build it, configure BUILD_HSI=ON before compiling.
+  The Python module is currently not supported on Mac OS X for lack of
+  development resources but we hope to get it working during the current
+  release cycle or shortly thereafter.
+* On Linux/Unix systems, libaries are 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.
+
+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
+
+
+A DETAILED CHANGELOG SINCE THE LAST RELEASE FOLLOWS
+
+2011-02-27 08:50 -0500  Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>  (c27d2767632b)
+
+  Bumped up version number
+
+  > CMakeLists.txt
+  > mac/Version.xcconfig
+
+2011-02-27 08:58 -0500  Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>  (26732503e5dd)
+
+  Updated ChangeLog
+
+  > ChangeLog
+
+2011-02-27 16:00 +0100  dmakreshanski <dma...@us...>  (f1663f841086)
+
+  grid checkbox now disables panosphere grid as well
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.cpp
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/ToolHelper.cpp
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/ToolHelper.h
+
+2011-02-27 16:24 +0100  dmakreshanski <dma...@us...>  (7d0a3d8b9a8b)
+
+  separated transparent semi transparent sphere from panosphere
+  projection grid tool
+
+  + src/hugin1/hugin/PanosphereSphereTool.cpp
+  + src/hugin1/hugin/PanosphereSphereTool.h
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/CMakeLists.txt
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.cpp
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.h
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/ProjectionGridTool.cpp
+
+2011-02-27 17:29 +0100  dmakreshanski <dma...@us...>  (14ed34ea2488)
+
+  toggle buttons for images in fast preview now have variable width
+  from 0-9, 10-99 and 100+
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.cpp
+
+2011-02-27 18:09 +0100  dmakreshanski <dma...@us...>  (b966fc504f32)
+
+  memory free for the new panosphere_sphere_tool missed in previous
+  commit
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.cpp
+
+2011-02-27 20:52 +0100  tmodes  (a75bf1b21008)
+
+  [Windows] Improved mouse event handling to get mouse wheel events in
+  GLCanvas [725667]
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLViewer.cpp
+
+2011-02-27 18:34 -0500  Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>  (98d677602999)
+
+  2011.0beta1 release notes
+
+  + doc/releases/hugin-2011.0.0_beta1.txt
+
+2011-02-27 21:21 -0500  Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>  (d46e33136b9b)
+
+  release notes for 2011.0beta2
+
+  + doc/releases/hugin-2011.0.0_beta2.txt
+
+2011-02-28 18:58 +0100  tmodes  (00c4a9ed694f)
+
+  Only probe active images with grey picker
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/PreviewColorPickerTool.cpp
+
+2011-02-28 22:18 +0100  tmodes  (c8a5cbef68c5)
+
+  Remove unused files
+
+  > src/hugin_base/CMakeLists.txt
+  - src/hugin_base/algorithms/nona/NonaImageStitcher.cpp
+  - src/hugin_base/algorithms/nona/NonaImageStitcher.h
+
+2011-02-28 22:48 +0100  tmodes  (3ed08b21b77b)
+
+  Save also ICC profile in output [709561]
+
+  > src/hugin_base/nona/Stitcher.h
+
+2011-02-28 18:58 -0500  Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>  (98653ef258be)
+
+  CMake 2.8 is now required (Peter Suetterlin)
+
+  > CMakeLists.txt
+
+2011-02-28 19:06 -0500  Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>  (561401a00cc2)
+
+  Updated en_GB translation (Gareth Jones)
+
+  > src/translations/en_GB.po
+
+2011-02-28 19:06 -0500  Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>  (464db7608fe8)
+
+  Updated de translation (Carl von Einem)
+
+  > src/translations/de.po
+
+2011-02-28 20:28 -0500  Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>  (2ce39763d5c3)
+
+  edit of release notes draft for 2011.0beta3
+
+  + doc/releases/hugin-2011.0.0_beta3.txt
+
+2011-02-28 20:13 +0100  harryvanderwolf <hv...@gm...>  (62021532ebe6)
+
+  [OSX] lots of minor changes to XCode project to make it compilable
+  again after many trunk changes
+
+  > mac/Hugin.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj
+
+2011-03-01 12:57 +0100  harryvanderwolf <hv...@gm...>  (758aa5e076ea)
+
+  local merge neccessary
+
+  + doc/releases/hugin-2011.0.0_beta3.txt
+  > CMakeLists.txt
+  > src/hugin_base/CMakeLists.txt
+  > src/hugin_base/nona/Stitcher.h
+  > src/translations/de.po
+  > src/translations/en_GB.po
+  - src/hugin_base/algorithms/nona/NonaImageStitcher.cpp
+  - src/hugin_base/algorithms/nona/NonaImageStitcher.h
+
+2011-03-01 13:53 +0100  mcri  (9f2028d8e929)
+
+  Updated Italian translation
+
+  > src/translations/it.po
+
+2011-03-01 18:30 +0100  harryvanderwolf <hv...@gm...>  (3accf12d8a20)
+
+  Updated dutch translation
+
+  > src/translations/nl.po
+
+2011-03-01 19:34 +0100  tmodes  (15a38d2dc3e7)
+
+  Added small hints for using gray picker tool
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.cpp
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/PreviewColorPickerTool.cpp
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/xrc/preview_frame.xrc
+
+2011-03-01 19:54 +0100  tmodes  (f1c0b98e9ece)
+
+  Small typo in german translation
+
+  > src/translations/de.po
+
+2011-03-01 19:55 +0100  tmodes  (842824d33b0a)
+
+  Fixes background color for wxWidgets 2.9
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/PreferencesDialog.cpp
+
+2011-03-01 19:55 +0100  tmodes  (4941adbe2ef7)
+
+  Set explicit focus for main window for GTK Should improve keyboard
+  handling
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/MainFrame.cpp
+
+2011-03-01 21:04 +0100  tmodes  (b1d007ca6815)
+
+  Added reset crop button
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.cpp
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.h
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/xrc/preview_frame.xrc
+
+2011-03-02 18:36 +0100  tmodes  (f3a428981466)
+
+  Fixes crash in gray color picker [727449]
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.cpp
+
+2011-03-06 14:15 +0100  tmodes  (8c47403bf194)
+
+  Draw panosphere above images and not below [726186]
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/PanosphereSphereTool.cpp
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/PanosphereSphereTool.h
+
+2011-03-06 14:16 +0100  tmodes  (76eed195797b)
+
+  Fixes some color/intensity issue in overview window
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/OverviewOutlinesTool.cpp
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/PanosphereSphereTool.cpp
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/TextureManager.cpp
+
+2011-03-06 14:16 +0100  tmodes  (a7775fb68068)
+
+  Update layout scale also for overview window after switching mode
+
+  > src/hugin1/hugin/GLPreviewFrame.cpp
+
+2011-03-06 14:17 +0100  tmodes  (fe15b679764f)
+
+  Use bounding box for faster mask calculation This speeds up only
+  masks which does not cover the whole image
+
+  > src/hugin_base/panodata/Mask.cpp
+  > src/hugin_base/panodata/Mask.h
+
+2011-03-06 20:35 +0100  tmodes  (2683c1a1ba37)
+
+  Use external tclap library [703735] Patch by Andreas Metzler,
+  extended for Windows
+
+  + CMakeModules/FindTclap.cmake
+  > CMakeLists.txt
+  > src/hugin_cpfind/CMakeLists.txt
+  - src/foreign/tclap/Arg.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/ArgException.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/CmdLine.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/CmdLineInterface.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/CmdLineOutput.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/Constraint.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/DocBookOutput.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/HelpVisitor.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/IgnoreRestVisitor.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/MultiArg.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/MultiSwitchArg.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/OptionalUnlabeledTracker.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/StdOutput.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/SwitchArg.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/UnlabeledMultiArg.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/UnlabeledValueArg.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/ValueArg.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/ValuesConstraint.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/VersionVisitor.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/Visitor.h
+  - src/foreign/tclap/XorHandler.h
+
+2011-03-06 16:52 -0500  Yuval Levy <yu...@us...>  (10a38df6dfa1)
+
+  Fix syntax and formatting errors in the man pages (Andreas Metzler)
+
+  > doc/align_image_stack.pod
+  > doc/autooptimiser.pod
+  > doc/celeste_standalone.pod
+  > doc/deghosting_mask.pod
+  > doc/fulla.pod
+  > doc/hugin.pod
+  > doc/hugin_hdrmerge.pod
+  > doc/hugin_stitch_project.pod
+  > doc/nona.pod
+  > doc/nona_gui.pod
+  > doc/pto2mk.pod
+  > doc/tca_correct.pod
+  > doc/vig_optimize.pod
+
+2011-03-07 18:04 +0100  tmodes  (c23f16903996)
+
+  Fixes reset exposure on Lens panel The introduction of the
+  CombinedPanoCommand in f71ccb911ead does not correctly reset the
+  output exposure value of the panorama. Fixes this by an extra
+  ResetMeanExposure PanoCommand.