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Hugin-2010.4.0 RELEASE NOTES

Translated versions of these notes can be found at http://hugin.sourceforge.net/releases/

DEDICATION

This release of Hugin is dedicated to Milko K. Amorth (1960-2010). Details in
the About menu.

ABOUT

Hugin is more than just a panorama stitcher.

Hugin can be found at http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
and https://launchpad.net/hugin... read more

Panorama stitching and more. A powerful software package for creation and processing of panoramic images.

A hugin-2009.2.0_beta4 (beta release 4) tarball is available here:

<https://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin-2009.2_beta/hugin-2009.2.0_beta4.tar.gz/download>

This is a beta release, i.e. it may not work for you. The current Hugin 2009.2 release codeline is reported to work on Linux, Windows and OS X, however some experimental functionalities may not work and the final release is likely to have further bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.... read more

Panorama stitching and more. A powerful software package for creation and processing of panoramic images.

A hugin-2009.2.0_beta3 (beta release 3) tarball is available here:

<https://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin-2009.2_beta/hugin-2009.2.0_beta3.tar.gz/download>

This is a beta release, i.e. it may not work for you. The current Hugin 2009.2 release codeline is reported to work on Linux, Windows and OS X, however some experimental functionalities may not work and the final release is likely to have further bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.... read more

Hugin is a panorama stitcher and more.

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/releases/0.8.0/

Changes since 0.7.0

The last release in October 2008 introduced major changes to the way
hugin worked. Although this new release looks and feels much the
same as 0.7.0, it adds some great new features and makes a lot of
small improvements:

Fast Preview window

A new Fast Preview window has been added, this uses OpenGL graphics
acceleration to show changes as they happen. You can drag photos
around the window and they will warp to their new positions in
real-time. Everything else you need to turn, pan and crop your
panorama can now be done interactively in the Fast Preview.... read more

A hugin-0.8.0_rc5 (release candidate 5) tarball is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_id=311429

This is a release candidate, i.e. The final release may be identical.

Changes since 0.8.0 rc4:

* Minor Italian and Spanish translation updates.

* Fix for possible bug in image cache.

* Windows: Fix colouring Fast Preview window buttons in Identify mode.... read more

A hugin-0.8.0_rc4 (release candidate 4) tarball is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_id=311429

This is a release candidate, i.e. The final release may be identical.

Changes since 0.8.0 rc3:

* Minor Hungarian translation update.

* Fixes for Ev value bug that manifests as 'white' images.

* Fix for Fast Preview Crop button crash.

* Fix for crash opening projects without images or control points.... read more

A hugin-0.8.0_rc3 (release candidate 3) tarball is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_id=311429

This is a release candidate, i.e. The final release may be identical.

Changes since 0.8.0 rc2:

* Updated German and Spanish translations.

* Fast Preview window: fix for extreme slowdown bug, fixes for
difference mode detection, crash fix.

* Fix for potential crash running celeste in wide-character locales.... read more

A hugin-0.8.0_rc2 (release candidate 2) tarball is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_id=311429

This is a release candidate, i.e. The final release may be identical.

Lots of changes since 0.8.0 rc1:

* New Chinese Traditional translation, updated Italian and Dutch
translations. Missing languages added to preferences.

* The Image Cache size preference setting was previously broken.... read more

This release adds a number of new input and output projections, a new command-line tool, documentation, cleanups and bugfixes.

Note that hugin-0.8.0 will require this version of libpano13. Note also that the soname has changed, so both hugin and autopano-sift-C will need to be rebuilt to link to this library.

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96188&package_id=237430

A libpano13-2.9.14_rc1 (release candidate 1) tarball has been uploaded to sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96188&package_id=237430

This is a 'release candidate' so the final release may be identical.
There have been some minor updates since 2.9.14_beta2:

* Bump soname to 1.0.0 since ABI has changed since 2.9.12. i.e. To use this library with hugin you will need to recompile hugin.... read more

FreePV 0.3.0 has been released:

http://freepv.sourceforge.net/

FreePV is a viewer for QuickTime (QTVR), SPiV, cylindrical, cubic and cylindrical panoramas. The package provides a standalone panorama viewer and a Firefox/Mozilla plugin.

A source tarball equivalent to svn161 can be downloaded from Sourceforge:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148373&package_id=206947

This release contains many many changes since the last stable 0.1 release in 2006, see the ChangeLog for details.... read more

A hugin-0.8.0_rc1 (release candidate 1) tarball is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_id=311429

This is a release candidate, i.e. The final release may be identical.

Changes since 0.8.0 beta4:

* Updated German and Simplified Chinese translations.

* Fix for photometric optimisation crash bug #2629418.

* Batch Processor now uses a socket for communication on Unix systems.... read more

A hugin-0.8.0_beta4 (beta release 4) tarball is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_id=311429

This is a beta release, i.e. it may not work for you. The final release is likely to have further bugfixes.

Changes since 0.8.0 beta3:

* Updated Dutch, Spanish, Swedish and Japanese translations. Fix for crash when running Celeste in Japanese locale.... read more

* James Legg of Fast Preview fame will tackle the Layout Panorama Model mentored by Bruno Postle, improving the handling of stacks.
* Tim Nugent of Celeste fame will tackle Straight Line Detection for Lens Calibration mentored by Tom Sharpless, improving the handling of fisheye lenses.
* Lukáš Jirkovský, too young in 2008, has become a significant contributor to our community over the past year and will tackle Ghost Removal for Enfuse, mentored by Andrew Mihal.
* Dev Ghosh will add Mosaic Mode to Hugin/Panotools, mentored by Daniel German.
* Last but not least Yulia Kotseruba will add functionality like multiple blending to Lighttwist, mentored by Sébastien Roy.

A hugin-0.8.0_beta3 (beta release 3) tarball is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_id=311429

This is a beta release, i.e. it may not work for you. The final release is likely to have further bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.

About half the translations haven't been updated since 0.7.0, so this release isn't fully internationalised yet.... read more

hugin has been selected for the third time as a SoC mentoring organisation:
http://panospace.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/we-want-you/
http://wiki.panotools.org/SoC_2009_idea
Students in full-time education can apply to be paid by Google to work on the hugin/panotools project.

A hugin-0.8.0_beta2 (beta release 2) tarball is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_id=311429

This is a beta release, i.e. it may not work for you. The final release is likely to have further bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.

In particular, most translations haven't been updated since 0.7.0, so this release isn't fully internationalised yet.... read more

This is a beta release for bug testers. libpano13 is used by hugin, and this version is suitable for testing new features in the upcoming hugin-0.8.0 release.

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96188&package_id=237430

Panorama stitching and more. A powerful software package for creation and processing of panoramic images. Similar to the windows programs PTGui and PTAssembler.

A hugin-0.8.0_beta1 (beta release 1) tarball is available here:

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77506&package_id=311429

This is a beta release, i.e. it may not work for you. The current hugin trunk is reported to work on Linux, Windows and OS X, however the final release is likely to have further bugfixes and minor feature enhancements.... read more

freepv is an OpenGL accelerated panorama viewer and browser plugin. Amongst other things freepv is the way to view QTVR panoramas on Linux:

http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=148373

0.8.0 beta series will start soon, anyone who wants to help with testing of the current hugin code can now download Windows and OS X binary installers:

http://panospace.wordpress.com/downloads/

This is a beta release for bug testers. libpano13 is used by hugin, and this version is suitable for testing new features in the upcoming hugin-0.8.0 release.

https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96188&package_id=237430

panini is an OpenGL panorama viewer and interactive tool for creating perspective views of panoramas, previously known as pvqt. This release adds support for the new 'pannini' projection allowing the creation of amazing vedutismo style images.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pvqt/

Hugin is a panorama stitching and more. A powerful software package for creation and processing of panoramic images. Similar to the windows programs PTGui and PTAssembler.

http://hugin.sourceforge.net/releases/0.7.0/

Hugin has changed enormously in the two years since the 0.6.1 release, hardly any part of the code has remained untouched. There have been many many bug-fixes, improvements to the interface and lots of new features.

There is a release candidate 6 available in the sourceforge download area.

This is a release candidate, i.e. the final release may be identical. There have been a number of changes since rc5:

* Lots of OS X fixes including 64bit and gcc-4.2 support.

* All the relevant images from the manual have been added to Help, this increases the size of both the source tarball and compressed packages by about 1.5MB [bug# 2091014].... read more