Windows binaries for Hugin 2010.4.0-rc3 are now available: 32-bit (no installer): http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2010.4_beta/Hugin_2010.4.0-rc3_32bit_Windows.7z/download
64-bit (no installer): http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2010.4_beta/Hugin_2010.4.0-rc3_64bit_Windows.7z/download 32-bit Installer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2010.4_beta/HuginSetup_2010.4.0-rc3_32bit_Windows.exe/download 64-bit Installer: http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2010.4_beta/HuginSetup_2010.4.0-rc3_64bit_Windows.exe/download Matthew On Dec 28, 8:27 am, Yuval Levy <goo...@levy.ch> wrote: > 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 athttps://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin > > TRANSLATIONS > > New strings have been added. Please help us translating the new strings into > your language. Instructions > athttp://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_translation_guide > > DOWNLOAD > > The 2010.4.0_rc3 source tarball can be downloaded from sourceforge > athttp://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 > athttp://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools. If you have a > build to contribute for your platform, contact the Hugin developers team > onhttp://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 > onhttp://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 athttp://hugin.sourceforge.net/ > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. 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