Hugin 2010.4.0 released

Pablo d'Angelo — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:08:03 -0000

Thanks to everyone responsible for this release!

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

DOWNLOAD

This tarball is equivalent to 4779:072e972a07ab in our Mercurial
repository, where it is also tagged 2010.4.0

Verify its SHA1SUM

47f25c0a8b97c27108e567bcd22203c87f268d07 hugin-2010.4.0.tar.bz2

This is a source code release. User-contributed binaries for which the
project takes no responsibility may or may not be available at the
following locations:

* Windows XP/Vista/7 32bit & 64bit
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2010.4/
* Mac OSX Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard
http://panorama.dyndns.org/index.php?lang=en&subject=hugin&texttag=hugin
* Ubuntu Linux Karmic, Lucid, Maverick, Natty
https://launchpad.net/~hugin/+archive/hugin-builds
* Fedora Linux 13/14
http://bugbear.postle.net/~bruno/apt/fedora/linux/

Please report bugs and feature requests at https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin

CHANGES SINCE 2010.2.0

This is our third and last 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.

_Languages_

Many of the translations have been updated for this release. The project gladly
accepts contributed translations to include in future releases. Instructions at
http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_translation_guide

_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'. If problems persists, delete ~/.hugin or the Hugin registry keys
and restart the application.

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-2009.2.0_beta4 released

Pablo d'Angelo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:21:20 -0000

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.

CALL FOR TRANSLATORS

In particular, most translations haven't been updated since 0.8.0, so this release isn't fully internationalised yet. There are less than 30 new strings to translate so it isn't a big job this time. Start at

<http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_translation_guide>

With the new release process it is possible for the final version to be released without updated translations. Updated translations that don't make the cut will be used in future releases.

FIXES SINCE BETA 3:

* Bug Fixes

- [2166837] nona: Only probe relevant images active
when stiching more than one image (Gerry Patterson)
- [2837155] align_image_stack will now bailout if there is
an error during optimization process (Gerry Patterson)
- [2292877] abort if the temporary project file
can not be created. (Gerry Patterson)

* Clean Up

- Streamlined libpano support: Hugin now requires libpano13 and
no longer supports libpano12 (Yuv)
- Licenses (Zoran Mesec, Pablo d'Angelo)
- translations (Bruno Postle)
- removed unnecessary files (Bruno Postle, Pablo d'Angelo, Yuv)

* Platforms

- Control Points Detector selection for OSX is now the same as for
Linux and Windows (Thomas Modes, Harry van der Wolf)
- Improved support for FreeBSD (Vasil Dimov, Yuv)

* Build System

- More robust build system (Kornel Benko, Andreas Metzler)
- improved OSX build (Harry van der Wolf)
- improved support for systems without log2 (Yuv)

* Updated Translations:

- Traditional Chinese (Rick Langford)
- Italian (Cristian Marchi)

MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.8.0:

* GPU accelerated stitching. Highly experimental. Activate from Files -> Preferences -> Stitching. Depends on a combination of hardware, driver, input images and other factors. Details will be posted in the Hugin FAQ <http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ#GPU-stitching_.28nona.29g>

* Improved Preferences panel (Control Point Detectors), with user friendly presets for the most popular choices.

* Improved control of stitching process (Stitcher tab). Hugin now features an additional Exposure fusion -> Blended and fused panorama output option, useful when it is not possible to keep exposure and white balance constant between shots. Tutorial at <http://hugin.sourceforge.net/tutorials/auto-exposure/>

* Fast Preview shows control points connected with lines - the longest the line the worse the quality (except for vertical and horizontal control lines).

* Streamlined support for libpano. Libpano13 is now required. Discontinued support for legacy libpano12.

* Improved build system.

* Lots of bugfixes, lots of new bugs.

See README, ChangeLog and INSTALL_cmake for more information.

This release is tagged in the subversion repository as /hugin/releases/tag/2009.2.0_beta4 at revision 4414.

SHA1SUM:ab945ea421f651349a3247dfbe10c81c2d78dcfa hugin-2009.2.0_beta4.tar.gz

Recent Hugin binary installers for testing are provided by the users communities and can be found here:

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

Hugin-2009.2.0_beta3 released

Pablo d'Angelo — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:40:44 -0000

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>

CALL FOR TRANSLATORS

<http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_translation_guide>

With the new release process it is possible for the final version to be released without updated translations. Updated translations that don't make the cut will be used in future releases.

MAJOR CHANGES SINCE 0.8.0:

* Improved Preferences panel (Control Point Detectors) - OSX version uses its own plugin control point detectors architecture.

* Fast Preview shows control points connected with lines - the longest the line the worse the quality (except for vertical and horizontal control lines).

* Lots of bugfixes, lots of new bugs.

See README, ChangeLog and INSTALL_cmake for more information.

This release is tagged in the subversion repository as /hugin/releases/tag/2009.2.0_beta3 at revision 4340.

SHA1SUM: 0b8d64282a35e241d87828be276dbeb4b2929ebe hugin-2009.2.0_beta3.tar.gz

Recent Hugin binary installers for testing are provided by the users communities and can be found here:

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

hugin: 0.8.0 released

Pablo d'Angelo — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:17:13 -0000

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.

This Fast Preview also now acts as a hub for working with a panorama
project: the Identify mode lets you click on the overlap between two
photos to bring up the Control Point editor for that pair of photos.

Celeste sky identification

Stitching makes use of static scenery such as buildings to match
photos together, however objects that move cause misalignments, and
clouds move enough to be a particular problem. To make better
panoramas, Hugin has now been trained as a Support Vector Machine to
ignore clouds when matching photos.

New panorama projections

Panoramas tend to have a very large field of view, and Hugin does a
good job simulating virtual wide-angle lenses for output. But
painters and artists can do better than photographers, often
spanning scenes that look absurdly distorted when squeezed into
photographic perspective. Influenced by these vedutismo artists,
Hugin introduces some new projections for more elegant wide-angle
perspectives: Pannini, Biplane and Triplane.

In addition, Orthographic and Equisolid output have been added to
Hugin's already extensive set of azimuthal projections.

Batch Processor

Creating Hugin projects is now easier than ever, but actually
stitching large panoramas slows your computer - Usually at the same
time that you want to do something else. Now with the Hugin Batch
Processor, stitching can be postponed until it is convenient for
you.

Projects can be added to the queue from Hugin itself, or directly by
drag-and-drop from a file manager. In the Batch Processor you get an
overview of progress where the projects can be easily rearranged,
paused or canceled.

Online help

The manual has been updated to cover the new features and adds more
glossary pages explaining panorama and photography related words.

Languages

Most translations have been updated, plus Hugin is now available in
Slovenian and Chinese Traditional. The manual has been completely
translated into Italian.

Other improvements

There are many more changes in this release, here are just some of
them: a Reset... button in the Camera and Lens tab, better support
for 'special' characters in folder and file names, Align... now
works properly when loading saved lens .ini files, hints added to
Control Point tab pull-down lists, stitching now starts with a
series of tests, gcc-4.4.0 support, better Makefile plugin support,
man pages for command-line tools, new button icons throughout and a
command-line version of Celeste

Control point generators

Hugin doesn't yet ship with a 'Patent Free' control point generator.
So you either need to pick control points manually - Not as
difficult as it sounds - or install and configure one of the
following control-point generators as 'plug-ins':

* autopano-sift-C
* panomatic
* match-n-shift
* Autopano-SIFT
* Autopano freeware version

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 now 2.7.0, libpano13 needs to be at least
2.9.14, and that hugin now requires GLEW, the OpenGL Extension
Wrangler Library.

See the 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/

Hugin sourcecode can be downloaded from sourceforge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/

SHA1SUM: 698f0a7c4bb25efdf06313d05e3980f20d088ce5 hugin-0.8.0.tar.gz

This release is identical to 0.8.0_rc5 and equivalent to svn 4008.

hugin: 0.8.0_rc5 release candidate

Pablo d'Angelo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:00:09 -0000

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.

* Other fixes, see ChangeLog for details.

See README, ChangeLog and INSTALL_cmake for more information.

SHA1SUM: 698f0a7c4bb25efdf06313d05e3980f20d088ce5 hugin-0.8.0_rc5.tar.gz

This release is equivalent to svn 4008, links to recent hugin binary
installers for testing can be found here:

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

hugin: 0.8.0_rc4 release candidate

Pablo d'Angelo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:00:38 -0000

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.

* Some unused files removed.

* LAPACK is disabled by default. If you want to experiment then
enable it by running cmake with -DENABLE_LAPACK=YES

See README, ChangeLog and INSTALL_cmake for more information.

SHA1SUM: 129a515300947be54b5b02f5c3b693647294961a hugin-0.8.0_rc4.tar.gz

This release is equivalent to svn 3945, links to recent hugin binary
installers for testing can be found here:

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

hugin: 0.8.0_rc3 release candidate

Pablo d'Angelo — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:42:27 -0000

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.

* Batch Processor: verbose view appears immediately on toggling.

* Fix for stitching Makefile test in OS X

See README, ChangeLog and INSTALL_cmake for more information.

SHA1SUM: 7c2f44ab1f5711e3e4182ea442010f4750d98d1b hugin-0.8.0_rc3.tar.gz

This release is equivalent to svn 3923, links to recent hugin binary
installers for testing can be found here:

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

hugin: 0.8.0_rc2 release candidate

Pablo d'Angelo — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 21:19:55 -0000

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.

* Fixed crash with wide character languages such as Chinese.

* Fast Preview is now shown after Align... Fast Preview window
crash fixed. Difference mode is disabled on some systems.

* Number of points is now shown in the Control Points tab drop-down
lists.

* jhead code removed, exiv2 is now required. Tools that failed to
read TIFF EXIF data should now be fixed.

* hugin will use system lapack if available. Note that this is
experimental, you may find that optimisation is slower than before
and may even fail.

* Various OS X bugfixes

* Linux hugin_stitch_project .desktop file removed as this is
superceded by the Hugin Batch processor.

* Missing license headers added, various man-page updates.

See README, ChangeLog and INSTALL_cmake for more information.

SHA1SUM: 5a535722d878761ddc75c9abba19917d877e0ac6 hugin-0.8.0_rc2.tar.gz

This release is equivalent to svn 3901, links to recent hugin binary
installers for testing can be found here:

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

libpano13-2.9.14 released

Pablo d'Angelo — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:30:22 -0000

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

libpano13-2.9.14_rc1 released

Pablo d'Angelo — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:19:03 -0000

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.

* Fix for Albers equal area conic division by zero error.

* man page updates.

SHA1SUM: c6e74acdda64ce7d41abe7d95f291dc59de751a5 libpano13-2.9.14_rc1.tar.gz

See the ChangeLog file for more details.

Recent posts to news

Hugin 2010.4.0 released

Hugin-2009.2.0_beta4 released

Hugin-2009.2.0_beta3 released

hugin: 0.8.0 released

hugin: 0.8.0_rc5 release candidate

hugin: 0.8.0_rc4 release candidate

hugin: 0.8.0_rc3 release candidate

hugin: 0.8.0_rc2 release candidate

libpano13-2.9.14 released

libpano13-2.9.14_rc1 released