ANN: Hugin 2010.4.0 released
Yuval Levy
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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 application's 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
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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.
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Harry van der Wolf
Happy new year to all.
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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
Note: Stable versions for OSX are always released via Sourceforge and never via my website. The OSX 2010.4.0 can be downloaded from:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2010.4/
or via the "Download" page on http://hugin.sourceforge.net.
My website will inform users/visitors what the current stable release is and that it can be downloaded from Sourceforge. The correct link to the Hugin download page is mentioned.
best to all,
Harry
Yuval Levy
On January 2, 2011 03:08:51 am Harry van der Wolf wrote:
> Note: Stable versions for OSX are always released via Sourceforge and
> never via my website.
Sorry for that. Is there any reason why the betas and release candidates were
not on Sourceforge?
It would be helpful, from a release management perspective, to have them
there. All I had to do to declare rc3 final was to rename the files already
there (the tarball and the Windows binaries), delete the obsolete betas and
rcs, rename the folder from 2010.4beta to 2010.4 and set the flags for default
downloads.
There is a flag for the default OSX download as well, although probably it
suffers the same weakness as the default Windows download (and every other
default download too): there is no discerning of 32/64 bit versions. Does not
matter for source releases, but is critical for binaries.
Thanks again for pulling the OSX release along.
Yuv
Harry van der Wolf
Hoi Harry,
Sorry for that. Is there any reason why the betas and release candidates were
On January 2, 2011 03:08:51 am Harry van der Wolf wrote:
> Note: Stable versions for OSX are always released via Sourceforge and
> never via my website.
not on Sourceforge?
It would be helpful, from a release management perspective, to have them
there. All I had to do to declare rc3 final was to rename the files already
there (the tarball and the Windows binaries), delete the obsolete betas and
rcs, rename the folder from 2010.4beta to 2010.4 and set the flags for default
downloads.
I will post the betas and RCs to sourceforge and/or launchpad next time. I had not even thought of that, simply a white spot.
There is a flag for the default OSX download as well, although probably it
suffers the same weakness as the default Windows download (and every other
default download too): there is no discerning of 32/64 bit versions. Does not
matter for source releases, but is critical for binaries.
I do set the default flag for OSX to the hugin binary. The hugin build is i386, ppc and x86_64, so it's a triple architecture build. All three architectures are merged into the binaries, libraries and frameworks. That's also why the OSX releases are so big.
The OSX operating system will select the right architecture.
Thanks again for pulling the OSX release along.
Yuv
Thanks for your release management and another structured, well defined release cycle.
Harry
Thomas
and thanks a lot for the new release!
The german release notes on http://hugin.sourceforge.net/releases/2010.4.0/de.shtml
link in the chapter of "make" to the english wikipedia-page, but they
should link to the german (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make)
thomas
On 1 Jan., 16:21, Yuval Levy <goo...@levy.ch> wrote:
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> Thanks to everyone responsible for this release!
>
> Hugin-2010.4.0 RELEASE NOTES
>
> DEDICATION
>
> This release of Hugin is dedicated to Milko K. Amorth (1960-2010). Details in
> the application's About menu.
>
> ABOUT
>
> Hugin is more than just a panorama stitcher.
>
> Hugin can be found athttp://hugin.sourceforge.net/
> 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/
>
paolobenve
On 3 Gen, 12:25, Thomas <finbref.2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> and thanks a lot for the new release!
Yuval Levy
> Still I can't see ubuntu maverick packages. Anyone is working on them?
sorry for that, I am afraid not.
I have Natty on my HTPC; I have Lucid on my workstation. Those are the two I
can and will support for the foreseeable future.
I had a Karmic chroot environment so I did Karmic too, but nobody did
Maverick. And I am not sure if anybody will do 2011.0 on Karmic.
Supporting Maverick is (low priority) on my todo list, but I won't have time
to do anything for it. Maybe you can work on the Maverick packages?
You can start with [0]. Once you have a successful build with [0], get
yourself a Launchpad account [1] (including signing the code of conduct).
Then apply to become a member of the PPA Packagers team. One of the four
existing members will let you in and you will be able to upload source
packages to the PPA.
Building the source packages is very easy once you got through [0] and [1].
It has been documented / discussed many times on the list here. On my todo
list (higher priority than supporting Maverick) is the documentation of this
process.
Thank you for helping
Yuv
[0] http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_Compiling_Ubuntu
[1] http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_Trackers#Launchpad_Account
[2] https://launchpad.net/~hugin