Hugin 2013.0beta1 released

Harry van der Wolf

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Hugin-2013.0 RELEASE NOTES

ABOUT

Hugin is more than just a panorama stitcher.

Hugin can be found at
* SourceForge: http://hugin.sourceforge.net/
* Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/hugin

DOWNLOAD

The 2013.0 source tarball can be downloaded

* from SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2013.0/hugin-2013.0.0_beta1.tar.bz2/download

* from Launchpad at
https://launchpad.net/hugin/2013.0/2013.0beta1/+download/hugin-2013.0.0_beta1.tar.bz2

This is a source code release. For executables see below.

This tarball is equivalent to rev/changeset b7f603b17a69 in our Mercurial
repository, where it is also tagged 2013.0.0beta1

Verify its SHA1SUM
8b13bd71eb9a7e318fb2fcb119803c44896c0143 hugin-2013.0.0beta1.tar.bz2

EXECUTABLES

Users communities produce executables for their respective platforms.

These executables are then added to the download section on SourceForge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/

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

CHANGES SINCE 2012.0.0

* The greatest change is the redesign of the (Graphical) User Interface (GUI). The user interface now consists of three modes: Simple, Advanced and Expert.
The Simple interface is for the beginning panorama photographer and offers all tools to create your panorama. You can also use this mode if you have a simple, straightforward panorama. The Simple interface mode uses the "Fast Preview" window as its main workflow window.
The Advanced interface mode offers you more options to improve your panorama. It uses the Panorama Editor as its main window.
The Expert mode gives you access to all options and functions that Hugin has to offer. This is where you can optimize your complicated, multilayer, mosaic, multi-stack, you name it, panorama. It also uses the Panorama Editor as its main window.

* The Hugin build for Mac OS X has switched from Carbon to Cocoa and is now fully 64bit.

New tools added:
* pto_var ( change image variables inside pto files)
* pto_lensstack (modify assigned lenses and stack in pto files)
* geocpset (set/add geometric constraints for multirow panorama with featureless images)

Other Improvements
* Many more improvements and bug fixes.

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. It is the only control point generator endorsed by Hugin.
Third-party generators may be compatible with the plug-in architecture.

COMPILING

Users compiling from source refer to the dependencies listed at
http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Dependencies

and the build processes listed at
http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Build_your_Own_Test_Builds

More information in the README and INSTALL_cmake files in the tarball.

KNOWN ISSUES AND WORKAROUNDS

There is a known problem building Hugin with CMake 2.8.5rc2.
Workaround: Upgrade to a newer CMake version.

Mac OS X:
- Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) is no longer supported.
- The PPC platform is no longer supported.
- The OpenMP enabled enblend is now compatible on Mac OS X Lion (10.7).
- The cmake compilation of Hugin is currently broken due to the fact that
the boost library on OS X is currently at version 1.50 and boost versions => 1.48
conflict with a number of Mac OS X macros (from AssertMacros.h). This can
not be disabled as WxWindows for Mac (a.k.a. WxMac) needs these macros.
An XCode build, where a specific boost (<=1.46) can be specified, is
possible. The 2013.0 OSX bundle will be based on an XCode build with boost
1.46.

An updated list of issues deemed to be critical, including discussions
and workarounds is in the issue tracker.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/hugin/+bugs?search=Search&field.importance=Critical

SPLASH SCREEN ARTWORK

On 30 January 2013 we did a "Call for contributions for the Hugin 2013.0 Splashscreen Artwork" (1).
We did not get any response which means that the 2013.0 release will not get its own splashscreen.

(1): https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/hugin-ptx/O2EUGb9xXZY

STATUS TRANSLATIONS
A lot of translations are outdated. Please translators update your languages.

bg.po 509 translated messages, 505 fuzzy translations, 369 untranslated messages.
ca_ES.po 300 translated messages, 576 fuzzy translations, 507 untranslated messages.
cs_CZ.po 1383 translated messages.
da.po 1383 translated messages.
de.po 1279 translated messages, 60 fuzzy translations, 44 untranslated messages.
en_GB.po 65 translated messages, 16 fuzzy translations, 1302 untranslated messages.
es.po 1269 translated messages, 65 fuzzy translations, 49 untranslated messages.
eu.po 1032 translated messages, 173 fuzzy translations, 178 untranslated messages.
fi.po 811 translated messages, 307 fuzzy translations, 265 untranslated messages.
fr.po 1291 translated messages, 68 fuzzy translations, 24 untranslated messages.
hu.po 1381 translated messages, 2 fuzzy translations.
it.po 1383 translated messages.
ja.po 1134 translated messages, 168 fuzzy translations, 81 untranslated messages.
ko.po 510 translated messages, 491 fuzzy translations, 382 untranslated messages.
nl.po 1382 translated messages, 1 fuzzy translation.
pl.po 839 translated messages, 329 fuzzy translations, 215 untranslated messages.
pt_BR.po 1383 translated messages.
ro.po 674 translated messages, 397 fuzzy translations, 312 untranslated messages.
ru.po 1366 translated messages, 12 fuzzy translations, 5 untranslated messages.
sk.po 1018 translated messages, 236 fuzzy translations, 129 untranslated messages.
sl.po 479 translated messages, 479 fuzzy translations, 425 untranslated messages.
sv.po 1101 translated messages, 196 fuzzy translations, 86 untranslated messages.
uk.po 371 translated messages, 574 fuzzy translations, 438 untranslated messages.
zh_CN.po 1144 translated messages, 173 fuzzy translations, 66 untranslated messages.
zh_TW.po 964 translated messages, 325 fuzzy translations, 94 untranslated messages.

THANKS

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

CHANGELOG

A detailed changelog can be found in the file Changelog.

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paolobenve

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If I switch interface to advanced or expert I cannot revert to simple any more: I keep seeing the old UI

Thomas Pryds

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Den 04/03/2013 14.08 skrev "paolobenve" <paolo...@gmail.com>:
>
> There is a visual problem when hugin window is little, see attacched screenshot
>
> I'd prefer an initial window size that let the user see all the controls in the various tabs, without hidding part of them.

Doesn't Hugin start in the same size as it was last closed? Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but if that's the case, the user probably WANTED that size, so it would not be good to dictate a different size upon startup.

Neither would it be good, IMHO, to make a minimum allowable window size, even if that means the user is able to make the window too small to fit the controls. Of course, that doesn't justify the visual erors from your screenshot, but I think it ought to be possible. There may be reasons for a user to (temporarily) do that, e.g. if they need to show several windows on their screen for comparison, or what ever. In this case it would, IMHO, be better to simply just not show the controls that don't fit in the window, or maybe even allow for scrolling back and forth.

Just my two cents :-)

Thomas P.

Harry van der Wolf

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Mar 5, 2013, 3:59:04 AM3/5/13

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2013/3/4 Thomas Pryds <tho...@pryds.eu>

I think this has to do with the stored settings of your previous hugin version. The "old" fast preview and "old" pano editor window had different layout(= initial size) compared to the new windows, especially the old preview was smaller.

I think that when you remove the old settings, the initial size of the window(s) will be correct.

Harry

paolobenve

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Mar 5, 2013, 7:52:46 AM3/5/13

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The attached screeshot shows how hugin starts after removing .hugin, which, I think is equivalent to resetting preferences.

The windows seems too small..

Harry

Schermata del 2013-03-05 13:49:58.png

Harry van der Wolf

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Mar 6, 2013, 3:32:21 PM3/6/13

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Hi users,

I built a bundle (again) for the 2013.0beta1.
You can download it from SourceForge via the following link:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2013.0/hugin-mac-2013.0.0_beta1.dmg/download

The coming 2-3 days I will rewrite the wiki page at (1).
After that I will send out a new invitation to become a Mac OS X builder and I hope the new OS X builders will massively step forward.
I wanted to do that much earlier but that obviously didn't take place.

Hoi,
Harry

(1): <http://wiki.panotools.org/Build_a_MacOSX_Universal_Hugin_bundle_with_Xcode>

Andreas Metzler

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Mar 9, 2013, 4:17:54 AM3/9/13

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Harry van der Wolf <hvd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hugin-2013.0 RELEASE NOTES
[...]

Hello,

I have finally found time to update the Debian packaging and have
made an upload to experimental.

cu andreas
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Matthew Petroff

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Stefan Peter

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Hi Ubuntu users

You can find the 2013.0beta1 packages ready to install at the "Next
Hugin builds" ppa at https://launchpad.net/~hugin/+archive/next for
Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS Precise Pangolin
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

I'm currently struggling to find a way to get a 2013.0 beta release for
Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (Lucid Lynx), but I may not succeed without having to
backport the boost libraries. Because I will not be able to really
support such a backport, this is not a solution right now.

You can find installation instructions for the "Next Hugin builds" ppa
at https://launchpad.net/~hugin/+archive/next.

Please send error reports and support questions to
hugi...@googlegroups.com

Enjoy

Stefan Peter

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JohnPW

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Mar 12, 2013, 9:23:09 PM3/12/13

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Thanks, Harry,

After my last difficulties with using multiple versions on the same machine, I have to admit that I'm a bit scared to run this version. We'll see . . .

Sorry I'm clever enough to help out on the Mac distros. If there is anything I can do that's helpful but hard to screw up, I'd be glad to help.

John

Greg 'groggy' Lehey

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Mar 13, 2013, 1:04:46 AM3/13/13

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On Sunday, 3 March 2013 at 21:23:15 +0100, Harry van der Wolf wrote:
> The 2013.0 source tarball can be downloaded
>

> This is a source code release. For executables see below.

This port is available from the FreeBSD Ports collection as
graphics/hugin-devel. As the name suggests, this port will track the
development and beta versions; the name will not change. See
http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_Compiling_FreeBSD for further details.

> This tarball is equivalent to rev/changeset b7f603b17a69 in our Mercurial
> repository, where it is also tagged 2013.0.0beta1

The port I have reports changeset 70b10450ff94.

> Verify its SHA1SUM
> 8b13bd71eb9a7e318fb2fcb119803c44896c0143
> hugin-2013.0.0beta1.tar.bz2

This is correct, so I assume that the changeset is the issue.

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Stefan Peter

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Hi Harry

the new pto_var tool raises the dependency on libboost from
>= 1.40 to >=1.41.
The actual error message is:

hugin-2013.0.0/src/tools/ParseExp.cpp:39:2: error: #error "At least
Spirit version 2.1 required"

I'd appreciate if you could apply the patch attached to both the trunk
and 2013.0

With kind regards

hugin.patch

Stefan Peter

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On 11.03.2013 21:22, Stefan Peter wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu users
>
> You can find the 2013.0beta1 packages ready to install at the "Next
> Hugin builds" ppa at https://launchpad.net/~hugin/+archive/next for
> Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal
> Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS Precise Pangolin
> Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot
>
> I'm currently struggling to find a way to get a 2013.0 beta release for
> Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS (Lucid Lynx), but I may not succeed without having to
> backport the boost libraries.

I finally succeeded with the 10.04 LTS release of Hugin 2013.0-beta1.
However, I had to leave out the pto_var tool because it depends on
functionality not present in the libboost version available for Lucid.
As pto_var is a new addition to the tools shipped with hugin, this
should not break existing installations. As far as I could find out, it
is not used by hugin or any other tool, so this should be safe, too.

Regards

Stefan Peter

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T. Modes

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Hi Robert,

On 30 Apr., 00:57, Robert Alatalo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to try out the latest version ( 2013.0.beta1 ) but after it sets
> everything up, it crashes when I try to build the panoramic image.
> I uninstalled and installed latest 2012 windows 64 version and that worked,
> uninstalled that and retested the 2013.0.beta1 and it still failed.
> Reloaded the defaults from preferences, I am running on windows 7 x64,
> should be current with patches.
>

that's very unspecific. What are you doing exactly? And what is
happening?
Is there an error message? Or can be something seen in the log?

Thomas

dex Otaku

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May 3, 2013, 5:55:46 AM5/3/13

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On Monday, 29 April 2013 17:57:51 UTC-5, Robert Alatalo wrote:

I wanted to try out the latest version ( 2013.0.beta1 ) but after it sets everything up, it crashes when I try to build the panoramic image.
I uninstalled and installed latest 2012 windows 64 version and that worked, uninstalled that and retested the 2013.0.beta1 and it still failed.
Reloaded the defaults from preferences, I am running on windows 7 x64, should be current with patches.

Robert - are you trying to run the python-enabled version without having python installed?

Robert Alatalo

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Hello,

What log should I look for, and there was no error from the application only the windows generated one about detecting a problem and looking for a solution and killing the application.

Sorry for not being very helpful, please help me be more helpful. If this was Solaris I would truss the process and look for corefile and more, but on windows I am at a loss.

C:\PROGRA~1\Hugin>dir /s *log
Volume in drive C is Acer
Volume Serial Number is 240B-EA36
File Not Found

Can I enable better logging or otherwise collect additional data to be useful?

thanks,
Robert

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Robert Alatalo

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More precisely as to what I was doing.

I had already:

1) imported the 4 jpg images. ( from Nikon D600, fine setting )

2) let the system pick control points and align the images

3) cropped and otherwise adjusted the view to what I wanted

I was pushing the button to create the final image, and there was no further messages or indications of progress and then a couple (not very long) time windows reported that the application had failed.

thanks,
Robert

T. Modes

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May 3, 2013, 11:56:21 AM5/3/13

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On 3 Mai, 12:27, Robert Alatalo <ralat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> More precisely as to what I was doing.
> I had already:
> 1) imported the 4 jpg images. ( from Nikon D600, fine setting )
> 2) let the system pick control points and align the images
> 3) cropped and otherwise adjusted the view to what I wanted
>
> I was pushing the button to create the final image, and there was no
> further messages or indications of progress and then a couple (not very
> long) time windows reported that the application had failed.
>

And which program failed?
When the stitching is started a lot of different tools are called.

Variant 1.) PTBatcherGUI failed. If this is the case try first
starting the batch processor alone (there should be a start menu item,
or from Hugin File->Run batch processor). If it starts okay (look in
the tray bar if you don't see a window and select open window from the
context menu), delete the batch queue (File->clear batch queue or
similar) - just in case.
If it does not start,try starting PTBatcherGUI with pressed control
key. Then there should be a message box "Should the loading of the
batch queue be skipped?" and say Yes (this works only with 2013.0 and
later). Close PTBatcherGUI and try it again.

Variant 2.) PTBatcherGUI is okay. Another program is failing. First
look after in program name in the message box. In this case there
should be a log file in the same directory as the project file. Please
check this log file.

Thomas

Robert Alatalo

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May 7, 2013, 2:17:24 PM5/7/13

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No, I made sure not to download the python version.

I created a video of the problem, probably won't help fix the issue but will explain what I am doing. Unfortunately, it's .10 GB (1,189,510,144 bytes) AVI and I need to convert it to something smaller or free up a little space on my google drive so I can upload it. Running it though Handbrake got it down to 5.00 MB (5,246,976 bytes)

Video can be seen:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9czjrB4DYWoR2V6cU1FaUU4bzg/edit?usp=sharing

I don't expect it to provide a quick solution, but hopefully someone can help me gather some additional data to improve things.

thanks,
Robert

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T. Modes

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May 7, 2013, 4:04:11 PM5/7/13

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>
> I don't expect it to provide a quick solution, but hopefully someone can
> help me gather some additional data to improve things.

Okay, found the bug. It is fixed in the repository. Should be work in
the next version (probably beta2).

As a workaround: don't use "create pano" in the assistant tab. Instead
open panorama editor (View->Panorama editor), then go to stitcher tab
and press stitch there.

Robert Alatalo

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May 7, 2013, 5:13:57 PM5/7/13

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Wow... great... thanks, and good to know it's already been fixed.

-Robert

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