Hi all,
after the release of beta 1 of Hugin 2015.0 two weeks ago some bugs have been found and have been fixed.
So today we are release beta 2
The new source tarball can be downloaded at sourceforge and launchpad, as usual
http://sourceforge.net/projects/hugin/files/hugin/hugin-2015.0/hugin-2015.0.0_beta2.tar.bz2/downloadhttps://launchpad.net/hugin/2015.0/2015.0beta2/+download/hugin-2015.0.0_beta2.tar.bz2Verify its checksums
MD5
cb2cbcca4d23511d845840d78ed5c2c1 hugin-2015.0.0_beta2.tar.bz2
SHA1
3591fd4ea4f1ba579b9a4ba61035810366fd835c hugin-2015.0.0_beta2.tar.bz2
Changes since beta1
* Reactivate scripting interface
* Fixes several assert message errors
* Fixes a crash in control point editor
* Added option to optimize panorama after removing cp with edit cp tool
* Fix for man pages
* Renamed lensdb tool to hugin_lensdb
Beta 2 is identical to changeset 31a6f3742639 in our repository.
ATTENTION
The necessary fixes for beta 2 have also changed some strings. So *all* translators please check your po file.
Also the translation needs more work. Since beta1 only 2 languages have been updated (thanks Thomas Pryds and Kornel Benko and sorry for the new strings).
So this is also a call for all translators: please update your po files.
The release notes are here
http://hugin.sourceforge.net/releases/2015.0.0/en.shtmlThey can also translated.
EXECUTABLES
Users communities produce executables for their respective platforms. They will be announced in this thread.
CHANGES SINCE 2014.0.0
* Hugin
2015.0 has a number of new features. Most of the changes are under the
hood to improve stability, allow easier maintenance and easier addition
of new features.
* The makefile based stitching engine has been
replaced with direct calls to the underlying programs. This should
reduce the overhead of calling the same program too often and so speed
up the whole process. Hopefully this also allows the usage of more
unusual characters in the filename. Instead of pto2mk and make we now
have hugin_executor which can also be used for running the assistant
from the command line.
* Hugin now has it's own blender, verdandi,
based on a watershed algorithm, which has been included in 'nona'.
verdandi can be chosen as the blender by choosing "builtin" in the
stitcher tab, and can also be set in the Preferences. verdandi can also
be called as a command line tool.
* The lensfun library has been
removed as it did not fulfill our expectations. It has been replaced
with our own camera and lens database which uses a data mining approach
and operates automatically without user intervention. Geometric
distortion and vignetting data have to be loaded manually.
* The fast preview window has a new tool to add or remove control points to selected areas in the output projection.
* Automatic
exposure stack detection is now applied when loading images, and an
option has been added to unlink image position when adding stacks.
* The
fine-tune and auto-estimate functions in the control point tab have
been made projection aware. It should now work also with images with
different fov or different projections. The fine-tune feature has had a
significant speed up when Hugin is compiled with the libfftw3 library
(optional).
* PTBatcherGUI has more choice for the end of the
process: depending on the operating system the PTBatcherGUI can be
closed, the computer can be shut down or send to the hibernate mode.
* PTBatcherGUI now shows the thumbnails when searching for images in directories.
* Many of the underlying tools in hugin are now able to use available cpu cores.
New tools added:
** verdandi: tool for image blending
** hugin_executor: stitching and run assistant from command line
** hugin_lensdb: tools for lens database maintenance