Hugin-2017.0.0 Release Notes
Hugin is more than just a panorama stitcher.
Changes since 2016.2.0
The version 2017.0 is mainly a bug fix release. The biggest fixes regard:
- Several fixes for working with HDR images (display in GUI, photometric optimizer, handling of under/over exposured pixels in merging code).
- Fixes handling of masks in cpfind when images needs remapping for cp finding.
- Sometimes unsaved changes were disregarded without asking the user (e.g. when loading a project via the recently used projects list). Unsaved changes should now always require user confirmation.
Besides the bug fixes some smaller improvements have been implemented.
- Optimizer tabs uses now checkboxes instead of bold underlined font for marking of variables to be optimized.
- Use wxWidgets help windows instead of default browser (Linux&Mac only, this provides table of content, index and full text search in help files).
- Added special assistant variant for single image projects.
- Display of final panorama dimensions on stitcher tab.
- Extended the user defined output sequences:
- The shipped user defined output sequences are exposed in the GUI as own sub-menu.
- Added some more user defined output sequences (layered TIFF, cube faces).
- Added new placeholder %sourceimage% to user defined output sequence.
Languages
Most of the translations have been updated for this release.
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 window by clicking 'Load defaults'.
It is strongly recommended 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 list of dependencies and the platform-specific build processes described in the wiki. More information in the README and INSTALL_cmake files in the tarball.
Known issues
Hugin does not run native on Wayland because of a bug in the underlying wxWidgets library.
The source code contains a workaround which forces the usage of the XWayland emulation layer. This workaround has be activated during compiling by adding -DUSE_GDKBACKEND_X11=on to the CMake command line.
Download
Hugin can be found at SourceForge and Launchpad.
User communities produce executables for their respective platforms. Executables are likely to be announced within a few days of this tarball release on the mailing list and added to the download section on SourceForge.
Thanks
Thanks to all the contributors to this release and members of the hugin-ptx mailing list, too many to mention here.