2018.0.0:
The version 2018.0 is mainly a bug fix release and introduce some minor new features.
Several improvements for optimizer tabs:
- mark deselected images
- allow changing optimizer variables for all selected images at once
- option to ignore line cp
hugin_stacker: New tool to stack overlapping images with several averaging modes (e.g. mean, median).
Hugin: Added option to disable auto-rotation of images in control point and mask editor.
Nona, verdandi and hugin_stacker can now write BigTIFF images (for files >4 GB). The output of BigTIFF has to manually activated on the command line. It is not set automatically. (For a complete panorama in BigTIFF you will probably also need enblend/enfuse from repository. The last released version of enblend does not yet support writing BigTIFF files.)
Added expression parser to GUI: This allows to manipulate several image variables at once. (This is the same as running pto_var --set from the command line.) This can be used e.g. to prealign the images in a given setup and then run cpfind --prealigned to search control points only in overlapping images.
Add user-defined assistant and expose it in the GUI. It allows to set up different assistant strategies without the need to recompiling. Provide also some examples (scanned images, multi-row panoramas with orphaned images, single-shot panorama cameras).
* 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.
* Allow reading of image positions from Papywizard XML files.
* Internal blender and verdandi got the possibility to blend seams as alternative to
current hard seam.
* The display of the control point error (after optimizing and in fast preview window)
and the control point list window can now limited to take only control points in active
images into account (menu Edit>Optimize only active images, connected with the setting
on the optimizer tab).
* Improvements to mask tab in Hugin (edit crop of all images of the same lens at once) and
find panorama dialog in PTBatcherGUI (remove images from found panoramas, split found
panorama into two).
* Several improvements for Mac OS.
* Fixes several issues with fast preview window which could result in random crashes
(uninitialized variables, memory leaks).
The first improvement concerns icc color profiles: Hugin has already copied the icc profile into the output file when stitching panoramas. Now also the display in the GUIs takes the icc profile into account. Celeste_standalone and cpfind read now also the icc profile and use it during its processings.
Beside the known output options Hugin now includes a user defined output sequence. With this option the user can create more flexible variants for the output. As an example a zero-noise output sequence is delivered with Hugin 2016.0.
Some buttons in the Hugin GUI now have a context menu for easier access to some function:
Show all in the fast preview window to allow better interaction with stacked projects.
Celeste button in the cp tab (panorama editor): the button can now be used to create control points or to clean control points with celeste or statistical methods.
The identify tool in the fast preview window now also shows the image numbers on top of the images. (This can be suppressed by pressing the alt button).
Problems found with existing digests:
Package fotoxx distfile fotoxx-14.03.1.tar.gz
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118e98a8cc0414676b3c4d37b8df407c28a1407c [calculated]
Package ploticus-examples distfile ploticus-2.00/plnode200.tar.gz
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da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 [calculated]
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package AfterShotPro: missing distfile AfterShotPro-1.1.0.30/AfterShotPro_i386.deb
Package pgraf: missing distfile pgraf-20010131.tar.gz
Package qvplay: missing distfile qvplay-0.95.tar.gz
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
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.
Do it for all packages that
* mention perl, or
* have a directory name starting with p5-*, or
* depend on a package starting with p5-
like last time, for 5.18, where this didn't lead to complaints.
Let me know if you have any this time.
