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Nobody's asking yet I wonder how many people are wondering... The plan last year was to have a new version of AP (2.1 or 2.2, I don't remember what you finally decided upon) released in February 2010. How is work on that coming along, what is the planned release date now, and what new/changed features is it expected to have?
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AFAIK sometime in May there will be 2.0.7 and I don't think 2.X will be available before the fall. By 2.X I mean the version that will include the new HDR logic, the new Smartblend and things like focus blending, manual CPs, etc... Personally, I'd make that version 3.0 
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[bo] wrote:
AFAIK sometime in May there will be 2.0.7 and I don't think 2.X will be available before the fall. By 2.X I mean the version that will include the new HDR logic, the new Smartblend and things like focus blending, manual CPs, etc... Personally, I'd make that version 3.0
hm... no hopefully not - major relase change = paying license fees for upgrade....
Georg
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IIRC new features such as better HDR support were dreamt to be in v2(.0?), but since it's such a big task, they decided to release AP-2 with minor version updates. People bought 2.x licenses with a promise of proper HDR support (amongst other new features), so releasing it as 3.0, even if 2.0 licenses would be compatible with it, would be confusing.
Speaking of which, these pages could use updating:
http://www.autopano.net/wiki-en/action/view/Latest_Beta
http://www.autopano.net/wiki-en/action/ … evelopment
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You are right, I meant the version bump should to signify some major improvements to the software Anyway, we'll just have to wait for Alexandre to chime in, although I wouldn't hope for any timeline...
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The 2.0.7 is on internal testing ( we expect a public release next week ).
It contains only bug fixes plus some new features, expecially the one for smartblend crashes. BTW : don't make me say it will work every times, it won't. You will never be able to render a 20G panorama on a small laptop. Nevertheless, this huge internal study gave us some confidence it should work most of time.
If some people are interested into participating into the private beta, email to me directly with platform details.
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The next big release will be called 2.5 and contains HDR, a new rendering engine ( totally different from smartblend and because it has been created from scratch, it doesn't have the same flaw as smartblend ), plugin system, manual control point editor, etc. The timeline is quite clear here too with a first public preview last week of may.
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Great...I have been having the smartblend crashes a lot lately (almost all the time), even after restarting...and that is frustrating because smartblend results seem so much better than other options...so I am very much looking forward to the upgrade and the new smartblend-like rendering engine. Keep us posted on the release and best of luck to you. I love your software!
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DrSlony wrote:
Great news! Will 2.0.7 allow two temp dirs? So we can use a RAM or SSD drive as the primary temp dir, and then a normal HDD as the secondary if the primary is full.
No the 2.0.7, but it's already coded for 2.5.
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This is great Alexandre,
really hanging out for this
Henrik
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AlexandreJ wrote:
DrSlony wrote:
Great news! Will 2.0.7 allow two temp dirs? So we can use a RAM or SSD drive as the primary temp dir, and then a normal HDD as the secondary if the primary is full.
No the 2.0.7, but it's already coded for 2.5.
How flexible will this be?
I may want to use two WD Black drives, and so want the load shared between drives.
DrSlony may want to use the SSD drive all the time, and only use the second drive as an overflow.
Does the algorithm test the speed of each drive when setting the drives in the preferences and make an automatic decision, or recommend a setting to the user, or do we have to select "ping pong" or "use A then B"? Or does APP know when a drive is busy and it uses the first free drive found?
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I think even a simple overflow will be great. If you want load balancing, make a RAID out of your two drives - it shouldn't be APP's job to do that.
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AlexandreJ wrote:
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The next big release will be called 2.5 and contains HDR, a new rendering engine ( totally different from smartblend and because it has been created from scratch, it doesn't have the same flaw as smartblend ), plugin system, manual control point editor, etc. The timeline is quite clear here too with a first public preview last week of may.
Well, a first public preview last week of may, but isn't it now June?
Where is it?
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The preview will be fun to play with - I have a few problematic panos I _really_ would like the assistance of manual cp-placement for!
Thanks for the update Alex and for the ray of sunshine in the UK's otherwise patchy summer weather!
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I'm also eager to try the new manual control point editor!
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I am also very eager in this manual cp editor so I can force a known point to coincide specially interiors. I found other features to be perfect for me like detection, smartblending in 8 bit tif (16 tif is also ok but takes long process). I am using macbook pro with os snow 10.6.3. In my opinion, this feature will give a little tolearance in the lens nodal point location.
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Answers can be multiples :
- Soon
- when it's ready to disclose
- when the compilation is done.
In today's internal meeting, we have planned the first release this week, if nothing is preventing us to make it.
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