New: Project->Align to Grid. This sets up the panorama as an array of rows and columns. Particularly useful when shooting gigapixel panoramas with robotic panoramic heads: often some of the images contain only blue sky and cannot be positioned automatically.
Optimizer now tries to keep 'orphaned' images (i.e. images without control points) together with neighbouring images. Useful in combination with Align to Grid, to keep the blue sky images with the rest of the panorama even after optimizing.
Improved automatic control point generator for fisheye images: will find more control points and the control points are better spread out over the entire overlap area
Align Images now by default uses the Heavy+Lens Shift optimization. This results in better alignment in particular for wide angle lenses, which are often not mounted exactly in front of the center of the sensor. Falls back to Heavy or Medium if the lens parameters cannot be estimated accurately.
A rectangular area can be selected in the Control Points tab using Shift+drag. This selects all control points in that area. Use the Delete key to remove control points in the selected area.
Generate control points in a certain area: select a rectangular area in an image by Shift+dragging, then right-click and select 'Generate Control Points Here'.
New 'ghost' mouse pointers: if the mouse is moved over a certain part of an image in e.g. the Control Points tab, the corresponding point is highlighted in the Panorama Editor, Detail Viewer and all other windows
Image numbers can now be shown in the Panorama Editor and Detail Viewer.
Context menu in the Panorama Editor and Detail Viewer: right-click anywhere in the panorama and a menu pops up. From this menu you can jump to the corresponding point in the Mask or Control Points tab. Images can be included/excluded through this menu as well.
New button 'Remove Excluded Images' (below the 'Include Images' list in the Advanced section of the Create Panorama tab). This deletes those images from the project for which the Include checkbox is not set.
Feathering can now be controlled for the PTGui Blender using the Feather slider in the Advanced section of Create Panorama. When set to 'sharp' a hard transition is between images is created, 'soft' creates a more gradual transition. The behaviour of the previous versions corresponds to the middle of the slider.
Publish to Website: if Resolution is set to Automatic the output is now limited to 60 megapixels. Larger output is possible by overriding the automatic setting but such a panorama may not be displayed reliably on every computer.
Context menu in Source Images tab: added 'Clear Mask' option
Context menu in Mask tab: added options for copying/pasting/saving/loading/clearing masks
Mask tab: added copy/paste/load/save/clear buttons to the toolbars below the images
New default file naming option: 'prefix source image folder name'. When used (e.g.) in the batch builder, the project files get the name of the folder containing the source images.
Mask tab: new split view to show two images simultaneously
Detail viewer now offers two modes for navigation: 'drag and hold' and 'drag to move'
New import function for Papywizard data files (in File -> Import menu). Only the yaw and pitch angles are imported, other settings are assumed to be taken from the EXIF data
Added sensor size data for new cameras
Bundled dcraw is updated to version 9.10
PTGui Viewer: can now add custom parameters to the Flash