New version of Hugin, a free panorama stitcher, was released with major new features and improvements.

All the new features are best described here (also available in Italian, German, French) and for a quick visual reference regarding mosaic mode and use of masks you can read this tutorial.

You can download the source code right now. To compile this new version you will need most recent version of libpano13. Windows build will be available later.

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• libpano13 2.9.17 released with general Pannini projection
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