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Changes in Pannellum 2.5.4 (2019-09-10)

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed issue with loading large equirectangular panoramas on iOS
  • Fixed issue with touch-based scrolling with draggable set to false

Improvements:

  • Started requesting device orientation permission (untested)

Changes in Pannellum 2.5.3 (2019-08-21)

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed loading scenes after previous load failure
  • Fixed regression that caused auto-rotation to stop after one revolution
  • Fixed behavior of multiResMinHfov to match documentation; default multi-resolution minHfov behavior now matches pre-v2.5

Improvements:

  • Added optional scale parameter to scale hot spots while zooming
  • Improved recovery from failed scene loading

API improvements:

  • Added optional pitch argument to startAutoRotate

Other:

  • Added Journal of Open Source Software (JOSS) manuscript
  • Numerous documentation improvements per JOSS review (thanks @vsoch and @Fil)
  • Improved continuous integration and automated testing support
  • Clarified generate.py error messages
  • Added Dockerfile for generate.py

Changes in Pannellum 2.5.2 (2019-07-13)

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed regression in Video.js plugin

Changes in Pannellum 2.5.1 (2019-07-13)

Other:

  • Fixed issue with tagging 2.5.0 release

Changes in Pannellum 2.5.0 (2019-07-13)

New Features:

  • The background color can be set for partial panoramas (backgroundColor parameter)
  • Partial panoramas are now supported for the multiresolution format
  • An author URL can now be added (authorURL parameter)

New API functions:

  • Added fullscreenchange, zoomchange, and animatefinished events
  • Added stopMovement function for stopping all viewer movement

Improvements:

  • Equirectangular images are now automatically split into two separate textures if they're too big (images up to 8192px wide should now be widely supported)
  • Improved render quality for equirectangular images on mobile (using highp for fragment shader)
  • Keyboard events for keys not used by the viewer are no longer captured, and the list of captured keys is configurable (capturedKeyNumbers parameter)
  • Multiresolution tiles can now be generated from cylindrical panoramas
  • Hot spots can now be removed from scenes that aren't currently loaded
  • Hot spot cursor is now set via CSS class (so it can be overridden)
  • Hot spot link attributes can now be set (attributes parameter)
  • The "friction" that slows down the viewer motion can now be configured (friction parameter)
  • Dynamic scenes are now properly supported for tours

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed regression in fallback renderer
  • Fixed bug with URL encoding
  • Fixed regression in Video.js plugin
  • Fixed auto-rotate bug that was manifested when using API to set view
  • Fixed full screen bug in Chrome
  • Fixed bug with removing event listeners
  • Fixed issue with mouse dragging causing jump around yaw limits
  • Fixed bug with deleting hot spots
  • Fixed bug with fading between scenes

Other:

  • Added limited test suite / continuous integration
  • Removed requestAnimationFrame shim, dropping support for some older browsers

Changes in Pannellum 2.4.1 (2018-03-03)

Bugfixes:

  • Fix touch input issue in Chrome
  • The API's loadScene method now works when no scenes have been loaded yet

Changes in Pannellum 2.4.0 (2018-01-30)

New Features:

  • Translation support
  • Event for when scene change fade completes (scenechangefadedone)
  • Events for touch starts and ends (touchstart and touchend)
  • Added ability to set custom animation timing function (animationTimingFunction parameter)
  • Added option for only enable mouse wheel zoom while in fullscreen (mouseZoom parameter)
  • Added option to set title and author displayed while the load button is displayed (previewTitle and previewAuthor parameters)
  • Mouse and touch dragging can now be disabled (draggable parameter)
  • Added option to disable keyboard controls (disableKeyboardCtrl parameter)
  • CORS setting can now be configured

New API functions:

  • Check if image is loaded (isLoaded)
  • Method to update viewer after it is resized (resize)
  • Set horizon pitch and roll (setPose)
  • Turn device orientation control on and off, check if it is supported, and check if it is activated (startOrientation, stopOrientation, isOrientationSupported, and isOrientationActive)
  • Method to retrieve viewer's container element (getContainer)

Improvements:

  • Double-clicking now causes the viewer to zoom in (and back out when double-clicking while zoomed in)
  • New lines are now allowed in hot spot text
  • Support for HTML in configuration strings can be enabled when using the API (escapeHTML parameter)
  • Fallback cursor is provided for browsers that don't support SVG data URIs
  • Image type configuration parameter is now validated
  • Optional callbacks added to lookAt, setPitch, setYaw, and setHfov API functions
  • Scroll events are now only captured when they're being used
  • Viewer object is now assigned to a variable in the standalone viewer
  • Hot spots can now be added with API before panorama is loaded
  • Viewer UI is now created in a container element

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed race condition when scene change hot spot is double-clicked
  • Fixed bug with preview image absolute URLs
  • Removed redundant constraints on yaw in API
  • Tabbing now works, and only events for keys that are used are captured
  • Fixed bug in HTML escaping
  • Fixed bug that sometimes occurred when orientationOnByDefault was true
  • Yaw no longer changes when device orientation mode is activated
  • Fixed iOS 10 canvas size too big issue
  • Fixed iOS 10 NPOT cube map issue
  • Hot spots added via API are now permanent between scene changes
  • Fixed multiple bugs with removing event listeners
  • Fixed bug with multiresolution tile loading
  • Fixed sameAzimuth target yaw not working when northOffset wasn't set
  • Fixed bug yaw out of bounds in mouseEventToCoords
  • Fixed bug with animateMove function
  • Fixed bug with scene change fade
  • Yaw animation is now always in the shortest direction
  • Fixed bug related to removing hot spots

Changes in Pannellum 2.3.2 (2016-11-20)

Bugfixes:

  • Fix Chrome fullscreen regression introduced in 2.3.1

Changes in Pannellum 2.3.1 (2016-11-19)

Bugfixes:

  • Removed use of poorly supported ES6 Math.sign function
  • Fixed fullscreen bug in Internet Explorer
  • Fixed framerate issue with device orientation control enabled

Improvements:

  • Better handling of view limits when both limits are in view

Changes in Pannellum 2.3.0 (2016-10-30)

New Features:

  • Device orientation support for mobile devices
  • Event framework for API
  • Partial panorama background color can now be set using backgroundColor parameter
  • Custom hot spots are now supported as are hot spot click handlers
  • Hot spots can now specify target HFOV (targetHfov parameter)
  • Parameter to hide all controls (showControls)
  • Parameter to disable mouse zooming (mouseZoom)

New API functions:

  • Destructor (destroy)
  • Look at position (lookAt)
  • Get current scene ID (getScene)
  • Load scene (loadScene)
  • Add and remove scenes (addScene and removeScene)
  • Add and remove hot spots (addHotSpot and removeHotSpot)
  • Auto rotate start / stop (startAutoRotate and stopAutoRotate)
  • Retrieve current configuration (getConfig)
  • Toggle fullscreen (toggleFullscreen)
  • Get and set north offset (getNorthOffset and setNorthOffset)

Improvements:

  • Pitch and yaw limits are now applied to edge of viewer instead of center
  • Panorama extents can now be set using URL parameters
  • Individual XMP metadata parameters can now be overridden
  • Horizon pitch and roll can now be manually set (was previously only supported via XMP metadata)
  • When auto rotate restarts, the pitch and HFOV now return to their original values
  • API movements can now be animated
  • Standalone viewer is more mobile friendly
  • Improved touch panning interaction
  • Fragments identifiers can now be used for standalone viewer configuration
  • Blob URLs are now supported
  • Added hot spot debug indicator
  • Video.js plugin now accepts a Pannellum configuration

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed numerous auto rotate bugs
  • Auto rotate speed is now actually in degrees per second
  • Long error URLs are now properly wrapped
  • Fixed mobile device orientation change bug
  • Fixed Safari fullscreen bug
  • Fullscreen now works in IE
  • Fixed Chrome bug where hot spots appeared above controls
  • Scene fades with multires now work properly
  • Hot spot target pointing now works when set to zero
  • Hot spots without text are now properly handled
  • Fixed memory leaks
  • Fixed multires tile loading error
  • Fixed a few URL handling bugs
  • Fixed multires zoom jumping when viewer was resized
  • Title and author are now reset when changing scenes
  • Mouse handlers now work with Hi-DPI displays
  • Minimum and maximum HFOV can now both be set to the same value

Backwards-Incompatible Configuration Parameter Changes:

  • The deprecated tour parameter was removed; tour JSON configuration files can be used with the config parameter

Changes in Pannellum 2.2.1 (2016-03-11)

New Features:

  • NPM support

Improvements:

  • Set Accept header to request images
  • Ensure hfov is a number
  • Better restriction on yaw range

Changes in Pannellum 2.2.0 (2016-01-27)

New Features:

  • An API has been added instead of just a standalone viewer; the API should be considered experimental at this point and may be subject to change
  • The PosePitchDegrees and PoseRollDegrees XMP tags are now supported (used by the Ricoh Theta S)
  • Optional fade animation for transitioning between scenes using the sceneFadeDuration parameter
  • New autoRotateStopDelay parameter that allows the panorama to be rotate for a specific period of time before stopping
  • Hot spot debug parameter to assist with positioning hot spots (hotSpotDebug)
  • Parameter to disable keyboard zooming (keyboardZoom)

Improvements:

  • Much better equirectangular video support using Video.js
  • High-DPI support
  • Unified configuration files; tour configuration files can now be used directly with the config parameter
  • Page title is now set to the panorama title in the standalone viewer
  • Aspect ratio of preview image is now maintained
  • Fullscreen button is now only shown if fullscreen is allowed
  • Pointer Events are now supported for touch controls in IE / Edge
  • Performance improvements
  • CSS 3D renderer now works with cubemaps
  • CSS 3D renderer now works in IE 10/11
  • Configuration files are now loaded asynchronously (synchronous request are deprecated by most browsers)
  • Improved keyboard zooming speed
  • Added checks to avoid browser NPOT cubemap bugs
  • Better path handling
  • Informative error is shown when Pannellum is opend from local filesystem instead of a web server

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed zoom out jerkiness in Chrome
  • Fixed inertia-related jumping
  • Fixed CSS 3D renderer edge flickering issue
  • Fixed CSS 3D renderer hot spot display bug
  • Fixed a number of Safari-related bugs
  • Fixed bug with autoloaded tours
  • Fixed bug where hot spot tooltips were sometimes obscured
  • Fixed CSS 3D renderer fullscreen bug
  • Fixed vOffset bug
  • Fixed image hot spots bug
  • Fixed zoom bug related to small multires panoramas

Backwards-Incompatible Configuration Parameter Changes:

  • The sign of hot spot yaw positions has been flipped to match the rest of Pannellum's yaw values
  • The tour parameter is deprecated and will be removed in the next major release; tour JSON configuration files can be used with the config parameter
  • Undocumented URL configuration parameters can no longer be used
  • The header parameter can no longer be used; use the API instead

Other:

  • Extra row of pixels no longer needed in multires fallback images
  • Added JSDoc documentation

Changes in Pannellum 2.1.1 (2015-01-19)

Bugfixes:

  • Force subpixel rendering for hot spots

Changes in Pannellum 2.1.0 (2015-01-14)

New Features:

  • Ability to limit pitch, yaw, and hfov extents
  • Can set starting pitch and yaw in scene linked to by hotspot
  • Pinch to zoom
  • Zoom and fullscreen controls can be hidden
  • "Inertia"
  • Option to begin auto rotating after a period of user inactivity
  • Use Photo Sphere XMP metadata for configuration
  • Preliminary equirectangular video support (no controls)

Improvements:

  • Loading progress bar is displayed for equirectangular panoramas
  • Error message for image being to large for a device is now much more descriptive
  • Zoom level choosing for multiresolution panoramas is improved
  • Documentation of configuration parameters was added
  • Python 2.7 support for multiresolution tile generator script

Bugfixes:

  • Fix bug where preview images wasn't always loaded for cubic panoramas
  • Hot spots are now displayed behind controls
  • Fix bug with multiresolution panoramas when basePath isn't defined
  • Error message displayed for IE 9

Backwards-Incompatible Configuration Parameter Changes:

  • voffset changed to vOffset
  • autorotate changed to autoRotate
  • autoload changed to autoLoad
  • autoLoad value changed from 'yes' to true

Other:

  • Popout mode, for browsers that do not support the fullscreen API, has been removed

Changes in Pannellum 2.0.1 (2014-08-24)

Bugfixes:

  • Fix keyboard controls in Safari

Changes in Pannellum 2.0 (2014-08-22)

New Features:

  • New rendering backend
  • Multiresolution panoramas
  • Partial panoramas
  • Cubic panoramas
  • CSS 3D fallback renderer for multiresolution panoramas
  • JSON configuration files
  • Hot spots and tours
  • Compass headings

Improvements:

  • More configuration options
  • New theme
  • Performance improvements
  • CORS support

Bugfixes:

  • Numerous

Changes in Pannellum 1.2 (2012-08-28)

New Features:

  • Added keyboard panning controls
  • Added support for a fallback URL if WebGL is not supported

Improvements:

  • Clarified load button text
  • Switched from raster to vector icons

Bugfixes:

  • Added workaround for WebKit fullscreen regression