pannellum/changelog.md

Changelog

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