Pannellum 2.3.1

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

Pannellum 2.3.0

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

Pannellum 2.2.1

The new features in this release are:

• NPM support

Improvements include:

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

Pannellum 2.2.0

New features in this release include:

• An experimental API, instead of just a standalone viewer, for better integration with external code
• Support for the PosePitchDegrees and PoseRollDegrees XMP tags, as used by the Ricoh Theta S
• An optional fade animation for tour transitions
• A debug parameter to assist with placing hot spots

Improvements include:

• Vastly improved equirectangular video support
• High-DPI support
• Unifying regular and tour configuration files.

There are also numerous bugfixes, most notably a fix for zoom out jerkiness in Chrome. For a complete list of changes, see the changelog.

Pannellum 2.1.1

This forces subpixel rendering of hot spots in Chrome.

Pannellum 2.1.0

This release includes a number of improvements including a loading bar for equirectangular panoramas, "inertia," configuration from Photo Sphere XMP data, more descriptive error messages, and more documentation. Numerous bugs have also been fixed, and a few backwards incompatible parameter name changes have been made. For a complete list of changes, see the changelog.

Pannellum 2.0.1

This fixes a bug with keyboard controls in Safari.

Pannellum 2.0

Two years in the making, this is a near complete rewrite of Pannellum. The renderer was replaced with raw WebGL, and multiresolution panorama support was added, along with a fallback CSS 3D renderer. Other additions include support for JSON configuration files, hotspots, tours, compass headings, CORS, partial panoramas, and cubic panoramas.