PCL 1.13.0

This release has several new features, many bug fixes, and numerous performance enhancements. To name a few:

• The new Ellipse3D sample consensus model
• The new farthest point sampling filter
• Faster and more robust PCD and PLY input/output

For an exhaustive list of newly added features, deprecations and other changes in PCL 1.13.0, please see CHANGES.md.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

PCL 1.13.0

This release has several new features, many bug fixes, and numerous performance enhancements. To name a few:

• The new Ellipse3D sample consensus model
• The new farthest point sampling filter
• Faster and more robust PCD and PLY input/output

For an exhaustive list of newly added features, deprecations and other changes
in PCL 1.13.0, please see CHANGES.md.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

PCL 1.12.1

PCL 1.12.1 brings in a lot of enhancements in CMake thanks to @larshg and @SunBlack.
Enjoy a lot of bug-fixes and improvements in IO and Filters.

For an exhaustive list of newly added features, deprecations and other changes
in PCL 1.12.1, please see CHANGES.md.

PCL 1.12.1

PCL 1.12.1 brings in a lot of enhancements in CMake thanks to @larshg and @SunBlack.
Enjoy a lot of bug-fixes and improvements in IO and Filters.

For an exhaustive list of newly added features, deprecations and other changes
in PCL 1.12.1, please see CHANGES.md.

PCL 1.12.0

PCL 1.12.0 enables custom index size and type, from int16_t to uint64_t, allowing
users to have as small or large clouds as they wish. 1.12 also comes with improved
support for VTK, Qhull, and CUDA, along with making existing functionality more user friendly.

This is all on top of the usual bug-fixes and performance improvements across the board.

VTK warnings that might appear are due to internal deprecations, but users should check issue #4830 for more details regarding future proofing their code.

For an exhaustive list of newly added features, deprecations and other changes
in PCL 1.12.0, please see CHANGES.md.

PCL 1.12.0

PCL 1.12.0 enables custom index size and type, from int16_t to uint64_t, allowing
users to have as small or large clouds as they wish. 1.12 also comes with improved
support for VTK and CUDA, along with making existing functionality more user friendly.

This is all on top of the usual bug-fixes and performance improvements across the board

For an exhaustive list of newly added features, deprecations and other changes
in PCL 1.12.0, please see CHANGES.md.

PCL 1.11.1

PCL 1.11.1 brings in new bug fixes and improvements such as

• Increasing coverage of index_t for allowing std::int64_t as indices
• Increased conformance to std::vector API for PointCloud
• Speed improvements, thread safety and a new flexible experimental filter

For an exhaustive list of newly added features, deprecations and other changes
in PCL 1.11.1, please see CHANGES.md.

PCL 1.11.1

PCL 1.11.1 brings in new bug fixes and improvements such as

• Increasing coverage of index_t for allowing std::int64_t as indices
• Increased conformance to std::vector API for PointCloud
• Speed improvements, thread safety and a new flexible experimental filter

For an exhaustive list of newly added features, deprecations and other changes
in PCL 1.11.1, please see CHANGES.md.

PCL 1.11.1

PCL 1.11.1 brings in new bug fixes and improvements such as

• Increasing coverage of index_t for allowing std::int64_t as indices
• Increased conformance to std::vector API for PointCloud
• Speed improvements, thread safety and a new flexible experimental filter

For an exhaustive list of newly added features, deprecations and other changes
in PCL 1.11.1, please see CHANGES.md.

pcl-1.11.0

Starting with PCL 1.11, PCL uses std::shared_ptr and std::weak_ptr instead of the boost smart pointers. The change leverages type aliases included with the 1.10.0 release.

PCL 1.11 also introduces pcl::index_t which should be used for the size of point types instead of int, std::size_t, etc. EOL for deprecated features is also explicitly mentioned in the deprecation compile time warnings

See CHANGES.md for an exhaustive list newly added features, deprecations, and other changes.