Today we’re releasing version 2.1 of GigaPan Stitch, Stitch.Efx, and Upload. This version has bug fixes relative to version 2.0 to make it work better for foreign language users and photographers who record GPS.

In more detail, the changes in version 2.1.0160/0161 relative to version 2.0.0500/0501 are:

• Upload no longer crashes the first time you run it (this was happening in rare circumstances).
• Stitch and Stitch.Efx no longer crash if the input images contain GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude).
• Stitch, Stitch.Efx, and Upload are now better internationalized so that they can work with filenames and gigapan descriptions that contain non-Latin, non-ASCII, Unicode text. In the past, Stitch sometimes failed to open a file or crashed when dealing with non-ASCII text. Examples of characters and languages that are now supported are accented characters, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and any other language whose characters are part of the Unicode standard. The places where such names or text can be used include: folder names, file names, upload titles, upload descriptions, tags, user names, and passwords. In a nutshell, anywhere that non-ASCII characters might be used, they now work.

To get the latest version of Stitch, Stitch.Efx, or Upload, go to http://www.gigapan.com/cms/downloads

As usual, if you have a license for GigaPan Stitch or Stitch.Efx, updating from your current version (2.0 or earlier) to the new version (2.1) of the same software product is free. Plus, there’s a 14 day free trial of Stitch.Efx for anyone (those who have a license for Stitch or those who have not purchased a license). GigaPan Upload is free, as always.

For questions or feedback, contact customerservice@gigapansystems.com

-Paul
GigaPan Stitch Developer