Background
Over the past few months we have been working hard to improve the reliability and ease-of-use of the build system, as well as working on a fully automated testing suite to help catch regressions before they make it into releases. We believe that moving slowly and methodically now while we work on the foundations of the project will allow us to move quickly later.
With that in mind, rather than land a lot of big changes at once, we wanted to cut a stable release on the existing build system so the fixes are available now rather than waiting on the migration. As such, the number of new features in this release is relatively small, however we have taken our time and tested it as much as we could with our datasets and hardware.
Our hope is this release will act as a baseline going forward, giving us a good understanding of how the quality is changing from release to release.
Highlights
- Fixed an issue when using
--alignthat would sometimes cause the scale of the output to be corrupted particularly on feature-poor scenes (#2054) - Added rolling shutter support for the DJI Mini 3
- Added support for Sentera 6x thermal images (#2041)
- obj2tiles updated to v1.4.0 (#2015)
What’s next?
With this release out of the door, our next steps will be to fully move over to the new pixi build system. We will take a look at all of our dependencies and try to bring everything up to the latest versions to take advantage of all the awesome stuff the community has been up to. We expect this to provide big performance improvements for everyone as well as adding support for newer hardware. @DodgySpaniard and @spwoodcock have already been working hard on getting us to the latest OpenSfm. All of this will go through a new testing and CI system to ensure the quality and reliability of the outputs.
As we move towards the end of the year, we hope to introduce you to some other things we have been working on that should make it easier than ever to use ODM. This is still an early project but we look forward to sharing more info soon!
Full release notes: Release 3.6.1 · OpenDroneMap/ODM · GitHub