1.4.0

Major changes:

• New build system
• C++17 support
• Python bindings
• 4 DOF Point-to-plane error minimizer
• Spectral Decomposition Datapoints Filter
• Add Descriptor Datapoints Filter
• Countless fixes and improvements, see the complete list below

Language, compilation, platforms and build system

• Added missing include that made windows compilation fail. by @simonpierredeschenes in #343
• Modernize cmake; make cmake compatible with git submoduling by @jlblancoc in #382
• Fix build of downstream packages. by @peci1 in #407
• The keyword "or" is not supported by windows compilers. by @kubelvla in #418
• Get rid of the Visual C++ warnings by @afabri in #355
• Automaticaly find eigen3 by @maximecharriere in #448
• Windows: Fix Narrowing conversion of seed in MaxPointCount by @maxGimeno in #470
• Build python binding as regular package by @KernelA in #506
• Handle libnabo config mode by @sloriot in #513
• libpointmatcher build-system by @RedLeader962 in #518
• build-system minor mod by @RedLeader962 in #519
• fix: build-system side unstable compilation issue fix [NMO-402] by @RedLeader962 in #539
• fix: N2ST path resolution in dependencies-doc docker image by @RedLeader962 in #541
• Fixes to CMake library management config generation by @boxanm in #538
• fix: refactor hardcoded build system path using environment variable and substitution by @RedLeader962 in #542
• refactor(release-prep): doc update and libpointmatcher-build-system logic refactoring to submodule by @RedLeader962 in #543
• feat: Move libpointmatcher build-system logic to norlab-build-system submodule (clean-up and polish) by @RedLeader962 in #545
• fix: Build system improvements and fixes by @RedLeader962 in #546
• Migrate to C++17 by @boxanm in #536
• feat: implement libpointmatcher turnkey install scripts for user who have cloned the repo by @RedLeader962 in #547
• Fixed compilation on Visual Studio 2022 by @soesau in #494
• Fixes for windows by @maxGimeno in #437

• catkin not required for pure cmake packages by @Timple in #482

• Link against pthread by @YoshuaNava in #417
• Disable static boost linkage by default by @KernelA in #530
• Add Boost_LIBRARIES to pointmatcher_LIBRARIES by @maxGimeno in #441
• Add libpointmatcher_INCLUDE_DIR to match with CGAL by @maximecharriere in #446

Error minimizers

• Change icp chain image to an svg by @PhiBabin in #340
• Feature/4 dof for point to plane minimizer by @kubelvla in #378
• Add missing force4DOF param to PointToPlaneWithCov by @bhavitp in #384
• Fix 4DoF PointToPlane error minimizer crash by @kaatrasa in #492
• RemoveBeyond option for the maxQuantileDistance filter by @dagata-mining in #452
• Add option to weight by reading pc by @hermannsblum in #439

Data point filters

• Fix/normal space hashing by @jsburklund in #327
• Improve speed of Normal Space filtering by @jsburklund in #328
• Fix/clamp normals by @jsburklund in #326
• [feature/spdf] Add SpectralDecompositionFilter (SpDF) by @MathLabu in #411
• [DataPoints] Added check to prevent unsigned int underflow in getEuclideanDim() by @YoshuaNava in #414
• Feature/speedup random sampling filter by @YoshuaNava in #396
• Fix weird behavior of MaxPointCountDataPointsFilter by @aguenette in #464
• Add seed to Random sampling filter by @boxanm in #501
• Fix time values after applying Sampling surface normal filter by @boxanm in #502
• New DataPoints filter for descriptor augmentation by @boxanm in #535
• Fix octree sampling by @boxanm in #540
• Fix the surface normals datapoints filter covariance matrix bug by @aguenette in #465
• Apply the transformation to eigen vectors by @aguenette in #467
• Change storage ordering of the eigen vectors descriptors by @aguenette in #468
• Bug fix in SurfaceNormalOutlierFilter by @cjamin in #457
• Updated the inner loop counter by @harsh-su in #521

Documentation

• Update link to documentation in readme by @PhiBabin in #350
• [WIP] Fix/typo : Tutorials improvements by @aguenette in #386
• Fixes tutorials formatting problem (#373) by @aguenette in #387
• Fix/typo Fixes tutorials building failure by @aguenette in #388
• Outlier filter documentation added by @nimisbert in #392
• Adding the new outlierfilters documentation to mkdocs .yml by @aguenette in #394
• Added reference for PointToPlaneWithCov ErrorMinimizer. by @simonpierredeschenes in #398
• Fixed the differences between examples and documentation (#409) by @aguenette in #410
• Reorganization of the compiling tutorials for ubuntu and macos by @aguenette in #400
• Strong Windows installation tutorial update by @maximecharriere in #447
• Add more details in pypointmatcher's installation docs by @IamPhytan in #495
• Update README.md by @pomerlef in #525
• Update CompilationPython.md by @boxanm in #527
• Create LICENSE file based on BSD license as per package.xml by @Timple in #485
• Update readme_test.md for docker daemon test by @RedLeader962 in #524
• Create readme_test.md by @RedLeader962 in #522
• Update CompilationWindows.md by @NattyBumppo in #456
• Fix windows doc by @maxGimeno in #436
• Typo in PCL lib name by @andre-nguyen in #422

Miscellaneous

• refactor: Drop support for yaml-cpp old API by @aguenette in #450
• [WIP] feature/python_module : Adding libpointmatcher's Python bindings (#222) by @aguenette in #397

• Fix typo by @haampie in #332

• Add support for Travis by @PhiBabin in #337

• Fix segfault happening in ICPSequence class by @simonpierredeschenes in #348

• Fix out-of-bounds access by @jlblancoc in #385

• Replaced the remaining raw pointers with shared pointers in Registrar.h by @aguenette in #395

• Change matrix type by @afabri in #354

• Feature/geometry data points filter for master by @kubelvla in #374

• Implemented an in-place method for transforming DataPoints objects by @YoshuaNava in #419

• Include iso646.h to add and, or, not macros by @maximecharriere in #427

• [Matches/OutlierFiltersImpl] Made convergence error messages more informative by @YoshuaNava in #453

• Histogram::computeStats() without sorting the Histogram by @maximecharriere in #479

• package format=3 by @Timple in #487

• Use the LOG_INFO_STREAM macro instead of std::cerr by @maximecharriere in #490

• Release by @RedLeader962 in #523

• Fix Transformations test build when using Eigen3.4 by @boxanm in #531

• Fix 2D transformation tests in debug by @boxanm in #533

• THE 2023 release by @RedLeader962 in #544

New Contributors

• @jsburklund made their first contribution in #327
• @haampie made their first contribution in #332
• @kubelvla made their first contribution in #378
• @jlblancoc made their first contribution in #385
• @aguenette made their first contribution in #386
• @bhavitp made their first contribution in #384
• @afabri made their first contribution in #354
• @nimisbert made their first contribution in #392
• @peci1 made their first contribution in #407
• @YoshuaNava made their first contribution in #414
• @andre-nguyen made their first contribution in #422
• @maximecharriere made their first contribution in #427
• @maxGimeno made their first contribution in #436
• @hermannsblum made their first contribution in #439
• @dagata-mining made their first contribution in #452
• @NattyBumppo made their first contribution in #456
• @cjamin made their first contribution in #457
• @Timple made their first contribution in #482
• @kaatrasa made their first contribution in #492
• @IamPhytan made their first contribution in #495
• @soesau made their first contribution in #494
• @KernelA made their first contribution in #506
• @sloriot made their first contribution in #513
• @RedLeader962 made their first contribution in #518
• @harsh-su made their first contribution in #521

Full Changelog: 1.3.1...1.4.0