Dear all!

I've finally released a new lux version, after a lot of work on the 
program. Linux users already had 'tasters' of what's now in version 1.2.0, 
there are two big changes:

- I wrote a new GUI using Dear ImGui

- I am now using OpenImageIO for image input

The new GUI should make it much easier to handle the large amount of 
options and settings, and pretty much everything can now be done 
graphically, rather than having to resort to command line options. The new 
GUI also has plenty of tool tips, so one can approach the functionality 
without having to switch between the program and the documentation all the 
time. I hope this helps to make the program more attractive. The mouse and 
keyboard commands are unchanged.

Using OpenImageIO for image input pulls in a lot of other libraries via 
plugins and linkage, so the number of dependencies has grown dramatically, 
but I think it's worth it. lux can now open a large variety of image files, 
including camera RAWs (using libraw, which is similar to dcraw) and videos 
as sequences of single images (using ffmpeg). Some of the image formats 
which can now be visualized are quite new (e.g. HEIF/HEIC ), and they were 
one of the reasons why I switched to OIIO - the newer formats weren't 
supported by libvigraimpex.

Under the hood there's the same fast rendering engine using multithreaded 
SIMD code, the only change is that automatic rendering quality for 
animations is now on by default. And, needless to say, there were many 
small bug fixes and tweaks, hopefully all for the better!

There are binaries available <https://bitbucket.org/kfj/pv/downloads> for 
Linux (in AppImage format) Windows (portable and installable version) and 
for intel-based macs - a version for mac silicon will hopefully materialize 
soon, until then, mac silicon users can run the intel code with Rosetta, 
which works quite well. Enjoy!

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