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 # ChangeList
 
+## *= 1.8.0 (xx.10.2015) =*
+
+* Added missing `Eigen::aligned_allocator` in vectors that contain vectorizable
+  Eigen where appropriate
+  [[#1034]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1034)
+  [[#1052]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1052)
+  [[#1068]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1068)
+
+### `libpcl_common:`
+
+* Added `copy_all_fields` option to the family of transformPointCloudXXX()
+  functions
+  [[#805]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/805)
+* Added a color lookup table consisting of 256 colors structured in a maximally
+  discontinuous manner (Glasbey colors)
+  [[#849]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/849)
+* Added a helper class `EventFrequency` to measure frequency of a certain event
+  [[#850]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/850)
+* Added a new `UniqueShapeContext1960` point type
+  [[#856]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/856)
+* Added a function `transformPointWithNormal()`
+  [[#908]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/908)
+* Fixed index-out-of-range error in `copyPointCloud()` for empty clouds
+  [[#933]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/933)
+* Fixed errors when compiling library with Boost 1.56 and Qt4
+  [[#938]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/938)
+* Created a new point type `PointXYZLNormal` with position, normal, and label
+  fields
+  [[#962]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/962)
+* Created a new point type `PointDEM` to represent Digital Elevation Maps
+  [[#1021]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1021)
+* Fixed angle convexity calculation for parallel and anti-parallel normals,
+  where a rounding error occasionally caused NaN angles in `getAngle3D()`
+  [[#1035]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1035)
+* Fixed undefined behavior when using multiple instances of `TimeTrigger`
+  [[#1074]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1074)
+* Fixed starvation bug in `TimeTrigger` on Windows with Boost < 1.55
+  [[#1086]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1086)
+* Removed unnecessary mutex locking in `TimeTrigger::registerCallback`
+  [[#1087]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1087)
+* Updated PCL exception types to have nothrow copy constructor and copy
+  assigment operator
+  [[#1119]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1119)
+
+### `libpcl_features:`
+
+* Fixed default parameters of the USC descriptor to match the values proposed in
+  the original paper
+  [[#856]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/856)
+* Fixed the L1 normalization of the `ROPSEstimation` feature
+  [[#993]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/993)
+* Fixed default angle step in `ROPSEstimation`
+  [[#1000]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1000)
+
+### `libpcl_filters:`
+
+* Improved `RadiusOutlierRemoval` performance by using nearest-K search when the
+  input point cloud is dense
+  [[#709]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/709)
+* Fixed the signature of `BoxClipper3D::clipPlanarPolygon3D()`
+  [[#911]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/911)
+* Updated base `Filter` class to allow using same point cloud as input and
+  output (effective for every filtering algorithm)
+  [[#1042]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1042)
+
+### `libpcl_gpu:`
+
+* Added a function `hasShifted()` in KinFu large scale
+  [[#944]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/944)
+* Fixed empty "View3D" window bug when using registration mode with `-pcd` flag
+  in KinFu app
+  [[#1018]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1018)
+* Fixed uninitialized loop variable in `PeoplePCDApp::convertProbToRGB()`
+  [[#1104]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1104)
+
+### `libpcl_io:`
+
+* Added a grabber for IDS Imaging Ensenso devices
+  [[#888]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/888)
+* Updated `RobotEyeGrabber` class to handle new packet format
+  [[#982]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/982)
+* Fixed focal length computation in `OpenNI2Grabber`
+  [[#992]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/992)
+* Updated `OpenNIGrabber` to use depth camera parameters instead of color camera
+  parameters for point reprojection
+  [[#994]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/994)
+* Made PCD reader case insensitive with respect to nan/NaN/NAN values
+  [[#1004]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1004)
+* Added support for saving normal and curvature fields in `savePLYFile` and
+  `savePLYFileBinary`
+  [[#1057]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1057)
+  [[#1058]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1058)
+* Fixed alpha value of bad points in `OpenNIGrabber`
+  [[#1090]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1090)
+* Fixed a bug in `OpenNIGrabber` destructor where wrong callback handle was
+  unregistered
+  [[#1094]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1094)
+* Fixed a bug in `PCDGrabber` destructor
+  [[#1127]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1127)
+
+### `libpcl_keypoints:`
+
+* Fixed invalid array allocation in `ISSKeypoint3D`
+  [[#1022]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1022)
+* Removed superfluous parameter in 'TrajkovicKeypoint3D::getNormals()'
+  [[#1096]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1096)
+
+### `libpcl_octree:`
+
+* Added `const` qualifiers in `OctreePointCloud::getVoxelBounds()`
+  [[#1016]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1016)
+
+### `libpcl_people:`
+
+* Fixed undefined behavior in `HOG` (use `new`/`delete` consistently)
+  [[#1099]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1099)
+
+### `libpcl_recognition:`
+
+* Fixed multiple includes in `recognition` module
+  [[#1109]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1109)
+  [[#1110]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1110)
+* Fixed "index out of bounds" error in `LineRGBD::refineDetectionsAlongDepth()`
+  [[#1117]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1117)
+
+### `libpcl_registration:`
+
+* Updated `GeneralizedIterativeClosestPoint` to return _transformed_ input point
+  cloud after alignment
+  [[#887]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/887)
+* Fixed a problem with multiple definition of `setInputFeatureCloud` and
+  `nearestNeighborSearch` symbols in `PPFRegistration`
+  [[#891]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/891)
+  [[#907]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/907)
+* Added an implementation of the algorithm "4-Points Congruent Sets for Robust
+  Surface Registration"
+  [[#976]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/976)
+* Added an implementation of the algorithm "Keypoint-based 4-Points Congruent
+  Sets – Automated marker-less registration of laser scans"
+  [[#979]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/979)
+* Fixed compilation of `pcl_registration` module with MSVC2010
+  [[#1014]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1014)
+* Removed wrong error normalization in `SampleConsensusPrerejective`
+  [[#1037]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1037)
+
+### `libpcl_sample_consensus:`
+
+* Fixed behavior of `SACMODEL_PARALLEL_LINE` to match the name (instead of
+  searching for lines perpendicular to a given axis)
+  [[#969]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/969)
+* Added `getClassName()` function to all SAC models
+  [[#1071]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1071)
+
+### `libpcl_segmentation:`
+
+* Added implementation of `LCCP` segmentation algorithm
+  [[#718]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/718)
+* Made `SupervoxelClustering` fully deterministic and made some internal
+  refactoring
+  [[#912]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/912)
+* Moved specializations of `OctreePointCloudAdjacency::VoxelData` class from
+  header to implementation files
+  [[#919]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/919)
+* Deprecated `SupervoxelClustering::getColoredCloud()`
+  [[#941]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/941)
+* Fixed a regression in `ExtractPolygonalPrismData`; both explicitly and
+  implicitly closed polygons are supported again
+  [[#1044]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1044)
+* Added an overload of `setConditionFunction()` in
+  `ConditionalEuclideanClustering` that takes `boost::function`
+  [[#1050]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1050)
+* Updated `SupervoxelClustering` to use the depth dependent transform by
+  default only if the input cloud is organized; added a function to force use
+  of the transform, and removed corresponding parameter from the constructor
+  [[#1115]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1115)
+
+### `libpcl_stereo:`
+
+* Added a new `DisparityMapConverter` class for converting disparity maps into
+  point clouds
+  [[#1021]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1021)
+* Added a new `DigitalElevationMapBuilder` class for building Digital Elevation
+  Maps from disparity maps
+  [[#1021]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1021)
+
+### `libpcl_surface:`
+
+* Updated `TextureMapping` to not use hard-coded point types
+  [[#929]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/929)
+
+### `libpcl_visualization:`
+
+* Added a new `PointCloudColorHandler` for "label" field
+  [[#849]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/849)
+* Fixed `setSize()` and `setPosition()` functions in `PCLVisualizer`
+  [[#923]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/923)
+* Fixed an issue with `PCLVisualizer` producing empty screenshots on some system
+  configurations
+  [[#956]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/956)
+* Added a new function `removeAllCoordinateSystems()` in `PCLVisualizer`
+  [[#965]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/965)
+* Made `PCLVisualizer::addPointCloudPrincipalCurvatures()` templated on point
+  and normal type
+  [[#965]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/965)
+* Fixed a minor bug in `PCLVisualizer::updatePolygonMesh()`
+  [[#977]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/977)
+* Fixed a minor bug in `ImageViewer::addMask()`
+  [[#990]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/990)
+* Fixed opacity handling in `ImageViewer`
+  [[#995]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/995)
+* Fixed a bug with `ImageViewer` not displaying anything with VTK 6
+  [[#1009]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1009)
+* Updated `ImageViewer` to work around a bug in VTK 6.1
+  [[#1017]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1017)
+* Fixed an Eigen-related compilation error in `PCLVisualizer::renderView()`
+  [[#1019]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1019)
+* Fixed wrong axis flipping in `PCLVisualizer::renderView()`
+  [[#1026]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1026)
+* Fixed a bug in `renderViewTesselatedSphere` when generated vertices were not
+  guaranteed to stay on the unit sphere
+  [[#1043]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1043)
+* Fixed misaligned context items in `ImageViewer`
+  [[#1049]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1049)
+* Fixed opacity handling for layered rectangles of context items in
+  `ImageViewer`
+  [[#1051]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1051)
+* Fixed a regression in `RenderViewsTesselatedSphere::generateViews()` related
+  to handling of multiple VTK versions
+  [[#1056]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1056)
+  [[#1067]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1067)
+  [[#1072]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1072)
+* Updated `PCLVisualizer` to use `PointCloudColorHandlerRGBAField` for
+  `PointXYZRGBA` clouds by default
+  [[#1064]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1064)
+* Fixed a bug in `PointCloudColorHandlerLabelField` where red and blue channels
+  were swapped
+  [[#1076]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1076)
+* Updated `PCLPlotter` to ignore NaN values in histogram computation
+  [[#1120]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1120)
+  [[#1126]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1126)
+* Fixed initial size of the `PCLVisualizer` window
+  [[#1125]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1125)
+
+### `PCL Apps:`
+
+* Fixed compilation of `point_cloud_editor` with Qt5
+  [[#935]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/935)
+* Fixed compilation of `dominant_plane_segmentation` and `manual_registration`
+  with Boost 1.57
+  [[#1062]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1062)
+  [[#1063]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/1063)
+
+### `PCL Examples:`
+
+* Updated supervoxel clustering example
+  [[#915]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/915)
+
+### `PCL Tools:`
+
+* Added support for point label visualization in `pcl_viewer`
+  [[#849]](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/849)
+
 ## *= 1.7.2 (10.09.2014) =*
 
 * Added support for VTK6