Merge pull request #5908 from mvieth/changelog_1_14_0

Add changelog for 1.14.0

Author: mvieth

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 # ChangeList
 
+## = 1.14.0 (03 January 2024) =
+
+### Notable changes
+
+**New features** *added to PCL*
+
+* **[registration]** GICP: add Newton optimizer [[#5825](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5825)]
+
+**Deprecation** *of public APIs, scheduled to be removed after two minor releases*
+
+* **[segmentation]** Deprecate CrfNormalSegmentation [[#5795](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5795)]
+* **[sample_consensus]** Deprecate SampleConsensusModelStick [[#5796](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5796)]
+
+**Removal** *of the public APIs deprecated in previous releases*
+
+* remove deprecated code for 1.14 release [[#5872](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5872)]
+
+**Behavior changes** *in classes, apps, or tools*
+
+* **[common]** Fix register macros to match struct definitions [[#5604](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5604)]
+* **[registration]** ICP: remove possibly inappropriate default setting of rotation convergence threshold when user does not set it. [[#5755](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5755)]
+* **[surface]** MovingLeastSquares: reduce the number of instantiations to reduce com… [[#5764](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5764)]
+* **[filters]** Fix behaviour of BoxClipper3D [[#5769](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5769)]
+* **[surface][cmake]** Prefer system zlib over vendored copy in opennurbs [[#5684](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5684)]
+
+### Changes grouped by module
+
+#### CMake:
+
+* Move /bigobj flag (Windows/MSVC) [[#5718](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5718)]
+* Make OpenMP available in downstream projects [[#5744](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5744)]
+* Eigen: switch to imported modules and NO_MODULE [[#5613](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5613)]
+* Make Flann optional [[#5772](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5772)]
+* **[behavior change]** Prefer system zlib over vendored copy in opennurbs [[#5684](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5684)]
+* fix build with GNU13 and Eigen3.4 [[#5783](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5783)]
+* Fix Eigen alignment problem when user project is compiled as C++17 or newer [[#5793](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5793)]
+* Allow compilation with Boost 1.83 [[#5810](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5810)]
+* Use real ALIAS target for flann to preserve properties on original target. [[#5861](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5861)]
+
+#### libpcl_common:
+
+* **[behavior change]** Fix register macros to match struct definitions [[#5604](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5604)]
+* Add computeCentroidAndOBB function [[#5690](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5690)]
+* Remove unnecessary pseudo-instantiations of checkCoordinateSystem [[#5765](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5765)]
+
+#### libpcl_features:
+
+* NormalEstimationOMP: use dynamic scheduling for faster computation [[#5775](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5775)]
+
+#### libpcl_filters:
+
+* **[behavior change]** Fix behaviour of BoxClipper3D [[#5769](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5769)]
+* Let setInputCloud of search methods indicate success or failure [[#5840](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5840)]
+* VoxelGridOcclusionEstimation: fix behaviour if sensor origin is inside the voxel grid [[#5867](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5867)]
+
+#### libpcl_gpu:
+
+* Some improvements to gpu/segmentation [[#5813](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5813)]
+
+#### libpcl_io:
+
+* Enable writing very large PCD files on Windows [[#5675](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5675)]
+* Make io more locale invariant [[#5699](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5699)]
+* Fix reading of origin and orientation from PLY files [[#5766](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5766)]
+* Add missing cassert include [[#5812](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5812)]
+* Fix PCD load crashes on empty files [[#5855](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5855)]
+* Fix freeze in hdl_grabber.cpp [[#5826](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5826)]
+
+#### libpcl_octree:
+
+* Octree: grow in positive direction instead of negative [[#5653](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5653)]
+
+#### libpcl_registration:
+
+* **[behavior change]** ICP: remove possibly inappropriate default setting of rotation convergence threshold when user does not set it. [[#5755](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5755)]
+* Improve PPFRegistration [[#5767](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5767)]
+* **[new feature]** GICP: add Newton optimizer [[#5825](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5825)]
+* Add instantiations for ICP and TransformationEstimationSVD [[#5894](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5894)]
+
+#### libpcl_sample_consensus:
+
+* Improve optimizeModelCoefficients for cone, cylinder, sphere models [[#5790](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5790)]
+* **[deprecation]** Deprecate SampleConsensusModelStick [[#5796](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5796)]
+* sac_model_cylinder: fix bug in projectPointToCylinder function [[#5821](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5821)]
+* Replace std::time with std::random_device as seed for random number generator [[#5824](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5824)]
+* MSAC and RMSAC: fix check array distances empty [[#5849](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5849)]
+
+#### libpcl_search:
+
+* OrganizedNeighbor: add additional check to make sure the cloud is sui… [[#5729](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5729)]
+* Modify FlannSearch to return Indices of Point Cloud (issue #5774) [[#5780](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5780)]
+* Let setInputCloud of search methods indicate success or failure [[#5840](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5840)]
+
+#### libpcl_segmentation:
+
+* ApproximateProgressiveMorphologicalFilter: check for finite-ness [[#5756](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5756)]
+* **[deprecation]** Deprecate CrfNormalSegmentation [[#5795](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5795)]
+
+#### libpcl_surface:
+
+* ConvexHull verbose info on stdout enabled only by pcl::console::L_DEBUG [[#5689](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5689)]
+* **[behavior change]** MovingLeastSquares: reduce the number of instantiations to reduce com… [[#5764](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5764)]
+* **[behavior change]** Prefer system zlib over vendored copy in opennurbs [[#5684](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5684)]
+* Fix memory leak bug of poisson reconstruction [[#5832](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5832)]
+* Speed up nurbs surface fitting [[#5873](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5873)]
+
+#### libpcl_visualization:
+
+* Improve spinOnce documentation [[#5716](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5716)]
+
+#### PCL Apps:
+
+* Add missing includes in cloud composer app [[#5777](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5777)]
+
+#### PCL Docs:
+
+* Add readthedocs config files [[#5878](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5878)]
+
+#### CI:
+
+* **[new feature][removal]** Remove 18.04 as its EOL. [[#5799](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5799)]
+* Use new windows images for CI [[#5892](https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/5892)]
+
 ## = 1.13.1 (10 May 2023) =
 
 ### Notable changes