Recently two interesting messages have been published on the Hugin
site.
First, a blog has been launched to provide regular news on Hugin and related open source tools such as panotools. It is called “This week in panospace”.
Second, as part of the upcoming stable release 0.7.0 enfuse will be incorporated which permits to blend images with different exposures. It resembles HDR but is geared towards panorama photography. On that subject a nice tutorial has been written which gives at the same time a nice overview of how to work with Hugin.
Links:
Hugin blog
Tutorial on enfuse