1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
4 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
5 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
6 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
7 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
8 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
10 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
11 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
14 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
17 No changes from 0.96_02.
19 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
22 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
24 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
26 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
27 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
28 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
30 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
32 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
33 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
35 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
38 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
39 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
41 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
43 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
45 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
46 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
47 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
48 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
50 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
53 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
55 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
56 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
58 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
59 typemap instead of rolling their own.
61 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
64 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
65 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
66 simplifies the XS code.
68 - many other minor XS changes
70 - some XS code formatting
72 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
73 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
74 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
76 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
78 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
79 reporting some types of error.
80 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
82 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
83 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
84 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
86 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
89 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
92 - rearrange Imager's test files.
93 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
95 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
96 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
97 paths, which avoids that localization.
98 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
100 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
101 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
103 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
104 reported by Andreas König
106 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
108 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
110 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
113 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
114 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
115 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
117 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
119 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
122 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
123 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
124 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
125 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
126 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
128 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
129 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
130 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
132 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
135 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
137 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
138 due to a bug in that version of perl.
140 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
141 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
143 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
144 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
146 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
149 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
150 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
153 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
154 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
156 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
157 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
161 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
162 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
165 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
166 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
167 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
169 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
171 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
172 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
173 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
175 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
176 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
178 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
179 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
181 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
182 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
184 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
185 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
187 - fixed some other compiler warnings
189 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
190 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
192 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
193 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
194 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
195 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
196 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
199 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
200 =========================
202 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
205 - improved thread safety
206 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
208 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
209 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
210 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
211 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
212 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
213 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
214 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
215 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
218 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
219 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
221 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
223 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
225 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
227 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
229 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
234 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
235 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
238 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
240 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
241 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
243 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
244 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
245 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
247 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
248 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
250 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
253 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
254 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
259 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
261 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
262 header version in 5.0.0.
264 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
265 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
266 uninitialized gif89 bug.
267 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
268 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
270 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
272 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
273 later versions of T1Lib.
275 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
276 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
278 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
279 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
281 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
284 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
285 correctly for both probing and runtime.
286 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
288 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
290 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
292 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
297 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
298 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
299 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
300 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
301 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
302 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
303 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
304 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
305 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
309 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
310 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
312 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
313 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
314 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
315 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
317 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
319 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
320 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
322 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
323 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
325 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
326 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
328 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
333 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
334 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
335 Corrected the prototype.
337 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
338 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
339 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
340 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
341 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
343 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
345 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
346 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
347 processing the image data itself.
348 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
350 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
351 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
354 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
356 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
357 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
358 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
359 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
360 directories and insert that into the library flags.
361 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
363 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
364 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
365 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
367 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
369 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
370 handle a statically linked libpng.
371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
373 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
374 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
375 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
376 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
377 configuration is found.
378 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
382 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
383 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
384 called but not supplied.
385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
387 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
390 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
392 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
394 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
395 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
398 - improve error reporting
399 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
400 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
401 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
402 handlers to write as bilevel
403 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
404 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
405 - write paletted images as paletted images
406 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
408 - improved metadata support
409 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
411 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
416 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
417 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
418 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
422 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
423 rather than the heading you can find them under.
424 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
426 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
427 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
428 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
429 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
431 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
432 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
433 pointer and line number.
434 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
436 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
439 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
440 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
442 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
444 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
447 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
448 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
450 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
451 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
453 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
454 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
455 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
457 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
458 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
459 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
460 interfaces to these functions.
462 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
463 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
465 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
469 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
470 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
472 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
476 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
477 component of the color is now significant.
478 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
480 - remove long unused gif case from read()
481 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
483 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
484 when it's meant to be an array reference.
485 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
487 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
488 parameters are supplied.
489 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
490 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
492 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
495 - document the return value of the filter() method.
496 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
498 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
499 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
501 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
503 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
505 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
506 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
508 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
509 identify the file type match reality.
510 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
512 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
513 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
515 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
516 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
518 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
519 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
521 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
524 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
526 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
528 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
529 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
530 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
531 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
533 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
536 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
538 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
543 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
544 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
546 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
547 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
549 - make default text color non-transparent
550 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
552 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
553 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
555 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
557 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
559 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
560 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
562 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
564 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
567 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
568 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
570 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
571 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
573 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
576 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
579 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
580 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
582 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
584 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
585 initialized more efficiently.
586 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
588 - updated the Thanks list in README
589 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
591 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
592 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
594 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
595 perl could order it differently.
596 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
598 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
599 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
600 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
601 prefixed names on Win32.
602 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
604 - fix library detection with MSVC
606 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
607 them. Hopefully fixes:
608 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
610 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
613 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
615 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
617 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
619 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
620 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
623 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
624 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
625 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
628 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
630 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
631 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
633 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
634 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
636 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
637 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
638 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
639 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
640 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
641 then panic about the result.
643 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
644 callback, which should return true for success.
646 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
647 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
649 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
650 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
651 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
653 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
655 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
656 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
659 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
661 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
662 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
665 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
667 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
669 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
672 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
675 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
677 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
678 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
680 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
681 lead to an infinite loop.
685 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
687 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
690 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
695 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
696 checked when reading TIFF files.
697 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
699 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
700 failed image file read() or write().
701 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
703 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
704 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
705 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
707 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
709 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
711 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
712 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
713 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
715 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
716 modernize the tests a bit.
717 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
719 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
723 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
725 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
727 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
728 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
730 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
733 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
735 Massive types re-work:
737 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
738 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
740 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
742 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
743 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
744 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
745 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
747 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
748 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
749 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
750 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
752 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
753 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
755 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
759 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
760 values when writing a GIF image.
762 - removed dead callback read/write code
764 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
766 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
769 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
772 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
773 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
777 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
778 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
780 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
781 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
783 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
785 - add to_rgb_double() method.
786 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
788 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
789 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
791 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
792 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
794 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
796 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
797 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
799 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
801 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
802 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
803 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
805 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
810 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
811 failing on a Solaris smoker.
812 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
814 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
817 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
821 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
822 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
823 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
825 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
826 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
827 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
829 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
832 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
835 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
840 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
841 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
842 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
843 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
845 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
846 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
847 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
848 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
850 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
851 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
853 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
854 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
856 - improve the library detection summary
857 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
859 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
860 downgrade the version in this file.
861 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
863 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
864 that option for the directories that would normally go in
865 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
866 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
868 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
871 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
873 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
874 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
875 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
877 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
878 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
880 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
881 work around limitations in PAR.
882 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
886 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
887 Revealed by new coverage tests.
889 - update the filter plugin documentation.
890 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
892 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
893 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
894 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
895 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
897 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
898 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
899 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
900 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
902 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
903 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
905 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
906 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
908 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
909 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
911 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
914 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
916 - Imager is now maintained in git
917 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
918 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
922 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
923 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
924 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
926 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
927 just a little darker.
929 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
930 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
931 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
932 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
934 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
936 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
939 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
942 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
943 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
944 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
945 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
947 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
949 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
950 images into a new image
951 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
955 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
957 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
958 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
959 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
961 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
962 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
964 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
965 included in the tarball. They are now included.
967 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
972 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
973 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
975 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
977 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
979 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
980 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
982 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
985 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
986 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
987 Uses Imager::Probe now.
988 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
990 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
991 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
995 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
998 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1000 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1002 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1003 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1004 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1006 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1009 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1011 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1012 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1014 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1015 preparation for separate distribution.
1016 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1018 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1020 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1024 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1025 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1026 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1027 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1029 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1030 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1031 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1033 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1034 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1035 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1036 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1039 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1040 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1042 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1043 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1044 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1045 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1047 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1050 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1051 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1053 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1055 - add resources to META.yml
1057 Imager 0.76 - not released
1062 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1063 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1064 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1065 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1067 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1072 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1073 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1075 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1076 the code run phase of library probing.
1078 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1083 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1085 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1088 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1090 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1091 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1092 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1093 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1095 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1096 for separate distribution.
1097 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1098 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1103 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1105 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1107 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1109 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1110 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1112 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1113 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1115 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1116 (sorry for the mess)
1118 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1119 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1120 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1122 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1125 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1126 perls (not measured)
1130 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1131 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1133 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1134 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1136 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1141 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1142 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1143 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1145 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1146 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1148 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1150 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1151 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1153 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1155 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1158 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1161 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1162 the incorrect colour.
1164 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1167 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1169 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1172 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1173 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1176 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1179 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1180 it works with non-threaded perls
1182 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1187 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1189 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1191 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1192 8-bit sample operations.
1193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1196 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1198 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1199 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1200 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1203 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1206 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1211 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1212 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1213 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1214 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1215 results or runtime exceptions.
1216 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1219 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1224 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1227 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1229 Thanks to Krzysztof WojtaÅ for the test data and fix for this.
1231 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1232 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1233 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1234 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1235 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1238 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1243 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1244 that should be a parameter to plan().
1246 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1247 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1249 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1251 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1254 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1255 load the given file.
1256 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1260 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1261 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1263 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1264 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1267 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1269 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1271 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1276 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1278 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1280 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1283 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1285 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1286 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1289 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1290 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1292 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1293 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1294 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1296 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1297 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1301 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1302 META.yml from scratch
1303 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1305 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1306 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1307 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1308 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1310 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1315 - fix a packaging error
1317 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1320 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1324 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1325 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1326 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1328 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1329 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1330 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1331 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1333 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1335 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1336 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1338 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1340 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1341 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1342 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1344 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1345 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1346 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1347 - group width methods and height methods
1348 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1350 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1355 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1356 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1357 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1358 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1359 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1362 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1363 ignored for the screen height when present.
1364 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1366 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1369 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1374 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1375 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1376 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1377 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1380 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1381 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1382 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1384 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1385 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1386 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1387 not a buffer overflow.
1388 Added a check for the failure.
1389 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1390 scale size parameters are a reference.
1391 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1393 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1394 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1395 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1397 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1399 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1402 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1403 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1404 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1405 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1408 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1409 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1411 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1413 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1414 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1415 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1416 noalpha channels or back.
1417 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1419 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1420 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1421 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1422 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1424 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1425 functions when filling.
1426 Corrected normal combine mode.
1427 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1428 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1429 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1430 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1432 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1434 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1435 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1436 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1437 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1439 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1440 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1441 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1442 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1444 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1445 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1446 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1447 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1451 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1453 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1455 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1456 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1457 compressible output files.
1458 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1460 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1462 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1463 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1464 code, not intended for installation.
1465 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1467 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1468 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1470 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1471 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1472 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1473 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1474 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1475 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1477 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1479 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1482 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1483 to /path under your home directory.
1484 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1486 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1487 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1488 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1489 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1490 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1492 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1493 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1494 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1495 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1499 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1501 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1503 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1504 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1505 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1507 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1508 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1510 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1511 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1513 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1515 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1518 - major TIFF support re-work
1519 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1521 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1522 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1524 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1527 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1528 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1530 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1532 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1534 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1538 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1541 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1542 alpha channel correctly.
1544 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1545 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1546 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1548 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1549 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1551 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1553 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1555 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1558 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1559 when scaling an animated gif
1560 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1564 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1565 perspective type transformations to work now.
1566 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1568 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1569 also fixed some other type warnings
1570 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1572 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1574 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1576 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1577 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1578 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1580 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1582 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1584 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1585 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1586 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1588 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1589 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1591 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1592 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1593 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1595 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1597 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1599 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1600 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1601 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1603 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1604 an unknown image file format.
1605 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1607 - improve the transform2() documentation
1608 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1610 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1611 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1613 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1614 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1615 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1618 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1621 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1622 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1624 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1626 - logging functions are now available in the API
1628 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1629 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1630 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1631 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1633 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1634 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1635 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1636 using Imager as a general image processor.
1637 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1641 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1642 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1643 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1644 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1646 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1647 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1649 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1650 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1651 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1654 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1656 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1658 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1659 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1661 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1662 image, but return a new image.
1663 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1665 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1666 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1667 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1669 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1670 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1672 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1673 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1675 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1680 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1681 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1683 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1684 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1685 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1686 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1688 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1691 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1693 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1696 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1698 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1702 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1703 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1704 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1706 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1707 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1708 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1710 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1712 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1713 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1714 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1716 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1717 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1719 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1720 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1722 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1723 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1724 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1725 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1726 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1727 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1728 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1730 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1733 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1735 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1736 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1737 this issue in the ticket below.
1738 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1739 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1740 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1741 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1743 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1746 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1748 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1750 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1752 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1753 contains only black and white
1755 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1757 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1760 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1764 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1765 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1766 resulted in a memory leak.
1767 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1769 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1770 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1772 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1773 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1775 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1777 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1778 even though the format doesn't require that
1780 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1781 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1783 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1784 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1785 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1787 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1788 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1789 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1791 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1792 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1794 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1797 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1799 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1801 There is one new feature:
1803 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1804 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1805 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1807 Several bugs were fixed:
1809 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1810 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1812 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1813 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1815 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1817 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1819 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1820 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1822 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1823 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1824 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1826 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1827 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1828 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1830 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1833 Win32 font driver fixes:
1835 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1836 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1838 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1839 advance width they would be clipped
1842 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1845 This is primarily a feature release:
1847 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1848 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1849 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1850 blurry results than normal.
1851 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1853 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1855 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1857 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1858 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1859 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1860 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1861 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1862 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1863 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1865 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1866 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1868 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1870 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1871 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1873 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1875 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1876 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1878 - minor documentation fixes
1881 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1884 This is a bugfix release.
1886 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1887 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1889 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1892 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1895 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1896 fixes, new features:
1898 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1900 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1902 - add POD coverage tests
1904 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1905 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1906 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1908 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1909 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1910 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1915 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1916 calculating the advance width.
1917 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1919 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1920 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1921 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1924 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1925 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1926 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1927 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1928 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1930 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1931 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1933 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1935 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1936 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1938 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1941 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1944 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1946 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1948 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1950 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1952 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1954 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1957 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1960 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1961 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1962 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1963 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1965 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1966 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1968 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1969 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049