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 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
16 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
18 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
21 No changes from 0.96_02.
23 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
26 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
28 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
30 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
31 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
32 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
34 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
36 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
37 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
39 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
42 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
43 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
45 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
47 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
49 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
50 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
51 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
52 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
54 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
57 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
59 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
60 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
62 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
63 typemap instead of rolling their own.
65 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
68 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
69 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
70 simplifies the XS code.
72 - many other minor XS changes
74 - some XS code formatting
76 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
77 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
78 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
80 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
82 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
83 reporting some types of error.
84 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
86 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
87 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
88 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
90 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
93 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
96 - rearrange Imager's test files.
97 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
99 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
100 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
101 paths, which avoids that localization.
102 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
104 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
105 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
107 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
108 reported by Andreas König
110 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
112 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
114 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
117 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
118 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
119 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
121 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
123 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
126 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
127 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
128 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
129 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
130 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
132 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
133 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
134 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
136 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
139 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
141 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
142 due to a bug in that version of perl.
144 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
145 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
147 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
148 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
150 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
153 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
154 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
157 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
158 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
160 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
161 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
163 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
165 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
166 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
169 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
170 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
171 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
173 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
175 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
176 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
177 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
179 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
180 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
182 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
183 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
185 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
186 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
188 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
189 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
191 - fixed some other compiler warnings
193 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
194 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
196 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
197 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
198 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
199 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
200 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
203 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
204 =========================
206 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
209 - improved thread safety
210 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
212 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
213 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
214 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
215 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
216 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
217 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
218 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
219 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
222 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
223 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
225 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
227 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
229 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
231 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
233 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
238 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
239 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
242 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
244 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
245 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
247 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
248 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
249 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
251 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
252 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
254 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
257 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
258 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
259 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
263 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
264 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
265 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
266 header version in 5.0.0.
268 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
269 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
270 uninitialized gif89 bug.
271 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
272 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
274 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
276 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
277 later versions of T1Lib.
279 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
280 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
282 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
283 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
285 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
288 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
289 correctly for both probing and runtime.
290 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
292 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
294 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
296 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
301 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
302 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
303 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
304 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
305 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
306 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
307 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
308 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
309 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
313 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
314 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
316 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
317 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
318 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
319 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
321 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
323 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
324 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
326 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
327 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
329 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
330 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
332 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
337 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
338 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
339 Corrected the prototype.
341 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
342 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
343 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
344 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
345 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
347 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
349 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
350 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
351 processing the image data itself.
352 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
354 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
355 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
358 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
360 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
361 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
362 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
363 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
364 directories and insert that into the library flags.
365 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
367 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
368 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
369 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
371 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
373 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
374 handle a statically linked libpng.
375 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
377 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
378 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
379 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
380 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
381 configuration is found.
382 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
386 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
387 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
388 called but not supplied.
389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
391 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
394 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
396 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
398 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
399 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
402 - improve error reporting
403 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
404 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
405 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
406 handlers to write as bilevel
407 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
408 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
409 - write paletted images as paletted images
410 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
412 - improved metadata support
413 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
415 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
420 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
421 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
422 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
426 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
427 rather than the heading you can find them under.
428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
430 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
431 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
432 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
433 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
435 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
436 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
437 pointer and line number.
438 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
440 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
443 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
444 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
446 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
448 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
451 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
452 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
454 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
455 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
457 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
458 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
459 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
461 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
462 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
463 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
464 interfaces to these functions.
466 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
467 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
469 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
473 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
476 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
478 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
480 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
481 component of the color is now significant.
482 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
484 - remove long unused gif case from read()
485 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
487 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
488 when it's meant to be an array reference.
489 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
491 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
492 parameters are supplied.
493 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
494 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
496 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
499 - document the return value of the filter() method.
500 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
502 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
503 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
505 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
507 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
509 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
510 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
512 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
513 identify the file type match reality.
514 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
516 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
517 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
519 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
520 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
522 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
523 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
525 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
528 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
530 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
532 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
533 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
534 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
535 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
537 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
540 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
542 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
547 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
548 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
550 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
551 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
553 - make default text color non-transparent
554 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
556 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
557 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
559 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
561 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
563 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
564 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
566 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
568 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
571 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
572 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
574 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
575 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
577 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
580 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
583 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
584 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
586 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
588 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
589 initialized more efficiently.
590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
592 - updated the Thanks list in README
593 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
595 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
596 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
598 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
599 perl could order it differently.
600 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
602 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
603 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
604 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
605 prefixed names on Win32.
606 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
608 - fix library detection with MSVC
610 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
611 them. Hopefully fixes:
612 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
614 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
617 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
619 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
621 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
623 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
624 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
627 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
628 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
629 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
632 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
634 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
635 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
637 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
638 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
640 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
641 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
642 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
643 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
644 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
645 then panic about the result.
647 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
648 callback, which should return true for success.
650 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
651 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
653 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
654 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
655 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
657 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
659 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
660 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
663 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
665 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
666 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
669 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
671 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
673 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
676 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
679 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
681 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
682 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
684 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
685 lead to an infinite loop.
689 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
691 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
694 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
699 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
700 checked when reading TIFF files.
701 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
703 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
704 failed image file read() or write().
705 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
707 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
708 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
709 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
711 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
713 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
715 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
716 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
717 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
719 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
720 modernize the tests a bit.
721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
723 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
725 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
727 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
729 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
731 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
732 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
734 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
737 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
739 Massive types re-work:
741 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
742 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
744 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
746 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
747 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
748 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
749 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
751 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
752 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
753 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
754 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
756 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
757 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
759 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
763 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
764 values when writing a GIF image.
766 - removed dead callback read/write code
768 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
770 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
773 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
776 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
777 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
781 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
784 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
785 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
787 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
789 - add to_rgb_double() method.
790 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
792 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
793 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
795 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
796 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
798 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
800 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
801 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
803 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
805 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
806 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
807 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
809 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
814 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
815 failing on a Solaris smoker.
816 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
818 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
821 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
825 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
826 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
827 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
829 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
830 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
831 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
833 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
836 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
839 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
844 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
845 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
846 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
847 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
849 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
850 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
851 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
852 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
854 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
855 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
857 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
860 - improve the library detection summary
861 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
863 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
864 downgrade the version in this file.
865 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
867 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
868 that option for the directories that would normally go in
869 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
870 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
872 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
875 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
877 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
878 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
879 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
881 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
882 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
884 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
885 work around limitations in PAR.
886 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
890 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
891 Revealed by new coverage tests.
893 - update the filter plugin documentation.
894 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
896 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
897 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
898 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
899 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
901 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
902 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
903 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
904 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
906 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
907 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
909 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
910 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
912 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
913 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
915 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
918 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
920 - Imager is now maintained in git
921 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
922 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
926 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
927 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
928 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
930 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
931 just a little darker.
933 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
934 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
935 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
936 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
938 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
940 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
943 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
946 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
947 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
948 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
949 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
951 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
953 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
954 images into a new image
955 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
959 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
961 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
962 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
963 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
965 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
966 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
968 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
969 included in the tarball. They are now included.
971 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
976 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
977 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
979 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
981 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
983 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
984 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
986 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
989 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
990 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
991 Uses Imager::Probe now.
992 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
994 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
995 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
999 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1002 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1004 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1006 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1007 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1008 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1010 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1013 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1015 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1016 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1018 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1019 preparation for separate distribution.
1020 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1022 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1024 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1028 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1029 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1030 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1031 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1033 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1034 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1035 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1037 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1038 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1039 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1040 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1043 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1044 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1046 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1047 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1048 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1049 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1051 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1054 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1055 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1057 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1059 - add resources to META.yml
1061 Imager 0.76 - not released
1066 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1067 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1068 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1069 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1071 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1076 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1077 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1079 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1080 the code run phase of library probing.
1082 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1087 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1089 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1092 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1094 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1095 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1096 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1097 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1099 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1100 for separate distribution.
1101 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1102 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1107 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1109 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1111 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1113 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1114 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1116 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1117 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1119 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1120 (sorry for the mess)
1122 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1123 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1124 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1126 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1129 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1130 perls (not measured)
1134 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1135 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1137 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1138 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1140 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1145 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1146 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1147 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1149 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1150 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1152 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1154 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1155 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1157 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1159 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1162 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1163 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1165 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1166 the incorrect colour.
1168 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1171 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1173 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1176 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1177 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1180 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1183 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1184 it works with non-threaded perls
1186 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1191 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1195 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1196 8-bit sample operations.
1197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1200 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1202 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1203 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1204 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1205 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1207 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1210 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1215 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1216 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1217 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1218 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1219 results or runtime exceptions.
1220 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1223 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1228 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1231 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1233 Thanks to Krzysztof WojtaÅ for the test data and fix for this.
1235 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1236 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1237 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1238 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1239 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1242 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1247 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1248 that should be a parameter to plan().
1250 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1251 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1253 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1255 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1258 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1259 load the given file.
1260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1264 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1265 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1267 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1268 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1271 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1273 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1275 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1280 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1284 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1287 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1289 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1290 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1293 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1294 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1296 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1297 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1298 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1300 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1301 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1305 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1306 META.yml from scratch
1307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1309 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1310 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1311 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1312 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1314 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1319 - fix a packaging error
1321 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1324 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1328 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1329 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1330 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1332 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1333 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1334 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1335 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1337 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1339 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1340 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1342 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1344 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1345 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1346 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1348 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1349 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1350 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1351 - group width methods and height methods
1352 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1354 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1359 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1360 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1361 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1362 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1363 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1366 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1367 ignored for the screen height when present.
1368 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1370 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1373 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1378 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1379 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1380 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1381 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1384 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1385 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1386 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1388 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1389 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1390 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1391 not a buffer overflow.
1392 Added a check for the failure.
1393 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1394 scale size parameters are a reference.
1395 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1397 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1398 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1401 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1403 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1406 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1407 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1408 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1409 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1412 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1413 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1415 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1417 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1418 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1419 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1420 noalpha channels or back.
1421 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1423 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1424 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1425 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1426 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1428 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1429 functions when filling.
1430 Corrected normal combine mode.
1431 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1432 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1433 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1434 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1436 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1438 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1439 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1440 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1441 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1443 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1444 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1445 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1446 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1448 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1449 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1450 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1451 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1455 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1457 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1459 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1460 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1461 compressible output files.
1462 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1464 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1466 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1467 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1468 code, not intended for installation.
1469 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1471 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1472 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1474 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1475 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1476 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1477 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1478 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1479 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1481 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1483 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1486 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1487 to /path under your home directory.
1488 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1490 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1491 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1492 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1493 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1494 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1496 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1497 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1498 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1499 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1503 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1505 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1507 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1508 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1509 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1511 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1512 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1514 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1515 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1517 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1519 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1522 - major TIFF support re-work
1523 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1525 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1526 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1528 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1531 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1532 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1534 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1536 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1538 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1542 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1545 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1546 alpha channel correctly.
1548 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1549 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1550 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1552 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1553 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1555 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1557 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1559 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1562 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1563 when scaling an animated gif
1564 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1568 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1569 perspective type transformations to work now.
1570 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1572 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1573 also fixed some other type warnings
1574 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1576 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1578 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1580 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1581 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1582 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1584 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1586 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1588 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1589 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1590 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1592 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1593 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1595 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1596 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1597 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1599 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1601 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1603 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1604 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1605 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1607 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1608 an unknown image file format.
1609 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1611 - improve the transform2() documentation
1612 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1614 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1615 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1617 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1618 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1619 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1622 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1625 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1626 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1628 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1630 - logging functions are now available in the API
1632 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1633 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1634 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1635 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1637 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1638 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1639 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1640 using Imager as a general image processor.
1641 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1645 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1646 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1647 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1648 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1650 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1651 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1653 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1654 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1655 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1658 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1660 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1662 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1663 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1665 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1666 image, but return a new image.
1667 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1669 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1670 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1671 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1673 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1674 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1676 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1677 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1679 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1684 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1685 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1687 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1688 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1689 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1690 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1692 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1695 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1697 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1700 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1702 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1706 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1707 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1708 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1710 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1711 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1712 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1714 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1716 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1717 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1718 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1720 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1721 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1723 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1724 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1726 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1727 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1728 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1729 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1730 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1731 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1732 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1734 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1737 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1739 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1740 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1741 this issue in the ticket below.
1742 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1743 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1744 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1745 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1747 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1750 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1752 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1754 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1756 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1757 contains only black and white
1759 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1761 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1764 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1768 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1769 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1770 resulted in a memory leak.
1771 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1773 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1774 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1776 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1777 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1779 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1781 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1782 even though the format doesn't require that
1784 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1785 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1787 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1788 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1789 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1791 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1792 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1793 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1795 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1796 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1798 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1801 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1803 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1805 There is one new feature:
1807 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1808 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1809 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1811 Several bugs were fixed:
1813 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1814 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1816 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1817 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1819 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1821 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1823 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1824 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1826 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1827 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1828 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1830 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1831 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1832 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1834 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1837 Win32 font driver fixes:
1839 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1840 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1842 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1843 advance width they would be clipped
1846 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1849 This is primarily a feature release:
1851 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1852 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1853 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1854 blurry results than normal.
1855 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1857 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1859 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1861 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1862 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1863 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1864 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1865 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1866 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1867 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1869 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1870 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1872 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1874 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1875 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1877 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1879 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1880 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1882 - minor documentation fixes
1885 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1888 This is a bugfix release.
1890 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1891 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1893 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1896 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1899 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1900 fixes, new features:
1902 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1904 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1906 - add POD coverage tests
1908 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1909 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1910 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1912 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1913 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1914 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1919 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1920 calculating the advance width.
1921 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1923 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1924 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1925 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1928 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1929 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1930 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1931 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1932 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1934 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1935 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1937 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1939 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1940 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1942 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1945 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1948 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1950 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1952 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1954 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1956 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1958 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1961 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1964 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1965 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1966 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1967 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1969 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1970 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1972 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1973 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049