1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
5 For the strange Win32 failures.
7 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
9 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
12 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
13 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
14 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
16 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
19 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
20 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
21 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
24 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
27 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
28 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
29 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
30 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
31 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
33 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
34 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
36 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
37 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
38 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
39 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
41 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
42 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
43 reduced the contrast of the output image.
44 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
46 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
47 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
48 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
50 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
52 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
55 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
56 themselves) passed to the internal API.
58 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
60 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
61 buffer if there were too many colors
63 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
64 there were too many colors.
66 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
67 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
69 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
70 color image would leak a context object reference count.
72 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
74 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
76 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
77 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
78 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
81 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
83 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
84 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
85 if there was zero pixel coverage.
87 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
88 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
91 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
94 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
95 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
97 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
98 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
100 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
101 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
102 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
104 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
105 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
107 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
110 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
113 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
115 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
116 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
118 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
121 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
122 depending on the size of the circle.
123 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
124 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
126 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
128 - enhancements to polygon filling:
130 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
132 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
135 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
137 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
138 These were added for two reasons:
140 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
141 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
142 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
144 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
145 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
146 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
147 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translates
150 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
151 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
153 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
154 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
157 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
160 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
161 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
162 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
164 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
167 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
168 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
170 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
172 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
174 - make verbose probing output more verbose
176 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
177 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
179 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
182 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
185 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
188 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
190 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
192 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
193 number of Win32 CPAN testers
195 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
198 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
199 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
200 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
201 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
204 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
205 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
206 performance improvement.
208 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
209 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
210 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
212 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
213 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
216 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
219 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
220 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
221 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
223 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
225 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
226 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
228 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
229 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
230 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
232 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
235 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
236 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
238 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
240 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
241 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
243 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
245 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
246 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
248 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
249 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
250 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
252 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
253 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
254 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
256 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
257 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
258 still available as "autolevels_skew".
259 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
261 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
262 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
263 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
264 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
265 palette to test for benign errors.
266 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
268 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
271 Incompatible changes:
273 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
275 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
276 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
277 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
281 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
282 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
283 returned, and errstr() is set,
285 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
286 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
287 but true" is returned.
289 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
293 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
294 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
295 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
296 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
297 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
298 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
300 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
301 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
302 of a malloced buffer.
304 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
306 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
308 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
309 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
311 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
312 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
313 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
315 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
316 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
317 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
318 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
320 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
322 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
325 No changes from 0.96_02.
327 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
330 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
332 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
334 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
335 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
336 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
338 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
340 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
341 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
343 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
346 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
347 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
349 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
351 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
353 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
354 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
355 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
356 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
358 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
361 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
363 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
364 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
366 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
367 typemap instead of rolling their own.
369 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
372 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
373 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
374 simplifies the XS code.
376 - many other minor XS changes
378 - some XS code formatting
380 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
381 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
382 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
384 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
386 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
387 reporting some types of error.
388 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
390 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
391 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
394 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
397 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
400 - rearrange Imager's test files.
401 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
403 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
404 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
405 paths, which avoids that localization.
406 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
408 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
409 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
411 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
412 reported by Andreas König
414 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
416 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
418 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
421 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
422 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
423 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
425 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
427 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
430 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
431 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
432 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
433 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
434 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
436 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
437 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
438 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
440 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
443 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
445 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
446 due to a bug in that version of perl.
448 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
449 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
451 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
452 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
454 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
457 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
458 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
461 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
462 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
464 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
465 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
467 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
469 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
470 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
473 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
474 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
475 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
477 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
479 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
480 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
481 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
483 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
486 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
487 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
489 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
490 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
492 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
493 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
495 - fixed some other compiler warnings
497 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
498 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
500 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
501 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
502 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
503 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
504 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
505 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
507 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
508 =========================
510 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
513 - improved thread safety
514 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
516 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
517 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
518 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
519 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
520 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
521 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
522 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
523 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
526 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
527 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
529 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
531 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
533 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
535 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
537 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
542 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
543 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
546 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
548 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
549 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
551 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
552 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
553 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
555 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
556 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
558 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
561 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
562 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
563 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
567 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
568 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
569 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
570 header version in 5.0.0.
572 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
573 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
574 uninitialized gif89 bug.
575 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
576 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
578 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
580 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
581 later versions of T1Lib.
583 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
584 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
586 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
587 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
589 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
592 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
593 correctly for both probing and runtime.
594 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
596 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
598 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
600 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
605 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
606 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
607 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
608 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
609 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
610 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
611 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
612 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
613 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
617 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
618 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
620 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
621 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
622 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
623 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
625 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
627 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
628 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
630 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
631 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
633 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
634 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
636 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
641 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
642 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
643 Corrected the prototype.
645 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
646 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
647 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
648 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
649 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
651 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
653 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
654 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
655 processing the image data itself.
656 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
658 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
659 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
662 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
664 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
665 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
666 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
667 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
668 directories and insert that into the library flags.
669 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
671 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
672 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
673 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
675 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
677 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
678 handle a statically linked libpng.
679 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
681 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
682 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
683 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
684 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
685 configuration is found.
686 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
690 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
691 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
692 called but not supplied.
693 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
695 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
698 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
700 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
702 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
703 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
706 - improve error reporting
707 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
708 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
709 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
710 handlers to write as bilevel
711 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
712 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
713 - write paletted images as paletted images
714 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
716 - improved metadata support
717 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
719 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
724 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
725 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
726 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
730 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
731 rather than the heading you can find them under.
732 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
734 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
735 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
736 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
737 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
739 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
740 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
741 pointer and line number.
742 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
744 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
747 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
748 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
750 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
752 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
755 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
756 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
758 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
759 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
761 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
762 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
763 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
765 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
766 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
767 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
768 interfaces to these functions.
770 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
771 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
773 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
777 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
778 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
780 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
784 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
785 component of the color is now significant.
786 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
788 - remove long unused gif case from read()
789 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
791 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
792 when it's meant to be an array reference.
793 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
795 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
796 parameters are supplied.
797 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
798 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
800 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
803 - document the return value of the filter() method.
804 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
806 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
807 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
809 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
811 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
813 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
814 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
816 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
817 identify the file type match reality.
818 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
820 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
821 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
823 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
824 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
826 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
827 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
829 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
832 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
834 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
836 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
837 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
838 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
839 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
841 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
844 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
846 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
851 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
852 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
854 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
855 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
857 - make default text color non-transparent
858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
860 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
861 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
863 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
865 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
867 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
868 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
870 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
872 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
875 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
876 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
878 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
879 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
881 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
884 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
887 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
888 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
890 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
892 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
893 initialized more efficiently.
894 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
896 - updated the Thanks list in README
897 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
899 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
900 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
902 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
903 perl could order it differently.
904 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
906 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
907 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
908 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
909 prefixed names on Win32.
910 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
912 - fix library detection with MSVC
914 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
915 them. Hopefully fixes:
916 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
918 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
921 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
923 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
925 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
927 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
928 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
931 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
932 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
933 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
936 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
938 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
939 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
941 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
942 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
944 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
945 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
946 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
947 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
948 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
949 then panic about the result.
951 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
952 callback, which should return true for success.
954 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
955 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
957 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
958 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
959 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
961 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
963 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
964 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
967 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
969 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
970 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
973 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
975 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
977 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
980 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
983 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
985 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
986 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
988 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
989 lead to an infinite loop.
993 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
995 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
998 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1003 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1004 checked when reading TIFF files.
1005 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1007 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1008 failed image file read() or write().
1009 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1011 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1012 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1013 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1015 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1017 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1019 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1020 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1021 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1023 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1024 modernize the tests a bit.
1025 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1027 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1028 them when available.
1029 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1031 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1033 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1035 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1036 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1038 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1041 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1043 Massive types re-work:
1045 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1046 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1048 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1050 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1051 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1052 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1053 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1055 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1056 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1057 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1058 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1060 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1061 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1063 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1067 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1068 values when writing a GIF image.
1070 - removed dead callback read/write code
1072 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1074 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1077 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1080 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1081 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1085 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1086 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1088 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1089 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1091 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1093 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1094 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1096 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1097 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1099 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1100 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1102 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1104 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1105 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1107 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1109 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1110 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1111 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1113 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1118 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1119 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1120 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1122 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1125 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1129 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1130 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1131 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1133 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1134 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1135 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1137 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1140 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1143 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1148 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1149 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1150 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1151 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1153 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1154 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1155 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1156 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1158 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1161 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1164 - improve the library detection summary
1165 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1167 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1168 downgrade the version in this file.
1169 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1171 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1172 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1173 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1174 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1176 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1179 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1181 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1182 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1183 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1185 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1186 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1188 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1189 work around limitations in PAR.
1190 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1194 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1195 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1197 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1198 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1200 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1201 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1202 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1203 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1205 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1206 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1207 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1208 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1210 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1211 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1213 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1216 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1219 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1222 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1224 - Imager is now maintained in git
1225 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1226 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1230 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1231 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1232 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1234 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1235 just a little darker.
1237 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1238 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1239 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1240 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1242 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1244 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1247 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1250 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1251 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1252 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1255 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1257 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1258 images into a new image
1259 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1263 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1265 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1266 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1267 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1269 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1270 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1272 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1273 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1275 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1280 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1281 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1283 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1285 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1287 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1288 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1290 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1293 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1294 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1295 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1296 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1298 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1299 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1303 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1306 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1308 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1310 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1311 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1312 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1314 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1317 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1319 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1320 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1322 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1323 preparation for separate distribution.
1324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1326 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1328 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1332 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1333 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1334 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1335 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1337 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1338 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1339 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1341 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1342 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1343 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1344 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1347 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1348 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1350 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1351 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1352 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1353 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1355 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1358 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1359 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1361 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1363 - add resources to META.yml
1365 Imager 0.76 - not released
1370 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1371 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1372 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1373 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1375 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1380 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1381 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1383 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1384 the code run phase of library probing.
1386 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1391 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1393 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1396 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1398 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1399 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1400 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1401 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1403 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1404 for separate distribution.
1405 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1406 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1411 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1413 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1415 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1417 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1418 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1420 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1421 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1423 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1424 (sorry for the mess)
1426 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1427 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1430 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1433 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1434 perls (not measured)
1438 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1439 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1441 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1442 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1444 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1449 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1450 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1451 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1453 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1454 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1456 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1458 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1459 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1461 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1463 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1466 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1467 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1469 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1470 the incorrect colour.
1472 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1475 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1477 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1480 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1481 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1484 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1487 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1488 it works with non-threaded perls
1490 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1495 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1497 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1499 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1500 8-bit sample operations.
1501 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1504 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1506 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1507 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1508 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1509 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1511 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1514 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1519 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1520 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1521 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1522 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1523 results or runtime exceptions.
1524 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1527 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1532 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1535 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1537 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1539 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1540 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1541 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1542 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1543 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1546 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1551 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1552 that should be a parameter to plan().
1554 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1555 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1557 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1559 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1562 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1563 load the given file.
1564 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1568 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1569 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1571 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1572 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1575 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1577 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1579 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1584 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1586 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1588 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1591 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1593 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1594 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1597 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1598 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1600 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1601 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1602 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1604 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1605 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1609 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1610 META.yml from scratch
1611 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1613 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1614 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1615 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1616 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1618 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1623 - fix a packaging error
1625 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1628 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1632 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1633 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1634 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1636 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1637 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1638 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1639 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1641 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1643 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1644 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1646 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1648 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1649 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1650 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1652 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1653 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1654 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1655 - group width methods and height methods
1656 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1658 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1663 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1664 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1665 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1666 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1667 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1670 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1671 ignored for the screen height when present.
1672 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1674 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1677 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1682 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1683 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1684 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1685 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1688 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1689 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1690 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1692 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1693 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1694 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1695 not a buffer overflow.
1696 Added a check for the failure.
1697 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1698 scale size parameters are a reference.
1699 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1701 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1702 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1703 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1705 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1707 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1710 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1711 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1712 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1713 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1716 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1717 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1719 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1721 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1722 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1723 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1724 noalpha channels or back.
1725 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1727 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1728 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1729 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1730 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1732 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1733 functions when filling.
1734 Corrected normal combine mode.
1735 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1736 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1737 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1738 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1740 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1742 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1743 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1744 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1745 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1747 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1748 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1749 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1750 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1752 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1753 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1754 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1755 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1759 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1761 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1763 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1764 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1765 compressible output files.
1766 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1768 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1770 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1771 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1772 code, not intended for installation.
1773 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1775 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1776 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1778 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1779 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1780 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1781 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1782 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1783 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1785 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1787 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1790 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1791 to /path under your home directory.
1792 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1794 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1795 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1796 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1797 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1798 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1800 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1801 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1802 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1803 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1807 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1809 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1811 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1812 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1813 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1815 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1816 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1818 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1819 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1821 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1823 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1826 - major TIFF support re-work
1827 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1829 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1830 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1832 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1835 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1836 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1838 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1840 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1842 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1846 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1849 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1850 alpha channel correctly.
1852 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1853 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1854 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1856 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1857 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1859 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1861 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1863 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1866 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1867 when scaling an animated gif
1868 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1872 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1873 perspective type transformations to work now.
1874 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1876 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1877 also fixed some other type warnings
1878 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1880 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1882 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1884 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1885 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1886 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1888 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1890 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1892 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1893 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1894 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1896 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1897 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1899 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1900 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1901 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1903 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1905 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1907 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1908 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1909 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1911 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1912 an unknown image file format.
1913 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1915 - improve the transform2() documentation
1916 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1918 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1919 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1921 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1922 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1923 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1926 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1929 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1930 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1932 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1934 - logging functions are now available in the API
1936 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1937 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1938 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1939 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1941 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1942 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1943 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1944 using Imager as a general image processor.
1945 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1949 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1950 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1951 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1952 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1954 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1955 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1957 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1958 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1959 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1962 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1964 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1966 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1967 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1969 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1970 image, but return a new image.
1971 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1973 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1974 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1975 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1977 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1978 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1980 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1981 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1983 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1988 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1989 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1991 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1992 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1993 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1994 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1996 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1999 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2001 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2004 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2006 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2010 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2011 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2012 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2014 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2015 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2016 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2018 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2020 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2021 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2022 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2024 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2025 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2027 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2028 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2030 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2031 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2032 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2033 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2034 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2035 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2036 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2038 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2041 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2043 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2044 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2045 this issue in the ticket below.
2046 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2047 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2048 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2049 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2051 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2054 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2056 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2058 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2060 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2061 contains only black and white
2063 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2065 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2068 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2072 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2073 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2074 resulted in a memory leak.
2075 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2077 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2078 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2080 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2081 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2083 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2085 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2086 even though the format doesn't require that
2088 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2089 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2091 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2092 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2093 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2095 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2096 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2097 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2099 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2100 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2102 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2105 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2107 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2109 There is one new feature:
2111 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2112 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2113 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2115 Several bugs were fixed:
2117 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2118 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2120 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2121 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2123 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2125 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2127 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2128 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2130 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2131 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2132 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2134 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2135 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2136 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2138 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2141 Win32 font driver fixes:
2143 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2144 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2146 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2147 advance width they would be clipped
2150 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2153 This is primarily a feature release:
2155 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2156 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2157 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2158 blurry results than normal.
2159 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2161 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2163 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2165 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2166 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2167 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2168 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2169 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2170 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2171 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2173 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2174 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2176 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2178 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2179 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2181 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2183 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2184 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2186 - minor documentation fixes
2189 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2192 This is a bugfix release.
2194 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2195 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2197 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2200 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2203 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2204 fixes, new features:
2206 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2208 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2210 - add POD coverage tests
2212 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2213 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2214 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2216 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2217 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2218 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2223 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2224 calculating the advance width.
2225 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2227 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2228 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2229 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2232 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2233 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2234 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2235 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2236 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2238 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2239 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2241 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2243 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2244 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2246 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2249 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2252 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2254 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2256 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2258 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2260 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2262 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2265 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2268 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2269 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2270 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2271 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2273 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2274 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2276 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2277 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049