1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Coverity finally finished a build, fix a few problems:
5 - reading a color-mapped TGA file with an id string would cause a
6 double-free if the palette was truncated.
8 Imager 1.008 - 31 Dec 2018
11 - moved EXIF handling from Imager::File::JPEG to core Imager
12 This allows file formats that store EXIF data as blobs similarly
13 to JPEG to re-use this code. (such as Imager::File::WEBP)
15 - added some more file extensions to image file type mappings
17 - added add_type_extensions() class method
19 Imager 1.007 - 24 Nov 2018
22 - add png_compression_level tag for writing PNG files.
24 - avoid flooring a second time in matrix transform interpolation.
25 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124001
27 - produce v2 metadata.
28 Includes change from the ticket and updates to sub-modules.
29 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127216
31 - improve error reporting for the polygon() method
33 Imager 1.006 - 26 Aug 2017
36 - the internal i_errors() function now correctly allocates the stack
37 space needed for its result.
38 https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
40 - t/100-base/020-color.t now uses Imager::Test's test functions
42 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111993
44 - write_multi() now returns an error result (a false value) if called
45 with a non-(Imager image object). Previously it would typically
47 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117878
49 - improve the documentation of the jpegquality parameter when
52 - add code to mitigate CVE-2016-1238, Imager will no longer search the
53 default current directory entry in @INC when searching for file
54 format support modules.
56 Imager 1.005 - 16 Apr 2016
59 It's now been ten years since I switched to the new Changes file in
62 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
63 fix them is too much work for now.
65 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
68 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
70 For the strange Win32 failures.
72 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
74 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
77 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
78 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
79 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
81 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
84 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
85 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
86 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
89 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
92 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
93 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
94 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
95 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
96 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
98 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
99 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
101 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
102 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
103 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
104 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
106 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
107 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
108 reduced the contrast of the output image.
109 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
111 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
112 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
113 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
115 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
117 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
120 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
121 themselves) passed to the internal API.
123 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
125 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
126 buffer if there were too many colors
128 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
129 there were too many colors.
131 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
132 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
134 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
135 color image would leak a context object reference count.
137 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
139 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
141 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
142 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
143 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
146 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
148 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
149 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
150 if there was zero pixel coverage.
152 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
153 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
156 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
159 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
160 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
162 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
163 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
165 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
166 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
167 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
169 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
170 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
172 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
175 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
178 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
180 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
183 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
186 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
187 depending on the size of the circle.
188 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
189 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
191 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
193 - enhancements to polygon filling:
195 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
197 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
200 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
202 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
203 These were added for two reasons:
205 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
206 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
207 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
209 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
210 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
211 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
212 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translate
215 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
216 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
218 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
219 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
222 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
225 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
226 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
227 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
229 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
232 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
233 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
235 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
237 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
239 - make verbose probing output more verbose
241 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
242 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
244 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
247 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
250 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
253 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
255 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
257 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
258 number of Win32 CPAN testers
260 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
263 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
264 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
265 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
266 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
267 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
269 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
270 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
271 performance improvement.
273 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
274 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
275 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
277 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
278 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
279 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
281 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
284 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
285 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
286 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
288 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
290 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
291 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
293 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
294 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
295 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
297 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
300 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
301 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
303 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
305 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
306 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
308 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
310 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
313 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
314 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
315 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
317 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
318 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
319 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
321 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
322 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
323 still available as "autolevels_skew".
324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
326 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
327 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
328 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
329 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
330 palette to test for benign errors.
331 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
333 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
336 Incompatible changes:
338 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
340 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
341 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
342 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
346 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
347 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
348 returned, and errstr() is set,
350 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
351 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
352 but true" is returned.
354 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
358 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
359 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
360 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
361 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
362 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
363 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
365 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
366 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
367 of a malloced buffer.
369 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
373 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
374 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
376 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
377 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
378 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
380 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
381 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
382 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
383 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
387 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
390 No changes from 0.96_02.
392 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
395 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
397 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
399 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
400 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
401 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
403 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
405 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
406 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
408 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
411 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
412 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
414 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
416 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
418 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
419 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
420 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
421 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
423 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
426 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
428 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
429 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
431 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
432 typemap instead of rolling their own.
434 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
437 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
438 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
439 simplifies the XS code.
441 - many other minor XS changes
443 - some XS code formatting
445 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
446 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
447 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
449 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
451 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
452 reporting some types of error.
453 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
455 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
456 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
457 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
459 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
462 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
465 - rearrange Imager's test files.
466 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
468 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
469 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
470 paths, which avoids that localization.
471 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
473 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
474 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
476 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
477 reported by Andreas König
479 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
481 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
483 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
486 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
487 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
488 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
490 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
492 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
495 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
496 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
497 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
498 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
499 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
501 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
502 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
503 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
505 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
508 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
510 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
511 due to a bug in that version of perl.
513 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
514 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
516 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
517 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
519 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
522 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
523 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
526 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
527 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
529 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
530 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
532 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
534 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
535 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
538 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
539 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
540 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
542 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
544 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
545 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
546 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
548 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
549 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
551 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
552 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
554 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
555 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
557 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
558 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
560 - fixed some other compiler warnings
562 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
563 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
565 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
566 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
567 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
568 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
569 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
570 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
572 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
573 =========================
575 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
578 - improved thread safety
579 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
581 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
582 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
583 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
584 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
585 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
586 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
587 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
588 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
591 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
592 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
594 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
596 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
598 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
600 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
602 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
607 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
608 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
611 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
613 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
614 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
616 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
617 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
618 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
620 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
621 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
623 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
626 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
627 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
628 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
632 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
633 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
634 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
635 header version in 5.0.0.
637 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
638 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
639 uninitialized gif89 bug.
640 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
641 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
643 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
645 - match Imager::Font::T1's error message translations to those from
646 later versions of T1Lib.
648 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
649 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
651 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
652 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
654 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
657 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
658 correctly for both probing and runtime.
659 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
661 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
663 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
665 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
670 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
671 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
672 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
673 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
674 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
675 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
676 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
677 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
678 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
682 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
683 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
685 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
686 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
687 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
688 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
690 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
692 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
693 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
695 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
696 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
698 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
699 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
701 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
706 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
707 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
708 Corrected the prototype.
710 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
711 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
712 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
713 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
714 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
716 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
718 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
719 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
720 processing the image data itself.
721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
723 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
724 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
727 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
729 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
730 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
731 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
732 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
733 directories and insert that into the library flags.
734 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
736 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
737 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
738 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
740 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
742 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
743 handle a statically linked libpng.
744 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
746 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
747 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
748 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
749 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
750 configuration is found.
751 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
755 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
756 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
757 called but not supplied.
758 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
760 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
763 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
765 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
767 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
768 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
771 - improve error reporting
772 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
773 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
774 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
775 handlers to write as bilevel
776 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
777 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
778 - write paletted images as paletted images
779 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
781 - improved metadata support
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
784 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
789 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
790 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
791 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
795 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
796 rather than the heading you can find them under.
797 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
799 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
800 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
801 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
802 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
804 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
805 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
806 pointer and line number.
807 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
809 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
812 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
813 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
815 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
817 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
820 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
821 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
823 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
824 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
826 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
827 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
828 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
830 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
831 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
832 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
833 interfaces to these functions.
835 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
836 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
838 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
842 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
843 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
845 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
847 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
849 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
850 component of the color is now significant.
851 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
853 - remove long unused gif case from read()
854 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
856 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
857 when it's meant to be an array reference.
858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
860 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
861 parameters are supplied.
862 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
863 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
865 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
868 - document the return value of the filter() method.
869 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
871 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
872 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
874 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
876 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
878 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
879 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
881 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
882 identify the file type match reality.
883 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
885 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
886 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
888 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
889 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
891 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
892 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
894 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
897 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
899 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
901 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
902 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
903 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
904 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
906 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
909 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
911 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
916 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
917 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
919 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
920 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
922 - make default text color non-transparent
923 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
925 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
926 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
928 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
930 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
932 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
933 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
935 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
937 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
940 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
941 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
943 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
944 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
946 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
949 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
952 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
953 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
955 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
957 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
958 initialized more efficiently.
959 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
961 - updated the Thanks list in README
962 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
964 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
965 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
967 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
968 perl could order it differently.
969 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
971 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
972 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
973 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
974 prefixed names on Win32.
975 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
977 - fix library detection with MSVC
979 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
980 them. Hopefully fixes:
981 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
983 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
986 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
988 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
990 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
992 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
993 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
996 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
997 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
998 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
1001 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
1003 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
1004 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
1006 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
1007 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
1009 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
1010 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
1011 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
1012 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
1013 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
1014 then panic about the result.
1016 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
1017 callback, which should return true for success.
1019 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
1020 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
1022 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
1023 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
1024 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
1026 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
1028 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
1029 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
1032 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
1034 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
1035 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
1038 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
1040 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
1042 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
1045 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
1048 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
1050 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
1051 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
1053 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
1054 lead to an infinite loop.
1058 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1060 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1063 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1068 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1069 checked when reading TIFF files.
1070 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1072 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1073 failed image file read() or write().
1074 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1076 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1077 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1078 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1080 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1082 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1084 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1085 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1086 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1088 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1089 modernize the tests a bit.
1090 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1092 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1093 them when available.
1094 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1096 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1098 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1100 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1101 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1103 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1106 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1108 Massive types re-work:
1110 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1111 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1113 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1115 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1116 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1117 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1118 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1120 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1121 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1122 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1123 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1125 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1126 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1128 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1132 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1133 values when writing a GIF image.
1135 - removed dead callback read/write code
1137 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1139 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1142 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1145 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1146 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1150 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1151 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1153 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1154 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1156 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1158 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1161 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1164 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1165 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1167 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1169 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1170 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1172 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1174 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1175 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1176 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1178 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1183 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1184 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1185 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1187 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1190 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1194 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1195 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1196 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1198 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1199 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1200 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1202 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1205 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1208 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1213 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1214 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1215 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1216 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1218 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1219 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1220 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1221 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1223 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1224 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1226 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1227 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1229 - improve the library detection summary
1230 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1232 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1233 downgrade the version in this file.
1234 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1236 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1237 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1238 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1239 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1241 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1244 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1246 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1247 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1248 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1250 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1251 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1253 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1254 work around limitations in PAR.
1255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1259 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1260 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1262 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1263 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1265 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1266 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1267 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1268 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1270 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1271 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1272 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1273 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1275 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1276 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1278 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1279 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1281 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1284 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1287 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1289 - Imager is now maintained in git
1290 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1291 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1295 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1296 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1297 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1299 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1300 just a little darker.
1302 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1303 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1304 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1305 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1307 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1309 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1312 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1315 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1316 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1317 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1318 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1320 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1322 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1323 images into a new image
1324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1328 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1330 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1331 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1332 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1334 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1335 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1337 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1338 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1340 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1345 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1346 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1348 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1350 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1352 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1353 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1355 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1358 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1359 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1360 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1361 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1363 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1364 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1368 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1371 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1373 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1375 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1376 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1377 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1379 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1382 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1384 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1387 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1388 preparation for separate distribution.
1389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1391 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1393 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1397 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1398 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1399 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1400 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1402 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1403 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1404 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1406 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1407 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1408 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1409 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1412 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1413 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1415 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1416 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1417 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1418 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1420 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1423 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1424 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1426 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1428 - add resources to META.yml
1430 Imager 0.76 - not released
1435 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1436 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1437 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1438 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1440 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1445 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1446 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1448 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1449 the code run phase of library probing.
1451 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1456 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1458 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1461 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1463 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1464 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1465 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1466 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1468 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1469 for separate distribution.
1470 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1471 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1476 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1478 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1480 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1482 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1483 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1485 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1486 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1488 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1489 (sorry for the mess)
1491 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1492 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1493 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1495 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1498 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1499 perls (not measured)
1503 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1504 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1506 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1507 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1509 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1514 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1515 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1516 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1518 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1519 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1521 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1523 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1524 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1526 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1528 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1531 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1532 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1534 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1535 the incorrect colour.
1537 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1540 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1542 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1545 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1546 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1549 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1552 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1553 it works with non-threaded perls
1555 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1560 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1562 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1564 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1565 8-bit sample operations.
1566 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1569 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1571 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1572 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1573 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1574 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1576 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1579 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1584 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1585 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1586 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1587 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1588 results or runtime exceptions.
1589 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1592 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1597 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1600 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1602 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1604 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1605 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1606 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1607 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1608 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1611 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1616 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1617 that should be a parameter to plan().
1619 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1620 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1622 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1624 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1627 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1628 load the given file.
1629 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1633 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1634 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1636 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1637 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1640 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1642 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1644 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1649 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1651 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1653 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1656 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1658 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1659 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1662 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1663 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1665 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1666 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1667 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1669 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1670 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1674 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1675 META.yml from scratch
1676 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1678 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1679 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1680 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1681 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1683 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1688 - fix a packaging error
1690 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1693 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1697 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1698 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1699 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1701 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1702 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1703 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1704 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1706 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1708 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1709 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1711 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1713 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1714 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1715 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1717 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1718 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1719 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1720 - group width methods and height methods
1721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1723 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1728 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1729 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1730 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1731 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1732 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1735 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1736 ignored for the screen height when present.
1737 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1739 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1742 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1747 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1748 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1749 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1750 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1753 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1754 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1755 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1757 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1758 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1759 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1760 not a buffer overflow.
1761 Added a check for the failure.
1762 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1763 scale size parameters are a reference.
1764 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1766 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1767 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1768 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1770 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1772 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1775 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1776 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1777 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1778 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1781 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1782 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1784 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1786 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1787 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1788 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1789 noalpha channels or back.
1790 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1792 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1793 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1794 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1795 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1797 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1798 functions when filling.
1799 Corrected normal combine mode.
1800 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1801 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1802 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1803 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1805 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1807 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1808 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1809 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1810 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1812 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1813 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1814 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1815 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1817 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1818 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1819 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1820 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1824 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1826 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1828 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1829 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1830 compressible output files.
1831 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1833 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1835 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1836 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1837 code, not intended for installation.
1838 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1840 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1841 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1843 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1844 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1845 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1846 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1847 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1848 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1850 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1852 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1855 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1856 to /path under your home directory.
1857 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1859 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1860 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1861 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1862 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1863 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1865 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1866 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1867 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1868 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1872 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1874 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1876 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1877 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1878 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1880 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1881 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1883 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1884 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1886 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1888 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1891 - major TIFF support re-work
1892 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1894 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1895 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1897 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1900 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1901 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1903 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1905 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1907 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1911 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1914 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1915 alpha channel correctly.
1917 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1918 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1919 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1921 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1922 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1924 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1926 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1928 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1931 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1932 when scaling an animated gif
1933 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1937 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1938 perspective type transformations to work now.
1939 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1941 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1942 also fixed some other type warnings
1943 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1945 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1947 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1949 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1950 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1951 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1953 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1955 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1957 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1958 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1959 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1961 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1962 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1964 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1965 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1966 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1968 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1970 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1972 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1973 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1974 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1976 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1977 an unknown image file format.
1978 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1980 - improve the transform2() documentation
1981 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1983 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1984 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1986 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1987 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1988 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1991 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1994 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1995 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1997 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1999 - logging functions are now available in the API
2001 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
2002 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
2003 Obviously problems are my fault :)
2004 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
2006 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
2007 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
2008 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
2009 using Imager as a general image processor.
2010 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
2014 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
2015 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
2016 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
2017 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
2019 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
2020 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
2022 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
2023 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
2024 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
2027 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
2029 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
2031 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
2032 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
2034 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
2035 image, but return a new image.
2036 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
2038 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
2039 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
2040 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
2042 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
2043 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
2045 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
2046 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
2048 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
2053 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
2054 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
2056 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
2057 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
2058 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2059 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2061 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2064 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2066 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2069 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2071 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2075 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2076 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2077 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2079 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2080 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2081 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2083 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2085 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2086 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2087 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2089 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2090 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2092 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2093 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2095 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2096 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2097 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2098 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2099 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2100 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2101 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2103 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2106 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2108 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2109 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2110 this issue in the ticket below.
2111 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2112 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2113 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2114 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2116 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2119 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2121 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2123 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2125 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2126 contains only black and white
2128 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2130 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2133 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2137 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2138 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2139 resulted in a memory leak.
2140 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2142 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2143 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2145 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2146 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2148 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2150 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2151 even though the format doesn't require that
2153 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2154 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2156 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2157 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2158 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2160 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2161 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2164 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2165 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2167 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2170 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2172 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2174 There is one new feature:
2176 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2177 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2178 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2180 Several bugs were fixed:
2182 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2183 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2185 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2186 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2188 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2190 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2192 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2193 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2195 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2196 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2197 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2199 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2200 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2201 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2203 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2206 Win32 font driver fixes:
2208 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2209 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2211 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2212 advance width they would be clipped
2215 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2218 This is primarily a feature release:
2220 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2221 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2222 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2223 blurry results than normal.
2224 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2226 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2228 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2230 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2231 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2232 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2233 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2234 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2235 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2236 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2238 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2239 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2241 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2243 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2244 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2246 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2248 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2249 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2251 - minor documentation fixes
2254 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2257 This is a bugfix release.
2259 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2260 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2262 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2265 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2268 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2269 fixes, new features:
2271 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2273 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2275 - add POD coverage tests
2277 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2278 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2279 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2281 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2282 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2283 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2288 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2289 calculating the advance width.
2290 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2292 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2293 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2294 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2297 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2298 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2299 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2300 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2301 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2303 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2304 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2306 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2308 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2309 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2311 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2314 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2317 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2319 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2321 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2323 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2325 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2327 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2330 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2333 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2334 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2335 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2336 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2338 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2339 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2341 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2342 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049