1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
6 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
11 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
12 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
14 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
15 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
17 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
22 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
23 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
24 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
26 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
27 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
29 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
31 - update the TIFF file format documentation
32 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
34 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
36 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
39 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
40 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
42 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
45 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
48 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
50 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
53 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
54 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
57 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
60 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
61 it works with non-threaded perls
63 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
68 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
70 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
72 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
73 8-bit sample operations.
74 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
77 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
79 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
80 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
81 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
82 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
84 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
87 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
92 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
93 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
94 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
95 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
96 results or runtime exceptions.
97 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
100 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
105 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
108 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
110 Thanks to Krzysztof WojtaÅ for the test data and fix for this.
112 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
113 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
114 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
115 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
116 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
119 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
124 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
125 that should be a parameter to plan().
127 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
128 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
130 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
132 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
135 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
137 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
141 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
142 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
144 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
145 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
148 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
150 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
152 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
157 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
161 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
164 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
166 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
167 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
170 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
171 set the extra channels in the image to 0
173 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
174 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
175 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
177 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
178 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
182 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
183 META.yml from scratch
184 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
186 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
187 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
188 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
189 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
191 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
196 - fix a packaging error
198 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
201 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
205 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
206 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
207 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
209 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
210 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
211 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
212 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
214 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
216 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
217 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
219 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
221 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
222 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
223 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
225 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
226 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
227 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
228 - group width methods and height methods
229 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
231 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
236 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
237 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
238 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
239 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
240 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
243 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
244 ignored for the screen height when present.
245 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
247 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
250 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
255 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
256 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
257 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
258 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
261 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
262 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
263 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
265 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
266 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
267 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
268 not a buffer overflow.
269 Added a check for the failure.
270 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
271 scale size parameters are a reference.
272 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
274 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
275 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
276 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
278 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
280 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
283 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
284 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
285 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
286 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
289 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
290 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
292 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
294 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
295 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
296 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
297 noalpha channels or back.
298 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
300 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
301 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
302 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
303 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
305 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
306 functions when filling.
307 Corrected normal combine mode.
308 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
309 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
310 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
311 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
313 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
315 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
316 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
317 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
318 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
320 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
321 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
322 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
323 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
325 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
326 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
327 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
328 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
332 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
334 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
336 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
337 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
338 compressible output files.
339 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
341 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
343 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
344 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
345 code, not intended for installation.
346 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
348 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
349 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
351 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
352 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
353 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
354 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
355 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
356 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
358 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
360 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
363 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
364 to /path under your home directory.
365 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
367 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
368 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
369 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
370 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
371 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
373 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
374 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
375 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
376 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
380 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
382 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
384 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
385 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
386 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
388 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
389 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
391 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
392 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
394 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
396 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
399 - major TIFF support re-work
400 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
402 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
403 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
405 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
408 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
409 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
411 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
413 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
415 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
419 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
422 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
423 alpha channel correctly.
425 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
426 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
427 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
429 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
430 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
432 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
434 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
436 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
439 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
440 when scaling an animated gif
441 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
445 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
446 perspective type transformations to work now.
447 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
449 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
450 also fixed some other type warnings
451 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
453 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
455 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
457 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
458 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
459 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
461 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
463 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
465 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
466 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
467 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
469 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
470 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
472 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
473 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
474 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
476 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
478 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
480 - attempt to work around the test failure at
481 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
482 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
484 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
485 an unknown image file format.
486 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
488 - improve the transform2() documentation
489 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
491 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
492 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
494 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
495 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
496 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
499 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
502 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
503 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
505 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
507 - logging functions are now available in the API
509 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
510 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
511 Obviously problems are my fault :)
512 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
514 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
515 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
516 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
517 using Imager as a general image processor.
518 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
522 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
523 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
524 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
525 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
527 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
528 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
530 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
531 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
532 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
535 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
537 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
539 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
540 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
542 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
543 image, but return a new image.
544 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
546 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
547 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
548 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
550 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
551 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
553 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
554 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
556 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
561 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
562 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
564 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
565 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
566 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
567 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
569 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
572 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
574 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
577 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
579 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
583 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
584 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
585 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
587 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
588 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
589 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
591 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
593 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
594 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
595 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
597 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
598 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
600 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
601 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
603 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
604 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
605 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
606 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
607 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
608 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
609 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
611 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
614 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
616 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
617 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
618 this issue in the ticket below.
619 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
620 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
621 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
622 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
624 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
627 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
629 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
631 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
633 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
634 contains only black and white
636 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
638 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
641 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
645 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
646 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
647 resulted in a memory leak.
648 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
650 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
651 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
653 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
654 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
656 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
658 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
659 even though the format doesn't require that
661 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
662 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
664 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
665 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
666 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
668 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
669 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
670 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
672 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
673 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
675 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
678 This is primarily a bug fix release.
680 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
682 There is one new feature:
684 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
685 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
686 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
688 Several bugs were fixed:
690 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
691 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
693 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
694 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
696 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
698 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
700 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
701 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
703 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
704 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
705 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
707 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
708 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
709 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
711 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
714 Win32 font driver fixes:
716 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
717 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
719 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
720 advance width they would be clipped
723 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
726 This is primarily a feature release:
728 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
729 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
730 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
731 blurry results than normal.
732 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
734 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
736 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
738 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
739 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
740 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
741 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
742 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
743 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
744 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
746 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
747 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
749 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
751 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
752 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
754 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
756 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
757 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
759 - minor documentation fixes
762 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
765 This is a bugfix release.
767 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
768 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
770 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
773 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
776 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
779 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
781 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
783 - add POD coverage tests
785 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
786 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
787 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
789 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
790 just to the area the same color as the seed.
791 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
796 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
797 calculating the advance width.
798 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
800 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
801 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
802 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
805 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
806 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
807 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
808 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
809 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
811 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
812 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
814 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
816 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
817 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
819 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
822 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
825 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
827 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
829 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
831 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
833 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
835 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
838 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
841 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
842 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
843 output is an in-memeory buffer.
844 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
846 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
847 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
849 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
850 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049