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 - mixing scaling to sizes where the accumulator row, the working
9 output row or the working input row didn't fit into the address
10 space could result in memory leaks. This can probably only be
11 reproduced on very wide floating-point sample images.
13 - convert an array style function parameter pointer to pointer style
14 to prevent confusing Coverity in the T1 bounding box implementation.
16 - Similarly in the FT1 bounding box implementation.
18 - Similarly for the i_tt_rasterize() function in the FT1
21 - initialize a pointer to prevent Coverity complaining in polygon
22 drawing (it should always end up being set.)
24 - addi style makemap could potentially read one past the end of an
27 - supplying a numeric hatch of 32 to Imager::Fill->new(hatch => ...)
28 would result in read beyond the end of the built-in hatch array.
29 Negative values (which Coverity didn't complain about) could also
32 - the Imager::Color set_internal() interal method no longer
33 calls the over-complicated ICL_set_internal() (which is retained
34 only for the old API.) Coverity complained that this leaked, but
35 this could only occur with an invalid (NULL pointer) color object.
37 - the underlying implementation of the map() method could read before
38 the beginning on an allocated array if supplied with inconsistent
39 parameters, which Coverity complained about. No Imager code calls
40 that function with inconsistent parameters, but a
41 belt-and-suspenders check was added.
43 - Coverity complained a call to i_getcolors(), used by the
44 implementation of the is_bilevel() method could leave the fetched
45 colors uninitialized. Added a return value check.
47 Imager 1.008 - 31 Dec 2018
50 - moved EXIF handling from Imager::File::JPEG to core Imager
51 This allows file formats that store EXIF data as blobs similarly
52 to JPEG to re-use this code. (such as Imager::File::WEBP)
54 - added some more file extensions to image file type mappings
56 - added add_type_extensions() class method
58 Imager 1.007 - 24 Nov 2018
61 - add png_compression_level tag for writing PNG files.
63 - avoid flooring a second time in matrix transform interpolation.
64 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124001
66 - produce v2 metadata.
67 Includes change from the ticket and updates to sub-modules.
68 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127216
70 - improve error reporting for the polygon() method
72 Imager 1.006 - 26 Aug 2017
75 - the internal i_errors() function now correctly allocates the stack
76 space needed for its result.
77 https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
79 - t/100-base/020-color.t now uses Imager::Test's test functions
81 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111993
83 - write_multi() now returns an error result (a false value) if called
84 with a non-(Imager image object). Previously it would typically
86 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117878
88 - improve the documentation of the jpegquality parameter when
91 - add code to mitigate CVE-2016-1238, Imager will no longer search the
92 default current directory entry in @INC when searching for file
93 format support modules.
95 Imager 1.005 - 16 Apr 2016
98 It's now been ten years since I switched to the new Changes file in
101 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
102 fix them is too much work for now.
104 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
107 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
109 For the strange Win32 failures.
111 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
113 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
116 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
117 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
118 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
120 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
123 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
124 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
125 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
128 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
131 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
132 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
133 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
134 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
135 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
137 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
138 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
140 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
141 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
142 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
143 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
145 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
146 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
147 reduced the contrast of the output image.
148 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
150 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
151 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
152 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
154 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
156 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
159 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
160 themselves) passed to the internal API.
162 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
164 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
165 buffer if there were too many colors
167 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
168 there were too many colors.
170 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
171 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
173 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
174 color image would leak a context object reference count.
176 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
178 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
180 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
181 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
182 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
185 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
187 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
188 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
189 if there was zero pixel coverage.
191 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
192 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
195 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
198 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
199 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
201 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
202 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
204 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
205 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
206 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
208 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
209 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
211 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
214 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
217 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
219 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
222 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
225 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
226 depending on the size of the circle.
227 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
228 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
230 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
232 - enhancements to polygon filling:
234 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
236 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
239 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
241 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
242 These were added for two reasons:
244 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
245 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
246 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
248 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
249 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
250 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
251 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translate
254 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
255 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
257 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
258 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
261 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
264 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
265 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
266 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
268 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
271 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
272 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
274 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
276 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
278 - make verbose probing output more verbose
280 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
281 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
283 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
286 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
289 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
292 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
294 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
296 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
297 number of Win32 CPAN testers
299 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
302 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
303 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
304 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
305 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
306 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
308 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
309 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
310 performance improvement.
312 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
313 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
314 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
316 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
317 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
318 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
320 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
323 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
324 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
325 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
327 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
329 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
330 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
332 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
333 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
334 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
336 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
339 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
340 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
342 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
344 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
345 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
347 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
349 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
350 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
352 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
353 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
354 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
356 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
357 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
358 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
360 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
361 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
362 still available as "autolevels_skew".
363 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
365 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
366 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
367 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
368 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
369 palette to test for benign errors.
370 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
372 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
375 Incompatible changes:
377 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
379 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
380 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
381 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
385 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
386 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
387 returned, and errstr() is set,
389 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
390 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
391 but true" is returned.
393 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
397 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
398 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
399 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
400 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
401 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
402 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
404 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
405 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
406 of a malloced buffer.
408 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
410 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
412 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
413 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
415 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
416 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
417 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
419 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
420 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
421 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
422 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
424 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
426 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
429 No changes from 0.96_02.
431 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
434 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
436 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
438 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
439 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
440 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
442 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
444 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
445 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
447 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
450 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
451 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
453 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
455 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
457 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
458 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
459 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
460 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
462 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
465 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
467 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
468 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
470 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
471 typemap instead of rolling their own.
473 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
476 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
477 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
478 simplifies the XS code.
480 - many other minor XS changes
482 - some XS code formatting
484 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
485 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
486 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
488 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
490 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
491 reporting some types of error.
492 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
494 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
495 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
496 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
498 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
501 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
504 - rearrange Imager's test files.
505 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
507 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
508 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
509 paths, which avoids that localization.
510 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
512 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
513 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
515 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
516 reported by Andreas König
518 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
520 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
522 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
525 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
526 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
527 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
529 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
531 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
534 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
535 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
536 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
537 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
538 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
540 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
541 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
542 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
544 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
547 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
549 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
550 due to a bug in that version of perl.
552 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
553 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
555 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
556 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
558 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
561 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
562 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
565 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
566 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
568 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
569 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
571 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
573 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
574 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
577 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
578 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
579 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
581 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
583 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
584 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
585 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
587 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
588 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
590 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
591 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
593 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
594 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
596 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
597 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
599 - fixed some other compiler warnings
601 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
602 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
604 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
605 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
606 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
607 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
608 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
609 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
611 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
612 =========================
614 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
617 - improved thread safety
618 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
620 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
621 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
622 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
623 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
624 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
625 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
626 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
627 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
630 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
631 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
633 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
635 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
637 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
639 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
641 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
646 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
647 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
650 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
652 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
653 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
655 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
656 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
657 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
659 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
660 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
662 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
665 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
666 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
667 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
671 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
672 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
673 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
674 header version in 5.0.0.
676 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
677 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
678 uninitialized gif89 bug.
679 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
680 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
682 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
684 - match Imager::Font::T1's error message translations to those from
685 later versions of T1Lib.
687 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
688 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
690 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
691 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
693 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
696 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
697 correctly for both probing and runtime.
698 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
700 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
702 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
704 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
709 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
710 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
711 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
712 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
713 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
714 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
715 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
716 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
717 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
721 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
722 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
724 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
725 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
726 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
727 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
729 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
731 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
732 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
734 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
735 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
737 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
738 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
740 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
745 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
746 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
747 Corrected the prototype.
749 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
750 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
751 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
752 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
753 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
755 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
757 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
758 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
759 processing the image data itself.
760 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
762 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
763 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
766 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
768 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
769 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
770 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
771 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
772 directories and insert that into the library flags.
773 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
775 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
776 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
777 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
779 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
781 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
782 handle a statically linked libpng.
783 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
785 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
786 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
787 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
788 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
789 configuration is found.
790 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
794 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
795 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
796 called but not supplied.
797 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
799 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
802 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
804 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
806 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
807 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
810 - improve error reporting
811 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
812 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
813 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
814 handlers to write as bilevel
815 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
816 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
817 - write paletted images as paletted images
818 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
820 - improved metadata support
821 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
823 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
828 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
829 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
830 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
834 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
835 rather than the heading you can find them under.
836 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
838 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
839 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
840 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
841 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
843 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
844 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
845 pointer and line number.
846 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
848 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
851 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
852 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
854 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
856 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
859 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
860 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
862 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
863 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
865 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
866 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
867 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
869 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
870 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
871 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
872 interfaces to these functions.
874 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
875 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
877 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
881 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
882 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
884 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
886 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
888 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
889 component of the color is now significant.
890 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
892 - remove long unused gif case from read()
893 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
895 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
896 when it's meant to be an array reference.
897 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
899 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
900 parameters are supplied.
901 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
902 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
904 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
907 - document the return value of the filter() method.
908 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
910 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
911 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
913 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
915 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
917 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
918 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
920 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
921 identify the file type match reality.
922 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
924 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
925 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
927 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
928 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
930 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
931 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
933 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
936 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
938 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
940 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
941 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
942 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
943 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
945 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
948 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
950 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
955 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
956 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
958 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
959 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
961 - make default text color non-transparent
962 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
964 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
965 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
967 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
969 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
971 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
972 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
974 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
976 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
979 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
980 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
982 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
983 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
985 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
988 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
991 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
992 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
994 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
996 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
997 initialized more efficiently.
998 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
1000 - updated the Thanks list in README
1001 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
1003 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
1004 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
1006 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
1007 perl could order it differently.
1008 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
1010 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
1011 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
1012 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
1013 prefixed names on Win32.
1014 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
1016 - fix library detection with MSVC
1018 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
1019 them. Hopefully fixes:
1020 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
1022 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
1025 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
1027 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
1029 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
1031 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
1032 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
1035 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
1036 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
1037 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
1040 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
1042 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
1043 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
1045 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
1046 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
1048 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
1049 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
1050 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
1051 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
1052 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
1053 then panic about the result.
1055 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
1056 callback, which should return true for success.
1058 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
1059 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
1061 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
1062 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
1063 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
1065 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
1067 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
1068 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
1071 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
1073 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
1074 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
1077 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
1079 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
1081 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
1084 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
1087 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
1089 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
1090 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
1092 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
1093 lead to an infinite loop.
1097 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1099 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1102 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1107 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1108 checked when reading TIFF files.
1109 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1111 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1112 failed image file read() or write().
1113 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1115 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1116 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1117 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1119 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1121 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1123 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1124 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1125 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1127 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1128 modernize the tests a bit.
1129 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1131 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1132 them when available.
1133 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1135 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1137 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1139 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1140 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1142 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1145 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1147 Massive types re-work:
1149 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1150 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1152 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1154 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1155 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1156 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1157 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1159 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1160 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1161 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1162 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1164 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1165 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1167 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1171 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1172 values when writing a GIF image.
1174 - removed dead callback read/write code
1176 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1178 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1181 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1184 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1185 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1189 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1190 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1192 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1195 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1197 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1198 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1200 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1203 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1204 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1206 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1208 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1209 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1211 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1213 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1214 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1215 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1217 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1222 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1223 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1224 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1226 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1229 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1233 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1234 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1235 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1237 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1238 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1239 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1241 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1244 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1247 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1252 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1253 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1254 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1257 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1258 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1259 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1262 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1263 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1265 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1266 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1268 - improve the library detection summary
1269 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1271 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1272 downgrade the version in this file.
1273 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1275 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1276 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1277 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1278 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1280 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1283 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1285 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1286 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1287 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1289 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1290 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1292 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1293 work around limitations in PAR.
1294 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1298 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1299 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1301 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1302 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1304 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1305 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1306 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1309 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1310 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1312 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1314 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1315 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1317 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1318 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1320 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1321 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1323 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1326 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1328 - Imager is now maintained in git
1329 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1330 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1334 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1335 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1336 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1338 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1339 just a little darker.
1341 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1342 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1343 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1344 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1346 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1348 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1351 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1354 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1355 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1356 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1357 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1359 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1361 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1362 images into a new image
1363 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1367 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1369 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1370 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1373 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1374 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1376 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1377 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1379 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1384 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1387 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1391 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1394 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1397 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1398 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1399 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1400 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1402 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1403 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1407 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1410 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1412 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1414 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1415 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1416 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1418 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1421 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1423 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1424 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1426 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1427 preparation for separate distribution.
1428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1430 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1432 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1436 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1437 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1438 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1439 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1441 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1442 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1443 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1445 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1446 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1447 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1448 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1451 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1452 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1454 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1455 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1456 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1457 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1459 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1462 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1463 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1465 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1467 - add resources to META.yml
1469 Imager 0.76 - not released
1474 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1475 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1476 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1477 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1479 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1484 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1485 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1487 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1488 the code run phase of library probing.
1490 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1495 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1497 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1500 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1502 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1503 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1504 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1505 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1507 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1508 for separate distribution.
1509 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1510 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1515 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1517 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1519 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1521 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1522 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1524 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1525 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1527 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1528 (sorry for the mess)
1530 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1531 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1532 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1534 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1537 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1538 perls (not measured)
1542 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1543 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1545 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1546 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1548 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1553 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1554 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1555 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1557 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1558 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1560 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1562 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1563 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1565 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1567 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1570 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1571 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1573 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1574 the incorrect colour.
1576 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1579 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1581 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1584 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1585 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1588 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1591 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1592 it works with non-threaded perls
1594 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1599 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1601 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1603 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1604 8-bit sample operations.
1605 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1608 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1610 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1611 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1612 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1613 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1615 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1618 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1623 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1624 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1625 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1626 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1627 results or runtime exceptions.
1628 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1631 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1636 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1639 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1641 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1643 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1644 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1645 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1646 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1647 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1650 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1655 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1656 that should be a parameter to plan().
1658 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1659 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1661 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1663 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1666 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1667 load the given file.
1668 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1672 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1673 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1675 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1676 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1679 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1681 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1683 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1688 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1690 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1692 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1695 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1697 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1698 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1701 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1702 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1704 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1705 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1706 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1708 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1709 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1713 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1714 META.yml from scratch
1715 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1717 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1718 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1719 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1720 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1722 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1727 - fix a packaging error
1729 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1732 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1736 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1737 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1738 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1740 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1741 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1742 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1743 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1745 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1747 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1748 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1750 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1752 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1753 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1754 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1756 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1757 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1758 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1759 - group width methods and height methods
1760 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1762 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1767 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1768 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1769 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1770 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1771 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1774 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1775 ignored for the screen height when present.
1776 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1778 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1781 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1786 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1787 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1788 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1789 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1792 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1793 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1794 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1796 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1797 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1798 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1799 not a buffer overflow.
1800 Added a check for the failure.
1801 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1802 scale size parameters are a reference.
1803 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1805 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1806 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1807 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1809 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1811 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1814 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1815 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1816 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1817 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1820 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1821 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1823 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1825 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1826 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1827 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1828 noalpha channels or back.
1829 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1831 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1832 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1833 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1834 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1836 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1837 functions when filling.
1838 Corrected normal combine mode.
1839 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1840 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1841 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1842 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1844 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1846 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1847 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1848 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1849 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1851 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1852 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1853 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1854 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1856 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1857 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1858 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1859 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1863 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1865 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1867 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1868 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1869 compressible output files.
1870 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1872 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1874 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1875 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1876 code, not intended for installation.
1877 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1879 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1880 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1882 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1883 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1884 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1885 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1886 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1887 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1889 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1891 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1894 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1895 to /path under your home directory.
1896 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1898 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1899 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1900 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1901 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1902 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1904 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1905 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1906 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1907 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1911 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1913 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1915 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1916 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1917 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1919 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1920 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1922 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1923 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1925 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1927 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1930 - major TIFF support re-work
1931 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1933 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1934 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1936 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1939 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1940 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1942 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1944 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1946 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1950 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1953 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1954 alpha channel correctly.
1956 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1957 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1958 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1960 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1961 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1963 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1965 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1967 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1970 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1971 when scaling an animated gif
1972 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1976 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1977 perspective type transformations to work now.
1978 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1980 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1981 also fixed some other type warnings
1982 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1984 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1986 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1988 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1989 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1990 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1992 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1994 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1996 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1997 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1998 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
2000 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
2001 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
2003 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
2004 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
2005 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
2007 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
2009 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
2011 - attempt to work around the test failure at
2012 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
2013 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
2015 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
2016 an unknown image file format.
2017 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
2019 - improve the transform2() documentation
2020 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
2022 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
2023 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
2025 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
2026 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
2027 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
2030 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
2033 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
2034 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
2036 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
2038 - logging functions are now available in the API
2040 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
2041 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
2042 Obviously problems are my fault :)
2043 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
2045 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
2046 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
2047 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
2048 using Imager as a general image processor.
2049 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
2053 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
2054 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
2055 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
2056 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
2058 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
2059 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
2061 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
2062 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
2063 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
2066 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
2068 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
2070 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
2071 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
2073 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
2074 image, but return a new image.
2075 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
2077 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
2078 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
2079 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
2081 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
2082 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
2084 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
2085 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
2087 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
2092 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
2093 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
2095 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
2096 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
2097 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2098 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2100 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2103 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2105 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2108 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2110 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2114 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2115 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2116 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2118 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2119 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2120 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2122 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2124 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2125 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2126 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2128 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2129 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2131 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2132 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2134 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2135 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2136 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2137 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2138 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2139 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2140 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2142 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2145 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2147 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2148 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2149 this issue in the ticket below.
2150 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2151 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2152 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2153 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2155 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2158 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2160 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2162 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2164 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2165 contains only black and white
2167 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2169 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2172 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2176 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2177 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2178 resulted in a memory leak.
2179 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2181 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2182 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2184 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2185 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2187 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2189 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2190 even though the format doesn't require that
2192 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2193 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2195 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2196 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2199 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2200 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2203 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2204 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2206 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2209 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2211 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2213 There is one new feature:
2215 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2216 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2217 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2219 Several bugs were fixed:
2221 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2222 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2224 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2225 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2227 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2229 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2231 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2232 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2234 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2235 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2236 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2238 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2239 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2240 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2242 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2245 Win32 font driver fixes:
2247 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2248 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2250 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2251 advance width they would be clipped
2254 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2257 This is primarily a feature release:
2259 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2260 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2261 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2262 blurry results than normal.
2263 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2265 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2267 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2269 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2270 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2271 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2272 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2273 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2274 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2275 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2277 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2278 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2280 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2282 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2283 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2285 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2287 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2288 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2290 - minor documentation fixes
2293 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2296 This is a bugfix release.
2298 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2299 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2301 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2304 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2307 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2308 fixes, new features:
2310 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2312 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2314 - add POD coverage tests
2316 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2317 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2318 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2320 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2321 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2322 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2327 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2328 calculating the advance width.
2329 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2331 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2332 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2333 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2336 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2337 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2338 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2339 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2340 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2342 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2343 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2345 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2347 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2348 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2350 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2353 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2356 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2358 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2360 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2362 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2364 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2366 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2369 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2372 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2373 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2374 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2375 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2377 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2378 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2380 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2381 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049