1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - document the return value of the filter() method.
4 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
6 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
7 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
9 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
11 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
13 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
14 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
16 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
19 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
21 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
26 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
27 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
29 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
30 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
32 - make default text color non-transparent
33 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
35 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
36 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
38 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
40 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
42 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
43 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
45 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
47 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
50 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
51 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
53 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
54 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
56 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
59 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
62 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
63 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
65 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
67 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
68 initialized more efficiently.
69 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
71 - updated the Thanks list in README
72 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
74 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
75 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
77 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
78 perl could order it differently.
79 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
81 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
82 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
83 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
84 prefixed names on Win32.
85 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
87 - fix library detection with MSVC
89 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
90 them. Hopefully fixes:
91 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
93 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
96 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
98 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
100 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
102 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
103 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
106 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
107 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
108 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
111 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
113 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
114 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
116 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
117 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
119 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
120 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
121 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
122 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
123 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
124 then panic about the result.
126 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
127 callback, which should return true for success.
129 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
130 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
132 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
133 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
134 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
136 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
138 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
139 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
142 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
144 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
145 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
148 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
150 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
152 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
155 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
158 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
160 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
161 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
163 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
164 lead to an infinite loop.
168 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
170 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
173 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
178 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
179 checked when reading TIFF files.
180 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
182 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
183 failed image file read() or write().
184 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
186 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
187 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
188 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
190 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
192 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
194 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
195 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
196 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
198 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
199 modernize the tests a bit.
200 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
202 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
204 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
206 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
208 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
210 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
211 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
213 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
216 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
218 Massive types re-work:
220 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
221 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
223 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
225 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
226 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
227 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
228 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
230 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
231 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
232 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
233 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
235 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
236 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
238 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
242 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
243 values when writing a GIF image.
245 - removed dead callback read/write code
247 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
249 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
252 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
255 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
256 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
260 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
261 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
263 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
264 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
266 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
268 - add to_rgb_double() method.
269 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
271 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
272 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
274 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
275 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
277 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
279 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
280 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
284 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
285 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
286 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
288 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
293 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
294 failing on a Solaris smoker.
295 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
297 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
300 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
304 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
305 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
306 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
308 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
309 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
310 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
312 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
315 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
318 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
323 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
324 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
325 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
326 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
328 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
329 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
330 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
331 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
333 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
334 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
336 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
337 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
339 - improve the library detection summary
340 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
342 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
343 downgrade the version in this file.
344 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
346 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
347 that option for the directories that would normally go in
348 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
349 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
351 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
354 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
356 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
357 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
358 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
360 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
361 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
363 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
364 work around limitations in PAR.
365 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
369 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
370 Revealed by new coverage tests.
372 - update the filter plugin documentation.
373 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
375 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
376 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
377 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
378 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
380 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
381 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
382 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
383 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
385 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
386 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
388 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
391 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
394 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
397 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
399 - Imager is now maintained in git
400 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
401 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
405 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
406 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
407 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
409 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
410 just a little darker.
412 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
413 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
414 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
415 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
417 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
419 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
422 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
425 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
426 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
427 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
430 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
432 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
433 images into a new image
434 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
438 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
440 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
441 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
442 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
444 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
445 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
447 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
448 included in the tarball. They are now included.
450 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
455 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
456 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
458 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
460 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
462 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
463 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
465 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
468 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
469 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
470 Uses Imager::Probe now.
471 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
473 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
478 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
481 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
483 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
485 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
486 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
487 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
489 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
492 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
494 Thanks to Justin Davis.
495 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
497 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
498 preparation for separate distribution.
499 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
501 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
505 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
506 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
507 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
508 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
510 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
511 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
512 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
514 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
515 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
516 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
517 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
520 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
521 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
523 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
524 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
525 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
526 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
528 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
531 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
532 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
534 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
536 - add resources to META.yml
538 Imager 0.76 - not released
543 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
545 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
546 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
548 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
553 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
554 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
556 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
557 the code run phase of library probing.
559 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
564 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
566 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
569 Test release for the new PNG probe.
571 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
572 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
573 format files and allows white space padding between files.
574 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
576 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
577 for separate distribution.
578 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
579 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
584 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
586 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
588 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
591 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
593 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
594 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
596 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
599 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
600 the probe can find the library for the test run.
601 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
603 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
606 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
611 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
612 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
614 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
615 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
617 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
622 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
623 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
624 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
626 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
627 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
629 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
631 - update the TIFF file format documentation
632 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
634 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
636 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
639 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
640 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
642 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
643 the incorrect colour.
645 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
648 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
650 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
653 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
654 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
657 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
660 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
661 it works with non-threaded perls
663 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
668 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
670 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
672 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
673 8-bit sample operations.
674 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
677 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
679 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
680 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
681 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
682 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
684 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
687 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
692 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
693 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
694 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
695 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
696 results or runtime exceptions.
697 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
700 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
705 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
708 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
710 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
712 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
713 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
714 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
715 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
716 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
719 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
724 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
725 that should be a parameter to plan().
727 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
728 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
730 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
732 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
735 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
737 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
741 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
742 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
744 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
745 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
748 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
750 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
752 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
757 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
759 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
761 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
764 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
766 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
767 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
770 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
771 set the extra channels in the image to 0
773 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
774 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
775 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
777 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
778 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
782 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
783 META.yml from scratch
784 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
786 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
787 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
788 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
789 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
791 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
796 - fix a packaging error
798 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
801 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
805 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
806 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
807 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
809 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
810 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
811 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
812 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
814 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
816 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
817 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
819 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
821 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
822 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
823 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
825 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
826 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
827 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
828 - group width methods and height methods
829 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
831 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
836 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
837 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
838 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
839 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
840 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
843 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
844 ignored for the screen height when present.
845 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
847 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
850 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
855 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
856 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
857 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
858 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
861 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
862 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
863 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
865 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
866 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
867 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
868 not a buffer overflow.
869 Added a check for the failure.
870 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
871 scale size parameters are a reference.
872 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
874 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
875 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
876 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
878 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
880 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
883 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
884 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
885 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
886 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
889 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
890 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
892 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
894 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
895 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
896 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
897 noalpha channels or back.
898 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
900 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
901 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
902 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
903 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
905 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
906 functions when filling.
907 Corrected normal combine mode.
908 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
909 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
910 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
911 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
913 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
915 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
916 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
917 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
918 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
920 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
921 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
922 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
923 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
925 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
926 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
927 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
928 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
932 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
934 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
936 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
937 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
938 compressible output files.
939 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
941 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
943 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
944 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
945 code, not intended for installation.
946 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
948 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
949 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
951 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
952 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
953 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
954 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
955 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
956 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
958 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
960 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
963 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
964 to /path under your home directory.
965 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
967 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
968 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
969 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
970 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
971 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
973 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
974 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
975 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
976 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
980 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
982 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
984 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
985 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
986 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
988 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
989 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
991 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
992 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
994 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
996 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
999 - major TIFF support re-work
1000 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1002 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1003 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1005 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1008 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1009 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1011 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1013 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1015 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1019 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1022 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1023 alpha channel correctly.
1025 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1026 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1027 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1029 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1030 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1032 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1034 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1036 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1039 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1040 when scaling an animated gif
1041 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1045 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1046 perspective type transformations to work now.
1047 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1049 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1050 also fixed some other type warnings
1051 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1053 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1055 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1057 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1058 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1059 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1061 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1063 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1065 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1066 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1067 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1069 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1070 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1072 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1073 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1074 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1076 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1078 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1080 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1081 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1082 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1084 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1085 an unknown image file format.
1086 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1088 - improve the transform2() documentation
1089 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1091 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1092 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1094 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1095 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1096 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1099 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1102 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1103 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1105 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1107 - logging functions are now available in the API
1109 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1110 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1111 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1112 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1114 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1115 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1116 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1117 using Imager as a general image processor.
1118 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1122 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1123 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1124 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1125 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1127 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1128 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1130 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1131 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1132 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1135 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1137 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1139 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1140 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1142 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1143 image, but return a new image.
1144 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1146 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1147 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1148 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1150 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1151 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1153 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1154 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1156 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1161 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1162 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1164 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1165 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1166 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1167 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1169 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1172 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1174 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1177 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1179 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1183 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1184 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1185 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1187 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1188 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1189 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1191 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1193 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1194 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1195 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1197 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1198 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1200 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1201 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1203 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1204 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1205 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1206 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1207 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1208 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1209 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1211 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1214 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1216 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1217 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1218 this issue in the ticket below.
1219 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1220 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1221 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1222 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1224 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1227 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1229 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1231 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1233 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1234 contains only black and white
1236 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1238 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1241 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1245 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1246 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1247 resulted in a memory leak.
1248 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1250 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1251 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1253 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1254 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1256 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1258 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1259 even though the format doesn't require that
1261 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1262 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1264 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1265 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1266 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1268 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1269 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1270 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1272 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1273 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1275 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1278 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1280 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1282 There is one new feature:
1284 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1285 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1286 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1288 Several bugs were fixed:
1290 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1291 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1293 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1294 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1296 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1298 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1300 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1301 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1303 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1304 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1305 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1307 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1308 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1309 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1311 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1314 Win32 font driver fixes:
1316 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1317 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1319 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1320 advance width they would be clipped
1323 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1326 This is primarily a feature release:
1328 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1329 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1330 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1331 blurry results than normal.
1332 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1334 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1336 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1338 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1339 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1340 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1341 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1342 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1343 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1344 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1346 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1347 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1349 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1351 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1352 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1354 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1356 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1357 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1359 - minor documentation fixes
1362 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1365 This is a bugfix release.
1367 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1368 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1370 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1373 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1376 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1377 fixes, new features:
1379 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1381 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1383 - add POD coverage tests
1385 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1386 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1387 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1389 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1390 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1391 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1396 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1397 calculating the advance width.
1398 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1400 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1401 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1402 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1405 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1406 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1407 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1408 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1409 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1411 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1412 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1414 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1416 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1417 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1419 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1422 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1425 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1427 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1429 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1431 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1433 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1435 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1438 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1441 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1442 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1443 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1444 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1446 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1447 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1449 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1450 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049