1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
6 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
7 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
8 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
9 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
10 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
12 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
13 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
15 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
16 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
17 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
18 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
20 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
21 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
22 reduced the contrast of the output image.
23 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
25 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
26 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
27 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
29 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
31 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
34 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
35 themselves) passed to the internal API.
37 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
39 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
40 buffer if there were too many colors
42 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
43 there were too many colors.
45 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
46 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
48 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
49 color image would leak a context object reference count.
51 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
53 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
55 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
56 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
57 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
60 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
62 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
63 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
64 if there was zero pixel coverage.
66 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
67 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
70 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
73 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
74 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
76 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
77 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
79 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
80 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
81 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
83 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
84 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
86 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
89 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
92 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
94 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
95 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
97 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
100 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
101 depending on the size of the circle.
102 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
103 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
105 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
107 - enhancements to polygon filling:
109 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
111 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
114 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
116 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
117 These were added for two reasons:
119 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
120 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
121 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
123 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
124 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
125 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
126 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translates
129 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
130 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
132 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
133 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
136 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
139 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
140 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
141 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
143 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
146 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
147 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
149 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
151 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
153 - make verbose probing output more verbose
155 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
156 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
158 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
161 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
164 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
167 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
169 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
171 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
172 number of Win32 CPAN testers
174 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
177 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
178 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
179 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
180 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
183 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
184 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
185 performance improvement.
187 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
188 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
189 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
191 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
192 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
195 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
198 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
199 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
200 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
202 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
204 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
205 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
207 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
208 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
209 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
211 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
214 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
215 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
219 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
220 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
222 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
224 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
225 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
227 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
228 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
229 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
231 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
232 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
233 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
235 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
236 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
237 still available as "autolevels_skew".
238 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
240 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
241 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
242 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
243 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
244 palette to test for benign errors.
245 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
247 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
250 Incompatible changes:
252 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
254 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
255 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
256 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
260 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
261 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
262 returned, and errstr() is set,
264 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
265 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
266 but true" is returned.
268 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
272 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
273 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
274 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
275 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
276 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
277 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
279 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
280 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
281 of a malloced buffer.
283 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
285 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
287 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
288 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
290 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
291 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
292 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
294 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
295 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
296 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
297 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
299 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
301 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
304 No changes from 0.96_02.
306 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
309 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
313 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
314 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
315 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
317 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
319 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
320 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
322 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
325 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
326 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
328 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
330 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
332 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
333 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
334 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
335 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
337 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
340 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
342 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
343 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
345 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
346 typemap instead of rolling their own.
348 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
351 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
352 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
353 simplifies the XS code.
355 - many other minor XS changes
357 - some XS code formatting
359 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
360 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
361 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
363 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
365 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
366 reporting some types of error.
367 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
369 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
370 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
373 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
376 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
379 - rearrange Imager's test files.
380 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
382 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
383 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
384 paths, which avoids that localization.
385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
387 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
388 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
390 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
391 reported by Andreas König
393 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
395 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
397 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
400 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
401 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
402 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
404 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
406 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
409 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
410 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
411 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
412 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
413 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
415 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
416 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
417 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
419 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
422 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
424 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
425 due to a bug in that version of perl.
427 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
428 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
430 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
431 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
433 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
436 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
437 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
440 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
441 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
443 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
444 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
446 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
448 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
449 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
452 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
453 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
454 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
456 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
458 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
459 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
460 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
462 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
463 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
465 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
466 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
468 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
469 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
471 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
472 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
474 - fixed some other compiler warnings
476 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
477 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
479 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
480 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
481 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
482 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
483 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
486 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
487 =========================
489 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
492 - improved thread safety
493 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
495 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
496 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
497 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
498 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
499 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
500 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
501 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
502 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
505 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
506 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
508 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
510 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
512 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
514 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
516 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
521 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
522 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
525 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
527 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
528 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
530 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
531 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
532 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
534 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
535 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
537 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
540 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
541 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
542 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
546 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
547 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
548 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
549 header version in 5.0.0.
551 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
552 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
553 uninitialized gif89 bug.
554 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
555 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
557 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
559 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
560 later versions of T1Lib.
562 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
563 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
565 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
566 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
568 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
571 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
572 correctly for both probing and runtime.
573 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
575 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
577 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
579 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
584 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
585 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
586 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
587 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
588 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
589 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
590 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
591 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
592 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
596 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
597 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
599 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
600 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
601 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
602 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
604 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
606 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
607 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
609 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
610 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
612 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
613 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
615 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
620 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
621 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
622 Corrected the prototype.
624 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
625 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
626 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
627 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
628 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
630 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
632 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
633 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
634 processing the image data itself.
635 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
637 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
638 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
641 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
643 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
644 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
645 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
646 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
647 directories and insert that into the library flags.
648 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
650 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
651 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
652 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
654 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
656 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
657 handle a statically linked libpng.
658 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
660 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
661 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
662 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
663 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
664 configuration is found.
665 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
669 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
670 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
671 called but not supplied.
672 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
674 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
677 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
679 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
681 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
682 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
685 - improve error reporting
686 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
687 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
688 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
689 handlers to write as bilevel
690 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
691 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
692 - write paletted images as paletted images
693 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
695 - improved metadata support
696 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
698 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
703 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
704 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
705 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
709 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
710 rather than the heading you can find them under.
711 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
713 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
714 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
715 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
716 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
718 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
719 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
720 pointer and line number.
721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
723 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
726 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
727 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
729 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
731 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
734 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
735 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
737 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
738 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
740 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
741 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
742 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
744 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
745 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
746 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
747 interfaces to these functions.
749 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
750 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
752 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
756 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
757 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
759 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
761 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
763 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
764 component of the color is now significant.
765 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
767 - remove long unused gif case from read()
768 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
770 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
771 when it's meant to be an array reference.
772 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
774 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
775 parameters are supplied.
776 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
777 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
779 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
782 - document the return value of the filter() method.
783 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
785 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
786 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
788 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
790 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
792 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
793 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
795 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
796 identify the file type match reality.
797 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
799 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
800 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
802 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
803 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
805 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
806 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
808 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
811 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
813 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
815 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
816 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
817 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
818 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
820 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
823 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
825 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
830 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
831 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
833 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
834 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
836 - make default text color non-transparent
837 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
839 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
840 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
842 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
844 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
846 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
847 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
849 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
851 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
854 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
855 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
857 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
860 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
863 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
866 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
867 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
869 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
871 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
872 initialized more efficiently.
873 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
875 - updated the Thanks list in README
876 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
878 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
879 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
881 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
882 perl could order it differently.
883 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
885 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
886 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
887 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
888 prefixed names on Win32.
889 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
891 - fix library detection with MSVC
893 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
894 them. Hopefully fixes:
895 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
897 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
900 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
902 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
904 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
906 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
907 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
910 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
911 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
912 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
915 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
917 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
918 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
920 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
921 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
923 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
924 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
925 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
926 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
927 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
928 then panic about the result.
930 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
931 callback, which should return true for success.
933 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
934 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
936 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
937 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
938 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
940 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
942 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
943 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
946 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
948 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
949 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
952 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
954 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
956 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
959 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
962 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
964 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
965 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
967 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
968 lead to an infinite loop.
972 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
974 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
977 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
982 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
983 checked when reading TIFF files.
984 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
986 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
987 failed image file read() or write().
988 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
990 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
991 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
992 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
994 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
996 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
998 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
999 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1000 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1002 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1003 modernize the tests a bit.
1004 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1006 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1007 them when available.
1008 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1010 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1012 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1014 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1015 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1017 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1020 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1022 Massive types re-work:
1024 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1025 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1027 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1029 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1030 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1031 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1032 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1034 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1035 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1036 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1037 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1039 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1040 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1042 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1046 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1047 values when writing a GIF image.
1049 - removed dead callback read/write code
1051 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1053 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1056 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1059 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1060 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1064 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1065 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1067 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1068 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1070 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1072 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1073 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1075 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1076 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1078 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1079 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1081 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1083 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1084 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1086 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1088 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1089 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1090 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1092 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1097 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1098 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1099 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1101 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1104 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1108 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1109 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1110 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1112 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1113 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1114 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1116 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1119 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1122 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1127 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1128 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1129 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1130 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1132 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1133 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1134 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1135 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1137 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1138 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1140 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1141 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1143 - improve the library detection summary
1144 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1146 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1147 downgrade the version in this file.
1148 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1150 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1151 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1152 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1153 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1155 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1158 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1160 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1161 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1164 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1165 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1167 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1168 work around limitations in PAR.
1169 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1173 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1174 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1176 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1177 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1179 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1180 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1181 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1182 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1184 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1185 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1186 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1187 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1189 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1190 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1192 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1195 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1196 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1198 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1201 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1203 - Imager is now maintained in git
1204 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1205 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1209 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1210 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1211 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1213 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1214 just a little darker.
1216 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1217 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1218 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1219 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1221 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1223 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1226 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1229 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1230 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1231 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1232 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1234 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1236 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1237 images into a new image
1238 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1242 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1244 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1245 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1246 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1248 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1249 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1251 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1252 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1254 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1259 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1262 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1264 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1266 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1267 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1269 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1272 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1273 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1274 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1275 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1277 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1278 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1282 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1285 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1287 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1289 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1290 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1291 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1293 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1296 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1298 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1299 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1301 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1302 preparation for separate distribution.
1303 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1305 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1307 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1311 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1312 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1313 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1314 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1316 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1317 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1318 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1320 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1321 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1322 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1323 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1326 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1329 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1330 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1331 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1332 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1334 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1337 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1338 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1340 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1342 - add resources to META.yml
1344 Imager 0.76 - not released
1349 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1350 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1351 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1352 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1354 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1359 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1360 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1362 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1363 the code run phase of library probing.
1365 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1370 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1372 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1375 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1377 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1378 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1379 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1380 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1382 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1383 for separate distribution.
1384 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1385 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1390 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1394 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1396 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1397 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1399 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1400 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1402 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1403 (sorry for the mess)
1405 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1406 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1409 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1412 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1413 perls (not measured)
1417 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1418 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1420 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1421 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1423 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1428 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1429 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1430 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1432 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1433 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1435 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1437 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1438 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1440 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1442 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1445 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1446 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1448 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1449 the incorrect colour.
1451 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1454 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1456 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1459 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1460 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1463 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1466 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1467 it works with non-threaded perls
1469 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1474 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1476 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1478 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1479 8-bit sample operations.
1480 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1483 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1485 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1486 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1487 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1488 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1490 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1493 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1498 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1499 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1500 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1501 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1502 results or runtime exceptions.
1503 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1506 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1511 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1514 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1516 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1518 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1519 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1520 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1521 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1522 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1525 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1530 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1531 that should be a parameter to plan().
1533 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1534 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1536 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1538 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1541 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1542 load the given file.
1543 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1547 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1548 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1550 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1551 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1554 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1556 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1558 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1563 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1565 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1567 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1570 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1572 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1573 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1576 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1577 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1579 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1580 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1581 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1583 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1584 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1588 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1589 META.yml from scratch
1590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1592 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1593 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1594 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1595 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1597 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1602 - fix a packaging error
1604 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1607 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1611 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1612 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1613 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1615 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1616 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1617 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1618 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1620 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1622 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1623 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1625 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1627 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1628 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1629 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1631 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1632 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1633 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1634 - group width methods and height methods
1635 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1637 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1642 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1643 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1644 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1645 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1646 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1649 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1650 ignored for the screen height when present.
1651 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1653 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1656 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1661 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1662 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1663 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1664 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1667 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1668 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1669 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1671 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1672 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1673 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1674 not a buffer overflow.
1675 Added a check for the failure.
1676 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1677 scale size parameters are a reference.
1678 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1680 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1681 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1682 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1684 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1686 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1689 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1690 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1691 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1692 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1695 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1696 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1698 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1700 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1701 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1702 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1703 noalpha channels or back.
1704 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1706 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1707 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1708 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1709 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1711 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1712 functions when filling.
1713 Corrected normal combine mode.
1714 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1715 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1716 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1717 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1719 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1721 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1722 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1723 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1724 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1726 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1727 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1728 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1729 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1731 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1732 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1733 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1734 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1738 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1740 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1742 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1743 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1744 compressible output files.
1745 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1747 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1749 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1750 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1751 code, not intended for installation.
1752 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1754 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1755 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1757 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1758 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1759 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1760 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1761 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1762 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1764 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1766 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1769 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1770 to /path under your home directory.
1771 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1773 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1774 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1775 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1776 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1777 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1779 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1780 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1781 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1782 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1786 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1788 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1790 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1791 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1792 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1794 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1795 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1797 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1798 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1800 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1802 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1805 - major TIFF support re-work
1806 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1808 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1809 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1811 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1814 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1815 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1817 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1819 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1821 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1825 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1828 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1829 alpha channel correctly.
1831 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1832 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1833 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1835 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1836 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1838 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1840 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1842 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1845 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1846 when scaling an animated gif
1847 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1851 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1852 perspective type transformations to work now.
1853 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1855 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1856 also fixed some other type warnings
1857 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1859 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1861 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1863 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1864 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1865 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1867 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1869 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1871 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1872 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1873 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1875 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1876 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1878 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1879 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1880 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1882 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1884 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1886 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1887 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1888 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1890 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1891 an unknown image file format.
1892 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1894 - improve the transform2() documentation
1895 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1897 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1898 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1900 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1901 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1902 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1905 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1908 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1909 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1911 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1913 - logging functions are now available in the API
1915 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1916 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1917 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1918 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1920 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1921 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1922 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1923 using Imager as a general image processor.
1924 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1928 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1929 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1930 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1931 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1933 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1934 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1936 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1937 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1938 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1941 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1943 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1945 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1946 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1948 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1949 image, but return a new image.
1950 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1952 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1953 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1954 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1956 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1957 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1959 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1960 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1962 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1967 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1968 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1970 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1971 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1972 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1973 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1975 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1978 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1980 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1983 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1985 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1989 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1990 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1991 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1993 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1994 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1995 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1997 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1999 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2000 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2001 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2003 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2004 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2006 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2007 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2009 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2010 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2011 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2012 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2013 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2014 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2015 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2017 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2020 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2022 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2023 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2024 this issue in the ticket below.
2025 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2026 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2027 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2028 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2030 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2033 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2035 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2037 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2039 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2040 contains only black and white
2042 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2044 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2047 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2051 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2052 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2053 resulted in a memory leak.
2054 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2056 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2057 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2059 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2060 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2062 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2064 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2065 even though the format doesn't require that
2067 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2068 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2070 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2071 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2072 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2074 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2075 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2076 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2078 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2079 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2081 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2084 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2086 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2088 There is one new feature:
2090 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2091 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2092 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2094 Several bugs were fixed:
2096 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2097 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2099 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2100 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2102 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2104 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2106 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2107 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2109 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2110 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2111 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2113 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2114 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2115 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2117 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2120 Win32 font driver fixes:
2122 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2123 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2125 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2126 advance width they would be clipped
2129 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2132 This is primarily a feature release:
2134 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2135 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2136 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2137 blurry results than normal.
2138 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2140 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2142 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2144 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2145 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2146 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2147 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2148 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2149 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2150 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2152 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2153 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2155 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2157 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2158 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2160 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2162 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2163 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2165 - minor documentation fixes
2168 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2171 This is a bugfix release.
2173 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2174 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2176 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2179 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2182 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2183 fixes, new features:
2185 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2187 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2189 - add POD coverage tests
2191 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2192 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2193 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2195 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2196 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2197 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2202 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2203 calculating the advance width.
2204 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2206 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2207 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2208 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2211 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2212 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2213 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2214 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2215 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2217 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2218 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2220 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2222 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2223 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2225 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2228 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2231 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2233 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2235 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2237 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2239 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2241 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2244 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2247 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2248 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2249 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2250 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2252 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2253 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2255 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2256 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049