1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
4 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
5 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
7 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
8 rather than the heading you can find them under.
9 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
11 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
12 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
13 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
14 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
16 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
17 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
18 pointer and line number.
19 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
21 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
24 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
25 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
27 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
29 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
32 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
33 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
35 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
36 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
38 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
39 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
40 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
42 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
43 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
44 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
45 interfaces to these functions.
47 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
48 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
50 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
54 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
55 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
57 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
59 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
61 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
62 component of the color is now significant.
63 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
65 - remove long unused gif case from read()
66 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
68 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
69 when it's meant to be an array reference.
70 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
72 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
73 parameters are supplied.
74 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
75 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
77 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
80 - document the return value of the filter() method.
81 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
83 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
84 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
86 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
88 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
90 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
91 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
93 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
94 identify the file type match reality.
95 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
97 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
98 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
100 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
101 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
103 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
104 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
106 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
109 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
111 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
113 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
114 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
115 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
116 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
118 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
121 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
123 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
128 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
129 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
131 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
132 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
134 - make default text color non-transparent
135 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
137 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
138 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
140 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
142 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
144 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
145 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
147 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
149 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
152 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
153 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
155 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
156 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
158 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
161 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
164 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
165 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
167 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
169 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
170 initialized more efficiently.
171 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
173 - updated the Thanks list in README
174 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
176 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
177 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
179 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
180 perl could order it differently.
181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
183 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
184 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
185 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
186 prefixed names on Win32.
187 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
189 - fix library detection with MSVC
191 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
192 them. Hopefully fixes:
193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
195 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
198 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
200 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
202 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
204 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
205 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
208 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
209 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
210 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
213 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
215 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
216 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
218 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
219 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
221 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
222 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
223 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
224 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
225 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
226 then panic about the result.
228 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
229 callback, which should return true for success.
231 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
232 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
234 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
235 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
236 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
238 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
240 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
241 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
244 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
246 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
247 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
250 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
252 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
254 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
257 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
260 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
262 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
263 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
265 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
266 lead to an infinite loop.
270 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
272 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
275 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
280 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
281 checked when reading TIFF files.
282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
284 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
285 failed image file read() or write().
286 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
288 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
289 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
290 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
292 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
294 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
296 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
297 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
298 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
300 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
301 modernize the tests a bit.
302 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
304 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
306 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
308 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
310 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
312 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
313 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
315 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
318 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
320 Massive types re-work:
322 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
323 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
325 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
327 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
328 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
329 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
330 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
332 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
333 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
334 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
335 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
337 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
338 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
340 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
344 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
345 values when writing a GIF image.
347 - removed dead callback read/write code
349 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
351 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
354 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
357 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
358 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
362 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
363 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
365 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
366 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
368 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
370 - add to_rgb_double() method.
371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
373 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
374 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
376 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
377 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
379 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
381 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
382 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
384 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
386 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
387 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
388 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
390 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
395 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
396 failing on a Solaris smoker.
397 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
399 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
402 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
406 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
407 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
408 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
410 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
411 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
412 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
414 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
417 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
420 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
425 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
426 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
427 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
430 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
431 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
432 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
433 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
435 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
436 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
438 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
439 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
441 - improve the library detection summary
442 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
444 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
445 downgrade the version in this file.
446 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
448 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
449 that option for the directories that would normally go in
450 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
451 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
453 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
456 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
458 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
459 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
460 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
462 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
463 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
465 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
466 work around limitations in PAR.
467 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
471 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
472 Revealed by new coverage tests.
474 - update the filter plugin documentation.
475 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
477 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
478 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
479 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
480 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
482 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
483 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
485 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
487 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
488 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
490 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
491 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
493 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
494 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
496 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
499 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
501 - Imager is now maintained in git
502 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
503 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
507 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
508 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
509 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
511 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
512 just a little darker.
514 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
515 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
516 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
517 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
519 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
521 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
524 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
527 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
528 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
529 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
530 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
532 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
534 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
535 images into a new image
536 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
540 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
542 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
543 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
544 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
546 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
547 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
549 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
550 included in the tarball. They are now included.
552 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
557 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
558 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
560 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
562 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
564 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
565 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
567 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
570 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
571 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
572 Uses Imager::Probe now.
573 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
575 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
576 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
580 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
583 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
585 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
587 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
588 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
589 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
591 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
594 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
596 Thanks to Justin Davis.
597 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
599 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
600 preparation for separate distribution.
601 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
603 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
605 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
609 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
610 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
611 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
612 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
614 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
615 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
616 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
618 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
619 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
620 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
621 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
624 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
625 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
627 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
628 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
629 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
630 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
632 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
635 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
636 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
638 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
640 - add resources to META.yml
642 Imager 0.76 - not released
647 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
649 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
650 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
652 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
657 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
658 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
660 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
661 the code run phase of library probing.
663 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
668 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
670 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
673 Test release for the new PNG probe.
675 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
676 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
677 format files and allows white space padding between files.
678 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
680 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
681 for separate distribution.
682 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
683 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
688 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
690 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
692 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
694 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
695 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
697 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
698 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
700 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
703 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
704 the probe can find the library for the test run.
705 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
707 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
710 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
715 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
716 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
718 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
719 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
721 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
726 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
727 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
728 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
730 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
731 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
733 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
735 - update the TIFF file format documentation
736 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
738 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
740 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
743 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
744 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
746 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
747 the incorrect colour.
749 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
752 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
754 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
757 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
758 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
761 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
764 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
765 it works with non-threaded perls
767 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
772 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
774 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
776 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
777 8-bit sample operations.
778 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
781 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
783 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
784 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
785 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
786 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
788 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
791 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
796 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
797 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
798 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
799 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
800 results or runtime exceptions.
801 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
804 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
809 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
812 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
814 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
816 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
817 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
818 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
819 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
820 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
823 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
828 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
829 that should be a parameter to plan().
831 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
832 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
834 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
836 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
839 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
841 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
845 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
846 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
848 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
849 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
852 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
854 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
856 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
861 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
863 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
865 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
868 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
870 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
871 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
874 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
875 set the extra channels in the image to 0
877 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
878 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
879 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
881 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
882 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
886 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
887 META.yml from scratch
888 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
890 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
891 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
892 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
893 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
895 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
900 - fix a packaging error
902 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
905 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
909 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
910 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
911 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
913 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
914 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
915 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
916 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
918 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
920 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
921 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
923 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
925 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
926 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
927 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
929 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
930 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
931 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
932 - group width methods and height methods
933 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
935 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
940 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
941 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
942 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
943 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
944 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
947 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
948 ignored for the screen height when present.
949 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
951 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
954 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
959 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
960 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
961 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
962 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
965 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
966 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
967 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
969 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
970 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
971 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
972 not a buffer overflow.
973 Added a check for the failure.
974 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
975 scale size parameters are a reference.
976 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
978 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
979 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
980 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
982 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
984 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
987 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
988 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
989 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
990 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
993 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
994 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
996 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
998 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
999 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1000 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1001 noalpha channels or back.
1002 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1004 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1005 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1006 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1007 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1009 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1010 functions when filling.
1011 Corrected normal combine mode.
1012 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1013 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1014 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1015 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1017 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1019 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1020 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1021 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1022 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1024 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1025 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1026 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1027 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1029 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1030 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1031 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1032 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1036 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1038 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1040 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1041 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1042 compressible output files.
1043 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1045 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1047 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1048 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1049 code, not intended for installation.
1050 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1052 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1053 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1055 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1056 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1057 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1058 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1059 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1060 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1062 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1064 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1067 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1068 to /path under your home directory.
1069 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1071 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1072 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1073 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1074 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1075 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1077 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1078 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1079 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1080 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1084 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1086 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1088 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1089 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1090 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1092 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1093 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1095 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1096 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1098 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1100 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1103 - major TIFF support re-work
1104 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1106 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1107 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1109 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1112 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1113 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1115 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1117 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1119 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1123 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1126 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1127 alpha channel correctly.
1129 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1130 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1131 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1133 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1134 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1136 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1138 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1140 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1143 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1144 when scaling an animated gif
1145 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1149 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1150 perspective type transformations to work now.
1151 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1153 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1154 also fixed some other type warnings
1155 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1157 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1159 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1161 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1162 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1163 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1165 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1167 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1169 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1170 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1171 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1173 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1174 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1176 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1177 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1178 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1180 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1182 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1184 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1185 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1186 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1188 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1189 an unknown image file format.
1190 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1192 - improve the transform2() documentation
1193 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1195 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1196 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1198 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1199 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1200 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1203 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1206 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1207 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1209 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1211 - logging functions are now available in the API
1213 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1214 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1215 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1216 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1218 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1219 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1220 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1221 using Imager as a general image processor.
1222 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1226 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1227 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1228 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1229 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1231 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1232 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1234 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1235 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1236 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1239 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1241 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1243 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1244 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1246 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1247 image, but return a new image.
1248 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1250 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1251 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1252 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1254 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1255 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1257 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1258 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1260 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1265 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1266 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1268 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1269 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1270 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1271 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1273 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1276 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1278 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1281 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1283 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1287 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1288 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1289 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1291 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1292 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1293 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1295 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1297 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1298 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1299 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1301 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1302 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1304 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1305 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1307 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1308 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1309 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1310 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1311 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1312 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1313 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1315 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1318 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1320 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1321 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1322 this issue in the ticket below.
1323 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1324 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1325 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1326 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1328 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1331 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1333 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1335 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1337 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1338 contains only black and white
1340 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1342 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1345 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1349 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1350 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1351 resulted in a memory leak.
1352 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1354 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1355 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1357 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1358 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1360 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1362 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1363 even though the format doesn't require that
1365 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1366 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1368 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1369 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1370 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1372 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1373 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1374 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1376 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1377 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1379 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1382 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1384 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1386 There is one new feature:
1388 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1389 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1390 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1392 Several bugs were fixed:
1394 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1395 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1397 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1398 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1400 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1402 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1404 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1405 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1407 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1408 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1409 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1411 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1412 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1413 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1415 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1418 Win32 font driver fixes:
1420 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1421 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1423 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1424 advance width they would be clipped
1427 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1430 This is primarily a feature release:
1432 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1433 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1434 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1435 blurry results than normal.
1436 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1438 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1440 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1442 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1443 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1444 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1445 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1446 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1447 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1448 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1450 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1451 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1453 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1455 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1456 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1458 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1460 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1461 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1463 - minor documentation fixes
1466 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1469 This is a bugfix release.
1471 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1472 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1474 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1477 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1480 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1481 fixes, new features:
1483 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1485 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1487 - add POD coverage tests
1489 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1490 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1491 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1493 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1494 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1495 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1500 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1501 calculating the advance width.
1502 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1504 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1505 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1506 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1509 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1510 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1511 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1512 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1513 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1515 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1516 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1518 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1520 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1521 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1523 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1526 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1529 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1531 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1533 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1535 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1537 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1539 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1542 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1545 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1546 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1547 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1548 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1550 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1551 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1553 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1554 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049