1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
4 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
6 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
7 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
8 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
9 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
11 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
13 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
18 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
19 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
20 Corrected the prototype.
22 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
23 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
24 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
25 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
26 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
28 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
30 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
31 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
32 processing the image data itself.
33 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
35 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
36 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
39 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
41 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
42 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
43 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
44 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
45 directories and insert that into the library flags.
46 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
48 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
49 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
50 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
52 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
54 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
55 handle a statically linked libpng.
56 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
58 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
59 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
60 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
61 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
62 configuration is found.
63 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
67 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
68 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
69 called but not supplied.
70 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
72 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
75 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
77 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
79 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
80 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
83 - improve error reporting
84 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
85 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
86 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
87 handlers to write as bilevel
88 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
89 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
90 - write paletted images as paletted images
91 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
93 - improved metadata support
94 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
96 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
101 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
102 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
103 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
107 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
108 rather than the heading you can find them under.
109 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
111 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
112 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
113 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
114 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
116 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
117 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
118 pointer and line number.
119 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
121 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
124 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
125 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
127 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
129 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
132 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
133 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
135 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
136 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
138 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
139 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
140 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
142 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
143 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
144 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
145 interfaces to these functions.
147 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
148 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
150 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
154 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
155 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
157 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
161 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
162 component of the color is now significant.
163 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
165 - remove long unused gif case from read()
166 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
168 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
169 when it's meant to be an array reference.
170 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
172 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
173 parameters are supplied.
174 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
175 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
177 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
180 - document the return value of the filter() method.
181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
183 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
184 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
186 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
188 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
190 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
191 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
193 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
194 identify the file type match reality.
195 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
197 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
198 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
200 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
201 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
203 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
204 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
206 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
209 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
211 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
213 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
214 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
215 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
216 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
218 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
221 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
223 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
228 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
229 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
231 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
232 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
234 - make default text color non-transparent
235 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
237 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
238 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
240 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
242 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
244 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
245 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
247 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
249 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
252 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
253 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
255 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
256 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
258 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
261 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
264 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
265 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
267 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
269 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
270 initialized more efficiently.
271 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
273 - updated the Thanks list in README
274 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
276 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
277 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
279 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
280 perl could order it differently.
281 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
283 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
284 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
285 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
286 prefixed names on Win32.
287 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
289 - fix library detection with MSVC
291 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
292 them. Hopefully fixes:
293 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
295 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
298 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
300 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
302 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
304 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
305 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
308 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
309 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
310 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
313 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
315 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
318 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
319 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
321 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
322 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
323 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
324 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
325 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
326 then panic about the result.
328 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
329 callback, which should return true for success.
331 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
332 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
334 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
335 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
336 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
338 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
340 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
341 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
344 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
346 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
347 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
350 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
352 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
354 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
357 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
360 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
362 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
363 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
365 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
366 lead to an infinite loop.
370 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
372 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
375 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
380 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
381 checked when reading TIFF files.
382 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
384 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
385 failed image file read() or write().
386 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
388 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
389 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
390 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
392 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
394 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
396 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
397 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
398 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
400 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
401 modernize the tests a bit.
402 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
404 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
406 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
408 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
410 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
412 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
413 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
415 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
418 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
420 Massive types re-work:
422 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
423 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
425 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
427 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
428 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
429 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
430 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
432 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
433 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
434 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
435 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
437 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
438 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
440 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
444 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
445 values when writing a GIF image.
447 - removed dead callback read/write code
449 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
451 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
454 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
457 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
458 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
462 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
463 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
465 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
466 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
468 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
470 - add to_rgb_double() method.
471 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
473 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
476 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
477 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
479 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
481 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
482 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
486 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
487 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
488 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
490 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
495 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
496 failing on a Solaris smoker.
497 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
499 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
502 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
506 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
507 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
508 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
510 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
511 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
512 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
514 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
517 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
520 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
525 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
526 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
527 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
528 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
530 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
531 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
532 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
533 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
535 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
536 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
538 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
539 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
541 - improve the library detection summary
542 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
544 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
545 downgrade the version in this file.
546 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
548 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
549 that option for the directories that would normally go in
550 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
551 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
553 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
556 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
558 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
559 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
560 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
562 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
563 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
565 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
566 work around limitations in PAR.
567 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
571 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
572 Revealed by new coverage tests.
574 - update the filter plugin documentation.
575 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
577 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
578 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
579 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
580 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
582 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
583 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
584 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
585 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
587 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
588 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
590 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
591 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
593 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
594 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
596 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
599 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
601 - Imager is now maintained in git
602 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
603 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
607 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
608 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
609 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
611 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
612 just a little darker.
614 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
615 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
616 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
617 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
619 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
621 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
624 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
627 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
628 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
629 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
630 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
632 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
634 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
635 images into a new image
636 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
640 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
642 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
643 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
644 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
646 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
647 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
649 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
650 included in the tarball. They are now included.
652 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
657 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
658 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
660 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
662 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
664 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
665 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
667 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
670 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
671 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
672 Uses Imager::Probe now.
673 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
675 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
676 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
680 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
683 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
685 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
687 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
688 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
689 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
691 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
694 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
696 Thanks to Justin Davis.
697 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
699 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
700 preparation for separate distribution.
701 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
703 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
705 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
709 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
710 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
711 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
712 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
714 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
715 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
716 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
718 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
719 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
720 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
721 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
724 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
725 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
727 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
728 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
729 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
730 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
732 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
735 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
736 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
738 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
740 - add resources to META.yml
742 Imager 0.76 - not released
747 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
749 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
750 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
752 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
757 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
758 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
760 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
761 the code run phase of library probing.
763 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
768 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
770 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
773 Test release for the new PNG probe.
775 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
776 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
777 format files and allows white space padding between files.
778 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
780 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
781 for separate distribution.
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
783 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
788 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
790 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
792 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
794 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
795 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
797 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
798 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
800 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
803 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
804 the probe can find the library for the test run.
805 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
807 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
810 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
815 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
816 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
818 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
819 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
821 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
826 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
827 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
828 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
830 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
831 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
833 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
835 - update the TIFF file format documentation
836 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
838 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
840 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
843 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
844 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
846 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
847 the incorrect colour.
849 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
852 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
854 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
857 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
858 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
861 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
864 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
865 it works with non-threaded perls
867 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
872 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
874 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
876 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
877 8-bit sample operations.
878 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
881 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
883 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
884 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
885 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
886 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
888 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
891 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
896 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
897 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
898 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
899 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
900 results or runtime exceptions.
901 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
904 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
909 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
912 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
914 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
916 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
917 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
918 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
919 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
920 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
923 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
928 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
929 that should be a parameter to plan().
931 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
932 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
934 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
936 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
939 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
941 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
945 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
946 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
948 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
949 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
952 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
954 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
956 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
961 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
963 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
965 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
968 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
970 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
971 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
974 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
975 set the extra channels in the image to 0
977 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
978 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
979 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
981 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
982 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
986 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
987 META.yml from scratch
988 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
990 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
991 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
992 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
993 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
995 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1000 - fix a packaging error
1002 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1005 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1009 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1010 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1011 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1013 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1014 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1015 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1016 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1018 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1020 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1021 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1023 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1025 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1026 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1027 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1029 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1030 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1031 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1032 - group width methods and height methods
1033 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1035 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1040 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1041 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1042 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1043 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1044 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1047 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1048 ignored for the screen height when present.
1049 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1051 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1054 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1059 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1060 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1061 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1062 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1065 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1066 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1067 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1069 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1070 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1071 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1072 not a buffer overflow.
1073 Added a check for the failure.
1074 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1075 scale size parameters are a reference.
1076 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1078 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1079 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1080 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1082 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1084 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1087 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1088 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1089 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1090 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1093 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1094 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1096 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1098 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1099 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1100 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1101 noalpha channels or back.
1102 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1104 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1105 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1106 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1107 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1109 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1110 functions when filling.
1111 Corrected normal combine mode.
1112 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1113 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1114 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1115 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1117 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1119 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1120 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1121 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1122 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1124 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1125 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1126 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1127 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1129 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1130 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1131 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1132 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1136 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1138 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1140 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1141 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1142 compressible output files.
1143 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1145 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1147 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1148 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1149 code, not intended for installation.
1150 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1152 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1153 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1155 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1156 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1157 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1158 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1159 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1160 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1162 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1164 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1167 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1168 to /path under your home directory.
1169 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1171 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1172 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1173 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1174 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1175 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1177 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1178 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1179 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1180 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1184 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1186 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1188 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1189 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1190 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1192 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1193 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1195 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1196 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1198 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1200 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1203 - major TIFF support re-work
1204 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1206 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1207 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1209 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1212 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1213 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1215 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1217 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1219 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1223 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1226 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1227 alpha channel correctly.
1229 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1230 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1231 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1233 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1234 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1236 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1238 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1240 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1243 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1244 when scaling an animated gif
1245 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1249 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1250 perspective type transformations to work now.
1251 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1253 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1254 also fixed some other type warnings
1255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1257 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1259 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1261 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1262 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1263 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1265 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1267 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1269 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1270 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1271 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1273 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1274 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1276 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1277 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1278 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1280 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1282 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1284 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1285 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1286 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1288 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1289 an unknown image file format.
1290 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1292 - improve the transform2() documentation
1293 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1295 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1296 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1298 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1299 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1300 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1303 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1306 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1307 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1309 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1311 - logging functions are now available in the API
1313 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1314 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1315 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1318 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1319 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1320 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1321 using Imager as a general image processor.
1322 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1326 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1327 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1328 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1329 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1331 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1332 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1334 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1335 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1336 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1339 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1341 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1343 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1344 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1346 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1347 image, but return a new image.
1348 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1350 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1351 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1352 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1354 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1355 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1357 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1358 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1360 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1365 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1366 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1368 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1369 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1370 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1371 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1373 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1376 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1378 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1381 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1383 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1387 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1388 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1389 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1391 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1392 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1393 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1395 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1397 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1398 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1399 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1401 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1402 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1404 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1405 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1407 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1408 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1409 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1410 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1411 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1412 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1413 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1415 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1418 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1420 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1421 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1422 this issue in the ticket below.
1423 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1424 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1425 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1426 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1428 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1431 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1433 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1435 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1437 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1438 contains only black and white
1440 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1442 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1445 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1449 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1450 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1451 resulted in a memory leak.
1452 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1454 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1455 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1457 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1458 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1460 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1462 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1463 even though the format doesn't require that
1465 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1466 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1468 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1469 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1470 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1472 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1473 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1476 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1477 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1479 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1482 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1484 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1486 There is one new feature:
1488 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1489 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1490 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1492 Several bugs were fixed:
1494 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1495 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1497 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1498 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1500 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1502 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1504 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1505 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1507 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1508 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1509 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1511 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1512 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1513 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1515 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1518 Win32 font driver fixes:
1520 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1521 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1523 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1524 advance width they would be clipped
1527 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1530 This is primarily a feature release:
1532 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1533 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1534 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1535 blurry results than normal.
1536 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1538 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1540 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1542 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1543 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1544 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1545 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1546 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1547 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1548 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1550 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1551 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1553 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1555 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1556 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1558 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1560 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1561 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1563 - minor documentation fixes
1566 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1569 This is a bugfix release.
1571 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1572 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1574 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1577 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1580 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1581 fixes, new features:
1583 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1585 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1587 - add POD coverage tests
1589 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1590 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1591 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1593 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1594 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1595 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1600 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1601 calculating the advance width.
1602 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1604 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1605 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1606 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1609 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1610 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1611 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1612 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1613 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1615 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1616 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1618 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1620 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1621 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1623 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1626 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1629 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1631 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1633 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1635 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1637 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1639 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1642 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1645 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1646 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1647 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1648 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1650 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1651 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1653 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1654 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049