1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
8 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
9 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
10 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
12 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
13 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
14 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
16 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
18 - put the Imager releaser number in the Inline::C generated code to
19 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
20 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
22 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
25 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
27 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
29 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
31 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
32 contains only black and white
34 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
36 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
39 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
43 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
44 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
45 resulted in a memory leak.
46 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
48 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
49 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
51 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
52 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
54 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
56 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
57 even though the format doesn't require that
59 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
60 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
62 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
63 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
64 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
66 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
67 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
68 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
70 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
71 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
73 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
76 This is primarily a bug fix release.
78 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
80 There is one new feature:
82 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
83 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
84 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
86 Several bugs were fixed:
88 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
89 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
91 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
92 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
94 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
96 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
98 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
99 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
101 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
102 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
103 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
105 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
106 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
107 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
109 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
112 Win32 font driver fixes:
114 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
115 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
117 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
118 advance width they would be clipped
121 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
124 This is primarily a feature release:
126 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
127 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
128 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
129 blurry results than normal.
130 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
132 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
134 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
136 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
137 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
138 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
139 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
140 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
141 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
142 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
144 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
145 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
147 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
149 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
150 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
152 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
154 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
155 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
157 - minor documentation fixes
160 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
163 This is a bugfix release.
165 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
166 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
168 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
171 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
174 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
177 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
179 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
181 - add POD coverage tests
183 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
184 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
185 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
187 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
188 just to the area the same color as the seed.
189 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
194 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
195 calculating the advance width.
196 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
198 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
199 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
200 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
203 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
204 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
205 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
206 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
207 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
209 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
210 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
212 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
214 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
215 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
217 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
220 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
223 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
225 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
227 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
229 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
231 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
233 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
236 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
239 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
240 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
241 output is an in-memeory buffer.
242 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
244 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
245 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
247 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
248 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049