1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
6 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
11 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
12 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
14 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
15 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
17 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
22 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
23 failing on a Solaris smoker.
24 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
26 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
29 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
33 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
34 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
35 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
37 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
38 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
39 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
41 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
44 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
47 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
52 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
53 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
54 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
55 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
57 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
58 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
59 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
60 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
62 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
63 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
65 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
66 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
68 - improve the library detection summary
69 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
71 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
72 downgrade the version in this file.
73 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
75 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
76 that option for the directories that would normally go in
77 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
78 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
80 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
83 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
85 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
86 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
87 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
89 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
90 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
92 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
93 work around limitations in PAR.
94 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
98 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
99 Revealed by new coverage tests.
101 - update the filter plugin documentation.
102 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
104 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
105 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
106 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
107 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
109 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
110 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
111 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
112 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
114 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
115 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
117 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
118 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
120 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
121 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
123 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
126 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
128 - Imager is now maintained in git
129 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
130 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
134 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
135 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
136 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
138 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
139 just a little darker.
141 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
142 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
143 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
144 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
146 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
148 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
151 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
154 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
155 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
156 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
157 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
159 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
161 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
162 images into a new image
163 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
167 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
169 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
170 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
171 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
173 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
174 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
176 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
177 included in the tarball. They are now included.
179 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
184 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
185 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
187 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
189 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
191 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
192 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
194 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
197 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
198 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
199 Uses Imager::Probe now.
200 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
202 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
203 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
207 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
210 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
212 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
214 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
215 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
216 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
218 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
221 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
223 Thanks to Justin Davis.
224 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
226 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
227 preparation for separate distribution.
228 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
230 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
234 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
235 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
236 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
237 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
239 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
240 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
241 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
243 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
244 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
245 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
246 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
249 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
250 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
252 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
253 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
254 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
257 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
260 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
261 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
263 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
265 - add resources to META.yml
267 Imager 0.76 - not released
272 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
274 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
275 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
277 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
282 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
283 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
285 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
286 the code run phase of library probing.
288 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
293 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
295 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
298 Test release for the new PNG probe.
300 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
301 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
302 format files and allows white space padding between files.
303 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
305 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
306 for separate distribution.
307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
308 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
313 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
315 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
317 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
319 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
320 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
322 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
323 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
325 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
328 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
329 the probe can find the library for the test run.
330 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
332 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
335 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
340 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
341 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
343 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
344 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
346 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
351 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
352 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
353 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
355 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
356 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
358 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
360 - update the TIFF file format documentation
361 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
363 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
365 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
368 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
369 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
371 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
372 the incorrect colour.
374 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
377 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
379 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
382 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
383 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
386 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
389 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
390 it works with non-threaded perls
392 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
397 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
401 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
402 8-bit sample operations.
403 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
406 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
408 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
409 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
410 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
411 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
413 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
416 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
421 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
422 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
423 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
424 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
425 results or runtime exceptions.
426 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
429 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
434 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
437 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
439 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
441 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
442 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
443 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
444 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
445 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
448 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
453 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
454 that should be a parameter to plan().
456 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
457 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
459 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
461 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
464 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
466 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
470 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
471 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
473 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
474 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
477 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
479 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
481 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
486 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
488 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
490 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
493 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
495 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
496 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
499 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
500 set the extra channels in the image to 0
502 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
503 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
504 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
506 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
507 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
511 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
512 META.yml from scratch
513 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
515 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
516 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
517 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
518 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
520 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
525 - fix a packaging error
527 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
530 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
534 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
535 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
536 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
538 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
539 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
540 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
541 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
543 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
545 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
546 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
548 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
550 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
551 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
552 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
554 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
555 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
556 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
557 - group width methods and height methods
558 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
560 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
565 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
566 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
567 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
568 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
569 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
572 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
573 ignored for the screen height when present.
574 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
576 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
579 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
584 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
585 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
586 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
587 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
590 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
591 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
592 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
594 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
595 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
596 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
597 not a buffer overflow.
598 Added a check for the failure.
599 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
600 scale size parameters are a reference.
601 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
603 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
604 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
605 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
607 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
609 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
612 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
613 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
614 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
615 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
618 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
619 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
621 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
623 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
624 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
625 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
626 noalpha channels or back.
627 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
629 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
630 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
631 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
632 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
634 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
635 functions when filling.
636 Corrected normal combine mode.
637 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
638 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
639 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
640 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
642 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
644 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
645 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
646 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
647 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
649 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
650 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
651 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
652 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
654 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
655 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
656 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
657 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
661 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
663 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
665 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
666 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
667 compressible output files.
668 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
670 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
672 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
673 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
674 code, not intended for installation.
675 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
677 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
678 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
680 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
681 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
682 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
683 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
684 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
685 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
687 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
689 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
692 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
693 to /path under your home directory.
694 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
696 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
697 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
698 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
699 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
700 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
702 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
703 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
704 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
705 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
709 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
711 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
713 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
714 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
715 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
717 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
718 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
720 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
721 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
723 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
725 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
728 - major TIFF support re-work
729 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
731 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
732 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
734 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
737 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
738 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
740 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
742 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
744 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
748 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
751 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
752 alpha channel correctly.
754 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
755 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
756 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
758 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
759 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
761 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
763 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
765 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
768 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
769 when scaling an animated gif
770 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
774 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
775 perspective type transformations to work now.
776 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
778 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
779 also fixed some other type warnings
780 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
782 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
784 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
786 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
787 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
788 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
790 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
792 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
794 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
795 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
796 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
798 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
799 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
801 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
802 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
803 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
805 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
807 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
809 - attempt to work around the test failure at
810 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
811 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
813 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
814 an unknown image file format.
815 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
817 - improve the transform2() documentation
818 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
820 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
821 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
823 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
824 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
825 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
828 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
831 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
832 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
834 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
836 - logging functions are now available in the API
838 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
839 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
840 Obviously problems are my fault :)
841 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
843 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
844 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
845 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
846 using Imager as a general image processor.
847 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
851 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
852 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
853 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
854 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
856 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
857 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
859 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
860 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
861 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
864 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
866 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
868 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
869 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
871 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
872 image, but return a new image.
873 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
875 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
876 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
877 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
879 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
880 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
882 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
883 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
885 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
890 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
891 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
893 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
894 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
895 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
896 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
898 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
901 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
903 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
906 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
908 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
912 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
913 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
914 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
916 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
917 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
918 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
920 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
922 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
923 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
924 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
926 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
927 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
929 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
930 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
932 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
933 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
934 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
935 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
936 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
937 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
938 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
940 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
943 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
945 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
946 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
947 this issue in the ticket below.
948 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
949 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
950 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
951 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
953 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
956 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
958 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
960 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
962 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
963 contains only black and white
965 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
967 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
970 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
974 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
975 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
976 resulted in a memory leak.
977 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
979 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
980 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
982 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
983 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
985 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
987 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
988 even though the format doesn't require that
990 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
991 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
993 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
994 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
995 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
997 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
998 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
999 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1001 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1002 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1004 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1007 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1009 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1011 There is one new feature:
1013 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1014 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1015 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1017 Several bugs were fixed:
1019 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1020 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1022 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1023 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1025 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1027 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1029 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1030 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1032 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1033 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1034 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1036 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1037 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1038 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1040 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1043 Win32 font driver fixes:
1045 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1046 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1048 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1049 advance width they would be clipped
1052 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1055 This is primarily a feature release:
1057 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1058 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1059 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1060 blurry results than normal.
1061 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1063 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1065 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1067 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1068 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1069 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1070 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1071 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1072 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1073 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1075 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1076 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1078 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1080 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1081 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1083 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1085 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1086 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1088 - minor documentation fixes
1091 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1094 This is a bugfix release.
1096 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1097 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1099 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1102 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1105 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1106 fixes, new features:
1108 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1110 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1112 - add POD coverage tests
1114 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1115 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1116 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1118 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1119 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1120 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1125 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1126 calculating the advance width.
1127 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1129 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1130 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1131 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1134 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1135 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1136 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1137 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1138 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1140 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1141 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1143 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1145 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1146 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1148 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1151 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1154 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1156 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1158 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1160 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1162 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1164 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1167 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1170 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1171 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1172 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1173 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1175 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1176 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1178 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1179 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049