1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
4 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
6 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
8 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
11 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
12 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
14 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
15 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
19 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
20 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
22 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
24 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
26 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
27 component of the color is now significant.
28 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
30 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
33 - document the return value of the filter() method.
34 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
36 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
37 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
39 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
41 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
43 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
44 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
46 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
47 identify the file type match reality.
48 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
50 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
51 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
53 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
54 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
56 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
57 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
59 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
62 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
64 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
66 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
67 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
68 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
69 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
71 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
74 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
76 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
81 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
82 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
84 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
85 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
87 - make default text color non-transparent
88 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
90 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
91 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
93 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
95 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
97 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
98 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
100 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
102 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
105 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
106 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
108 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
109 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
111 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
114 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
117 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
118 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
120 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
122 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
123 initialized more efficiently.
124 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
126 - updated the Thanks list in README
127 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
129 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
130 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
132 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
133 perl could order it differently.
134 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
136 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
137 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
138 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
139 prefixed names on Win32.
140 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
142 - fix library detection with MSVC
144 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
145 them. Hopefully fixes:
146 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
148 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
151 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
153 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
155 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
157 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
158 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
161 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
162 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
163 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
166 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
168 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
169 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
171 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
172 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
174 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
175 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
176 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
177 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
178 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
179 then panic about the result.
181 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
182 callback, which should return true for success.
184 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
185 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
187 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
188 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
189 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
191 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
193 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
194 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
197 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
199 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
200 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
203 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
205 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
207 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
210 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
213 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
215 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
216 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
218 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
219 lead to an infinite loop.
223 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
225 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
228 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
233 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
234 checked when reading TIFF files.
235 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
237 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
238 failed image file read() or write().
239 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
241 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
242 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
243 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
245 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
247 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
249 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
250 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
251 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
253 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
254 modernize the tests a bit.
255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
257 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
259 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
261 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
263 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
265 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
266 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
268 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
271 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
273 Massive types re-work:
275 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
276 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
278 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
280 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
281 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
282 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
283 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
285 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
286 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
287 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
288 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
290 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
291 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
293 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
297 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
298 values when writing a GIF image.
300 - removed dead callback read/write code
302 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
304 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
307 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
310 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
315 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
318 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
319 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
321 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
323 - add to_rgb_double() method.
324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
326 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
329 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
330 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
332 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
334 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
335 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
337 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
339 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
340 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
341 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
343 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
348 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
349 failing on a Solaris smoker.
350 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
352 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
355 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
359 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
360 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
361 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
363 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
364 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
365 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
367 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
370 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
373 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
378 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
379 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
380 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
381 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
383 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
384 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
385 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
386 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
388 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
391 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
394 - improve the library detection summary
395 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
397 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
398 downgrade the version in this file.
399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
401 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
402 that option for the directories that would normally go in
403 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
404 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
406 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
409 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
411 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
412 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
413 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
415 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
416 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
418 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
419 work around limitations in PAR.
420 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
424 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
425 Revealed by new coverage tests.
427 - update the filter plugin documentation.
428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
430 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
431 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
432 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
433 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
435 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
436 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
437 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
438 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
440 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
441 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
443 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
444 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
446 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
447 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
449 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
452 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
454 - Imager is now maintained in git
455 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
456 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
460 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
461 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
462 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
464 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
465 just a little darker.
467 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
468 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
469 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
470 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
472 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
474 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
477 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
480 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
481 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
482 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
483 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
485 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
487 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
488 images into a new image
489 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
493 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
495 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
496 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
497 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
499 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
500 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
502 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
503 included in the tarball. They are now included.
505 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
510 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
511 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
513 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
515 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
517 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
518 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
520 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
523 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
524 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
525 Uses Imager::Probe now.
526 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
528 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
529 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
533 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
536 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
538 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
540 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
541 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
542 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
544 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
547 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
549 Thanks to Justin Davis.
550 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
552 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
553 preparation for separate distribution.
554 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
556 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
558 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
562 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
563 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
564 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
565 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
567 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
568 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
569 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
571 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
572 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
573 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
574 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
577 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
578 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
580 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
581 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
582 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
583 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
585 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
588 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
589 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
591 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
593 - add resources to META.yml
595 Imager 0.76 - not released
600 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
602 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
603 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
605 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
610 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
611 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
613 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
614 the code run phase of library probing.
616 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
621 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
623 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
626 Test release for the new PNG probe.
628 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
629 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
630 format files and allows white space padding between files.
631 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
633 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
634 for separate distribution.
635 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
636 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
641 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
643 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
645 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
647 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
648 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
650 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
651 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
653 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
656 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
657 the probe can find the library for the test run.
658 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
660 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
663 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
668 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
669 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
671 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
672 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
674 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
679 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
680 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
681 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
683 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
684 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
686 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
688 - update the TIFF file format documentation
689 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
691 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
693 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
696 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
697 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
699 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
700 the incorrect colour.
702 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
705 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
707 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
710 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
711 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
714 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
717 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
718 it works with non-threaded perls
720 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
725 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
727 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
729 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
730 8-bit sample operations.
731 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
734 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
736 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
737 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
738 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
739 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
741 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
744 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
749 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
750 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
751 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
752 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
753 results or runtime exceptions.
754 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
757 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
762 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
765 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
767 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
769 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
770 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
771 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
772 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
773 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
776 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
781 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
782 that should be a parameter to plan().
784 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
785 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
787 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
789 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
792 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
794 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
798 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
799 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
801 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
802 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
805 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
807 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
809 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
814 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
816 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
818 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
821 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
823 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
824 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
827 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
828 set the extra channels in the image to 0
830 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
831 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
832 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
834 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
835 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
839 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
840 META.yml from scratch
841 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
843 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
844 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
845 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
846 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
848 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
853 - fix a packaging error
855 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
858 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
862 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
863 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
864 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
866 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
867 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
868 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
869 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
871 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
873 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
874 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
876 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
878 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
879 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
880 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
882 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
883 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
884 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
885 - group width methods and height methods
886 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
888 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
893 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
894 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
895 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
896 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
897 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
900 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
901 ignored for the screen height when present.
902 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
904 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
907 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
912 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
913 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
914 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
915 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
918 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
919 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
920 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
922 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
923 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
924 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
925 not a buffer overflow.
926 Added a check for the failure.
927 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
928 scale size parameters are a reference.
929 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
931 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
932 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
933 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
935 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
937 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
940 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
941 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
942 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
943 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
946 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
947 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
949 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
951 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
952 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
953 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
954 noalpha channels or back.
955 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
957 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
958 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
959 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
960 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
962 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
963 functions when filling.
964 Corrected normal combine mode.
965 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
966 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
967 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
968 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
970 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
972 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
973 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
974 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
975 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
977 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
978 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
979 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
980 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
982 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
983 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
984 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
985 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
989 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
991 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
993 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
994 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
995 compressible output files.
996 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
998 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1000 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1001 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1002 code, not intended for installation.
1003 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1005 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1006 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1008 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1009 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1010 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1011 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1012 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1013 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1015 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1017 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1020 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1021 to /path under your home directory.
1022 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1024 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1025 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1026 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1027 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1028 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1030 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1031 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1032 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1033 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1037 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1039 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1041 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1042 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1043 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1045 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1046 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1048 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1049 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1051 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1053 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1056 - major TIFF support re-work
1057 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1059 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1060 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1062 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1065 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1066 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1068 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1070 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1072 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1076 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1079 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1080 alpha channel correctly.
1082 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1083 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1084 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1086 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1087 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1089 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1091 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1093 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1096 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1097 when scaling an animated gif
1098 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1102 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1103 perspective type transformations to work now.
1104 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1106 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1107 also fixed some other type warnings
1108 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1110 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1112 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1114 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1115 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1116 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1118 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1120 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1122 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1123 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1124 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1126 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1127 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1129 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1130 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1131 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1133 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1135 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1137 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1138 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1139 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1141 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1142 an unknown image file format.
1143 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1145 - improve the transform2() documentation
1146 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1148 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1149 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1151 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1152 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1153 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1156 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1159 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1160 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1164 - logging functions are now available in the API
1166 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1167 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1168 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1169 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1171 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1172 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1173 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1174 using Imager as a general image processor.
1175 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1179 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1180 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1181 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1182 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1184 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1185 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1187 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1188 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1189 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1192 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1194 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1196 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1197 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1199 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1200 image, but return a new image.
1201 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1203 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1204 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1205 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1207 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1208 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1210 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1211 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1213 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1218 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1219 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1221 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1222 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1223 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1224 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1226 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1229 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1231 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1234 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1236 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1240 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1241 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1242 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1244 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1245 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1246 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1248 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1250 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1251 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1252 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1254 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1255 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1257 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1258 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1260 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1261 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1262 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1263 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1264 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1265 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1266 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1268 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1271 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1273 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1274 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1275 this issue in the ticket below.
1276 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1277 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1278 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1279 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1281 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1284 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1286 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1288 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1290 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1291 contains only black and white
1293 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1295 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1298 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1302 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1303 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1304 resulted in a memory leak.
1305 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1307 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1308 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1310 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1311 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1313 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1315 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1316 even though the format doesn't require that
1318 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1319 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1321 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1322 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1323 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1325 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1326 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1329 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1330 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1332 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1335 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1337 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1339 There is one new feature:
1341 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1342 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1343 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1345 Several bugs were fixed:
1347 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1348 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1350 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1351 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1353 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1355 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1357 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1358 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1360 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1361 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1362 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1364 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1365 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1366 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1368 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1371 Win32 font driver fixes:
1373 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1374 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1376 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1377 advance width they would be clipped
1380 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1383 This is primarily a feature release:
1385 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1386 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1387 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1388 blurry results than normal.
1389 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1391 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1393 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1395 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1396 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1397 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1398 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1399 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1400 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1401 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1403 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1404 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1406 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1408 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1409 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1411 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1413 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1414 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1416 - minor documentation fixes
1419 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1422 This is a bugfix release.
1424 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1425 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1427 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1430 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1433 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1434 fixes, new features:
1436 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1438 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1440 - add POD coverage tests
1442 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1443 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1444 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1446 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1447 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1448 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1453 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1454 calculating the advance width.
1455 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1457 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1458 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1459 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1462 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1463 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1464 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1465 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1466 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1468 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1469 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1471 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1473 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1474 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1476 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1479 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1482 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1484 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1486 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1488 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1490 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1492 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1495 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1498 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1499 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1500 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1501 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1503 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1504 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1506 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1507 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049