1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Coverity finally finished a build, fix a few problems:
5 - reading a color-mapped TGA file with an id string would cause a
6 double-free if the palette was truncated.
8 - mixing scaling to sizes where the accumulator row, the working
9 output row or the working input row didn't fit into the address
10 space could result in memory leaks. This can probably only be
11 reproduced on very wide floating-point sample images.
13 - convert an array style function parameter pointer to pointer style
14 to prevent confusing Coverity in the T1 bounding box implementation.
16 - Similarly in the FT1 bounding box implementation.
18 - initialize a pointer to prevent Coverity complaining in polygon
19 drawing (it should always end up being set.)
21 - addi style makemap could potentially read one past the end of an
24 - supplying a numeric hatch of 32 to Imager::Fill->new(hatch => ...)
25 would result in read beyond the end of the built-in hatch array.
26 Negative values (which Coverity didn't complain about) could also
29 Imager 1.008 - 31 Dec 2018
32 - moved EXIF handling from Imager::File::JPEG to core Imager
33 This allows file formats that store EXIF data as blobs similarly
34 to JPEG to re-use this code. (such as Imager::File::WEBP)
36 - added some more file extensions to image file type mappings
38 - added add_type_extensions() class method
40 Imager 1.007 - 24 Nov 2018
43 - add png_compression_level tag for writing PNG files.
45 - avoid flooring a second time in matrix transform interpolation.
46 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124001
48 - produce v2 metadata.
49 Includes change from the ticket and updates to sub-modules.
50 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127216
52 - improve error reporting for the polygon() method
54 Imager 1.006 - 26 Aug 2017
57 - the internal i_errors() function now correctly allocates the stack
58 space needed for its result.
59 https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
61 - t/100-base/020-color.t now uses Imager::Test's test functions
63 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111993
65 - write_multi() now returns an error result (a false value) if called
66 with a non-(Imager image object). Previously it would typically
68 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117878
70 - improve the documentation of the jpegquality parameter when
73 - add code to mitigate CVE-2016-1238, Imager will no longer search the
74 default current directory entry in @INC when searching for file
75 format support modules.
77 Imager 1.005 - 16 Apr 2016
80 It's now been ten years since I switched to the new Changes file in
83 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
84 fix them is too much work for now.
86 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
89 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
91 For the strange Win32 failures.
93 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
95 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
98 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
99 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
100 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
102 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
105 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
106 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
107 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
110 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
113 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
114 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
115 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
116 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
117 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
119 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
120 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
122 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
123 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
124 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
125 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
127 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
128 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
129 reduced the contrast of the output image.
130 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
132 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
133 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
134 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
136 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
138 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
141 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
142 themselves) passed to the internal API.
144 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
146 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
147 buffer if there were too many colors
149 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
150 there were too many colors.
152 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
153 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
155 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
156 color image would leak a context object reference count.
158 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
160 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
162 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
163 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
164 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
167 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
169 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
170 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
171 if there was zero pixel coverage.
173 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
174 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
177 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
180 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
183 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
184 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
186 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
187 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
188 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
190 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
191 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
193 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
196 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
199 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
201 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
204 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
207 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
208 depending on the size of the circle.
209 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
210 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
212 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
214 - enhancements to polygon filling:
216 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
218 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
221 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
223 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
224 These were added for two reasons:
226 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
227 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
228 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
230 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
231 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
232 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
233 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translate
236 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
237 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
239 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
240 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
243 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
246 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
247 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
248 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
250 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
253 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
254 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
256 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
258 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
260 - make verbose probing output more verbose
262 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
263 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
265 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
268 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
271 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
274 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
276 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
278 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
279 number of Win32 CPAN testers
281 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
284 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
285 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
286 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
287 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
288 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
290 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
291 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
292 performance improvement.
294 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
295 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
296 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
298 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
299 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
300 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
302 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
305 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
306 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
309 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
311 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
312 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
314 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
315 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
318 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
321 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
322 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
326 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
327 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
329 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
331 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
332 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
334 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
335 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
336 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
338 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
339 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
340 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
342 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
343 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
344 still available as "autolevels_skew".
345 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
347 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
348 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
349 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
350 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
351 palette to test for benign errors.
352 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
354 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
357 Incompatible changes:
359 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
361 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
362 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
363 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
367 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
368 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
369 returned, and errstr() is set,
371 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
372 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
373 but true" is returned.
375 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
379 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
380 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
381 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
382 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
383 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
384 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
386 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
387 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
388 of a malloced buffer.
390 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
394 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
395 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
397 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
398 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
401 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
402 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
403 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
404 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
406 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
408 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
411 No changes from 0.96_02.
413 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
416 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
418 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
420 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
421 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
422 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
424 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
426 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
427 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
429 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
432 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
433 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
435 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
437 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
439 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
440 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
441 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
442 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
444 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
447 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
449 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
450 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
452 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
453 typemap instead of rolling their own.
455 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
458 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
459 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
460 simplifies the XS code.
462 - many other minor XS changes
464 - some XS code formatting
466 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
467 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
468 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
470 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
472 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
473 reporting some types of error.
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
476 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
477 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
478 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
480 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
483 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
486 - rearrange Imager's test files.
487 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
489 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
490 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
491 paths, which avoids that localization.
492 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
494 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
495 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
497 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
498 reported by Andreas König
500 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
502 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
504 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
507 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
508 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
509 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
511 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
513 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
516 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
517 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
518 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
519 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
520 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
522 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
523 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
524 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
526 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
529 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
531 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
532 due to a bug in that version of perl.
534 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
535 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
537 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
538 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
540 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
543 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
544 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
547 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
548 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
550 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
551 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
553 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
555 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
556 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
559 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
560 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
561 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
563 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
565 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
566 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
567 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
569 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
570 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
572 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
573 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
575 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
576 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
578 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
579 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
581 - fixed some other compiler warnings
583 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
584 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
586 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
587 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
588 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
589 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
590 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
591 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
593 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
594 =========================
596 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
599 - improved thread safety
600 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
602 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
603 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
604 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
605 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
606 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
607 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
608 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
609 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
612 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
613 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
615 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
617 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
619 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
621 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
623 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
628 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
629 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
632 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
634 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
635 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
637 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
638 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
639 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
641 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
642 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
644 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
647 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
648 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
649 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
653 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
654 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
655 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
656 header version in 5.0.0.
658 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
659 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
660 uninitialized gif89 bug.
661 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
662 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
664 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
666 - match Imager::Font::T1's error message translations to those from
667 later versions of T1Lib.
669 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
670 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
672 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
673 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
675 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
678 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
679 correctly for both probing and runtime.
680 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
682 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
684 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
686 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
691 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
692 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
693 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
694 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
695 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
696 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
697 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
698 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
699 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
703 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
704 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
706 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
707 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
708 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
709 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
711 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
713 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
714 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
716 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
717 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
719 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
720 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
722 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
727 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
728 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
729 Corrected the prototype.
731 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
732 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
733 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
734 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
735 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
737 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
739 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
740 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
741 processing the image data itself.
742 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
744 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
745 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
748 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
750 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
751 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
752 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
753 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
754 directories and insert that into the library flags.
755 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
757 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
758 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
759 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
761 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
763 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
764 handle a statically linked libpng.
765 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
767 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
768 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
769 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
770 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
771 configuration is found.
772 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
776 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
777 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
778 called but not supplied.
779 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
781 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
784 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
786 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
788 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
789 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
792 - improve error reporting
793 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
794 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
795 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
796 handlers to write as bilevel
797 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
798 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
799 - write paletted images as paletted images
800 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
802 - improved metadata support
803 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
805 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
810 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
811 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
812 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
816 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
817 rather than the heading you can find them under.
818 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
820 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
821 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
822 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
823 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
825 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
826 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
827 pointer and line number.
828 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
830 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
833 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
834 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
836 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
838 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
841 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
842 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
844 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
845 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
847 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
848 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
849 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
851 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
852 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
853 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
854 interfaces to these functions.
856 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
857 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
859 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
863 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
864 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
866 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
868 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
870 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
871 component of the color is now significant.
872 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
874 - remove long unused gif case from read()
875 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
877 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
878 when it's meant to be an array reference.
879 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
881 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
882 parameters are supplied.
883 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
884 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
886 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
889 - document the return value of the filter() method.
890 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
892 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
893 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
895 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
897 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
899 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
900 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
902 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
903 identify the file type match reality.
904 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
906 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
907 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
909 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
910 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
912 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
913 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
915 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
918 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
920 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
922 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
923 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
924 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
925 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
927 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
930 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
932 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
937 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
938 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
940 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
941 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
943 - make default text color non-transparent
944 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
946 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
947 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
949 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
951 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
953 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
954 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
956 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
958 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
961 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
962 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
964 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
965 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
967 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
970 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
973 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
974 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
976 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
978 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
979 initialized more efficiently.
980 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
982 - updated the Thanks list in README
983 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
985 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
986 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
988 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
989 perl could order it differently.
990 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
992 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
993 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
994 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
995 prefixed names on Win32.
996 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
998 - fix library detection with MSVC
1000 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
1001 them. Hopefully fixes:
1002 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
1004 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
1007 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
1009 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
1011 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
1013 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
1014 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
1017 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
1018 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
1019 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
1022 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
1024 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
1025 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
1027 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
1028 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
1030 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
1031 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
1032 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
1033 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
1034 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
1035 then panic about the result.
1037 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
1038 callback, which should return true for success.
1040 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
1041 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
1043 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
1044 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
1045 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
1047 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
1049 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
1050 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
1053 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
1055 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
1056 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
1059 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
1061 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
1063 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
1066 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
1069 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
1071 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
1072 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
1074 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
1075 lead to an infinite loop.
1079 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1081 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1084 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1089 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1090 checked when reading TIFF files.
1091 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1093 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1094 failed image file read() or write().
1095 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1097 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1098 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1099 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1101 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1103 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1105 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1106 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1107 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1109 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1110 modernize the tests a bit.
1111 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1113 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1114 them when available.
1115 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1117 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1119 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1121 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1122 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1124 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1127 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1129 Massive types re-work:
1131 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1132 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1134 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1136 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1137 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1138 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1139 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1141 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1142 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1143 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1144 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1146 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1147 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1149 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1153 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1154 values when writing a GIF image.
1156 - removed dead callback read/write code
1158 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1160 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1163 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1166 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1167 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1171 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1172 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1174 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1175 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1177 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1179 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1180 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1182 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1183 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1185 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1186 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1188 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1190 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1191 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1195 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1196 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1199 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1204 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1205 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1206 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1208 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1211 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1215 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1216 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1219 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1220 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1221 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1223 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1226 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1229 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1234 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1235 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1236 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1237 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1239 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1240 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1241 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1242 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1244 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1245 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1247 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1248 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1250 - improve the library detection summary
1251 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1253 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1254 downgrade the version in this file.
1255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1257 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1258 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1259 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1262 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1265 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1267 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1268 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1269 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1271 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1272 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1274 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1275 work around limitations in PAR.
1276 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1280 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1281 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1283 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1284 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1286 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1287 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1288 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1289 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1291 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1292 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1293 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1294 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1296 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1297 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1299 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1300 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1302 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1303 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1305 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1308 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1310 - Imager is now maintained in git
1311 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1312 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1316 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1317 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1318 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1320 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1321 just a little darker.
1323 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1324 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1325 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1326 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1328 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1330 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1333 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1336 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1337 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1338 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1339 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1341 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1343 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1344 images into a new image
1345 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1349 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1351 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1352 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1353 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1355 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1356 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1358 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1359 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1361 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1366 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1367 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1369 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1373 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1374 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1376 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1379 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1380 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1381 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1382 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1384 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1389 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1392 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1394 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1396 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1397 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1398 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1400 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1403 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1405 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1406 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1408 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1409 preparation for separate distribution.
1410 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1412 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1414 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1418 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1419 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1420 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1421 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1423 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1424 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1425 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1427 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1428 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1429 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1430 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1433 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1434 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1436 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1437 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1438 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1439 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1441 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1444 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1445 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1447 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1449 - add resources to META.yml
1451 Imager 0.76 - not released
1456 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1457 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1458 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1459 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1461 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1466 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1467 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1469 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1470 the code run phase of library probing.
1472 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1477 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1479 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1482 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1484 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1485 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1486 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1487 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1489 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1490 for separate distribution.
1491 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1492 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1497 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1499 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1501 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1503 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1504 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1506 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1507 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1509 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1510 (sorry for the mess)
1512 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1513 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1514 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1516 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1519 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1520 perls (not measured)
1524 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1525 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1527 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1528 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1530 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1535 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1536 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1537 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1539 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1540 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1542 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1544 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1545 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1547 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1549 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1552 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1553 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1555 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1556 the incorrect colour.
1558 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1561 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1563 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1566 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1567 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1570 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1573 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1574 it works with non-threaded perls
1576 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1581 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1583 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1585 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1586 8-bit sample operations.
1587 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1592 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1593 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1594 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1595 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1597 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1600 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1605 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1606 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1607 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1608 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1609 results or runtime exceptions.
1610 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1613 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1618 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1621 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1623 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1625 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1626 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1627 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1628 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1629 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1632 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1637 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1638 that should be a parameter to plan().
1640 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1641 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1643 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1645 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1648 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1649 load the given file.
1650 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1654 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1655 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1657 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1658 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1661 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1663 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1665 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1670 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1672 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1674 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1677 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1679 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1680 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1683 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1684 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1686 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1687 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1688 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1690 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1691 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1695 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1696 META.yml from scratch
1697 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1699 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1700 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1701 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1702 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1704 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1709 - fix a packaging error
1711 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1714 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1718 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1719 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1720 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1722 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1723 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1724 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1725 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1727 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1729 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1730 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1732 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1734 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1735 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1736 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1738 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1739 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1740 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1741 - group width methods and height methods
1742 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1744 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1749 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1750 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1751 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1752 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1753 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1756 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1757 ignored for the screen height when present.
1758 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1760 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1763 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1768 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1769 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1770 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1771 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1774 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1775 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1776 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1778 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1779 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1780 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1781 not a buffer overflow.
1782 Added a check for the failure.
1783 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1784 scale size parameters are a reference.
1785 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1787 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1788 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1789 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1791 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1793 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1796 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1797 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1798 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1799 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1802 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1803 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1805 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1807 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1808 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1809 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1810 noalpha channels or back.
1811 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1813 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1814 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1815 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1816 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1818 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1819 functions when filling.
1820 Corrected normal combine mode.
1821 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1822 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1823 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1824 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1826 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1828 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1829 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1830 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1831 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1833 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1834 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1835 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1836 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1838 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1839 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1840 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1841 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1845 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1847 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1849 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1850 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1851 compressible output files.
1852 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1854 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1856 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1857 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1858 code, not intended for installation.
1859 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1861 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1862 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1864 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1865 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1866 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1867 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1868 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1869 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1871 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1873 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1876 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1877 to /path under your home directory.
1878 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1880 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1881 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1882 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1883 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1884 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1886 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1887 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1888 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1889 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1893 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1895 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1897 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1898 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1899 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1901 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1902 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1904 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1905 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1907 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1909 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1912 - major TIFF support re-work
1913 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1915 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1916 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1918 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1921 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1922 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1924 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1926 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1928 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1932 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1935 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1936 alpha channel correctly.
1938 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1939 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1940 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1942 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1943 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1945 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1947 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1949 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1952 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1953 when scaling an animated gif
1954 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1958 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1959 perspective type transformations to work now.
1960 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1962 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1963 also fixed some other type warnings
1964 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1966 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1968 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1970 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1971 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1972 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1974 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1976 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1978 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1979 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1980 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1982 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1983 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1985 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1986 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1987 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1989 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1991 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1993 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1994 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1995 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1997 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1998 an unknown image file format.
1999 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
2001 - improve the transform2() documentation
2002 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
2004 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
2005 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
2007 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
2008 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
2009 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
2012 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
2015 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
2016 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
2018 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
2020 - logging functions are now available in the API
2022 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
2023 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
2024 Obviously problems are my fault :)
2025 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
2027 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
2028 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
2029 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
2030 using Imager as a general image processor.
2031 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
2035 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
2036 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
2037 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
2038 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
2040 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
2041 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
2043 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
2044 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
2045 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
2048 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
2050 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
2052 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
2053 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
2055 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
2056 image, but return a new image.
2057 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
2059 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
2060 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
2061 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
2063 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
2064 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
2066 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
2067 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
2069 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
2074 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
2075 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
2077 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
2078 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
2079 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2080 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2082 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2085 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2087 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2090 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2092 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2096 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2097 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2098 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2100 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2101 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2102 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2104 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2106 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2107 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2108 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2110 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2111 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2113 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2114 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2116 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2117 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2118 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2119 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2120 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2121 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2122 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2124 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2127 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2129 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2130 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2131 this issue in the ticket below.
2132 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2133 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2134 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2135 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2137 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2140 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2142 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2144 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2146 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2147 contains only black and white
2149 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2151 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2154 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2158 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2159 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2160 resulted in a memory leak.
2161 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2163 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2164 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2166 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2167 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2169 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2171 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2172 even though the format doesn't require that
2174 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2175 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2177 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2178 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2179 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2181 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2182 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2183 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2185 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2186 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2188 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2191 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2193 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2195 There is one new feature:
2197 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2198 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2199 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2201 Several bugs were fixed:
2203 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2204 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2206 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2207 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2209 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2211 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2213 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2214 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2216 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2217 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2218 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2220 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2221 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2222 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2224 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2227 Win32 font driver fixes:
2229 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2230 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2232 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2233 advance width they would be clipped
2236 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2239 This is primarily a feature release:
2241 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2242 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2243 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2244 blurry results than normal.
2245 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2247 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2249 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2251 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2252 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2253 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2254 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2255 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2256 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2257 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2259 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2260 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2262 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2264 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2265 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2267 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2269 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2270 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2272 - minor documentation fixes
2275 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2278 This is a bugfix release.
2280 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2281 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2283 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2286 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2289 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2290 fixes, new features:
2292 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2294 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2296 - add POD coverage tests
2298 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2299 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2300 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2302 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2303 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2304 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2309 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2310 calculating the advance width.
2311 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2313 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2314 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2315 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2318 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2319 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2320 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2321 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2322 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2324 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2325 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2327 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2329 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2330 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2332 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2335 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2338 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2340 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2342 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2344 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2346 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2348 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2351 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2354 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2355 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2356 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2357 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2359 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2360 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2362 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2363 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049