1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
6 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
8 For the strange Win32 failures.
10 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
12 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
15 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
16 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
17 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
19 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
22 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
23 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
24 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
27 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
30 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
31 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
32 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
33 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
34 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
36 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
37 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
39 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
40 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
41 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
42 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
44 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
45 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
46 reduced the contrast of the output image.
47 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
49 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
50 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
51 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
53 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
55 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
58 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
59 themselves) passed to the internal API.
61 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
63 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
64 buffer if there were too many colors
66 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
67 there were too many colors.
69 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
70 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
72 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
73 color image would leak a context object reference count.
75 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
77 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
79 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
80 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
81 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
84 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
86 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
87 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
88 if there was zero pixel coverage.
90 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
91 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
94 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
97 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
98 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
100 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
101 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
103 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
104 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
105 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
107 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
108 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
110 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
113 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
116 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
118 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
119 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
121 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
124 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
125 depending on the size of the circle.
126 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
127 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
129 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
131 - enhancements to polygon filling:
133 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
135 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
138 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
140 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
141 These were added for two reasons:
143 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
144 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
145 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
147 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
148 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
149 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
150 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translates
153 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
154 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
156 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
157 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
160 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
163 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
164 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
165 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
167 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
170 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
171 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
173 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
175 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
177 - make verbose probing output more verbose
179 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
180 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
182 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
185 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
188 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
191 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
193 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
195 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
196 number of Win32 CPAN testers
198 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
201 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
202 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
203 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
204 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
205 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
207 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
208 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
209 performance improvement.
211 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
212 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
213 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
215 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
216 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
219 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
222 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
223 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
224 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
226 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
228 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
229 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
231 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
232 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
233 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
235 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
238 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
239 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
241 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
243 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
244 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
246 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
248 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
249 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
251 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
252 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
255 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
256 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
257 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
259 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
260 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
261 still available as "autolevels_skew".
262 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
264 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
265 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
266 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
267 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
268 palette to test for benign errors.
269 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
271 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
274 Incompatible changes:
276 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
278 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
279 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
280 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
284 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
285 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
286 returned, and errstr() is set,
288 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
289 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
290 but true" is returned.
292 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
296 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
297 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
298 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
299 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
300 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
301 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
303 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
304 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
305 of a malloced buffer.
307 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
309 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
311 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
312 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
314 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
315 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
318 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
319 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
320 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
321 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
323 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
325 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
328 No changes from 0.96_02.
330 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
333 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
335 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
337 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
338 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
339 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
341 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
343 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
344 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
346 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
349 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
350 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
352 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
354 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
356 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
357 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
358 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
359 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
361 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
364 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
366 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
367 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
369 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
370 typemap instead of rolling their own.
372 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
375 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
376 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
377 simplifies the XS code.
379 - many other minor XS changes
381 - some XS code formatting
383 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
384 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
387 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
389 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
390 reporting some types of error.
391 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
393 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
394 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
395 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
397 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
400 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
403 - rearrange Imager's test files.
404 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
406 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
407 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
408 paths, which avoids that localization.
409 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
411 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
412 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
414 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
415 reported by Andreas König
417 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
419 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
421 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
424 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
425 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
426 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
428 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
430 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
433 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
434 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
435 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
436 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
437 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
439 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
440 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
441 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
443 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
446 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
448 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
449 due to a bug in that version of perl.
451 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
452 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
454 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
455 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
457 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
460 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
461 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
464 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
465 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
467 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
468 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
470 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
472 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
473 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
476 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
477 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
478 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
480 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
482 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
483 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
486 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
487 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
489 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
490 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
492 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
493 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
495 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
496 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
498 - fixed some other compiler warnings
500 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
501 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
503 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
504 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
505 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
506 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
507 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
508 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
510 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
511 =========================
513 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
516 - improved thread safety
517 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
519 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
520 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
521 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
522 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
523 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
524 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
525 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
526 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
529 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
530 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
532 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
534 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
536 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
538 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
540 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
545 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
546 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
549 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
551 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
552 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
554 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
555 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
556 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
558 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
559 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
561 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
564 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
565 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
566 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
570 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
571 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
572 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
573 header version in 5.0.0.
575 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
576 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
577 uninitialized gif89 bug.
578 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
579 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
581 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
583 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
584 later versions of T1Lib.
586 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
587 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
589 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
592 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
595 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
596 correctly for both probing and runtime.
597 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
599 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
601 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
603 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
608 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
609 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
610 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
611 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
612 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
613 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
614 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
615 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
616 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
620 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
621 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
623 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
624 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
625 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
626 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
628 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
630 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
631 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
633 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
634 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
636 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
637 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
639 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
644 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
645 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
646 Corrected the prototype.
648 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
649 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
650 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
651 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
652 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
654 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
656 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
657 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
658 processing the image data itself.
659 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
661 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
662 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
665 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
667 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
668 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
669 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
670 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
671 directories and insert that into the library flags.
672 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
674 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
675 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
676 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
678 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
680 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
681 handle a statically linked libpng.
682 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
684 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
685 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
686 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
687 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
688 configuration is found.
689 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
693 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
694 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
695 called but not supplied.
696 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
698 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
701 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
703 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
705 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
706 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
709 - improve error reporting
710 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
711 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
712 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
713 handlers to write as bilevel
714 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
715 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
716 - write paletted images as paletted images
717 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
719 - improved metadata support
720 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
722 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
727 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
728 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
729 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
733 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
734 rather than the heading you can find them under.
735 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
737 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
738 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
739 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
740 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
742 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
743 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
744 pointer and line number.
745 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
747 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
750 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
751 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
753 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
755 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
758 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
759 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
761 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
762 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
764 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
765 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
766 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
768 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
769 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
770 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
771 interfaces to these functions.
773 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
774 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
776 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
780 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
781 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
783 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
785 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
787 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
788 component of the color is now significant.
789 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
791 - remove long unused gif case from read()
792 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
794 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
795 when it's meant to be an array reference.
796 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
798 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
799 parameters are supplied.
800 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
801 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
803 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
806 - document the return value of the filter() method.
807 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
809 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
810 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
812 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
814 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
816 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
817 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
819 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
820 identify the file type match reality.
821 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
823 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
824 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
826 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
827 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
829 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
830 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
832 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
835 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
837 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
839 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
840 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
841 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
842 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
844 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
847 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
849 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
854 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
855 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
857 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
860 - make default text color non-transparent
861 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
863 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
864 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
866 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
868 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
870 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
871 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
873 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
875 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
878 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
879 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
881 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
882 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
884 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
887 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
890 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
891 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
893 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
895 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
896 initialized more efficiently.
897 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
899 - updated the Thanks list in README
900 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
902 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
903 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
905 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
906 perl could order it differently.
907 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
909 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
910 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
911 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
912 prefixed names on Win32.
913 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
915 - fix library detection with MSVC
917 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
918 them. Hopefully fixes:
919 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
921 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
924 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
926 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
928 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
930 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
931 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
934 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
935 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
936 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
939 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
941 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
942 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
944 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
945 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
947 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
948 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
949 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
950 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
951 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
952 then panic about the result.
954 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
955 callback, which should return true for success.
957 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
958 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
960 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
961 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
962 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
964 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
966 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
967 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
970 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
972 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
973 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
976 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
978 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
980 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
983 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
986 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
988 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
989 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
991 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
992 lead to an infinite loop.
996 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
998 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1001 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1006 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1007 checked when reading TIFF files.
1008 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1010 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1011 failed image file read() or write().
1012 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1014 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1015 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1016 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1018 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1020 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1022 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1023 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1024 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1026 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1027 modernize the tests a bit.
1028 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1030 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1031 them when available.
1032 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1034 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1036 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1038 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1039 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1041 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1044 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1046 Massive types re-work:
1048 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1049 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1051 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1053 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1054 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1055 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1056 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1058 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1059 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1060 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1061 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1063 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1064 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1066 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1070 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1071 values when writing a GIF image.
1073 - removed dead callback read/write code
1075 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1077 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1080 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1083 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1084 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1088 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1089 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1091 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1092 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1094 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1096 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1097 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1099 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1100 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1102 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1103 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1105 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1107 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1108 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1110 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1112 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1113 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1114 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1116 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1121 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1122 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1123 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1125 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1128 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1132 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1133 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1134 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1136 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1137 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1138 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1140 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1143 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1146 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1151 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1152 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1153 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1154 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1156 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1157 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1158 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1161 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1164 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1165 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1167 - improve the library detection summary
1168 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1170 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1171 downgrade the version in this file.
1172 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1174 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1175 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1176 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1177 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1179 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1182 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1184 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1185 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1186 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1188 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1189 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1191 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1192 work around limitations in PAR.
1193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1197 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1198 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1200 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1203 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1204 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1205 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1206 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1208 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1209 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1210 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1211 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1213 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1216 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1219 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1222 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1225 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1227 - Imager is now maintained in git
1228 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1229 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1233 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1234 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1235 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1237 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1238 just a little darker.
1240 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1241 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1242 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1243 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1245 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1247 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1250 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1253 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1254 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1255 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1256 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1258 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1260 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1261 images into a new image
1262 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1266 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1268 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1269 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1270 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1272 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1273 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1275 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1276 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1278 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1283 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1284 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1286 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1288 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1290 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1291 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1293 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1296 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1297 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1298 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1299 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1301 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1302 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1306 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1309 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1311 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1313 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1314 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1315 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1317 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1320 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1322 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1323 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1325 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1326 preparation for separate distribution.
1327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1329 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1331 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1335 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1336 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1337 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1338 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1340 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1341 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1342 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1344 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1345 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1346 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1347 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1350 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1351 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1353 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1354 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1355 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1356 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1358 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1361 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1362 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1364 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1366 - add resources to META.yml
1368 Imager 0.76 - not released
1373 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1374 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1375 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1376 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1378 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1383 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1384 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1386 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1387 the code run phase of library probing.
1389 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1394 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1396 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1399 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1401 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1402 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1403 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1404 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1406 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1407 for separate distribution.
1408 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1409 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1414 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1416 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1418 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1420 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1421 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1423 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1424 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1426 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1427 (sorry for the mess)
1429 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1430 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1431 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1433 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1436 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1437 perls (not measured)
1441 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1442 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1444 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1445 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1447 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1452 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1453 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1454 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1456 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1457 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1459 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1461 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1462 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1464 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1466 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1469 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1470 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1472 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1473 the incorrect colour.
1475 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1478 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1480 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1483 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1484 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1487 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1490 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1491 it works with non-threaded perls
1493 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1498 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1500 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1502 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1503 8-bit sample operations.
1504 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1507 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1509 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1510 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1511 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1512 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1514 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1517 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1522 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1523 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1524 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1525 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1526 results or runtime exceptions.
1527 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1530 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1535 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1538 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1540 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1542 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1543 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1544 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1545 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1546 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1549 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1554 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1555 that should be a parameter to plan().
1557 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1558 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1560 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1562 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1565 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1566 load the given file.
1567 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1571 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1572 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1574 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1575 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1578 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1580 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1582 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1587 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1589 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1591 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1594 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1596 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1597 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1600 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1601 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1603 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1604 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1605 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1607 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1608 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1612 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1613 META.yml from scratch
1614 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1616 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1617 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1618 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1619 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1621 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1626 - fix a packaging error
1628 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1631 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1635 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1636 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1637 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1639 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1640 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1641 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1642 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1644 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1646 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1647 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1649 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1651 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1652 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1653 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1655 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1656 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1657 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1658 - group width methods and height methods
1659 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1661 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1666 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1667 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1668 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1669 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1670 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1673 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1674 ignored for the screen height when present.
1675 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1677 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1680 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1685 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1686 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1687 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1688 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1691 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1692 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1693 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1695 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1696 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1697 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1698 not a buffer overflow.
1699 Added a check for the failure.
1700 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1701 scale size parameters are a reference.
1702 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1704 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1705 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1706 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1708 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1710 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1713 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1714 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1715 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1716 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1719 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1720 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1722 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1724 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1725 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1726 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1727 noalpha channels or back.
1728 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1730 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1731 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1732 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1733 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1735 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1736 functions when filling.
1737 Corrected normal combine mode.
1738 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1739 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1740 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1741 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1743 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1745 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1746 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1747 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1748 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1750 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1751 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1752 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1753 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1755 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1756 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1757 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1758 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1762 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1764 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1766 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1767 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1768 compressible output files.
1769 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1771 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1773 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1774 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1775 code, not intended for installation.
1776 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1778 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1779 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1781 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1782 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1783 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1784 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1785 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1786 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1788 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1790 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1793 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1794 to /path under your home directory.
1795 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1797 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1798 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1799 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1800 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1801 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1803 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1804 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1805 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1806 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1810 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1812 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1814 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1815 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1816 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1818 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1819 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1821 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1822 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1824 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1826 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1829 - major TIFF support re-work
1830 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1832 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1833 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1835 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1838 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1839 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1841 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1843 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1845 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1849 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1852 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1853 alpha channel correctly.
1855 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1856 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1857 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1859 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1860 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1862 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1864 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1866 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1869 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1870 when scaling an animated gif
1871 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1875 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1876 perspective type transformations to work now.
1877 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1879 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1880 also fixed some other type warnings
1881 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1883 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1885 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1887 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1888 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1889 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1891 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1893 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1895 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1896 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1897 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1899 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1900 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1902 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1903 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1904 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1906 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1908 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1910 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1911 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1912 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1914 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1915 an unknown image file format.
1916 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1918 - improve the transform2() documentation
1919 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1921 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1922 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1924 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1925 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1926 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1929 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1932 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1933 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1935 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1937 - logging functions are now available in the API
1939 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1940 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1941 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1942 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1944 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1945 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1946 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1947 using Imager as a general image processor.
1948 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1952 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1953 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1954 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1955 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1957 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1958 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1960 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1961 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1962 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1965 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1967 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1969 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1970 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1972 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1973 image, but return a new image.
1974 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1976 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1977 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1978 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1980 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1981 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1983 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1984 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1986 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1991 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1992 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1994 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1995 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1996 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1997 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1999 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2002 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2004 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2007 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2009 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2013 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2014 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2015 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2017 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2018 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2019 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2021 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2023 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2024 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2025 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2027 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2028 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2030 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2031 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2033 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2034 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2035 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2036 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2037 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2038 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2039 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2041 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2044 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2046 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2047 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2048 this issue in the ticket below.
2049 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2050 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2051 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2052 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2054 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2057 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2059 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2061 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2063 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2064 contains only black and white
2066 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2068 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2071 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2075 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2076 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2077 resulted in a memory leak.
2078 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2080 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2081 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2083 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2084 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2086 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2088 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2089 even though the format doesn't require that
2091 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2092 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2094 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2095 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2096 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2098 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2099 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2100 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2102 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2103 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2105 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2108 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2110 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2112 There is one new feature:
2114 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2115 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2116 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2118 Several bugs were fixed:
2120 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2121 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2123 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2124 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2126 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2128 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2130 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2131 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2133 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2134 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2135 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2137 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2138 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2139 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2141 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2144 Win32 font driver fixes:
2146 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2147 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2149 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2150 advance width they would be clipped
2153 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2156 This is primarily a feature release:
2158 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2159 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2160 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2161 blurry results than normal.
2162 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2164 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2166 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2168 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2169 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2170 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2171 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2172 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2173 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2174 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2176 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2177 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2179 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2181 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2182 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2184 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2186 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2187 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2189 - minor documentation fixes
2192 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2195 This is a bugfix release.
2197 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2198 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2200 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2203 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2206 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2207 fixes, new features:
2209 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2211 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2213 - add POD coverage tests
2215 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2216 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2217 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2219 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2220 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2221 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2226 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2227 calculating the advance width.
2228 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2230 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2231 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2232 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2235 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2236 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2237 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2238 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2239 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2241 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2242 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2244 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2246 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2247 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2249 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2252 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2255 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2257 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2259 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2261 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2263 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2265 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2268 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2271 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2272 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2273 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2274 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2276 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2277 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2279 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2280 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049