1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
4 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
5 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
6 header version in 5.0.0.
8 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
9 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
12 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
13 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
14 uninitialized gif89 bug.
15 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
16 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
18 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
20 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
22 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
23 later versions of T1Lib.
25 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
26 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
28 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
29 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
31 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
32 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
33 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
35 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
36 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
38 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
39 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
41 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
44 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
47 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
48 correctly for both probing and runtime.
49 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
51 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
53 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
55 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
60 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
61 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
62 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
63 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
64 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
65 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
66 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
67 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
68 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
72 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
73 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
75 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
76 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
77 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
78 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
80 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
82 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
83 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
85 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
86 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
88 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
89 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
91 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
96 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
97 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
98 Corrected the prototype.
100 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
101 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
102 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
103 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
104 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
106 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
108 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
109 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
110 processing the image data itself.
111 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
113 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
114 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
117 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
119 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
120 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
121 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
122 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
123 directories and insert that into the library flags.
124 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
126 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
127 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
128 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
130 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
132 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
133 handle a statically linked libpng.
134 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
136 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
137 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
138 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
139 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
140 configuration is found.
141 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
145 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
146 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
147 called but not supplied.
148 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
150 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
153 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
155 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
157 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
158 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
161 - improve error reporting
162 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
163 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
164 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
165 handlers to write as bilevel
166 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
167 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
168 - write paletted images as paletted images
169 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
171 - improved metadata support
172 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
174 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
179 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
180 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
185 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
186 rather than the heading you can find them under.
187 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
189 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
190 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
191 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
192 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
194 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
195 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
196 pointer and line number.
197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
199 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
202 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
203 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
205 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
207 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
210 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
211 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
213 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
214 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
216 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
217 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
218 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
220 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
221 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
222 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
223 interfaces to these functions.
225 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
226 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
228 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
232 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
233 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
235 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
237 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
239 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
240 component of the color is now significant.
241 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
243 - remove long unused gif case from read()
244 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
246 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
247 when it's meant to be an array reference.
248 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
250 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
251 parameters are supplied.
252 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
255 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
258 - document the return value of the filter() method.
259 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
261 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
262 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
264 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
266 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
268 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
269 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
271 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
272 identify the file type match reality.
273 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
275 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
276 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
278 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
279 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
281 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
284 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
287 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
289 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
291 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
292 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
293 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
294 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
296 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
299 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
301 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
306 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
309 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
310 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
312 - make default text color non-transparent
313 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
315 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
318 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
320 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
322 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
323 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
325 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
327 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
330 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
331 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
333 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
334 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
336 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
339 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
342 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
343 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
345 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
347 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
348 initialized more efficiently.
349 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
351 - updated the Thanks list in README
352 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
354 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
355 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
357 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
358 perl could order it differently.
359 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
361 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
362 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
363 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
364 prefixed names on Win32.
365 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
367 - fix library detection with MSVC
369 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
370 them. Hopefully fixes:
371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
373 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
376 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
378 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
380 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
382 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
383 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
386 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
387 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
388 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
391 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
393 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
394 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
396 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
397 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
399 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
400 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
401 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
402 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
403 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
404 then panic about the result.
406 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
407 callback, which should return true for success.
409 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
410 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
412 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
413 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
414 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
416 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
418 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
419 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
422 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
424 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
425 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
428 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
430 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
432 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
435 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
438 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
440 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
441 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
443 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
444 lead to an infinite loop.
448 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
450 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
453 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
458 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
459 checked when reading TIFF files.
460 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
462 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
463 failed image file read() or write().
464 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
466 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
467 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
468 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
470 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
472 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
474 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
475 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
476 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
478 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
479 modernize the tests a bit.
480 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
482 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
486 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
488 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
490 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
491 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
493 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
496 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
498 Massive types re-work:
500 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
501 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
503 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
505 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
506 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
507 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
508 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
510 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
511 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
512 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
513 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
515 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
516 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
518 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
522 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
523 values when writing a GIF image.
525 - removed dead callback read/write code
527 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
529 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
532 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
535 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
536 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
540 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
541 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
543 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
544 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
546 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
548 - add to_rgb_double() method.
549 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
551 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
552 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
554 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
555 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
557 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
559 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
560 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
562 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
564 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
565 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
566 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
568 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
573 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
574 failing on a Solaris smoker.
575 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
577 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
580 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
584 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
585 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
586 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
588 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
589 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
592 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
595 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
598 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
603 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
604 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
605 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
606 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
608 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
609 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
610 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
611 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
613 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
614 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
616 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
617 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
619 - improve the library detection summary
620 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
622 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
623 downgrade the version in this file.
624 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
626 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
627 that option for the directories that would normally go in
628 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
629 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
631 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
634 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
636 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
637 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
638 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
640 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
641 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
643 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
644 work around limitations in PAR.
645 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
649 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
650 Revealed by new coverage tests.
652 - update the filter plugin documentation.
653 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
655 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
656 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
657 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
658 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
660 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
661 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
662 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
663 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
665 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
666 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
668 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
669 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
671 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
672 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
674 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
677 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
679 - Imager is now maintained in git
680 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
681 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
685 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
686 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
687 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
689 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
690 just a little darker.
692 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
693 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
694 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
695 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
697 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
699 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
702 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
705 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
706 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
707 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
708 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
710 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
712 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
713 images into a new image
714 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
718 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
720 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
721 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
722 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
724 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
725 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
727 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
728 included in the tarball. They are now included.
730 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
735 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
736 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
738 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
740 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
742 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
743 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
745 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
748 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
749 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
750 Uses Imager::Probe now.
751 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
753 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
754 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
758 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
761 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
763 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
765 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
766 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
767 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
769 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
772 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
774 Thanks to Justin Davis.
775 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
777 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
778 preparation for separate distribution.
779 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
781 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
783 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
787 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
788 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
789 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
790 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
792 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
793 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
794 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
796 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
797 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
798 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
799 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
802 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
803 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
805 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
806 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
807 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
808 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
810 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
813 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
814 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
816 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
818 - add resources to META.yml
820 Imager 0.76 - not released
825 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
827 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
828 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
830 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
835 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
836 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
838 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
839 the code run phase of library probing.
841 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
846 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
848 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
851 Test release for the new PNG probe.
853 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
854 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
855 format files and allows white space padding between files.
856 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
858 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
859 for separate distribution.
860 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
861 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
866 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
868 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
870 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
872 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
873 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
875 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
876 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
878 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
881 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
882 the probe can find the library for the test run.
883 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
885 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
888 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
893 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
894 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
896 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
897 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
899 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
904 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
905 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
906 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
908 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
909 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
911 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
913 - update the TIFF file format documentation
914 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
916 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
918 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
921 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
922 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
924 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
925 the incorrect colour.
927 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
930 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
932 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
935 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
936 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
939 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
942 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
943 it works with non-threaded perls
945 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
950 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
952 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
954 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
955 8-bit sample operations.
956 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
959 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
961 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
962 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
963 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
964 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
966 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
969 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
974 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
975 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
976 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
977 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
978 results or runtime exceptions.
979 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
982 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
987 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
990 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
992 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
994 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
995 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
996 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
997 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
998 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1001 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1006 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1007 that should be a parameter to plan().
1009 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1010 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1012 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1014 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1017 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1018 load the given file.
1019 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1023 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1024 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1026 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1027 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1030 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1032 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1034 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1039 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1041 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1043 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1046 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1048 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1049 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1052 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1053 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1055 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1056 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1057 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1059 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1060 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1064 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1065 META.yml from scratch
1066 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1068 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1069 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1070 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1071 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1073 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1078 - fix a packaging error
1080 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1083 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1087 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1088 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1089 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1091 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1092 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1093 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1094 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1096 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1098 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1099 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1101 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1103 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1104 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1105 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1107 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1108 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1109 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1110 - group width methods and height methods
1111 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1113 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1118 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1119 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1120 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1121 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1122 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1125 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1126 ignored for the screen height when present.
1127 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1129 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1132 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1137 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1138 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1139 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1140 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1143 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1144 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1145 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1147 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1148 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1149 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1150 not a buffer overflow.
1151 Added a check for the failure.
1152 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1153 scale size parameters are a reference.
1154 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1156 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1157 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1158 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1160 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1162 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1165 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1166 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1167 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1168 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1171 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1172 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1174 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1176 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1177 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1178 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1179 noalpha channels or back.
1180 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1182 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1183 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1184 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1185 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1187 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1188 functions when filling.
1189 Corrected normal combine mode.
1190 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1191 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1192 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1193 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1195 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1197 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1198 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1199 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1200 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1202 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1203 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1204 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1205 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1207 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1208 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1209 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1210 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1214 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1216 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1218 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1219 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1220 compressible output files.
1221 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1223 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1225 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1226 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1227 code, not intended for installation.
1228 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1230 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1231 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1233 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1234 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1235 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1236 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1237 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1238 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1240 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1242 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1245 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1246 to /path under your home directory.
1247 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1249 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1250 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1251 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1252 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1253 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1255 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1256 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1257 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1258 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1262 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1264 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1266 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1267 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1268 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1270 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1271 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1273 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1274 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1276 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1278 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1281 - major TIFF support re-work
1282 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1284 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1285 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1287 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1290 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1291 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1293 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1295 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1297 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1301 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1304 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1305 alpha channel correctly.
1307 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1308 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1309 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1311 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1312 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1314 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1316 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1318 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1321 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1322 when scaling an animated gif
1323 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1327 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1328 perspective type transformations to work now.
1329 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1331 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1332 also fixed some other type warnings
1333 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1335 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1337 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1339 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1340 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1341 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1343 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1345 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1347 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1348 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1349 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1351 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1352 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1354 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1355 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1356 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1358 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1360 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1362 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1363 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1364 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1366 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1367 an unknown image file format.
1368 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1370 - improve the transform2() documentation
1371 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1373 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1374 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1376 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1377 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1378 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1381 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1384 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1385 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1387 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1389 - logging functions are now available in the API
1391 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1392 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1393 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1394 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1396 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1397 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1398 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1399 using Imager as a general image processor.
1400 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1404 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1405 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1406 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1407 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1409 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1410 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1412 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1413 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1414 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1417 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1419 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1421 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1422 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1424 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1425 image, but return a new image.
1426 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1428 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1429 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1430 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1432 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1433 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1435 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1436 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1438 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1443 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1444 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1446 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1447 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1448 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1449 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1451 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1454 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1456 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1459 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1461 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1465 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1466 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1467 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1469 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1470 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1471 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1473 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1475 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1476 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1477 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1479 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1480 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1482 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1483 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1485 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1486 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1487 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1488 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1489 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1490 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1491 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1493 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1496 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1498 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1499 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1500 this issue in the ticket below.
1501 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1502 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1503 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1504 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1506 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1509 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1511 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1513 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1515 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1516 contains only black and white
1518 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1520 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1523 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1527 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1528 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1529 resulted in a memory leak.
1530 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1532 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1533 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1535 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1536 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1538 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1540 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1541 even though the format doesn't require that
1543 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1544 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1546 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1547 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1548 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1550 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1551 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1552 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1554 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1555 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1557 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1560 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1562 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1564 There is one new feature:
1566 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1567 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1568 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1570 Several bugs were fixed:
1572 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1573 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1575 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1576 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1578 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1580 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1582 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1583 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1585 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1586 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1587 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1589 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1590 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1591 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1593 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1596 Win32 font driver fixes:
1598 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1599 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1601 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1602 advance width they would be clipped
1605 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1608 This is primarily a feature release:
1610 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1611 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1612 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1613 blurry results than normal.
1614 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1616 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1618 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1620 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1621 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1622 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1623 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1624 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1625 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1626 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1628 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1629 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1631 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1633 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1634 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1636 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1638 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1639 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1641 - minor documentation fixes
1644 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1647 This is a bugfix release.
1649 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1650 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1652 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1655 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1658 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1659 fixes, new features:
1661 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1663 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1665 - add POD coverage tests
1667 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1668 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1669 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1671 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1672 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1673 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1678 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1679 calculating the advance width.
1680 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1682 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1683 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1684 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1687 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1688 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1689 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1690 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1691 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1693 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1694 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1696 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1698 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1699 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1701 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1704 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1707 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1709 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1711 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1713 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1715 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1717 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1720 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1723 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1724 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1725 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1726 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1728 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1729 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1731 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1732 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049