1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
4 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
5 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
8 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
11 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
12 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
13 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
14 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
15 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
17 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
18 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
20 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
21 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
22 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
23 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
25 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
26 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
27 reduced the contrast of the output image.
28 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
30 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
31 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
32 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
34 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
36 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
39 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
40 themselves) passed to the internal API.
42 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
44 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
45 buffer if there were too many colors
47 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
48 there were too many colors.
50 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
51 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
53 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
54 color image would leak a context object reference count.
56 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
58 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
60 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
61 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
62 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
65 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
67 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
68 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
69 if there was zero pixel coverage.
71 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
72 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
75 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
78 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
79 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
81 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
82 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
84 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
85 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
86 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
88 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
89 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
91 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
94 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
97 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
99 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
100 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
102 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
105 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
106 depending on the size of the circle.
107 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
108 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
110 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
112 - enhancements to polygon filling:
114 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
116 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
119 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
121 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
122 These were added for two reasons:
124 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
125 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
126 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
128 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
129 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
130 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
131 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translates
134 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
135 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
137 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
138 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
141 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
144 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
145 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
146 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
148 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
151 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
152 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
154 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
156 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
158 - make verbose probing output more verbose
160 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
161 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
163 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
166 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
169 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
172 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
174 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
176 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
177 number of Win32 CPAN testers
179 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
182 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
183 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
184 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
185 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
186 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
188 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
189 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
190 performance improvement.
192 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
193 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
194 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
196 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
197 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
198 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
200 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
203 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
204 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
205 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
207 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
209 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
210 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
212 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
213 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
216 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
219 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
220 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
222 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
224 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
225 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
227 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
229 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
230 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
232 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
233 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
234 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
236 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
237 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
238 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
240 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
241 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
242 still available as "autolevels_skew".
243 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
245 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
246 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
247 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
248 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
249 palette to test for benign errors.
250 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
252 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
255 Incompatible changes:
257 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
259 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
260 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
261 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
265 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
266 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
267 returned, and errstr() is set,
269 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
270 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
271 but true" is returned.
273 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
277 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
278 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
279 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
280 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
281 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
282 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
284 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
285 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
286 of a malloced buffer.
288 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
290 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
292 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
293 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
295 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
296 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
297 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
299 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
300 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
301 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
302 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
304 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
306 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
309 No changes from 0.96_02.
311 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
314 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
318 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
319 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
320 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
322 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
324 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
325 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
327 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
330 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
331 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
333 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
335 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
337 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
338 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
339 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
340 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
342 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
345 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
347 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
348 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
350 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
351 typemap instead of rolling their own.
353 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
356 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
357 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
358 simplifies the XS code.
360 - many other minor XS changes
362 - some XS code formatting
364 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
365 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
366 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
368 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
370 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
371 reporting some types of error.
372 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
374 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
375 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
376 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
378 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
381 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
384 - rearrange Imager's test files.
385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
387 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
388 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
389 paths, which avoids that localization.
390 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
392 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
393 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
395 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
396 reported by Andreas König
398 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
400 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
402 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
405 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
406 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
409 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
411 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
414 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
415 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
416 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
417 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
418 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
420 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
421 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
422 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
424 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
427 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
429 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
430 due to a bug in that version of perl.
432 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
433 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
435 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
436 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
438 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
441 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
442 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
445 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
446 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
448 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
449 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
451 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
453 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
454 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
457 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
458 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
459 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
461 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
463 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
464 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
465 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
467 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
468 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
470 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
471 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
473 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
474 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
476 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
477 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
479 - fixed some other compiler warnings
481 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
482 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
484 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
485 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
486 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
487 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
488 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
489 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
491 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
492 =========================
494 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
497 - improved thread safety
498 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
500 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
501 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
502 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
503 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
504 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
505 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
506 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
507 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
510 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
511 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
513 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
515 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
517 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
519 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
521 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
526 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
527 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
530 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
532 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
533 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
535 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
536 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
537 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
539 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
540 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
542 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
545 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
546 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
547 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
551 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
552 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
553 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
554 header version in 5.0.0.
556 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
557 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
558 uninitialized gif89 bug.
559 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
560 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
562 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
564 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
565 later versions of T1Lib.
567 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
568 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
570 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
571 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
573 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
576 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
577 correctly for both probing and runtime.
578 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
580 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
582 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
584 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
589 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
590 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
591 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
592 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
593 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
594 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
595 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
596 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
597 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
601 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
602 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
604 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
605 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
606 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
607 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
609 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
611 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
612 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
614 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
615 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
617 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
618 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
620 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
625 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
626 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
627 Corrected the prototype.
629 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
630 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
631 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
632 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
633 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
635 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
637 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
638 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
639 processing the image data itself.
640 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
642 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
643 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
646 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
648 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
649 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
650 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
651 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
652 directories and insert that into the library flags.
653 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
655 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
656 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
657 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
659 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
661 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
662 handle a statically linked libpng.
663 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
665 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
666 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
667 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
668 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
669 configuration is found.
670 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
674 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
675 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
676 called but not supplied.
677 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
679 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
682 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
684 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
686 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
687 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
690 - improve error reporting
691 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
692 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
693 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
694 handlers to write as bilevel
695 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
696 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
697 - write paletted images as paletted images
698 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
700 - improved metadata support
701 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
703 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
708 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
709 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
710 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
714 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
715 rather than the heading you can find them under.
716 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
718 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
719 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
720 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
723 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
724 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
725 pointer and line number.
726 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
728 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
731 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
732 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
734 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
736 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
739 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
740 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
742 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
743 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
745 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
746 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
747 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
749 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
750 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
751 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
752 interfaces to these functions.
754 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
755 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
757 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
761 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
762 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
764 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
766 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
768 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
769 component of the color is now significant.
770 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
772 - remove long unused gif case from read()
773 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
775 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
776 when it's meant to be an array reference.
777 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
779 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
780 parameters are supplied.
781 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
784 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
787 - document the return value of the filter() method.
788 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
790 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
791 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
793 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
795 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
797 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
798 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
800 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
801 identify the file type match reality.
802 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
804 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
805 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
807 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
808 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
810 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
811 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
813 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
816 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
818 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
820 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
821 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
822 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
823 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
825 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
828 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
830 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
835 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
836 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
838 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
839 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
841 - make default text color non-transparent
842 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
844 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
845 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
847 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
849 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
851 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
852 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
854 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
856 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
859 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
860 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
862 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
863 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
865 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
868 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
871 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
872 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
874 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
876 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
877 initialized more efficiently.
878 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
880 - updated the Thanks list in README
881 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
883 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
884 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
886 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
887 perl could order it differently.
888 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
890 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
891 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
892 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
893 prefixed names on Win32.
894 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
896 - fix library detection with MSVC
898 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
899 them. Hopefully fixes:
900 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
902 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
905 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
907 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
909 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
911 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
912 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
915 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
916 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
917 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
920 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
922 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
923 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
925 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
926 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
928 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
929 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
930 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
931 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
932 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
933 then panic about the result.
935 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
936 callback, which should return true for success.
938 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
939 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
941 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
942 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
943 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
945 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
947 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
948 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
951 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
953 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
954 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
957 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
959 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
961 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
964 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
967 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
969 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
970 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
972 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
973 lead to an infinite loop.
977 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
979 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
982 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
987 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
988 checked when reading TIFF files.
989 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
991 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
992 failed image file read() or write().
993 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
995 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
996 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
997 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
999 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1001 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1003 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1004 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1005 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1007 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1008 modernize the tests a bit.
1009 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1011 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1012 them when available.
1013 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1015 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1017 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1019 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1020 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1022 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1025 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1027 Massive types re-work:
1029 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1030 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1032 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1034 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1035 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1036 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1037 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1039 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1040 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1041 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1042 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1044 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1045 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1047 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1051 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1052 values when writing a GIF image.
1054 - removed dead callback read/write code
1056 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1058 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1061 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1064 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1065 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1069 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1070 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1072 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1073 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1075 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1077 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1078 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1080 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1081 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1083 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1084 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1086 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1088 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1089 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1091 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1093 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1094 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1095 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1097 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1102 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1103 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1104 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1106 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1109 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1113 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1114 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1115 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1117 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1118 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1119 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1121 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1124 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1127 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1132 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1133 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1134 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1135 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1137 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1138 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1139 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1140 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1142 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1143 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1145 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1146 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1148 - improve the library detection summary
1149 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1151 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1152 downgrade the version in this file.
1153 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1155 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1156 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1157 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1158 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1160 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1163 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1165 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1166 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1167 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1169 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1170 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1172 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1173 work around limitations in PAR.
1174 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1178 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1179 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1181 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1182 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1184 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1185 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1186 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1187 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1189 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1190 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1191 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1192 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1194 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1195 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1197 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1198 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1200 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1203 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1206 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1208 - Imager is now maintained in git
1209 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1210 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1214 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1215 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1216 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1218 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1219 just a little darker.
1221 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1222 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1223 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1224 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1226 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1228 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1231 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1234 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1235 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1236 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1237 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1239 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1241 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1242 images into a new image
1243 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1247 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1249 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1250 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1251 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1253 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1254 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1256 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1257 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1259 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1264 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1265 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1267 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1269 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1271 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1272 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1274 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1277 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1278 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1279 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1280 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1282 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1283 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1287 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1290 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1292 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1294 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1295 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1296 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1298 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1301 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1303 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1304 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1306 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1307 preparation for separate distribution.
1308 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1310 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1312 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1316 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1317 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1318 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1319 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1321 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1322 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1323 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1325 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1326 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1327 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1328 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1331 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1332 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1334 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1335 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1336 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1337 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1339 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1342 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1343 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1345 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1347 - add resources to META.yml
1349 Imager 0.76 - not released
1354 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1355 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1356 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1357 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1359 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1364 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1365 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1367 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1368 the code run phase of library probing.
1370 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1375 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1377 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1380 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1382 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1383 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1384 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1385 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1387 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1388 for separate distribution.
1389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1390 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1395 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1397 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1399 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1401 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1402 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1404 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1405 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1407 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1408 (sorry for the mess)
1410 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1411 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1412 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1414 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1417 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1418 perls (not measured)
1422 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1423 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1425 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1426 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1428 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1433 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1434 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1435 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1437 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1438 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1440 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1442 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1443 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1445 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1447 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1450 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1451 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1453 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1454 the incorrect colour.
1456 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1459 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1461 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1464 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1465 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1468 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1471 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1472 it works with non-threaded perls
1474 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1479 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1481 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1483 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1484 8-bit sample operations.
1485 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1488 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1490 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1491 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1492 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1493 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1495 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1498 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1503 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1504 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1505 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1506 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1507 results or runtime exceptions.
1508 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1511 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1516 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1519 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1521 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1523 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1524 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1525 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1526 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1527 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1530 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1535 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1536 that should be a parameter to plan().
1538 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1539 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1541 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1543 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1546 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1547 load the given file.
1548 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1552 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1553 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1555 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1556 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1559 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1561 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1563 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1568 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1570 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1572 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1575 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1577 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1578 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1581 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1582 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1584 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1585 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1586 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1588 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1589 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1593 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1594 META.yml from scratch
1595 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1597 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1598 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1599 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1600 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1602 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1607 - fix a packaging error
1609 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1612 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1616 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1617 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1618 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1620 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1621 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1622 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1623 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1625 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1627 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1628 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1630 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1632 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1633 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1634 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1636 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1637 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1638 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1639 - group width methods and height methods
1640 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1642 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1647 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1648 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1649 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1650 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1651 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1654 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1655 ignored for the screen height when present.
1656 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1658 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1661 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1666 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1667 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1668 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1669 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1672 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1673 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1674 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1676 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1677 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1678 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1679 not a buffer overflow.
1680 Added a check for the failure.
1681 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1682 scale size parameters are a reference.
1683 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1685 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1686 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1687 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1689 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1691 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1694 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1695 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1696 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1697 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1700 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1701 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1703 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1705 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1706 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1707 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1708 noalpha channels or back.
1709 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1711 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1712 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1713 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1714 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1716 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1717 functions when filling.
1718 Corrected normal combine mode.
1719 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1720 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1721 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1722 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1724 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1726 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1727 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1728 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1729 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1731 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1732 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1733 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1734 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1736 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1737 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1738 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1739 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1743 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1745 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1747 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1748 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1749 compressible output files.
1750 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1752 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1754 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1755 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1756 code, not intended for installation.
1757 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1759 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1760 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1762 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1763 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1764 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1765 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1766 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1767 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1769 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1771 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1774 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1775 to /path under your home directory.
1776 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1778 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1779 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1780 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1781 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1782 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1784 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1785 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1786 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1787 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1791 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1793 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1795 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1796 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1797 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1799 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1800 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1802 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1803 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1805 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1807 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1810 - major TIFF support re-work
1811 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1813 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1814 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1816 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1819 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1820 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1822 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1824 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1826 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1830 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1833 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1834 alpha channel correctly.
1836 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1837 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1838 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1840 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1841 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1843 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1845 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1847 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1850 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1851 when scaling an animated gif
1852 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1856 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1857 perspective type transformations to work now.
1858 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1860 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1861 also fixed some other type warnings
1862 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1864 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1866 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1868 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1869 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1870 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1872 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1874 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1876 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1877 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1878 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1880 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1881 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1883 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1884 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1885 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1887 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1889 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1891 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1892 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1893 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1895 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1896 an unknown image file format.
1897 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1899 - improve the transform2() documentation
1900 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1902 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1903 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1905 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1906 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1907 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1910 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1913 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1914 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1916 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1918 - logging functions are now available in the API
1920 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1921 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1922 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1923 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1925 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1926 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1927 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1928 using Imager as a general image processor.
1929 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1933 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1934 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1935 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1936 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1938 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1939 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1941 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1942 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1943 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1946 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1948 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1950 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1951 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1953 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1954 image, but return a new image.
1955 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1957 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1958 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1959 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1961 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1962 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1964 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1965 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1967 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1972 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1973 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1975 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1976 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1977 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1978 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1980 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1983 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1985 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1988 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1990 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1994 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1995 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1996 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1998 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1999 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2000 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2002 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2004 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2005 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2006 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2008 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2009 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2011 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2012 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2014 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2015 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2016 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2017 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2018 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2019 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2020 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2022 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2025 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2027 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2028 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2029 this issue in the ticket below.
2030 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2031 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2032 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2033 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2035 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2038 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2040 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2042 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2044 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2045 contains only black and white
2047 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2049 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2052 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2056 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2057 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2058 resulted in a memory leak.
2059 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2061 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2062 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2064 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2065 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2067 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2069 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2070 even though the format doesn't require that
2072 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2073 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2075 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2076 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2077 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2079 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2080 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2081 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2083 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2084 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2086 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2089 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2091 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2093 There is one new feature:
2095 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2096 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2097 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2099 Several bugs were fixed:
2101 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2102 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2104 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2105 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2107 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2109 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2111 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2112 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2114 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2115 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2116 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2118 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2119 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2120 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2122 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2125 Win32 font driver fixes:
2127 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2128 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2130 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2131 advance width they would be clipped
2134 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2137 This is primarily a feature release:
2139 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2140 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2141 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2142 blurry results than normal.
2143 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2145 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2147 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2149 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2150 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2151 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2152 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2153 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2154 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2155 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2157 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2158 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2160 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2162 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2163 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2165 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2167 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2168 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2170 - minor documentation fixes
2173 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2176 This is a bugfix release.
2178 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2179 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2181 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2184 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2187 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2188 fixes, new features:
2190 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2192 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2194 - add POD coverage tests
2196 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2197 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2198 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2200 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2201 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2202 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2207 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2208 calculating the advance width.
2209 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2211 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2212 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2213 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2216 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2217 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2218 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2219 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2220 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2222 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2223 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2225 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2227 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2228 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2230 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2233 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2236 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2238 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2240 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2242 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2244 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2246 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2249 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2252 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2253 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2254 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2255 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2257 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2258 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2260 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2261 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049