1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
8 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
9 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
10 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
12 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
13 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
14 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
16 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
19 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
21 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
23 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
25 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
26 contains only black and white
28 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
30 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
33 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
37 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
38 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
39 resulted in a memory leak.
40 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
42 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
43 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
45 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
46 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
48 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
50 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
51 even though the format doesn't require that
53 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
54 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
56 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
57 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
58 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
60 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
61 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
62 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
64 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
65 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
67 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
70 This is primarily a bug fix release.
72 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
74 There is one new feature:
76 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
77 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
78 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
80 Several bugs were fixed:
82 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
83 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
85 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
86 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
88 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
90 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
92 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
93 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
95 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
96 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
97 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
99 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
100 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
101 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
103 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
106 Win32 font driver fixes:
108 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
109 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
111 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
112 advance width they would be clipped
115 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
118 This is primarily a feature release:
120 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
121 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
122 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
123 blurry results than normal.
124 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
126 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
128 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
130 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
131 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
132 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
133 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
134 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
135 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
136 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
138 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
139 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
141 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
143 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
144 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
146 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
148 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
149 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
151 - minor documentation fixes
154 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
157 This is a bugfix release.
159 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
160 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
162 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
165 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
168 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
171 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
173 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
175 - add POD coverage tests
177 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
178 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
179 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
181 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
182 just to the area the same color as the seed.
183 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
188 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
189 calculating the advance width.
190 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
192 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
193 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
194 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
197 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
198 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
199 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
200 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
201 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
203 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
204 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
206 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
208 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
209 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
211 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
214 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
217 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
219 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
221 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
223 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
225 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
227 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
230 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
233 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
234 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
235 output is an in-memeory buffer.
236 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
238 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
239 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
241 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
242 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049