1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Coverity finally finished a build, fix a few problems:
7 - reading a color-mapped TGA file with an id string would cause a
8 double-free if the palette was truncated. CID 185317.
10 - mixing scaling to sizes where the accumulator row, the working
11 output row or the working input row didn't fit into the address
12 space could result in memory leaks. This can probably only be
13 reproduced on very wide floating-point sample images. CID 185318.
15 - convert an array style function parameter pointer to pointer style
16 to prevent confusing Coverity in the T1 bounding box implementation.
19 - Similarly in the FT1 bounding box implementation. CID 185338.
21 - Similarly for the i_tt_rasterize() function in the FT1
22 implementation. CID 185303.
24 - initialize a pointer to prevent Coverity complaining in polygon
25 drawing (it should always end up being set.) CID 185341.
27 - addi style makemap could potentially read one past the end of an
30 - supplying a numeric hatch of 32 to Imager::Fill->new(hatch => ...)
31 would result in read beyond the end of the built-in hatch array.
32 Negative values (which Coverity didn't complain about) could also
33 cause problems. CID 185331.
35 - the Imager::Color set_internal() interal method no longer
36 calls the over-complicated ICL_set_internal() (which is retained
37 only for the old API.) Coverity complained that this leaked, but
38 this could only occur with an invalid (NULL pointer) color object.
41 - the underlying implementation of the map() method could read before
42 the beginning on an allocated array if supplied with inconsistent
43 parameters, which Coverity complained about. No Imager code calls
44 that function with inconsistent parameters, but a
45 belt-and-suspenders check was added. CID 185315.
47 - Coverity complained a call to i_getcolors(), used by the
48 implementation of the is_bilevel() method could leave the fetched
49 colors uninitialized. Added a return value check. CID 185308.
51 - a numeric combining mode of 13 (eg. as a parameter to
52 Imager::Fill->new())could cause an invalid array read in
53 i_get_combine() due to a fencepost error in validating the combine
56 Imager 1.008 - 31 Dec 2018
59 - moved EXIF handling from Imager::File::JPEG to core Imager
60 This allows file formats that store EXIF data as blobs similarly
61 to JPEG to re-use this code. (such as Imager::File::WEBP)
63 - added some more file extensions to image file type mappings
65 - added add_type_extensions() class method
67 Imager 1.007 - 24 Nov 2018
70 - add png_compression_level tag for writing PNG files.
72 - avoid flooring a second time in matrix transform interpolation.
73 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124001
75 - produce v2 metadata.
76 Includes change from the ticket and updates to sub-modules.
77 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127216
79 - improve error reporting for the polygon() method
81 Imager 1.006 - 26 Aug 2017
84 - the internal i_errors() function now correctly allocates the stack
85 space needed for its result.
86 https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
88 - t/100-base/020-color.t now uses Imager::Test's test functions
90 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111993
92 - write_multi() now returns an error result (a false value) if called
93 with a non-(Imager image object). Previously it would typically
95 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117878
97 - improve the documentation of the jpegquality parameter when
100 - add code to mitigate CVE-2016-1238, Imager will no longer search the
101 default current directory entry in @INC when searching for file
102 format support modules.
104 Imager 1.005 - 16 Apr 2016
107 It's now been ten years since I switched to the new Changes file in
110 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
111 fix them is too much work for now.
113 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
116 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
118 For the strange Win32 failures.
120 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
122 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
125 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
126 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
127 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
129 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
132 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
133 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
134 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
137 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
140 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
141 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
142 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
143 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
144 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
146 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
147 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
149 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
150 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
151 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
152 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
154 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
155 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
156 reduced the contrast of the output image.
157 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
159 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
160 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
161 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
163 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
165 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
168 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
169 themselves) passed to the internal API.
171 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
173 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
174 buffer if there were too many colors
176 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
177 there were too many colors.
179 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
180 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
182 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
183 color image would leak a context object reference count.
185 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
187 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
189 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
190 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
191 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
194 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
196 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
197 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
198 if there was zero pixel coverage.
200 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
201 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
204 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
207 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
208 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
210 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
211 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
213 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
215 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
217 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
218 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
220 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
223 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
226 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
228 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
229 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
231 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
234 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
235 depending on the size of the circle.
236 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
237 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
239 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
241 - enhancements to polygon filling:
243 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
245 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
248 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
250 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
251 These were added for two reasons:
253 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
254 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
255 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
257 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
258 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
259 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
260 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translate
263 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
264 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
266 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
267 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
270 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
273 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
274 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
275 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
277 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
280 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
281 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
283 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
285 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
287 - make verbose probing output more verbose
289 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
290 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
292 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
295 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
298 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
301 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
303 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
305 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
306 number of Win32 CPAN testers
308 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
311 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
312 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
313 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
314 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
315 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
317 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
318 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
319 performance improvement.
321 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
322 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
323 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
325 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
326 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
329 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
332 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
333 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
334 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
336 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
338 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
339 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
341 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
342 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
343 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
345 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
348 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
349 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
351 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
353 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
354 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
356 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
358 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
359 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
361 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
362 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
363 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
365 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
366 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
367 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
369 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
370 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
371 still available as "autolevels_skew".
372 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
374 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
375 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
376 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
377 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
378 palette to test for benign errors.
379 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
381 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
384 Incompatible changes:
386 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
388 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
389 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
390 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
394 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
395 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
396 returned, and errstr() is set,
398 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
399 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
400 but true" is returned.
402 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
406 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
407 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
408 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
409 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
410 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
411 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
413 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
414 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
415 of a malloced buffer.
417 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
419 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
421 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
422 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
424 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
425 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
426 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
428 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
429 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
430 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
431 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
433 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
435 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
438 No changes from 0.96_02.
440 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
443 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
445 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
447 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
448 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
449 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
451 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
453 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
454 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
456 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
459 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
460 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
462 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
464 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
466 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
467 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
468 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
469 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
471 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
476 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
477 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
479 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
480 typemap instead of rolling their own.
482 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
485 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
486 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
487 simplifies the XS code.
489 - many other minor XS changes
491 - some XS code formatting
493 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
494 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
495 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
497 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
499 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
500 reporting some types of error.
501 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
503 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
504 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
505 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
507 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
510 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
513 - rearrange Imager's test files.
514 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
516 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
517 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
518 paths, which avoids that localization.
519 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
521 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
522 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
524 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
525 reported by Andreas König
527 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
529 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
531 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
534 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
535 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
536 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
538 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
540 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
543 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
544 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
545 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
546 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
547 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
549 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
550 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
551 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
553 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
556 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
558 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
559 due to a bug in that version of perl.
561 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
562 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
564 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
565 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
567 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
570 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
571 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
574 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
575 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
577 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
578 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
580 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
582 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
583 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
586 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
587 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
588 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
590 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
592 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
593 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
594 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
596 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
597 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
599 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
600 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
602 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
603 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
605 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
606 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
608 - fixed some other compiler warnings
610 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
611 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
613 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
614 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
615 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
616 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
617 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
618 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
620 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
621 =========================
623 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
626 - improved thread safety
627 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
629 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
630 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
631 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
632 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
633 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
634 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
635 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
636 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
639 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
640 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
642 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
644 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
646 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
648 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
650 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
655 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
656 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
659 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
661 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
662 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
664 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
665 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
666 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
668 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
669 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
671 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
674 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
675 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
676 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
680 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
681 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
682 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
683 header version in 5.0.0.
685 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
686 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
687 uninitialized gif89 bug.
688 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
689 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
691 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
693 - match Imager::Font::T1's error message translations to those from
694 later versions of T1Lib.
696 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
697 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
699 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
700 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
702 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
705 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
706 correctly for both probing and runtime.
707 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
709 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
711 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
713 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
718 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
719 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
720 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
721 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
722 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
723 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
724 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
725 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
726 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
730 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
731 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
733 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
734 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
735 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
736 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
738 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
740 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
741 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
743 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
744 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
746 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
747 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
749 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
754 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
755 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
756 Corrected the prototype.
758 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
759 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
760 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
761 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
762 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
764 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
766 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
767 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
768 processing the image data itself.
769 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
771 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
772 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
775 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
777 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
778 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
779 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
780 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
781 directories and insert that into the library flags.
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
784 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
785 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
786 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
788 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
790 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
791 handle a statically linked libpng.
792 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
794 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
795 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
796 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
797 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
798 configuration is found.
799 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
803 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
804 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
805 called but not supplied.
806 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
808 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
811 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
813 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
815 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
816 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
819 - improve error reporting
820 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
821 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
822 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
823 handlers to write as bilevel
824 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
825 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
826 - write paletted images as paletted images
827 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
829 - improved metadata support
830 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
832 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
837 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
838 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
839 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
843 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
844 rather than the heading you can find them under.
845 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
847 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
848 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
849 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
850 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
852 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
853 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
854 pointer and line number.
855 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
857 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
860 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
861 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
863 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
865 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
868 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
869 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
871 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
872 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
874 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
875 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
876 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
878 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
879 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
880 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
881 interfaces to these functions.
883 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
884 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
886 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
890 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
891 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
893 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
895 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
897 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
898 component of the color is now significant.
899 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
901 - remove long unused gif case from read()
902 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
904 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
905 when it's meant to be an array reference.
906 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
908 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
909 parameters are supplied.
910 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
911 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
913 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
916 - document the return value of the filter() method.
917 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
919 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
920 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
922 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
924 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
926 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
927 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
929 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
930 identify the file type match reality.
931 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
933 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
934 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
936 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
937 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
939 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
940 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
942 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
945 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
947 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
949 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
950 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
951 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
952 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
954 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
957 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
959 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
964 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
965 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
967 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
968 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
970 - make default text color non-transparent
971 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
973 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
974 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
976 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
978 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
980 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
981 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
983 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
985 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
988 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
989 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
991 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
992 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
994 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
997 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
1000 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
1001 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
1003 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
1005 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
1006 initialized more efficiently.
1007 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
1009 - updated the Thanks list in README
1010 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
1012 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
1013 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
1015 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
1016 perl could order it differently.
1017 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
1019 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
1020 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
1021 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
1022 prefixed names on Win32.
1023 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
1025 - fix library detection with MSVC
1027 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
1028 them. Hopefully fixes:
1029 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
1031 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
1034 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
1036 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
1038 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
1040 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
1041 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
1044 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
1045 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
1046 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
1049 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
1051 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
1052 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
1054 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
1055 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
1057 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
1058 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
1059 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
1060 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
1061 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
1062 then panic about the result.
1064 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
1065 callback, which should return true for success.
1067 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
1068 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
1070 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
1071 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
1072 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
1074 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
1076 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
1077 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
1080 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
1082 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
1083 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
1086 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
1088 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
1090 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
1093 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
1096 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
1098 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
1099 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
1101 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
1102 lead to an infinite loop.
1106 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1108 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1111 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1116 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1117 checked when reading TIFF files.
1118 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1120 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1121 failed image file read() or write().
1122 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1124 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1125 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1126 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1128 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1130 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1132 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1133 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1134 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1136 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1137 modernize the tests a bit.
1138 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1140 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1141 them when available.
1142 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1144 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1146 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1148 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1149 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1151 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1154 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1156 Massive types re-work:
1158 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1159 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1161 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1163 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1164 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1165 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1166 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1168 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1169 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1170 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1171 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1173 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1174 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1176 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1180 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1181 values when writing a GIF image.
1183 - removed dead callback read/write code
1185 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1187 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1190 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1193 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1194 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1198 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1199 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1201 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1204 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1206 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1207 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1209 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1210 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1212 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1213 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1215 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1217 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1218 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1222 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1223 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1224 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1226 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1231 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1232 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1233 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1235 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1238 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1242 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1243 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1244 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1246 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1247 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1248 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1250 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1253 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1256 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1261 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1262 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1263 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1264 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1266 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1267 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1268 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1269 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1271 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1272 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1274 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1275 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1277 - improve the library detection summary
1278 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1280 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1281 downgrade the version in this file.
1282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1284 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1285 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1286 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1287 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1289 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1292 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1294 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1295 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1296 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1298 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1299 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1301 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1302 work around limitations in PAR.
1303 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1307 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1308 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1310 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1313 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1314 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1315 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1318 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1319 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1320 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1321 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1323 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1326 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1329 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1330 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1332 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1335 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1337 - Imager is now maintained in git
1338 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1339 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1343 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1344 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1345 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1347 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1348 just a little darker.
1350 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1351 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1352 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1353 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1355 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1357 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1360 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1363 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1364 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1365 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1366 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1368 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1370 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1371 images into a new image
1372 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1376 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1378 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1379 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1380 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1382 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1383 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1385 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1386 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1388 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1393 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1394 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1396 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1398 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1400 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1401 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1403 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1406 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1408 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1409 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1411 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1412 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1416 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1419 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1421 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1423 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1424 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1425 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1427 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1430 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1432 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1433 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1435 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1436 preparation for separate distribution.
1437 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1439 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1441 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1445 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1446 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1447 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1448 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1450 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1451 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1452 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1454 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1455 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1456 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1457 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1460 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1461 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1463 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1464 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1465 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1466 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1468 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1471 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1472 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1474 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1476 - add resources to META.yml
1478 Imager 0.76 - not released
1483 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1484 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1485 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1486 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1488 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1493 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1494 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1496 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1497 the code run phase of library probing.
1499 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1504 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1506 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1509 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1511 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1512 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1513 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1514 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1516 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1517 for separate distribution.
1518 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1519 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1524 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1526 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1528 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1530 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1531 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1533 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1534 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1536 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1537 (sorry for the mess)
1539 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1540 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1541 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1543 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1546 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1547 perls (not measured)
1551 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1552 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1554 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1555 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1557 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1562 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1563 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1564 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1566 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1567 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1569 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1571 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1572 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1574 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1576 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1579 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1580 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1582 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1583 the incorrect colour.
1585 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1588 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1590 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1593 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1594 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1597 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1600 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1601 it works with non-threaded perls
1603 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1608 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1610 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1612 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1613 8-bit sample operations.
1614 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1617 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1619 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1620 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1621 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1622 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1624 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1627 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1632 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1633 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1634 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1635 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1636 results or runtime exceptions.
1637 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1640 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1645 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1648 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1650 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1652 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1653 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1654 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1655 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1656 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1659 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1664 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1665 that should be a parameter to plan().
1667 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1668 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1670 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1672 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1675 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1676 load the given file.
1677 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1681 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1682 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1684 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1685 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1688 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1690 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1692 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1697 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1699 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1701 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1704 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1706 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1707 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1710 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1711 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1713 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1714 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1715 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1717 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1718 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1722 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1723 META.yml from scratch
1724 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1726 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1727 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1728 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1729 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1731 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1736 - fix a packaging error
1738 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1741 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1745 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1746 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1747 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1749 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1750 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1751 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1752 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1754 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1756 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1757 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1759 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1761 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1762 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1763 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1765 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1766 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1767 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1768 - group width methods and height methods
1769 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1771 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1776 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1777 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1778 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1779 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1780 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1783 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1784 ignored for the screen height when present.
1785 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1787 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1790 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1795 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1796 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1797 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1798 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1801 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1802 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1803 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1805 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1806 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1807 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1808 not a buffer overflow.
1809 Added a check for the failure.
1810 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1811 scale size parameters are a reference.
1812 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1814 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1815 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1816 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1818 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1820 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1823 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1824 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1825 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1826 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1829 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1830 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1832 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1834 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1835 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1836 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1837 noalpha channels or back.
1838 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1840 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1841 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1842 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1843 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1845 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1846 functions when filling.
1847 Corrected normal combine mode.
1848 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1849 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1850 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1851 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1853 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1855 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1856 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1857 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1860 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1861 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1862 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1863 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1865 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1866 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1867 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1868 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1872 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1874 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1876 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1877 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1878 compressible output files.
1879 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1881 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1883 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1884 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1885 code, not intended for installation.
1886 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1888 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1889 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1891 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1892 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1893 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1894 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1895 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1896 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1898 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1900 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1903 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1904 to /path under your home directory.
1905 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1907 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1908 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1909 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1910 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1911 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1913 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1914 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1915 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1916 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1920 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1922 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1924 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1925 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1926 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1928 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1929 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1931 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1932 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1934 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1936 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1939 - major TIFF support re-work
1940 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1942 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1943 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1945 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1948 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1949 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1951 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1953 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1955 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1959 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1962 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1963 alpha channel correctly.
1965 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1966 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1967 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1969 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1970 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1972 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1974 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1976 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1979 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1980 when scaling an animated gif
1981 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1985 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1986 perspective type transformations to work now.
1987 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1989 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1990 also fixed some other type warnings
1991 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1993 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1995 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1997 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1998 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1999 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
2001 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
2003 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
2005 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
2006 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
2007 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
2009 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
2010 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
2012 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
2013 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
2014 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
2016 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
2018 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
2020 - attempt to work around the test failure at
2021 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
2022 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
2024 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
2025 an unknown image file format.
2026 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
2028 - improve the transform2() documentation
2029 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
2031 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
2032 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
2034 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
2035 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
2036 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
2039 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
2042 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
2043 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
2045 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
2047 - logging functions are now available in the API
2049 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
2050 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
2051 Obviously problems are my fault :)
2052 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
2054 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
2055 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
2056 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
2057 using Imager as a general image processor.
2058 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
2062 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
2063 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
2064 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
2065 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
2067 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
2068 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
2070 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
2071 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
2072 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
2075 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
2077 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
2079 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
2080 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
2082 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
2083 image, but return a new image.
2084 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
2086 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
2087 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
2088 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
2090 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
2091 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
2093 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
2094 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
2096 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
2101 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
2102 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
2104 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
2105 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
2106 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2107 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2109 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2112 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2114 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2117 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2119 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2123 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2124 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2125 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2127 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2128 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2129 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2131 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2133 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2134 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2135 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2137 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2138 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2140 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2141 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2143 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2144 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2145 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2146 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2147 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2148 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2149 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2151 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2154 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2156 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2157 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2158 this issue in the ticket below.
2159 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2160 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2161 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2162 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2164 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2167 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2169 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2171 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2173 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2174 contains only black and white
2176 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2178 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2181 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2185 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2186 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2187 resulted in a memory leak.
2188 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2190 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2191 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2193 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2194 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2196 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2198 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2199 even though the format doesn't require that
2201 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2202 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2204 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2205 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2206 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2208 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2209 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2210 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2212 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2213 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2215 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2218 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2220 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2222 There is one new feature:
2224 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2225 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2226 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2228 Several bugs were fixed:
2230 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2231 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2233 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2234 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2236 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2238 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2240 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2241 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2243 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2244 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2245 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2247 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2248 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2249 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2251 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2254 Win32 font driver fixes:
2256 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2257 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2259 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2260 advance width they would be clipped
2263 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2266 This is primarily a feature release:
2268 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2269 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2270 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2271 blurry results than normal.
2272 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2274 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2276 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2278 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2279 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2280 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2281 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2282 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2283 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2284 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2286 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2287 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2289 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2291 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2292 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2294 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2296 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2297 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2299 - minor documentation fixes
2302 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2305 This is a bugfix release.
2307 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2308 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2310 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2313 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2316 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2317 fixes, new features:
2319 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2321 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2323 - add POD coverage tests
2325 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2326 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2327 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2329 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2330 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2331 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2336 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2337 calculating the advance width.
2338 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2340 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2341 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2342 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2345 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2346 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2347 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2348 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2349 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2351 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2352 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2354 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2356 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2357 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2359 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2362 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2365 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2367 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2369 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2371 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2373 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2375 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2378 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2381 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2382 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2383 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2384 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2386 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2387 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2389 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2390 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049