1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
6 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
7 depending on the size of the circle.
8 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
10 - enhancements to polygon filling:
12 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
14 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
17 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
19 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
20 These were added for two reasons:
22 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
23 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
24 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
26 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
27 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
28 from an instrument. Currently Image transforms the samples into
29 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translates
32 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
33 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
35 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
36 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
39 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
42 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
43 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
44 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
46 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
49 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
50 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
52 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
54 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
56 - make verbose probing output more verbose
58 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
59 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
61 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
64 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
67 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
70 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
72 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
74 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
75 number of Win32 CPAN testers
77 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
80 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
81 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
82 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
83 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
84 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
86 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
87 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
88 performance improvement.
90 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
91 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
92 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
94 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
95 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
96 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
98 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
101 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
102 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
103 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
105 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
107 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
108 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
110 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
111 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
112 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
114 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
117 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
118 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
120 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
122 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
123 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
125 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
127 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
128 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
130 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
131 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
132 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
134 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
135 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
136 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
138 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
139 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
140 still available as "autolevels_skew".
141 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
143 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
144 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
145 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
146 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
147 palette to test for benign errors.
148 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
150 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
153 Incompatible changes:
155 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
157 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
158 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
159 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
163 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
164 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
165 returned, and errstr() is set,
167 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
168 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
169 but true" is returned.
171 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
175 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
176 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
177 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
178 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
179 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
180 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
182 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
183 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
184 of a malloced buffer.
186 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
188 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
190 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
191 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
193 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
194 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
195 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
197 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
198 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
199 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
200 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
204 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
207 No changes from 0.96_02.
209 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
212 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
216 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
217 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
218 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
222 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
223 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
225 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
228 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
229 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
231 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
233 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
235 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
236 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
237 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
238 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
240 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
243 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
245 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
246 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
248 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
249 typemap instead of rolling their own.
251 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
254 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
255 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
256 simplifies the XS code.
258 - many other minor XS changes
260 - some XS code formatting
262 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
263 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
264 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
266 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
268 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
269 reporting some types of error.
270 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
272 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
273 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
274 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
276 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
279 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
282 - rearrange Imager's test files.
283 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
285 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
286 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
287 paths, which avoids that localization.
288 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
290 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
291 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
293 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
294 reported by Andreas König
296 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
298 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
300 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
303 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
304 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
305 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
307 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
309 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
312 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
313 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
314 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
315 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
318 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
319 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
320 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
322 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
325 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
327 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
328 due to a bug in that version of perl.
330 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
331 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
333 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
334 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
336 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
339 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
340 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
343 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
344 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
346 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
347 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
349 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
351 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
352 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
355 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
356 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
357 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
359 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
361 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
362 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
363 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
365 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
366 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
368 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
369 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
371 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
372 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
374 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
375 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
377 - fixed some other compiler warnings
379 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
380 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
382 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
383 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
384 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
385 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
386 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
387 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
389 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
390 =========================
392 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
395 - improved thread safety
396 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
398 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
399 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
400 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
401 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
402 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
403 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
404 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
405 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
408 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
409 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
411 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
413 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
415 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
417 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
419 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
424 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
425 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
428 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
430 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
431 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
433 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
434 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
435 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
437 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
438 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
440 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
443 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
444 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
445 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
449 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
450 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
451 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
452 header version in 5.0.0.
454 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
455 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
456 uninitialized gif89 bug.
457 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
458 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
460 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
462 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
463 later versions of T1Lib.
465 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
466 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
468 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
469 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
471 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
474 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
475 correctly for both probing and runtime.
476 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
478 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
480 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
482 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
487 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
488 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
489 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
490 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
491 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
492 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
493 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
494 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
495 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
499 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
500 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
502 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
503 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
504 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
505 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
507 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
509 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
510 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
512 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
513 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
515 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
516 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
518 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
523 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
524 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
525 Corrected the prototype.
527 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
528 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
529 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
530 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
531 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
533 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
535 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
536 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
537 processing the image data itself.
538 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
540 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
541 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
544 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
546 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
547 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
548 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
549 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
550 directories and insert that into the library flags.
551 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
553 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
554 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
555 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
557 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
559 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
560 handle a statically linked libpng.
561 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
563 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
564 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
565 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
566 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
567 configuration is found.
568 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
572 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
573 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
574 called but not supplied.
575 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
577 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
580 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
582 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
584 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
585 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
588 - improve error reporting
589 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
590 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
591 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
592 handlers to write as bilevel
593 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
594 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
595 - write paletted images as paletted images
596 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
598 - improved metadata support
599 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
601 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
606 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
607 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
608 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
612 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
613 rather than the heading you can find them under.
614 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
616 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
617 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
618 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
619 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
621 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
622 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
623 pointer and line number.
624 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
626 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
629 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
630 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
632 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
634 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
637 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
638 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
640 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
641 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
643 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
644 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
645 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
647 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
648 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
649 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
650 interfaces to these functions.
652 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
653 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
655 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
659 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
660 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
662 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
664 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
666 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
667 component of the color is now significant.
668 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
670 - remove long unused gif case from read()
671 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
673 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
674 when it's meant to be an array reference.
675 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
677 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
678 parameters are supplied.
679 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
680 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
682 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
685 - document the return value of the filter() method.
686 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
688 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
689 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
691 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
693 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
695 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
696 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
698 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
699 identify the file type match reality.
700 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
702 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
703 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
705 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
706 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
708 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
709 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
711 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
714 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
716 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
718 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
719 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
720 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
723 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
726 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
728 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
733 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
734 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
736 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
737 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
739 - make default text color non-transparent
740 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
742 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
743 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
745 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
747 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
749 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
750 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
752 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
754 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
757 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
758 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
760 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
761 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
763 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
766 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
769 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
770 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
772 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
774 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
775 initialized more efficiently.
776 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
778 - updated the Thanks list in README
779 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
781 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
784 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
785 perl could order it differently.
786 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
788 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
789 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
790 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
791 prefixed names on Win32.
792 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
794 - fix library detection with MSVC
796 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
797 them. Hopefully fixes:
798 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
800 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
803 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
805 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
807 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
809 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
810 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
813 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
814 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
815 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
818 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
820 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
821 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
823 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
824 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
826 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
827 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
828 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
829 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
830 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
831 then panic about the result.
833 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
834 callback, which should return true for success.
836 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
837 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
839 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
840 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
841 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
843 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
845 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
846 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
849 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
851 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
852 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
855 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
857 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
859 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
862 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
865 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
867 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
868 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
870 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
871 lead to an infinite loop.
875 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
877 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
880 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
885 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
886 checked when reading TIFF files.
887 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
889 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
890 failed image file read() or write().
891 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
893 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
894 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
895 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
897 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
899 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
901 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
902 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
903 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
905 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
906 modernize the tests a bit.
907 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
909 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
911 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
913 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
915 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
917 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
918 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
920 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
923 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
925 Massive types re-work:
927 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
928 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
930 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
932 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
933 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
934 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
935 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
937 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
938 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
939 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
940 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
942 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
943 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
945 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
949 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
950 values when writing a GIF image.
952 - removed dead callback read/write code
954 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
956 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
959 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
962 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
963 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
967 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
968 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
970 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
971 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
973 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
975 - add to_rgb_double() method.
976 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
978 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
979 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
981 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
982 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
984 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
986 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
987 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
989 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
991 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
992 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
993 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
995 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1000 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1001 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1002 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1004 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1007 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1011 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1012 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1013 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1015 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1016 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1017 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1019 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1022 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1025 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1030 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1031 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1032 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1033 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1035 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1036 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1037 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1038 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1040 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1041 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1043 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1044 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1046 - improve the library detection summary
1047 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1049 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1050 downgrade the version in this file.
1051 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1053 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1054 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1055 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1056 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1058 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1061 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1063 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1064 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1065 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1067 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1068 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1070 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1071 work around limitations in PAR.
1072 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1076 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1077 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1079 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1080 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1082 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1083 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1084 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1085 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1087 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1088 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1089 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1090 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1092 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1093 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1095 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1096 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1098 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1099 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1101 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1104 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1106 - Imager is now maintained in git
1107 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1108 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1112 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1113 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1114 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1116 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1117 just a little darker.
1119 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1120 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1121 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1122 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1124 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1126 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1129 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1132 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1133 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1134 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1135 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1137 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1139 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1140 images into a new image
1141 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1145 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1147 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1148 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1149 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1151 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1152 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1154 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1155 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1157 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1162 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1163 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1165 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1167 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1169 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1170 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1172 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1175 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1176 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1177 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1178 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1180 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1185 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1188 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1190 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1192 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1193 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1194 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1196 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1199 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1201 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1204 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1205 preparation for separate distribution.
1206 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1208 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1210 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1214 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1215 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1216 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1219 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1220 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1221 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1223 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1224 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1225 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1226 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1229 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1230 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1232 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1233 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1234 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1235 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1237 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1240 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1241 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1243 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1245 - add resources to META.yml
1247 Imager 0.76 - not released
1252 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1253 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1254 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1257 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1262 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1263 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1265 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1266 the code run phase of library probing.
1268 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1273 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1275 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1278 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1280 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1281 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1282 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1283 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1285 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1286 for separate distribution.
1287 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1288 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1293 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1295 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1297 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1299 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1300 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1302 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1303 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1305 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1306 (sorry for the mess)
1308 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1309 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1310 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1312 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1315 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1316 perls (not measured)
1320 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1321 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1323 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1326 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1331 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1332 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1333 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1335 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1336 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1338 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1340 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1341 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1343 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1345 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1348 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1349 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1351 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1352 the incorrect colour.
1354 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1357 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1359 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1362 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1363 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1366 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1369 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1370 it works with non-threaded perls
1372 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1377 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1379 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1381 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1382 8-bit sample operations.
1383 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1386 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1388 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1389 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1390 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1391 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1393 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1396 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1401 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1402 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1403 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1404 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1405 results or runtime exceptions.
1406 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1409 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1414 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1417 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1419 Thanks to Krzysztof WojtaÅ for the test data and fix for this.
1421 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1422 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1423 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1424 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1425 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1428 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1433 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1434 that should be a parameter to plan().
1436 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1437 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1439 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1441 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1444 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1445 load the given file.
1446 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1450 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1451 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1453 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1454 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1457 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1459 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1461 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1466 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1468 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1470 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1473 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1475 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1476 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1479 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1480 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1482 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1483 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1486 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1487 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1491 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1492 META.yml from scratch
1493 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1495 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1496 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1497 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1498 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1500 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1505 - fix a packaging error
1507 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1510 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1514 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1515 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1516 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1518 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1519 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1520 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1521 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1523 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1525 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1526 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1528 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1530 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1531 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1532 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1534 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1535 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1536 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1537 - group width methods and height methods
1538 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1540 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1545 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1546 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1547 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1548 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1549 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1552 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1553 ignored for the screen height when present.
1554 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1556 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1559 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1564 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1565 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1566 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1567 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1570 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1571 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1572 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1574 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1575 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1576 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1577 not a buffer overflow.
1578 Added a check for the failure.
1579 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1580 scale size parameters are a reference.
1581 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1583 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1584 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1585 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1587 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1589 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1592 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1593 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1594 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1595 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1598 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1599 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1601 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1603 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1604 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1605 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1606 noalpha channels or back.
1607 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1609 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1610 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1611 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1612 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1614 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1615 functions when filling.
1616 Corrected normal combine mode.
1617 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1618 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1619 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1620 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1622 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1624 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1625 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1626 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1627 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1629 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1630 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1631 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1632 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1634 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1635 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1636 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1637 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1641 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1643 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1645 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1646 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1647 compressible output files.
1648 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1650 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1652 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1653 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1654 code, not intended for installation.
1655 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1657 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1658 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1660 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1661 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1662 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1663 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1664 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1665 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1667 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1669 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1672 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1673 to /path under your home directory.
1674 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1676 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1677 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1678 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1679 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1680 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1682 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1683 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1684 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1685 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1689 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1691 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1693 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1694 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1695 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1697 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1698 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1700 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1701 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1703 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1705 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1708 - major TIFF support re-work
1709 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1711 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1712 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1714 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1717 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1718 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1720 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1722 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1724 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1728 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1731 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1732 alpha channel correctly.
1734 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1735 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1736 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1738 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1739 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1741 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1743 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1745 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1748 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1749 when scaling an animated gif
1750 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1754 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1755 perspective type transformations to work now.
1756 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1758 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1759 also fixed some other type warnings
1760 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1762 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1764 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1766 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1767 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1768 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1770 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1772 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1774 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1775 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1776 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1778 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1779 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1781 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1782 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1783 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1785 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1787 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1789 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1790 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1791 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1793 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1794 an unknown image file format.
1795 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1797 - improve the transform2() documentation
1798 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1800 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1801 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1803 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1804 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1805 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1808 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1811 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1812 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1814 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1816 - logging functions are now available in the API
1818 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1819 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1820 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1821 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1823 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1824 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1825 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1826 using Imager as a general image processor.
1827 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1831 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1832 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1833 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1834 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1836 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1837 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1839 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1840 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1841 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1844 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1846 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1848 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1849 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1851 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1852 image, but return a new image.
1853 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1855 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1856 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1857 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1859 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1860 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1862 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1863 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1865 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1870 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1871 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1873 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1874 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1875 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1876 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1878 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1881 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1883 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1886 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1888 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1892 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1893 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1894 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1896 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1897 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1898 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1900 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1902 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1903 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1904 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1906 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1907 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1909 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1910 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1912 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1913 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1914 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1915 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1916 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1917 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1918 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1920 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1923 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1925 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1926 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1927 this issue in the ticket below.
1928 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1929 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1930 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1931 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1933 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1936 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1938 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1940 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1942 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1943 contains only black and white
1945 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1947 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1950 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1954 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1955 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1956 resulted in a memory leak.
1957 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1959 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1960 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1962 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1963 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1965 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1967 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1968 even though the format doesn't require that
1970 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1971 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1973 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1974 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1975 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1977 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1978 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1979 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1981 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1982 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1984 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1987 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1989 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1991 There is one new feature:
1993 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1994 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1995 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1997 Several bugs were fixed:
1999 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2000 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2002 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2003 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2005 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2007 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2009 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2010 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2012 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2013 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2014 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2016 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2017 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2018 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2020 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2023 Win32 font driver fixes:
2025 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2026 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2028 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2029 advance width they would be clipped
2032 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2035 This is primarily a feature release:
2037 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2038 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2039 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2040 blurry results than normal.
2041 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2043 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2045 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2047 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2048 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2049 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2050 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2051 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2052 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2053 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2055 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2056 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2058 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2060 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2061 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2063 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2065 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2066 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2068 - minor documentation fixes
2071 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2074 This is a bugfix release.
2076 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2077 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2079 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2082 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2085 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2086 fixes, new features:
2088 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2090 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2092 - add POD coverage tests
2094 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2095 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2096 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2098 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2099 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2100 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2105 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2106 calculating the advance width.
2107 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2109 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2110 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2111 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2114 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2115 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2116 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2117 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2118 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2120 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2121 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2123 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2125 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2126 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2128 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2131 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2134 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2136 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2138 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2140 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2142 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2144 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2147 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2150 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2151 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2152 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2153 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2155 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2156 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2158 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2159 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049