1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
6 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
7 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
8 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
11 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
14 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
15 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
16 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
17 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
18 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
20 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
21 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
23 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
24 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
25 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
26 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
28 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
29 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
30 reduced the contrast of the output image.
31 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
33 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
34 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
35 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
37 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
39 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
42 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
43 themselves) passed to the internal API.
45 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
47 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
48 buffer if there were too many colors
50 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
51 there were too many colors.
53 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
54 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
56 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
57 color image would leak a context object reference count.
59 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
61 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
63 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
64 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
65 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
68 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
70 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
71 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
72 if there was zero pixel coverage.
74 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
75 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
78 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
81 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
82 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
84 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
85 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
87 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
88 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
89 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
91 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
92 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
94 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
97 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
100 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
102 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
103 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
105 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
108 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
109 depending on the size of the circle.
110 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
111 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
113 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
115 - enhancements to polygon filling:
117 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
119 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
122 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
124 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
125 These were added for two reasons:
127 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
128 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
129 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
131 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
132 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
133 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
134 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translates
137 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
138 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
140 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
141 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
144 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
147 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
148 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
149 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
151 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
154 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
155 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
157 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
159 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
161 - make verbose probing output more verbose
163 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
164 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
166 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
169 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
172 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
175 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
177 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
179 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
180 number of Win32 CPAN testers
182 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
185 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
186 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
187 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
188 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
189 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
191 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
192 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
193 performance improvement.
195 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
196 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
199 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
200 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
203 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
206 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
207 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
208 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
210 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
212 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
213 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
215 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
216 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
219 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
222 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
223 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
225 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
227 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
228 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
230 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
232 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
233 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
235 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
236 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
237 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
239 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
240 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
241 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
243 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
244 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
245 still available as "autolevels_skew".
246 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
248 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
249 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
250 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
251 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
252 palette to test for benign errors.
253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
255 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
258 Incompatible changes:
260 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
262 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
263 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
264 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
268 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
269 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
270 returned, and errstr() is set,
272 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
273 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
274 but true" is returned.
276 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
280 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
281 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
282 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
283 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
284 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
285 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
287 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
288 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
289 of a malloced buffer.
291 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
293 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
295 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
296 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
298 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
299 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
300 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
302 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
303 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
304 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
305 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
309 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
312 No changes from 0.96_02.
314 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
317 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
319 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
321 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
322 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
323 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
325 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
327 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
328 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
330 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
333 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
334 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
336 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
338 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
340 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
341 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
342 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
343 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
345 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
348 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
350 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
351 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
353 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
354 typemap instead of rolling their own.
356 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
359 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
360 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
361 simplifies the XS code.
363 - many other minor XS changes
365 - some XS code formatting
367 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
368 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
369 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
371 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
373 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
374 reporting some types of error.
375 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
377 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
378 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
379 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
381 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
384 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
387 - rearrange Imager's test files.
388 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
390 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
391 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
392 paths, which avoids that localization.
393 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
395 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
396 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
398 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
399 reported by Andreas König
401 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
403 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
405 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
408 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
409 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
410 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
412 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
414 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
417 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
418 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
419 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
420 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
421 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
423 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
424 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
425 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
427 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
430 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
432 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
433 due to a bug in that version of perl.
435 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
436 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
438 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
439 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
441 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
444 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
445 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
448 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
449 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
451 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
452 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
454 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
456 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
457 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
460 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
461 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
462 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
464 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
466 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
467 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
468 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
470 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
471 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
473 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
476 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
477 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
479 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
480 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
482 - fixed some other compiler warnings
484 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
485 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
487 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
488 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
489 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
490 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
491 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
492 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
494 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
495 =========================
497 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
500 - improved thread safety
501 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
503 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
504 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
505 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
506 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
507 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
508 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
509 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
510 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
513 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
514 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
516 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
518 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
520 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
522 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
524 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
529 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
530 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
533 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
535 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
536 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
538 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
539 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
540 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
542 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
543 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
545 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
548 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
549 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
550 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
554 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
555 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
556 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
557 header version in 5.0.0.
559 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
560 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
561 uninitialized gif89 bug.
562 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
563 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
565 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
567 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
568 later versions of T1Lib.
570 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
571 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
573 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
574 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
576 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
579 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
580 correctly for both probing and runtime.
581 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
583 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
585 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
587 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
592 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
593 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
594 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
595 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
596 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
597 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
598 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
599 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
600 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
604 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
605 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
607 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
608 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
609 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
610 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
612 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
614 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
615 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
617 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
618 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
620 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
621 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
623 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
628 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
629 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
630 Corrected the prototype.
632 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
633 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
634 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
635 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
636 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
638 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
640 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
641 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
642 processing the image data itself.
643 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
645 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
646 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
649 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
651 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
652 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
653 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
654 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
655 directories and insert that into the library flags.
656 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
658 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
659 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
660 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
662 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
664 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
665 handle a statically linked libpng.
666 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
668 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
669 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
670 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
671 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
672 configuration is found.
673 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
677 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
678 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
679 called but not supplied.
680 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
682 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
685 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
687 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
689 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
690 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
693 - improve error reporting
694 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
695 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
696 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
697 handlers to write as bilevel
698 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
699 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
700 - write paletted images as paletted images
701 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
703 - improved metadata support
704 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
706 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
711 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
712 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
713 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
717 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
718 rather than the heading you can find them under.
719 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
721 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
722 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
723 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
724 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
726 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
727 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
728 pointer and line number.
729 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
731 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
734 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
735 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
737 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
739 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
742 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
743 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
745 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
746 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
748 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
749 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
750 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
752 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
753 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
754 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
755 interfaces to these functions.
757 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
758 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
760 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
764 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
765 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
767 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
769 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
771 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
772 component of the color is now significant.
773 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
775 - remove long unused gif case from read()
776 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
778 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
779 when it's meant to be an array reference.
780 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
782 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
783 parameters are supplied.
784 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
785 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
787 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
790 - document the return value of the filter() method.
791 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
793 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
794 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
796 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
798 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
800 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
801 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
803 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
804 identify the file type match reality.
805 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
807 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
808 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
810 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
811 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
813 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
814 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
816 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
819 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
821 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
823 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
824 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
825 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
826 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
828 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
831 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
833 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
838 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
839 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
841 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
842 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
844 - make default text color non-transparent
845 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
847 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
848 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
850 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
852 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
854 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
855 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
857 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
859 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
862 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
863 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
865 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
866 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
868 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
871 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
874 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
875 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
877 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
879 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
880 initialized more efficiently.
881 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
883 - updated the Thanks list in README
884 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
886 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
887 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
889 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
890 perl could order it differently.
891 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
893 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
894 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
895 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
896 prefixed names on Win32.
897 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
899 - fix library detection with MSVC
901 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
902 them. Hopefully fixes:
903 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
905 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
908 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
910 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
912 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
914 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
915 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
918 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
919 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
920 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
923 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
925 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
926 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
928 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
929 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
931 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
932 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
933 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
934 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
935 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
936 then panic about the result.
938 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
939 callback, which should return true for success.
941 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
942 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
944 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
945 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
946 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
948 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
950 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
951 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
954 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
956 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
957 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
960 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
962 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
964 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
967 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
970 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
972 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
973 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
975 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
976 lead to an infinite loop.
980 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
982 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
985 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
990 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
991 checked when reading TIFF files.
992 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
994 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
995 failed image file read() or write().
996 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
998 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
999 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1000 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1002 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1004 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1006 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1007 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1008 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1010 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1011 modernize the tests a bit.
1012 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1014 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1015 them when available.
1016 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1018 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1020 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1022 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1023 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1025 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1028 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1030 Massive types re-work:
1032 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1033 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1035 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1037 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1038 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1039 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1040 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1042 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1043 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1044 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1045 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1047 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1048 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1050 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1054 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1055 values when writing a GIF image.
1057 - removed dead callback read/write code
1059 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1061 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1064 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1067 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1068 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1072 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1073 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1075 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1076 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1078 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1080 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1081 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1083 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1084 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1086 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1087 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1089 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1091 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1092 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1094 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1096 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1097 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1098 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1100 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1105 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1106 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1107 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1109 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1112 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1116 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1117 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1118 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1120 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1121 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1122 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1124 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1127 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1130 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1135 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1136 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1137 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1138 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1140 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1141 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1142 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1143 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1145 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1146 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1148 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1149 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1151 - improve the library detection summary
1152 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1154 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1155 downgrade the version in this file.
1156 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1158 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1159 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1160 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1161 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1163 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1166 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1168 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1169 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1170 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1172 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1173 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1175 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1176 work around limitations in PAR.
1177 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1181 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1182 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1184 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1185 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1187 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1188 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1189 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1190 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1192 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1193 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1194 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1195 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1197 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1198 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1200 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1203 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1204 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1206 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1209 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1211 - Imager is now maintained in git
1212 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1213 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1217 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1218 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1219 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1221 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1222 just a little darker.
1224 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1225 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1226 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1227 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1229 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1231 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1234 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1237 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1238 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1239 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1240 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1242 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1244 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1245 images into a new image
1246 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1250 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1252 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1253 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1254 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1256 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1257 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1259 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1260 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1262 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1267 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1268 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1270 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1272 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1274 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1275 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1277 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1280 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1281 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1282 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1283 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1285 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1286 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1290 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1293 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1295 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1297 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1298 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1299 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1301 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1304 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1306 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1309 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1310 preparation for separate distribution.
1311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1313 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1315 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1319 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1320 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1321 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1322 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1324 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1325 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1326 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1328 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1329 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1330 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1331 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1334 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1335 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1337 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1338 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1339 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1340 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1342 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1345 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1346 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1348 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1350 - add resources to META.yml
1352 Imager 0.76 - not released
1357 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1358 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1359 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1360 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1362 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1367 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1368 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1370 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1371 the code run phase of library probing.
1373 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1378 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1380 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1383 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1385 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1386 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1387 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1388 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1390 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1391 for separate distribution.
1392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1393 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1398 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1400 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1402 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1404 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1405 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1407 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1408 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1410 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1411 (sorry for the mess)
1413 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1414 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1415 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1417 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1420 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1421 perls (not measured)
1425 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1426 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1428 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1429 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1431 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1436 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1437 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1438 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1440 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1441 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1443 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1445 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1446 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1448 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1450 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1453 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1454 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1456 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1457 the incorrect colour.
1459 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1462 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1464 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1467 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1468 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1471 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1474 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1475 it works with non-threaded perls
1477 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1482 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1486 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1487 8-bit sample operations.
1488 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1491 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1493 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1494 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1495 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1496 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1498 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1501 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1506 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1507 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1508 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1509 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1510 results or runtime exceptions.
1511 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1514 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1519 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1522 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1524 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1526 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1527 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1528 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1529 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1530 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1533 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1538 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1539 that should be a parameter to plan().
1541 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1542 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1544 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1546 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1549 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1550 load the given file.
1551 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1555 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1556 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1558 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1559 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1562 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1564 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1566 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1571 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1573 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1575 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1578 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1580 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1581 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1584 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1585 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1587 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1588 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1589 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1591 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1592 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1596 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1597 META.yml from scratch
1598 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1600 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1601 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1602 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1603 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1605 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1610 - fix a packaging error
1612 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1615 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1619 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1620 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1621 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1623 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1624 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1625 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1626 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1628 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1630 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1631 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1633 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1635 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1636 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1637 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1639 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1640 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1641 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1642 - group width methods and height methods
1643 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1645 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1650 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1651 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1652 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1653 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1654 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1657 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1658 ignored for the screen height when present.
1659 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1661 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1664 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1669 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1670 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1671 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1672 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1675 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1676 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1677 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1679 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1680 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1681 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1682 not a buffer overflow.
1683 Added a check for the failure.
1684 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1685 scale size parameters are a reference.
1686 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1688 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1689 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1690 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1692 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1694 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1697 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1698 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1699 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1700 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1703 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1704 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1706 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1708 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1709 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1710 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1711 noalpha channels or back.
1712 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1714 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1715 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1716 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1717 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1719 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1720 functions when filling.
1721 Corrected normal combine mode.
1722 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1723 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1724 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1725 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1727 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1729 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1730 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1731 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1732 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1734 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1735 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1736 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1737 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1739 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1740 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1741 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1742 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1746 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1748 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1750 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1751 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1752 compressible output files.
1753 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1755 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1757 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1758 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1759 code, not intended for installation.
1760 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1762 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1763 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1765 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1766 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1767 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1768 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1769 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1770 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1772 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1774 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1777 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1778 to /path under your home directory.
1779 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1781 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1782 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1783 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1784 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1785 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1787 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1788 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1789 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1790 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1794 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1796 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1798 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1799 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1800 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1802 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1803 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1805 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1806 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1808 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1810 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1813 - major TIFF support re-work
1814 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1816 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1817 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1819 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1822 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1823 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1825 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1827 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1829 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1833 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1836 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1837 alpha channel correctly.
1839 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1840 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1841 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1843 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1844 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1846 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1848 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1850 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1853 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1854 when scaling an animated gif
1855 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1859 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1860 perspective type transformations to work now.
1861 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1863 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1864 also fixed some other type warnings
1865 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1867 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1869 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1871 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1872 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1873 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1875 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1877 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1879 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1880 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1881 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1883 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1884 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1886 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1887 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1888 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1890 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1892 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1894 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1895 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1896 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1898 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1899 an unknown image file format.
1900 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1902 - improve the transform2() documentation
1903 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1905 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1906 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1908 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1909 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1910 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1913 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1916 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1917 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1919 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1921 - logging functions are now available in the API
1923 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1924 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1925 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1926 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1928 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1929 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1930 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1931 using Imager as a general image processor.
1932 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1936 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1937 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1938 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1939 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1941 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1942 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1944 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1945 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1946 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1949 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1951 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1953 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1954 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1956 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1957 image, but return a new image.
1958 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1960 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1961 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1962 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1964 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1965 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1967 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1968 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1970 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1975 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1976 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1978 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1979 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1980 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1981 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1983 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1986 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1988 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1991 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1993 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1997 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1998 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1999 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2001 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2002 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2003 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2005 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2007 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2008 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2009 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2011 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2012 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2014 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2015 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2017 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2018 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2019 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2020 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2021 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2022 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2023 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2025 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2028 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2030 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2031 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2032 this issue in the ticket below.
2033 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2034 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2035 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2036 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2038 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2041 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2043 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2045 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2047 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2048 contains only black and white
2050 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2052 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2055 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2059 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2060 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2061 resulted in a memory leak.
2062 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2064 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2065 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2067 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2068 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2070 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2072 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2073 even though the format doesn't require that
2075 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2076 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2078 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2079 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2080 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2082 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2083 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2084 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2086 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2087 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2089 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2092 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2094 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2096 There is one new feature:
2098 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2099 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2100 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2102 Several bugs were fixed:
2104 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2105 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2107 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2108 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2110 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2112 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2114 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2115 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2117 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2118 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2119 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2121 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2122 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2123 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2125 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2128 Win32 font driver fixes:
2130 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2131 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2133 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2134 advance width they would be clipped
2137 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2140 This is primarily a feature release:
2142 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2143 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2144 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2145 blurry results than normal.
2146 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2148 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2150 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2152 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2153 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2154 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2155 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2156 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2157 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2158 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2160 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2161 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2163 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2165 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2166 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2168 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2170 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2171 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2173 - minor documentation fixes
2176 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2179 This is a bugfix release.
2181 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2182 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2184 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2187 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2190 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2191 fixes, new features:
2193 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2195 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2197 - add POD coverage tests
2199 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2200 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2201 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2203 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2204 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2205 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2210 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2211 calculating the advance width.
2212 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2214 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2215 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2216 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2219 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2220 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2221 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2222 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2223 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2225 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2226 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2228 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2230 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2231 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2233 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2236 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2239 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2241 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2243 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2245 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2247 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2249 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2252 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2255 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2256 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2257 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2258 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2260 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2261 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2263 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2264 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049