1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Imager 0.79 - unreleased
6 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
9 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
10 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
11 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
12 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
14 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
16 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
17 images into a new image
18 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
22 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
24 - If a higher (earlier) priority font failed to load, that would
25 crash preventing loading of later fonts.
26 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
28 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
33 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
34 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
36 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
38 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
40 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
41 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
43 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
46 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
47 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
48 Uses Imager::Probe now.
49 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
51 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
52 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
56 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
59 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
61 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
63 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
64 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
65 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
67 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
70 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
72 Thanks to Justin Davis.
73 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
75 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
76 preparation for separate distribution.
77 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
79 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
83 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
84 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
85 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
86 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
88 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
89 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
90 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
92 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
93 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
94 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
95 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
98 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
99 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
101 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
102 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
103 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
104 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
106 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
109 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
110 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
112 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
114 - add resources to META.yml
116 Imager 0.76 - not released
121 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
123 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
124 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
126 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
131 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
132 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
134 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
135 the code run phase of library probing.
137 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
142 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
144 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
147 Test release for the new PNG probe.
149 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
150 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
151 format files and allows white space padding between files.
152 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
154 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
155 for separate distribution.
156 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
157 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
162 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
164 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
166 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
168 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
169 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
171 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
172 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
174 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
177 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
178 the probe can find the library for the test run.
179 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
181 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
184 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
189 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
190 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
192 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
195 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
200 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
201 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
202 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
204 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
205 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
207 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
209 - update the TIFF file format documentation
210 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
212 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
214 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
217 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
218 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
220 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
221 the incorrect colour.
223 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
226 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
228 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
231 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
232 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
235 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
238 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
239 it works with non-threaded perls
241 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
246 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
248 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
250 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
251 8-bit sample operations.
252 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
257 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
258 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
259 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
262 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
265 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
270 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
271 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
272 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
273 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
274 results or runtime exceptions.
275 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
278 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
283 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
286 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
288 Thanks to Krzysztof WojtaÅ for the test data and fix for this.
290 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
291 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
292 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
293 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
294 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
297 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
302 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
303 that should be a parameter to plan().
305 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
306 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
308 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
310 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
313 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
315 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
319 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
320 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
322 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
323 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
326 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
328 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
330 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
335 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
337 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
339 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
342 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
344 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
345 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
348 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
349 set the extra channels in the image to 0
351 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
352 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
353 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
355 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
356 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
360 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
361 META.yml from scratch
362 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
364 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
365 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
366 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
367 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
369 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
374 - fix a packaging error
376 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
379 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
383 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
384 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
385 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
387 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
388 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
389 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
390 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
392 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
394 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
395 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
397 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
399 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
400 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
401 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
403 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
404 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
405 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
406 - group width methods and height methods
407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
409 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
414 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
415 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
416 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
417 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
418 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
421 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
422 ignored for the screen height when present.
423 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
425 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
428 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
433 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
434 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
435 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
436 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
439 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
440 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
441 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
443 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
444 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
445 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
446 not a buffer overflow.
447 Added a check for the failure.
448 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
449 scale size parameters are a reference.
450 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
452 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
453 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
454 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
456 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
458 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
461 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
462 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
463 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
464 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
467 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
468 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
470 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
472 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
473 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
474 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
475 noalpha channels or back.
476 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
478 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
479 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
480 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
481 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
483 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
484 functions when filling.
485 Corrected normal combine mode.
486 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
487 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
488 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
489 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
491 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
493 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
494 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
495 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
496 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
498 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
499 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
500 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
501 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
503 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
504 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
505 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
506 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
510 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
512 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
514 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
515 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
516 compressible output files.
517 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
519 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
521 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
522 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
523 code, not intended for installation.
524 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
526 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
527 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
529 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
530 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
531 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
532 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
533 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
534 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
536 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
538 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
541 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
542 to /path under your home directory.
543 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
545 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
546 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
547 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
548 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
549 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
551 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
552 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
553 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
554 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
558 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
560 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
562 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
563 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
564 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
566 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
567 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
569 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
570 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
572 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
574 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
577 - major TIFF support re-work
578 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
580 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
581 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
583 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
586 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
587 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
589 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
591 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
593 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
597 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
600 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
601 alpha channel correctly.
603 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
604 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
605 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
607 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
608 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
610 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
612 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
614 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
617 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
618 when scaling an animated gif
619 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
623 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
624 perspective type transformations to work now.
625 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
627 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
628 also fixed some other type warnings
629 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
631 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
633 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
635 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
636 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
637 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
639 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
641 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
643 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
644 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
645 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
647 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
648 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
650 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
651 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
652 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
654 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
656 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
658 - attempt to work around the test failure at
659 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
660 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
662 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
663 an unknown image file format.
664 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
666 - improve the transform2() documentation
667 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
669 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
670 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
672 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
673 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
674 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
677 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
680 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
681 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
683 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
685 - logging functions are now available in the API
687 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
688 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
689 Obviously problems are my fault :)
690 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
692 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
693 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
694 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
695 using Imager as a general image processor.
696 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
700 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
701 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
702 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
703 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
705 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
706 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
708 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
709 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
710 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
713 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
715 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
717 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
718 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
720 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
721 image, but return a new image.
722 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
724 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
725 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
726 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
728 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
729 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
731 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
732 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
734 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
739 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
740 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
742 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
743 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
744 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
745 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
747 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
750 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
752 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
755 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
757 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
761 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
762 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
763 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
765 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
766 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
767 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
769 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
771 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
772 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
773 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
775 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
776 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
778 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
779 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
781 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
782 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
783 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
784 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
785 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
786 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
787 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
789 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
792 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
794 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
795 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
796 this issue in the ticket below.
797 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
798 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
799 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
800 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
802 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
805 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
807 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
809 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
811 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
812 contains only black and white
814 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
816 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
819 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
823 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
824 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
825 resulted in a memory leak.
826 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
828 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
829 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
831 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
832 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
834 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
836 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
837 even though the format doesn't require that
839 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
840 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
842 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
843 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
844 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
846 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
847 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
848 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
850 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
851 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
853 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
856 This is primarily a bug fix release.
858 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
860 There is one new feature:
862 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
863 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
864 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
866 Several bugs were fixed:
868 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
869 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
871 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
872 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
874 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
876 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
878 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
879 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
881 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
882 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
883 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
885 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
886 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
887 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
889 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
892 Win32 font driver fixes:
894 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
895 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
897 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
898 advance width they would be clipped
901 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
904 This is primarily a feature release:
906 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
907 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
908 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
909 blurry results than normal.
910 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
912 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
914 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
916 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
917 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
918 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
919 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
920 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
921 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
922 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
924 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
925 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
927 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
929 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
930 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
932 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
934 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
935 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
937 - minor documentation fixes
940 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
943 This is a bugfix release.
945 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
946 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
948 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
951 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
954 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
957 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
959 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
961 - add POD coverage tests
963 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
964 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
965 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
967 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
968 just to the area the same color as the seed.
969 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
974 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
975 calculating the advance width.
976 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
978 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
979 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
980 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
983 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
984 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
985 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
986 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
987 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
989 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
990 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
992 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
994 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
995 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
997 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1000 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1003 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1005 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1007 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1009 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1011 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1013 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1016 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1019 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1020 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1021 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1022 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1024 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1025 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1027 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1028 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049