1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
5 - to_paletted() and make_palette() now fail (with an error in
6 errstr()) if invalid quantization parameters are supplied.
8 Coverity finally finished a build[1], fix a few problems:
12 - reading a color-mapped TGA file with an id string would cause a
13 double-free if the palette was truncated. CID 185317.
15 - mixing scaling to sizes where the accumulator row, the working
16 output row or the working input row didn't fit into the address
17 space could result in memory leaks. This can probably only be
18 reproduced on very wide floating-point sample images. CID 185318.
20 - convert an array style function parameter pointer to pointer style
21 to prevent confusing Coverity in the T1 bounding box implementation.
24 - Similarly in the FT1 bounding box implementation. CID 185338.
26 - Similarly for the i_tt_rasterize() function in the FT1
27 implementation. CID 185303.
29 - initialize a pointer to prevent Coverity complaining in polygon
30 drawing (it should always end up being set.) CID 185341.
32 - addi style makemap could potentially read one past the end of an
35 - supplying a numeric hatch of 32 to Imager::Fill->new(hatch => ...)
36 would result in read beyond the end of the built-in hatch array.
37 Negative values (which Coverity didn't complain about) could also
38 cause problems. CID 185331.
40 - the Imager::Color set_internal() interal method no longer
41 calls the over-complicated ICL_set_internal() (which is retained
42 only for the old API.) Coverity complained that this leaked, but
43 this could only occur with an invalid (NULL pointer) color object.
46 - the underlying implementation of the map() method could read before
47 the beginning on an allocated array if supplied with inconsistent
48 parameters, which Coverity complained about. No Imager code calls
49 that function with inconsistent parameters, but a
50 belt-and-suspenders check was added. CID 185315.
52 - Coverity complained a call to i_getcolors(), used by the
53 implementation of the is_bilevel() method could leave the fetched
54 colors uninitialized. Added a return value check. CID 185308.
56 - a numeric combining mode of 13 (eg. as a parameter to
57 Imager::Fill->new())could cause an invalid array read in
58 i_get_combine() due to a fencepost error in validating the combine
63 - avoid an unneeded EXTEND() call when the FT1 has_chars()
64 implementation returns 0. CID 185350.
66 - avoid accessing a possibly NULL map from MakeMapObject() in a
67 logging call. (GIF) CID 185296.
69 - gradgen() allocated the wrong amount of space (always too much) for
70 the color array. CID 185291.
72 - avoid dead code in i_tt_glyph_names(). CID 185321.
74 - avoid dead code in i_get_anonymous_color_histo(), which is the
75 implementation of getcolorusage(). CID 185327.
77 - avoid dead code in i_ft2_glyph_name(), which is the implementation
78 of glyph_names() for FT2. CID 185342.
80 - avoid dead code in i_t1_glyph_names(), which is the implementation
81 of glyph_names() for T1. CID 185322.
83 - avoid an unneeded EXTEND() call when the FT2 has_chars()
84 implementation returns 0. CID 185292.
86 - the unpack code for ICO/CUR file handling could extend 32-bit
87 unsigned values to 64-bit signed. I believe this is harmless. CID
90 - remove an unneeded check when terminating the stream for JPEG
93 - skip an unneeded check when freeing the combine temp buffer in the
94 fountain filter. CID 185286.
96 - check the combine function pointer consistently rather than the
97 combine code in one place in the fountain filter.
99 - error diffusion now validates a custom error diffusion map and reports
100 an error if it's bad. CID 185288.
102 - avoid discarding the value of i_io_getc() when scanning numbers in
105 - handle failure to clone the log filehandle when cloning the Imager
106 context object on thread creation. CID 185294.
108 [1] The first two build submissions ended up at the end of a ~400
109 build queue, and seemed to have been cancelled by Coverity. A build
110 submitted on NYE went through in minutes.
112 Imager 1.008 - 31 Dec 2018
115 - moved EXIF handling from Imager::File::JPEG to core Imager
116 This allows file formats that store EXIF data as blobs similarly
117 to JPEG to re-use this code. (such as Imager::File::WEBP)
119 - added some more file extensions to image file type mappings
121 - added add_type_extensions() class method
123 Imager 1.007 - 24 Nov 2018
126 - add png_compression_level tag for writing PNG files.
128 - avoid flooring a second time in matrix transform interpolation.
129 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124001
131 - produce v2 metadata.
132 Includes change from the ticket and updates to sub-modules.
133 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127216
135 - improve error reporting for the polygon() method
137 Imager 1.006 - 26 Aug 2017
140 - the internal i_errors() function now correctly allocates the stack
141 space needed for its result.
142 https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
144 - t/100-base/020-color.t now uses Imager::Test's test functions
146 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111993
148 - write_multi() now returns an error result (a false value) if called
149 with a non-(Imager image object). Previously it would typically
151 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117878
153 - improve the documentation of the jpegquality parameter when
156 - add code to mitigate CVE-2016-1238, Imager will no longer search the
157 default current directory entry in @INC when searching for file
158 format support modules.
160 Imager 1.005 - 16 Apr 2016
163 It's now been ten years since I switched to the new Changes file in
166 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
167 fix them is too much work for now.
169 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
172 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
174 For the strange Win32 failures.
176 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
178 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
181 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
182 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
183 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
185 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
188 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
189 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
190 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
193 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
196 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
197 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
198 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
199 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
200 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
202 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
203 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
205 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
206 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
207 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
208 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
210 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
211 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
212 reduced the contrast of the output image.
213 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
215 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
216 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
219 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
221 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
224 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
225 themselves) passed to the internal API.
227 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
229 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
230 buffer if there were too many colors
232 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
233 there were too many colors.
235 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
236 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
238 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
239 color image would leak a context object reference count.
241 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
243 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
245 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
246 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
247 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
250 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
252 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
253 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
254 if there was zero pixel coverage.
256 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
257 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
260 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
263 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
264 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
266 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
267 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
269 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
270 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
271 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
273 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
274 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
276 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
279 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
282 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
284 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
285 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
287 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
290 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
291 depending on the size of the circle.
292 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
293 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
295 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
297 - enhancements to polygon filling:
299 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
301 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
304 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
306 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
307 These were added for two reasons:
309 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
310 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
311 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
313 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
314 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
315 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
316 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translate
319 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
320 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
322 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
323 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
326 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
329 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
330 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
331 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
333 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
336 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
337 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
339 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
341 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
343 - make verbose probing output more verbose
345 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
346 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
348 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
351 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
354 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
357 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
359 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
361 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
362 number of Win32 CPAN testers
364 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
367 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
368 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
369 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
370 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
373 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
374 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
375 performance improvement.
377 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
378 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
379 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
381 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
382 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
383 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
385 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
388 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
389 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
390 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
392 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
394 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
395 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
397 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
398 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
401 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
404 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
405 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
409 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
410 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
412 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
414 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
415 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
417 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
418 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
419 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
421 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
422 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
423 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
425 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
426 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
427 still available as "autolevels_skew".
428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
430 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
431 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
432 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
433 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
434 palette to test for benign errors.
435 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
437 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
440 Incompatible changes:
442 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
444 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
445 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
446 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
450 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
451 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
452 returned, and errstr() is set,
454 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
455 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
456 but true" is returned.
458 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
462 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
463 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
464 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
465 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
466 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
467 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
469 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
470 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
471 of a malloced buffer.
473 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
475 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
477 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
478 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
480 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
481 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
482 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
484 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
485 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
486 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
487 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
489 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
491 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
494 No changes from 0.96_02.
496 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
499 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
501 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
503 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
504 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
505 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
507 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
509 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
510 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
512 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
515 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
516 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
518 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
520 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
522 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
523 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
524 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
525 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
527 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
530 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
532 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
533 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
535 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
536 typemap instead of rolling their own.
538 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
541 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
542 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
543 simplifies the XS code.
545 - many other minor XS changes
547 - some XS code formatting
549 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
550 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
551 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
553 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
555 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
556 reporting some types of error.
557 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
559 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
560 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
561 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
563 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
566 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
569 - rearrange Imager's test files.
570 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
572 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
573 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
574 paths, which avoids that localization.
575 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
577 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
578 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
580 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
581 reported by Andreas König
583 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
585 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
587 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
590 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
591 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
592 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
594 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
596 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
599 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
600 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
601 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
602 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
603 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
605 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
606 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
607 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
609 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
612 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
614 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
615 due to a bug in that version of perl.
617 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
618 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
620 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
621 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
623 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
626 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
627 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
630 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
631 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
633 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
634 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
636 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
638 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
639 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
642 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
643 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
644 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
646 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
648 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
649 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
650 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
652 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
653 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
655 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
656 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
658 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
659 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
661 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
662 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
664 - fixed some other compiler warnings
666 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
667 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
669 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
670 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
671 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
672 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
673 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
674 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
676 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
677 =========================
679 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
682 - improved thread safety
683 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
685 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
686 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
687 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
688 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
689 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
690 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
691 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
692 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
695 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
696 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
698 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
700 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
702 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
704 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
706 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
711 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
712 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
715 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
717 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
718 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
720 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
721 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
722 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
724 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
725 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
727 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
730 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
731 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
732 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
736 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
737 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
738 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
739 header version in 5.0.0.
741 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
742 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
743 uninitialized gif89 bug.
744 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
745 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
747 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
749 - match Imager::Font::T1's error message translations to those from
750 later versions of T1Lib.
752 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
753 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
755 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
756 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
758 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
761 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
762 correctly for both probing and runtime.
763 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
765 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
767 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
769 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
774 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
775 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
776 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
777 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
778 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
779 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
780 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
781 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
786 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
787 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
789 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
790 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
791 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
792 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
794 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
796 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
797 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
799 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
800 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
802 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
803 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
805 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
810 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
811 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
812 Corrected the prototype.
814 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
815 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
816 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
817 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
818 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
820 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
822 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
823 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
824 processing the image data itself.
825 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
827 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
828 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
831 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
833 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
834 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
835 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
836 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
837 directories and insert that into the library flags.
838 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
840 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
841 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
842 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
844 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
846 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
847 handle a statically linked libpng.
848 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
850 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
851 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
852 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
853 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
854 configuration is found.
855 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
859 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
860 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
861 called but not supplied.
862 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
864 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
867 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
869 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
871 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
872 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
875 - improve error reporting
876 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
877 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
878 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
879 handlers to write as bilevel
880 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
881 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
882 - write paletted images as paletted images
883 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
885 - improved metadata support
886 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
888 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
893 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
894 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
895 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
899 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
900 rather than the heading you can find them under.
901 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
903 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
904 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
905 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
906 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
908 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
909 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
910 pointer and line number.
911 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
913 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
916 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
917 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
919 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
921 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
924 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
925 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
927 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
928 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
930 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
931 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
932 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
934 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
935 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
936 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
937 interfaces to these functions.
939 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
940 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
942 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
946 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
947 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
949 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
951 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
953 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
954 component of the color is now significant.
955 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
957 - remove long unused gif case from read()
958 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
960 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
961 when it's meant to be an array reference.
962 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
964 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
965 parameters are supplied.
966 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
967 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
969 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
972 - document the return value of the filter() method.
973 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
975 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
976 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
978 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
980 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
982 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
983 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
985 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
986 identify the file type match reality.
987 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
989 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
990 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
992 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
993 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
995 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
996 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
998 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
1001 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
1003 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
1005 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
1006 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
1007 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
1008 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
1010 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
1013 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
1015 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
1020 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
1021 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
1023 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
1024 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
1026 - make default text color non-transparent
1027 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
1029 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
1030 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
1032 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
1034 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
1036 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
1037 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
1039 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
1041 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
1044 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
1045 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
1047 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
1048 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
1050 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
1053 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
1056 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
1057 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
1059 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
1061 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
1062 initialized more efficiently.
1063 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
1065 - updated the Thanks list in README
1066 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
1068 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
1069 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
1071 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
1072 perl could order it differently.
1073 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
1075 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
1076 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
1077 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
1078 prefixed names on Win32.
1079 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
1081 - fix library detection with MSVC
1083 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
1084 them. Hopefully fixes:
1085 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
1087 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
1090 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
1092 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
1094 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
1096 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
1097 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
1100 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
1101 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
1102 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
1105 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
1107 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
1108 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
1110 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
1111 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
1113 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
1114 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
1115 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
1116 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
1117 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
1118 then panic about the result.
1120 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
1121 callback, which should return true for success.
1123 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
1124 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
1126 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
1127 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
1128 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
1130 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
1132 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
1133 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
1136 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
1138 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
1139 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
1142 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
1144 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
1146 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
1149 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
1152 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
1154 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
1155 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
1157 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
1158 lead to an infinite loop.
1162 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1164 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1167 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1172 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1173 checked when reading TIFF files.
1174 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1176 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1177 failed image file read() or write().
1178 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1180 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1181 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1182 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1184 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1186 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1188 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1189 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1190 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1192 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1193 modernize the tests a bit.
1194 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1196 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1197 them when available.
1198 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1200 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1204 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1205 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1207 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1210 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1212 Massive types re-work:
1214 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1215 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1217 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1219 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1220 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1221 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1222 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1224 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1225 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1226 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1227 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1229 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1230 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1232 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1236 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1237 values when writing a GIF image.
1239 - removed dead callback read/write code
1241 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1243 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1246 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1249 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1250 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1254 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1257 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1258 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1260 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1262 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1263 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1265 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1266 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1268 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1269 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1271 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1273 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1274 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1276 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1278 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1279 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1280 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1282 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1287 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1288 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1289 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1291 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1294 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1298 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1299 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1300 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1302 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1303 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1304 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1306 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1309 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1312 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1317 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1318 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1319 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1320 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1322 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1323 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1324 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1325 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1327 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1328 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1330 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1331 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1333 - improve the library detection summary
1334 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1336 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1337 downgrade the version in this file.
1338 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1340 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1341 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1342 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1343 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1345 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1348 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1350 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1351 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1352 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1354 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1355 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1357 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1358 work around limitations in PAR.
1359 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1363 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1364 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1366 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1367 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1369 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1370 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1371 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1372 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1374 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1375 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1376 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1377 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1379 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1380 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1382 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1383 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1385 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1386 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1388 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1391 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1393 - Imager is now maintained in git
1394 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1395 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1399 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1400 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1401 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1403 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1404 just a little darker.
1406 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1407 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1408 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1409 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1411 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1413 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1416 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1419 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1420 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1421 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1422 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1424 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1426 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1427 images into a new image
1428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1432 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1434 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1435 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1436 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1438 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1439 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1441 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1442 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1444 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1449 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1450 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1452 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1454 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1456 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1457 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1459 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1462 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1463 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1464 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1465 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1467 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1468 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1472 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1475 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1477 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1479 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1480 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1481 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1483 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1486 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1488 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1489 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1491 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1492 preparation for separate distribution.
1493 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1495 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1497 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1501 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1502 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1503 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1504 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1506 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1507 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1508 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1510 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1511 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1512 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1513 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1516 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1517 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1519 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1520 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1521 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1522 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1524 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1527 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1528 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1530 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1532 - add resources to META.yml
1534 Imager 0.76 - not released
1539 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1540 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1541 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1542 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1544 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1549 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1550 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1552 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1553 the code run phase of library probing.
1555 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1560 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1562 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1565 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1567 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1568 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1569 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1570 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1572 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1573 for separate distribution.
1574 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1575 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1580 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1582 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1584 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1586 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1587 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1589 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1592 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1593 (sorry for the mess)
1595 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1596 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1597 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1599 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1602 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1603 perls (not measured)
1607 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1608 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1610 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1611 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1613 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1618 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1619 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1620 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1622 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1623 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1625 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1627 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1628 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1630 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1632 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1635 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1636 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1638 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1639 the incorrect colour.
1641 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1644 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1646 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1649 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1650 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1653 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1656 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1657 it works with non-threaded perls
1659 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1664 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1666 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1668 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1669 8-bit sample operations.
1670 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1673 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1675 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1676 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1677 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1678 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1680 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1683 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1688 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1689 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1690 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1691 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1692 results or runtime exceptions.
1693 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1696 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1701 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1704 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1706 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1708 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1709 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1710 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1711 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1712 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1715 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1720 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1721 that should be a parameter to plan().
1723 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1724 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1726 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1728 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1731 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1732 load the given file.
1733 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1737 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1738 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1740 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1741 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1744 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1746 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1748 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1753 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1755 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1757 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1760 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1762 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1763 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1766 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1767 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1769 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1770 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1771 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1773 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1774 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1778 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1779 META.yml from scratch
1780 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1782 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1783 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1784 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1785 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1787 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1792 - fix a packaging error
1794 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1797 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1801 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1802 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1803 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1805 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1806 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1807 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1808 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1810 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1812 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1813 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1815 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1817 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1818 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1819 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1821 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1822 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1823 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1824 - group width methods and height methods
1825 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1827 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1832 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1833 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1834 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1835 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1836 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1839 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1840 ignored for the screen height when present.
1841 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1843 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1846 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1851 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1852 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1853 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1854 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1857 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1858 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1859 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1861 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1862 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1863 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1864 not a buffer overflow.
1865 Added a check for the failure.
1866 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1867 scale size parameters are a reference.
1868 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1870 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1871 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1872 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1874 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1876 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1879 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1880 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1881 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1882 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1885 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1886 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1888 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1890 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1891 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1892 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1893 noalpha channels or back.
1894 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1896 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1897 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1898 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1899 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1901 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1902 functions when filling.
1903 Corrected normal combine mode.
1904 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1905 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1906 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1907 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1909 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1911 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1912 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1913 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1914 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1916 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1917 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1918 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1919 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1921 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1922 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1923 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1924 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1928 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1930 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1932 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1933 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1934 compressible output files.
1935 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1937 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1939 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1940 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1941 code, not intended for installation.
1942 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1944 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1945 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1947 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1948 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1949 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1950 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1951 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1952 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1954 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1956 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1959 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1960 to /path under your home directory.
1961 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1963 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1964 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1965 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1966 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1967 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1969 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1970 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1971 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1972 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1976 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1978 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1980 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1981 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1982 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1984 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1985 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1987 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1988 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1990 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1992 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1995 - major TIFF support re-work
1996 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1998 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1999 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
2001 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
2004 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
2005 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
2007 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
2009 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
2011 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
2015 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
2018 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
2019 alpha channel correctly.
2021 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
2022 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
2023 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
2025 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
2026 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
2028 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
2030 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
2032 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
2035 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
2036 when scaling an animated gif
2037 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
2041 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
2042 perspective type transformations to work now.
2043 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
2045 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
2046 also fixed some other type warnings
2047 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
2049 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
2051 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
2053 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
2054 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
2055 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
2057 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
2059 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
2061 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
2062 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
2063 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
2065 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
2066 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
2068 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
2069 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
2070 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
2072 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
2074 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
2076 - attempt to work around the test failure at
2077 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
2078 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
2080 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
2081 an unknown image file format.
2082 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
2084 - improve the transform2() documentation
2085 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
2087 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
2088 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
2090 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
2091 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
2092 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
2095 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
2098 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
2099 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
2101 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
2103 - logging functions are now available in the API
2105 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
2106 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
2107 Obviously problems are my fault :)
2108 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
2110 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
2111 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
2112 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
2113 using Imager as a general image processor.
2114 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
2118 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
2119 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
2120 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
2121 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
2123 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
2124 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
2126 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
2127 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
2128 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
2131 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
2133 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
2135 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
2136 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
2138 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
2139 image, but return a new image.
2140 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
2142 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
2143 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
2144 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
2146 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
2147 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
2149 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
2150 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
2152 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
2157 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
2158 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
2160 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
2161 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
2162 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2163 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2165 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2168 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2170 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2173 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2175 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2179 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2180 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2181 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2183 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2184 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2185 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2187 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2189 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2190 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2191 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2193 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2194 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2196 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2197 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2199 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2200 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2201 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2202 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2203 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2204 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2205 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2207 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2210 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2212 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2213 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2214 this issue in the ticket below.
2215 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2216 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2217 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2218 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2220 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2223 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2225 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2227 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2229 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2230 contains only black and white
2232 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2234 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2237 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2241 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2242 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2243 resulted in a memory leak.
2244 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2246 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2247 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2249 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2250 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2252 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2254 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2255 even though the format doesn't require that
2257 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2258 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2260 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2261 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2262 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2264 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2265 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2266 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2268 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2269 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2271 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2274 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2276 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2278 There is one new feature:
2280 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2281 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2282 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2284 Several bugs were fixed:
2286 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2287 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2289 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2290 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2292 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2294 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2296 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2297 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2299 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2300 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2301 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2303 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2304 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2305 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2307 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2310 Win32 font driver fixes:
2312 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2313 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2315 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2316 advance width they would be clipped
2319 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2322 This is primarily a feature release:
2324 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2325 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2326 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2327 blurry results than normal.
2328 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2330 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2332 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2334 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2335 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2336 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2337 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2338 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2339 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2340 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2342 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2343 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2345 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2347 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2348 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2350 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2352 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2353 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2355 - minor documentation fixes
2358 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2361 This is a bugfix release.
2363 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2364 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2366 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2369 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2372 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2373 fixes, new features:
2375 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2377 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2379 - add POD coverage tests
2381 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2382 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2383 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2385 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2386 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2387 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2392 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2393 calculating the advance width.
2394 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2396 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2397 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2398 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2401 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2402 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2403 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2404 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2405 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2407 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2408 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2410 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2412 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2413 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2415 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2418 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2421 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2423 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2425 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2427 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2429 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2431 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2434 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2437 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2438 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2439 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2440 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2442 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2443 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2445 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2446 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049