1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
6 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
9 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
14 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
15 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
16 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
18 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
19 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
21 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
23 - update the TIFF file format documentation
24 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
26 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
28 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
31 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
32 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
34 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
37 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
40 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
42 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
45 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
46 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
49 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
52 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
53 it works with non-threaded perls
55 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
60 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
62 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
64 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
65 8-bit sample operations.
66 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
69 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
71 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
72 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
73 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
74 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
76 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
79 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
84 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
85 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
86 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
87 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
88 results or runtime exceptions.
89 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
92 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
97 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
100 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
102 Thanks to Krzysztof WojtaÅ for the test data and fix for this.
104 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
105 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
106 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
107 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
108 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
111 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
116 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
117 that should be a parameter to plan().
119 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
120 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
122 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
124 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
127 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
129 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
133 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
134 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
136 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
137 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
140 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
142 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
144 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
149 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
151 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
153 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
156 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
158 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
159 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
162 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
163 set the extra channels in the image to 0
165 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
166 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
167 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
169 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
170 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
174 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
175 META.yml from scratch
176 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
178 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
179 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
180 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
181 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
183 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
188 - fix a packaging error
190 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
193 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
197 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
198 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
199 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
201 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
202 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
203 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
204 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
206 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
208 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
209 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
211 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
213 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
214 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
215 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
217 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
218 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
219 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
220 - group width methods and height methods
221 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
223 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
228 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
229 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
230 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
231 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
232 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
235 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
236 ignored for the screen height when present.
237 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
239 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
242 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
247 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
248 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
249 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
250 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
253 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
254 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
255 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
257 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
258 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
259 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
260 not a buffer overflow.
261 Added a check for the failure.
262 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
263 scale size parameters are a reference.
264 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
266 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
267 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
268 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
270 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
272 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
275 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
276 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
277 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
278 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
281 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
282 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
284 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
286 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
287 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
288 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
289 noalpha channels or back.
290 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
292 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
293 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
294 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
295 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
297 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
298 functions when filling.
299 Corrected normal combine mode.
300 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
301 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
302 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
303 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
305 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
307 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
308 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
309 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
310 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
312 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
313 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
314 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
315 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
317 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
318 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
319 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
320 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
324 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
326 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
328 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
329 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
330 compressible output files.
331 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
333 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
335 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
336 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
337 code, not intended for installation.
338 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
340 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
341 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
343 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
344 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
345 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
346 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
347 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
348 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
350 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
352 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
355 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
356 to /path under your home directory.
357 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
359 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
360 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
361 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
362 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
363 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
365 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
366 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
367 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
368 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
372 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
374 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
376 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
377 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
378 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
380 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
381 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
383 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
384 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
386 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
388 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
391 - major TIFF support re-work
392 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
394 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
395 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
397 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
400 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
401 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
403 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
405 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
407 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
411 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
414 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
415 alpha channel correctly.
417 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
418 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
419 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
421 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
422 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
424 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
426 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
428 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
431 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
432 when scaling an animated gif
433 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
437 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
438 perspective type transformations to work now.
439 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
441 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
442 also fixed some other type warnings
443 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
445 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
447 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
449 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
450 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
451 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
453 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
455 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
457 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
458 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
459 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
461 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
462 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
464 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
465 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
466 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
468 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
470 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
472 - attempt to work around the test failure at
473 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
474 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
476 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
477 an unknown image file format.
478 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
480 - improve the transform2() documentation
481 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
483 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
484 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
486 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
487 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
488 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
491 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
494 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
495 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
497 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
499 - logging functions are now available in the API
501 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
502 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
503 Obviously problems are my fault :)
504 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
506 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
507 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
508 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
509 using Imager as a general image processor.
510 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
514 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
515 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
516 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
517 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
519 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
520 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
522 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
523 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
524 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
527 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
529 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
531 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
532 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
534 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
535 image, but return a new image.
536 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
538 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
539 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
540 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
542 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
543 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
545 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
546 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
548 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
553 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
554 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
556 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
557 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
558 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
559 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
561 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
564 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
566 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
569 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
571 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
575 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
576 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
577 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
579 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
580 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
581 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
583 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
585 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
586 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
587 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
589 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
590 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
592 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
593 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
595 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
596 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
597 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
598 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
599 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
600 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
601 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
603 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
606 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
608 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
609 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
610 this issue in the ticket below.
611 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
612 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
613 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
614 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
616 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
619 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
621 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
623 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
625 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
626 contains only black and white
628 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
630 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
633 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
637 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
638 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
639 resulted in a memory leak.
640 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
642 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
643 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
645 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
646 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
648 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
650 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
651 even though the format doesn't require that
653 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
654 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
656 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
657 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
658 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
660 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
661 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
662 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
664 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
665 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
667 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
670 This is primarily a bug fix release.
672 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
674 There is one new feature:
676 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
677 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
678 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
680 Several bugs were fixed:
682 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
683 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
685 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
686 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
688 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
690 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
692 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
693 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
695 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
696 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
697 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
699 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
700 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
701 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
703 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
706 Win32 font driver fixes:
708 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
709 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
711 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
712 advance width they would be clipped
715 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
718 This is primarily a feature release:
720 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
721 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
722 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
723 blurry results than normal.
724 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
726 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
728 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
730 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
731 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
732 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
733 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
734 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
735 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
736 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
738 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
739 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
741 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
743 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
744 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
746 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
748 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
749 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
751 - minor documentation fixes
754 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
757 This is a bugfix release.
759 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
760 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
762 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
765 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
768 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
771 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
773 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
775 - add POD coverage tests
777 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
778 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
779 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
781 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
782 just to the area the same color as the seed.
783 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
788 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
789 calculating the advance width.
790 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
792 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
793 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
794 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
797 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
798 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
799 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
800 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
801 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
803 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
804 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
806 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
808 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
809 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
811 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
814 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
817 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
819 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
821 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
823 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
825 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
827 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
830 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
833 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
834 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
835 output is an in-memeory buffer.
836 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
838 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
839 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
841 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
842 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049