1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Imager 0.79 - unreleased
6 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
9 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
10 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
11 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
12 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
14 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
16 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
17 images into a new image
18 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
22 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
24 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
29 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
30 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
32 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
34 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
36 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
37 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
39 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
42 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
43 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
44 Uses Imager::Probe now.
45 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
47 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
48 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
52 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
55 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
57 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
59 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
60 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
61 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
63 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
66 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
68 Thanks to Justin Davis.
69 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
71 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
72 preparation for separate distribution.
73 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
75 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
79 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
80 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
81 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
82 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
84 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
85 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
86 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
88 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
89 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
90 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
91 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
94 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
95 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
97 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
98 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
99 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
100 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
102 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
105 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
106 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
108 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
110 - add resources to META.yml
112 Imager 0.76 - not released
117 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
119 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
120 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
122 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
127 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
128 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
130 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
131 the code run phase of library probing.
133 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
138 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
140 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
143 Test release for the new PNG probe.
145 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
146 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
147 format files and allows white space padding between files.
148 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
150 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
151 for separate distribution.
152 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
153 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
158 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
160 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
162 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
164 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
165 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
167 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
168 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
170 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
173 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
174 the probe can find the library for the test run.
175 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
177 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
180 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
185 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
186 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
188 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
189 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
191 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
196 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
197 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
198 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
200 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
201 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
203 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
205 - update the TIFF file format documentation
206 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
208 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
210 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
213 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
216 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
217 the incorrect colour.
219 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
222 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
224 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
227 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
228 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
231 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
234 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
235 it works with non-threaded perls
237 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
242 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
244 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
246 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
247 8-bit sample operations.
248 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
251 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
253 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
254 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
255 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
256 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
258 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
261 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
266 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
267 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
268 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
269 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
270 results or runtime exceptions.
271 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
274 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
279 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
282 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
284 Thanks to Krzysztof WojtaÅ for the test data and fix for this.
286 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
287 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
288 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
289 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
290 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
293 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
298 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
299 that should be a parameter to plan().
301 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
302 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
304 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
306 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
309 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
315 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
316 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
318 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
319 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
322 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
324 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
326 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
331 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
333 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
335 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
338 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
340 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
341 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
344 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
345 set the extra channels in the image to 0
347 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
348 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
349 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
351 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
352 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
356 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
357 META.yml from scratch
358 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
360 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
361 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
362 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
363 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
365 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
370 - fix a packaging error
372 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
375 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
379 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
380 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
381 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
383 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
384 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
385 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
386 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
388 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
390 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
391 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
393 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
395 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
396 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
397 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
399 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
400 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
401 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
402 - group width methods and height methods
403 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
405 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
410 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
411 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
412 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
413 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
414 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
417 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
418 ignored for the screen height when present.
419 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
421 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
424 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
429 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
430 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
431 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
432 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
435 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
436 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
437 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
439 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
440 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
441 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
442 not a buffer overflow.
443 Added a check for the failure.
444 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
445 scale size parameters are a reference.
446 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
448 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
449 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
450 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
452 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
454 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
457 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
458 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
459 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
460 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
463 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
464 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
466 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
468 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
469 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
470 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
471 noalpha channels or back.
472 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
474 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
475 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
476 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
477 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
479 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
480 functions when filling.
481 Corrected normal combine mode.
482 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
483 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
484 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
485 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
487 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
489 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
490 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
491 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
492 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
494 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
495 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
496 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
497 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
499 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
500 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
501 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
502 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
506 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
508 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
510 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
511 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
512 compressible output files.
513 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
515 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
517 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
518 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
519 code, not intended for installation.
520 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
522 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
523 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
525 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
526 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
527 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
528 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
529 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
530 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
532 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
534 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
537 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
538 to /path under your home directory.
539 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
541 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
542 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
543 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
544 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
545 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
547 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
548 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
549 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
550 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
554 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
556 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
558 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
559 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
560 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
562 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
563 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
565 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
566 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
568 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
570 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
573 - major TIFF support re-work
574 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
576 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
577 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
579 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
582 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
583 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
585 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
587 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
589 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
593 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
596 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
597 alpha channel correctly.
599 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
600 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
601 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
603 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
604 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
606 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
608 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
610 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
613 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
614 when scaling an animated gif
615 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
619 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
620 perspective type transformations to work now.
621 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
623 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
624 also fixed some other type warnings
625 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
627 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
629 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
631 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
632 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
633 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
635 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
637 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
639 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
640 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
641 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
643 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
644 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
646 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
647 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
648 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
650 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
652 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
654 - attempt to work around the test failure at
655 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
656 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
658 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
659 an unknown image file format.
660 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
662 - improve the transform2() documentation
663 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
665 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
666 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
668 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
669 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
670 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
673 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
676 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
677 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
679 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
681 - logging functions are now available in the API
683 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
684 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
685 Obviously problems are my fault :)
686 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
688 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
689 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
690 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
691 using Imager as a general image processor.
692 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
696 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
697 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
698 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
699 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
701 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
702 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
704 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
705 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
706 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
709 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
711 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
713 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
714 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
716 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
717 image, but return a new image.
718 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
720 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
721 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
722 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
724 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
725 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
727 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
728 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
730 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
735 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
736 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
738 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
739 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
740 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
741 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
743 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
746 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
748 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
751 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
753 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
757 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
758 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
759 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
761 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
762 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
763 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
765 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
767 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
768 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
769 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
771 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
772 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
774 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
775 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
777 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
778 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
779 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
780 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
781 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
782 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
783 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
785 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
788 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
790 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
791 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
792 this issue in the ticket below.
793 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
794 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
795 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
796 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
798 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
801 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
803 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
805 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
807 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
808 contains only black and white
810 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
812 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
815 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
819 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
820 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
821 resulted in a memory leak.
822 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
824 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
825 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
827 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
828 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
830 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
832 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
833 even though the format doesn't require that
835 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
836 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
838 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
839 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
840 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
842 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
843 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
844 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
846 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
847 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
849 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
852 This is primarily a bug fix release.
854 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
856 There is one new feature:
858 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
859 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
860 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
862 Several bugs were fixed:
864 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
865 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
867 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
868 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
870 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
872 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
874 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
875 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
877 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
878 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
879 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
881 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
882 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
883 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
885 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
888 Win32 font driver fixes:
890 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
891 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
893 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
894 advance width they would be clipped
897 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
900 This is primarily a feature release:
902 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
903 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
904 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
905 blurry results than normal.
906 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
908 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
910 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
912 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
913 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
914 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
915 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
916 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
917 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
918 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
920 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
921 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
923 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
925 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
926 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
928 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
930 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
931 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
933 - minor documentation fixes
936 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
939 This is a bugfix release.
941 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
942 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
944 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
947 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
950 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
953 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
955 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
957 - add POD coverage tests
959 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
960 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
961 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
963 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
964 just to the area the same color as the seed.
965 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
970 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
971 calculating the advance width.
972 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
974 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
975 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
976 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
979 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
980 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
981 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
982 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
983 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
985 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
986 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
988 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
990 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
991 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
993 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
996 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
999 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1001 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1003 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1005 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1007 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1009 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1012 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1015 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1016 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1017 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1018 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1020 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1021 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1023 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1024 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049