1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
4 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
6 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
8 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
10 Mixed SampleFormat are be handled incorrectly, since libtiff
11 returns only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both
12 an alpha channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably
13 has a different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
15 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
18 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
20 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns it's values as integers
21 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
23 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
24 typemap instead of rolling their own.
26 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
29 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
30 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
31 simplifies the XS code.
33 - many other minor XS changes
35 - some XS code formatting
37 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
38 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
39 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
41 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
43 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
44 reporting some types of error.
45 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
47 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
48 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
49 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
51 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
54 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
57 - rearrange Imager's test files.
58 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
60 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
61 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
62 paths, which avoids that localization.
63 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
65 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
66 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
68 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
69 reported by Andreas König
71 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
73 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
75 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
78 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
79 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
80 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
82 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
84 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
87 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
88 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
89 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
90 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
91 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
93 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
94 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
95 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
97 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
100 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
102 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
103 due to a bug in that version of perl.
105 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
106 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
108 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
109 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
111 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
114 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
115 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
118 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
119 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
121 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
122 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
124 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
126 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
127 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
130 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
131 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
132 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
134 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
136 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
137 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
138 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
140 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
141 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
143 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
144 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
146 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
147 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
149 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
150 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
152 - fixed some other compiler warnings
154 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
155 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
157 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
158 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
159 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
160 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
161 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
164 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
165 =========================
167 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
170 - improved thread safety
171 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
173 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
174 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
175 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
176 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
177 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
178 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
179 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
180 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
183 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
184 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
186 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
188 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
190 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
192 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
194 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
199 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
200 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
203 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
205 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
206 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
208 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
209 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
210 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
212 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
213 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
215 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
218 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
219 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
224 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
225 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
226 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
227 header version in 5.0.0.
229 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
230 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
231 uninitialized gif89 bug.
232 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
233 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
235 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
237 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
238 later versions of T1Lib.
240 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
241 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
243 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
244 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
246 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
249 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
250 correctly for both probing and runtime.
251 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
253 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
255 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
257 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
262 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
263 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
264 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
265 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
266 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
267 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
268 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
269 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
270 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
274 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
275 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
277 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
278 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
279 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
280 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
284 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
285 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
287 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
288 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
290 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
291 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
293 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
298 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
299 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
300 Corrected the prototype.
302 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
303 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
304 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
305 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
306 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
308 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
310 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
311 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
312 processing the image data itself.
313 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
315 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
316 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
319 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
321 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
322 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
323 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
324 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
325 directories and insert that into the library flags.
326 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
328 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
329 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
330 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
332 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
334 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
335 handle a statically linked libpng.
336 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
338 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
339 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
340 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
341 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
342 configuration is found.
343 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
347 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
348 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
349 called but not supplied.
350 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
352 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
355 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
357 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
359 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
360 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
363 - improve error reporting
364 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
365 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
366 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
367 handlers to write as bilevel
368 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
369 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
370 - write paletted images as paletted images
371 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
373 - improved metadata support
374 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
376 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
381 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
382 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
383 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
387 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
388 rather than the heading you can find them under.
389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
391 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
392 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
393 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
394 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
396 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
397 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
398 pointer and line number.
399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
401 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
404 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
405 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
409 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
412 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
413 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
415 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
416 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
418 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
419 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
420 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
422 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
423 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
424 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
425 interfaces to these functions.
427 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
428 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
430 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
434 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
435 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
437 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
439 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
441 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
442 component of the color is now significant.
443 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
445 - remove long unused gif case from read()
446 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
448 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
449 when it's meant to be an array reference.
450 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
452 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
453 parameters are supplied.
454 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
455 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
457 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
460 - document the return value of the filter() method.
461 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
463 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
464 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
466 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
468 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
470 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
471 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
473 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
474 identify the file type match reality.
475 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
477 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
478 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
480 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
481 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
483 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
486 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
489 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
491 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
493 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
494 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
495 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
496 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
498 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
501 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
503 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
508 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
509 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
511 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
512 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
514 - make default text color non-transparent
515 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
517 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
518 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
520 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
522 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
524 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
525 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
527 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
529 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
532 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
533 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
535 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
536 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
538 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
541 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
544 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
545 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
547 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
549 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
550 initialized more efficiently.
551 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
553 - updated the Thanks list in README
554 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
556 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
557 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
559 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
560 perl could order it differently.
561 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
563 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
564 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
565 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
566 prefixed names on Win32.
567 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
569 - fix library detection with MSVC
571 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
572 them. Hopefully fixes:
573 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
575 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
578 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
580 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
582 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
584 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
585 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
588 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
589 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
590 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
593 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
595 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
596 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
598 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
599 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
601 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
602 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
603 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
604 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
605 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
606 then panic about the result.
608 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
609 callback, which should return true for success.
611 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
612 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
614 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
615 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
616 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
618 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
620 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
621 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
624 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
626 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
627 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
630 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
632 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
634 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
637 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
640 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
642 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
643 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
645 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
646 lead to an infinite loop.
650 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
652 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
655 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
660 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
661 checked when reading TIFF files.
662 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
664 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
665 failed image file read() or write().
666 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
668 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
669 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
670 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
672 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
674 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
676 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
677 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
678 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
680 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
681 modernize the tests a bit.
682 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
684 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
686 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
688 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
690 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
692 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
693 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
695 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
698 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
700 Massive types re-work:
702 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
703 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
705 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
707 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
708 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
709 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
710 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
712 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
713 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
714 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
715 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
717 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
718 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
720 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
724 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
725 values when writing a GIF image.
727 - removed dead callback read/write code
729 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
731 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
734 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
737 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
738 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
742 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
743 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
745 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
746 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
748 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
750 - add to_rgb_double() method.
751 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
753 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
754 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
756 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
757 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
759 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
761 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
762 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
764 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
766 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
767 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
768 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
770 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
775 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
776 failing on a Solaris smoker.
777 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
779 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
782 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
786 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
787 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
788 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
790 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
791 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
792 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
794 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
797 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
800 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
805 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
806 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
807 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
808 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
810 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
811 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
812 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
813 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
815 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
816 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
818 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
819 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
821 - improve the library detection summary
822 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
824 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
825 downgrade the version in this file.
826 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
828 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
829 that option for the directories that would normally go in
830 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
831 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
833 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
836 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
838 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
839 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
840 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
842 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
843 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
845 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
846 work around limitations in PAR.
847 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
851 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
852 Revealed by new coverage tests.
854 - update the filter plugin documentation.
855 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
857 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
858 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
859 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
860 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
862 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
863 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
864 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
865 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
867 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
868 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
870 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
871 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
873 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
874 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
876 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
879 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
881 - Imager is now maintained in git
882 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
883 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
887 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
888 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
889 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
891 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
892 just a little darker.
894 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
895 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
896 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
897 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
899 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
901 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
904 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
907 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
908 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
909 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
910 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
912 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
914 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
915 images into a new image
916 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
920 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
922 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
923 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
924 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
926 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
927 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
929 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
930 included in the tarball. They are now included.
932 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
937 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
938 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
940 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
942 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
944 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
945 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
947 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
950 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
951 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
952 Uses Imager::Probe now.
953 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
955 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
956 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
960 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
963 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
965 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
967 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
968 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
969 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
971 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
974 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
976 Thanks to Justin Davis.
977 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
979 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
980 preparation for separate distribution.
981 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
983 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
985 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
989 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
990 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
991 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
992 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
994 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
995 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
996 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
998 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
999 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1000 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1001 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1004 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1005 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1007 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1008 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1009 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1010 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1012 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1015 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1016 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1018 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1020 - add resources to META.yml
1022 Imager 0.76 - not released
1027 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1028 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1029 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1030 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1032 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1037 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1038 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1040 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1041 the code run phase of library probing.
1043 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1048 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1050 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1053 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1055 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1056 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1057 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1058 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1060 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1061 for separate distribution.
1062 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1063 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1068 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1070 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1072 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1074 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1075 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1077 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1078 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1080 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1081 (sorry for the mess)
1083 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1084 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1085 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1087 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1090 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1091 perls (not measured)
1095 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1096 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1098 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1099 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1101 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1106 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1107 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1108 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1110 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1111 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1113 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1115 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1116 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1118 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1120 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1123 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1124 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1126 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1127 the incorrect colour.
1129 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1132 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1134 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1137 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1138 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1141 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1144 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1145 it works with non-threaded perls
1147 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1152 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1154 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1156 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1157 8-bit sample operations.
1158 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1161 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1163 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1164 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1165 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1166 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1168 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1171 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1176 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1177 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1178 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1179 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1180 results or runtime exceptions.
1181 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1184 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1189 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1192 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1194 Thanks to Krzysztof WojtaÅ for the test data and fix for this.
1196 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1197 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1198 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1199 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1200 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1203 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1208 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1209 that should be a parameter to plan().
1211 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1212 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1214 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1216 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1219 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1220 load the given file.
1221 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1225 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1226 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1228 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1229 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1232 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1234 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1236 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1241 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1243 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1245 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1248 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1250 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1251 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1254 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1255 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1257 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1258 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1259 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1261 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1262 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1266 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1267 META.yml from scratch
1268 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1270 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1271 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1272 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1273 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1275 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1280 - fix a packaging error
1282 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1285 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1289 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1290 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1291 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1293 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1294 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1295 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1296 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1298 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1300 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1301 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1303 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1305 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1306 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1307 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1309 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1310 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1311 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1312 - group width methods and height methods
1313 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1315 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1320 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1321 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1322 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1323 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1324 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1327 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1328 ignored for the screen height when present.
1329 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1331 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1334 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1339 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1340 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1341 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1342 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1345 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1346 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1347 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1349 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1350 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1351 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1352 not a buffer overflow.
1353 Added a check for the failure.
1354 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1355 scale size parameters are a reference.
1356 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1358 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1359 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1360 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1362 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1364 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1367 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1368 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1369 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1370 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1373 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1374 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1376 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1378 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1379 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1380 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1381 noalpha channels or back.
1382 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1384 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1385 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1386 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1387 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1389 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1390 functions when filling.
1391 Corrected normal combine mode.
1392 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1393 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1394 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1395 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1397 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1399 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1400 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1401 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1402 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1404 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1405 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1406 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1407 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1409 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1410 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1411 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1412 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1416 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1418 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1420 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1421 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1422 compressible output files.
1423 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1425 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1427 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1428 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1429 code, not intended for installation.
1430 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1432 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1433 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1435 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1436 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1437 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1438 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1439 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1440 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1442 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1444 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1447 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1448 to /path under your home directory.
1449 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1451 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1452 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1453 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1454 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1455 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1457 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1458 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1459 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1460 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1464 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1466 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1468 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1469 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1470 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1472 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1473 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1475 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1476 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1478 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1480 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1483 - major TIFF support re-work
1484 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1486 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1487 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1489 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1492 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1493 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1495 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1497 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1499 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1503 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1506 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1507 alpha channel correctly.
1509 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1510 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1511 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1513 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1514 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1516 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1518 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1520 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1523 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1524 when scaling an animated gif
1525 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1529 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1530 perspective type transformations to work now.
1531 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1533 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1534 also fixed some other type warnings
1535 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1537 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1539 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1541 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1542 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1543 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1545 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1547 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1549 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1550 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1551 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1553 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1554 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1556 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1557 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1558 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1560 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1562 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1564 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1565 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1566 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1568 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1569 an unknown image file format.
1570 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1572 - improve the transform2() documentation
1573 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1575 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1576 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1578 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1579 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1580 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1583 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1586 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1587 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1589 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1591 - logging functions are now available in the API
1593 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1594 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1595 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1596 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1598 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1599 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1600 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1601 using Imager as a general image processor.
1602 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1606 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1607 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1608 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1609 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1611 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1612 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1614 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1615 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1616 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1619 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1621 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1623 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1624 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1626 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1627 image, but return a new image.
1628 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1630 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1631 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1632 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1634 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1635 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1637 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1638 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1640 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1645 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1646 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1648 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1649 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1650 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1651 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1653 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1656 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1658 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1661 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1663 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1667 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1668 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1669 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1671 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1672 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1673 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1675 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1677 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1678 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1679 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1681 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1682 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1684 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1685 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1687 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1688 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1689 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1690 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1691 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1692 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1693 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1695 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1698 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1700 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1701 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1702 this issue in the ticket below.
1703 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1704 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1705 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1706 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1708 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1711 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1713 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1715 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1717 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1718 contains only black and white
1720 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1722 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1725 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1729 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1730 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1731 resulted in a memory leak.
1732 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1734 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1735 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1737 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1738 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1740 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1742 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1743 even though the format doesn't require that
1745 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1746 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1748 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1749 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1750 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1752 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1753 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1754 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1756 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1757 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1759 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1762 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1764 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1766 There is one new feature:
1768 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1769 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1770 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1772 Several bugs were fixed:
1774 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1775 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1777 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1778 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1780 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1782 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1784 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1785 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1787 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1788 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1789 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1791 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1792 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1793 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1795 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1798 Win32 font driver fixes:
1800 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1801 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1803 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1804 advance width they would be clipped
1807 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1810 This is primarily a feature release:
1812 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1813 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1814 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1815 blurry results than normal.
1816 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1818 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1820 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1822 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1823 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1824 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1825 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1826 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1827 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1828 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1830 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1831 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1833 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1835 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1836 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1838 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1840 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1841 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1843 - minor documentation fixes
1846 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1849 This is a bugfix release.
1851 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1852 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1854 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1857 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1860 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1861 fixes, new features:
1863 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1865 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1867 - add POD coverage tests
1869 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1870 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1871 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1873 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1874 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1875 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1880 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1881 calculating the advance width.
1882 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1884 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1885 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1886 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1889 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1890 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1891 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1892 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1893 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1895 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1896 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1898 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1900 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1901 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1903 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1906 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1909 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1911 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1913 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1915 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1917 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1919 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1922 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1925 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1926 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1927 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1928 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1930 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1931 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1933 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1934 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049