1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
4 fix them is too much work for now.
6 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
9 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
11 For the strange Win32 failures.
13 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
15 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
18 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
19 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
20 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
22 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
25 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
26 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
27 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
30 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
33 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
34 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
35 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
36 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
37 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
39 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
40 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
42 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
43 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
44 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
45 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
47 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
48 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
49 reduced the contrast of the output image.
50 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
52 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
53 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
54 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
56 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
58 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
61 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
62 themselves) passed to the internal API.
64 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
66 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
67 buffer if there were too many colors
69 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
70 there were too many colors.
72 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
73 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
75 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
76 color image would leak a context object reference count.
78 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
80 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
82 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
83 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
84 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
87 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
89 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
90 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
91 if there was zero pixel coverage.
93 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
94 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
97 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
100 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
101 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
103 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
104 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
106 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
107 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
108 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
110 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
111 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
113 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
116 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
119 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
121 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
122 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
124 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
127 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
128 depending on the size of the circle.
129 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
130 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
132 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
134 - enhancements to polygon filling:
136 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
138 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
141 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
143 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
144 These were added for two reasons:
146 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
147 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
148 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
150 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
151 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
152 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
153 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translates
156 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
157 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
159 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
160 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
163 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
166 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
167 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
168 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
170 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
173 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
174 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
176 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
178 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
180 - make verbose probing output more verbose
182 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
183 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
185 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
188 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
191 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
194 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
196 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
198 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
199 number of Win32 CPAN testers
201 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
204 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
205 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
206 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
207 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
208 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
210 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
211 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
212 performance improvement.
214 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
215 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
216 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
218 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
219 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
222 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
225 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
226 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
227 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
229 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
231 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
232 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
234 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
235 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
236 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
238 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
241 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
242 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
244 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
246 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
247 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
249 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
251 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
252 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
254 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
255 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
256 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
258 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
259 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
262 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
263 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
264 still available as "autolevels_skew".
265 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
267 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
268 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
269 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
270 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
271 palette to test for benign errors.
272 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
274 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
277 Incompatible changes:
279 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
281 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
282 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
283 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
287 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
288 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
289 returned, and errstr() is set,
291 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
292 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
293 but true" is returned.
295 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
299 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
300 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
301 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
302 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
303 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
304 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
306 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
307 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
308 of a malloced buffer.
310 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
312 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
314 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
315 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
317 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
318 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
319 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
321 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
322 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
323 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
324 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
326 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
328 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
331 No changes from 0.96_02.
333 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
336 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
338 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
340 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
341 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
342 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
344 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
346 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
347 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
349 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
352 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
353 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
355 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
357 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
359 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
360 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
361 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
362 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
364 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
367 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
369 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
370 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
372 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
373 typemap instead of rolling their own.
375 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
378 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
379 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
380 simplifies the XS code.
382 - many other minor XS changes
384 - some XS code formatting
386 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
387 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
388 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
390 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
392 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
393 reporting some types of error.
394 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
396 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
397 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
398 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
400 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
403 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
406 - rearrange Imager's test files.
407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
409 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
410 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
411 paths, which avoids that localization.
412 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
414 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
415 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
417 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
418 reported by Andreas König
420 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
422 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
424 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
427 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
428 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
429 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
431 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
433 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
436 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
437 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
438 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
439 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
440 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
442 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
443 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
444 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
446 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
449 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
451 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
452 due to a bug in that version of perl.
454 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
455 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
457 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
458 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
460 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
463 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
464 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
467 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
468 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
470 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
471 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
473 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
475 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
476 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
479 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
480 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
481 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
483 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
485 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
486 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
487 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
489 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
490 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
492 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
493 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
495 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
496 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
498 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
499 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
501 - fixed some other compiler warnings
503 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
504 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
506 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
507 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
508 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
509 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
510 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
511 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
513 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
514 =========================
516 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
519 - improved thread safety
520 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
522 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
523 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
524 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
525 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
526 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
527 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
528 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
529 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
532 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
533 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
535 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
537 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
539 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
541 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
543 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
548 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
549 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
552 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
554 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
555 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
557 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
558 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
559 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
561 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
562 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
564 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
567 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
568 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
569 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
573 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
574 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
575 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
576 header version in 5.0.0.
578 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
579 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
580 uninitialized gif89 bug.
581 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
582 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
584 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
586 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
587 later versions of T1Lib.
589 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
590 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
592 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
593 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
595 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
598 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
599 correctly for both probing and runtime.
600 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
602 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
604 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
606 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
611 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
612 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
613 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
614 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
615 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
616 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
617 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
618 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
619 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
623 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
624 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
626 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
627 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
628 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
629 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
631 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
633 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
634 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
636 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
637 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
639 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
640 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
642 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
647 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
648 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
649 Corrected the prototype.
651 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
652 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
653 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
654 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
655 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
657 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
659 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
660 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
661 processing the image data itself.
662 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
664 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
665 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
668 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
670 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
671 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
672 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
673 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
674 directories and insert that into the library flags.
675 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
677 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
678 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
679 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
681 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
683 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
684 handle a statically linked libpng.
685 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
687 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
688 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
689 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
690 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
691 configuration is found.
692 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
696 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
697 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
698 called but not supplied.
699 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
701 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
704 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
706 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
708 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
709 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
712 - improve error reporting
713 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
714 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
715 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
716 handlers to write as bilevel
717 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
718 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
719 - write paletted images as paletted images
720 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
722 - improved metadata support
723 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
725 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
730 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
731 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
732 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
736 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
737 rather than the heading you can find them under.
738 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
740 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
741 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
742 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
743 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
745 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
746 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
747 pointer and line number.
748 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
750 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
753 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
754 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
756 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
758 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
761 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
762 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
764 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
765 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
767 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
768 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
769 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
771 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
772 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
773 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
774 interfaces to these functions.
776 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
777 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
779 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
783 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
784 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
786 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
788 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
790 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
791 component of the color is now significant.
792 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
794 - remove long unused gif case from read()
795 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
797 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
798 when it's meant to be an array reference.
799 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
801 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
802 parameters are supplied.
803 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
804 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
806 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
809 - document the return value of the filter() method.
810 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
812 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
813 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
815 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
817 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
819 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
820 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
822 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
823 identify the file type match reality.
824 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
826 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
827 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
829 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
830 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
832 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
833 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
835 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
838 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
840 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
842 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
843 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
844 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
845 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
847 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
850 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
852 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
857 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
860 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
861 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
863 - make default text color non-transparent
864 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
866 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
867 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
869 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
871 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
873 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
874 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
876 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
878 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
881 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
882 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
884 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
885 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
887 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
890 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
893 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
894 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
896 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
898 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
899 initialized more efficiently.
900 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
902 - updated the Thanks list in README
903 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
905 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
906 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
908 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
909 perl could order it differently.
910 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
912 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
913 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
914 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
915 prefixed names on Win32.
916 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
918 - fix library detection with MSVC
920 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
921 them. Hopefully fixes:
922 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
924 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
927 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
929 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
931 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
933 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
934 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
937 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
938 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
939 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
942 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
944 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
945 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
947 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
948 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
950 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
951 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
952 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
953 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
954 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
955 then panic about the result.
957 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
958 callback, which should return true for success.
960 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
961 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
963 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
964 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
965 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
967 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
969 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
970 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
973 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
975 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
976 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
979 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
981 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
983 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
986 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
989 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
991 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
992 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
994 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
995 lead to an infinite loop.
999 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1001 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1004 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1009 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1010 checked when reading TIFF files.
1011 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1013 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1014 failed image file read() or write().
1015 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1017 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1018 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1019 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1021 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1023 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1025 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1026 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1027 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1029 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1030 modernize the tests a bit.
1031 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1033 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1034 them when available.
1035 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1037 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1039 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1041 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1042 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1044 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1047 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1049 Massive types re-work:
1051 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1052 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1054 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1056 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1057 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1058 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1059 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1061 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1062 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1063 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1064 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1066 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1067 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1069 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1073 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1074 values when writing a GIF image.
1076 - removed dead callback read/write code
1078 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1080 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1083 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1086 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1087 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1091 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1092 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1094 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1095 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1097 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1099 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1100 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1102 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1103 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1105 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1106 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1108 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1110 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1111 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1113 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1115 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1116 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1117 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1119 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1124 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1125 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1126 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1128 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1131 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1135 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1136 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1137 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1139 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1140 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1141 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1143 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1146 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1149 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1154 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1155 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1156 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1157 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1159 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1160 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1161 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1164 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1165 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1167 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1168 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1170 - improve the library detection summary
1171 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1173 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1174 downgrade the version in this file.
1175 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1177 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1178 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1179 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1180 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1182 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1185 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1187 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1188 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1189 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1191 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1192 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1194 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1195 work around limitations in PAR.
1196 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1200 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1201 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1203 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1204 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1206 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1207 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1208 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1209 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1211 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1212 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1213 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1216 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1219 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1222 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1223 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1225 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1228 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1230 - Imager is now maintained in git
1231 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1232 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1236 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1237 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1238 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1240 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1241 just a little darker.
1243 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1244 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1245 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1246 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1248 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1250 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1253 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1256 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1257 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1258 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1259 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1261 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1263 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1264 images into a new image
1265 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1269 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1271 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1272 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1273 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1275 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1276 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1278 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1279 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1281 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1286 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1287 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1289 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1291 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1293 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1294 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1296 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1299 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1300 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1301 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1302 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1304 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1305 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1309 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1312 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1314 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1316 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1317 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1318 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1320 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1323 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1325 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1326 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1328 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1329 preparation for separate distribution.
1330 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1332 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1334 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1338 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1339 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1340 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1341 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1343 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1344 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1345 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1347 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1348 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1349 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1350 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1353 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1354 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1356 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1357 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1358 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1359 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1361 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1364 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1365 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1367 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1369 - add resources to META.yml
1371 Imager 0.76 - not released
1376 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1377 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1378 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1379 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1381 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1386 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1387 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1389 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1390 the code run phase of library probing.
1392 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1397 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1399 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1402 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1404 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1405 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1406 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1407 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1409 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1410 for separate distribution.
1411 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1412 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1417 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1419 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1421 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1423 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1424 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1426 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1427 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1429 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1430 (sorry for the mess)
1432 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1433 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1434 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1436 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1439 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1440 perls (not measured)
1444 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1445 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1447 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1448 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1450 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1455 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1456 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1457 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1459 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1460 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1462 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1464 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1465 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1467 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1469 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1472 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1473 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1475 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1476 the incorrect colour.
1478 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1481 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1483 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1486 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1487 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1490 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1493 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1494 it works with non-threaded perls
1496 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1501 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1503 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1505 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1506 8-bit sample operations.
1507 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1510 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1512 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1513 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1514 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1515 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1517 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1520 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1525 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1526 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1527 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1528 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1529 results or runtime exceptions.
1530 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1533 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1538 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1541 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1543 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1545 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1546 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1547 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1548 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1549 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1552 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1557 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1558 that should be a parameter to plan().
1560 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1561 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1563 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1565 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1568 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1569 load the given file.
1570 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1574 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1575 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1577 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1578 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1581 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1583 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1585 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1590 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1592 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1594 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1597 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1599 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1600 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1603 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1604 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1606 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1607 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1608 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1610 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1611 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1615 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1616 META.yml from scratch
1617 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1619 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1620 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1621 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1622 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1624 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1629 - fix a packaging error
1631 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1634 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1638 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1639 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1640 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1642 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1643 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1644 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1645 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1647 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1649 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1650 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1652 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1654 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1655 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1656 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1658 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1659 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1660 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1661 - group width methods and height methods
1662 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1664 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1669 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1670 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1671 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1672 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1673 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1676 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1677 ignored for the screen height when present.
1678 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1680 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1683 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1688 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1689 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1690 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1691 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1694 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1695 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1696 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1698 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1699 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1700 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1701 not a buffer overflow.
1702 Added a check for the failure.
1703 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1704 scale size parameters are a reference.
1705 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1707 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1708 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1709 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1711 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1713 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1716 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1717 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1718 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1719 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1722 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1723 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1725 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1727 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1728 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1729 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1730 noalpha channels or back.
1731 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1733 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1734 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1735 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1736 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1738 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1739 functions when filling.
1740 Corrected normal combine mode.
1741 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1742 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1743 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1744 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1746 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1748 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1749 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1750 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1751 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1753 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1754 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1755 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1756 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1758 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1759 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1760 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1761 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1765 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1767 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1769 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1770 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1771 compressible output files.
1772 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1774 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1776 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1777 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1778 code, not intended for installation.
1779 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1781 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1784 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1785 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1786 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1787 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1788 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1789 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1791 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1793 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1796 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1797 to /path under your home directory.
1798 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1800 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1801 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1802 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1803 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1804 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1806 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1807 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1808 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1809 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1813 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1815 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1817 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1818 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1819 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1821 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1822 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1824 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1825 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1827 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1829 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1832 - major TIFF support re-work
1833 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1835 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1836 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1838 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1841 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1842 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1844 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1846 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1848 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1852 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1855 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1856 alpha channel correctly.
1858 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1859 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1860 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1862 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1863 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1865 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1867 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1869 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1872 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1873 when scaling an animated gif
1874 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1878 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1879 perspective type transformations to work now.
1880 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1882 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1883 also fixed some other type warnings
1884 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1886 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1888 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1890 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1891 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1892 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1894 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1896 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1898 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1899 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1900 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1902 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1903 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1905 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1906 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1907 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1909 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1911 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1913 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1914 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1915 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1917 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1918 an unknown image file format.
1919 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1921 - improve the transform2() documentation
1922 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1924 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1925 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1927 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1928 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1929 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1932 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1935 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1936 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1938 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1940 - logging functions are now available in the API
1942 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1943 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1944 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1945 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1947 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1948 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1949 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1950 using Imager as a general image processor.
1951 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1955 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1956 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1957 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1958 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1960 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1961 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1963 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1964 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1965 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1968 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1970 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1972 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1973 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1975 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1976 image, but return a new image.
1977 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1979 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1980 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1981 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1983 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1984 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1986 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1987 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1989 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1994 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1995 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1997 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1998 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1999 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2000 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2002 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2005 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2007 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2010 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2012 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2016 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2017 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2018 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2020 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2021 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2022 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2024 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2026 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2027 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2028 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2030 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2031 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2033 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2034 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2036 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2037 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2038 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2039 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2040 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2041 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2042 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2044 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2047 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2049 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2050 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2051 this issue in the ticket below.
2052 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2053 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2054 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2055 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2057 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2060 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2062 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2064 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2066 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2067 contains only black and white
2069 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2071 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2074 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2078 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2079 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2080 resulted in a memory leak.
2081 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2083 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2084 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2086 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2087 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2089 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2091 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2092 even though the format doesn't require that
2094 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2095 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2097 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2098 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2099 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2101 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2102 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2103 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2105 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2106 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2108 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2111 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2113 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2115 There is one new feature:
2117 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2118 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2119 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2121 Several bugs were fixed:
2123 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2124 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2126 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2127 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2129 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2131 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2133 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2134 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2136 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2137 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2138 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2140 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2141 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2142 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2144 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2147 Win32 font driver fixes:
2149 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2150 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2152 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2153 advance width they would be clipped
2156 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2159 This is primarily a feature release:
2161 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2162 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2163 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2164 blurry results than normal.
2165 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2167 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2169 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2171 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2172 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2173 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2174 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2175 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2176 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2177 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2179 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2180 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2182 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2184 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2185 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2187 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2189 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2190 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2192 - minor documentation fixes
2195 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2198 This is a bugfix release.
2200 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2201 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2203 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2206 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2209 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2210 fixes, new features:
2212 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2214 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2216 - add POD coverage tests
2218 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2219 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2220 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2222 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2223 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2224 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2229 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2230 calculating the advance width.
2231 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2233 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2234 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2235 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2238 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2239 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2240 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2241 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2242 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2244 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2245 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2247 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2249 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2250 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2252 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2255 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2258 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2260 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2262 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2264 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2266 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2268 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2271 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2274 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2275 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2276 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2277 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2279 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2280 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2282 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2283 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049