1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
8 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
9 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
10 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
12 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
15 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
17 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
19 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
21 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
22 contains only black and white
24 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
26 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
29 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
33 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
34 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
35 resulted in a memory leak.
36 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
38 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
39 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
41 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
42 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
44 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
46 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
47 even though the format doesn't require that
49 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
50 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
52 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
53 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
54 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
56 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
57 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
58 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
60 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
61 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
63 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
66 This is primarily a bug fix release.
68 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
70 There is one new feature:
72 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
73 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
74 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
76 Several bugs were fixed:
78 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
79 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
81 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
82 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
84 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
86 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
88 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
89 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
91 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
92 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
93 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
95 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
96 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
97 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
99 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
102 Win32 font driver fixes:
104 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
105 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
107 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
108 advance width they would be clipped
111 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
114 This is primarily a feature release:
116 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
117 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
118 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
119 blurry results than normal.
120 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
122 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
124 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
126 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
127 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
128 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
129 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
130 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
131 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
132 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
134 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
135 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
137 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
139 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
140 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
142 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
144 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
145 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
147 - minor documentation fixes
150 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
153 This is a bugfix release.
155 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
156 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
158 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
161 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
164 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
167 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
169 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
171 - add POD coverage tests
173 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
174 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
175 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
177 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
178 just to the area the same color as the seed.
179 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
184 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
185 calculating the advance width.
186 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
188 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
189 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
190 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
193 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
194 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
195 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
196 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
197 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
199 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
200 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
202 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
204 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
205 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
207 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
210 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
213 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
215 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
217 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
219 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
221 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
223 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
226 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
229 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
230 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
231 output is an in-memeory buffer.
232 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
234 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
235 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
237 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
238 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049