1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - add png_compression_level tag for writing PNG files.
5 - avoid flooring a second time in matrix transform interpolation.
6 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124001
9 Includes change from the ticket and updates to sub-modules.
10 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127216
12 - improve error reporting for the polygon() method
14 Imager 1.006 - 26 Aug 2017
17 - the internal i_errors() function now correctly allocates the stack
18 space needed for its result.
19 https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
21 - t/100-base/020-color.t now uses Imager::Test's test functions
23 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111993
25 - write_multi() now returns an error result (a false value) if called
26 with a non-(Imager image object). Previously it would typically
28 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117878
30 - improve the documentation of the jpegquality parameter when
33 - add code to mitigate CVE-2016-1238, Imager will no longer search the
34 default current directory entry in @INC when searching for file
35 format support modules.
37 Imager 1.005 - 16 Apr 2016
40 It's now been ten years since I switched to the new Changes file in
43 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
44 fix them is too much work for now.
46 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
49 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
51 For the strange Win32 failures.
53 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
55 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
58 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
59 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
60 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
62 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
65 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
66 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
67 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
70 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
73 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
74 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
75 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
76 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
77 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
79 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
80 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
82 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
83 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
84 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
85 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
87 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
88 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
89 reduced the contrast of the output image.
90 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
92 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
93 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
94 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
96 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
98 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
101 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
102 themselves) passed to the internal API.
104 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
106 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
107 buffer if there were too many colors
109 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
110 there were too many colors.
112 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
113 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
115 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
116 color image would leak a context object reference count.
118 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
120 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
122 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
123 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
124 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
127 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
129 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
130 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
131 if there was zero pixel coverage.
133 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
134 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
137 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
140 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
141 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
143 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
144 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
146 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
147 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
148 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
150 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
151 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
153 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
156 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
159 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
161 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
164 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
167 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
168 depending on the size of the circle.
169 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
170 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
172 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
174 - enhancements to polygon filling:
176 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
178 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
181 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
183 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
184 These were added for two reasons:
186 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
187 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
188 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
190 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
191 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
192 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
193 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translate
196 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
197 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
199 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
200 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
203 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
206 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
207 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
208 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
210 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
213 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
214 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
216 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
218 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
220 - make verbose probing output more verbose
222 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
223 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
225 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
228 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
231 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
234 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
236 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
238 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
239 number of Win32 CPAN testers
241 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
244 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
245 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
246 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
247 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
248 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
250 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
251 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
252 performance improvement.
254 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
255 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
256 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
258 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
259 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
262 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
265 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
266 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
267 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
269 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
271 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
272 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
274 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
275 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
276 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
278 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
281 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
282 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
284 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
286 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
287 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
289 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
291 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
292 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
294 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
295 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
296 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
298 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
299 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
300 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
302 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
303 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
304 still available as "autolevels_skew".
305 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
307 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
308 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
309 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
310 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
311 palette to test for benign errors.
312 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
314 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
317 Incompatible changes:
319 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
321 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
322 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
323 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
327 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
328 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
329 returned, and errstr() is set,
331 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
332 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
333 but true" is returned.
335 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
339 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
340 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
341 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
342 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
343 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
344 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
346 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
347 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
348 of a malloced buffer.
350 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
352 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
354 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
355 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
357 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
358 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
359 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
361 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
362 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
363 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
364 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
366 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
368 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
371 No changes from 0.96_02.
373 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
376 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
378 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
380 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
381 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
382 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
384 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
386 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
387 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
389 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
392 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
393 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
395 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
397 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
399 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
400 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
401 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
402 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
404 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
409 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
410 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
412 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
413 typemap instead of rolling their own.
415 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
418 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
419 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
420 simplifies the XS code.
422 - many other minor XS changes
424 - some XS code formatting
426 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
427 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
430 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
432 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
433 reporting some types of error.
434 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
436 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
437 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
438 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
440 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
443 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
446 - rearrange Imager's test files.
447 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
449 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
450 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
451 paths, which avoids that localization.
452 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
454 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
455 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
457 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
458 reported by Andreas König
460 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
462 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
464 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
467 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
468 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
469 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
471 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
473 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
476 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
477 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
478 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
479 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
480 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
482 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
483 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
486 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
489 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
491 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
492 due to a bug in that version of perl.
494 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
495 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
497 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
498 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
500 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
503 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
504 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
507 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
508 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
510 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
511 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
513 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
515 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
516 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
519 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
520 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
521 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
523 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
525 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
526 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
527 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
529 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
530 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
532 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
533 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
535 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
536 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
538 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
539 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
541 - fixed some other compiler warnings
543 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
544 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
546 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
547 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
548 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
549 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
550 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
551 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
553 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
554 =========================
556 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
559 - improved thread safety
560 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
562 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
563 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
564 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
565 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
566 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
567 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
568 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
569 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
572 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
573 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
575 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
577 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
579 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
581 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
583 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
588 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
589 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
592 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
594 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
595 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
597 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
598 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
599 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
601 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
602 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
604 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
607 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
608 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
609 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
613 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
614 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
615 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
616 header version in 5.0.0.
618 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
619 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
620 uninitialized gif89 bug.
621 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
622 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
624 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
626 - match Imager::Font::T1's error message translations to those from
627 later versions of T1Lib.
629 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
630 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
632 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
633 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
635 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
638 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
639 correctly for both probing and runtime.
640 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
642 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
644 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
646 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
651 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
652 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
653 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
654 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
655 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
656 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
657 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
658 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
659 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
663 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
664 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
666 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
667 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
668 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
669 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
671 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
673 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
674 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
676 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
677 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
679 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
680 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
682 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
687 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
688 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
689 Corrected the prototype.
691 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
692 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
693 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
694 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
695 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
697 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
699 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
700 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
701 processing the image data itself.
702 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
704 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
705 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
708 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
710 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
711 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
712 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
713 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
714 directories and insert that into the library flags.
715 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
717 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
718 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
719 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
721 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
723 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
724 handle a statically linked libpng.
725 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
727 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
728 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
729 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
730 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
731 configuration is found.
732 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
736 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
737 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
738 called but not supplied.
739 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
741 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
744 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
746 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
748 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
749 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
752 - improve error reporting
753 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
754 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
755 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
756 handlers to write as bilevel
757 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
758 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
759 - write paletted images as paletted images
760 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
762 - improved metadata support
763 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
765 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
770 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
771 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
772 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
776 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
777 rather than the heading you can find them under.
778 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
780 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
781 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
782 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
783 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
785 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
786 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
787 pointer and line number.
788 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
790 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
793 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
794 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
796 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
798 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
801 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
802 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
804 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
805 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
807 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
808 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
809 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
811 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
812 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
813 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
814 interfaces to these functions.
816 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
817 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
819 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
823 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
824 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
826 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
828 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
830 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
831 component of the color is now significant.
832 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
834 - remove long unused gif case from read()
835 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
837 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
838 when it's meant to be an array reference.
839 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
841 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
842 parameters are supplied.
843 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
844 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
846 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
849 - document the return value of the filter() method.
850 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
852 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
853 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
855 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
857 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
859 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
860 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
862 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
863 identify the file type match reality.
864 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
866 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
867 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
869 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
870 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
872 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
873 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
875 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
878 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
880 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
882 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
883 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
884 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
885 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
887 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
890 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
892 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
897 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
898 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
900 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
901 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
903 - make default text color non-transparent
904 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
906 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
907 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
909 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
911 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
913 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
914 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
916 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
918 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
921 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
922 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
924 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
925 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
927 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
930 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
933 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
934 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
936 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
938 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
939 initialized more efficiently.
940 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
942 - updated the Thanks list in README
943 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
945 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
946 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
948 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
949 perl could order it differently.
950 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
952 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
953 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
954 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
955 prefixed names on Win32.
956 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
958 - fix library detection with MSVC
960 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
961 them. Hopefully fixes:
962 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
964 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
967 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
969 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
971 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
973 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
974 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
977 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
978 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
979 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
982 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
984 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
985 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
987 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
988 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
990 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
991 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
992 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
993 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
994 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
995 then panic about the result.
997 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
998 callback, which should return true for success.
1000 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
1001 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
1003 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
1004 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
1005 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
1007 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
1009 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
1010 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
1013 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
1015 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
1016 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
1019 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
1021 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
1023 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
1026 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
1029 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
1031 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
1032 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
1034 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
1035 lead to an infinite loop.
1039 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1041 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1044 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1049 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1050 checked when reading TIFF files.
1051 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1053 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1054 failed image file read() or write().
1055 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1057 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1058 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1059 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1061 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1063 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1065 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1066 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1067 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1069 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1070 modernize the tests a bit.
1071 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1073 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1074 them when available.
1075 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1077 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1079 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1081 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1082 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1084 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1087 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1089 Massive types re-work:
1091 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1092 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1094 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1096 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1097 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1098 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1099 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1101 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1102 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1103 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1104 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1106 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1107 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1109 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1113 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1114 values when writing a GIF image.
1116 - removed dead callback read/write code
1118 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1120 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1123 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1126 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1127 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1131 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1132 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1134 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1135 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1137 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1139 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1140 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1142 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1143 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1145 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1146 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1148 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1150 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1151 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1153 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1155 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1156 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1157 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1159 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1164 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1165 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1166 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1168 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1171 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1175 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1176 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1177 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1179 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1180 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1183 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1186 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1189 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1194 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1195 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1196 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1199 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1200 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1201 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1204 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1205 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1207 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1208 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1210 - improve the library detection summary
1211 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1213 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1214 downgrade the version in this file.
1215 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1217 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1218 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1219 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1222 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1225 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1227 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1228 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1229 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1231 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1232 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1234 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1235 work around limitations in PAR.
1236 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1240 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1241 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1243 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1244 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1246 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1247 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1248 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1249 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1251 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1252 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1254 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1256 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1257 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1259 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1262 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1263 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1265 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1268 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1270 - Imager is now maintained in git
1271 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1272 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1276 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1277 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1278 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1280 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1281 just a little darker.
1283 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1284 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1285 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1286 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1288 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1290 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1293 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1296 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1297 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1298 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1299 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1301 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1303 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1304 images into a new image
1305 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1309 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1311 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1312 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1313 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1315 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1318 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1319 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1321 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1326 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1329 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1331 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1333 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1334 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1336 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1339 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1340 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1341 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1342 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1344 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1345 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1349 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1352 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1354 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1356 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1357 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1358 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1360 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1363 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1365 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1366 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1368 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1369 preparation for separate distribution.
1370 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1372 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1374 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1378 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1379 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1380 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1381 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1383 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1384 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1387 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1388 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1389 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1390 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1393 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1394 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1396 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1397 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1398 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1401 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1404 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1405 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1407 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1409 - add resources to META.yml
1411 Imager 0.76 - not released
1416 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1417 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1418 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1419 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1421 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1426 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1427 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1429 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1430 the code run phase of library probing.
1432 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1437 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1439 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1442 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1444 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1445 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1446 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1447 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1449 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1450 for separate distribution.
1451 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1452 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1457 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1459 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1461 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1463 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1464 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1466 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1467 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1469 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1470 (sorry for the mess)
1472 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1473 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1476 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1479 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1480 perls (not measured)
1484 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1485 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1487 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1488 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1490 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1495 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1496 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1497 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1499 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1500 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1502 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1504 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1505 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1507 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1509 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1512 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1513 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1515 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1516 the incorrect colour.
1518 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1521 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1523 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1526 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1527 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1530 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1533 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1534 it works with non-threaded perls
1536 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1541 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1543 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1545 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1546 8-bit sample operations.
1547 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1550 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1552 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1553 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1554 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1555 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1557 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1560 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1565 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1566 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1567 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1568 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1569 results or runtime exceptions.
1570 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1573 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1578 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1581 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1583 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1585 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1586 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1587 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1588 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1589 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1592 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1597 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1598 that should be a parameter to plan().
1600 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1601 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1603 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1605 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1608 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1609 load the given file.
1610 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1614 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1615 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1617 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1618 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1621 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1623 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1625 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1630 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1632 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1634 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1637 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1639 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1640 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1643 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1644 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1646 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1647 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1648 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1650 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1651 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1655 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1656 META.yml from scratch
1657 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1659 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1660 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1661 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1662 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1664 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1669 - fix a packaging error
1671 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1674 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1678 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1679 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1680 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1682 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1683 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1684 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1685 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1687 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1689 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1690 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1692 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1694 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1695 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1696 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1698 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1699 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1700 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1701 - group width methods and height methods
1702 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1704 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1709 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1710 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1711 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1712 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1713 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1716 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1717 ignored for the screen height when present.
1718 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1720 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1723 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1728 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1729 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1730 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1731 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1734 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1735 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1736 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1738 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1739 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1740 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1741 not a buffer overflow.
1742 Added a check for the failure.
1743 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1744 scale size parameters are a reference.
1745 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1747 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1748 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1749 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1751 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1753 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1756 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1757 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1758 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1759 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1762 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1763 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1765 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1767 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1768 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1769 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1770 noalpha channels or back.
1771 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1773 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1774 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1775 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1776 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1778 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1779 functions when filling.
1780 Corrected normal combine mode.
1781 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1782 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1783 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1784 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1786 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1788 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1789 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1790 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1791 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1793 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1794 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1795 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1796 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1798 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1799 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1800 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1801 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1805 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1807 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1809 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1810 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1811 compressible output files.
1812 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1814 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1816 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1817 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1818 code, not intended for installation.
1819 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1821 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1822 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1824 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1825 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1826 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1827 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1828 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1829 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1831 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1833 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1836 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1837 to /path under your home directory.
1838 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1840 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1841 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1842 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1843 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1844 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1846 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1847 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1848 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1849 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1853 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1855 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1857 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1858 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1859 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1861 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1862 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1864 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1865 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1867 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1869 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1872 - major TIFF support re-work
1873 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1875 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1876 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1878 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1881 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1882 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1884 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1886 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1888 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1892 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1895 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1896 alpha channel correctly.
1898 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1899 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1900 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1902 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1903 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1905 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1907 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1909 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1912 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1913 when scaling an animated gif
1914 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1918 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1919 perspective type transformations to work now.
1920 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1922 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1923 also fixed some other type warnings
1924 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1926 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1928 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1930 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1931 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1932 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1934 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1936 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1938 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1939 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1940 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1942 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1943 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1945 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1946 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1947 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1949 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1951 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1953 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1954 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1955 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1957 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1958 an unknown image file format.
1959 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1961 - improve the transform2() documentation
1962 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1964 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1965 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1967 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1968 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1969 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1972 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1975 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1976 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1978 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1980 - logging functions are now available in the API
1982 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1983 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1984 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1985 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1987 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1988 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1989 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1990 using Imager as a general image processor.
1991 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1995 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1996 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1997 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1998 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
2000 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
2001 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
2003 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
2004 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
2005 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
2008 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
2010 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
2012 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
2013 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
2015 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
2016 image, but return a new image.
2017 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
2019 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
2020 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
2021 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
2023 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
2024 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
2026 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
2027 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
2029 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
2034 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
2035 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
2037 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
2038 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
2039 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2040 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2042 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2045 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2047 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2050 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2052 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2056 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2057 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2058 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2060 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2061 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2062 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2064 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2066 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2067 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2068 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2070 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2071 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2073 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2074 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2076 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2077 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2078 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2079 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2080 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2081 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2082 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2084 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2087 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2089 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2090 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2091 this issue in the ticket below.
2092 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2093 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2094 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2095 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2097 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2100 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2102 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2104 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2106 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2107 contains only black and white
2109 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2111 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2114 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2118 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2119 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2120 resulted in a memory leak.
2121 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2123 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2124 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2126 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2127 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2129 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2131 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2132 even though the format doesn't require that
2134 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2135 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2137 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2138 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2139 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2141 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2142 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2143 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2145 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2146 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2148 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2151 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2153 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2155 There is one new feature:
2157 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2158 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2159 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2161 Several bugs were fixed:
2163 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2164 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2166 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2167 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2169 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2171 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2173 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2174 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2176 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2177 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2178 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2180 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2181 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2182 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2184 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2187 Win32 font driver fixes:
2189 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2190 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2192 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2193 advance width they would be clipped
2196 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2199 This is primarily a feature release:
2201 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2202 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2203 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2204 blurry results than normal.
2205 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2207 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2209 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2211 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2212 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2213 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2214 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2215 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2216 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2217 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2219 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2220 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2222 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2224 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2225 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2227 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2229 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2230 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2232 - minor documentation fixes
2235 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2238 This is a bugfix release.
2240 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2241 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2243 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2246 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2249 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2250 fixes, new features:
2252 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2254 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2256 - add POD coverage tests
2258 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2259 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2260 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2262 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2263 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2264 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2269 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2270 calculating the advance width.
2271 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2273 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2274 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2275 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2278 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2279 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2280 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2281 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2282 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2284 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2285 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2287 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2289 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2290 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2292 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2295 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2298 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2300 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2302 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2304 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2306 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2308 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2311 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2314 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2315 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2316 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2317 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2319 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2320 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2322 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2323 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049