1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
4 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
6 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
8 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
10 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
12 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
14 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
19 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
20 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
23 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
25 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
26 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
28 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
29 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
30 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
32 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
33 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
35 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
38 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
39 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
40 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
44 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
45 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
46 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
47 header version in 5.0.0.
49 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
50 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
51 uninitialized gif89 bug.
52 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
53 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
55 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
57 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
58 later versions of T1Lib.
60 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
61 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
63 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
64 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
66 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
69 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
70 correctly for both probing and runtime.
71 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
73 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
75 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
77 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
82 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
83 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
84 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
85 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
86 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
87 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
88 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
89 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
90 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
94 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
95 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
97 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
98 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
99 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
100 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
102 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
104 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
105 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
107 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
108 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
110 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
111 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
113 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
118 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
119 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
120 Corrected the prototype.
122 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
123 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
124 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
125 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
126 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
128 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
130 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
131 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
132 processing the image data itself.
133 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
135 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
136 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
139 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
141 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
142 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
143 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
144 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
145 directories and insert that into the library flags.
146 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
148 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
149 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
150 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
152 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
154 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
155 handle a statically linked libpng.
156 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
158 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
159 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
160 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
161 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
162 configuration is found.
163 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
167 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
168 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
169 called but not supplied.
170 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
172 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
175 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
177 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
179 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
180 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
183 - improve error reporting
184 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
185 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
186 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
187 handlers to write as bilevel
188 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
189 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
190 - write paletted images as paletted images
191 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
193 - improved metadata support
194 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
196 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
201 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
202 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
203 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
207 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
208 rather than the heading you can find them under.
209 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
211 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
212 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
213 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
216 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
217 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
218 pointer and line number.
219 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
221 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
224 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
225 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
227 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
229 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
232 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
233 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
235 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
236 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
238 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
239 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
240 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
242 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
243 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
244 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
245 interfaces to these functions.
247 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
248 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
250 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
254 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
257 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
259 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
261 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
262 component of the color is now significant.
263 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
265 - remove long unused gif case from read()
266 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
268 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
269 when it's meant to be an array reference.
270 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
272 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
273 parameters are supplied.
274 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
275 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
277 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
280 - document the return value of the filter() method.
281 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
283 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
284 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
286 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
288 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
290 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
291 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
293 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
294 identify the file type match reality.
295 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
297 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
298 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
300 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
301 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
303 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
304 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
306 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
309 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
313 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
314 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
315 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
318 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
321 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
323 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
328 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
329 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
331 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
332 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
334 - make default text color non-transparent
335 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
337 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
338 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
340 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
342 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
344 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
345 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
347 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
349 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
352 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
353 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
355 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
356 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
358 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
361 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
364 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
365 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
367 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
369 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
370 initialized more efficiently.
371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
373 - updated the Thanks list in README
374 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
376 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
377 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
379 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
380 perl could order it differently.
381 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
383 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
384 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
385 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
386 prefixed names on Win32.
387 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
389 - fix library detection with MSVC
391 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
392 them. Hopefully fixes:
393 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
395 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
398 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
400 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
402 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
404 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
405 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
408 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
409 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
410 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
413 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
415 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
416 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
418 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
419 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
421 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
422 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
423 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
424 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
425 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
426 then panic about the result.
428 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
429 callback, which should return true for success.
431 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
432 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
434 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
435 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
436 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
438 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
440 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
441 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
444 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
446 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
447 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
450 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
452 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
454 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
457 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
460 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
462 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
463 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
465 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
466 lead to an infinite loop.
470 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
472 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
475 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
480 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
481 checked when reading TIFF files.
482 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
484 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
485 failed image file read() or write().
486 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
488 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
489 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
490 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
492 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
494 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
496 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
497 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
498 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
500 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
501 modernize the tests a bit.
502 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
504 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
506 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
508 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
510 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
512 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
513 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
515 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
518 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
520 Massive types re-work:
522 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
523 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
525 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
527 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
528 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
529 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
530 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
532 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
533 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
534 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
535 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
537 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
538 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
540 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
544 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
545 values when writing a GIF image.
547 - removed dead callback read/write code
549 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
551 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
554 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
557 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
558 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
562 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
563 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
565 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
566 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
568 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
570 - add to_rgb_double() method.
571 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
573 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
574 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
576 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
577 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
579 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
581 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
582 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
584 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
586 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
587 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
588 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
590 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
595 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
596 failing on a Solaris smoker.
597 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
599 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
602 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
606 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
607 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
608 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
610 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
611 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
612 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
614 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
617 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
620 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
625 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
626 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
627 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
628 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
630 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
631 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
632 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
633 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
635 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
636 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
638 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
639 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
641 - improve the library detection summary
642 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
644 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
645 downgrade the version in this file.
646 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
648 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
649 that option for the directories that would normally go in
650 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
651 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
653 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
656 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
658 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
659 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
660 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
662 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
663 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
665 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
666 work around limitations in PAR.
667 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
671 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
672 Revealed by new coverage tests.
674 - update the filter plugin documentation.
675 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
677 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
678 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
679 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
680 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
682 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
683 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
684 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
685 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
687 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
688 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
690 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
691 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
693 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
694 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
696 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
699 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
701 - Imager is now maintained in git
702 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
703 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
707 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
708 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
709 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
711 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
712 just a little darker.
714 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
715 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
716 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
717 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
719 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
721 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
724 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
727 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
728 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
729 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
730 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
732 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
734 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
735 images into a new image
736 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
740 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
742 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
743 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
744 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
746 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
747 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
749 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
750 included in the tarball. They are now included.
752 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
757 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
758 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
760 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
762 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
764 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
765 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
767 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
770 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
771 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
772 Uses Imager::Probe now.
773 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
775 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
776 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
780 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
783 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
785 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
787 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
788 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
789 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
791 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
794 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
796 Thanks to Justin Davis.
797 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
799 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
800 preparation for separate distribution.
801 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
803 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
805 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
809 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
810 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
811 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
812 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
814 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
815 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
816 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
818 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
819 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
820 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
821 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
824 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
825 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
827 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
828 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
829 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
830 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
832 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
835 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
836 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
838 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
840 - add resources to META.yml
842 Imager 0.76 - not released
847 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
849 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
850 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
852 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
857 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
858 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
860 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
861 the code run phase of library probing.
863 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
868 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
870 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
873 Test release for the new PNG probe.
875 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
876 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
877 format files and allows white space padding between files.
878 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
880 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
881 for separate distribution.
882 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
883 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
888 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
890 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
892 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
894 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
895 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
897 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
898 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
900 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
903 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
904 the probe can find the library for the test run.
905 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
907 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
910 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
915 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
916 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
918 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
919 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
921 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
926 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
927 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
928 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
930 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
931 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
933 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
935 - update the TIFF file format documentation
936 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
938 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
940 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
943 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
944 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
946 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
947 the incorrect colour.
949 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
952 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
954 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
957 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
958 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
961 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
964 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
965 it works with non-threaded perls
967 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
972 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
974 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
976 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
977 8-bit sample operations.
978 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
981 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
983 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
984 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
985 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
986 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
988 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
991 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
996 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
997 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
998 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
999 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1000 results or runtime exceptions.
1001 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1004 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1009 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1012 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1014 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1016 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1017 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1018 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1019 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1020 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1023 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1028 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1029 that should be a parameter to plan().
1031 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1032 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1034 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1036 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1039 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1040 load the given file.
1041 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1045 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1046 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1048 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1049 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1052 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1054 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1056 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1061 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1063 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1065 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1068 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1070 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1071 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1074 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1075 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1077 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1078 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1079 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1081 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1082 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1086 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1087 META.yml from scratch
1088 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1090 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1091 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1092 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1093 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1095 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1100 - fix a packaging error
1102 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1105 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1109 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1110 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1111 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1113 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1114 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1115 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1116 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1118 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1120 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1121 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1123 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1125 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1126 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1127 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1129 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1130 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1131 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1132 - group width methods and height methods
1133 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1135 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1140 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1141 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1142 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1143 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1144 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1147 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1148 ignored for the screen height when present.
1149 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1151 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1154 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1159 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1160 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1161 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1162 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1165 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1166 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1167 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1169 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1170 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1171 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1172 not a buffer overflow.
1173 Added a check for the failure.
1174 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1175 scale size parameters are a reference.
1176 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1178 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1179 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1180 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1182 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1184 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1187 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1188 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1189 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1190 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1193 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1194 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1196 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1198 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1199 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1200 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1201 noalpha channels or back.
1202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1204 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1205 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1206 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1207 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1209 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1210 functions when filling.
1211 Corrected normal combine mode.
1212 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1213 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1214 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1215 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1217 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1219 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1220 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1221 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1222 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1224 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1225 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1226 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1227 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1229 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1230 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1231 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1232 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1236 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1238 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1240 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1241 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1242 compressible output files.
1243 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1245 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1247 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1248 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1249 code, not intended for installation.
1250 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1252 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1255 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1256 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1257 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1258 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1259 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1260 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1262 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1264 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1267 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1268 to /path under your home directory.
1269 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1271 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1272 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1273 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1274 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1275 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1277 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1278 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1279 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1280 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1284 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1286 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1288 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1289 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1290 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1292 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1293 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1295 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1296 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1298 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1300 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1303 - major TIFF support re-work
1304 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1306 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1307 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1309 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1312 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1313 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1315 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1317 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1319 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1323 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1326 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1327 alpha channel correctly.
1329 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1330 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1331 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1333 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1334 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1336 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1338 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1340 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1343 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1344 when scaling an animated gif
1345 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1349 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1350 perspective type transformations to work now.
1351 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1353 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1354 also fixed some other type warnings
1355 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1357 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1359 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1361 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1362 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1363 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1365 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1367 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1369 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1370 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1371 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1373 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1374 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1376 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1377 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1378 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1380 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1382 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1384 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1385 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1386 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1388 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1389 an unknown image file format.
1390 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1392 - improve the transform2() documentation
1393 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1395 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1396 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1398 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1399 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1400 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1403 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1406 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1407 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1409 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1411 - logging functions are now available in the API
1413 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1414 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1415 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1416 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1418 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1419 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1420 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1421 using Imager as a general image processor.
1422 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1426 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1427 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1428 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1429 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1431 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1432 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1434 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1435 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1436 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1439 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1441 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1443 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1444 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1446 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1447 image, but return a new image.
1448 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1450 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1451 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1452 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1454 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1455 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1457 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1458 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1460 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1465 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1466 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1468 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1469 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1470 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1471 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1473 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1476 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1478 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1481 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1483 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1487 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1488 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1489 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1491 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1492 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1493 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1495 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1497 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1498 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1499 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1501 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1502 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1504 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1505 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1507 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1508 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1509 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1510 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1511 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1512 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1513 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1515 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1518 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1520 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1521 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1522 this issue in the ticket below.
1523 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1524 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1525 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1526 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1528 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1531 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1533 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1535 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1537 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1538 contains only black and white
1540 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1542 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1545 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1549 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1550 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1551 resulted in a memory leak.
1552 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1554 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1555 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1557 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1558 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1560 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1562 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1563 even though the format doesn't require that
1565 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1566 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1568 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1569 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1570 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1572 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1573 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1574 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1576 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1577 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1579 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1582 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1584 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1586 There is one new feature:
1588 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1589 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1590 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1592 Several bugs were fixed:
1594 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1595 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1597 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1598 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1600 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1602 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1604 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1605 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1607 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1608 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1609 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1611 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1612 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1613 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1615 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1618 Win32 font driver fixes:
1620 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1621 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1623 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1624 advance width they would be clipped
1627 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1630 This is primarily a feature release:
1632 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1633 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1634 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1635 blurry results than normal.
1636 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
1638 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
1640 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
1642 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
1643 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
1644 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
1645 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
1646 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
1647 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
1648 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
1650 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
1651 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
1653 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
1655 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
1656 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
1658 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
1660 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
1661 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
1663 - minor documentation fixes
1666 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
1669 This is a bugfix release.
1671 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
1672 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
1674 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
1677 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
1680 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
1681 fixes, new features:
1683 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
1685 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
1687 - add POD coverage tests
1689 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
1690 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
1691 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
1693 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
1694 just to the area the same color as the seed.
1695 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
1700 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
1701 calculating the advance width.
1702 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
1704 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
1705 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
1706 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
1709 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
1710 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
1711 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
1712 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
1713 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
1715 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
1716 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
1718 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
1720 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
1721 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
1723 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
1726 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
1729 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
1731 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
1733 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
1735 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
1737 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
1739 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
1742 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
1745 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
1746 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
1747 output is an in-memeory buffer.
1748 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
1750 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
1751 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
1753 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
1754 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049