1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Coverity finally finished a build, fix a few problems:
7 - reading a color-mapped TGA file with an id string would cause a
8 double-free if the palette was truncated. CID 185317.
10 - mixing scaling to sizes where the accumulator row, the working
11 output row or the working input row didn't fit into the address
12 space could result in memory leaks. This can probably only be
13 reproduced on very wide floating-point sample images. CID 185318.
15 - convert an array style function parameter pointer to pointer style
16 to prevent confusing Coverity in the T1 bounding box implementation.
19 - Similarly in the FT1 bounding box implementation. CID 185338.
21 - Similarly for the i_tt_rasterize() function in the FT1
22 implementation. CID 185303.
24 - initialize a pointer to prevent Coverity complaining in polygon
25 drawing (it should always end up being set.) CID 185341.
27 - addi style makemap could potentially read one past the end of an
30 - supplying a numeric hatch of 32 to Imager::Fill->new(hatch => ...)
31 would result in read beyond the end of the built-in hatch array.
32 Negative values (which Coverity didn't complain about) could also
33 cause problems. CID 185331.
35 - the Imager::Color set_internal() interal method no longer
36 calls the over-complicated ICL_set_internal() (which is retained
37 only for the old API.) Coverity complained that this leaked, but
38 this could only occur with an invalid (NULL pointer) color object.
41 - the underlying implementation of the map() method could read before
42 the beginning on an allocated array if supplied with inconsistent
43 parameters, which Coverity complained about. No Imager code calls
44 that function with inconsistent parameters, but a
45 belt-and-suspenders check was added. CID 185315.
47 - Coverity complained a call to i_getcolors(), used by the
48 implementation of the is_bilevel() method could leave the fetched
49 colors uninitialized. Added a return value check. CID 185308.
51 - a numeric combining mode of 13 (eg. as a parameter to
52 Imager::Fill->new())could cause an invalid array read in
53 i_get_combine() due to a fencepost error in validating the combine
58 - avoid an unneeded EXTEND() call when the FT1 has_chars()
59 implementation returns 0. CID 185350.
61 - avoid accessing a possibly NULL map from MakeMapObject() in a
62 logging call. (GIF) CID 185296.
64 - gradgen() allocated the wrong amount of space (always too much) for
65 the color array. CID 185291.
67 - avoid dead code in i_tt_glyph_names(). CID 185321.
69 Imager 1.008 - 31 Dec 2018
72 - moved EXIF handling from Imager::File::JPEG to core Imager
73 This allows file formats that store EXIF data as blobs similarly
74 to JPEG to re-use this code. (such as Imager::File::WEBP)
76 - added some more file extensions to image file type mappings
78 - added add_type_extensions() class method
80 Imager 1.007 - 24 Nov 2018
83 - add png_compression_level tag for writing PNG files.
85 - avoid flooring a second time in matrix transform interpolation.
86 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124001
88 - produce v2 metadata.
89 Includes change from the ticket and updates to sub-modules.
90 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127216
92 - improve error reporting for the polygon() method
94 Imager 1.006 - 26 Aug 2017
97 - the internal i_errors() function now correctly allocates the stack
98 space needed for its result.
99 https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
101 - t/100-base/020-color.t now uses Imager::Test's test functions
103 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111993
105 - write_multi() now returns an error result (a false value) if called
106 with a non-(Imager image object). Previously it would typically
108 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117878
110 - improve the documentation of the jpegquality parameter when
113 - add code to mitigate CVE-2016-1238, Imager will no longer search the
114 default current directory entry in @INC when searching for file
115 format support modules.
117 Imager 1.005 - 16 Apr 2016
120 It's now been ten years since I switched to the new Changes file in
123 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
124 fix them is too much work for now.
126 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
129 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
131 For the strange Win32 failures.
133 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
135 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
138 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
139 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
140 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
142 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
145 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
146 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
147 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
150 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
153 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
154 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
155 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
156 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
157 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
159 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
160 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
162 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
163 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
164 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
165 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
167 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
168 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
169 reduced the contrast of the output image.
170 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
172 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
173 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
174 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
176 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
178 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
181 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
182 themselves) passed to the internal API.
184 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
186 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
187 buffer if there were too many colors
189 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
190 there were too many colors.
192 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
193 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
195 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
196 color image would leak a context object reference count.
198 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
200 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
202 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
203 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
204 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
207 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
209 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
210 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
211 if there was zero pixel coverage.
213 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
214 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
217 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
220 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
221 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
223 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
224 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
226 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
227 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
228 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
230 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
231 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
233 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
236 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
239 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
241 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
242 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
244 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
247 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
248 depending on the size of the circle.
249 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
250 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
252 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
254 - enhancements to polygon filling:
256 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
258 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
261 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
263 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
264 These were added for two reasons:
266 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
267 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
268 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
270 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
271 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
272 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
273 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translate
276 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
277 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
279 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
280 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
283 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
286 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
287 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
288 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
290 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
293 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
294 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
296 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
298 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
300 - make verbose probing output more verbose
302 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
303 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
305 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
308 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
311 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
314 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
316 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
318 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
319 number of Win32 CPAN testers
321 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
324 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
325 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
326 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
327 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
328 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
330 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
331 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
332 performance improvement.
334 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
335 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
336 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
338 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
339 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
340 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
342 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
345 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
346 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
347 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
349 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
351 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
352 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
354 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
355 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
356 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
358 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
361 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
362 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
364 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
366 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
367 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
369 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
371 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
372 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
374 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
375 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
376 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
378 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
379 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
380 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
382 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
383 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
384 still available as "autolevels_skew".
385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
387 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
388 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
389 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
390 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
391 palette to test for benign errors.
392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
394 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
397 Incompatible changes:
399 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
401 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
402 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
403 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
407 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
408 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
409 returned, and errstr() is set,
411 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
412 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
413 but true" is returned.
415 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
419 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
420 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
421 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
422 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
423 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
424 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
426 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
427 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
428 of a malloced buffer.
430 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
432 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
434 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
435 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
437 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
438 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
439 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
441 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
442 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
443 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
444 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
446 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
448 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
451 No changes from 0.96_02.
453 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
456 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
458 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
460 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
461 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
462 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
464 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
466 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
467 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
469 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
472 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
473 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
475 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
477 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
479 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
480 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
481 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
482 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
487 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
489 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
490 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
492 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
493 typemap instead of rolling their own.
495 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
498 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
499 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
500 simplifies the XS code.
502 - many other minor XS changes
504 - some XS code formatting
506 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
507 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
508 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
510 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
512 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
513 reporting some types of error.
514 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
516 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
517 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
518 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
520 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
523 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
526 - rearrange Imager's test files.
527 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
529 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
530 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
531 paths, which avoids that localization.
532 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
534 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
535 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
537 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
538 reported by Andreas König
540 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
542 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
544 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
547 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
548 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
549 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
551 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
553 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
556 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
557 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
558 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
559 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
560 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
562 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
563 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
564 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
566 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
569 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
571 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
572 due to a bug in that version of perl.
574 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
575 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
577 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
578 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
580 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
583 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
584 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
587 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
588 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
590 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
591 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
593 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
595 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
596 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
599 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
600 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
601 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
603 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
605 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
606 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
607 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
609 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
610 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
612 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
613 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
615 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
616 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
618 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
619 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
621 - fixed some other compiler warnings
623 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
624 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
626 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
627 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
628 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
629 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
630 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
631 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
633 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
634 =========================
636 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
639 - improved thread safety
640 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
642 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
643 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
644 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
645 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
646 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
647 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
648 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
649 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
652 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
653 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
655 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
657 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
659 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
661 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
663 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
668 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
669 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
672 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
674 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
675 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
677 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
678 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
679 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
681 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
682 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
684 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
687 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
688 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
689 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
693 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
694 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
695 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
696 header version in 5.0.0.
698 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
699 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
700 uninitialized gif89 bug.
701 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
702 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
704 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
706 - match Imager::Font::T1's error message translations to those from
707 later versions of T1Lib.
709 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
710 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
712 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
713 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
715 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
718 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
719 correctly for both probing and runtime.
720 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
722 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
724 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
726 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
731 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
732 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
733 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
734 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
735 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
736 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
737 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
738 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
739 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
743 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
744 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
746 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
747 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
748 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
749 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
751 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
753 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
754 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
756 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
757 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
759 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
760 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
762 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
767 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
768 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
769 Corrected the prototype.
771 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
772 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
773 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
774 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
775 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
777 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
779 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
780 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
781 processing the image data itself.
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
784 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
785 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
788 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
790 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
791 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
792 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
793 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
794 directories and insert that into the library flags.
795 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
797 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
798 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
799 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
801 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
803 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
804 handle a statically linked libpng.
805 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
807 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
808 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
809 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
810 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
811 configuration is found.
812 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
816 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
817 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
818 called but not supplied.
819 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
821 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
824 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
826 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
828 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
829 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
832 - improve error reporting
833 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
834 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
835 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
836 handlers to write as bilevel
837 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
838 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
839 - write paletted images as paletted images
840 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
842 - improved metadata support
843 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
845 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
850 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
851 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
852 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
856 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
857 rather than the heading you can find them under.
858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
860 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
861 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
862 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
863 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
865 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
866 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
867 pointer and line number.
868 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
870 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
873 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
874 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
876 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
878 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
881 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
882 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
884 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
885 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
887 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
888 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
889 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
891 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
892 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
893 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
894 interfaces to these functions.
896 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
897 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
899 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
903 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
904 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
906 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
908 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
910 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
911 component of the color is now significant.
912 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
914 - remove long unused gif case from read()
915 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
917 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
918 when it's meant to be an array reference.
919 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
921 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
922 parameters are supplied.
923 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
924 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
926 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
929 - document the return value of the filter() method.
930 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
932 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
933 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
935 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
937 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
939 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
940 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
942 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
943 identify the file type match reality.
944 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
946 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
947 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
949 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
950 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
952 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
953 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
955 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
958 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
960 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
962 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
963 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
964 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
965 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
967 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
970 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
972 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
977 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
978 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
980 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
981 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
983 - make default text color non-transparent
984 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
986 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
987 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
989 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
991 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
993 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
994 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
996 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
998 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
1001 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
1002 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
1004 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
1005 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
1007 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
1010 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
1013 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
1014 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
1016 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
1018 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
1019 initialized more efficiently.
1020 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
1022 - updated the Thanks list in README
1023 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
1025 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
1026 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
1028 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
1029 perl could order it differently.
1030 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
1032 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
1033 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
1034 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
1035 prefixed names on Win32.
1036 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
1038 - fix library detection with MSVC
1040 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
1041 them. Hopefully fixes:
1042 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
1044 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
1047 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
1049 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
1051 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
1053 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
1054 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
1057 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
1058 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
1059 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
1062 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
1064 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
1065 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
1067 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
1068 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
1070 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
1071 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
1072 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
1073 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
1074 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
1075 then panic about the result.
1077 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
1078 callback, which should return true for success.
1080 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
1081 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
1083 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
1084 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
1085 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
1087 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
1089 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
1090 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
1093 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
1095 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
1096 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
1099 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
1101 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
1103 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
1106 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
1109 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
1111 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
1112 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
1114 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
1115 lead to an infinite loop.
1119 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1121 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1124 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1129 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1130 checked when reading TIFF files.
1131 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1133 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1134 failed image file read() or write().
1135 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1137 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1138 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1139 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1141 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1143 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1145 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1146 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1147 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1149 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1150 modernize the tests a bit.
1151 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1153 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1154 them when available.
1155 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1157 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1161 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1164 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1167 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1169 Massive types re-work:
1171 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1172 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1174 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1176 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1177 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1178 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1179 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1181 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1182 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1183 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1184 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1186 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1187 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1189 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1193 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1194 values when writing a GIF image.
1196 - removed dead callback read/write code
1198 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1200 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1203 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1206 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1207 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1211 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1212 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1214 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1215 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1217 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1219 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1222 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1223 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1225 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1226 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1228 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1230 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1231 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1233 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1235 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1236 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1237 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1239 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1244 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1245 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1246 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1248 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1251 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1255 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1256 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1257 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1259 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1260 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1261 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1263 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1266 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1269 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1274 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1275 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1276 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1277 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1279 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1280 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1281 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1284 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1285 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1287 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1288 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1290 - improve the library detection summary
1291 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1293 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1294 downgrade the version in this file.
1295 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1297 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1298 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1299 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1300 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1302 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1305 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1307 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1308 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1309 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1311 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1312 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1314 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1315 work around limitations in PAR.
1316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1320 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1321 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1323 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1326 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1327 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1328 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1329 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1331 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1332 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1333 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1334 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1336 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1337 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1339 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1340 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1342 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1343 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1345 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1348 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1350 - Imager is now maintained in git
1351 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1352 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1356 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1357 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1358 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1360 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1361 just a little darker.
1363 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1364 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1365 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1366 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1368 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1370 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1373 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1376 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1377 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1378 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1379 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1381 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1383 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1384 images into a new image
1385 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1389 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1391 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1392 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1393 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1395 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1396 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1398 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1399 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1401 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1406 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1409 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1411 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1413 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1414 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1416 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1419 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1420 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1421 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1422 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1424 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1425 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1429 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1432 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1434 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1436 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1437 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1438 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1440 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1443 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1445 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1446 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1448 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1449 preparation for separate distribution.
1450 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1452 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1454 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1458 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1459 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1460 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1461 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1463 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1464 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1465 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1467 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1468 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1469 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1470 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1473 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1476 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1477 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1478 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1479 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1481 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1484 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1485 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1487 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1489 - add resources to META.yml
1491 Imager 0.76 - not released
1496 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1497 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1498 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1499 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1501 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1506 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1507 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1509 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1510 the code run phase of library probing.
1512 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1517 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1519 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1522 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1524 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1525 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1526 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1527 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1529 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1530 for separate distribution.
1531 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1532 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1537 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1539 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1541 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1543 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1544 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1546 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1547 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1549 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1550 (sorry for the mess)
1552 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1553 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1554 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1556 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1559 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1560 perls (not measured)
1564 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1565 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1567 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1568 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1570 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1575 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1576 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1577 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1579 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1580 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1582 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1584 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1585 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1587 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1589 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1592 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1593 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1595 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1596 the incorrect colour.
1598 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1601 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1603 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1606 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1607 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1610 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1613 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1614 it works with non-threaded perls
1616 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1621 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1623 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1625 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1626 8-bit sample operations.
1627 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1630 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1632 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1633 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1634 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1635 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1637 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1640 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1645 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1646 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1647 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1648 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1649 results or runtime exceptions.
1650 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1653 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1658 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1661 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1663 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1665 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1666 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1667 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1668 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1669 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1672 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1677 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1678 that should be a parameter to plan().
1680 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1681 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1683 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1685 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1688 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1689 load the given file.
1690 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1694 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1695 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1697 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1698 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1701 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1703 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1705 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1710 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1712 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1714 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1717 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1719 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1720 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1723 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1724 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1726 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1727 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1728 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1730 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1731 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1735 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1736 META.yml from scratch
1737 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1739 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1740 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1741 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1742 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1744 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1749 - fix a packaging error
1751 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1754 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1758 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1759 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1760 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1762 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1763 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1764 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1765 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1767 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1769 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1770 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1772 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1774 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1775 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1776 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1778 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1779 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1780 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1781 - group width methods and height methods
1782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1784 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1789 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1790 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1791 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1792 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1793 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1796 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1797 ignored for the screen height when present.
1798 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1800 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1803 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1808 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1809 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1810 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1811 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1814 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1815 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1816 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1818 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1819 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1820 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1821 not a buffer overflow.
1822 Added a check for the failure.
1823 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1824 scale size parameters are a reference.
1825 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1827 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1828 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1829 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1831 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1833 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1836 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1837 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1838 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1839 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1842 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1843 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1845 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1847 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1848 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1849 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1850 noalpha channels or back.
1851 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1853 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1854 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1855 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1856 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1858 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1859 functions when filling.
1860 Corrected normal combine mode.
1861 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1862 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1863 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1864 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1866 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1868 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1869 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1870 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1871 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1873 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1874 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1875 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1876 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1878 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1879 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1880 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1881 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1885 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1887 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1889 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1890 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1891 compressible output files.
1892 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1894 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1896 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1897 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1898 code, not intended for installation.
1899 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1901 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1902 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1904 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1905 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1906 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1907 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1908 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1909 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1911 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1913 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1916 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1917 to /path under your home directory.
1918 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1920 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1921 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1922 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1923 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1924 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1926 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1927 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1928 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1929 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1933 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1935 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1937 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1938 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1939 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1941 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1942 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1944 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1945 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1947 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1949 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1952 - major TIFF support re-work
1953 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1955 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1956 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1958 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1961 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1962 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1964 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1966 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1968 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1972 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1975 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1976 alpha channel correctly.
1978 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1979 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1980 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1982 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1983 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1985 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1987 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1989 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1992 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1993 when scaling an animated gif
1994 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1998 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1999 perspective type transformations to work now.
2000 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
2002 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
2003 also fixed some other type warnings
2004 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
2006 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
2008 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
2010 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
2011 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
2012 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
2014 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
2016 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
2018 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
2019 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
2020 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
2022 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
2023 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
2025 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
2026 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
2027 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
2029 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
2031 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
2033 - attempt to work around the test failure at
2034 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
2035 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
2037 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
2038 an unknown image file format.
2039 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
2041 - improve the transform2() documentation
2042 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
2044 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
2045 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
2047 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
2048 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
2049 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
2052 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
2055 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
2056 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
2058 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
2060 - logging functions are now available in the API
2062 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
2063 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
2064 Obviously problems are my fault :)
2065 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
2067 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
2068 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
2069 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
2070 using Imager as a general image processor.
2071 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
2075 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
2076 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
2077 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
2078 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
2080 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
2081 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
2083 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
2084 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
2085 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
2088 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
2090 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
2092 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
2093 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
2095 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
2096 image, but return a new image.
2097 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
2099 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
2100 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
2101 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
2103 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
2104 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
2106 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
2107 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
2109 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
2114 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
2115 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
2117 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
2118 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
2119 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2120 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2122 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2125 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2127 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2130 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2132 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2136 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2137 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2138 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2140 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2141 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2142 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2144 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2146 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2147 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2148 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2150 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2151 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2153 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2154 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2156 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2157 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2158 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2159 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2160 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2161 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2162 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2164 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2167 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2169 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2170 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2171 this issue in the ticket below.
2172 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2173 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2174 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2175 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2177 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2180 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2182 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2184 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2186 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2187 contains only black and white
2189 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2191 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2194 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2198 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2199 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2200 resulted in a memory leak.
2201 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2203 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2204 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2206 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2207 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2209 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2211 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2212 even though the format doesn't require that
2214 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2215 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2217 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2218 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2219 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2221 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2222 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2223 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2225 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2226 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2228 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2231 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2233 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2235 There is one new feature:
2237 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2238 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2239 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2241 Several bugs were fixed:
2243 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2244 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2246 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2247 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2249 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2251 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2253 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2254 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2256 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2257 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2258 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2260 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2261 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2262 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2264 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2267 Win32 font driver fixes:
2269 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2270 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2272 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2273 advance width they would be clipped
2276 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2279 This is primarily a feature release:
2281 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2282 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2283 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2284 blurry results than normal.
2285 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2287 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2289 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2291 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2292 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2293 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2294 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2295 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2296 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2297 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2299 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2300 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2302 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2304 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2305 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2307 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2309 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2310 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2312 - minor documentation fixes
2315 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2318 This is a bugfix release.
2320 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2321 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2323 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2326 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2329 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2330 fixes, new features:
2332 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2334 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2336 - add POD coverage tests
2338 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2339 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2340 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2342 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2343 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2344 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2349 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2350 calculating the advance width.
2351 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2353 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2354 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2355 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2358 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2359 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2360 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2361 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2362 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2364 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2365 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2367 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2369 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2370 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2372 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2375 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2378 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2380 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2382 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2384 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2386 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2388 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2391 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2394 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2395 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2396 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2397 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2399 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2400 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2402 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2403 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049