1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
5 - to_paletted() and make_palette() now fail (with an error in
6 errstr()) if invalid quantization parameters are supplied.
8 - map() would corrupt a channel if there was a gap in the arrayref of
9 channels. Detected by Coverity. CID 185300.
11 Coverity finally finished a build[1], fix a few problems:
15 - reading a color-mapped TGA file with an id string would cause a
16 double-free if the palette was truncated. CID 185317.
18 - mixing scaling to sizes where the accumulator row, the working
19 output row or the working input row didn't fit into the address
20 space could result in memory leaks. This can probably only be
21 reproduced on very wide floating-point sample images. CID 185318.
23 - convert an array style function parameter pointer to pointer style
24 to prevent confusing Coverity in the T1 bounding box implementation.
27 - Similarly in the FT1 bounding box implementation. CID 185338.
29 - Similarly for the i_tt_rasterize() function in the FT1
30 implementation. CID 185303.
32 - initialize a pointer to prevent Coverity complaining in polygon
33 drawing (it should always end up being set.) CID 185341.
35 - addi style makemap could potentially read one past the end of an
38 - supplying a numeric hatch of 32 to Imager::Fill->new(hatch => ...)
39 would result in read beyond the end of the built-in hatch array.
40 Negative values (which Coverity didn't complain about) could also
41 cause problems. CID 185331.
43 - the Imager::Color set_internal() interal method no longer
44 calls the over-complicated ICL_set_internal() (which is retained
45 only for the old API.) Coverity complained that this leaked, but
46 this could only occur with an invalid (NULL pointer) color object.
49 - the underlying implementation of the map() method could read before
50 the beginning on an allocated array if supplied with inconsistent
51 parameters, which Coverity complained about. No Imager code calls
52 that function with inconsistent parameters, but a
53 belt-and-suspenders check was added. CID 185315.
55 - Coverity complained a call to i_getcolors(), used by the
56 implementation of the is_bilevel() method could leave the fetched
57 colors uninitialized. Added a return value check. CID 185308.
59 - a numeric combining mode of 13 (eg. as a parameter to
60 Imager::Fill->new())could cause an invalid array read in
61 i_get_combine() due to a fencepost error in validating the combine
64 Lower severity (according to Coverity):
66 - avoid an unneeded EXTEND() call when the FT1 has_chars()
67 implementation returns 0. CID 185350.
69 - avoid accessing a possibly NULL map from MakeMapObject() in a
70 logging call. (GIF) CID 185296.
72 - gradgen() allocated the wrong amount of space (always too much) for
73 the color array. CID 185291.
75 - avoid dead code in i_tt_glyph_names(). CID 185321.
77 - avoid dead code in i_get_anonymous_color_histo(), which is the
78 implementation of getcolorusage(). CID 185327.
80 - avoid dead code in i_ft2_glyph_name(), which is the implementation
81 of glyph_names() for FT2. CID 185342.
83 - avoid dead code in i_t1_glyph_names(), which is the implementation
84 of glyph_names() for T1. CID 185322.
86 - avoid an unneeded EXTEND() call when the FT2 has_chars()
87 implementation returns 0. CID 185292.
89 - the unpack code for ICO/CUR file handling could extend 32-bit
90 unsigned values to 64-bit signed. I believe this is harmless. CID
93 - remove an unneeded check when terminating the stream for JPEG
96 - skip an unneeded check when freeing the combine temp buffer in the
97 fountain filter. CID 185286.
99 - check the combine function pointer consistently rather than the
100 combine code in one place in the fountain filter.
102 - error diffusion now validates a custom error diffusion map and reports
103 an error if it's bad. CID 185288.
105 - avoid discarding the value of i_io_getc() when scanning numbers in
108 - handle failure to clone the log filehandle when cloning the Imager
109 context object on thread creation. CID 185294.
111 - fix an unsigned comparison when converting character code to a
112 glyph index with a NULL character map when calculating the glyph
113 for display for FT1. This should be rare. CID 185297.
115 - fix a similar bug when calculating whether a glyph is present for
116 has_chars() for FT1. CID 185302.
118 - i_img_info() (C API) no longer tries to handle a NULL image object
121 - re-work testing for size_t overflow for circle/random
122 super-sampling for fountain fills. CID 185304.
124 [1] The first two build submissions ended up at the end of a ~400
125 build queue, and seemed to have been cancelled by Coverity. A build
126 submitted on NYE went through in minutes.
128 Imager 1.008 - 31 Dec 2018
131 - moved EXIF handling from Imager::File::JPEG to core Imager
132 This allows file formats that store EXIF data as blobs similarly
133 to JPEG to re-use this code. (such as Imager::File::WEBP)
135 - added some more file extensions to image file type mappings
137 - added add_type_extensions() class method
139 Imager 1.007 - 24 Nov 2018
142 - add png_compression_level tag for writing PNG files.
144 - avoid flooring a second time in matrix transform interpolation.
145 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124001
147 - produce v2 metadata.
148 Includes change from the ticket and updates to sub-modules.
149 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127216
151 - improve error reporting for the polygon() method
153 Imager 1.006 - 26 Aug 2017
156 - the internal i_errors() function now correctly allocates the stack
157 space needed for its result.
158 https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
160 - t/100-base/020-color.t now uses Imager::Test's test functions
162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111993
164 - write_multi() now returns an error result (a false value) if called
165 with a non-(Imager image object). Previously it would typically
167 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117878
169 - improve the documentation of the jpegquality parameter when
172 - add code to mitigate CVE-2016-1238, Imager will no longer search the
173 default current directory entry in @INC when searching for file
174 format support modules.
176 Imager 1.005 - 16 Apr 2016
179 It's now been ten years since I switched to the new Changes file in
182 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
183 fix them is too much work for now.
185 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
188 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
190 For the strange Win32 failures.
192 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
194 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
197 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
198 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
199 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
201 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
204 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
205 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
206 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
209 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
212 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
213 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
214 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
215 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
216 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
218 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
219 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
221 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
222 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
223 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
224 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
226 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
227 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
228 reduced the contrast of the output image.
229 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
231 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
232 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
233 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
235 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
237 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
240 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
241 themselves) passed to the internal API.
243 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
245 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
246 buffer if there were too many colors
248 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
249 there were too many colors.
251 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
252 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
254 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
255 color image would leak a context object reference count.
257 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
259 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
261 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
262 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
263 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
266 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
268 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
269 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
270 if there was zero pixel coverage.
272 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
273 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
276 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
279 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
280 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
282 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
283 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
285 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
286 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
287 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
289 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
290 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
292 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
295 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
298 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
300 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
301 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
303 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
306 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
307 depending on the size of the circle.
308 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
309 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
313 - enhancements to polygon filling:
315 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
317 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
320 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
322 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
323 These were added for two reasons:
325 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
326 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
327 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
329 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
330 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
331 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
332 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translate
335 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
336 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
338 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
339 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
342 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
345 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
346 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
347 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
349 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
352 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
353 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
355 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
357 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
359 - make verbose probing output more verbose
361 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
362 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
364 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
367 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
370 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
373 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
375 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
377 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
378 number of Win32 CPAN testers
380 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
383 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
384 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
385 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
386 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
387 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
389 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
390 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
391 performance improvement.
393 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
394 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
395 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
397 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
398 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
401 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
404 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
405 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
406 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
408 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
410 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
411 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
413 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
414 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
415 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
417 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
420 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
421 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
423 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
425 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
426 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
430 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
431 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
433 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
434 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
435 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
437 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
438 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
439 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
441 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
442 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
443 still available as "autolevels_skew".
444 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
446 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
447 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
448 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
449 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
450 palette to test for benign errors.
451 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
453 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
456 Incompatible changes:
458 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
460 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
461 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
462 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
466 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
467 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
468 returned, and errstr() is set,
470 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
471 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
472 but true" is returned.
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
478 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
479 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
480 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
481 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
482 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
483 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
485 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
486 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
487 of a malloced buffer.
489 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
491 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
493 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
494 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
496 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
497 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
498 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
500 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
501 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
502 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
503 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
505 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
507 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
510 No changes from 0.96_02.
512 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
515 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
517 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
519 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
520 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
521 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
523 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
525 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
526 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
528 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
531 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
532 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
534 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
536 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
538 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
539 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
540 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
541 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
543 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
546 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
548 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
549 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
551 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
552 typemap instead of rolling their own.
554 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
557 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
558 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
559 simplifies the XS code.
561 - many other minor XS changes
563 - some XS code formatting
565 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
566 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
567 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
569 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
571 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
572 reporting some types of error.
573 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
575 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
576 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
577 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
579 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
582 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
585 - rearrange Imager's test files.
586 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
588 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
589 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
590 paths, which avoids that localization.
591 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
593 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
594 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
596 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
597 reported by Andreas König
599 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
601 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
603 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
606 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
607 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
608 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
610 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
612 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
615 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
616 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
617 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
618 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
619 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
621 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
622 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
623 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
625 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
628 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
630 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
631 due to a bug in that version of perl.
633 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
634 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
636 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
637 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
639 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
642 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
643 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
646 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
647 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
649 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
650 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
652 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
654 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
655 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
658 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
659 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
660 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
662 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
664 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
665 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
666 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
668 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
669 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
671 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
672 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
674 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
675 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
677 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
678 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
680 - fixed some other compiler warnings
682 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
683 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
685 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
686 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
687 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
688 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
689 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
690 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
692 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
693 =========================
695 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
698 - improved thread safety
699 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
701 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
702 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
703 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
704 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
705 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
706 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
707 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
708 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
711 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
712 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
714 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
716 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
718 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
720 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
722 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
727 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
728 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
731 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
733 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
734 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
736 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
737 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
738 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
740 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
741 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
743 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
746 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
747 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
748 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
752 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
753 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
754 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
755 header version in 5.0.0.
757 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
758 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
759 uninitialized gif89 bug.
760 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
761 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
763 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
765 - match Imager::Font::T1's error message translations to those from
766 later versions of T1Lib.
768 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
769 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
771 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
772 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
774 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
777 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
778 correctly for both probing and runtime.
779 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
781 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
783 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
785 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
790 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
791 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
792 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
793 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
794 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
795 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
796 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
797 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
798 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
802 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
803 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
805 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
806 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
807 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
808 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
810 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
812 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
813 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
815 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
816 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
818 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
819 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
821 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
826 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
827 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
828 Corrected the prototype.
830 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
831 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
832 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
833 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
834 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
836 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
838 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
839 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
840 processing the image data itself.
841 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
843 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
844 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
847 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
849 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
850 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
851 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
852 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
853 directories and insert that into the library flags.
854 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
856 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
857 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
858 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
860 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
862 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
863 handle a statically linked libpng.
864 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
866 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
867 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
868 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
869 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
870 configuration is found.
871 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
875 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
876 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
877 called but not supplied.
878 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
880 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
883 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
885 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
887 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
888 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
891 - improve error reporting
892 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
893 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
894 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
895 handlers to write as bilevel
896 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
897 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
898 - write paletted images as paletted images
899 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
901 - improved metadata support
902 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
904 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
909 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
910 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
911 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
915 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
916 rather than the heading you can find them under.
917 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
919 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
920 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
921 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
922 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
924 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
925 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
926 pointer and line number.
927 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
929 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
932 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
933 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
935 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
937 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
940 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
941 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
943 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
944 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
946 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
947 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
948 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
950 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
951 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
952 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
953 interfaces to these functions.
955 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
956 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
958 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
962 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
963 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
965 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
967 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
969 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
970 component of the color is now significant.
971 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
973 - remove long unused gif case from read()
974 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
976 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
977 when it's meant to be an array reference.
978 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
980 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
981 parameters are supplied.
982 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
983 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
985 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
988 - document the return value of the filter() method.
989 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
991 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
992 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
994 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
996 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
998 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
999 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
1001 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
1002 identify the file type match reality.
1003 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
1005 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
1006 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
1008 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
1009 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
1011 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
1012 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
1014 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
1017 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
1019 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
1021 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
1022 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
1023 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
1024 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
1026 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
1029 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
1031 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
1036 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
1037 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
1039 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
1040 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
1042 - make default text color non-transparent
1043 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
1045 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
1046 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
1048 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
1050 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
1052 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
1053 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
1055 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
1057 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
1060 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
1061 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
1063 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
1064 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
1066 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
1069 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
1072 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
1073 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
1075 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
1077 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
1078 initialized more efficiently.
1079 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
1081 - updated the Thanks list in README
1082 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
1084 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
1085 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
1087 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
1088 perl could order it differently.
1089 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
1091 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
1092 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
1093 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
1094 prefixed names on Win32.
1095 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
1097 - fix library detection with MSVC
1099 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
1100 them. Hopefully fixes:
1101 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
1103 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
1106 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
1108 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
1110 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
1112 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
1113 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
1116 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
1117 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
1118 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
1121 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
1123 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
1124 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
1126 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
1127 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
1129 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
1130 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
1131 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
1132 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
1133 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
1134 then panic about the result.
1136 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
1137 callback, which should return true for success.
1139 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
1140 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
1142 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
1143 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
1144 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
1146 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
1148 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
1149 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
1152 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
1154 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
1155 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
1158 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
1160 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
1162 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
1165 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
1168 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
1170 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
1171 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
1173 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
1174 lead to an infinite loop.
1178 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1180 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1183 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1188 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1189 checked when reading TIFF files.
1190 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1192 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1193 failed image file read() or write().
1194 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1196 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1197 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1198 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1200 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1204 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1205 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1206 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1208 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1209 modernize the tests a bit.
1210 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1212 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1213 them when available.
1214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1216 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1218 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1220 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1221 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1223 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1226 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1228 Massive types re-work:
1230 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1231 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1233 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1235 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1236 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1237 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1238 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1240 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1241 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1242 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1243 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1245 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1246 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1248 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1252 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1253 values when writing a GIF image.
1255 - removed dead callback read/write code
1257 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1259 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1262 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1265 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1266 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1270 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1271 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1273 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1274 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1276 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1278 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1279 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1281 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1284 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1285 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1287 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1289 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1290 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1292 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1294 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1295 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1296 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1298 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1303 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1304 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1305 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1307 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1310 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1314 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1315 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1316 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1318 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1319 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1320 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1322 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1325 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1328 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1333 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1334 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1335 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1336 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1338 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1339 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1340 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1341 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1343 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1344 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1346 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1347 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1349 - improve the library detection summary
1350 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1352 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1353 downgrade the version in this file.
1354 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1356 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1357 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1358 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1359 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1361 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1364 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1366 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1367 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1368 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1370 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1371 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1373 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1374 work around limitations in PAR.
1375 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1379 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1380 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1382 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1383 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1385 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1386 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1387 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1388 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1390 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1391 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1393 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1395 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1396 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1398 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1401 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1402 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1404 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1407 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1409 - Imager is now maintained in git
1410 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1411 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1415 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1416 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1417 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1419 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1420 just a little darker.
1422 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1423 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1424 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1425 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1427 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1429 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1432 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1435 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1436 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1437 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1438 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1440 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1442 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1443 images into a new image
1444 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1448 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1450 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1451 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1452 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1454 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1455 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1457 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1458 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1460 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1465 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1466 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1468 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1470 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1472 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1473 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1475 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1478 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1479 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1480 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1481 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1483 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1484 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1488 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1491 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1493 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1495 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1496 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1497 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1499 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1502 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1504 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1505 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1507 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1508 preparation for separate distribution.
1509 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1511 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1513 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1517 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1518 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1519 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1520 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1522 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1523 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1524 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1526 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1527 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1528 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1529 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1532 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1533 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1535 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1536 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1537 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1538 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1540 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1543 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1544 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1546 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1548 - add resources to META.yml
1550 Imager 0.76 - not released
1555 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1556 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1557 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1558 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1560 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1565 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1566 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1568 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1569 the code run phase of library probing.
1571 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1576 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1578 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1581 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1583 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1584 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1585 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1586 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1588 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1589 for separate distribution.
1590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1591 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1596 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1598 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1600 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1602 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1603 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1605 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1606 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1608 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1609 (sorry for the mess)
1611 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1612 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1613 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1615 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1618 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1619 perls (not measured)
1623 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1624 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1626 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1627 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1629 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1634 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1635 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1636 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1638 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1639 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1641 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1643 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1644 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1646 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1648 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1651 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1652 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1654 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1655 the incorrect colour.
1657 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1660 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1662 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1665 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1666 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1669 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1672 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1673 it works with non-threaded perls
1675 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1680 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1682 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1684 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1685 8-bit sample operations.
1686 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1689 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1691 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1692 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1693 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1694 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1696 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1699 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1704 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1705 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1706 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1707 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1708 results or runtime exceptions.
1709 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1712 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1717 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1720 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1722 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1724 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1725 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1726 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1727 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1728 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1731 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1736 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1737 that should be a parameter to plan().
1739 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1740 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1742 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1744 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1747 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1748 load the given file.
1749 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1753 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1754 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1756 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1757 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1760 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1762 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1764 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1769 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1771 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1773 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1776 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1778 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1779 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1782 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1783 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1785 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1786 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1787 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1789 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1790 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1794 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1795 META.yml from scratch
1796 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1798 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1799 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1800 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1801 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1803 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1808 - fix a packaging error
1810 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1813 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1817 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1818 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1819 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1821 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1822 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1823 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1824 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1826 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1828 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1829 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1831 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1833 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1834 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1835 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1837 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1838 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1839 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1840 - group width methods and height methods
1841 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1843 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1848 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1849 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1850 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1851 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1852 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1855 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1856 ignored for the screen height when present.
1857 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1859 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1862 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1867 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1868 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1869 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1870 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1873 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1874 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1875 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1877 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1878 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1879 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1880 not a buffer overflow.
1881 Added a check for the failure.
1882 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1883 scale size parameters are a reference.
1884 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1886 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1887 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1888 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1890 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1892 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1895 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1896 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1897 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1898 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1901 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1902 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1904 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1906 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1907 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1908 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1909 noalpha channels or back.
1910 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1912 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1913 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1914 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1915 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1917 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1918 functions when filling.
1919 Corrected normal combine mode.
1920 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1921 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1922 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1923 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1925 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1927 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1928 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1929 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1930 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1932 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1933 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1934 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1935 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1937 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1938 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1939 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1940 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1944 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1946 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1948 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1949 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1950 compressible output files.
1951 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1953 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1955 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1956 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1957 code, not intended for installation.
1958 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1960 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1961 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1963 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1964 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1965 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1966 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1967 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1968 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1970 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1972 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1975 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1976 to /path under your home directory.
1977 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1979 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1980 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1981 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1982 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1983 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1985 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1986 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1987 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1988 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1992 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1994 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1996 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1997 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1998 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
2000 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
2001 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
2003 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
2004 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
2006 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
2008 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
2011 - major TIFF support re-work
2012 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
2014 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
2015 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
2017 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
2020 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
2021 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
2023 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
2025 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
2027 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
2031 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
2034 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
2035 alpha channel correctly.
2037 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
2038 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
2039 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
2041 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
2042 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
2044 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
2046 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
2048 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
2051 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
2052 when scaling an animated gif
2053 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
2057 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
2058 perspective type transformations to work now.
2059 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
2061 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
2062 also fixed some other type warnings
2063 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
2065 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
2067 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
2069 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
2070 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
2071 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
2073 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
2075 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
2077 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
2078 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
2079 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
2081 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
2082 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
2084 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
2085 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
2086 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
2088 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
2090 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
2092 - attempt to work around the test failure at
2093 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
2094 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
2096 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
2097 an unknown image file format.
2098 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
2100 - improve the transform2() documentation
2101 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
2103 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
2104 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
2106 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
2107 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
2108 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
2111 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
2114 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
2115 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
2117 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
2119 - logging functions are now available in the API
2121 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
2122 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
2123 Obviously problems are my fault :)
2124 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
2126 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
2127 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
2128 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
2129 using Imager as a general image processor.
2130 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
2134 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
2135 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
2136 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
2137 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
2139 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
2140 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
2142 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
2143 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
2144 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
2147 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
2149 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
2151 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
2152 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
2154 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
2155 image, but return a new image.
2156 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
2158 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
2159 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
2160 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
2162 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
2163 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
2165 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
2166 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
2168 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
2173 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
2174 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
2176 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
2177 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
2178 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2179 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2181 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2184 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2186 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2189 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2191 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2195 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2196 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2197 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2199 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2200 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2201 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2203 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2205 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2206 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2207 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2209 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2210 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2212 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2213 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2215 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2216 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2217 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2218 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2219 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2220 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2221 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2223 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2226 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2228 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2229 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2230 this issue in the ticket below.
2231 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2232 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2233 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2234 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2236 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2239 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2241 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2243 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2245 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2246 contains only black and white
2248 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2250 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2253 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2257 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2258 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2259 resulted in a memory leak.
2260 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2262 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2263 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2265 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2266 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2268 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2270 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2271 even though the format doesn't require that
2273 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2274 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2276 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2277 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2278 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2280 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2281 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2284 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2285 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2287 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2290 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2292 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2294 There is one new feature:
2296 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2297 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2298 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2300 Several bugs were fixed:
2302 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2303 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2305 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2306 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2308 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2310 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2312 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2313 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2315 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2316 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2317 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2319 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2320 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2321 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2323 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2326 Win32 font driver fixes:
2328 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2329 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2331 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2332 advance width they would be clipped
2335 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2338 This is primarily a feature release:
2340 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2341 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2342 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2343 blurry results than normal.
2344 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2346 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2348 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2350 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2351 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2352 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2353 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2354 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2355 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2356 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2358 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2359 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2361 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2363 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2364 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2366 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2368 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2369 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2371 - minor documentation fixes
2374 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2377 This is a bugfix release.
2379 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2380 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2382 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2385 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2388 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2389 fixes, new features:
2391 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2393 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2395 - add POD coverage tests
2397 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2398 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2399 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2401 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2402 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2403 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2408 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2409 calculating the advance width.
2410 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2412 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2413 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2414 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2417 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2418 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2419 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2420 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2421 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2423 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2424 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2426 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2428 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2429 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2431 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2434 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2437 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2439 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2441 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2443 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2445 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2447 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2450 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2453 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2454 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2455 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2456 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2458 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2459 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2461 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2462 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049