1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
6 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
7 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
8 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
10 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
13 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
14 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
15 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
18 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
21 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
22 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
23 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
24 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
25 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
27 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
28 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
30 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
31 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
32 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
33 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
35 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
36 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
37 reduced the contrast of the output image.
38 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
40 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
41 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
42 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
44 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
46 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
49 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
50 themselves) passed to the internal API.
52 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
54 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
55 buffer if there were too many colors
57 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
58 there were too many colors.
60 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
61 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
63 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
64 color image would leak a context object reference count.
66 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
68 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
70 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
71 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
72 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
75 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
77 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
78 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
79 if there was zero pixel coverage.
81 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
82 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
85 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
88 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
89 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
91 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
92 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
94 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
95 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
96 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
98 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
99 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
101 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
104 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
107 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
109 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
110 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
112 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
115 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
116 depending on the size of the circle.
117 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
118 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
120 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
122 - enhancements to polygon filling:
124 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
126 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
129 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
131 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
132 These were added for two reasons:
134 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
135 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
136 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
138 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
139 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
140 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
141 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translates
144 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
145 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
147 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
148 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
151 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
154 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
155 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
156 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
158 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
161 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
162 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
164 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
166 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
168 - make verbose probing output more verbose
170 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
171 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
173 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
176 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
179 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
182 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
184 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
186 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
187 number of Win32 CPAN testers
189 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
192 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
193 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
194 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
195 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
196 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
198 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
199 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
200 performance improvement.
202 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
203 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
204 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
206 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
207 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
208 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
210 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
213 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
214 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
215 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
217 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
219 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
220 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
222 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
223 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
224 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
226 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
229 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
230 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
232 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
234 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
235 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
237 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
239 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
240 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
242 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
243 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
244 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
246 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
247 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
248 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
250 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
251 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
252 still available as "autolevels_skew".
253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
255 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
256 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
257 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
258 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
259 palette to test for benign errors.
260 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
262 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
265 Incompatible changes:
267 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
269 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
270 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
271 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
275 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
276 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
277 returned, and errstr() is set,
279 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
280 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
281 but true" is returned.
283 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
287 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
288 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
289 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
290 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
291 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
292 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
294 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
295 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
296 of a malloced buffer.
298 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
300 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
302 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
303 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
305 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
306 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
309 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
310 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
311 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
312 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
314 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
316 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
319 No changes from 0.96_02.
321 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
324 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
326 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
328 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
329 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
330 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
332 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
334 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
335 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
337 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
340 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
341 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
343 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
345 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
347 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
348 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
349 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
350 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
352 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
355 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
357 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
358 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
360 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
361 typemap instead of rolling their own.
363 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
366 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
367 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
368 simplifies the XS code.
370 - many other minor XS changes
372 - some XS code formatting
374 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
375 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
376 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
378 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
380 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
381 reporting some types of error.
382 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
384 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
385 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
386 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
388 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
391 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
394 - rearrange Imager's test files.
395 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
397 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
398 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
399 paths, which avoids that localization.
400 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
402 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
403 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
405 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
406 reported by Andreas König
408 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
410 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
412 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
415 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
416 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
417 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
419 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
421 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
424 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
425 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
426 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
427 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
428 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
430 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
431 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
432 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
434 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
437 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
439 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
440 due to a bug in that version of perl.
442 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
443 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
445 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
446 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
448 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
451 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
452 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
455 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
456 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
458 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
459 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
461 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
463 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
464 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
467 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
468 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
469 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
471 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
473 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
474 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
475 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
477 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
478 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
480 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
481 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
483 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
484 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
486 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
487 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
489 - fixed some other compiler warnings
491 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
492 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
494 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
495 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
496 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
497 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
498 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
499 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
501 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
502 =========================
504 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
507 - improved thread safety
508 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
510 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
511 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
512 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
513 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
514 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
515 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
516 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
517 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
520 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
521 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
523 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
525 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
527 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
529 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
531 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
536 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
537 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
540 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
542 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
543 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
545 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
546 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
547 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
549 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
550 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
552 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
555 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
556 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
557 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
561 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
562 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
563 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
564 header version in 5.0.0.
566 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
567 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
568 uninitialized gif89 bug.
569 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
570 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
572 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
574 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
575 later versions of T1Lib.
577 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
578 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
580 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
581 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
583 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
586 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
587 correctly for both probing and runtime.
588 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
590 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
592 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
594 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
599 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
600 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
601 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
602 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
603 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
604 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
605 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
606 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
607 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
611 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
612 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
614 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
615 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
616 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
617 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
619 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
621 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
622 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
624 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
625 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
627 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
628 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
630 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
635 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
636 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
637 Corrected the prototype.
639 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
640 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
641 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
642 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
643 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
645 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
647 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
648 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
649 processing the image data itself.
650 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
652 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
653 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
656 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
658 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
659 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
660 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
661 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
662 directories and insert that into the library flags.
663 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
665 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
666 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
667 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
669 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
671 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
672 handle a statically linked libpng.
673 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
675 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
676 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
677 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
678 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
679 configuration is found.
680 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
684 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
685 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
686 called but not supplied.
687 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
689 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
692 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
694 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
696 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
697 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
700 - improve error reporting
701 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
702 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
703 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
704 handlers to write as bilevel
705 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
706 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
707 - write paletted images as paletted images
708 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
710 - improved metadata support
711 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
713 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
718 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
719 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
720 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
724 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
725 rather than the heading you can find them under.
726 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
728 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
729 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
730 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
731 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
733 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
734 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
735 pointer and line number.
736 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
738 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
741 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
742 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
744 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
746 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
749 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
750 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
752 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
753 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
755 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
756 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
757 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
759 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
760 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
761 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
762 interfaces to these functions.
764 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
765 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
767 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
771 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
772 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
774 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
776 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
778 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
779 component of the color is now significant.
780 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
782 - remove long unused gif case from read()
783 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
785 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
786 when it's meant to be an array reference.
787 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
789 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
790 parameters are supplied.
791 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
792 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
794 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
797 - document the return value of the filter() method.
798 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
800 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
801 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
803 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
805 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
807 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
808 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
810 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
811 identify the file type match reality.
812 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
814 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
815 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
817 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
818 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
820 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
821 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
823 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
826 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
828 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
830 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
831 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
832 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
833 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
835 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
838 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
840 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
845 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
846 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
848 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
849 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
851 - make default text color non-transparent
852 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
854 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
855 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
857 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
859 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
861 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
862 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
864 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
866 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
869 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
870 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
872 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
873 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
875 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
878 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
881 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
882 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
884 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
886 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
887 initialized more efficiently.
888 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
890 - updated the Thanks list in README
891 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
893 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
894 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
896 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
897 perl could order it differently.
898 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
900 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
901 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
902 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
903 prefixed names on Win32.
904 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
906 - fix library detection with MSVC
908 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
909 them. Hopefully fixes:
910 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
912 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
915 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
917 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
919 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
921 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
922 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
925 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
926 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
927 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
930 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
932 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
933 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
935 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
936 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
938 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
939 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
940 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
941 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
942 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
943 then panic about the result.
945 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
946 callback, which should return true for success.
948 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
949 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
951 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
952 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
953 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
955 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
957 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
958 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
961 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
963 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
964 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
967 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
969 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
971 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
974 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
977 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
979 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
980 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
982 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
983 lead to an infinite loop.
987 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
989 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
992 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
997 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
998 checked when reading TIFF files.
999 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1001 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1002 failed image file read() or write().
1003 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1005 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1006 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1007 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1009 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1011 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1013 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1014 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1015 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1017 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1018 modernize the tests a bit.
1019 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1021 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1022 them when available.
1023 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1025 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1027 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1029 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1030 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1032 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1035 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1037 Massive types re-work:
1039 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1040 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1042 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1044 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1045 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1046 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1047 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1049 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1050 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1051 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1052 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1054 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1055 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1057 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1061 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1062 values when writing a GIF image.
1064 - removed dead callback read/write code
1066 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1068 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1071 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1074 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1075 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1079 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1080 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1082 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1083 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1085 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1087 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1088 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1090 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1091 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1093 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1094 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1096 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1098 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1099 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1101 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1103 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1104 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1105 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1107 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1112 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1113 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1114 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1116 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1119 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1123 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1124 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1125 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1127 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1128 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1129 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1131 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1134 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1137 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1142 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1143 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1144 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1145 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1147 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1148 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1149 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1150 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1152 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1153 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1155 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1156 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1158 - improve the library detection summary
1159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1161 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1162 downgrade the version in this file.
1163 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1165 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1166 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1167 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1168 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1170 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1173 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1175 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1176 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1177 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1179 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1180 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1182 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1183 work around limitations in PAR.
1184 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1188 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1189 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1191 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1192 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1194 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1195 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1196 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1199 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1200 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1204 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1205 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1207 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1208 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1210 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1211 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1213 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1216 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1218 - Imager is now maintained in git
1219 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1220 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1224 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1225 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1226 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1228 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1229 just a little darker.
1231 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1232 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1233 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1234 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1236 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1238 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1241 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1244 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1245 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1246 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1247 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1249 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1251 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1252 images into a new image
1253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1257 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1259 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1260 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1261 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1263 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1264 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1266 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1267 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1269 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1274 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1275 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1277 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1279 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1281 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1284 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1287 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1288 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1289 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1290 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1292 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1293 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1297 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1300 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1302 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1304 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1305 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1306 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1308 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1311 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1313 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1314 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1316 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1317 preparation for separate distribution.
1318 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1320 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1322 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1326 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1327 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1328 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1329 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1331 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1332 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1333 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1335 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1336 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1337 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1338 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1341 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1342 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1344 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1345 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1346 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1347 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1349 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1352 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1353 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1355 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1357 - add resources to META.yml
1359 Imager 0.76 - not released
1364 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1365 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1366 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1367 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1369 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1374 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1375 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1377 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1378 the code run phase of library probing.
1380 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1385 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1387 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1390 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1392 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1393 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1394 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1395 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1397 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1398 for separate distribution.
1399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1400 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1405 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1407 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1409 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1411 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1412 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1414 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1415 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1417 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1418 (sorry for the mess)
1420 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1421 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1422 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1424 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1427 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1428 perls (not measured)
1432 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1433 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1435 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1436 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1438 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1443 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1444 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1445 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1447 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1448 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1450 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1452 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1453 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1455 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1457 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1460 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1461 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1463 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1464 the incorrect colour.
1466 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1469 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1471 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1474 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1475 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1478 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1481 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1482 it works with non-threaded perls
1484 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1489 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1491 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1493 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1494 8-bit sample operations.
1495 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1498 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1500 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1501 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1502 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1503 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1505 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1508 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1513 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1514 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1515 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1516 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1517 results or runtime exceptions.
1518 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1521 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1526 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1529 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1531 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1533 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1534 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1535 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1536 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1537 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1540 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1545 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1546 that should be a parameter to plan().
1548 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1549 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1551 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1553 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1556 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1557 load the given file.
1558 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1562 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1563 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1565 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1566 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1569 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1571 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1573 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1578 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1580 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1582 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1585 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1587 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1588 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1591 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1592 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1594 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1595 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1596 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1598 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1599 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1603 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1604 META.yml from scratch
1605 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1607 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1608 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1609 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1610 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1612 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1617 - fix a packaging error
1619 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1622 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1626 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1627 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1628 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1630 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1631 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1632 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1633 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1635 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1637 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1638 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1640 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1642 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1643 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1644 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1646 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1647 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1648 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1649 - group width methods and height methods
1650 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1652 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1657 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1658 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1659 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1660 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1661 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1664 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1665 ignored for the screen height when present.
1666 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1668 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1671 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1676 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1677 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1678 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1679 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1682 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1683 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1684 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1686 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1687 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1688 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1689 not a buffer overflow.
1690 Added a check for the failure.
1691 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1692 scale size parameters are a reference.
1693 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1695 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1696 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1697 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1699 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1701 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1704 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1705 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1706 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1707 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1710 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1711 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1713 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1715 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1716 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1717 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1718 noalpha channels or back.
1719 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1721 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1722 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1723 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1724 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1726 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1727 functions when filling.
1728 Corrected normal combine mode.
1729 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1730 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1731 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1732 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1734 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1736 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1737 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1738 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1739 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1741 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1742 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1743 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1744 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1746 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1747 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1748 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1749 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1753 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1755 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1757 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1758 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1759 compressible output files.
1760 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1762 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1764 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1765 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1766 code, not intended for installation.
1767 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1769 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1770 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1772 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1773 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1774 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1775 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1776 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1777 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1779 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1781 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1784 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1785 to /path under your home directory.
1786 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1788 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1789 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1790 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1791 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1792 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1794 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1795 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1796 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1797 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1801 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1803 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1805 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1806 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1807 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1809 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1810 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1812 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1813 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1815 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1817 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1820 - major TIFF support re-work
1821 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1823 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1824 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1826 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1829 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1830 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1832 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1834 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1836 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1840 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1843 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1844 alpha channel correctly.
1846 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1847 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1848 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1850 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1851 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1853 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1855 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1857 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1860 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1861 when scaling an animated gif
1862 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1866 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1867 perspective type transformations to work now.
1868 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1870 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1871 also fixed some other type warnings
1872 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1874 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1876 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1878 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1879 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1880 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1882 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1884 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1886 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1887 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1888 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1890 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1891 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1893 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1894 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1895 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1897 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1899 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1901 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1902 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1903 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1905 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1906 an unknown image file format.
1907 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1909 - improve the transform2() documentation
1910 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1912 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1913 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1915 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1916 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1917 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1920 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1923 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1924 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1926 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1928 - logging functions are now available in the API
1930 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1931 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1932 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1933 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1935 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1936 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1937 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1938 using Imager as a general image processor.
1939 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1943 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1944 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1945 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1946 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1948 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1949 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1951 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1952 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1953 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1956 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1958 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1960 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1961 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1963 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1964 image, but return a new image.
1965 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1967 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1968 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1969 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1971 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1972 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1974 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1975 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1977 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1982 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1983 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1985 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1986 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1987 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1988 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1990 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1993 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1995 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1998 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2000 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2004 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2005 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2006 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2008 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2009 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2010 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2012 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2014 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2015 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2016 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2018 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2019 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2021 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2022 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2024 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2025 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2026 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2027 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2028 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2029 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2030 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2032 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2035 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2037 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2038 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2039 this issue in the ticket below.
2040 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2041 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2042 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2043 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2045 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2048 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2050 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2052 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2054 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2055 contains only black and white
2057 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2059 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2062 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2066 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2067 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2068 resulted in a memory leak.
2069 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2071 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2072 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2074 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2075 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2077 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2079 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2080 even though the format doesn't require that
2082 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2083 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2085 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2086 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2087 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2089 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2090 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2091 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2093 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2094 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2096 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2099 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2101 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2103 There is one new feature:
2105 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2106 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2107 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2109 Several bugs were fixed:
2111 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2112 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2114 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2115 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2117 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2119 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2121 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2122 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2124 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2125 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2126 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2128 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2129 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2130 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2132 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2135 Win32 font driver fixes:
2137 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2138 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2140 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2141 advance width they would be clipped
2144 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2147 This is primarily a feature release:
2149 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2150 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2151 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2152 blurry results than normal.
2153 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2155 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2157 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2159 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2160 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2161 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2162 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2163 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2164 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2165 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2167 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2168 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2170 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2172 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2173 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2175 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2177 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2178 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2180 - minor documentation fixes
2183 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2186 This is a bugfix release.
2188 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2189 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2191 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2194 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2197 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2198 fixes, new features:
2200 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2202 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2204 - add POD coverage tests
2206 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2207 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2208 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2210 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2211 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2212 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2217 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2218 calculating the advance width.
2219 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2221 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2222 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2223 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2226 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2227 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2228 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2229 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2230 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2232 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2233 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2235 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2237 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2238 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2240 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2243 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2246 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2248 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2250 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2252 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2254 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2256 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2259 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2262 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2263 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2264 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2265 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2267 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2268 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2270 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2271 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049