1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
4 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
5 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
6 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
7 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
9 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
10 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
12 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
13 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
14 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
15 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
17 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
18 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
19 reduced the contrast of the output image.
20 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
22 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
23 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
24 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
26 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
28 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
31 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
32 themselves) passed to the internal API.
34 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
36 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
37 buffer if there were too many colors
39 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
40 there were too many colors.
42 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
43 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
45 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
46 color image would leak a context object reference count.
48 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
50 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
52 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
53 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
54 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
57 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
59 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
60 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
61 if there was zero pixel coverage.
63 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
64 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
67 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
70 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
71 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
73 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
74 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
76 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
77 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
78 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
80 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
81 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
83 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
86 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
89 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
91 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
92 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
94 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
97 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
98 depending on the size of the circle.
99 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
100 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
102 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
104 - enhancements to polygon filling:
106 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
108 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
111 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
113 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
114 These were added for two reasons:
116 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
117 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
118 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
120 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
121 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
122 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
123 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translates
126 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
127 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
129 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
130 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
133 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
136 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
137 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
138 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
140 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
143 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
144 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
146 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
148 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
150 - make verbose probing output more verbose
152 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
153 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
155 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
158 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
161 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
164 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
166 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
168 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
169 number of Win32 CPAN testers
171 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
174 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
175 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
176 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
177 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
178 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
180 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
181 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
182 performance improvement.
184 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
185 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
186 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
188 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
189 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
190 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
192 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
195 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
196 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
199 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
201 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
202 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
204 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
205 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
206 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
208 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
211 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
212 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
214 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
216 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
217 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
219 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
221 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
222 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
224 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
225 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
226 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
228 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
229 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
230 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
232 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
233 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
234 still available as "autolevels_skew".
235 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
237 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
238 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
239 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
240 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
241 palette to test for benign errors.
242 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
244 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
247 Incompatible changes:
249 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
251 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
252 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
253 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
257 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
258 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
259 returned, and errstr() is set,
261 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
262 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
263 but true" is returned.
265 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
269 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
270 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
271 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
272 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
273 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
274 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
276 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
277 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
278 of a malloced buffer.
280 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
284 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
285 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
287 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
288 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
289 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
291 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
292 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
293 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
294 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
296 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
298 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
301 No changes from 0.96_02.
303 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
306 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
308 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
310 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
311 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
312 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
314 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
316 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
317 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
319 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
322 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
323 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
325 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
327 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
329 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
330 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
331 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
332 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
334 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
337 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
339 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
340 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
342 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
343 typemap instead of rolling their own.
345 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
348 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
349 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
350 simplifies the XS code.
352 - many other minor XS changes
354 - some XS code formatting
356 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
357 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
358 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
360 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
362 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
363 reporting some types of error.
364 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
366 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
367 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
368 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
370 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
373 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
376 - rearrange Imager's test files.
377 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
379 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
380 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
381 paths, which avoids that localization.
382 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
384 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
385 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
387 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
388 reported by Andreas König
390 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
392 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
394 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
397 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
398 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
399 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
401 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
403 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
406 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
407 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
408 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
409 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
410 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
412 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
413 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
414 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
416 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
419 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
421 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
422 due to a bug in that version of perl.
424 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
425 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
427 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
428 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
430 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
433 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
434 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
437 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
438 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
440 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
441 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
443 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
445 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
446 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
449 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
450 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
451 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
453 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
455 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
456 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
457 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
459 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
460 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
462 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
463 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
465 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
466 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
468 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
469 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
471 - fixed some other compiler warnings
473 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
476 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
477 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
478 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
479 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
480 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
481 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
483 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
484 =========================
486 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
489 - improved thread safety
490 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
492 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
493 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
494 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
495 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
496 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
497 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
498 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
499 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
502 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
503 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
505 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
507 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
509 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
511 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
513 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
518 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
519 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
522 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
524 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
525 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
527 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
528 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
529 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
531 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
532 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
534 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
537 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
538 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
539 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
543 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
544 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
545 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
546 header version in 5.0.0.
548 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
549 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
550 uninitialized gif89 bug.
551 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
552 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
554 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
556 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
557 later versions of T1Lib.
559 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
560 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
562 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
563 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
565 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
568 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
569 correctly for both probing and runtime.
570 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
572 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
574 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
576 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
581 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
582 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
583 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
584 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
585 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
586 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
587 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
588 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
589 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
593 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
594 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
596 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
597 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
598 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
599 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
601 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
603 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
604 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
606 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
607 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
609 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
610 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
612 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
617 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
618 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
619 Corrected the prototype.
621 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
622 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
623 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
624 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
625 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
627 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
629 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
630 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
631 processing the image data itself.
632 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
634 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
635 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
638 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
640 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
641 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
642 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
643 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
644 directories and insert that into the library flags.
645 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
647 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
648 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
649 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
651 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
653 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
654 handle a statically linked libpng.
655 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
657 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
658 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
659 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
660 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
661 configuration is found.
662 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
666 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
667 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
668 called but not supplied.
669 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
671 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
674 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
676 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
678 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
679 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
682 - improve error reporting
683 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
684 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
685 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
686 handlers to write as bilevel
687 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
688 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
689 - write paletted images as paletted images
690 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
692 - improved metadata support
693 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
695 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
700 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
701 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
702 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
706 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
707 rather than the heading you can find them under.
708 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
710 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
711 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
712 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
713 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
715 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
716 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
717 pointer and line number.
718 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
720 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
723 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
724 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
726 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
728 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
731 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
732 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
734 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
735 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
737 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
738 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
739 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
741 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
742 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
743 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
744 interfaces to these functions.
746 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
747 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
749 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
753 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
754 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
756 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
758 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
760 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
761 component of the color is now significant.
762 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
764 - remove long unused gif case from read()
765 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
767 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
768 when it's meant to be an array reference.
769 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
771 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
772 parameters are supplied.
773 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
774 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
776 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
779 - document the return value of the filter() method.
780 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
782 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
783 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
785 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
787 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
789 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
790 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
792 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
793 identify the file type match reality.
794 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
796 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
797 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
799 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
800 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
802 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
803 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
805 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
808 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
810 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
812 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
813 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
814 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
815 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
817 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
820 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
822 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
827 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
828 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
830 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
831 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
833 - make default text color non-transparent
834 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
836 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
837 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
839 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
841 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
843 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
844 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
846 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
848 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
851 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
852 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
854 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
855 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
857 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
860 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
863 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
864 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
866 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
868 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
869 initialized more efficiently.
870 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
872 - updated the Thanks list in README
873 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
875 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
876 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
878 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
879 perl could order it differently.
880 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
882 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
883 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
884 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
885 prefixed names on Win32.
886 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
888 - fix library detection with MSVC
890 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
891 them. Hopefully fixes:
892 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
894 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
897 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
899 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
901 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
903 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
904 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
907 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
908 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
909 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
912 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
914 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
915 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
917 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
918 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
920 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
921 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
922 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
923 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
924 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
925 then panic about the result.
927 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
928 callback, which should return true for success.
930 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
931 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
933 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
934 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
935 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
937 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
939 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
940 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
943 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
945 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
946 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
949 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
951 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
953 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
956 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
959 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
961 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
962 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
964 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
965 lead to an infinite loop.
969 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
971 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
974 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
979 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
980 checked when reading TIFF files.
981 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
983 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
984 failed image file read() or write().
985 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
987 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
988 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
989 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
991 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
993 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
995 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
996 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
997 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
999 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1000 modernize the tests a bit.
1001 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1003 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1004 them when available.
1005 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1007 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1009 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1011 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1012 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1014 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1017 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1019 Massive types re-work:
1021 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1022 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1024 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1026 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1027 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1028 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1029 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1031 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1032 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1033 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1034 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1036 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1037 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1039 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1043 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1044 values when writing a GIF image.
1046 - removed dead callback read/write code
1048 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1050 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1053 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1056 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1057 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1061 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1062 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1064 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1065 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1067 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1069 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1070 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1072 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1073 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1075 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1076 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1078 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1080 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1081 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1083 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1085 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1086 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1087 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1089 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1094 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1095 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1096 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1098 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1101 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1105 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1106 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1107 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1109 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1110 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1111 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1113 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1116 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1119 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1124 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1125 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1126 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1127 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1129 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1130 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1131 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1132 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1134 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1135 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1137 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1138 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1140 - improve the library detection summary
1141 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1143 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1144 downgrade the version in this file.
1145 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1147 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1148 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1149 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1150 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1152 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1155 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1157 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1158 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1159 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1161 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1164 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1165 work around limitations in PAR.
1166 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1170 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1171 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1173 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1174 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1176 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1177 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1178 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1179 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1181 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1182 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1183 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1184 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1186 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1187 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1189 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1190 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1192 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1195 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1198 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1200 - Imager is now maintained in git
1201 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1202 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1206 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1207 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1208 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1210 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1211 just a little darker.
1213 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1214 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1215 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1216 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1218 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1220 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1223 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1226 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1227 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1228 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1229 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1231 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1233 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1234 images into a new image
1235 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1239 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1241 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1242 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1243 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1245 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1246 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1248 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1249 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1251 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1256 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1257 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1259 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1261 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1263 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1264 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1266 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1269 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1270 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1271 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1272 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1274 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1275 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1279 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1282 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1284 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1286 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1287 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1288 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1290 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1293 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1295 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1296 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1298 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1299 preparation for separate distribution.
1300 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1302 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1304 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1308 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1309 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1310 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1313 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1314 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1315 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1317 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1318 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1319 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1320 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1323 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1326 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1327 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1328 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1329 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1331 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1334 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1335 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1337 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1339 - add resources to META.yml
1341 Imager 0.76 - not released
1346 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1347 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1348 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1349 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1351 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1356 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1357 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1359 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1360 the code run phase of library probing.
1362 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1367 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1369 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1372 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1374 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1375 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1376 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1377 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1379 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1380 for separate distribution.
1381 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1382 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1387 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1391 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1393 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1394 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1396 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1397 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1399 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1400 (sorry for the mess)
1402 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1403 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1404 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1406 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1409 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1410 perls (not measured)
1414 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1415 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1417 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1418 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1420 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1425 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1426 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1427 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1429 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1430 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1432 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1434 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1435 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1437 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1439 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1442 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1443 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1445 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1446 the incorrect colour.
1448 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1451 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1453 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1456 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1457 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1460 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1463 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1464 it works with non-threaded perls
1466 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1471 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1473 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1475 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1476 8-bit sample operations.
1477 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1480 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1482 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1483 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1484 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1485 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1487 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1490 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1495 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1496 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1497 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1498 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1499 results or runtime exceptions.
1500 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1503 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1508 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1511 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1513 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1515 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1516 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1517 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1518 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1519 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1522 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1527 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1528 that should be a parameter to plan().
1530 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1531 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1533 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1535 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1538 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1539 load the given file.
1540 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1544 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1545 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1547 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1548 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1551 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1553 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1555 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1560 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1562 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1564 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1567 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1569 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1570 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1573 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1574 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1576 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1577 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1578 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1580 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1581 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1585 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1586 META.yml from scratch
1587 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1589 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1590 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1591 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1592 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1594 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1599 - fix a packaging error
1601 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1604 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1608 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1609 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1610 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1612 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1613 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1614 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1615 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1617 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1619 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1620 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1622 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1624 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1625 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1626 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1628 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1629 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1630 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1631 - group width methods and height methods
1632 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1634 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1639 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1640 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1641 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1642 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1643 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1646 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1647 ignored for the screen height when present.
1648 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1650 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1653 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1658 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1659 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1660 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1661 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1664 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1665 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1666 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1668 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1669 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1670 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1671 not a buffer overflow.
1672 Added a check for the failure.
1673 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1674 scale size parameters are a reference.
1675 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1677 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1678 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1679 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1681 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1683 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1686 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1687 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1688 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1689 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1692 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1693 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1695 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1697 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1698 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1699 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1700 noalpha channels or back.
1701 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1703 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1704 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1705 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1706 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1708 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1709 functions when filling.
1710 Corrected normal combine mode.
1711 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1712 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1713 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1714 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1716 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1718 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1719 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1720 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1721 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1723 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1724 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1725 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1726 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1728 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1729 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1730 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1731 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1735 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1737 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1739 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1740 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1741 compressible output files.
1742 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1744 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1746 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1747 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1748 code, not intended for installation.
1749 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1751 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1752 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1754 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1755 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1756 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1757 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1758 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1759 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1761 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1763 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1766 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1767 to /path under your home directory.
1768 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1770 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1771 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1772 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1773 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1774 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1776 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1777 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1778 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1779 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1783 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1785 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1787 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1788 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1789 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1791 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1792 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1794 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1795 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1797 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1799 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1802 - major TIFF support re-work
1803 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1805 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1806 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1808 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1811 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1812 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1814 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1816 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1818 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1822 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1825 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1826 alpha channel correctly.
1828 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1829 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1830 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1832 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1833 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1835 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1837 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1839 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1842 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1843 when scaling an animated gif
1844 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1848 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1849 perspective type transformations to work now.
1850 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1852 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1853 also fixed some other type warnings
1854 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1856 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1858 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1860 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1861 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1862 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1864 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1866 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1868 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1869 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1870 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1872 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1873 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1875 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1876 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1877 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1879 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1881 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1883 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1884 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1885 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1887 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1888 an unknown image file format.
1889 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1891 - improve the transform2() documentation
1892 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1894 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1895 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1897 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1898 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1899 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1902 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1905 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1906 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1908 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1910 - logging functions are now available in the API
1912 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1913 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1914 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1915 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1917 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1918 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1919 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1920 using Imager as a general image processor.
1921 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1925 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1926 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1927 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1928 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1930 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1931 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1933 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1934 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1935 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1938 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1940 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1942 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1943 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1945 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1946 image, but return a new image.
1947 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1949 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1950 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1951 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1953 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1954 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1956 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1957 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1959 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1964 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1965 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1967 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1968 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1969 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1970 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1972 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1975 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1977 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1980 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1982 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1986 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1987 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1988 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1990 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1991 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1992 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1994 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1996 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1997 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1998 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2000 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2001 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2003 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2004 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2006 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2007 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2008 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2009 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2010 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2011 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2012 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2014 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2017 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2019 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2020 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2021 this issue in the ticket below.
2022 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2023 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2024 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2025 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2027 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2030 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2032 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2034 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2036 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2037 contains only black and white
2039 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2041 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2044 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2048 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2049 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2050 resulted in a memory leak.
2051 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2053 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2054 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2056 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2057 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2059 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2061 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2062 even though the format doesn't require that
2064 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2065 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2067 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2068 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2069 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2071 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2072 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2073 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2075 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2076 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2078 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2081 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2083 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2085 There is one new feature:
2087 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2088 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2089 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2091 Several bugs were fixed:
2093 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2094 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2096 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2097 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2099 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2101 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2103 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2104 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2106 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2107 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2108 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2110 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2111 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2112 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2114 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2117 Win32 font driver fixes:
2119 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2120 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2122 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2123 advance width they would be clipped
2126 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2129 This is primarily a feature release:
2131 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2132 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2133 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2134 blurry results than normal.
2135 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2137 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2139 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2141 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2142 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2143 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2144 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2145 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2146 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2147 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2149 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2150 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2152 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2154 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2155 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2157 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2159 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2160 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2162 - minor documentation fixes
2165 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2168 This is a bugfix release.
2170 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2171 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2173 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2176 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2179 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2180 fixes, new features:
2182 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2184 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2186 - add POD coverage tests
2188 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2189 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2190 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2192 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2193 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2194 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2199 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2200 calculating the advance width.
2201 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2203 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2204 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2205 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2208 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2209 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2210 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2211 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2212 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2214 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2215 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2217 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2219 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2220 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2222 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2225 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2228 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2230 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2232 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2234 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2236 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2238 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2241 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2244 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2245 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2246 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2247 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2249 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2250 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2252 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2253 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049