1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
4 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
5 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
7 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
10 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
11 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
13 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
15 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
17 - make verbose probing output more verbose
19 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
20 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
22 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
25 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
28 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
30 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
32 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
33 number of Win32 CPAN testers
35 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
38 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
39 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
40 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
41 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
42 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
44 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
45 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
46 performance improvement.
48 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
49 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
50 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
52 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
53 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
54 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
56 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
59 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
60 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
61 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
63 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
65 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
66 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
68 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
69 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
70 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
72 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
75 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
76 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
78 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
80 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
81 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
83 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
85 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
86 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
88 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
89 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
90 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
92 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
93 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
94 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
96 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
97 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
98 still available as "autolevels_skew".
99 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
101 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
102 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
103 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
104 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
105 palette to test for benign errors.
106 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
108 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
111 Incompatible changes:
113 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
115 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
116 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
117 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
121 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
122 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
123 returned, and errstr() is set,
125 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
126 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
127 but true" is returned.
129 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
133 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
134 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
135 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
136 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
137 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
138 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
140 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
141 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
142 of a malloced buffer.
144 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
146 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
148 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
149 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
151 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
152 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
153 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
155 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
156 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
157 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
158 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
160 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
162 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
165 No changes from 0.96_02.
167 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
170 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
172 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
174 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
175 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
176 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
178 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
180 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
183 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
186 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
187 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
189 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
191 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
193 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
194 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
195 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
196 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
198 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
201 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
203 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
204 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
206 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
207 typemap instead of rolling their own.
209 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
212 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
213 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
214 simplifies the XS code.
216 - many other minor XS changes
218 - some XS code formatting
220 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
221 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
222 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
224 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
226 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
227 reporting some types of error.
228 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
230 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
231 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
232 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
234 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
237 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
240 - rearrange Imager's test files.
241 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
243 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
244 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
245 paths, which avoids that localization.
246 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
248 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
249 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
251 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
252 reported by Andreas König
254 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
256 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
258 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
261 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
262 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
263 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
265 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
267 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
270 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
271 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
272 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
273 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
274 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
276 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
277 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
278 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
280 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
283 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
285 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
286 due to a bug in that version of perl.
288 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
289 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
291 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
292 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
294 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
297 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
298 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
301 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
302 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
304 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
305 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
309 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
310 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
313 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
314 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
315 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
317 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
319 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
320 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
321 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
323 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
326 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
329 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
330 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
332 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
333 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
335 - fixed some other compiler warnings
337 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
338 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
340 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
341 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
342 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
343 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
344 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
345 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
347 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
348 =========================
350 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
353 - improved thread safety
354 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
356 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
357 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
358 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
359 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
360 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
361 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
362 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
363 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
366 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
367 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
369 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
371 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
373 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
375 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
377 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
382 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
383 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
386 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
388 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
389 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
391 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
392 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
393 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
395 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
396 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
398 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
401 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
402 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
403 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
407 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
408 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
409 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
410 header version in 5.0.0.
412 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
413 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
414 uninitialized gif89 bug.
415 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
416 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
418 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
420 - match Imager::Font;:T1's error message translations to those from
421 later versions of T1Lib.
423 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
424 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
426 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
427 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
429 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
432 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
433 correctly for both probing and runtime.
434 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
436 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
438 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
440 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
445 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
446 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
447 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
448 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
449 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
450 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
451 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
452 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
453 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
457 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
458 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
460 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
461 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
462 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
463 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
465 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
467 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
468 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
470 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
471 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
473 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
474 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
476 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
481 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
482 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
483 Corrected the prototype.
485 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
486 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
487 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
488 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
489 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
491 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
493 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
494 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
495 processing the image data itself.
496 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
498 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
499 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
502 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
504 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
505 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
506 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
507 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
508 directories and insert that into the library flags.
509 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
511 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
512 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
513 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
515 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
517 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
518 handle a statically linked libpng.
519 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
521 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
522 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
523 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
524 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
525 configuration is found.
526 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
530 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
531 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
532 called but not supplied.
533 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
535 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
538 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
540 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
542 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
543 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
546 - improve error reporting
547 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
548 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
549 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
550 handlers to write as bilevel
551 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
552 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
553 - write paletted images as paletted images
554 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
556 - improved metadata support
557 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
559 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
564 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
565 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
566 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
570 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
571 rather than the heading you can find them under.
572 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
574 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
575 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
576 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
577 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
579 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
580 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
581 pointer and line number.
582 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
584 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
587 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
588 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
592 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
595 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
596 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
598 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
599 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
601 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
602 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
603 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
605 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
606 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
607 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
608 interfaces to these functions.
610 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
611 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
613 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
617 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
618 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
620 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
622 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
624 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
625 component of the color is now significant.
626 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
628 - remove long unused gif case from read()
629 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
631 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
632 when it's meant to be an array reference.
633 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
635 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
636 parameters are supplied.
637 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
638 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
640 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
643 - document the return value of the filter() method.
644 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
646 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
647 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
649 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
651 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
653 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
654 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
656 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
657 identify the file type match reality.
658 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
660 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
661 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
663 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
664 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
666 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
667 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
669 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
672 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
674 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
676 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
677 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
678 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
679 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
681 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
684 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
686 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
691 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
692 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
694 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
695 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
697 - make default text color non-transparent
698 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
700 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
701 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
703 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
705 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
707 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
708 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
710 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
712 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
715 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
716 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
718 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
719 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
721 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
724 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
727 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
728 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
730 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
732 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
733 initialized more efficiently.
734 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
736 - updated the Thanks list in README
737 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
739 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
740 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
742 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
743 perl could order it differently.
744 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
746 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
747 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
748 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
749 prefixed names on Win32.
750 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
752 - fix library detection with MSVC
754 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
755 them. Hopefully fixes:
756 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
758 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
761 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
763 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
765 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
767 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
768 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
771 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
772 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
773 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
776 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
778 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
779 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
781 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
782 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
784 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
785 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
786 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
787 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
788 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
789 then panic about the result.
791 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
792 callback, which should return true for success.
794 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
795 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
797 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
798 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
799 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
801 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
803 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
804 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
807 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
809 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
810 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
813 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
815 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
817 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
820 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
823 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
825 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
826 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
828 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
829 lead to an infinite loop.
833 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
835 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
838 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
843 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
844 checked when reading TIFF files.
845 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
847 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
848 failed image file read() or write().
849 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
851 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
852 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
853 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
855 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
857 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
859 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
860 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
861 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
863 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
864 modernize the tests a bit.
865 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
867 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
869 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
871 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
873 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
875 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
876 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
878 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
881 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
883 Massive types re-work:
885 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
886 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
888 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
890 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
891 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
892 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
893 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
895 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
896 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
897 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
898 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
900 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
901 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
903 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
907 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
908 values when writing a GIF image.
910 - removed dead callback read/write code
912 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
914 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
917 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
920 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
921 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
925 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
926 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
928 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
929 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
931 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
933 - add to_rgb_double() method.
934 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
936 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
937 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
939 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
940 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
942 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
944 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
945 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
947 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
949 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
950 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
951 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
953 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
958 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
959 failing on a Solaris smoker.
960 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
962 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
965 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
969 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
970 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
971 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
973 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
974 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
975 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
977 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
980 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
983 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
988 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
989 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
990 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
991 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
993 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
994 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
995 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
996 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
998 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
999 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1001 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1002 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1004 - improve the library detection summary
1005 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1007 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1008 downgrade the version in this file.
1009 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1011 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1012 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1013 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1014 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1016 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1019 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1021 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1022 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1023 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1025 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1026 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1028 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1029 work around limitations in PAR.
1030 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1034 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1035 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1037 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1038 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1040 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1041 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1042 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1043 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1045 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1046 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1047 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1048 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1050 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1051 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1053 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1054 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1056 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1057 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1059 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1062 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1064 - Imager is now maintained in git
1065 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1066 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1070 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1071 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1072 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1074 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1075 just a little darker.
1077 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1078 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1079 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1080 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1082 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1084 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1087 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1090 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1091 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1092 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1093 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1095 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1097 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1098 images into a new image
1099 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1103 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1105 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1106 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1107 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1109 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1110 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1112 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1113 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1115 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1120 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1121 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1123 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1125 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1127 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1128 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1130 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1133 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1134 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1135 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1136 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1138 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1139 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1143 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1146 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1148 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1150 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1151 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1152 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1154 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1157 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1159 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1160 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1162 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1163 preparation for separate distribution.
1164 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1166 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1168 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1172 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1173 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1174 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1175 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1177 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1178 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1179 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1181 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1182 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1183 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1184 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1187 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1188 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1190 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1191 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1192 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1193 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1195 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1198 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1199 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1201 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1203 - add resources to META.yml
1205 Imager 0.76 - not released
1210 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1211 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1212 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1213 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1215 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1220 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1221 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1223 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1224 the code run phase of library probing.
1226 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1231 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1233 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1236 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1238 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1239 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1240 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1241 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1243 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1244 for separate distribution.
1245 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1246 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1251 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1253 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1255 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1257 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1258 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1260 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1261 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1263 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1264 (sorry for the mess)
1266 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1267 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1268 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1270 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1273 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1274 perls (not measured)
1278 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1279 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1281 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1282 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1284 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1289 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1290 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1291 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1293 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1294 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1296 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1298 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1299 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1301 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1303 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1306 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1309 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1310 the incorrect colour.
1312 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1315 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1317 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1320 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1321 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1324 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1327 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1328 it works with non-threaded perls
1330 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1335 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1337 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1339 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1340 8-bit sample operations.
1341 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1344 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1346 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1347 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1348 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1349 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1351 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1354 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1359 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1360 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1361 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1362 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1363 results or runtime exceptions.
1364 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1367 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1372 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1375 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1377 Thanks to Krzysztof WojtaÅ for the test data and fix for this.
1379 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1380 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1381 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1382 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1383 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1386 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1391 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1392 that should be a parameter to plan().
1394 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1395 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1397 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1399 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1402 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1403 load the given file.
1404 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1408 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1409 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1411 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1412 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1415 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1417 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1419 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1424 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1426 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1428 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1431 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1433 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1434 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1437 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1438 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1440 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1441 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1442 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1444 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1445 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1449 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1450 META.yml from scratch
1451 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1453 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1454 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1455 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1456 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1458 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1463 - fix a packaging error
1465 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1468 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1472 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1473 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1474 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1476 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1477 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1478 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1479 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1481 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1483 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1484 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1486 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1488 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1489 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1490 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1492 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1493 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1494 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1495 - group width methods and height methods
1496 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1498 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1503 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1504 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1505 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1506 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1507 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1510 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1511 ignored for the screen height when present.
1512 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1514 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1517 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1522 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1523 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1524 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1525 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1528 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1529 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1530 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1532 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1533 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1534 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1535 not a buffer overflow.
1536 Added a check for the failure.
1537 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1538 scale size parameters are a reference.
1539 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1541 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1542 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1543 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1545 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1547 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1550 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1551 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1552 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1553 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1556 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1557 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1559 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1561 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1562 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1563 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1564 noalpha channels or back.
1565 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1567 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1568 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1569 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1570 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1572 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1573 functions when filling.
1574 Corrected normal combine mode.
1575 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1576 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1577 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1578 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1580 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1582 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1583 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1584 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1585 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1587 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1588 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1589 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1590 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1592 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1593 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1594 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1595 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1599 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1601 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1603 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1604 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1605 compressible output files.
1606 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1608 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1610 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1611 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1612 code, not intended for installation.
1613 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1615 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1616 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1618 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1619 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1620 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1621 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1622 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1623 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1625 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1627 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1630 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1631 to /path under your home directory.
1632 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1634 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1635 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1636 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1637 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1638 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1640 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1641 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1642 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1643 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1647 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1649 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1651 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1652 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1653 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1655 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1656 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1658 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1659 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1661 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1663 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1666 - major TIFF support re-work
1667 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1669 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1670 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1672 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1675 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1676 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1678 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1680 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1682 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1686 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1689 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1690 alpha channel correctly.
1692 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1693 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1694 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1696 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1697 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1699 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1701 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1703 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1706 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1707 when scaling an animated gif
1708 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1712 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1713 perspective type transformations to work now.
1714 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1716 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1717 also fixed some other type warnings
1718 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1720 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1722 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1724 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1725 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1726 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1728 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1730 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1732 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1733 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1734 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1736 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1737 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1739 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1740 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1741 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1743 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1745 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1747 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1748 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1749 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1751 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1752 an unknown image file format.
1753 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1755 - improve the transform2() documentation
1756 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1758 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
1759 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
1761 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
1762 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
1763 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
1766 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
1769 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
1770 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
1772 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
1774 - logging functions are now available in the API
1776 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
1777 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
1778 Obviously problems are my fault :)
1779 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
1781 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
1782 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
1783 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
1784 using Imager as a general image processor.
1785 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
1789 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
1790 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
1791 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
1792 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
1794 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
1795 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
1797 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
1798 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
1799 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
1802 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
1804 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
1806 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
1807 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
1809 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
1810 image, but return a new image.
1811 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
1813 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
1814 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
1815 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
1817 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
1818 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
1820 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
1821 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
1823 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
1828 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
1829 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
1831 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
1832 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
1833 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
1834 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
1836 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
1839 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
1841 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
1844 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
1846 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
1850 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
1851 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
1852 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
1854 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
1855 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
1856 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
1858 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
1860 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
1861 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
1862 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
1864 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
1865 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1867 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
1868 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1870 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
1871 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
1872 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
1873 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
1874 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
1875 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
1876 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
1878 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
1881 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
1883 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
1884 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
1885 this issue in the ticket below.
1886 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
1887 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
1888 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
1889 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
1891 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
1894 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1896 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
1898 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
1900 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
1901 contains only black and white
1903 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
1905 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
1908 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
1912 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
1913 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
1914 resulted in a memory leak.
1915 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
1917 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
1918 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
1920 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
1921 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
1923 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
1925 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
1926 even though the format doesn't require that
1928 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
1929 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
1931 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
1932 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
1933 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
1935 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
1936 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
1937 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
1939 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
1940 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
1942 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
1945 This is primarily a bug fix release.
1947 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
1949 There is one new feature:
1951 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
1952 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1953 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
1955 Several bugs were fixed:
1957 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
1958 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1960 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
1961 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
1963 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
1965 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
1967 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
1968 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
1970 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
1971 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
1972 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
1974 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
1975 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
1976 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
1978 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
1981 Win32 font driver fixes:
1983 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
1984 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
1986 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
1987 advance width they would be clipped
1990 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
1993 This is primarily a feature release:
1995 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
1996 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
1997 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
1998 blurry results than normal.
1999 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2001 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2003 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2005 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2006 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2007 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2008 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2009 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2010 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2011 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2013 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2014 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2016 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2018 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2019 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2021 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2023 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2024 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2026 - minor documentation fixes
2029 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2032 This is a bugfix release.
2034 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2035 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2037 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2040 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2043 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2044 fixes, new features:
2046 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2048 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2050 - add POD coverage tests
2052 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2053 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2054 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2056 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2057 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2058 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2063 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2064 calculating the advance width.
2065 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2067 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2068 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2069 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2072 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2073 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2074 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2075 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2076 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2078 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2079 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2081 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2083 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2084 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2086 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2089 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2092 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2094 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2096 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2098 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2100 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2102 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2105 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2108 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2109 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2110 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2111 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2113 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2114 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2116 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2117 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049