1 Imager release history. Older releases can be found in Changes.old
3 Coverity finally finished a build, fix a few problems:
5 - reading a color-mapped TGA file with an id string would cause a
6 double-free if the palette was truncated.
8 - mixing scaling to sizes where the accumulator row, the working
9 output row or the working input row didn't fit into the address
10 space could result in memory leaks. This can probably only be
11 reproduced on very wide floating-point sample images.
13 - convert an array style function parameter pointer to pointer style
14 to prevent confusing Coverity in the T1 bounding box implementation.
16 - Similarly in the FT1 bounding box implementation.
18 - initialize a pointer to prevent Coverity complaining in polygon
19 drawing (it should always end up being set.)
21 - addi style makemap could potentially read one past the end of an
24 Imager 1.008 - 31 Dec 2018
27 - moved EXIF handling from Imager::File::JPEG to core Imager
28 This allows file formats that store EXIF data as blobs similarly
29 to JPEG to re-use this code. (such as Imager::File::WEBP)
31 - added some more file extensions to image file type mappings
33 - added add_type_extensions() class method
35 Imager 1.007 - 24 Nov 2018
38 - add png_compression_level tag for writing PNG files.
40 - avoid flooring a second time in matrix transform interpolation.
41 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124001
43 - produce v2 metadata.
44 Includes change from the ticket and updates to sub-modules.
45 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127216
47 - improve error reporting for the polygon() method
49 Imager 1.006 - 26 Aug 2017
52 - the internal i_errors() function now correctly allocates the stack
53 space needed for its result.
54 https://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=131938
56 - t/100-base/020-color.t now uses Imager::Test's test functions
58 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111993
60 - write_multi() now returns an error result (a false value) if called
61 with a non-(Imager image object). Previously it would typically
63 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=117878
65 - improve the documentation of the jpegquality parameter when
68 - add code to mitigate CVE-2016-1238, Imager will no longer search the
69 default current directory entry in @INC when searching for file
70 format support modules.
72 Imager 1.005 - 16 Apr 2016
75 It's now been ten years since I switched to the new Changes file in
78 - revert the ivdformat probes, they don't work as is and trying to
79 fix them is too much work for now.
81 Imager 1.004_004 - 15 Apr 2016
84 - test that the ivdformat from Config is correct and look for a valid
86 For the strange Win32 failures.
88 - fix a copy and paste error in pod in samples/samp-form.cgi
90 Imager 1.004_003 - 23 Mar 2016
93 - add some extra error reporting to the I/O layers tests, this might
94 help catch a failure seen on Win32.
95 http://cpantesters.org/cpan/report/99781689-6bf5-1014-897a-75cb4eee1325
97 Imager 1.004_002 - 20 Mar 2016
100 - don't use the seek() method on opened() handles in
101 t/200-file/400-basic.t. In older versions of perl such handles are
102 only IO::Handle objects, not IO::File, and don't have a seek()
105 Imager 1.004_001 - 16 Mar 2016 (Birthday release - but not my birthday)
108 - re-work the t/200-file/400-basic.t to correctly handle failures
109 It's custom ok() function didn't have a prototype and didn't use scalar().
110 This caused ok() to use the note instead of the value being tested when
111 the method called returned an empty list. For an example of the problem
112 caused see: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=812093
114 - remove some noise from when Imager tried to work with bugs in old
115 versions of giflib. I can't do much about the new bugs.
117 - the new autolevels filter (Imager 0.99) used an integer for the
118 sample scaling factor which caused the top output level to be too
119 low (depending on the scaling required.) It now uses a double.
120 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
122 - the new autolevels filter had off-by-one errors calculating the
123 minimum and maximum luminance from the histogram. This slightly
124 reduced the contrast of the output image.
125 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
127 - the new autolevels filter now uses a lookup table for 8-bit images
128 to avoid a floating point multiply for each sample.
129 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=111871
131 - fixed several memory leaks detected by valgrind:
133 - addcolors() leaked the temporary array of colors supplied to the
136 - make_palette() leaked the temporary image array (not the images
137 themselves) passed to the internal API.
139 - combine()/i_combine() leaked its working row buffers
141 - getcolorusage()/i_get_anonymous_color_histo() leaked the sample
142 buffer if there were too many colors
144 - getcolorcount()/i_count_colors() leaked the sample buffer if
145 there were too many colors.
147 - the nearest_color filter (undocumented until I find a use for it)
148 leaked both temporaries passed to the API and internal buffers
150 - the internal process of upgrading a paletted image to a direct
151 color image would leak a context object reference count.
153 - a write failure when writing to a GIF file could leak memory.
155 - failing to write to a 1-bit/pixel ICO image could leak memory.
157 - Imager no longer deliberately leaks the context object from the
158 initial thread. This was done to ensure there was always a context
159 object available, but the code that needed that now handles the
162 - fixed some uninitialized memory usage detected by valgrind:
164 - rotate()/i_rotate_exact()/i_rotate_exact_bg()/i_matrix_transform()/
165 i_matrix_transform_bg() didn't initialize a working color value
166 if there was zero pixel coverage.
168 - i_ft2_cp() didn't initialize the complete color when producing an
169 intermediate image. This caused uninitialized value usage when
172 Imager 1.004 - 8 Nov 2015
175 - Imager::Color::Table is now pre-loaded by the preload() method.
176 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=104896
178 - fix an assertion triggered under perl 5.23.4.
179 Thanks to A. Sinan Unur for the report and the patch.
181 - Imager->new can now be used to read raw image files.
182 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=106836
183 Thanks to Richard Kelsch for reporting this.
185 - deal with output changes from Pod::Spell
186 https://github.com/perl-pod/Pod-Spell/issues/21
188 Imager 1.003 - 12 May 2015
191 - update 1.002 release notes to include the center change for filled
194 - flood_fill() would escape beyond a 4-connected space under some
196 Added many more flood_fill() tests.
197 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=103786
199 Imager 1.002 - 3 Apr 2015
202 - drawing anti-aliased filled circles is now 10 to 50 times faster
203 depending on the size of the circle.
204 This also changed the center from being the center of the pixel to
205 being the top left of the pixel to match the filled arcs drawn by
207 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=101682
209 - enhancements to polygon filling:
211 - added a mode parameter to control how overlapping regions behave
213 - added a polypolygon() method to fill more than one polygon at a
216 - polygon filling is now exposed through the API.
218 - added colormodel(), alphachannel() and colorchannels() methods.
219 These were added for two reasons:
221 - a future version of Imager may allow the number of channels in
222 an image to not directly represent the color model of an image.
223 eg. a greyscale TIFF image with multiple alpha channels.
225 - a future version of Imager may allow an image to be read without
226 translation, for example a TIFF file that contains measurements
227 from an instrument. Currently Imager transforms the samples into
228 the range 0.0 ... 1.0 which may means the user has to translate
231 An untranslated image would be unusable as image data, so
232 colormodel() would return "unknown" in this case.
234 Similarly a CMYK image might be returned as an "unknown" color
235 model image, if the caller chooses to disable translation to
238 Imager 1.001 - 2 Jan 2015
241 - both Imager and perl 5.21.3 define my_strerror(), prevent a conflict
242 Thanks to Slaven Rezic for the report and the patch.
243 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=98234
245 - GIF: clean-up a test file if the test for the giflib 4.2.0 file
248 - fix Imager::Matrix2d::rotate()'s centre point handling
249 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99959
251 - ICO: don't apply the icon mask to images with an alpha channel by
253 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=99507
255 - make verbose probing output more verbose
257 - use Imager::Probe to probe for freetype 1.x
258 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=100502
260 - The --enable and --disable parameters to the top-level Makefile.PL
263 - update the bundled/modified Devel::CheckLib to handle the gcc-4
266 Imager 1.000 - 28 Jul 2014
269 There's nothing special about Imager 1.000, it's just another release.
271 - fix the skip check for the iolayer qr// buffer test
273 - improve error reporting for the iolayer test failing on a small
274 number of Win32 CPAN testers
276 Imager 0.99_02 - 21 Jul 2014
279 - Imager::Filter::Mandelbrot (and dynfilt/mandelbrot.c) - initialize
280 the blue channel in the generated palette, and allow each color
281 component to be in the range 100..255 instead of just 100..254.
282 Thanks to Ralf Neubauer.
283 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97086
285 - revert "improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()"
286 This caused problems with older perls and didn't provide much of a
287 performance improvement.
289 - support Inline 0.57 and later.
290 Inline 0.57 changed the "with" interface.
291 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=97108
293 - don't define our own MAXINT macro, it conflicts with windows header
294 files and in a few places it was the wrong value to use anyway.
295 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96425
297 Imager 0.99_01 - 29 Jun 2014
300 - GIF: add support for giflib 5.1.0, which added error code pointer
301 parameters to EGifCloseFile() and DGifCloseFile().
302 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96756
304 - GIF: avoid a double-free when do_write() fails.
306 - fix SV type probing to work on perl before 5.12. Broken in 0.99.
307 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=96761
309 - PNG: skip the benign error test before libpng 1.6.0, since the
310 error we're testing didn't exist before 1.6.0.
311 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717 (continued)
313 Imager 0.99 - 25 Jun 2014
316 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() (and hence Imager->read()'s data
317 parameter) now accepts a reference to a scalar as well as just a
319 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
321 - Imager::IO->new_buffer() now always makes a copy of the passed in
322 buffer to avoid problems with temporary objects used for the return
324 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92785
326 - improved the XS for i_io_read() and i_io_raw_read()
327 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=92738
329 - load plugins from absolute paths on Android
330 Thanks to Brian Fraser.
331 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=93272
333 - added the jpeg_optimize parameter for writing JPEG files. This can
334 significantly reduce file sizes, but uses more memory and time.
335 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94292
337 - the autolevels filter now works on the luminosity of the image
338 rather then working per channel. The old autolevels filter is
339 still available as "autolevels_skew".
340 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94413
342 - Imager::File::PNG now supports libpng 1.6.10.
343 1.6.10 changed CRC errors from benign errors to normal errors,
344 which broke the test which used CRC errors to check for benign
345 error support. Switched to using a 1-bit grey-scale image with a
346 palette to test for benign errors.
347 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=94717
349 Imager 0.98 - 3 Jan 2014
352 Incompatible changes:
354 - the return value of setpixel() has changed.
356 Previously the return values for undrawable pixels vs caller errors
357 changed depending on whether you used the multiple pixel calling
358 mechanism, or the single pixel mechanism.
362 - for an invalid parameter, such as an unknown colour, or missing
363 parameter, an empty list (or undef in scalar context) is
364 returned, and errstr() is set,
366 - otherwise the number of pixels drawn is returned. If none of
367 the pixels could be drawn (they were all outside the image), "0
368 but true" is returned.
370 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87650
374 - when drawing on an image with an alpha channel where the source
375 minimum is greater than zero, Imager would read from beyond the end
376 of a malloc() allocated buffer. In rare circumstances this could
377 lead to some of the source image not being written to the target
378 image, or possibly to a segmentation fault.
379 I don't believe this has any security concerns beyond that.
381 - if the first text drawn with Imager::Font::T1 is not anti-aliased,
382 text drawn would be nonsense. This would also read beyond the end
383 of a malloced buffer.
385 - non-AA text drawn with an Imager::Font::TT (Truetype 1) font would be
387 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88993
389 - Imager::Font::Wrap no longer requires the image parameter.
390 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=87338
392 - a documentation typo fix in Imager::Transformations
393 Thanks to Adrian Yee.
394 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=88598
396 - Image::Probe, Imager's internal module for probing library
397 locations now searches the directories specified by LD_RUN_PATH,
398 LD_LIBRARY_PATH, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and LIBRARY_PATH for libraries,
399 and the corresponing s/\blib$/include/ directories for header
401 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86428
403 Imager 0.97 - 15 Jul 2013
406 No changes from 0.96_02.
408 Imager 0.96_02 - 8 Jul 2013
411 - PNG: treat a version mismatch between headers and library as a
413 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
415 - PNG: the check for benign error support is more complex than a
416 simple library version check, check for the appropriate macro.
417 Thanks for Slaven Rezic for following up on my CPAN Testers result
419 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86659
421 - W32: add a missing head1 AUTHORS to the old Win32.pm
422 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=86658
424 Imager 0.96_01 - 1 Jul 2013
427 - TIFF: handle SampleFormat = 2 by translating the signed integer
428 values to unsigned by flipping their sign bits.
430 Handle SampleFormat = 3 where possible.
432 SampleFormat is ignored for paletted images.
434 Mixed SampleFormat are handled incorrectly, since libtiff returns
435 only the first SampleFormat value, and an image with both an alpha
436 channel and SampleFormat = 2 for color channels probably has a
437 different SampleFormat for the alpha channel.
439 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74540
442 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69243
444 - Imager::Color's rgba() method now returns its values as integers
445 instead of floating point. (IV instead of NV).
447 - The XS for i_map() and i_matrix_transform() now use the AV *
448 typemap instead of rolling their own.
450 - The XS for DSO_call() now uses the HV * typemap instead of
453 - The XS for i_poly_aa(), i_poly_aa_cfill(), i_transform() and
454 i_gradgen() now use a new T_AVARRAY typemap that greatly
455 simplifies the XS code.
457 - many other minor XS changes
459 - some XS code formatting
461 - TT (Freetype 1.x) and FT2 (Freetype 2.x) non-antialiased rendering
462 now renders in alpha-combining mode, to match antialiased output.
463 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73359
465 - add sample code and cookbook notes for drawing a blurred drop-shadow.
467 - add support for libpng 1.6, which changed the defaults for
468 reporting some types of error.
469 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85746
471 - FT2: use gsamp/psamp() to transfer pixels from the work image to
472 the output image instead of gpix/ppix.
473 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83478
475 - eliminate various GCC warnings, mostly initialized but otherwise
478 Imager 0.96 - 19 May 2013
481 - rearrange Imager's test files.
482 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84596
484 - Imager::Probe::_gcc_lib_paths now forces C locale.
485 A sufficiently recent gcc prints localized keys for the search
486 paths, which avoids that localization.
487 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84963
489 - fix a pod error detected by Pod::Simple 3.27 and laterm and skip
490 pod tests unless AUTOMATED_TESTING or IMAGER_AUTHOR_TESTING is set
492 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85262
493 reported by Andreas König
495 - add a test for unclosed POD in C source, and fix the errors it
497 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74875
499 - fix some spelling errors detected by the newer aspell in Debian
502 - remove a trailing ' from lib/Imager/Font/Test.pm's POD
503 thanks to gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
504 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=85413
506 - add a test for standard =head1 commands and fix the errors found
508 Imager 0.95 - 19 Apr 2013
511 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic strings passed to
512 Imager::IO's write() and raw_write() methods.
513 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
514 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
515 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438
517 - document that bounding_box() ignores the transformation matrix
518 supplied to tranform() for fonts.
519 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=84106
521 Imager 0.94_02 - 5 Apr 2013
524 - enable debug logging for the standard font tests
526 - skip the overloaded UTF-8 text output checks on 5.6.x and earlier,
527 due to a bug in that version of perl.
529 - don't test for read() failing on a write-only handle in 5.8.x and
530 earlier, this was fixed in change 862083f7e4 in perl.
532 - report the version of Inline found during testing (an attempt to
533 diagnose some intermittent failures.)
535 Imager 0.94_01 - 2 Mar 2013
538 - NOTE: possibly backward incompatible:
539 support reading from/writing to perl filehandes that aren't raw
542 This allows Imager's I/O to honour handles with layers such as
543 gzip, scalar file handles or tied file handles.
545 This is backward incompatible in that previous Imager would simply
546 use fileno() to retrieve the fd for the file and call write(2) etc
548 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=78843
550 - moved most of README to lib/Imager/Install.pod which should make it
551 more accessible to the "web" generation, also significantly updated
554 - updated README's for the separately distributed modules to refer to
555 Imager::Install, and that they need -dev versions of packages
556 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81265
558 - the JPEG test code now reports the compile-time library version
560 - avoid a possible compiler optimization issue on CentOS 5.9 i386 by
561 rearranging (and mildly optimizing) some code.
562 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83212
564 - fix a POD error in Imager::Fill (detected on new Pod-Simple)
565 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83434
567 - fix a broken link to Graphics::Magick
568 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=82743
570 - drawing text to a channel with FT2 would draw with random coverage
571 due to an uninitialized alpha channel.
573 - marked the function pointer underlying the mm_log() API with the
574 correct gcc magic and fixed the resulting warnings.
576 - fixed some other compiler warnings
578 - Imager::Font::W32 now properly reports text drawing errors
579 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70098
581 - handle the SVf_UTF8 flag correctly on magic (eg. overloaded)
582 strings passed as text to draw(), bounding_box(), has_chars(),
583 glyph_names() (where supported) in each of the font drivers.
584 This may misbehave in perl 5.6.x since the UTF8 flag may not be
585 visible in the main SV after SvGETMAGIC().
586 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=83438 (partial)
588 Imager 0.94 - 15 Dec 2012
589 =========================
591 Variations on some of these changes were included in development
594 - improved thread safety
595 - the internal error stack and log file handle are now in a per-thread
597 - JPEG now captures IPTC information in a thread-safe way
598 - avoid globals where possible for warning capture in libtiff
599 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe giflib
600 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe tifflib
601 - use a mutex to avoid re-entering thread-unsafe T1Lib
602 - use a library handle per thread for freetype 2.
603 - use an engine handle per thread for freetype 1.x.
604 - originally these changes broke ABI compatibility, this has been
607 - clarify the return value of getpixel();
608 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81198
610 - fixed a race condition in parallel testing for T1
612 - fixed a bug in handling yoff for untransformed image-based fills
614 - documentation improvements for Imager::Fill
616 - FT2: report the library version while testing.
618 Imager 0.93 - 15 Oct 2012
623 - previously a transparency enabled GIF write (the default) would
624 always use a GIF89a header even if none of the images were
627 - previously the probe step for freetype-config would fail on cygwin
629 - catch an invalid matrix parameter to convert() instead of crashing
630 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79922
632 - remove the 16-bit/sample limitation from the documentation for
633 setsamples(), it hasn't applied for many releases.
634 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79989
636 - don't copy setsamples() data parameter, it may be a large scalar
637 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79990
639 - clean up .dSYM directories generated performing probes on OS X
642 - pass the --verbose command-line option through to Imager::Probe in
643 sub-module's Makefile.PLs
644 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75878
648 - support for giflib 5.0. (5.0.1 and later)
649 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79029
650 The giflib API Imager uses doesn't have a mechanism to set the
651 header version in 5.0.0.
653 - update the GIF library probe code to check for the new giflib 5.0.1
654 EGifSetGifVersion() function, and to check for the giflib 4.2.0
655 uninitialized gif89 bug.
656 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79679
657 http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3574283&group_id=102202&atid=631304
659 - avoid static variables when capturing IPTC data from JPEG files
661 - match Imager::Font::T1's error message translations to those from
662 later versions of T1Lib.
664 - for libtiff versions that support extended warning handlers (3.8.0
665 or later), use them to avoid some global variables.
667 - note Image::ExifTool for better metadata support.
668 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=79251
670 Imager 0.92 - 14 Aug 2012
673 - giflib 4.2 eliminates the GIF_LIB_VERSION macro, handle that
674 correctly for both probing and runtime.
675 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77672
677 - allow building JPEG/imexif.c on C89 compilers.
679 - allow building GIF/imgif.c on C89 compilers.
681 Imager 0.91 - 4 Jun 2012
686 - The size of rotated images is no longer rounded up so aggressively.
687 Added rounding to the linear interpolation done for rotate() and
688 matrix_transform() for 1 and 3 channel 8-bit images.
689 Adjusted the two tranlate matrices used to build the final rotation
690 matrix to use the distance between the outlier pixels rather than
691 the pixel dimensions (ie. dimension-1).
692 With all of this the output of rotate(degrees => 270) on an 8-bit
693 image exactly matches the output of rotate(right => 270).
694 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77063
698 - eliminate the old IIM_new(), IIM_DESTROY() names from Imager's
699 internals, those names only matter for the XS interface.
701 - improve error reporting when PERL_INITIALIZE_IMAGER_CALLBACKS finds
702 the API level compiled into a loadable module such as
703 Imager::File::GIF doesn't match that of Imager. Previously it
704 could be difficult to determine exactly which module was failing to
706 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=77173
708 - added Imager->check_file_limits() as an interface to the
709 i_int_check_image_file_limits() API.
711 - Imager->set_file_limits(reset => 1) now resets the limits to the
712 defaults rather than setting them all to unlimited.
714 - wrote a brief security note as Imager::Security
715 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68910
717 Imager 0.90 - 30 Apr 2012
722 - Imager::Test::is_imaged() attempted to process an "epsilon"
723 parameter but the prototype didn't allow for the extra parameter.
724 Corrected the prototype.
726 - when downconverting samples (eg. from floating point to 8 bit)
727 Imager now rounds the sample value rather than attempting to
728 allocate input values over output values equally. The old
729 behaviour had the probably surprising effect of converting a
730 floating point 2.1/255.0 into an 8-bit 3 rather than the expected
732 This may result in slightly different 8 or 16-bit output images.
734 - BI_BITFIELD BMP images were handled incorrectly, both in
735 incorrectly calculating the space required for the masks and in
736 processing the image data itself.
737 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76736
739 - some odd width BMP BI_RLE4 images use run lengths that run one off
740 the edge of the image. Imager now allows this, discarding the
743 - odd length RLE4 runs in BMP images were decoded incorrectly.
745 - pkg-config could sometimes return a library that was in a directory
746 EU::MM / $Config{libpth} doesn't know about, but the compiler did.
747 If no -L is included in the pkg-config library information check if
748 EU::MM can find the library, and if not, search our configured
749 directories and insert that into the library flags.
750 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75869
752 - Imager::Probe can now probe for libraries with dependent libraries,
753 common for static linking, eg. libpng requires libz.
754 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
756 - libpng 1.5 specific probes were looking for libpng 1.4 filenames.
758 - added alternative probe configurations that try to link libz, to
759 handle a statically linked libpng.
760 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
762 - if a probe includes testcode, Imager::Probe now checks that code as
763 part of the process of checking each configuration rather than as a
764 post test of the found configuration. This allows alternate
765 configurations to be checked if a matching but non-working
766 configuration is found.
767 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74043
771 - when reading or writing images via callbacks, the default callbacks
772 now push an error message indicating that a required callback was
773 called but not supplied.
774 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=76782
776 - clarify which callbacks are required for reading and writing TIFF
779 - improve logging for creation of callback I/O layers.
781 - a little more documentation for Imager::Probe.
783 - the i_get_file_background() and i_get_file_backgroundf() APIs now
784 return int to indicate whether the i_background tag was found.
787 - improve error reporting
788 - add png_interlace, png_bits tags
789 - read paletted images as paletted images, including transparency
790 - read 1 bit greyscale images as a type suitable for other file
791 handlers to write as bilevel
792 - read 16 bit/sample PNG as 16-bit/sample Imager images
793 - write "bilevel" paletted images as 1 bit grayscale images
794 - write paletted images as paletted images
795 - write 16-bit (or higher)/sample images as 16-bit/sample PNG
797 - improved metadata support
798 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29268
800 Imager 0.89 - 18 Mar 2012
805 - getpixel(..., type => "float") and the API i_gpixf() have been
806 broken on paletted images since they were implemented.
807 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75258
811 - links in the METHOD INDEX now point at the method documentation
812 rather than the heading you can find them under.
813 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71495
815 - Imager (and the bundled dynamic modules) no longer fallback to
816 using DynaLoader if loading via XSLoader fails.
817 For the bundled modules this could hide useful error messages.
818 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=75560
820 - IM_DEBUG_MALLOC mymalloc() no longer sn?printfs() a string to a
821 buffer in the array of allocations, but just stores the filename
822 pointer and line number.
823 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70388
825 Imager 0.88 - 22 Feb 2012
828 - describe how to build libgif etc on OS X in such a way as to be
829 compatible with a fat binary perl (such as the system perl), in
831 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73371
833 - update the change notes for 0.77_01 to indicate that libungif
836 - add some other imaging modules to SEE ALSO
837 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73906
839 - note that the generator of the apparently non-DFSG-free postscript
840 in MMOne.pfb is a Debian package.
842 - setsamples() is now a true complement to getsamples() - it can
843 write 8-bit or floating point samples from a scalar or array
844 reference. This adds i_psamp() and i_psampf() to the C level API.
846 - the XS interfaces to i_gsamp(), i_gsampf() and i_gsamp_bits() have
847 changed to make better use of the typemap, but these aren't part of
848 the perl level API anyway. There were no changes to the C level
849 interfaces to these functions.
851 - getpixel() and setpixel() now accept a mix of scalar and array
852 references for the x and y parameters, and unequal array lengths is
854 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
858 - correctly calculate the size of a rotated image
859 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
861 - fix incorrect rounding of color values for matrix_transform() and
863 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69261
865 - Win32 text output is now done in normal combine mode, the alpha
866 component of the color is now significant.
867 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70014
869 - remove long unused gif case from read()
870 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69244 (partial)
872 - the getsamples() target parameter was being treated as a hashref
873 when it's meant to be an array reference.
874 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=74882
876 - getpixel() and setpixel() now returns an empty list when invalid
877 parameters are supplied.
878 Invalid values for type now result in an error for getpixel().
879 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=73697
881 Imager 0.87 - 03 Jan 2012
884 - document the return value of the filter() method.
885 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72369
887 - document i_gsamp_bits() and i_psamp_bits().
888 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68815
890 - properly increment the Imager::Matrix2d $VERSION.
892 - actually include the Imager::Test tests in the dist
894 - correctly read and write 256x256 pixel ICO files
895 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69599
897 - make the error message from read() or read_multi() when they can't
898 identify the file type match reality.
899 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72475
901 - read() now uses $FORMATGUESS if it can't determine the file type
902 based on the file header, to match read_multi().
904 - re-work and add tests for def_guess_type(). def_guess_type() no
905 longer returns any random file extension as the file type.
907 - add gray4, gray16 and gray as presets for make_colors.
908 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67911
910 - add make_palette() method that produces a palette from one or more
913 - fix the Imager dependency for the separately distributed font
915 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=72643
917 - fix i_render_color() to properly draw in "normal" mode - ie. when
918 writing to a 1 or 3 channel image the second or fourth channel of
919 the source color was being ignored, it is now significant.
920 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71564
922 Imager 0.86 - 31 Oct 2011
925 - improve error reporting for W32 tests
927 Imager 0.85_02 - 24 Oct 2011
932 - eliminate unused i_gif_opts type (clean-up)
933 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69245
935 - fix combine=0 fill color anti-aliasing on the double/sample path
936 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71309
938 - make default text color non-transparent
939 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71469
941 - apply the last of the Debian unforwarded spelling fixes
942 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70656
944 - the log() method used its message parameter as a C level format
946 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71653
948 - provide our own STRLEN typemap entry for older perls.
949 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71641
951 - add extra ppport.h configuration to support older perls.
953 - depend on Scalar::Util, since we use it and older perls don't have
956 - add overloaded eq to Imager::Matrix2d, since older perls don't seem
957 to synthesize it from overloaded "".
959 - use T1_StrError() for error messages on modern libt1
960 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69879
962 - actually load the font rather than just adding it to the catalog on
965 - Imager::Font->new now produces better error messages for the T1
968 - the font has_chars() method now returns perl's true and false
969 values in list context rather than integers, which should be more
971 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69158
973 - the btm data structure used by the flood_fill code is now
974 initialized more efficiently.
975 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68994
977 - updated the Thanks list in README
978 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71607
980 - check there's at least one coefficient for the convolution filter
981 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68993
983 - make the APIRef synopsis ordering consistent, older versions of
984 perl could order it differently.
985 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71675
987 - we rely on Config.pm's d_vsnprintf as to whether we use
988 vsnprintf/snprintf, which is defined in the Win32 Config.pm even
989 though it only has _ prefixed versions of these. Define our own
990 prefixed names on Win32.
991 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71642
993 - fix library detection with MSVC
995 - search a few more library directories, so EU::MM doesn't discard
996 them. Hopefully fixes:
997 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=71643
999 Imager 0.85_01 - 10 Oct 2011
1002 - add simple tests for the Imager::Test test_image generators
1004 - io_glue I/O buffering re-work:
1006 - reorganize io_glue to do it's own buffering by default
1008 - the unbuffered functions are available as i_io_raw_read() (or
1009 raw_read() from perl) etc but are not recommended for typical
1012 - use the new i_io_peekn() when checking for file magic to avoid
1013 seek, allowing Imager to detect the file type and read the file
1014 from an unseekable stream (for formats that don't use random
1017 - added several new I/O layer API functions.
1019 - fix the TGA performance problem, most noticably on Win32
1020 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70037
1022 - TIFF now uses wrapper functions of the correct types to avoid casts
1023 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69912
1025 - the callback IO object did its own buffering, controlled by the
1026 maxbuffer parameter supplied to the read() and write() methods.
1027 This buffering has been removed, to avoid redundancy with the
1028 common io_glue buffering. This also avoids a bug in that code
1029 which could rarely pass a zero length to the read callback and
1030 then panic about the result.
1032 - the callback IO object now tests the result of calling the close
1033 callback, which should return true for success.
1035 - the PNM reader did its own buffering. This buffering has been
1036 removed to avoid redundancy with the common io_glue buffering.
1038 - previously the read handlers for fd and callback I/O layers would
1039 call the underlying interface (POSIX read or your supplied callback)
1040 until it filled the buffer. It now only makes one call.
1042 - added public constructors for I/O layer objects (see Imager::IO)
1044 - all core file handlers now use the i_io_foo() wrappers to gain
1045 access to buffered I/O rather than calling the I/O layer
1048 - all core file handlers now check for error on close.
1050 - Backward compatibility: if you hava custom file handlers, you can
1051 use i_io_write() etc since they're available as macros in older
1054 - eliminate the final remnants of io_glue_commit_types().
1056 - bump IMAGER_API_VERSION, since the above may break assumptions.
1058 - removed the long unused i_gen_reader() and i_gen_writer() utility
1061 Imager 0.85 - 29 Aug 2011
1064 The main changes in the release versus 0.84 are:
1066 - on 64-bit systems, 64-bit types are consistently used for image
1067 dimensions and co-ordinated, and for memory block sizes.
1069 - handle IFD loops in TIFF files correctly. Previously this would
1070 lead to an infinite loop.
1074 - fix the link in the getheight() entry in the method index
1076 Imager 0.84_02 - 22 Aug 2011
1079 Development release, this will become 0.85 if CPAN testers is
1084 - the image file limits set by set_file_limits() weren't being
1085 checked when reading TIFF files.
1086 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69915
1088 - Provide more information about file format module load errors on a
1089 failed image file read() or write().
1090 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69194
1092 - use TIFFReadDirectory() instead of TIFFSetDirectory() to iterate
1093 through TIFF images, since it checks for IFD loops.
1094 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69914
1096 - don't leak memory when out of range palette indexes are supplied to
1098 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69242
1100 - require a later version of CPAN::Meta to ensure JSON::PP and
1101 CPAN::Meta::YAML are available.
1102 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69008
1104 - hoist the per-line calculations for the flines implementations, and
1105 modernize the tests a bit.
1106 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=70126
1108 - detect snprintf()/vsnprintf() (cheat by using Config.pm) and use
1109 them when available.
1110 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69147
1112 - if t1lib failed to reinitialize it would be left as marked
1114 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69877
1116 - update the bundled (and still modified) Devel::CheckLib
1117 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69170
1119 Imager 0.84_01 - 8 Aug 2011
1122 Development release as a sanity check for the types re-work.
1124 Massive types re-work:
1126 - the type used internally for pixel co-ordinates and image sizes is
1127 now 64-bit on 64-bit platforms (at least sane ones).
1129 - size_t is now used consistently for memory block sizes.
1131 - since this changes the binary interface, the Imager API version has
1132 been incremented. Any module that uses the API will need to be
1133 rebuilt. In most cases that will be enough, but calls to any APIs
1134 that take a pointer to image sizes may need source changes.
1136 - you should be able to create very large images on 64-bit systems,
1137 if you have enough memory. Successfully created a 32768 x 49192 x
1138 3 channel image, filled with a tiled image and scaled it. The
1139 unscaled image was also successfully saved to a JPEG.
1141 - check the image size before attempting to write BMP, GIF, JPEG,
1142 PNG, SGI, TGA, TIFF images.
1144 - correctly handle reading TGA images over 32767 pixels wide or tall.
1148 - the gif_left and gif_top tags are now clamped to non-negative
1149 values when writing a GIF image.
1151 - removed dead callback read/write code
1153 The default maximum memory size when reading files is now 1G.
1155 Imager 0.84 - 20 Jun 2011
1158 - Imager no longer inherits from Exporter (unless you're running an
1161 - Imager can now write progressive JPEGs (it could always read them).
1162 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68691
1166 - re-work, document and test Imager's logging facility.
1167 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65227
1169 - fix META.yml testing and the generated META.yml
1170 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65235
1172 - test and add error reporting to to_*() family methods
1174 - add to_rgb_double() method.
1175 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65101
1177 - Imager no longer exports anything by default
1178 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65228
1180 - convert colors to grayscale if the supplied (or generated) palette
1181 contains only grays when performing error diffusion color
1183 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68508
1185 - writing a paletted image to GIF wouldn't always use the colors
1186 supplied (or generated, eg. via make_colors => "mono"), which was
1188 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67912
1190 - replace (imager|tony)@imager.perl.org in the doc, since I don't
1191 plan to continue receiving mail at that address.
1192 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=68591
1194 Imager 0.83 - 21 May 2011
1199 - diag() the error message on failure for some TIFF tests that are
1200 failing on a Solaris smoker.
1201 http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/6396db1e-8090-11e0-9682-112b785ebe45
1203 Imager 0.82_01 - 17 May 2011
1206 Dev release, in case the compose tests are too sensitive.
1210 - Imager::Font::T1 incorrectly checked for absolute filename under
1211 Win32. Thanks to kmx for the report and fix.
1212 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67963
1214 - compose() with the target, source or mask position off the top or
1215 left of the target image didn't clip the source image correctly.
1216 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=67220
1218 - compose() now returns a useful error message on a non-positive
1221 - compose.im now at 100% test coverage. (As opposed to, umm, much,
1224 Imager 0.82 - 14 Mar 2011
1229 - eliminate calls to i_has_format() from the test suite, since it's
1230 no longer a useful way to check for file format support. Eliminate
1231 i_has_format() from the functions exposed via XS.
1232 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65863
1234 - eliminate calls to note(), which isn't in the (very old) version of
1235 Test::More we have as a pre-requisite. note() is modern enough
1236 that I don't feel a need to require a Test::More upgrade for it.
1237 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65864
1239 - skip the threads tests on Test::More 2.00_*
1240 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65812
1242 - add an (unshipped) test to check Imager's internal POD links
1243 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65749
1245 - improve the library detection summary
1246 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9675
1248 - increase the version of Imager::Font::Type1 so that upgrades don't
1249 downgrade the version in this file.
1250 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66250
1252 - if we see an -rpath (or -R) option in $Config{lddlflags} supply
1253 that option for the directories that would normally go in
1254 LD_RUN_PATH. Typically an explicit -rpath overrides LD_RUN_PATH.
1255 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65955
1257 Imager 0.81 - 14 Feb 2011
1260 - added coverage tests for masked images (maskimg.c @100% test coverage)
1262 - add hsv() method to Imager::Color
1263 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1264 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65385
1266 - split libt1 Type 1 font support into a sub-module
1267 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1269 - add a preload() class method for use in forking servers, and to
1270 work around limitations in PAR.
1271 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65665
1275 - paletted writes to a masked image are now masked correctly.
1276 Revealed by new coverage tests.
1278 - update the filter plugin documentation.
1279 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56513
1281 - add the matrix() method to Imager::Matrix2d to allow creation of a
1282 matrix with specified co-efficients. You can now multiple an
1283 Imager::Matrix2d object by a 9 element array ref or a number.
1284 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29938
1286 - really fix loading TTF fonts with FT2 when FT1 isn't available.
1287 Thanks to Leolo (Philip Gwyn)
1288 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65386
1289 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1291 - make sure each test script that needs testout/ creates it.
1292 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65088
1294 - handle a slightly different warning from libtiff 4.x
1295 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65268
1297 - the sat transform2() op returned an incorrect saturation.
1298 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65391
1300 Imager 0.80 - 17 Jan 2011
1303 - added coverage tests for Imager::Fountain and Imager::Color::Float
1305 - Imager is now maintained in git
1306 http://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1307 git://git.imager.perl.org/imager.git
1311 - images with an translucent alpha channel were not scaled correctly
1312 by the default (qtype=normal) scaling method.
1313 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63922
1315 - Imager::Color::Float now translates "#FFFFFF" to white instead of
1316 just a little darker.
1318 - make the default color map build algorithm "mediancut". This
1319 changes the default color map builder for writing GIFs back to what
1320 it was in 0.77, reverting a performance regression.
1321 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=64785
1323 - handle failure to create a masked image correctly
1325 Imager 0.79 - 10 Dec 2010
1328 - add Imager::Test to the POD coverage tests and document the missing
1331 - the convert() method now optimizes the case where all output
1332 channels are either 0, sourced from a single input channel or 1.
1333 This significantly speeds up presets like "addalpha", "green".
1334 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51254
1336 - add wiggle.pl sample, as suggested by Dan Oppenheim.
1338 - add the combine() method to combine channels from multiple source
1339 images into a new image
1340 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11872
1344 - treat the co-efficients for convert() as doubles instead of floats.
1346 - If a higher (earlier) priority font handler failed to load, that
1347 would crash preventing loading of later font handlers.
1348 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=62855
1350 - parse defines from the options returned by pkg-config --cflags
1351 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63223
1353 - a regen of the MANIFEST revealed that GIF and FT2 tests weren't
1354 included in the tarball. They are now included.
1356 Imager 0.78 - 4 Oct 2010
1361 - don't access deprecated members of the png_structp.
1362 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60242
1364 - document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors
1366 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61047
1368 - Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath.
1369 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60244
1371 Imager 0.77_02 - 27 Sep 2010
1374 - moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules.
1375 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1376 Uses Imager::Probe now.
1377 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=61328
1379 - tested successfully with jpeg-8b
1380 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60221
1384 - from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right
1387 - flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line
1389 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1391 - flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the
1392 starting line didn't reach the left edge.
1393 Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.
1395 Imager 0.77_01 - 13 Sep 2010
1398 - add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path
1400 Thanks to Justin Davis.
1401 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1403 - moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in
1404 preparation for separate distribution.
1405 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1407 Note: this removed support for libungif from Imager.
1409 - optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)
1413 - Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize
1414 LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found
1415 directory. Thanks to Justin Davis.
1416 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60491
1418 - only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and
1419 then only when it would use its search mechanisms.
1420 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60509
1422 - fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically
1423 used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix
1424 improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times.
1425 Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to
1428 - clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images.
1429 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60637
1431 - Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path.
1432 Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they
1433 aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin.
1434 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60635
1436 Imager 0.77 - 11 Aug 2010
1439 I don't want Imager::File::PNG indexed as part of Imager, but forgot
1440 to update the META.yml before updating the version.
1442 - don't index Imager::File::PNG as part of Imager
1444 - add resources to META.yml
1446 Imager 0.76 - not released
1451 - the align_string() method would ignore a string of "0" due to a
1452 mis-use of C< ||= >.
1453 Thanks to Maurice Height for reporting this.
1454 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=60199
1456 Imager 0.75_03 - 09 Aug 2010
1461 - read_types() and write_types() would include png when it wasn't
1462 available due to a problem with the %formats tie
1464 - handle dependent libraries correctly (eg -lpng requiring -lz) in
1465 the code run phase of library probing.
1467 Imager 0.75_02 - 07 Aug 2010
1472 - add file missing from MANIFEST, which was causing TIFF failures.
1474 Imager 0.75_01 - 06 Aug 2010
1477 Test release for the new PNG probe.
1479 - added the ability to read multiple-image PNM files.
1480 Note that unlike the pbm/pgm/ppm specification this accepts mixed
1481 format files and allows white space padding between files.
1482 Thanks to Philip Gwyn (Leolo) for this patch.
1484 - moved the PNG file handling code into a sub-module in preparation
1485 for separate distribution.
1486 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49616 (partial)
1487 Also helps avoid complications from -I/-L compile/link options from
1492 - Imager->new(data => $data) didn't try to process image file data in
1494 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58761
1496 - t/t50basicoo.t no longer depends on the other tests to generate its
1498 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9798
1499 Also, it wasn't testing pnm (pnm vs ppm mix-up)
1501 - update the documentation of hardinvert to match the change in 0.62.
1502 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=59785
1504 - added hardinvertall filter which also inverts the alpha channel
1505 (sorry for the mess)
1507 - when probing for TIFF, set LD_RUN_PATH just as the Makefile does so
1508 the probe can find the library for the test run.
1509 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57518
1511 Imager 0.75 - 20 Jun 2010
1514 - use PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT to slightly improve performance on threaded
1515 perls (not measured)
1519 - an opacity fill based on a fountain fill would segfault when
1520 filling an 8-bit/sample image.
1522 - merge thickline branch polygon fix
1523 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=43518
1525 Imager 0.74 - 7 May 2010
1530 - read_multi() didn't handle a missing file format library correctly,
1531 aborting on failing to call i_readgif_multi_wiol() or
1532 i_readtiff_multi_wiol().
1534 - fix spelling errors patched by Debian
1535 http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/libimager-perl/debian/patches/spelling.patch?revision=54839&view=markup
1537 - add an (unshipped) author test to spellcheck Imager's POD.
1539 - update the TIFF file format documentation
1540 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56510
1542 - lib/Imager/IO.pod was written almost 4 years ago but never shipped.
1544 Imager 0.73 - 15 Mar 2010
1547 - implement outline circles, both anti-aliased and not
1548 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19755
1550 - a combine => "none" fill to a 1 or 3 channel image would produce
1551 the incorrect colour.
1553 Imager 0.72 - 09 Dec 2009
1556 Bump version for release, since 0.71_03 is stable with CPAN testers.
1558 Imager 0.71_03 - 5 Dec 2009
1561 - further adjust the threads test so it only performs the tests on
1562 perls where it's expected to work, and only if the threads module
1565 Imager 0.71_02 - 1 Dec 2009
1568 - adjust the way we load the threads module for the threads test so
1569 it works with non-threaded perls
1571 Imager 0.71_01 - 30 Nov 2009
1576 - use scanline oriented operations to flip images instead of pixel
1578 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39278
1580 - use double/sample operations to flip large sample images instead of
1581 8-bit sample operations.
1582 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39280
1585 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=51874
1587 - prevent double-frees when someone creates Imager objects and then
1588 creates a thread. Note: this just handles some simple cases,
1589 Imager doesn't support perl threads, and isn't likely to.
1590 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=52268
1592 Imager 0.71 - 16 Nov 2009
1595 - add the opacity fill type - an adaptor that modifies the opacity of
1600 - the conv filter now enforces that the sum of the coefficients is
1601 non-zero. Also, rather than skipping pixels off the edge off the
1602 edge of the image, the closest edge pixel is used. Previously
1603 dividing by the zero sum of coefficients could cause invalid
1604 results or runtime exceptions.
1605 Thanks to David Cantrell's Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box for revealing
1608 Imager 0.70 - 21 Sep 2009
1613 - release image row and comments memory on all error returns in gif
1616 - handle zero length extensions, previously this would cause a null
1618 Thanks to Krzysztof Wojtaś for the test data and fix for this.
1620 - an integer division meant that preview scaling to below 1 pixel
1621 wide or high (which isn't too useful anyway) was calculating using
1622 NaNs on most platforms, and causing an exception on others.
1623 Thanks to David Cantrell for producing a backtrace of the crash on
1624 his Alpha-NetBSD CPAN test box which made it possible to track this
1627 Imager 0.69 - 08 Sep 2009
1632 - broken test fix - was attempting to call a function skip_all, when
1633 that should be a parameter to plan().
1635 - briefly document apidocs.perl, the tool used to build
1636 Imager::APIRef and make some minor enhancements
1638 - various minor documentation enhancements and fixes.
1640 Imager 0.68 - 07 Sep 2009
1643 - Imager->new(file => $filename) and other similar incantations will
1644 load the given file.
1645 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=48261
1649 - avoid using CHECK as a label in Imager::Test
1650 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5220921
1652 - re-work most image file test files that require a library into
1653 separate library present/not present files to remove stupidly long
1656 - don't treat rubthrough() outside the bounds of the target image as
1658 http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/5185716
1660 Imager 0.67_01 - 02 Sep 2009
1665 - correct documentation of default of raw image interleave read
1667 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=42074
1669 - add raw_ prefix to raw read parameters, though the original names
1672 - fail the read if an invalid raw_interleave parameter is supplied
1674 - warn if no interleave or raw_interleave parameter is supplied,
1675 since the documented default was wrong, and incompatible with the
1678 - for reading raw images, if raw_storechannels > raw_datachannels,
1679 set the extra channels in the image to 0
1681 - when probing for executables like freetype-config, search for .bat
1682 and .cmd on MSWin32, as well as .exe.
1683 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=49275
1685 - re-work the external libraries section of README:
1686 - list Debian and Redhat package names for each library
1690 - use the new EU::MM META_MERGE facility instead of generating
1691 META.yml from scratch
1692 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47888
1694 - use Devel::CheckLib (bundled, modified) to check which release of
1695 libtiff is installed and reject 3.9.0
1696 http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2088
1697 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543079
1699 Imager 0.67 - 12 Dec 2008
1704 - fix a packaging error
1706 Imager 0.66 - 12 Dec 2008
1709 - 24-bit color .ICO/.CUR files can now be read.
1713 - an optimization skipping 0 src alpha values could cause the
1714 rubthrough() to read past the end of a buffer.
1715 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2008/05/msg1509184.html
1717 - corrected a reference leak where writing GIFs would leak memory.
1718 This could also happen calling to_paletted().
1719 Also documented the underlying long existing feature where the
1720 colors parameter is filled with the generated color table and added
1722 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41028
1724 - write out the image size in bytes field of a BMP correctly.
1725 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=41406
1727 - add limited tests for Imager::ExtUtils
1729 - make Imager::ExtUtils->includes use an absolute path, since
1730 a relative path could cause failures using Inline::C.
1731 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=37353
1733 - re-arrange the POD for Imager::Font::BBox:
1734 - mark total_width(), pos_width(), end_offset() obsolete, since
1735 they're mostly for backwards compatibility
1736 - group width methods and height methods
1737 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39999
1739 Imager 0.65 - 20 May 2008
1744 - In some cases when an error occurs reading those parts of a JPEG
1745 file after the image the scan-line buffer could be freed a second
1746 time. In cases where the the error occured while reading the image
1747 data it's possible that the buffer could have leaked.
1748 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this and help in tracking
1751 - the gif_screen_height tag was overriding the screen width and being
1752 ignored for the screen height when present.
1753 https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=35568
1755 Imager 0.64 - 23 April 2008
1758 This is a bug fix release. This includes a fix for a possible
1763 - Possible security issue: The floating point sample path for image
1764 based fills had a buffer overflow. This would overwrite the end of
1765 a malloc()ed buffer with double precision floats.
1766 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35324
1769 - check that the result of fileno($fh) is defined rather than simply
1770 true when read() or write() is supplied with an fh parameter.
1771 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35139
1773 - i_scale_axis() wasn't checking the result of i_img_new_ch()
1774 resulting in a SIGSEGV when attempting to scale an image to a size
1775 too large to fit in memory. This is a NULL pointer access issue,
1776 not a buffer overflow.
1777 Added a check for the failure.
1778 scale_calculate() (and hence scale()) will now fail if any of the
1779 scale size parameters are a reference.
1780 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35172
1782 - Regression: filling a greyscale image with a hatch used the wrong
1783 color channels from the supplied fg/bg colors.
1784 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=35278
1786 - fixed a related problem for image fills.
1788 Imager 0.63 - 7 April 2008
1791 This release primarily contains changes to improve ease of use -
1792 rather than you having to convert images to the appropriate number of
1793 channels, Imager handles it internally. How to handle drawing colors
1794 and the default combine mode is a thornier problem left for some other
1797 - the font libraries are now only initialized when needed.
1798 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28825
1800 - moved the imtoc.perl code into Imager::Preprocess
1802 - paste() and rubthrough() now adapt the source image data to the
1803 destination, so you can now safely paste/rubthrough from greyscale
1804 images to color images or back, or from alpha channel images to
1805 noalpha channels or back.
1806 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30908
1808 - rubthrough() now falls back to pasting when the source doesn't have
1809 an alpha channel. This effectively treats the source as having a
1810 max alpha channel, the right thing to do.
1811 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29944
1813 - re-worked most of the area filling code to use a common set of
1814 functions when filling.
1815 Corrected normal combine mode.
1816 Rewrote most of the combine modes to match the way the SVG draft
1817 defines them with respect to a translucent source and destination.
1818 Added tests for translucent source and destination.
1819 Added tests to check 8-bit/sample and double/sample combines work
1821 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29879
1823 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a JPEG file will now write that
1824 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1825 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1826 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29876
1828 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a PGM/PPM file will now write
1829 that image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1830 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1831 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30074
1833 - writing a 2 or 4 channel image to a BMP file will now write that
1834 image as if composited against a background, black by default,
1835 overridable with the i_background tag/parameter.
1836 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30075
1840 - Imager::Matrix2d->translate() now only requires one of the x or y
1842 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29937
1844 - mixing qtype scaling now sets all channels of a pixel to zero if
1845 the pixel has zero coverage (zero alpha). This should produce more
1846 compressible output files.
1847 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32324
1849 - removed the pointless #! line from lib/Imager/Font/Wrap.pm
1851 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166254
1852 I'm not changing the #! lines of the sample code, since it's sample
1853 code, not intended for installation.
1854 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=33408
1856 - some TGA images weren't being detected correctly as TGA images
1857 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32925
1859 - handling of the left-over bit for 16-bit/pixel TGA images has been
1860 changed to match the behaviour of the GIMP. Previously the bit
1861 being set was treated as an opaque pixel, but one user reported a
1862 problem with loading such an image. I haven't been able to find any
1863 tools beyond the GIMP that handle alpha-channel 16-bit TGAs, so
1864 I'll match it's behaviour. See issue 114913 in the GIMP's
1866 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=32926
1868 Imager 0.62 - 10 December 2007
1871 - Makefile.PL now expands ~/path supplied to --incpath or --libpath
1872 to /path under your home directory.
1873 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29484
1875 - the old dynaload code used Mach API functions to load dynamic
1876 libraries on Mac OS X. These APIs have been deprecated in OS X
1877 10.5 and were causing some build problems.
1878 So henceforth Imager uses the dlopen() family of functions, and you
1879 will need version 10.3 or later of OS X.
1881 - added the det() function to the transform2() engine.
1882 added the sample quad_to_square.pl
1883 Courtesy Richard Fairhurst.
1884 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=31244
1888 - samples/gifscale.pl sourced the base value for gif_top from
1890 Thanks to Eleneldil G. Arilou for pointing this out.
1892 - t/t82inline.t no longer loads B at runtime, to work around a bug
1893 in some 5.005_0[45] installations.
1894 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30508
1896 - work around Module::Depends::Intrusive bug #21229
1897 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30520
1899 - the hardinvert filter no-longer inverts the alpha channel.
1900 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30002
1902 - the hardinvert filter now supports large samples
1904 Imager 0.61_02 - 28 November 2007
1907 - major TIFF support re-work
1908 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20329
1910 - added a C level image interface for accessing samples from 1-32
1911 bits, exposed this at the perl level in getsamples()
1913 - the conv filter now works at floating point precision for high bit
1916 - added is_bilevel method to test whether an image should be written as
1917 a bilevel image if the image format supports it.
1919 - added -log-stderr as an Imager import list option
1921 - added some important types to Imager::APIRef
1923 - added test_image_double() to Imager::Test
1927 - Imager::Fountain couldn't read GIMP gradient files with 10 or more
1930 - the scale() method with qtype mixing now handles images with an
1931 alpha channel correctly.
1933 - fixed a broken link from the "animated GIF" entry in the concept index.
1934 Thanks to Slaven Rezic.
1935 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30889
1937 - on some perl's the infix expression parser test would fail due to
1938 actions in the grammar returning false. Made sure all actions return
1940 Thanks to Richard Fairhurst for spending a lot of time in tracking
1942 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29562
1944 Imager 0.61 - 5 November 2007
1947 - added samples/gifscale.pl, which adjusts the screen size/position tags
1948 when scaling an animated gif
1949 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27591
1953 - correct handling of sz in matrix_transform() - this should allow
1954 perspective type transformations to work now.
1955 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29936
1957 - prevent a cast to integer warning on x64 builds in datatypes.c
1958 also fixed some other type warnings
1959 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30204
1961 - some sub-directory tests depended on files produced by the parent
1963 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30203
1965 - Imager::Font::Wrap doesn't correctly set savepos
1966 thanks to Nikita Dedik and Eleneldil G. Arilou for reporting this.
1967 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29771
1969 - test 171 in t/t01introvert.t was failing on perls configured to
1971 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29413
1973 - the code for the transform2() uminus operator was missing a break.
1974 Added tests for better code coverage of the ops.
1975 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29296
1977 - the SGI RLE compression code could overflow its compression buffer
1978 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30334
1980 - the 32-bit output function used by the SGI code only handled values
1981 under 0x10000. This was most noticable when writing large RLE images.
1982 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30335
1984 - validate chan_count for chans == NULL for each of the i_gsamp()
1986 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28985
1988 - attempt to work around the test failure at
1989 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/09/msg650810.html
1990 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29562
1992 - improve the error messages produced when attempting to read or write
1993 an unknown image file format.
1994 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30103
1996 - improve the transform2() documentation
1997 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29267
1999 - correctly generate the author key in META.yml
2000 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=30377
2002 - correctly blend a rotated (or matrix_transformed()) image when
2003 performing interpolation in the presence of an alpha channel.
2004 Also corrected the centring of the rotated image on the output
2007 Imager 0.60 - 30 August 2007
2010 - Finished/rewrote Arnar's old SGI RGB file format support, so Imager
2011 now has full SGI RGB image format, including RLE and 16-bit/sample
2013 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8666
2015 - logging functions are now available in the API
2017 - applied Gabriel Vasseur's patch
2018 added documentation, further tests, and support for greyscale images
2019 Obviously problems are my fault :)
2020 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28142
2022 - the mask for ICO/CUR images is now applied as an alpha channel to
2023 the returned image. For the old behaviour, supply ico_masked => 0
2024 to read() or read_multi(). This should be less confusing when
2025 using Imager as a general image processor.
2026 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=29001
2030 - in some cases it's possible for giflib/libungif to return color
2031 indexes outside the range of colors defined by the image's palette.
2032 We now expand the palette to match the indexes used.
2033 Thanks to Gabriel Vasseur for reporting this.
2035 - fixed various memory leaks that could occur when failing to read png,
2036 jpeg, bmp or tga files.
2038 - to avoid confusion, channels not present in the image are returned as
2039 zero by getscanline(). This has no effect on the C level i_glin()
2040 and i_glinf() API functions which continue to not set the unused
2043 - the convert() method now returns an image of the same sample size as
2045 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28492
2047 - remove repeated text in Imager::Files
2048 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27589
2050 - be even more explicit that scale() and friends don't modify the source
2051 image, but return a new image.
2052 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=28570
2054 - improve the error message from errstr() when you try to load a font
2055 for which the driver hasn't been built in Imager.
2056 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27571
2058 - transparency is now enabled by default when writing GIF images
2059 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27615
2061 - Imager would not load on Windows 98
2062 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27653
2064 Imager 0.59 - 14 June 2007
2069 - fixes a regression introduced by the fixes for RT 11972
2070 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27546
2072 - cropping outside the image would return an Imager object with
2073 no low-level image object, instead of returning false.
2074 Fixed by: Philip Gwyn (Leolo)
2075 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=27509
2077 Imager 0.58 - 16 May 2007
2080 No significant changes from 0.57_01.
2082 Imager 0.57_01 - 11 May 2007
2085 - added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image
2087 - improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency
2091 - search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
2092 Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
2093 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064
2095 - use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
2096 fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
2097 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645
2099 - document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.
2101 - put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
2102 regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
2103 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278
2105 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
2106 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2108 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
2109 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2111 - reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
2112 function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
2113 library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
2114 both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
2115 Hopefully this will fix build problems like
2116 http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
2117 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086
2119 Imager 0.57 - 30 Apr 2007
2122 This is a maintenence release fixing a security issue in Imager.
2124 - CRITICAL: a specially crafted compressed BMP file can cause a buffer
2125 overflow in malloced memory. There will be further discussion of
2126 this issue in the ticket below.
2127 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26811
2128 CVE-2007-2459 CVE-2007-2413
2129 The descriptions at cve.mitre.org varied in quality, please see the
2130 ticket at rt.cpan.org for a more accurate description of the issue.
2132 Imager 0.56 - 1 Apr 2007
2135 - added support for reading 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2137 - added support for writing 16-bit/sample PGM/PPM images
2139 - improved performance of reading PBM/PGM/PPM images
2141 - added support for writing PBM images if the image is paletted and
2142 contains only black and white
2144 - added a new make_colors value - "mono"
2146 - switched from the svn log Changes to a manual Changes to reduce
2149 - new sample code - samples/flasher.pl
2153 - CRITICAL: the "Imager" typemap entry (not used by Imager itself)
2154 was returning an image object with an extra reference, this
2155 resulted in a memory leak.
2156 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24992
2158 - fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 2.x driver
2159 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972
2161 - reading bmp files now consitently handles short reads. You can now
2162 supply a parameter to treat a short read as successful and set
2164 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8426
2166 - previously, reading ASCII PBM files required spaces between samples,
2167 even though the format doesn't require that
2169 - improved documentation of the unsharpmask filter (I hope)
2170 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25531
2172 - force flushing of the output from i_tt_dump_names() and test output
2173 in t/t35ttfont.t to prevent output from being mixed up.
2174 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24859
2176 - rewrite a conditional expression as an if() to hopefully work around
2177 a bug in the pre-4.0 GCC Apple shipped with OS X 10.4.
2178 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25561
2180 - avoid Data::Dumper in regops.perl to support older releases of perl
2181 https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=24391
2183 Imager 0.55 - 16 Dec 2006
2186 This is primarily a bug fix release.
2188 Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer bundled.
2190 There is one new feature:
2192 - the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166)
2193 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2194 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=22166
2196 Several bugs were fixed:
2198 - the string() method would not output the string "0"
2199 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2201 - fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown)
2202 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21944
2204 - the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from
2206 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=22192
2208 - gif.c was failing to build under MSVC
2209 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23922
2211 - in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as
2212 terminated by NUL (chr 0)
2213 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21770
2215 - on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since
2216 that's the default build name for zlib on Win32.
2217 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=23064
2219 - search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been
2222 Win32 font driver fixes:
2224 - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign
2225 http://www.cpanforum.com/threads/3276
2227 - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of the
2228 advance width they would be clipped
2231 Imager 0.54 - 14 Sep 2006
2234 This is primarily a feature release:
2236 - a new qtype value 'mixing' has been added to the scale()
2237 method. This is faster than 'normal', slower than 'preview'. This
2238 is based on the method used by pnmscale, and seems to produce less
2239 blurry results than normal.
2240 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20677
2242 - the rubthrough() method can now render onto images with an alpha
2244 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20678
2246 - the read_multi() method now falls back to calling doing a single
2247 image read via the read() method and write_multi() will now fall
2248 back to calling write() if a single image is supplied. This means
2249 you can simply call the read_multi() or write_multi() functions
2250 without having to check if the type is formatted by that method.
2251 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19457
2252 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19458
2254 - the GIF loop extension can now be written. If you don't have
2255 libungif/giflib 4.1.4 (or some distribution's bugfixed equivalent) you
2257 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=21185
2259 - getscanline() and setscanline() can now read/write palette index
2260 based data from/to the image for paletted images, by setting type to
2262 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20338
2264 - we no longer hassle you to disable GIF support
2265 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20687
2267 - minor documentation fixes
2270 Imager 0.53 - 26 Jul 2006
2273 This is a bugfix release.
2275 Some test code was left in a code path not covered by the test
2276 suite. A test was added to cover this code path and the test code was
2278 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20705
2281 Imager 0.52 - 25 Jul 2006
2284 This is primarily a feature release, but contains a fair few bug
2285 fixes, new features:
2287 - ability to read and write MS Windows ICO and CUR files
2289 - you can now add file format plugins to support new file formats
2291 - add POD coverage tests
2293 - setcolors() and addcolors() now accept color names and so on
2294 instead of requiring Imager::Color objects.
2295 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20056
2297 - flood_fill() can now fill to a specified border color instead of
2298 just to the area the same color as the seed.
2299 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19618
2304 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't converting UTF8 to ascii when
2305 calculating the advance width.
2306 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=20554
2308 - bounding_box for the T1 driver wasn't including leading and
2309 trailing spaces in the bounding box as the other drivers did, it also
2310 produced strange results for empty strings or strings containing only
2313 - when reading CMYK jpeg images they were being transferred to the
2314 image object as is, producing a four channel image. It only looked ok
2315 due to an old still unfixed Photoshop bug. We now convert from the
2316 inverted CMYK that photoshop (and Corel for example) produce into RGB.
2317 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20416
2319 - reading a CYMK TIFF would result in a 4 channel image, reading any
2320 image with more than 4 channels (eg. RGB with 2 alpha channels) would
2322 http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=20415
2324 - added /usr/local/include to the default include search path, since
2325 we were already searching /usr/local/lib for libraries.
2327 And various minor fixes and documentation updates.
2330 Imager 0.51 - 23 Apr 2006
2333 - fix a validation bug when processing JPEG EXIF data that can cause
2335 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18496
2337 - fix mis-processing of the src_maxx and src_maxy parameters of the
2339 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18712
2341 - fix a problem in Imager's "smart" handling of the color parameter
2343 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18561
2346 Imager 0.50 - 29 Mar 2006
2349 - CRITICAL: fixes a segmentation fault from attempting to write a 2
2350 or 4 channel image to jpeg or a 2 channel image to tga where the
2351 output is an in-memeory buffer.
2352 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18397
2354 - fixes an incorrect pointer parameter in the PNG code
2355 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18051
2357 - skip Inline::C tests when building in a directory with spaces
2358 http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18049