Imager 0.44 has been released and will soon be available on all CPAN
mirrors.

This is primarily a bug-fix release.  The following issues have been
fixed:

- reading or writing any TIFF image would produce a run-time error
  with recent versions of tifflib.

- Imager would fail to link or load (platform dependently) if built
  with the IM_NOLOG option

- the Win32 bounding_box() function would return the wrong number of
  values

- the pnm (pbm, pgm, ppm) reader would read the maximum sample value
  entry (maxval) from the pnm file and then ignore that value.  This
  meant that images with a maximum sample below 255 would be stored
  darked than they were meant to be.  Note that Imager cannot
  currently read binary pnm images with a maxval > 255.

- attempting to convert a 3 channel image to a paletted image could
  result in a segmentation fault if an empty target palette was
  supplied.  This could also occur in the implicit RGB => paletted
  conversion done when writing a GIF image.

- the setcolors() method wasn't correctly returning false on failure
  (due to an XS error)

- supplying a sufficiently small scaling value to the scale() method
  could result in a zero width or height image.

- the scale() method now produces a warning when called in void
  context

- Makefile.PL now handles spaces in the INCLUDE and LIB environment
  variables on Win32

- write() didn't return false on failure to write a GIF image

- if you called crop() with parameters other than the basic left,
  right, top, bottom to specify the source rectangle, the result was
  usually suprising.  The crop() documentation has been rewritten.

- the glyph_names() method usually crashed if the string parameter
  wasn't supplied.

- the glyph_names() method would ignore all but the bottom 8 bits of
  unicode characters.

- there was a memory leak when using callbacks for reading/writing
  images

- in some cases the incorrect generated palette was returned when
  writing a GIF image.

- the BMP reader had many bugs.

- reading a PNG file would set the i_yres tag to the horizontal
  resolution of the image

- all image readers now handle image sizes that would result in an
  integer overflow by returning failure rather than by a segmentation
  fault.

- renamed io.h to imio.h to avoid a conflict on cygwin.

New features:

- you can now supply a background color for the rotate() and
  matrix_transform() functions.

- Imager::Color methods now have an equals() method.

- Imager now includes a builtin colors table, usable by the builtin
  parameter or as a final fallback for the name parameter.

- the i_format tag is now set when reading an image to the format of
  the image

- the BMP file reader now sets more tags in the resulting image

Documentation changes:

- document that the most recent libungif is fixed and the most recent
  giflib is still broken. (README and other places)

- added a method index to Imager.pm