brown-bag bugs may add intermediate releases. The dates are goals,
not commitments.
+For 0.64: (speculative)
+
+PNG re-work (#29268)
+
+give 4/2 channel images a background color when saving to pnm (#30074)
+
+give 4/2 channel images a background color when saving to BMP (#30075)
+
+give 4/2 channel images a background color when saving to JPEG
+(#29876)
+
For 0.63: (tentative)
-thick lines
+thick lines (#28854)
have alpha channel work treated as coverage for primitives (more
general combine parameter)
-general alpha channel fixes
+general alpha channel fixes (#29879, etc)
For 0.62:
scaling alpha channel image issues (done)
+PBM images inverted (#30859) (might be fixed in TIFF branch)
+
+don't load B at compile-time in t82inline.t (#30508)
+
+the hardinvert filter inverts the alpha channels, this probably isn't
+desirable (#30002)
+
+"dh-make-perl --build --cpan Imager" fails on require Makefile.PL
+(#30520)
+
+Wrong link in Imager Pod (#30889) (done)
+
For 0.61:
regmach.c fixes/tests (#29296) (done)