From 31d007ebfc3a42a2b17c1671707212bc261a530f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tony Cook Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:33:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] release notes --- announce/0.55.txt | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+) create mode 100644 announce/0.55.txt diff --git a/announce/0.55.txt b/announce/0.55.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b294e6f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/announce/0.55.txt @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +This is primarily a bug fix release. + +Note: Test::More is now a pre-requisite for Imager and is no longer +bundled. + +There is one new feature: + +- the Win32 font driver now supports UTF8 (RT 22166) + +Several bugs were fixed: + +- the string() method would not output the string "0" (RT 21770) + +- fills.c was failing to compile on Solaris 10 (compiler unknown) (RT 21944) + +- the gif_disposal and gif_user_input tags weren't being read from the file + correctly (RT 22192) + +- Win32 font driver fixes: + - the global descent value from bounding box was the wrong sign + - if the first or last glyph overflowed the left or right side of + the advance width they would be clipped + +- gif.c was failing to build under MSVC (RT 23922) + +- in some cases strings passed to the string() method were treated as + terminated by NUL (chr 0) (RT 21770) + +- on "MSWin32" perl builds we now link to -lzlib instead of -lz since + that's the default build name for zlib on Win32. (RT 23064) + +- search $Config{incpath} for headers too, which we should have been + doing all along. -- 2.39.5