libpng/ANNOUNCE

Libpng 1.6.24rc02 - August 1, 2016

This is not intended to be a public release.  It will be replaced
within a few weeks by a public version or by another test version.

Files available for download:

Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
"configure" script

   1.6.24rc02.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   1.6.24rc02.tar.gz

Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script

   lp1624r02.7z  (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   lp1624r02.zip

Other information:

   1.6.24rc02-README.txt
   1.6.24rc02-LICENSE.txt
   libpng-1.6.24rc02-*.asc (armored detached GPG signatures)

Changes since the last public release (1.6.23):

Version 1.6.24beta01 [June 11, 2016]
  Avoid potential overflow of the PNG_IMAGE_SIZE macro.  This macro
    is not used within libpng, but is used in some of the examples.

Version 1.6.24beta02 [June 23, 2016]
  Correct filter heuristic overflow handling. This was broken when the
    write filter code was moved out-of-line; if there is a single filter and
    the heuristic sum overflows the calculation of the filtered line is not
    completed.  In versions prior to 1.6 the code was duplicated in-line
    and the check not performed, so the filter operation completed; however,
    in the multi-filter case where the sum is performed the 'none' filter would
    be selected if all the sums overflowed, even if it wasn't in the filter
    list.  The fix to the first problem is simply to provide PNG_SIZE_MAX as
    the current lmins sum value; this means the sum can never exceed it and
    overflows silently.  A reasonable compiler that does choose to inline
    the code will simply eliminate the sum check.
  The fix to the second problem is to use high precision arithmetic (this is
    implemented in 1.7), however a simple safe fix here is to chose the lowest
    numbered filter in the list from png_set_filter (this only works if the
    first problem is also fixed) (John Bowler).
  Use a more efficient absolute value calculation on SSE2 (Matthieu Darbois).
  Fixed the case where PNG_IMAGE_BUFFER_SIZE can overflow in the application
    as a result of the application using an increased 'row_stride'; previously
    png_image_finish_read only checked for overflow on the base calculation of
    components.  (I.e. it checked for overflow of a 32-bit number on the total
    number of pixel components in the output format, not the possibly padded row
    length and not the number of bytes, which for linear formats is twice the
    number of components.)
  MSVC does not like '-(unsigned)', so replaced it with 0U-(unsigned)
  MSVC does not like (uInt) = -(unsigned) (i.e. as an initializer), unless
    the conversion is explicitly invoked by a cast.
  Put the SKIP definition in the correct place. It needs to come after the
    png.h include (see all the other .c files in contrib/libtests) because it
    depends on PNG_LIBPNG_VER.
  Removed the three compile warning options from the individual project
    files into the zlib.props globals.  It increases the warning level from 4
    to All and adds a list of the warnings that need to be turned off.  This is
    semi-documentary; the intent is to tell libpng users which warnings have
    been examined and judged non-fixable at present.  The warning about
    structure padding is fixable, but it would be a signficant change (moving
    structure members around).

Version 1.6.24beta03 [July 4, 2016]
  Optimized absolute value calculation in filter selection, similar to
    code in the PAETH decoder in pngrutil.c. Build with PNG_USE_ABS to
    use this.
  Added pngcp to the build together with a pngcp.dfa configuration test.
  Added high resolution timing to pngcp.
  Added "Common linking failures" section to INSTALL.
  Relocated misplaced #endif in png.c sRGB profile checking.
  Fixed two Coverity issues in pngcp.c.

Version 1.6.24beta04 [July 8, 2016]
  Avoid filter-selection heuristic sum calculations in cases where only one
    filter is a candidate for selection. This trades off code size (added
    private png_setup_*_row_only() functions) for speed.

Version 1.6.24beta05 [July 13, 2016]
  Fixed some indentation to comply with our coding style.
  Added contrib/tools/reindent.

Version 1.6.24beta06 [July 18, 2016]
  Fixed more indentation to comply with our coding style.
  Eliminated unnecessary tests of boolean png_isaligned() vs 0.

Version 1.6.24rc01 [July 25, 2016]
  No changes.

Version 1.6.24rc02 [August 1, 2016]
  Conditionally compile SSE2 headers in contrib/intel/intel_sse.patch

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