libpng/ANNOUNCE
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Libpng 1.6.0beta02 - December 17, 2011
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
1.6.0beta02.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
1.6.0beta02.tar.gz
1.6.0beta02.tar.bz2
Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script
lp160b02.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
lp160b02.zip
Other information:
1.6.0beta02-README.txt
1.6.0beta02-LICENSE.txt
Changes since the last public release (1.5.7):
Version 1.6.0beta01 [December 15, 2011]
Removed machine-generated configure files from the GIT repository (they will
continue to appear in the tarball distributions).
Restored the new 'simplified' API, which was deleted from libpng-1.5.7.
Added example programs for the new 'simplified' API.
Added ANSI-C (C90) headers and require them, and take advantage of the
change. Also fixed some of the projects/* and contrib/* files that needed
updates for libpng16 and the move of pngvalid.c.
With this change the required ANSI-C header files are assumed to exist: the
implementation must provide float.h, limits.h, stdarg.h and stddef.h and
libpng relies on limits.h and stddef.h existing and behaving as defined
(the other two required headers aren't used). Non-ANSI systems that don't
have stddef.h or limits.h will have to provide an appropriate fake
containing the relevant types and #defines.
The use of FAR/far has been eliminated and the definition of png_alloc_size_t
is now controlled by a flag so that 'small size_t' systems can select it
if necessary. Libpng 1.6 may not currently work on such systems -- it
seems likely that it will ask 'malloc' for more than 65535 bytes with any
image that has a sufficiently large row size (rather than simply failing
to read such images).
New tools directory containing tools used to generate libpng code.
Fixed race conditions in parallel make builds. With higher degrees of
parallelism during 'make' the use of the same temporary file names such
as 'dfn*' can result in a race where a temporary file from one arm of the
build is deleted or overwritten in another arm. This changes the
temporary files for suffix rules to always use $* and ensures that the
non-suffix rules use unique file names.
Version 1.6.0beta02 [December 17, 2011]
Added pngconfig.h file. This indirect reference to config.h avoids
problems with build scripts that search for config.h and find an
inappropriate one in the standard paths.
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