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Libpng 1.5.3beta04 - April 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
1.5.3beta04.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
1.5.3beta04.tar.gz
1.5.3beta04.tar.bz2
Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script
lp153b04.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
lp153b04.zip
Other information:
1.5.3beta04-README.txt
1.5.3beta04-LICENSE.txt
Changes since the last public release (1.5.2):
Version 1.5.3beta01 [April 1, 2011]
Re-initialize the zlib compressor before compressing non-IDAT chunks.
Added API functions to set parameters for zlib compression of non-IDAT
chunks.
Version 1.5.3beta02 [April 3, 2011]
Updated scripts/symbols.def with new API functions.
Only compile the new zlib re-initializing code when text or iCCP is
supported, using PNG_WRITE_COMPRESSED_TEXT_SUPPORTED macro.
Improved the optimization of the zlib CMF byte (see libpng-1.2.6beta03).
Optimize the zlib CMF byte in non-IDAT compressed chunks
Version 1.5.3beta03 [April 16, 2011]
Fixed gcc -ansi -pedantic compile. A strict ANSI system does not have
snprintf, and the "__STRICT_ANSI__" detects that condition more reliably
than __STDC__ (John Bowler).
Removed the PNG_PTR_NORETURN attribute because it too dangerous. It tells
the compiler that a user supplied callback (the error handler) does not
return, yet there is no guarantee in practice that the application code
will correctly implement the error handler because the compiler only
issues a warning if there is a mistake (John Bowler).
Removed the no-longer-used PNG_DEPSTRUCT macro.
Updated the zlib version to 1.2.5 in the VStudio project.
Fixed 64-bit builds where png_uint_32 is smaller than png_size_t in
pngwutil.c (John Bowler).
Fixed bug with stripping the filler or alpha channel when writing, that
was introduced in libpng-1.5.2beta01.
Version 1.5.3beta04 [April 17, 2011]
Updated pngtest.png with the new zlib CMF optimization.
Cleaned up conditional compilation code and of background/gamma handling
Internal changes only except a new option to avoid compiling the
png_build_grayscale_palette API (which is not used at all internally.)
The main change is to move the transform tests (READ_TRANSFORMS,
WRITE_TRANSFORMS) up one level to the caller of the APIs. This avoids
calls to spurious functions if all transforms are disabled and slightly
simplifies those functions. Pngvalid modified to handle this.
A minor change is to stop the strip_16 and expand_16 interfaces from
disabling each other; this allows the future alpha premultiplication
code to use 16-bit intermediate values while still producing 8-bit output.
png_do_background and png_do_gamma have been simplified to take a single
pointer to the png_struct rather than pointers to every item required
from the png_struct. This makes no practical difference to the internal
code.
A serious bug in the pngvalid internal routine 'standard_display_init' has
been fixed - this failed to initialize the red channel and accidentally
initialized the alpha channel twice.
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