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Libpng 1.5.3beta10 - May 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
1.5.3beta10.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
1.5.3beta10.tar.gz
1.5.3beta10.tar.bz2
Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script
lp153b10.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
lp153b10.zip
Other information:
1.5.3beta10-README.txt
1.5.3beta10-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 (bug report by Andrew Church).
Version 1.5.3beta04 [April 27, 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.
Changed png_struct jmp_buf member name from png_jmpbuf to tmp_jmpbuf to
avoid a clash with the png_jmpbuf macro on some platforms.
Version 1.5.3beta05 [May 6, 2011]
Added appropriate feature test macros to ensure libpng sees the correct API
_POSIX_SOURCE is defined in pngpriv.h, pngtest.c and pngvalid.c to ensure
that POSIX conformant systems disable non-POSIX APIs. _ISOC99_SOURCE is
defined in pngpriv.h to obtain the ISO C99 snprintf definition, when
available.
Removed png_snprintf and added formatted warning messages. This change adds
internal APIs to allow png_warning messages to have parameters without
requiring the host OS to implement snprintf. As a side effect the
dependency of the tIME-supporting RFC1132 code on stdio is removed and
PNG_NO_WARNINGS does actually work now.
Added PNG_WRITE_OPTIMIZE_CMF_SUPPORTED macro to make the zlib "CMF" byte
optimization configureable.
IDAT compression failed if preceded by a compressed text chunk (bug
introduced in libpng-1.5.3beta01-02). This was because the attempt to
reset the zlib stream in png_write_IDAT happened after the first IDAT
chunk had been deflated - much too late. In this change internal
functions were added to claim/release the z_stream and, hopefully, make
the code more robust. Also deflateEnd checking is added - previously
libpng would ignore an error at the end of the stream.
Version 1.5.3beta06 [May 8, 2011]
Removed the -D_ALL_SOURCE from definitions for AIX in CMakeLists.txt
Implemented premultiplied alpha support: png_set_alpha_mode API
Version 1.5.3beta07 [May 11, 2011]
Added expand_16 support to the high level interface.
Added named value and 'flag' gamma support to png_set_gamma. Made a minor
change from the previous (unreleased) ABI/API to hide the exact value used
for Macs - it's not a good idea to embed this in the ABI!
Moved macro definitions for PNG_HAVE_IHDR, PNG_HAVE_PLTE, and PNG_AFTER_IDAT
from pngpriv.h to png.h because they must be visible to applications
that call png_set_unknown_chunks().
Check for up->location !PNG_AFTER_IDAT when writing unknown chunks
before IDAT.
Version 1.5.3beta08 [May 16, 2011]
Improved "pngvalid --speed" to exclude more of pngvalid from the time.
Documented png_set_alpha_mode(), other changes in libpng.3/libpng-manual.txt
The cHRM chunk now sets the defaults for png_set_rgb_to_gray() (when negative
parameters are supplied by the caller), while in the absence of cHRM
sRGB/Rec 709 values are still used.
The bKGD chunk no longer overwrites the background value set by
png_set_background(), allowing the latter to be used before the file
header is read. It never performed any useful function to override
the default anyway.
Added memory overwrite and palette image checks to pngvalid.c
Previously palette image code was poorly checked. Since the transformation
code has a special palette path in most cases this was a severe weakness.
Minor cleanup and some extra checking in pngrutil.c and pngrtran.c
Version 1.5.3beta09 [May 17, 2011]
Reversed earlier 1.5.3 change of transformation order; move png_expand_16 back.
The change doesn't work because it requires 16-bit gamma tables when the code
only generates 8-bit ones. This fails silently; the libpng code just doesn't
do any gamma correction. Moving the tests back leaves the old, inaccurate,
8-bit gamma calculations, but these are clearly better than none!
Version 1.5.3beta10 [May 17, 2011]
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