imager-devel@molar.is: 2007-05: Imager 0.58 released

Imager 0.58 released

From: Tony Cook (16650@xyz.molar.is)
Date: Thu 17 May 2007 - 04:29:07 GMT

Hi,

Note: Imager 0.56 and earlier have a buffer overflow bug, you need to
upgrade if you're running 0.56 or earlier.

Imager 0.58 has been released:

- added to_rgb16 to produce a 16-bit/sample version of an image

- improve freetype 1.x text output efficiency

Bug fixes:

- search another place for rgb.txt, and check all the places
Imager::Color checks when deciding whether to skip testing it
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26064

- use a convolution kernel size based on the stddev rather than a
fixed size when performing a gaussian blur
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=25645

- document the difference() method's mindist parameter, and debug it.

- put the Imager release number in the Inline::C generated code to
regenerate Inline code when a new release of Imager is installed.
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26278

- fix rendering on alpha channel images for the FreeType 1.x driver.
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972

- fix rendering on alpha channel images for the T1lib driver.
http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=11972

- reworked library probing, we can now set more than one probe
   function for a library. Disabled the default (non-freetype-config)
   library probe and added an extra probe function that searches for
   both ft2build.h and whatever it includes, and adds -I as needed.
   Hopefully this will fix build problems like
   http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2007/05/msg472281.html
   http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=26086

My current plans for 0.59 are:

- finish/rewrite/expand Arnar's SGI file support so it's secure and
complete

- expand the TIFF code to support more sample sizes rather than the
current "everything is 8-bit".

Tony