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This document describes the changes made to the software between the
<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
The following information is located here:
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A>
<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
<LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
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<A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>

<UL>

	<li> This is mostly bugfix release. Most important fix is the one
	related to wrong custom tag read/write code.

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<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>

<UL>

	<li> autogen.sh: aclocal and autoheader should be executed after
	libtoolize.  Also add '-I .' to aclocal invocation to check
	current directory for macros.

	<li> nmake.opt: Link with the user32.lib in windowed mode. As per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697</a>

	<li> nmake.opt, makefile.vc: make it easier to rename the libtiff DLL.

	<li> configure, configure.ac: Added --enable-rpath option to embed
	linker paths into library binary.

</UL>

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<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>

<UL>

	<li> tiff.h: Revert back libtiff data type definitions as per
	bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687</a>

	<li> tif_dirread.c: Do not forget about TIFF_VARIABLE2 when
	checking for tag count in TIFFReadDirectory() function. As per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713</a>

	<li> tif_getimage.c: Support for multiple-alpha-channelled
	RGB-images as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718</a>

	<li> tif_getimage.c: #define A1 bracketing for clean build on
	SunPro compiler.

	<li> tif_dirwrite.c: Always write TIFFTAG_SUBIFD using LONG type
	as per bugs
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703</a> and
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704</a>.

	<li> tif_win32.c: Use char* strings instead of TCHAR in windowed
	mode as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697</a>

	<li> tif_dir.c, tif_dirread.c: Remove TIFFReassignTagToIgnore()
	call from the TIFFReadDirectory() function. TIFFReassignTagToIgnore
	must be removed in the future, as it was never used properly. As per
	bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692</a>

	<li> tif_jpeg.c: Added a work-around in order to allow
	compilation with the heavily modified version of libjpeg delivered
	with Cygwin.

	<li> tif_dir.c: Properly handle tags, which have the uint32
	counts. As per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693</a>

	<li> tif_unix.c: Make UNIX module compilable (and usable)
	on Windows.

	<li> tiff.h: Added Adobe DNG tags.

	<li> tif_aux.c: Set the appropriate ReferenceBlackWhite array for
	YCbCr image which lacks that tag (noted by Hans Petter Selasky).

	<li> tif_color.c: Division by zero fixed (Hans Petter Selasky).

	<li> tif_stream.cxx, tiffio.h: Added C++ stream interface
	contributed by Edward Lam (see
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654</a>
	for details). Those who want to use C++ streams should
	#include <tiffio.hxx>.

	<li> tif_open.c: Removed close() in TIFFClientOpen() if file
	is bad. This is the callers responsibility.
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651</a>

	<li> tiffio.h, tif_win32.c, libtiff.def}: Added TIFFOpenW()
	function to work with the double byte strings (used to represent
	filenames in some locales). As per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625</a>

	<li> tif_dirread.c: Fixed problem when fetching BitsPerSample and
	Compression tags of type LONG from broken TIFFS as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662</a>

	<li> tif_dirinfo.c: Fixed definition for TIFFTAG_RICHTIFFIPTC,
	the writecount should have uint32 type. As per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662</a>

	<li> tif_write.c: Fixed wrong if() statement in
	TIFFAppendToStrip() function as per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660</a>

	<li> tif_dirinfo.c: Change definition for TIFFTAG_EXTRASAMPLES
	field. The caller should supply a count when setting this field. As
	per bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648</a>. 

	<li> tif_jpeg.c, tif_ojpeg.c: TIFFTAG_JPEGTABLES should have
	uint32 count. Use this type everywhere.

	<li> tif_next.c: avoid use of u_long and u_char types.

	<li> tif_fax3.c: Fixed case with the wrong decode routines
	choosing when the incorrect Group4Options tag set. As per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323">
		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323</a>

	<li> tif_dirwrite.c: Fixed problem with passing count variable of
	wrong type when writing the TIFF_BYTE/TIFF_SBYTE tags in
	TIFFWriteNormalTag().

	<li> tif_compress.c: Zero division problem fixed (Vladimir Nadvornik,
	Dmitry V. Levin).

</UL>

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<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>

<UL>

	<li> fax2ps.c: Be able to extract the first page (#0). As per bug
	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690">
	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690</a>

	<li> tiff2ps.c: Fixed wrong variable data type when read Position
	tags (Tristan Hill).

	<li> tiff2ps.c: Fixed wrong variable data type when read Resolution
	tags (Peter Fales).

	<li> tiffset.c: Check the malloc return value (Dmitry V. Levin).

</UL>

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<A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>

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	<li> No changes.

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	16	<UL>
	17	<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
	18	<B>Current Version</B>: v3.7.1<BR>
	19	<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.7.0.html>v3.7.0</a><BR>
	20	<B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff">
	21	ftp.remotesensing.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR>
	22	<B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff">
	23	http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff</a>
	24	<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
	25	</UL>
	26
	27	<P>
	28	This document describes the changes made to the software between the
	29	<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
	30	If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
	31	timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
	32	The following information is located here:
	33	<UL>
	34	<LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A>
	35	<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
	36	<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
	37	<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
	38	<LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
	39	</UL>
	40	<p>
	41	<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
	42
	43	<!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
	44
	45	<A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
	46
	47	<UL>
	48
	49	<li> This is mostly bugfix release. Most important fix is the one
	50	related to wrong custom tag read/write code.
	51
	52	</UL>
	53
	54
	55	<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
	56	<!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
	57
	58	<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
	59
	60	<UL>
	61
	62	<li> autogen.sh: aclocal and autoheader should be executed after
	63	libtoolize. Also add '-I .' to aclocal invocation to check
	64	current directory for macros.
65
66	<li> nmake.opt: Link with the user32.lib in windowed mode. As per bug
67	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697">
68	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697</a>
69
70	<li> nmake.opt, makefile.vc: make it easier to rename the libtiff DLL.
71
72	<li> configure, configure.ac: Added --enable-rpath option to embed
73	linker paths into library binary.
74
75	</UL>
76
77	<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
78
79	<!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
80
81	<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
82
83	<UL>
84
85	<li> tiff.h: Revert back libtiff data type definitions as per
86	bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687">
87	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687</a>
88
89	<li> tif_dirread.c: Do not forget about TIFF_VARIABLE2 when
90	checking for tag count in TIFFReadDirectory() function. As per bug
91	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713">
92	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713</a>
93
94	<li> tif_getimage.c: Support for multiple-alpha-channelled
95	RGB-images as per bug
96	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718">
97	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718</a>
98
99	<li> tif_getimage.c: #define A1 bracketing for clean build on
100	SunPro compiler.
101
102	<li> tif_dirwrite.c: Always write TIFFTAG_SUBIFD using LONG type
103	as per bugs
104	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703">
105	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703</a> and
106	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704">
107	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704</a>.
108
109	<li> tif_win32.c: Use char* strings instead of TCHAR in windowed
110	mode as per bug
111	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697">
112	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697</a>
113
114	<li> tif_dir.c, tif_dirread.c: Remove TIFFReassignTagToIgnore()
115	call from the TIFFReadDirectory() function. TIFFReassignTagToIgnore
116	must be removed in the future, as it was never used properly. As per
117	bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692">
118	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692</a>
119
120	<li> tif_jpeg.c: Added a work-around in order to allow
121	compilation with the heavily modified version of libjpeg delivered
122	with Cygwin.
123
124	<li> tif_dir.c: Properly handle tags, which have the uint32
125	counts. As per bug
126	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693">
127	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693</a>
128
129	<li> tif_unix.c: Make UNIX module compilable (and usable)
130	on Windows.
131
132	<li> tiff.h: Added Adobe DNG tags.
133
134	<li> tif_aux.c: Set the appropriate ReferenceBlackWhite array for
135	YCbCr image which lacks that tag (noted by Hans Petter Selasky).
136
137	<li> tif_color.c: Division by zero fixed (Hans Petter Selasky).
138
139	<li> tif_stream.cxx, tiffio.h: Added C++ stream interface
140	contributed by Edward Lam (see
141	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654">
142	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654</a>
143	for details). Those who want to use C++ streams should
144	#include <tiffio.hxx>.
145
146	<li> tif_open.c: Removed close() in TIFFClientOpen() if file
147	is bad. This is the callers responsibility.
148	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651">
149	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651</a>
150
151	<li> tiffio.h, tif_win32.c, libtiff.def}: Added TIFFOpenW()
152	function to work with the double byte strings (used to represent
153	filenames in some locales). As per bug
154	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625">
155	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625</a>
156
157	<li> tif_dirread.c: Fixed problem when fetching BitsPerSample and
158	Compression tags of type LONG from broken TIFFS as per bug
159	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662">
160	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662</a>
161
162	<li> tif_dirinfo.c: Fixed definition for TIFFTAG_RICHTIFFIPTC,
163	the writecount should have uint32 type. As per bug
164	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662">
165	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662</a>
166
167	<li> tif_write.c: Fixed wrong if() statement in
168	TIFFAppendToStrip() function as per bug
169	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660">
170	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660</a>
171
172	<li> tif_dirinfo.c: Change definition for TIFFTAG_EXTRASAMPLES
173	field. The caller should supply a count when setting this field. As
174	per bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648">
175	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648</a>.
176
177	<li> tif_jpeg.c, tif_ojpeg.c: TIFFTAG_JPEGTABLES should have
178	uint32 count. Use this type everywhere.
179
180	<li> tif_next.c: avoid use of u_long and u_char types.
181
182	<li> tif_fax3.c: Fixed case with the wrong decode routines
183	choosing when the incorrect Group4Options tag set. As per bug
184	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323">
185	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323</a>
186
187	<li> tif_dirwrite.c: Fixed problem with passing count variable of
188	wrong type when writing the TIFF_BYTE/TIFF_SBYTE tags in
189	TIFFWriteNormalTag().
190
191	<li> tif_compress.c: Zero division problem fixed (Vladimir Nadvornik,
192	Dmitry V. Levin).
193
194	</UL>
195
196	<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
197
198	<!-------------------------------------------------------------------------->
199
200	<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
201
202	<UL>
203
204	<li> fax2ps.c: Be able to extract the first page (#0). As per bug
205	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690">
206	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690</a>
207
208	<li> tiff2ps.c: Fixed wrong variable data type when read Position
209	tags (Tristan Hill).
210
211	<li> tiff2ps.c: Fixed wrong variable data type when read Resolution
212	tags (Peter Fales).
213
214	<li> tiffset.c: Check the malloc return value (Dmitry V. Levin).
215
216	</UL>
217
218	<P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
219
220	<!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
221
222	<A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
223
224	<UL>
225
226	<li> No changes.
227
228	</UL>
229
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