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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.

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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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	4	Changes in TIFF v3.7.1
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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
	230	Last updated $Date: 2004/12/20 19:31:44 $.
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