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   4         Changes in TIFF v3.7.0beta2
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  13 <B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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  18 <B>Current Version</B>: v3.7.0beta2<BR>
  19 <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.7.0beta.html>v3.7.0beta</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>
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  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:
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  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 <LI><A HREF="#lzwkit">Changes in the LZW compression kit</A>
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  46 <A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
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  50         <li> The code has been reviewed by Dmitry Levin: added checks
  51         for values, returned by the space allocation functions, fixed
  52         problems with the possible integer overflows.
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  60 <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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  63         <li> Several fixes in the test suite.
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  70 <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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  74         <li> Preliminary support for BigTIFF files: now libtiff can
  75         recognize and reject to open such images. ;-)
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  77         <li> libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c: changed type of XMLPacket (tag 700) to
  78         TIFFTAG_BYTE instead of TIFFTAG_UNDEFINED to comply with the info
  79         in the Adobe XMP Specification.
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  81         <li> Added many checks for integer overflow and for successful space
  82         allocations in the different parts of library. Code review
  83         completed by Dmitry V. Levin.
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  85         <li> libtiff/{tiffio.h, tif_compress.c}: Added
  86         TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs()function to get the list of configured codecs.
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  94 <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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  97         <li> tiff2bw: Write ImageWidth/Height tags to output file, as
  98         noted by Gennady Khokhorin.
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 106 <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
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 110         <li> No changes.
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 116 <A NAME="lzwkit"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE LZW COMPRESSION
 117 KIT:</B></A>
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 120         <li> This one is not longer needed.
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