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   4         Changes in TIFF v3.9.2
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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>: v3.9.2<BR>
  19 <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.9.1.html>v3.9.1</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).  If you don't
  30 find something listed here, then it was not done in this timeframe, or
  31 it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.  The following
  32 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>
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  45 <A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
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  49         <li> Fixes a number of bugs present in the 3.9.1 release.
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  51         <li> OJPEG support updated to work with IJG JPEG 7 release.
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  53         <li> Tiffcrop validated for most TIFF storage subformats and sample depths.
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  61 <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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  65         <li> x86_64 now uses the same default fill order as i386.
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  73 <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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  76         <li> Writing tags with an array value of type TIFF_DOUBLE now
  77         returns correct error status. The TIFFTAG_SMINSAMPLEVALUE and
  78         TIFFTAG_SMAXSAMPLEVALUE tags failed to write without this fix.
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  80         <li> OJPEG decoder now works with IJG JPEG 7.  Resolves "Bug
  81         2090 - OJPEG crash with libjpeg v7".
  82         http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2090
  83
  84         <li> Eliminate most GCC "dereferencing type-punned pointer"
  85         warnings.
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  93 <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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  97         <li> New tiffcrop from Richard Nolde.  Major updates to add
  98         significant functionality for reading and writing tile based
  99         images with bit depths not a multiple of 8 which cannot be
 100         handled by tiffcp.
 101
 102         <li> Allow building tools with GCC using the "-Wformat
 103         -Werror=format-security" flags.
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 111 <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
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 115         <li> None
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 119 Last updated $Date: 2009-11-04 17:38:13 $.
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