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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>: v3.7.2<BR>
  19 <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.7.1.html>v3.7.1</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).
  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>
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  45 <A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
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  49         <li> Maintainance release. Many bugfixes in the build environment
  50         and compatibility improvements.
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  58 <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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  60 <UL>
  61         <li> configure.ac: Use -rpath option instead of -R as per bug
  62         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732">
  63                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732</a>
  64
  65         <li> tif_stream.cxx: Fixes for C++ stream interface from
  66         Michael Rinne and Edward Lam.
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  68         <li> configure.ac: Make the documentation directory location
  69         configurable via the --with-docdir option (as suggested by
  70         Jeremy C. Reed).
  71
  72         <li> Place the C++ stream API in the separate library called
  73         libtiffxx to avoid unneeded dependencies. Probably there will be
  74         more C++ API in the future. As per bugs
  75         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733">
  76                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733</a>
  77         and <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730">
  78                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730</a>
  79
  80         <li> configure, configure.ac: Replace --disable-c++ with the
  81         --disable-cxx option as per bug
  82         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730">
  83                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730</a>.
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  91 <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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  94
  95         <li> Applied patch from Lee Howard to support a new tag TIFFTAG_FAXDCS
  96         (34911) used in HylaFax software. As per bug
  97         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771">
  98                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771</a>
  99
 100         <li> tif_open.c: Remove unnesessary TIFFSeekFile() call as per
 101         bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756">
 102                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756</a>
 103
 104         <li> tiff.h: Changed the int8 definition to be always signed char
 105         as per bug
 106         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727">
 107                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727</a>
 108
 109         <li> tiffio.h: Move TIFFOpenW() function into the extern "C"{}
 110         block as per bug
 111         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763">
 112                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=763</a>
 113
 114         <li> tif_dirread.c: Estimate strip size in case of wrong or
 115         suspicious values in the tags. As per bugs
 116         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705">
 117                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=705</a>
 118         and <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320">
 119                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=320</a>
 120
 121         <li> tif_color.c: Use double as the second argument of pow()
 122         function in TIFFCIELabToRGBInit(). As per bug
 123         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741">
 124                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741</a>
 125
 126         <li> tif_pixarlog.c: Avoid warnings when converting float to
 127         integer as per bug
 128         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740">
 129                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=740</a>
 130
 131         <li> tif_getimage.c: Always fill the error message buffer in
 132         TIFFRGBAImageBegin() as per bug
 133         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739">
 134                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739</a>
 135
 136         <li> tif_jpeg.c: Added ability to read/write the fax specific
 137         TIFFTAG_FAXRECVPARAMS, TIFFTAG_FAXSUBADDRESS and TIFFTAG_FAXRECVTIME
 138         tags as per bug
 139         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736">
 140                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=736</a>
 141
 142         <li> tif_win32.c: Fixed message formatting in functions
 143         Win32WarningHandler() and Win32ErrorHandler() as per bug
 144         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735">
 145                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=735</a>
 146
 147         <li> tiffio.h: Move the color conversion routines in the 'extern
 148         "C"' section as per bug
 149         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727">
 150                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727</a>
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 152         <li> tiff.h: Restore back the workaround for AIX Visual Age C
 153         compiler to avoid double definition of BSD types as per bug
 154         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39">
 155                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39</a>
 156
 157         <li> tif_getimage.c: More fixes for multiple-alpha-channelled
 158         RGB-images as per bug
 159         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713">
 160         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713</a>
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 168 <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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 171
 172         <li> tiffcmp.c: Added ability to compare the 32-bit integer and
 173         floating point data; complain on unsupported bit depths.
 174
 175         <li> tiffcmp.c: Use properly sized buffer in short arrays comparison
 176         as per bug
 177         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785">
 178                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785</a>
 179
 180         <li> fax2ps.c: Replace insecure mktemp() function with the
 181         tmpfile() as per bug
 182         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786">
 183                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786</a>
 184
 185         <li> tiffgt.c: Fix problem on big-endian CPUs so that images
 186         display more correctly.  Images display brighter than they should
 187         on a Sun workstation.
 188
 189         <li> tiff2ps.c: Fixed problem with page sizes as per bug
 190         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742">
 191                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=742</a>
 192
 193         <li> tiff2ps.c: Interpret the -w and -h options independently. As
 194         per bug
 195         <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689">
 196                 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689</a>
 197
 198         <li> tiffdump.c: Fixed problem when read broken TIFFs with the
 199         wrong tag counts (Dmitry V. Levin, Martin Pitt).
 200
 201         <li> tiffset.c: Convert character option to integer value as per
 202         bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725">
 203         http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725</a>.
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 215         <li> No changes.
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