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  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>
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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> This is mostly bugfix release. Most important fix is the one
  50         related to wrong custom tag read/write code.
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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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  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>
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  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.
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  81 <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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  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>.
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 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
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 200 <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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 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
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 222 <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
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 225
 226         <li> No changes.
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