-Libpng 1.2.4 - July 8, 2002
+Libpng 1.4.4 - September 23, 2010
This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production codes.
-Changes since the last public release (1.2.3):
-
- Added libpng.pc and libpng-config to "all:" target in 16 makefiles.
- Fixed bug in 16 makefiles: $(DESTDIR)/$(LIBPATH) to $(DESTDIR)$(LIBPATH)
- Added missing "\" before closing double quote in makefile.gcmmx.
- Plugged various memory leaks; added png_malloc_warn() and png_set_text_2()
- functions.
- Plugged memory leak of png_ptr->current_text (Matt Holgate).
- Check for buffer overflow before reading CRC in pngpread.c (Warwick Allison)
- Added -soname to the loader flags in makefile.dec, makefile.sgi, and
- makefile.sggcc.
- Added "test-installed" targets to makefile.linux, makefile.gcmmx,
- makefile.sgi, makefile.sggcc, makefile.32sunu, makefile.64sunu,
- makefile.beos, makefile.darwin, makefile.dec, makefile.macosx,
- makefile.solaris, makefile.sco, makefile.cygwin, makefile.hpux,
- makefile.hpgcc, and makefile.so9.
- Plugged memory leak of row_buf in pngtest.c when there is a png_error().
- Detect buffer overflow in pngpread.c when IDAT is corrupted with extra data.
- Revised pnggccrd.c to be able to back out version 1.0.x via PNG_1_0_X macro.
- Changed png_warning() to png_error() when width is too large to process.
-
-Send comments/corrections/commendations to
-png-implement@ccrc.wustl.edu or to randeg@alum.rpi.edu
+Files available for download:
+
+Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
+"configure" script
+
+ libpng-1.4.4.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
+ libpng-1.4.4.tar.gz
+ libpng-1.4.4.tar.bz2
+
+Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
+"configure" script
+
+ lpng144.zip
+ lpng144.7z
+
+Other information:
+
+ libpng-1.4.4-README.txt
+ libpng-1.4.4-LICENSE.txt
+
+Changes since the last public release (1.4.3):
+ Removed extraneous new_push_process_row.c file.
+ Revised the "SEE ALSO" style of libpng.3, libpngpf.3, and png.5
+ Removed some newly-added TAB characters from pngpread.c.
+ Fixed some indentation in pngpread.c and pngrutil.c
+ Changed "extern PNG_EXPORT" to "PNG_EXPORT" in png.h (Jan Nijtmans)
+ Changed "extern" to "PNG_EXTERN" in pngpriv.h (except for the 'extern "C" {')
+ Put "#ifndef PNG_EXTERN, #endif" around "#define PNG_EXTERN" in pngpriv.h
+ Added -DNO_PNG_SNPRINTF to CFLAGS in scripts/makefile.dj2
+ Moved the definition of png_snprintf() outside of the enclosing
+ #ifdef blocks in pngconf.h
+ Made a special case "#define PNGAPI" in pngconf.h for WATCOM.
+ Removed reference to cbuilder5/* from Makefile.in and Makefile.am
+ Updated the read macros and functions from 1.5.0beta38.
+ Updated projects/visualc71 so it can find scripts/pnglibconf.h
+ Removed unused png_mem_* defines from pngconf.h.
+ Correct use of _WINDOWS_ in pngconf.h
+ Don't try to use version-script with cygwin/mingw.
+ Revised contrib/gregbook to work under cygwin/mingw.
+ Updated prebuilt aclocal.m4 and ltmain.sh
+ Add .dll.a to the list of extensions to be symlinked by Makefile.am (Yaakov)
+ Updated CMakelists.txt to use CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR variable; useful for
+ installing libpng in /usr/lib64 (Funda Wang).
+ Revised CMakeLists.txt to put the man pages in share/man/man* not man/man*
+ Revised CMakeLists.txt to make symlinks instead of copies when installing.
+ Moved "#include pngusr.h" ahead of PNG_USER_PRIVATEBUILD test in pngconf.h
+ Eliminated a deprecated reference to png_ptr->io_ptr in pngtest.c
+ Eliminated new unnecessary #if tests regarding the sCAL chunk from pngrutil.c
+ Updated the xcode project to work with libpng-1.4.x and added iOS targets
+ for simulator and device (Philippe Hausler).
+ Revised autogen.sh to recognize and use $AUTOCONF, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOHEADER,
+ $AUTOPOINT, $ACLOCAL and $LIBTOOLIZE
+ Rebuilt configure scripts with automake-1.11.1 instead of automake-1.11.
+ Removed unused mkinstalldirs file.
+
+Send comments/corrections/commendations to glennrp at users.sourceforge.net
+or to png-mng-implement at lists.sf.net (subscription required; visit
+https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/png-mng-implement).
Glenn R-P