-Libpng 1.2.4 - July 8, 2002
+Libpng 1.2.5rc3 - September 18, 2002
-This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production codes.
+This is not intended to be a public release. It will be replaced
+within a few weeks by a public version or by another test version.
-Changes since the last public release (1.2.3):
+Changes since the last public release (1.2.4):
- 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.
+version 1.2.4patch01 [July 20, 2002]
+ Revised makefile.cygwin to use DLL number 12 instead of 13.
+version 1.2.5beta1 [August 6, 2002]
+ Added code to contrib/gregbook/readpng2.c to ignore unused chunks.
+ Replaced toucan.png in contrib/gregbook (it has been corrupt since 1.0.11)
+ Removed some stray *.o files from contrib/gregbook.
+ Changed png_error() to png_warning() about "Too much data" in pngpread.c
+ and about "Extra compressed data" in pngrutil.c.
+ Prevent png_ptr->pass from exceeding 7 in png_push_finish_row().
+ Updated makefile.hggcc
+ Updated png.c and pnggccrd.c handling of return from png_mmx_support()
+version 1.2.5beta2 [August 15, 2002]
+ Only issue png_warning() about "Too much data" in pngpread.c when avail_in
+ is nonzero.
+ Updated makefiles to install a separate libpng.so.3 with its own rpath.
+version 1.2.5rc1 and 1.0.15rc1 [August 24, 2002]
+ Revised makefiles to not remove previous minor versions of shared libraries.
+version 1.2.5rc2 and 1.0.15rc2 [September 16, 2002]
+ Revised 13 makefiles to remove "-lz" and "-L$(ZLIBLIB)", etc., from shared
+ library loader directive.
+ Added missing "$OBJSDLL" line to makefile.gcmmx.
+ Added missing "; fi" to makefile.32sunu.
+version 1.2.5rc3 and 1.0.15rc3 [September 18, 2002]
+ Revised libpng-config script.
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