-Libpng 1.0.3 - January 14, 1999
+Libpng 1.5.7 - December 15, 2011
This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production codes.
-Changes since the previous public release (1.0.2):
-
-libpng-1.0.3:
-
- Replaced and extended code that was removed from png_set_filler() in 1.0.1a.
- Fixed a bug in png_do_filler() that made it fail to write filler bytes in
- the left-most pixel of each row (Kevin Bracey).
- Changed "static pngcharp tIME_string" to "static char tIME_string[30]"
- in pngtest.c (Duncan Simpson).
- Fixed a bug in pngtest.c that caused pngtest to try to write a tIME chunk
- even when no tIME chunk was present in the source file.
- Fixed a problem in pngrutil.c: gray_to_rgb didn't always work with 16-bit.
- Fixed a problem in png_read_push_finish_row(), which would not skip some
- passes that it should skip, for images that are less than 3 pixels high.
- Interchanged the order of calls to png_do_swap() and png_do_shift()
- in pngwtran.c (John Cromer).
- Added #ifdef PNG_DEBUG/#endif surrounding use of PNG_DEBUG in png.h .
- Changed "bad adaptive filter type" from error to warning in pngrutil.c .
- Fixed a documentation error about default filtering with 8-bit indexed-color.
- Separated the PNG_NO_STDIO macro into PNG_NO_STDIO and PNG_NO_CONSOLE_IO
- (L. Peter Deutsch).
- Added png_set_rgb_to_gray() and png_get_rgb_to_gray_status() functions.
- Added png_get_copyright() and png_get_header_version() functions.
- Revised comments on png_set_progressive_read_fn() in libpng.txt and example.c
- Added information about debugging in libpng.txt and libpng.3 .
- Changed "ln -sf" to "ln -s -f" in makefile.s2x, makefile.lnx, and makefile.sco.
- Removed lines after Dynamic Dependencies" in makefile.aco .
- Revised makefile.dec to make a shared library (Jeremie Petit).
- Removed trailing blanks from all files.
- Removed misplaced #endif and #ifdef PNG_NO_EXTERN near the end of png.h
- Added "if" tests to silence complaints about unused png_ptr in png.h and png.c
- Changed "check_if_png" function in example.c to return true (nonzero) if PNG.
- Changed libpng.txt to demonstrate png_sig_cmp() instead of png_check_sig()
- which is obsolete.
- Added makefile.hux, for Hewlett Packard HPUX 10.20 and 11.00 (Jim Rice)
- Added a statement of Y2K compliance in png.h, libpng.1, and Y2KINFO.
-
-Send comments/corrections/commendations to
-png-implement@dworkin.wustl.edu or to randeg@alumni.rpi.edu
+Files available for download:
-Glenn R-P
+Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
+"configure" script
+
+ libpng-1.5.7.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
+ libpng-1.5.7.tar.gz
+ libpng-1.5.7.tar.bz2
+
+Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
+"configure" script
+
+ lpng157.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
+ lpng157.zip
-Send comments/corrections/commendations to
-png-implement@dworkin.wustl.edu or to randeg@alumni.rpi.edu
+Other information:
-Glenn Randers-Pehrson
-libpng maintainer
-PNG Development Group
+ libpng-1.5.7-README.txt
+ libpng-1.5.7-LICENSE.txt
+
+Changes since the last public release (1.5.6):
+ Added support for ARM processor (Mans Rullgard)
+ Fixed bug in pngvalid on early allocation failure; fixed type cast in
+ pngmem.c; pngvalid would attempt to call png_error() if the allocation
+ of a png_struct or png_info failed. This would probably have led to a
+ crash. The pngmem.c implementation of png_malloc() included a cast
+ to png_size_t which would fail on large allocations on 16-bit systems.
+ Fix for the preprocessor of the Intel C compiler. The preprocessor
+ splits adjacent @ signs with a space; this changes the concatentation
+ token from @-@-@ to PNG_JOIN; that should work with all compiler
+ preprocessors.
+ Paeth filter speed improvements from work by Siarhei Siamashka. This
+ changes the 'Paeth' reconstruction function to improve the GCC code
+ generation on x86. The changes are only part of the suggested ones;
+ just the changes that definitely improve speed and remain simple.
+ The changes also slightly increase the clarity of the code.
+ Check compression_type parameter in png_get_iCCP and remove spurious
+ casts. The compression_type parameter is always assigned to, so must
+ be non-NULL. The cast of the profile length potentially truncated the
+ value unnecessarily on a 16-bit int system, so the cast of the (byte)
+ compression type to (int) is specified by ANSI-C anyway.
+ Fixed FP division by zero in pngvalid.c; the 'test_pixel' code left
+ the sBIT fields in the test pixel as 0, which resulted in a floating
+ point division by zero which was irrelevant but causes systems where
+ FP exceptions cause a crash. Added code to pngvalid to turn on FP
+ exceptions if the appropriate glibc support is there to ensure this is
+ tested in the future.
+ Added versioning to pnglibconf.h comments.
+ Installed more accurate linear to sRGB conversion tables. The slightly
+ modified tables reduce the number of 16-bit values that
+ convert to an off-by-one 8-bit value. The "makesRGB.c" code that was used
+ to generate the tables is now in a contrib/sRGBtables sub-directory.
+ Added run-time detection of NEON support.
+ Multiple transform bug fixes plus a work-round for double gamma correction.
+ libpng does not support more than one transform that requires linear data
+ at once - if this is tried typically the results is double gamma
+ correction. Since the simplified APIs can need rgb to gray combined with
+ a compose operation it is necessary to do one of these outside the main
+ libpng transform code. This check-in also contains fixes to various bugs
+ in compose and rgb to gray (on palette).
+ Fixes for C++ compilation using g++ When libpng source is compiled
+ using g++. The compiler imposes C++ rules on the C source; thus it
+ is desireable to make the source work with either C or C++ rules
+ without throwing away useful error information. This change adds
+ png_voidcast to allow C semantic (void*) cases or the corresponding
+ C++ static_cast operation, as appropriate.
+ Added --noexecstack to assembler file compilation. GCC does not set
+ this on assembler compilation, even though it does on C compilation.
+ This creates security issues if assembler code is enabled; the
+ work-around is to set it by default in the flags for $(CCAS)
+ Removed "zTXt" from warning in generic chunk decompression function.
+ Validate time settings passed to pngset() and png_convert_to_rfc1123()
+ (Frank Busse).
+ Added MINGW support to CMakeLists.txt
+ Reject invalid compression flag or method when reading the iTXt chunk.
+ Moved pngvalid.c into contrib/libtests
+ Rebuilt Makefile.in, configure, etc., with autoconf-2.68
+ Replaced an "#if" with "#ifdef" in pngrtran.c
+ Revised #if PNG_DO_BC block in png.c (use #ifdef and add #else)
+ Revised pngconf.h to use " __declspec(restrict)" only when MSC_VER >= 1400,
+ as in libpng-1.5.4.
+ Put CRLF line endings in the owatcom project files.
+ Updated CMakeLists.txt to account for the relocation of pngvalid.c
+ Minor fixes to pngvalid.c for gcc 4.6.2 compatibility to remove warnings
+ reported by earlier versions.
+
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