-Libpng 1.2.6 - August 15, 2004
+Libpng 1.5.7 - December 15, 2011
-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.
+This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production codes.
-Changes since the last public release (1.2.5):
+Files available for download:
- Commented out warning about uninitialized mmx_support in pnggccrd.c.
- Changed "IBMCPP__" flag to "__IBMCPP__" in pngconf.h.
- Relocated two more misplaced PNGAPI lines in pngtest.c
- Fixed memory overrun bug in png_do_read_filler() with 16-bit datastreams,
- introduced in version 1.0.2.
- Fixed potential overrun in pngerror.c by using strncpy instead of memcpy.
- Revised makefile.macosx, makefile.dec, makefile.aix, and makefile.32sunu.
- Changed the one instance of "ln -sf" to "ln -f -s" in each Sun makefile.
- Fixed potential overrun in pngerror.c by using strncpy instead of memcpy.
- Added "#!/bin/sh" at the top of configure, for recognition of the
- 'x' flag under Cygwin (Cosmin).
- Optimized vacuous tests that silence compiler warnings, in png.c (Cosmin).
- Added support for PNG_USER_CONFIG, in pngconf.h (Cosmin).
- Fixed the special memory handler for Borland C under DOS, in pngmem.c
- (Cosmin).
- Removed some spurious assignments in pngrutil.c (Cosmin).
- Replaced 65536 with 65536L, and 0xffff with 0xffffL, to silence warnings
- on 16-bit platforms (Cosmin).
- Enclosed shift op expressions in parentheses, to silence warnings (Cosmin).
- Used proper type png_fixed_point, to avoid problems on 16-bit platforms,
- in png_handle_sRGB() (Cosmin).
- Added compression_type to png_struct, and optimized the window size
- inside the deflate stream (Cosmin).
- Fixed definition of isnonalpha(), in pngerror.c and pngrutil.c (Cosmin).
- Fixed handling of unknown chunks that come after IDAT (Cosmin).
- Allowed png_error() and png_warning() to work even if png_ptr == NULL
- (Cosmin).
- Replaced row_info->rowbytes with row_bytes in png_write_find_filter()
- (Cosmin).
- Fixed definition of PNG_LIBPNG_VER_DLLNUM (Simon-Pierre).
- Used PNG_LIBPNG_VER and PNG_LIBPNG_VER_STRING instead of the hardcoded
- values in png.c (Simon-Pierre, Cosmin).
- Initialized png_libpng_ver[] with PNG_LIBPNG_VER_STRING (Simon-Pierre).
- Replaced PNG_LIBPNG_VER_MAJOR with PNG_LIBPNG_VER_DLLNUM in png.rc
- (Simon-Pierre).
- Moved the definition of PNG_HEADER_VERSION_STRING near the definitions
- of the other PNG_LIBPNG_VER_... symbols in png.h (Cosmin).
- Relocated #ifndef PNGAPI guards in pngconf.h (Simon-Pierre, Cosmin).
- Updated scripts/makefile.vc(a)win32 (Cosmin).
- Updated the MSVC project (Simon-Pierre, Cosmin).
- Updated the Borland C++ Builder project (Cosmin).
- Avoided access to asm_flags in pngvcrd.c, if PNG_1_0_X is defined (Cosmin).
- Commented out warning about uninitialized mmx_support in pngvcrd.c (Cosmin).
- Removed scripts/makefile.bd32 and scripts/pngdef.pas (Cosmin).
- Added extra guard around inclusion of Turbo C memory headers, in pngconf.h
- (Cosmin).
- Renamed projects/msvc/ to projects/visualc6/, and projects/borland/ to
- projects/cbuilder5/ (Cosmin).
- Moved projects/visualc6/png32ms.def to scripts/pngw32.def,
- and projects/visualc6/png.rc to scripts/pngw32.rc (Cosmin).
- Added projects/visualc6/pngtest.dsp; removed contrib/msvctest/ (Cosmin).
- Updated contrib/visupng/VisualPng.dsp (Cosmin).
- Updated contrib/visupng/cexcept.h to version 2.0.0 (Cosmin).
- Added a separate distribution with "configure" and supporting files (Junichi).
- Added user ability to change png_size_t via a PNG_SIZE_T macro.
- Added png_sizeof() and png_convert_size() functions.
- Added PNG_SIZE_MAX (maximum value of a png_size_t variable.
- Added check in png_malloc_default() for (size_t)size != (png_uint_32)size
- which would indicate an overflow.
- Changed sPLT failure action from png_error to png_warning and abandon chunk.
- Changed sCAL and iCCP failures from png_error to png_warning and abandon.
- Added png_get_uint_31(png_ptr, buf) function.
- Added PNG_UINT_32_MAX macro.
- Renamed PNG_MAX_UINT to PNG_UINT_31_MAX.
- Made png_zalloc() issue a png_warning and return NULL on potential
- overflow.
- Revised "clobber list" in pnggccrd.c so it will compile under gcc-3.4.
- Revised Borland portion of png_malloc() to return NULL or issue
- png_error() according to setting of PNG_FLAG_MALLOC_NULL_MEM_OK.
- Added PNG_NO_SEQUENTIAL_READ_SUPPORTED macro to conditionally remove
- sequential read support.
- Added some "#if PNG_WRITE_SUPPORTED" blocks.
- #ifdef'ed out some redundancy in png_malloc_default().
- Use png_malloc instead of png_zalloc to allocate the pallete.
- Rearranged order of processing of color types in png_handle_tRNS().
- Added PNG_ROWBYTES macro to calculate rowbytes without integer overflow.
- Updated makefile.darwin and removed makefile.macosx from scripts directory.
- Imposed default one million column, one-million row limits on the image
- dimensions, and added png_set_user_limits() function and
- PNG_SET_USER_LIMITS_SUPPORTED macro to override them.
- Fixed wrong cast of returns from png_get_user_width|height_max().
- Fixed buffer overflow vulnerability in png_handle_tRNS()
- Fixed integer arithmetic overflow vulnerability in png_read_png().
- Fixed some harmless bugs in png_handle_sBIT, etc, that would cause
- duplicate chunk types to go undetected.
- Changed some "keep the compiler happy" from empty statements to returns,
-Revised libpng.txt to remove 1.2.x stuff from the 1.0.x distribution
- Revised makefile.darwin and makefile.solaris. Removed makefile.macosx.
- Revised pngtest's png_debug_malloc() to use png_malloc() instead of
- png_malloc_default() which is not supposed to be exported.
- Fixed old bug in RGB to Gray transformation.
- Fixed problem with 64-bit compilers by casting arguments to abs()
- to png_int_32.
- Changed "ln -sf" to "ln -f -s" in three makefiles (solaris, sco, so9).
- Changed "HANDLE_CHUNK_*" to "PNG_HANDLE_CHUNK_*" (Cosmin)
- Added "-@/bin/rm -f $(DL)/$(LIBNAME).so.$(PNGMAJ)" to 15 *NIX makefiles.
- Added code to update the row_info->colortype in png_do_read_filler() (MSB).
- Eliminated use of "abs()" in testing cHRM and gAMA values, to avoid
- trouble with some 64-bit compilers. Created PNG_OUT_OF_RANGE() macro.
- Revised documentation of png_set_keep_unknown_chunks().
- Check handle_as_unknown status in pngpread.c, as in pngread.c previously.
- Moved "PNG_HANDLE_CHUNK_*" macros out of PNG_INTERNAL section of png.h
- Added "rim" definitions for CONST4 and CONST6 in pnggccrd.c
- Revised pngtest so memory allocation testing is only done when PNG_DEBUG==1.
+Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
+"configure" script
-Send comments/corrections/commendations to
-png-implement@ccrc.wustl.edu or to glennrp@users.sourceforge.net
+ 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
+
+Other information:
+
+ 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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