-Libpng 1.0.3 - January 14, 1999
+Libpng 1.2.6 - August 15, 2004
-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 previous public release (1.0.2):
+Changes since the last public release (1.2.5):
-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- which is obsolete.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.
+ 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.
Send comments/corrections/commendations to
-png-implement@dworkin.wustl.edu or to randeg@alumni.rpi.edu
+png-implement@ccrc.wustl.edu or to glennrp@users.sourceforge.net
Glenn R-P
-
-Send comments/corrections/commendations to
-png-implement@dworkin.wustl.edu or to randeg@alumni.rpi.edu
-
-Glenn Randers-Pehrson
-libpng maintainer
-PNG Development Group
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