-Libpng 1.0.3 - January 14, 1999
+Libpng 1.2.4 - July 8, 2002
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- which is obsolete.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.
+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@dworkin.wustl.edu or to randeg@alumni.rpi.edu
+png-implement@ccrc.wustl.edu or to randeg@alum.rpi.edu
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