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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -Libpng 1.6.0beta05 - February 3, 2012 +Libpng 1.6.1beta05 - March 2, 2013 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. @@ -9,105 +9,65 @@ Files available for download: Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a "configure" script - 1.6.0beta05.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended) - 1.6.0beta05.tar.gz - 1.6.0beta05.tar.bz2 + 1.6.1beta05.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended) + 1.6.1beta05.tar.gz Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the "configure" script - lp160b05.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended) - lp160b05.zip + lp161b05.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended) + lp161b05.zip Other information: - 1.6.0beta05-README.txt - 1.6.0beta05-LICENSE.txt - -Changes since the last public release (1.5.7): - -Version 1.6.0beta01 [December 15, 2011] - Removed machine-generated configure files from the GIT repository (they will - continue to appear in the tarball distributions). - Restored the new 'simplified' API, which was started in libpng-1.5.7beta02 - but later deleted from libpng-1.5.7beta05. - Added example programs for the new 'simplified' API. - Added ANSI-C (C90) headers and require them, and take advantage of the - change. Also fixed some of the projects/* and contrib/* files that needed - updates for libpng16 and the move of pngvalid.c. - With this change the required ANSI-C header files are assumed to exist: the - implementation must provide float.h, limits.h, stdarg.h and stddef.h and - libpng relies on limits.h and stddef.h existing and behaving as defined - (the other two required headers aren't used). Non-ANSI systems that don't - have stddef.h or limits.h will have to provide an appropriate fake - containing the relevant types and #defines. - The use of FAR/far has been eliminated and the definition of png_alloc_size_t - is now controlled by a flag so that 'small size_t' systems can select it - if necessary. Libpng 1.6 may not currently work on such systems -- it - seems likely that it will ask 'malloc' for more than 65535 bytes with any - image that has a sufficiently large row size (rather than simply failing - to read such images). - New tools directory containing tools used to generate libpng code. - Fixed race conditions in parallel make builds. With higher degrees of - parallelism during 'make' the use of the same temporary file names such - as 'dfn*' can result in a race where a temporary file from one arm of the - build is deleted or overwritten in another arm. This changes the - temporary files for suffix rules to always use $* and ensures that the - non-suffix rules use unique file names. - -Version 1.6.0beta02 [December 21, 2011] - Correct configure builds where build and source directories are separate. - The include path of 'config.h' was erroneously made relative in pngvalid.c - in libpng 1.5.7. - -Version 1.6.0beta03 [December 22, 2011] - Start-up code size improvements, error handler flexibility. These changes - alter how the tricky allocation of the initial png_struct and png_info - structures are handled. png_info is now handled in pretty much the same - way as everything else, except that the allocations handle NULL return - silently. png_struct is changed in a similar way on allocation and on - deallocation a 'safety' error handler is put in place (which should never - be required). The error handler itself is changed to permit mismatches - in the application and libpng error buffer size; however, this means a - silent change to the API to return the jmp_buf if the size doesn't match - the size from the libpng compilation; libpng now allocates the memory and - this may fail. Overall these changes result in slight code size - reductions; however, this is a reduction in code that is always executed - so is particularly valuable. Overall on a 64-bit system the libpng DLL - decreases in code size by 1733 bytes. pngerror.o increases in size by - about 465 bytes because of the new functionality. - -Version 1.6.0beta04 [December 30, 2011] - Regenerated configure scripts with automake-1.11.2 - Eliminated png_info_destroy(). It is now used only in png.c and only calls - one other internal function and memset(). - Enabled png_get_sCAL_fixed() if floating point APIs are enabled. Previously - it was disabled whenever internal fixed point arithmetic was selected, - which meant it didn't exist even on systems where FP was available but not - preferred. - Added pngvalid.c compile time checks for const APIs. - Implemented 'restrict' for png_info and png_struct. Because of the way - libpng works both png_info and png_struct are always accessed via a - single pointer. This means adding C99 'restrict' to the pointer gives - the compiler some opportunity to optimize the code. This change allows - that. - Moved AC_MSG_CHECKING([if libraries can be versioned]) later to the proper - location in configure.ac (Gilles Espinasse). - Changed png_memcpy to C assignment where appropriate. Changed all those - uses of png_memcpy that were doing a simple assignment to assignments - (all those cases where the thing being copied is a non-array C L-value). - Added some error checking to png_set_*() routines. - Removed the reference to the non-exported function png_memcpy() from - example.c. - Fixed the Visual C 64-bit build - it requires jmp_buf to be aligned, but - it had become misaligned. - Revised contrib/pngminus/pnm2png.c to avoid warnings when png_uint_32 - and unsigned long are of different sizes. - -Version 1.6.0beta05 [February 3, 2012] - Updated manual with description of the simplified API (copied from png.h) - Fix bug in pngerror.c: some long warnings were being improperly truncated - (bug introduced in libpng-1.5.3beta05). + 1.6.1beta05-README.txt + 1.6.1beta05-LICENSE.txt + +Changes since the last public release (1.6.0): + +Version 1.6.1beta01 [February 16, 2013] + Made symbol prefixing work with the ARM neon optimizations. Also allow + pngpriv.h to be included for preprocessor definitions only, so it can + be used in non-C/C++ files. Back ported from libpng 1.7. + Made sRGB check numbers consistent. + Ported libpng 1.5 options.awk/dfn file handling to 1.6, fixed one bug. + Removed cc -E workround, corrected png_get_palette_max API Tested on + SUN OS cc 5.9, which demonstrates the tokenization problem previously + avoided by using /lib/cpp. Since all .dfn output is now protected in + double quotes unless it is to be macro substituted the fix should + work everywhere. + Enabled parallel tests - back ported from libpng-1.7. + scripts/pnglibconf.dfa formatting improvements back ported from libpng17. + Fixed a race condition in the creation of the build 'scripts' directory + while building with a parallel make. + Use approved/supported Android method to check for NEON, use Linux/POSIX + 1003.1 API to check /proc/self/auxv avoiding buffer allocation and other + library calls (ported from libpng15). + +Version 1.6.1beta02 [February 19, 2013] + Use parentheses more consistently in "#if defined(MACRO)" tests. + Folded long lines. + Reenabled code to allow zero length PLTE chunks for MNG. + +Version 1.6.1beta03 [February 22, 2013] + Fixed ALIGNED_MEMORY support. + Allow run-time ARM NEON checking to be disabled. A new configure option: + --enable-arm-neon=always will stop the run-time checks. New checks + within arm/arm_init.c will cause the code not to be compiled unless + __ARM_NEON__ is set. This should make it fail safe (if someone asks + for it on then the build will fail if it can't be done.) + Updated the INSTALL document. + +Version 1.6.1beta04 [February 27, 2013] + Revised INSTALL to recommend using CPPFLAGS instead of INCLUDES. + Revised scripts/makefile.freebsd to respect ZLIBLIB and ZLIBINC. + Revised scripts/dfn.awk to work with the buggy MSYS awk that has trouble + with CRLF line endings. + +Version 1.6.1beta05 [March 2, 2013] + Avoid a possible memory leak in contrib/gregbook/readpng.c + Fixed bug introduced in libpng-1.6.0beta28 that causes libpng to handle chunks + even when they have been tagged PNG_HANDLE_CHUNK_NEVER. Send comments/corrections/commendations to png-mng-implement at lists.sf.net (subscription required; visit |