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	Changes in TIFF v3.7.0beta2

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Current Version: v3.7.0beta2

Previous Version: v3.7.0beta

Master FTP Site: 

ftp.remotesensing.org, directory pub/libtiff

Master HTTP Site: 

http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff 

This document describes the changes made to the software between the

previous and current versions (see above).

If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this

timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.

The following information is located here:

Major Changes

Changes in the software configuration

Changes in libtiff

Changes in the tools

Changes in the contrib area

Changes in the LZW compression kit

<font size="+3">M</font>AJOR CHANGES:

	
 The code has been reviewed by Dmitry Levin: added checks

	for values, returned by the space allocation functions, fixed

	problems with the possible integer overflows.

<font size="+3">C</font>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

	
 Several fixes in the test suite.

<font size="+3">C</font>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:

	
 Preliminary support for BigTIFF files: now libtiff can

	recognize and reject to open such images. ;-)

	
 libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c: changed type of XMLPacket (tag 700) to 

	TIFFTAG_BYTE instead of TIFFTAG_UNDEFINED to comply with the info

	in the Adobe XMP Specification.

	
 Added many checks for integer overflow and for successful space

	allocations in the different parts of library. Code review

	completed by Dmitry V. Levin.

	
 libtiff/{tiffio.h, tif_compress.c}: Added

	TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs()function to get the list of configured codecs.

<font size="+3">C</font>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:

	
 tiff2bw: Write ImageWidth/Height tags to output file, as

	noted by Gennady Khokhorin.

<font size="+3">C</font>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:

	
 No changes.

<font size="+3">C</font>HANGES IN THE LZW COMPRESSION

KIT:

	
 This one is not longer needed.

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Last updated $Date: 2006/03/18 17:12:47 $.