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| <B>Current Version</B>: v3.7.1<BR> |
| <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.7.0.html>v3.7.0</a><BR> |
| <B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff"> |
| ftp.remotesensing.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR> |
| <B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff"> |
| http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff</a> |
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| This document describes the changes made to the software between the |
| <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> 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: |
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| <LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A> |
| <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A> |
| <LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A> |
| <LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A> |
| <LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A> |
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| <A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A> |
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| <li> This is mostly bugfix release. Most important fix is the one |
| related to wrong custom tag read/write code. |
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| <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A> |
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| <li> autogen.sh: aclocal and autoheader should be executed after |
| libtoolize. Also add '-I .' to aclocal invocation to check |
| current directory for macros. |
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| <li> nmake.opt: Link with the user32.lib in windowed mode. As per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697</a> |
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| <li> nmake.opt, makefile.vc: make it easier to rename the libtiff DLL. |
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| <li> configure, configure.ac: Added --enable-rpath option to embed |
| linker paths into library binary. |
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| <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A> |
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| <li> tiff.h: Revert back libtiff data type definitions as per |
| bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687</a> |
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| <li> tif_dirread.c: Do not forget about TIFF_VARIABLE2 when |
| checking for tag count in TIFFReadDirectory() function. As per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713</a> |
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| <li> tif_getimage.c: Support for multiple-alpha-channelled |
| RGB-images as per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718</a> |
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| <li> tif_getimage.c: #define A1 bracketing for clean build on |
| SunPro compiler. |
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| <li> tif_dirwrite.c: Always write TIFFTAG_SUBIFD using LONG type |
| as per bugs |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703</a> and |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704</a>. |
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| <li> tif_win32.c: Use char* strings instead of TCHAR in windowed |
| mode as per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697</a> |
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| <li> tif_dir.c, tif_dirread.c: Remove TIFFReassignTagToIgnore() |
| call from the TIFFReadDirectory() function. TIFFReassignTagToIgnore |
| must be removed in the future, as it was never used properly. As per |
| bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=692</a> |
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| <li> tif_jpeg.c: Added a work-around in order to allow |
| compilation with the heavily modified version of libjpeg delivered |
| with Cygwin. |
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| <li> tif_dir.c: Properly handle tags, which have the uint32 |
| counts. As per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693</a> |
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| <li> tif_unix.c: Make UNIX module compilable (and usable) |
| on Windows. |
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| <li> tiff.h: Added Adobe DNG tags. |
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| <li> tif_aux.c: Set the appropriate ReferenceBlackWhite array for |
| YCbCr image which lacks that tag (noted by Hans Petter Selasky). |
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| <li> tif_color.c: Division by zero fixed (Hans Petter Selasky). |
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| <li> tif_stream.cxx, tiffio.h: Added C++ stream interface |
| contributed by Edward Lam (see |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=654</a> |
| for details). Those who want to use C++ streams should |
| #include <tiffio.hxx>. |
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| <li> tif_open.c: Removed close() in TIFFClientOpen() if file |
| is bad. This is the callers responsibility. |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=651</a> |
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| <li> tiffio.h, tif_win32.c, libtiff.def}: Added TIFFOpenW() |
| function to work with the double byte strings (used to represent |
| filenames in some locales). As per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625</a> |
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| <li> tif_dirread.c: Fixed problem when fetching BitsPerSample and |
| Compression tags of type LONG from broken TIFFS as per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662</a> |
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| <li> tif_dirinfo.c: Fixed definition for TIFFTAG_RICHTIFFIPTC, |
| the writecount should have uint32 type. As per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=662</a> |
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| <li> tif_write.c: Fixed wrong if() statement in |
| TIFFAppendToStrip() function as per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=660</a> |
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| <li> tif_dirinfo.c: Change definition for TIFFTAG_EXTRASAMPLES |
| field. The caller should supply a count when setting this field. As |
| per bug <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648</a>. |
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| <li> tif_jpeg.c, tif_ojpeg.c: TIFFTAG_JPEGTABLES should have |
| uint32 count. Use this type everywhere. |
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| <li> tif_next.c: avoid use of u_long and u_char types. |
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| <li> tif_fax3.c: Fixed case with the wrong decode routines |
| choosing when the incorrect Group4Options tag set. As per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323</a> |
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| <li> tif_dirwrite.c: Fixed problem with passing count variable of |
| wrong type when writing the TIFF_BYTE/TIFF_SBYTE tags in |
| TIFFWriteNormalTag(). |
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| <li> tif_compress.c: Zero division problem fixed (Vladimir Nadvornik, |
| Dmitry V. Levin). |
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| <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A> |
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| <li> fax2ps.c: Be able to extract the first page (#0). As per bug |
| <a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690"> |
| http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690</a> |
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| <li> tiff2ps.c: Fixed wrong variable data type when read Position |
| tags (Tristan Hill). |
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| <li> tiff2ps.c: Fixed wrong variable data type when read Resolution |
| tags (Peter Fales). |
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| <li> tiffset.c: Check the malloc return value (Dmitry V. Levin). |
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| <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A> |
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| <li> No changes. |
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