TIFF CHANGE INFORMATION

Current Version: v3.5.6beta
Previous Version: v3.5.5
Master FTP Site: ftp.onshore.com, 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:

- Changes in the software configuration
- Changes in libtiff
- Changes in the tools
- Changes in contrib
- Changes in the LZW compression kit

CHANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

- Added GNULDdso target and switched linux and freebsd to use it.
- tools/Makefile.in: Modified to install properly on SGI.
- configure: Fixed DSO test for Linux as per patch from Jan Van Buggenhout <chipzz@Ace.ULYSSIS.Student.KULeuven.Ac.Be>.

CHANGES IN LIBTIFF:

- tif_dir.c: Clear TIFF_ISTILED flag in TIFFDefaultDirectory as per http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18 from vandrove@vc.cvut.cz.
- Modified tif_packbits.c decoding to avoid overrunning the output buffer, and to issue a warning if data needs to be discarded. See http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18
- Modified TIFFClientOpen() to emit an error on an attempt to open a comperessed file for update (O_RDWR/r+) access. This is because the compressor/decompressor code gets very confused when the mode is O_RDWR, assuming this means writing only. See bug http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13
- Applied patch for 0x0000 sequences in tif_fax3.h's definition of EXPAND1D() as per bug 11 (from Roman).
- Fixed tiffcomp.h to avoid win32 stuff if unix #defined, to improve cygwin compatibility.
- Applied patch from Roman Shpount to tif_fax3.c. This seems to be a proper fix to the buffer sizing problem. See http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11
- Fixed tif_getimage.c to fix overrun bug with YCbCr images without downsampling. http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10 Thanks to Nick Lamb <njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk> for reporting the bug and proving the patch.
- Fixed tif_jpeg.c so avoid destroying the decompressor before we are done access data thanks to bug report from: Michael Eckstein <eckstein@gepro.cz>.
- tif_open.c: Don't set MMAP for O_RDWR files.
- tif_open.c: Set STRIPCHOP_DEFAULT for O_RDWR as well as O_RDONLY so that files opened for update can be strip chopped too.
- tif_read.c: fixed up bug with files missing rowsperstrip and the strips per separation fix done a few weeks ago.
- Tentatively added support for SAMPLEFORMAT_COMPLEXIEEEFP, and SAMPLEFORMAT_COMPLEXINT.
- index.html, bugs.html: added bugzilla info.
- tif_read.c: fix subtle bug with determining the number of rows for strips that are the last strip in a separation but not the last strip of all in TIFFReadEncodedStrip().
- Applied 16/32 bit fix to tif_fax3.c. Fix supplied by Peter Skarpetis <peters@serendipity-software.com.au>
- Modified tiffio.h logic with regard to including windows.h. It won't include it when building with __CYGWIN__.
- README: update to mention www.libtiff.org, don't list Sam's old email address.
- libtiff/tif_dirread.c: Don't use estimate strip byte count for one tile/strip images with an offset, and byte count of zero. These could be "unpopulated" images.
- tif_win32.c: Applied patch to fix overreads and ovverwrites caught by BoundsChecker. From Arvan Pritchard <arvan.pritchard@infomatix.co.uk> (untested).
- tif_getimage.c: Applied patch to silence VC6 warnings. From Arvan Pritchard <arvan.pritchard@informatix.co.uk>
- tif_lzw.c: Applied patch to silence VC6 warnings. From Arvan Pritchard <arvan.pritchard@informatix.co.uk>
- libtiff/tif_apple.c: Applied "Carbon" support patches supplied by Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com>. May interfere with correct building on older systems. If so, please let me know.

CHANGES IN THE TOOLS:

- tools/rgb2ycbcr.c: fixed output strip size to account for vertical roundup if rows_per_strip not a multiple of vertical sample size.
- tools/tiffsplit.c: Copy TIFFTAG_SAMPLEFORMAT.
- Modified tiff2bw to ensure portions add to 100%, and that white is properly recovered. See bug http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15 Patch c/o Stanislav Brabec <utx@penguin.cz>

CHANGES IN CONTRIB:

- contrib/addtiffo: Added "averaging" resampling option.
- Added contrib/stream (stream io) code submitted by Avi Bleiweiss.

CHANGES IN THE LZW COMPRESSION KIT

- updated tif_dir.c to reflect changes to no-lzw tif_dir.c

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