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  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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  4. <TITLE>
  5. Changes in TIFF v4.0.6
  6. </TITLE>
  7. </HEAD>
  8. <BODY BGCOLOR=white>
  9. <FONT FACE="Helvetica, Arial, Sans">
  10. <BASEFONT SIZE=4>
  11. <B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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  13. <UL>
  14. <HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
  15. <B>Current Version</B>: v4.0.6<BR>
  16. <B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v4.0.5.html>v4.0.5</a><BR>
  17. <B>Master Download Site</B>: <A HREF="https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff">
  18. download.osgeo.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR>
  19. <B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/">
  20. http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</a>
  21. <HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
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  23. <P>
  24. This document describes the changes made to the software between the
  25. <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above). If you don't
  26. find something listed here, then it was not done in this timeframe, or
  27. it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. The following
  28. information is located here:
  29. <UL>
  30. <LI><A HREF="#highlights">Major Changes</A>
  31. <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
  32. <LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
  33. <LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
  34. <LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
  35. </UL>
  36. <p>
  37. <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
  38. <!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
  39. <A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
  40. <UL>
  41. <li> Now builds with CMake 2.8.9 and newer (previously required 3.0.0)
  42. </UL>
  43. <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
  44. <!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
  45. <A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
  46. <UL>
  47. <LI> CMakeLists.txt / CMake
  48. <UL>
  49. <LI> Supports CMake 2.8.9 and later.
  50. <LI> Add missing file which wasn't being distributed, causing
  51. unit tests to fail.
  52. <LI> Make shared/static library building configurable.
  53. <LI> CMake reads all version information directly from
  54. configure.ac to avoid duplication of values.
  55. <LI> CMake builds are now included in 'distcheck' target.
  56. </UL>
  57. </LI>
  58. <LI> Makefile.am
  59. <UL>
  60. <LI> Autotools 'make distcheck' now tests the CMake-based build
  61. if CMake is available.
  62. </UL>
  63. </LI>
  64. </UL>
  65. <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
  66. <!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
  67. <A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
  68. <UL>
  69. <LI> Fixes to avoid undefined behaviour of signed types (C
  70. standard compliance).
  71. <LI> Fixes to avoid possible isses when casting to unsigned char.
  72. <LI> Fixes to avoid undefined behaviour with shifts.
  73. <LI> Fix generation of output with 16 bit or 32 bit integer, when
  74. byte swapping is needed, in horizontal predictor (#2521).
  75. <LI> Fix decoding when there is a single pixel to decode (unlikely
  76. case...) and byte swapping is involved.
  77. <LI> Add add explicit masking with 0xff before casting to uchar in
  78. floating-point horizontal differencing and accumulation routines.
  79. <LI> Eliminate requirement for and use of 64-bit constant values.
  80. </UL>
  81. <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
  82. <!-------------------------------------------------------------------------->
  83. <A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
  84. <UL>
  85. <LI> tiffgt
  86. <UL>
  87. <LI> Silence glut API deprecation warnings on MacOS X.
  88. </UL>
  89. <LI> fax2ps
  90. <UL>
  91. <LI> Detect failure to write to temporary file.
  92. </UL>
  93. </UL>
  94. <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
  95. <!--------------------------------------------------------------------------->
  96. <A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
  97. <UL>
  98. <LI> None
  99. </UL>
  100. Last updated $Date: 2016-09-25 20:05:47 $.
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