|  | CHANGE LOG for Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software | 
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|  | Version 8b  16-May-2010 | 
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|  | Repair problem in new memory source manager with corrupt JPEG data. | 
|  | Thank to Ted Campbell and Samuel Chun for the report. | 
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|  | Version 8a  28-Feb-2010 | 
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|  | Writing tables-only datastreams via jpeg_write_tables works again. | 
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|  | Support 32-bit BMPs (RGB image with Alpha channel) for read in cjpeg. | 
|  | Thank to Brett Blackham for the suggestion. | 
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|  | Version 8  10-Jan-2010 | 
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|  | Add sanity check in BMP reader module to avoid cjpeg crash for empty input | 
|  | image (thank to Isaev Ildar of ISP RAS, Moscow, RU for reporting this error). | 
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|  | Add data source and destination managers for read from and write to | 
|  | memory buffers.  New API functions jpeg_mem_src and jpeg_mem_dest. | 
|  | Thank to Roberto Boni from Italy for the suggestion. | 
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|  | Version 7  27-Jun-2009 | 
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|  | cjpeg -quality option has been extended for support of separate quality | 
|  | settings for luminance and chrominance (or in general, for every provided | 
|  | quantization table slot). | 
|  | New API function jpeg_default_qtables() and q_scale_factor array in library. | 
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|  | Support arithmetic entropy encoding and decoding. | 
|  | Added files jaricom.c, jcarith.c, jdarith.c. | 
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|  | jpegtran has a new "lossless" cropping feature. | 
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|  | Implement -perfect option in jpegtran, new API function | 
|  | jtransform_perfect_transform() in transupp. (DP 204_perfect.dpatch) | 
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|  | Better error messages for jpegtran fopen failure. | 
|  | (DP 203_jpegtran_errmsg.dpatch) | 
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|  | Fix byte order issue with 16bit PPM/PGM files in rdppm.c/wrppm.c: | 
|  | according to Netpbm, the de facto standard implementation of the PNM formats, | 
|  | the most significant byte is first. (DP 203_rdppm.dpatch) | 
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|  | Add -raw option to rdjpgcom not to mangle the output. | 
|  | (DP 205_rdjpgcom_raw.dpatch) | 
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|  | Make rdjpgcom locale aware. (DP 201_rdjpgcom_locale.dpatch) | 
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|  | Add extern "C" to jpeglib.h. | 
|  | This avoids the need to put extern "C" { ... } around #include "jpeglib.h" | 
|  | in your C++ application.  Defining the symbol DONT_USE_EXTERN_C in the | 
|  | configuration prevents this. (DP 202_jpeglib.h_c++.dpatch) | 
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|  | Version 6b  27-Mar-1998 | 
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|  | jpegtran has new features for lossless image transformations (rotation | 
|  | and flipping) as well as "lossless" reduction to grayscale. | 
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|  | jpegtran now copies comments by default; it has a -copy switch to enable | 
|  | copying all APPn blocks as well, or to suppress comments.  (Formerly it | 
|  | always suppressed comments and APPn blocks.)  jpegtran now also preserves | 
|  | JFIF version and resolution information. | 
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|  | New decompressor library feature: COM and APPn markers found in the input | 
|  | file can be saved in memory for later use by the application.  (Before, | 
|  | you had to code this up yourself with a custom marker processor.) | 
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|  | There is an unused field "void * client_data" now in compress and decompress | 
|  | parameter structs; this may be useful in some applications. | 
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|  | JFIF version number information is now saved by the decoder and accepted by | 
|  | the encoder.  jpegtran uses this to copy the source file's version number, | 
|  | to ensure "jpegtran -copy all" won't create bogus files that contain JFXX | 
|  | extensions but claim to be version 1.01.  Applications that generate their | 
|  | own JFXX extension markers also (finally) have a supported way to cause the | 
|  | encoder to emit JFIF version number 1.02. | 
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|  | djpeg's trace mode reports JFIF 1.02 thumbnail images as such, rather | 
|  | than as unknown APP0 markers. | 
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|  | In -verbose mode, djpeg and rdjpgcom will try to print the contents of | 
|  | APP12 markers as text.  Some digital cameras store useful text information | 
|  | in APP12 markers. | 
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|  | Handling of truncated data streams is more robust: blocks beyond the one in | 
|  | which the error occurs will be output as uniform gray, or left unchanged | 
|  | if decoding a progressive JPEG.  The appearance no longer depends on the | 
|  | Huffman tables being used. | 
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|  | Huffman tables are checked for validity much more carefully than before. | 
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|  | To avoid the Unisys LZW patent, djpeg's GIF output capability has been | 
|  | changed to produce "uncompressed GIFs", and cjpeg's GIF input capability | 
|  | has been removed altogether.  We're not happy about it either, but there | 
|  | seems to be no good alternative. | 
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|  | The configure script now supports building libjpeg as a shared library | 
|  | on many flavors of Unix (all the ones that GNU libtool knows how to | 
|  | build shared libraries for).  Use "./configure --enable-shared" to | 
|  | try this out. | 
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|  | New jconfig file and makefiles for Microsoft Visual C++ and Developer Studio. | 
|  | Also, a jconfig file and a build script for Metrowerks CodeWarrior | 
|  | on Apple Macintosh.  makefile.dj has been updated for DJGPP v2, and there | 
|  | are miscellaneous other minor improvements in the makefiles. | 
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|  | jmemmac.c now knows how to create temporary files following Mac System 7 | 
|  | conventions. | 
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|  | djpeg's -map switch is now able to read raw-format PPM files reliably. | 
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|  | cjpeg -progressive -restart no longer generates any unnecessary DRI markers. | 
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|  | Multiple calls to jpeg_simple_progression for a single JPEG object | 
|  | no longer leak memory. | 
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|  | Version 6a  7-Feb-96 | 
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|  | Library initialization sequence modified to detect version mismatches | 
|  | and struct field packing mismatches between library and calling application. | 
|  | This change requires applications to be recompiled, but does not require | 
|  | any application source code change. | 
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|  | All routine declarations changed to the style "GLOBAL(type) name ...", | 
|  | that is, GLOBAL, LOCAL, METHODDEF, EXTERN are now macros taking the | 
|  | routine's return type as an argument.  This makes it possible to add | 
|  | Microsoft-style linkage keywords to all the routines by changing just | 
|  | these macros.  Note that any application code that was using these macros | 
|  | will have to be changed. | 
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|  | DCT coefficient quantization tables are now stored in normal array order | 
|  | rather than zigzag order.  Application code that calls jpeg_add_quant_table, | 
|  | or otherwise manipulates quantization tables directly, will need to be | 
|  | changed.  If you need to make such code work with either older or newer | 
|  | versions of the library, a test like "#if JPEG_LIB_VERSION >= 61" is | 
|  | recommended. | 
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|  | djpeg's trace capability now dumps DQT tables in natural order, not zigzag | 
|  | order.  This allows the trace output to be made into a "-qtables" file | 
|  | more easily. | 
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|  | New system-dependent memory manager module for use on Apple Macintosh. | 
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|  | Fix bug in cjpeg's -smooth option: last one or two scanlines would be | 
|  | duplicates of the prior line unless the image height mod 16 was 1 or 2. | 
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|  | Repair minor problems in VMS, BCC, MC6 makefiles. | 
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|  | New configure script based on latest GNU Autoconf. | 
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|  | Correct the list of include files needed by MetroWerks C for ccommand(). | 
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|  | Numerous small documentation updates. | 
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|  | Version 6  2-Aug-95 | 
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|  | Progressive JPEG support: library can read and write full progressive JPEG | 
|  | files.  A "buffered image" mode supports incremental decoding for on-the-fly | 
|  | display of progressive images.  Simply recompiling an existing IJG-v5-based | 
|  | decoder with v6 should allow it to read progressive files, though of course | 
|  | without any special progressive display. | 
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|  | New "jpegtran" application performs lossless transcoding between different | 
|  | JPEG formats; primarily, it can be used to convert baseline to progressive | 
|  | JPEG and vice versa.  In support of jpegtran, the library now allows lossless | 
|  | reading and writing of JPEG files as DCT coefficient arrays.  This ability | 
|  | may be of use in other applications. | 
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|  | Notes for programmers: | 
|  | * We changed jpeg_start_decompress() to be able to suspend; this makes all | 
|  | decoding modes available to suspending-input applications.  However, | 
|  | existing applications that use suspending input will need to be changed | 
|  | to check the return value from jpeg_start_decompress().  You don't need to | 
|  | do anything if you don't use a suspending data source. | 
|  | * We changed the interface to the virtual array routines: access_virt_array | 
|  | routines now take a count of the number of rows to access this time.  The | 
|  | last parameter to request_virt_array routines is now interpreted as the | 
|  | maximum number of rows that may be accessed at once, but not necessarily | 
|  | the height of every access. | 
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|  | Version 5b  15-Mar-95 | 
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|  | Correct bugs with grayscale images having v_samp_factor > 1. | 
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|  | jpeg_write_raw_data() now supports output suspension. | 
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|  | Correct bugs in "configure" script for case of compiling in | 
|  | a directory other than the one containing the source files. | 
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|  | Repair bug in jquant1.c: sometimes didn't use as many colors as it could. | 
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|  | Borland C makefile and jconfig file work under either MS-DOS or OS/2. | 
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|  | Miscellaneous improvements to documentation. | 
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|  | Version 5a  7-Dec-94 | 
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|  | Changed color conversion roundoff behavior so that grayscale values are | 
|  | represented exactly.  (This causes test image files to change.) | 
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|  | Make ordered dither use 16x16 instead of 4x4 pattern for a small quality | 
|  | improvement. | 
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|  | New configure script based on latest GNU Autoconf. | 
|  | Fix configure script to handle CFLAGS correctly. | 
|  | Rename *.auto files to *.cfg, so that configure script still works if | 
|  | file names have been truncated for DOS. | 
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|  | Fix bug in rdbmp.c: didn't allow for extra data between header and image. | 
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|  | Modify rdppm.c/wrppm.c to handle 2-byte raw PPM/PGM formats for 12-bit data. | 
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|  | Fix several bugs in rdrle.c. | 
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|  | NEED_SHORT_EXTERNAL_NAMES option was broken. | 
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|  | Revise jerror.h/jerror.c for more flexibility in message table. | 
|  |  | 
|  | Repair oversight in jmemname.c NO_MKTEMP case: file could be there | 
|  | but unreadable. | 
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|  | Version 5  24-Sep-94 | 
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|  | Version 5 represents a nearly complete redesign and rewrite of the IJG | 
|  | software.  Major user-visible changes include: | 
|  | * Automatic configuration simplifies installation for most Unix systems. | 
|  | * A range of speed vs. image quality tradeoffs are supported. | 
|  | This includes resizing of an image during decompression: scaling down | 
|  | by a factor of 1/2, 1/4, or 1/8 is handled very efficiently. | 
|  | * New programs rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom allow insertion and extraction | 
|  | of text comments in a JPEG file. | 
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|  | The application programmer's interface to the library has changed completely. | 
|  | Notable improvements include: | 
|  | * We have eliminated the use of callback routines for handling the | 
|  | uncompressed image data.  The application now sees the library as a | 
|  | set of routines that it calls to read or write image data on a | 
|  | scanline-by-scanline basis. | 
|  | * The application image data is represented in a conventional interleaved- | 
|  | pixel format, rather than as a separate array for each color channel. | 
|  | This can save a copying step in many programs. | 
|  | * The handling of compressed data has been cleaned up: the application can | 
|  | supply routines to source or sink the compressed data.  It is possible to | 
|  | suspend processing on source/sink buffer overrun, although this is not | 
|  | supported in all operating modes. | 
|  | * All static state has been eliminated from the library, so that multiple | 
|  | instances of compression or decompression can be active concurrently. | 
|  | * JPEG abbreviated datastream formats are supported, ie, quantization and | 
|  | Huffman tables can be stored separately from the image data. | 
|  | * And not only that, but the documentation of the library has improved | 
|  | considerably! | 
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|  | The last widely used release before the version 5 rewrite was version 4A of | 
|  | 18-Feb-93.  Change logs before that point have been discarded, since they | 
|  | are not of much interest after the rewrite. |