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4f5e0202SAndrey KiselevThis document describes the changes made to the software between the
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
4f5e0202SAndrey KiselevIf you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
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4f5e0202SAndrey KiselevThe following information is located here:
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4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A>
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<LI><A HREF="#lzwkit">Changes in the LZW compression kit</A>
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4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
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4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<ul>
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> Significant changes in software configuration: we are switched
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	to GNU autotools now.
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e758fc84SAndrey Kiselev	<li> tiffset: tiffset now can set any libtiff supported tags. Tags
e758fc84SAndrey Kiselev	can be supplied by the mnemonic name or number.
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4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> Get rid of the old configuration system and switch to
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	GNU autotools.
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4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_ojpeg.c: Fixed problem with duplicated SOI and SOF
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	markers as per bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581"
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/{tif_open.c, tiffio.h}: New function added:
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	TIFFIsBigEndian(). Function returns nonzero if given was file written
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	in big-endian order.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_print.c: added (untested) support for printing
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	SSHORT, SLONG and SRATIONAL fields.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_fax3.c: Avoid reading CCITT compression options
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	if compression type mismatches. See
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=565</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_strip.c: Never return 0 from the TIFFNumberOfStrips().
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_dirread.c: Workaround for broken TIFF writers which
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	store single SampleFormat value for multisampled images. See
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_write.c: Allow in-place updating of the compressed
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	images (don't work properly with all codecs). For details see GDAL bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_jpeg.c: Workaround for wrong sampling factors used
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	in the Intergarph JPEG compressed TIFF images as per bug:
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=532</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_open.c: Use dummy mmap/munmap functions in
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	TIFFClientOpen() when the appropriate client functions was not
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	supplied by user.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_dirread.c: Fixed problem with handling TIFF_UNDEFINED
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	tag type in TIFFFetchNormalTag() as per bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508"
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=508</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_codec.c: Fixed typo in TIFFInitPackBits name as per:
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_fax3.c: Fixed problem, introdiced in 3.6.1 release,
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	with the CCITT encoding modes as per bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=483</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev        We need more work on fax codec to support update mode.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tiff.h: Fixed tag definitions for TIFFTAG_YCLIPPATHUNITS
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	and TIFFTAG_INDEXED as per bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/{tif_win32.c, tif_unix.c}: Check whether the pointer is
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	NULL before proceeding further as per bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	Check results, returned by the TIFFFdOpen() before returning and close
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	file if TIFFFdOpen() failed as per bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/{libtiff.def, tif_close.c, tiffio.h, tif_open.c}:
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	Separate TIFFCleanup() from the TIFFClose() in order to fix the bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=468</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_dirwrite.c: Fixed handling of writable ASCII tags
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	that are field_passcount=TRUE properly.  Arguably anonymous custom
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	tags should be declared as passcount=FALSE, but I don't want to change
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	that without a careful review.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_write.c: Fixed reporting size of the buffer in case
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	of stripped image in TIFFWriteBufferSetup(). As per bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_dir.c: Incomplete cleanup in TIFFFreeDirectory(),
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	patch from Gerben Koopmans.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_dirread.c: Check field_passcount value before setting
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	the value of undefined type, patch from Gerben Koopmans.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/{tiff.h, tif_fax3.c}:Fixes for AMD 64 platform as
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	suggested by Jeremy C. Reed.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> libtiff/tif_win32.c: Fixed problem with _TIFFrealloc() when
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	the NULL pointer passed. Patch supplied by Larry Grill.
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249698e1SAndrey Kiselev	<li> tiffset: tiffset now can set any libtiff supported tags. Tags
249698e1SAndrey Kiselev	can be supplied by the mnemonic name or number.
249698e1SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> ycbcr.c: fixed main() declaration as per:
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> <a href=./man/tiffsplit.1.html>tiffsplit</a>: Don't forget
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	to copy Photometric Interpretation tag.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> <a href=./man/tiffsplit.1.html>tiffsplit</a>: Fixed problem with
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	unproperly written multibyte files. Now output files will be written
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	using the same byte order flag as in the input image. See
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574"
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> <a href=./man/tiffsplit.1.html>tiffsplit</a>: Copy JPEGTables
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	tag contents for JPEG compressed images. Reported by Artem Mirolubov.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Close output file
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	on normal exit.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Don't emit warnings
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	when Orientation tag does not present in the input image.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Properly set
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	Photometric Interpretation in case of JPEG compression of grayscale
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	images.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Fixed problem with wrong
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	interpretation of the InkNames tag as per bug
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<a href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466">
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev		http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=466</a>.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	Memory leak fixed.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> <a href=./man/tiffcp.1.html>tiffcp</a>: Fixed problem with
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	wrong Photometric setting for non-RGB images.
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4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> Outdated stuff removed.
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	<li> Almost all programs are sinchronized with the current libtiff
4f5e0202SAndrey Kiselev	and should compile without problems.
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