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Libpng 1.7.0alpha01 - December 15, 2012
This is not intended to be a public release. It will be replaced
within a few weeks by a public version or by another test version.
Files available for download:
Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
"configure" script
1.7.0alpha01.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
1.7.0alpha01.tar.gz
1.7.0alpha01.tar.bz2
Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script
lp170a01.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
lp170a01.zip
Other information:
1.7.0alpha01-README.txt
1.7.0alpha01-LICENSE.txt
Changes since the last public release (1.6.0):
Version 1.7.0alpha01 [December 15, 2012]
Started 1.7.0 branch from libpng-1.6.0beta33.
Made 8-bit compose and rgb_to_grayscale accuracy improvements. These
changes cause 16-bit arithmetic to be used for 8-bit data in the gamma
corrected compose and grayscale operations. The arithmetic errors have
three sources all of which are fixed in this commit:
1) 8-bit linear calculations produce massive errors for lower intensity
values.
2) The old 16-bit "16 to 8" gamma table code erroneously wrote the lowest
output value into a table entry which corresponded to multiple output
values (so where the value written should have been the closest to the
transformed input value.)
3) In a number of cases the code to access the 16-bit table did not round;
it did a simple shift, which was wrong and made the side effects of (2)
even worse.
The new gamma code does not have the 16-to-8 problem at the cost of slighly
more calculations and the algorithm used to minimize the number of
calculations has been extended to all the 16-bit tables; it has advantages
for any significant gamma correction.
Rearranged png_struct, remove unused members, change png_set_filter handling
png_struct members rearranged - partly to reorder to avoid packing, partly
to put frequently accessed members at the start and partly to make
the grouping more clear. png_set_filter code has been rewritten and the
code shared with png_write_start_row moved to a common function. Comments
in png.h have been made more clear. Minor fixes to
contrib/libtests/timepng.c and some of the png_*_tRNS logic, including
more error detection in png_set_tRNS.
Clean up USER_LIMITS feature, removing members from png_struct when not
required.
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