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diff --git a/tiff/html/v4.3.0.html b/tiff/html/v4.3.0.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000..64f9fa7f --- /dev/null +++ b/tiff/html/v4.3.0.html @@ -0,0 +1,186 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> +<HTML> +<HEAD> +<TITLE> + Changes in TIFF v4.3.0 +</TITLE> +<STYLE TYPE="text/css"> +body { + font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Sans; +} +table, th, td { + border: 1px solid black; + border-collapse: collapse; +} +th, td { + padding: 8pt; + text-align: center; +} +th { + text-align: center; +} +td { + text-align: center; +} + +ul li { + padding: 3pt; +} + +ul.a { + list-style-type: circle; +} + +ul.b { + list-style-type: square; +} + +ol.c { + list-style-type: upper-roman; +} + +ol.d { + list-style-type: lower-alpha; +} + +hr { + width: 65%; +} + +</STYLE> +</HEAD> + +<BODY BGCOLOR=white> + +<BASEFONT SIZE=4> +<B><FONT SIZE="+3">T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE="+2">C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE="+2">I</FONT>NFORMATION</B> +<BASEFONT SIZE=3> + +<div style="margin-left: 3em"> +<HR SIZE=4 ALIGN=left> +<B>Current Version</B>: v4.3.0<BR> +<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF="v4.2.0.html">v4.2.0</A><BR> +<B>Master Download Site</B>: <A HREF="https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff"> +download.osgeo.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff<BR> +<B>Master HTTP Site #1</B>: <A HREF="http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/"> + http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</A><BR> +<B>Master HTTP Site #2</B>: <A HREF="https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/"> + https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/</A><BR> +<B>Master HTTP Site #3</B>: <A HREF="http://libtiff.maptools.org/"> +http://libtiff.maptools.org/</a> +<HR SIZE=4 ALIGN=left> +</div> + +<P> +This document provides a summary of significant changes made to the +software between the <I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see +above). A fully-detailed change summary is provided by the ChangeLog file +included in the release package and by the Git commit history: +<UL> +<LI><A HREF="#highlights">Major Changes</A> +<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A> +<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A> +<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A> +<LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A> +</UL> +<p> +<P><HR ALIGN=left> + +<!-- ============================================================= --> + +<A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE="+3">M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A> + +<UL> + + <LI>Build and usage of the library and its utilities requires a C99 capable + compiler.</LI> + + <LI>New optional codec for the LERC (Limited Error Raster Compression) compression scheme. + To have it available, configure libtiff against the SDK available at + https://github.com/esri/lerc</LI> + + <LI>CMake build: revamp of build scripts</LI> +</UL> + + +<P><HR ALIGN=left> +<!-- ============================================================= --> + +<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE="+3">C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A> + +<UL> + + <LI>cmake: revamp of the cmake build scripts. There are impacts on the case of + some options.</LI> + + <LI>cmake: update minimum version and policy version to 3.9.</LI> + + <LI>Remove NMake build support. The functionality provided by the NMake build + is now completely superseded by the CMake build.</LI> + + <LI>Remove antiquated Scons and makefile.lcc build support.</LI> + + <LI>Remove non-functional VMS and WinCE support.</LI> + + <LI>autogen.sh now updates config.guess and config.sub from master gnulib version.</LI> + +</UL> + +<P><HR ALIGN=left> + +<!-- ============================================================= --> + +<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE="+3">C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A> + +<UL> + + <LI>Use of "int8", "uint8", "int16", "uint16", "int32", "uint32", "int64", "uint64" + typedefs is now deprecated. libtiff code and headers no longer use them, + and use their C99 standard equivalents (with "_t" suffix). Those typedefs + are still available, with deprecation warnings, but external code is strongly + encouraged to use the corresponding C99 stdint.h types. The deprecated + types might be removed in a future release.</LI> + + <LI>Removal of unused, or now useless due to C99 availability, functions in port/</LI> + + <LI>A few issues spotted by static code analysis tools fixed. Compiler + warnings addressed.</LI> +</UL> + +<P><HR ALIGN=left> + +<!-- ============================================================= --> + +<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE="+3">C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A> + +<UL> + + <LI>In usage text, insert a line of text summarizing each tool's purpose </LI> + + <LI>tiff tools: made display of compression methods and their parameters + conditional on their actual availability</LI> + + <LI>tiff2ps: exit the loop in case of error (#232)</LI> + + <LI>tiff2pdf: check that tiff_datasize fits in a signed tsize_t (#202)</LI> + + <LI>tiffsplit: exit with EXIT_FAILURE if there are extra args on the command line</LI> + + <LI>tiffcmp: fix comparaison with pixels that are fractional number of bytes (#53)</LI> + +</UL> + +<P><HR ALIGN=left> + +<!-- ============================================================= --> + +<A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE="+3">C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A> + +<UL> + + <LI>iptcutil.c - set '#ifdef _WIN32' (was '#ifdef WIN32', which failed at build time)</LI> + +</UL> + +</BODY> +</HTML> |