TIFF CHANGE INFORMATION
This document describes the changes made to the software between the
previous and current versions (see above).
If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
The following information is located here:
MAJOR CHANGES:
- The code has been reviewed by Dmitry Levin: added checks
for values, returned by the space allocation functions, fixed
problems with the possible integer overflows.
CHANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:
- Several fixes in the test suite.
CHANGES IN LIBTIFF:
- Preliminary support for BigTIFF files: now libtiff can
recognize and reject to open such images. ;-)
- libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c: changed type of XMLPacket (tag 700) to
TIFFTAG_BYTE instead of TIFFTAG_UNDEFINED to comply with the info
in the Adobe XMP Specification.
- Added many checks for integer overflow and for successful space
allocations in the different parts of library. Code review
completed by Dmitry V. Levin.
- libtiff/{tiffio.h, tif_compress.c}: Added
TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs()function to get the list of configured codecs.
CHANGES IN THE TOOLS:
- tiff2bw: Write ImageWidth/Height tags to output file, as
noted by Gennady Khokhorin.
CHANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:
CHANGES IN THE LZW COMPRESSION
KIT:
- This one is not longer needed.
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Last updated $Date: 2006-03-18 17:12:47 $.