This is the fourth update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes just
over five weeks after the 1.4.6 release. This release includes a
thread-safe surface-cache for solid patterns which significantly
improves text rendering with the xlib backend. Also, dozens of error
paths in cairo have been fixed thanks to extensive fault-injection
testing by Chris Wilson.
- temporarily show the hidden image statusbar while the progress is active
- added support for loading .abr v6 Photoshop brushes
- improved usability of color scales
- improved display quality of zoomed-out image view
- bug fixes and code cleanup
RMagick 1.15.7
o Fix bug #11033, make distclean misses some files
(bug report from Lucas Nussbaum)
o Work around SetMagickRegistry problem in
ImageMagick 6.3.4-7
# while apparently independent, cause libtool to create .o again,
# making it possible for the ar step of the .a build to fail to find
# the .o
MAKE_JOBS_SAFE= NO
Release 1.4.6 (2007-05-01 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
=========================================================
This is the third update in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It comes a
little less than three weeks since the 1.4.4 release. This release
fixes the broken mutex initialization that made cairo 1.4.4 unusable
on win32, OS/2, and BeOS systems. This release also adds significant
improvements to cairo's PDF backend, (native gradients!), and a couple
of performance optimizations, (one of which is very significant for
users of the xlib backend).
Release 1.4.4 (2007-04-13 Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>)
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This is the second update release in cairo's stable 1.4 series. It
comes just less than a month after 1.4.2. The changes since 1.4.2
consist primarily of bug fixes, but also include at least one
optimization. See below for details.
There have been lots of individuals doing lots of great work on cairo,
but two efforts during the 1.4.4 series deserve particular mention:
Internal cleanup of error handling, (Chris Wilson)
--------------------------------------------------
Chris contributed a tremendous series of patches (74 patches!) to
improve cairo's handling of out-of-memory and other errors. He began
by adding gcc's warn_unused_attribute to as many functions as
possible, and then launched into the ambitious efforts of adding
correct code to quiet the dozens of resulting warnings.
Chris also wrote a custom valgrind skin to systematically inject
malloc failures into cairo, and did all the work necessary to verify
that cairo's performance test suite runs to completion without
crashing.
The end result is a much more robust implementation. Previously, many
error conditions would have gone unnoticed and would have led to
assertion failures, segmentation faults, or other harder-to-diagnose
problems. Now, more than ever, cairo should cleanly let the user know
of problems through cairo_status and other similar status
functions. Well done, Chris!
More malloc reduction, (Mathias Hasselmann)
-------------------------------------------
After 1.4.0, Behdad launched an effort to chase down excessive calls
to malloc within the implementation of cairo. He fixed a lot of
malloc-happy objects for 1.4.2, but one of the worst offenders,
(pixman regions), was left around. Mathias contributed an excellent
series of 15 patches to finish off this effort.
The end result is a cairo that calls malloc much less often than it
did before. Compared to 1.4.2, 55% of the calls to malloc have been
eliminate, (and 60% have been eliminated compared to 1.4.0). Well
done, Mathias!
New in 0.6.15 (2007-05-23) since 0.6.14 (2007-05-10):
* Added support for 2 new types of Pentax makernotes & Casio type2 makernote
* Added support for Win XP metadata (Author, Comment, KeyWords, Title,
Subject) tags
* Bug fixes:
[ 1443183 ] install error when doxygen is not present.
* New translations: Czech, Slovak.
* Improved doxygen generated API and code internals
documentation. Made building of code internals docs optional
(--enable-internal-docs) as the call graphs take quite long to
build. Made building any docs optional (--disable-docs).
New in 0.6.14 (2007-05-10) since 0.6.13 (2005-12-27):
* Bug fixes: #1457501, #1471060, #1525770, #1617991, #1703284, #1716196
* Extended support of Canon, Nikon, Olympus makernotes
* Added option EXIF_DATA_OPTION_DONT_CHANGE_MAKER_NOTE to prevent
modification of maker notes
* Other fixes and improvements which include API/ABI additions.
KoverArtist is a program for the fast creation of covers for
cd/dvd cases and boxes. The main idea behind it is to be able
to create decent looking covers with some mouseclicks.
adopted by many Linux distributions as well as FreeBSD ports:
o jpegtran: add "-perfect" switch:
Fail if there are non-transformable edge blocks.
o jpegtran: add "-crop" switch:
Crop to a rectangular subarea.
o jpegtran: correct EXIF handling.
o jpegexiforient: Get and set the Exif Orientation Tag.
o exifautotran: Transforms Exif files so that Orientation becomes 1.
Suggested by dzoe on #NetBSD IRCNet.
Comix 3.6.4
- Added a Russian translation by Artyom Smirnov.
- Added a Croatian translation by Adrian C.
- Fixed a bug in the thumbnailer, comicthumb, failing to create thumbnails
for Zip and tar archives.
- Some minor changes.
Changes since 1.58:
- Tried to make DSCfilter command more robust
- better detection for files that have a binary heading stuff containing
even %! as character sequence
- changed year in comment and info printout only
- incorporated changes for Windows/Cygwin detection
- removed surrounding ticks '' for -c $translation in $translatecmd
- removed useless/unsupported 2>&1 in $bboxver for Windows
- fix for two negative offsets in translation
- Files named ".DS_Store" (from the MacOS GUI) do not belong to this
package, so we filter them at installation time.
Changes approved by Jan Schaumann.
- Added HOMEPAGE.
- Libraries should be installed with BSD_INSTALL_LIB, not BSD_INSTALL_DATA
(see patch-ak).
- Added support for installation to DESTDIR (Makefile, patch-ac, patch-ak,
patch-am, patch-az).
- improved import of multi-page TIFF files
- reduced rounding errors in Blur routines (core and plug-ins)
- further improved parameter checks in the PDB
- added support for loading .abr v2 Photoshop brushes
- improved border behavior of the Blur tool
- show the brush outline at the Clone tool's source position
- added libgimpbase API to retrieve the user's Pictures folder
- add a shortcut to the user's Pictures folder to the file-chooser dialog
- improved the quality of the Motion Blur filter
- save paths in TIFF files
- let the Screenshot plug-in name the new layer after the window
- use memory slices to reduce memory fragmentation
- some code cleanup
- lots of bug fixes
- fixed parsing of GFig files with CRLF line endings
- guard against a possible stack overflow in the Sunras loader
- fixed definition of datarootdir in gimptool-2.0
- fixed Perspective tool crash on Mac OS X
- fixed area resizing in the Image Map plug-in
- added missing library in gimptool-2.0 --libs output
- added new localizations: Occitan and Persian
Release 1.5.0 (2007-05-27) Kouhei Sutou <kou@cozmixng.org>)
==========================================================
Many API improvement.
Features
--------
* Support Cairo::Surface.new with block.
* Support RubyGems.
* Add experimental API Cairo::Context#pseudo_blur. (API
may be changed.)
* Fix strange Cairo::Context#push_group and
Cairo::Context#pop_group behaviour.
* Fix Cairo::Context::Path#map_path_onto.
* Add high-level color interface. (Cairo::Color)
* Improve color related API. For example:
From:
context.set_source_rgb(1, 0, 0)
To:
context.set_source_color(:red)
* Support RGB/CMYK/HSV conversion.
* Many default color definitions.
* Support path creation using Cairo::Path without
Cairo::Context.
* Improve constant value specify API. For example:
From:
Cairo::ImageSurface.new(Cairo::FORMAT_ARGB32, 100, 100)
To:
Cairo::ImageSurface.new(:argb32, 100, 100)
* Support win32 surface. (Yoshinao Muramatsu)
Ruby-GNOME 2 is a set of Ruby language bindings for the various
application development libraries included with the GNOME/GTK+
environment.
Ruby/RSVG is a Ruby binding of librsvg.
PDF metainfo plugin
* Free memory and file descriptor as soon as possible after reading the
metadata.
KPDF
* Show the tooltip of a link when hovering on them.
* Add the possibility of rasterize the file to image before printing it.
* React to the commands for opening the TOC pane, and for expanding the
subtrees of the TOC.
* Fix unability to open some files.
* Fix keyboard navigation when switching tabs in konqueror.
* Fix wrongly asking for password.
* Render pstricks psgrid correctly.
* Fix some transparency issues.
* Accept image width and height to be reals even if standard mandates
integers.
* Fix problems with deletion of message boxes of already closed documents.
* Restore the previously open pane in the side toolbox after reloading a
watched document.
* Improve selected page size detection when printing.
KolourPaint
* Add "File / Scan...".
* Save local files atomically - KolourPaint will no longer truncate an
existing file if the KImageIO library for the file format is missing
or if you run out of disk space.
* Add global session save/restore.
* Make "File / Open Recent" work consistently when multiple windows are
open.
Kuickshow
* Fix crash when pressing delete without having anything selected.
