RMagick 2 is the future of RMagick. This is the version that will get new
methods and support new ImageMagick features.
RMagick 2 does not support GraphicsMagick.
Changes:
RMagick 2.0.0
o Replaced configure/make/make install with standard Ruby setup.rb,
extconf.rb
o Removed support for Ruby earlier than 1.8.2
o Removed support for GraphicsMagick. As a result these methods are no
longer available: Image#grayscale_pseudo_class, Image#statistics.
o Removed support for all releases of ImageMagick earlier than 6.3.0.
o Removed deprecated Image#random_channel_threshold. Use
Image#random_threshold_channel instead
o Removed deprecated Image#channel_threshold. Use
Image#random_threshold_channel instead
o Removed unecessary Image#montage=
o Removed unecessary and undocumented Image#image_type=
o Removed deprecated Image::Info#tile_info, tile_info= attributes.
o Removed deprecated Image::Info#tile, tile= attributes. Use #extract,
#extract= instead
o Removed deprecated Image::Info#subimage, subimage= attributes. Use
scene, scene= instead
o Removed deprecated Image::Info#subrange, subrange= attributes. Use
number_scenes, number_scenes= instead
o Removed deprecated Magick.set_monitor. Use Image#set_monitor,
Image::Info#set_monitor instead
o Removed deprecated RunlengthEncodedCompression CompressionType. Use
RLECompression instead
o Deprecated Image#matte, matte= with ImageMagick 6.3.5 and later
o Added Image::Info#stroke=, stroke_width= and undercolor= attributes
o Added Image::Info#tile_offset= attribute
o Added Draw#fill_pattern= and #stroke_pattern= annotate attributes
o Changed Image::Info[] and Image::Info[]= to allow an omitted \"format\"
argument
o Added Image#destroy!, destroyed?, check_destroyed methods
o Support Image object creation/destruction tracing with the
Magick.trace_proc attribute
o Added Magick::QuantumRange. Magick::MaxRGB is deprecated.
o Added OptimizeTransLayer, RemoveDupsLayer, RemoveZeroLayer,
OptimizeImageLayer ImageLayerMethods enum values (available with
ImageMagick 6.3.3),
MosaicLayer, FlattenLayer (available with ImageMagick 6.3.6)
o RMagick works with Q32 version of ImageMagick
o Added ChangeMaskCompositeOp, DivideCompositeOp, LinearLightCompositeOp
CompositeOperator enum values
o Added SplineInterpolatePixel InterpolatePixelMethod enum value
o Added DitherVirtualPixelMethod, RandomVirtualPixelMethod,
BlackVirtualPixelMethod, GrayVirtualPixelMethod, WhiteVirtualPixelMethod
(available with ImageMagick 6.3.5), and MaskVirtualPixelMethod (available
with ImageMagick 6.3.3) VirtualPixelMethod enum values
o Added GIFInterlace, JPEGInterlace, PNGInterlace Interlace type enum
values (available with ImageMagick 6.3.4)
o Added SentinelFilter FilterTypes enum value (available in ImageMagick
6.3.6)
o Added Image.combine
o Added Image#separate (available with ImageMagick 6.3.2)
o Added Image#distort (available with ImageMagick 6.3.5)
o Added Image#each_pixel (thanks to Russell Norris for the suggestion and
code)
o Added Image#histogram? (available with ImageMagick 6.3.5)
o Added Image#sync_profiles (available with ImageMagick 6.3.2)
o Added Image#extent (available with ImageMagick 6.3.1)
o Added Image#excerpt, Image#excerpt! (available with ImageMagick 6.3.5)
o Added Image::Info#attenuate
o Added Image#clut_channel (available with ImageMagick 6.3.5)
o Feature Request #16264, added ImageList#composite_layers (available with
ImageMagick 6.3.3, request from Steve Martocci)
o Added Image#alpha= (available with ImageMagick 6.3.5)
o Added Image#gravity=
o Added Image#equalize_channel (available with ImageMagick 6.3.6)
o Added new FilterTypes values KaiserFilter, WelshFilter, ParzenFilter,
LagrangeFilter, BohmanFilter, BartlettFilter (available with ImageMagick
6.3.6)
o Fix bug #10339, Image#trim does not support \"reset page information
option\" (bug report from Nobody)
o Renamed RMagick.so to RMagick2.so to prevent confusion between RMagick.rb
and RMagick.so
o Feature Request #16276, re-organize doc to not split Image method pages
in the middle of an initial letter (request from Roy Leban)
o Updated for ImageMagick 6.3.7-5
o Made changes as necessary to work with current Ruby 1.9.0
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