Changes in TIFF v3.5.5¶
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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:
Software configuration changes¶
- configure: added test for libc6 for linux targets. Bug reported by Stanislav Brabec.
- configure: fixed bugs in sed scripts (applied sed script- s:/@:s;@:;s:/s;;:;:to configure). fix submitted by Stanislav Brabec.
- tools/iptcutilwas not in files list, and wasn’t being added to tar archive.- Updated Makefile.in.
- Added 3.5 docs to - html/Makefile.in. Thanks to Stanislav Brabec
- Fixed - tools/tiffcmpso that- stopondifftesting works. Patch care of Joseph Orost.
- Added - fax3sm_winnt.cto distribution list in- Makefile.in.
- Added - libtiff/libtiff.defto- TIFFILESdistribution list.
Library changes¶
- tif_fax3.c: Fixed serious bug introduced during the- uint16->uint32conversion for the run arrays.
- Set - td_sampleformatdefault to- SAMPLEFORMAT_UINTinstead of- SAMPLEFORMAT_VOIDin- TIFFDefaultDirectory()in- tif_dir.c.
- Added “GetDefaulted” support for - TIFFTAG_SAMPLEFORMATin- tif_aux.c.
- Patched - tif_fax3.cso that- dsp->runsis allocated a bit bigger to avoid overruns encountered with- frle_bug.tif.
- Modified - tif_unix.cto support 2-4GB seeks if- USE_64BIT_APIis set to 1, and added default (off) setting in- tiffconf.h. This should eventually be set by the configure script somehow. The original work on all these 2-4GB changes was done by Peter Smith.
- Modified - tif_win32.cto support 2-4GB seeks.
- tentatively changed - toff_tto be unsigned instead of signed to facilitate support for 2-4GB files.
- Updated a variety of files to use - toff_t. Fixed some mixups between- toff_tand- tsize_t.
- Set - tif_rawdatasizeto zero when freeing raw data buffer in- TIFFWriteDirectory().
- Enabled - REWRITE_HACKin- tif_write.cby default.
- Fix bug in - tif_write.cwhen switching between reading one directory and writing to another.
- Made - TIFFWriteCheck()public, and added- TIFFCreateDirectory()
- Added TIFFmemory functions to - libtiff.def.
- Added - libtiff/libtiff.defto- TIFFILESdistribution list.
Tools changes¶
- fax2ps: - Fixed mixup of width and height in bounding box statement as per submission by Nalin Dahyabhai. 
- Modified - printrunsto take- uint32instead of- uint16. Patch courtesy of Bernt Herd.
 
- Largely reimplemented - contrib/addtiffoto avoid temp files, updating the TIFF file in place. Fixed a few other bugs to.
- Altered descriptions in tools to reflect “by default” lzw not supported 
LZW compression kit changes¶
- created - mangle-src.sh– sed scripts to munge src into LZW enabled format. Thanks to Stanislav Brabec.
- created - Makefile
- merged - tif_dir.cwith current source.
- Created lzw compression kit, as a new CVS module ( - libtiff-lzw-compression-kit).
- Updated - index.htmlto note lzw compression kit.