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Changes in TIFF v3.7.0
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<B>Current Version</B>: v3.7.0<BR>
<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.7.0beta2.html>v3.7.0beta2</a><BR>
<B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://download.osgeo.org/libtiff">
download.osgeo.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR>
<B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/">
http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</a>
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This document describes the changes made to the software between the
<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> 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:
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<LI><A HREF="#hightlights">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>
<LI><A HREF="#lzwkit">Changes in the LZW compression kit</A>
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<A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
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<li> Several bugs found after 3.7.0beta2 release were fixed.
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<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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<li> ltmain.sh: Fix for MinGW compilation.
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<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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<li> libtiff/{tif_dirread.c, tif_jpeg.c, tif_luv.c, tif_ojpeg.c,
tif_pixarlog.c, tif_write.c}: Handle the zero strip/tile sizes
properly (Dmitry V. Levin, Marcus Meissner).
<li> libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c: Type of the TIFFTAG_SUBIFD field changed
to TIFF_IFD.
<li> Preliminary support for BigTIFF files: now libtiff can
recognize and reject to open such images. ;-)
<li> libtiff/tif_dir.c: Initialize td_tilewidth and td_tilelength fields
of the TIFFDirectory structure with the 0 instead of -1 to avoid
confusing integer overflows in TIFFTileRowSize() for striped images.
<li> libtiff/tif_dir.c: Initialize td_tilewidth and td_tilelength fields
of the TIFFDirectory structure with the 0 instead of -1 to avoid
confusing integer overflows in TIFFTileRowSize() for striped images.
<li> libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c: Fix bug with tif_foundfield and reallocation
of tif_fieldinfo as per bug
<A HREF="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630">
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630</A>
<li> libtiff/tif_compress.c: Improved error reporting in
TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs() (Dmitry V. Levin).
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<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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<li> tiffcmp.c (leof): Renamed from 'eof' in order to avoid
conflict noticed under MinGW.
<li> tiff2pdf.c: Fixed TransferFunction tag handling reported
by Ross A. Finlayson.
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<A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
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<li> No changes.
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<A NAME="lzwkit"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE LZW COMPRESSION
KIT:</B></A>
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<li> This one is not longer needed.
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Last updated $Date: 2016-09-25 20:05:45 $.
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