diff --git a/MagickCore/animate.c b/MagickCore/animate.c
index 0874e40..65d9d97 100644
--- a/MagickCore/animate.c
+++ b/MagickCore/animate.c
@@ -1420,6 +1420,8 @@
       int
         status;
 
+      if (*working_directory == '\0')
+        (void) CopyMagickString(working_directory,".",MaxTextExtent);
       status=chdir(working_directory);
       if (status == -1)
         (void) ThrowMagickException(exception,GetMagickModule(),FileOpenError,
@@ -2847,6 +2849,8 @@
   */
   directory=getcwd(working_directory,MaxTextExtent);
   (void) directory;
+  if (*resource_info->home_directory == '\0')
+    (void) CopyMagickString(resource_info->home_directory,".",MaxTextExtent);
   status=chdir(resource_info->home_directory);
   if (status == -1)
     (void) ThrowMagickException(exception,GetMagickModule(),FileOpenError,
@@ -2918,6 +2922,8 @@
 
       GetPathComponent(image->filename,HeadPath,path);
       GetPathComponent(image->filename,TailPath,filename);
+      if (*path == '\0')
+        (void) CopyMagickString(path,".",MaxTextExtent);
       status=chdir(path);
       if (status == -1)
         (void) ThrowMagickException(exception,GetMagickModule(),FileOpenError,
diff --git a/MagickCore/display.c b/MagickCore/display.c
index b84510f..2d10c28 100644
--- a/MagickCore/display.c
+++ b/MagickCore/display.c
@@ -7201,6 +7201,9 @@
       /*
         Select image.
       */
+      if (*resource_info->home_directory == '\0')
+        (void) CopyMagickString(resource_info->home_directory,".",
+          MaxTextExtent);
       status=chdir(resource_info->home_directory);
       if (status == -1)
         (void) ThrowMagickException(exception,GetMagickModule(),FileOpenError,
@@ -12560,6 +12563,8 @@
       GetPathComponent(image->filename,TailPath,filename);
       if (*path != '\0')
         {
+          if (*path == '\0')
+            (void) CopyMagickString(path,".",MaxTextExtent);
           status=chdir(path);
           if (status == -1)
             (void) ThrowMagickException(exception,GetMagickModule(),
@@ -14532,6 +14537,8 @@
       int
         status;
 
+      if (*working_directory == '\0')
+        (void) CopyMagickString(working_directory,".",MaxTextExtent);
       status=chdir(working_directory);
       if (status == -1)
         (void) ThrowMagickException(exception,GetMagickModule(),FileOpenError,
@@ -16145,6 +16152,8 @@
     int
       status;
 
+    if (*resource_info->home_directory == '\0')
+      (void) CopyMagickString(resource_info->home_directory,".",MaxTextExtent);
     status=chdir(resource_info->home_directory);
     if (status == -1)
       (void) ThrowMagickException(exception,GetMagickModule(),FileOpenError,
diff --git a/MagickCore/utility.c b/MagickCore/utility.c
index 527d3a3..e58580c 100644
--- a/MagickCore/utility.c
+++ b/MagickCore/utility.c
@@ -699,9 +699,7 @@
 %  Expansion is ignored for coders "label:" "caption:" "pango:" and "vid:".
 %  Which provide their own '@' meta-character handling.
 %
-%  You can see the results of the expansion using "Configure" log
-%  events.
-%
+%  You can see the results of the expansion using "Configure" log events.
 %
 %  The returned list should be freed using  DestroyStringList().
 %
@@ -709,7 +707,6 @@
 %  freed  (TO BE CHECKED).  So a copy of the original pointer (and count)
 %  should be kept separate if they need to be freed later.
 %
-%
 %  The format of the ExpandFilenames function is:
 %
 %      status=ExpandFilenames(int *number_arguments,char ***arguments)
diff --git a/MagickCore/version.h b/MagickCore/version.h
index 54464c8..a8647dc 100644
--- a/MagickCore/version.h
+++ b/MagickCore/version.h
@@ -27,17 +27,17 @@
 */
 #define MagickPackageName "ImageMagick"
 #define MagickCopyright  "Copyright (C) 1999-2013 ImageMagick Studio LLC"
-#define MagickSVNRevision  "10470:10501M"
+#define MagickSVNRevision  "10505:10525M"
 #define MagickLibVersion  0x700
 #define MagickLibVersionText  "7.0.0"
 #define MagickLibVersionNumber  8,0,0
 #define MagickLibAddendum  "-0"
 #define MagickLibInterface  8
 #define MagickLibMinInterface  8
-#define MagickReleaseDate  "2013-01-04"
+#define MagickReleaseDate  "2013-01-06"
 #define MagickChangeDate   "20121005"
 #define MagickAuthoritativeURL  "http://www.imagemagick.org"
-#define MagickFeatures "HDRI OpenMP"
+#define MagickFeatures "DistributedPixelCache HDRI OpenMP"
 #define MagickDelegates "bzlib freetype jp2 jpeg lcms lzma ps tiff x xml zlib"
 #define MagickHomeURL  "file:///usr/local/share/doc/ImageMagick-7.0.0/index.html"
 #if (MAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH == 8)