ANNOUNCE

Libpng 1.2.9beta4 - March 2, 2006

This is not intended to be a public release.  It will be replaced
within a few weeks by a public version or by another test version.

Files available for download:

Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
"configure" script

   1.2.9beta4.tar.gz
   1.2.9beta4.tar.bz2

Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script

   lp129b04.zip
   lp129b04.tar.bz2

Project files

   1.2.9beta4-project-netware.zip
   1.2.9beta4-project-wince.zip

Other information:

   1.2.9beta4-README.txt
   1.2.9beta4-KNOWNBUGS.txt
   1.2.9beta4-LICENSE.txt
   1.2.9beta4-Y2K-compliance.txt

Changes since the last public release (1.2.8):

version 1.2.9beta1 [February 21, 2006]
  Initialized some structure members in pngwutil.c to avoid gcc-4.0.0 complaints
  Fixed an incorrect typecast in pngrutil.c
  Added PNG_NO_READ_SUPPORTED conditionals for making a write-only library.
  Added PNG_NO_WRITE_INTERLACING_SUPPORTED conditional.
  Optimized alpha-inversion loops in pngwtran.c
  Moved test for nonzero gamma outside of png_build_gamma_table() in pngrtran.c
  Make sure num_trans is <= 256 before copying data in png_set_tRNS().
  Make sure num_palette is <= 256 before copying data in png_set_PLTE().
  Interchanged order of write_swap_alpha and write_invert_alpha transforms.
  Added parentheses in the definition of PNG_LIBPNG_BUILD_TYPE (Cosmin).
  Fixed inconsistency in definition of png_default_read_data()
  Exported png_get_uint_32, png_save_uint_32, png_get_uint_16, png_save_uint_16,
    png_get_int_32, png_save_int_32, png_get_uint_31 (Cosmin).
  Added parentheses in the definition of PNG_LIBPNG_BUILD_TYPE (Cosmin).
  Added type cast (png_byte) in png_write_sCAL() (Cosmin).
  Fixed scripts/makefile.cygwin (Cosmin).
  Updated scripts/makefile.bc32 for Borland C++ 5.6 (Cosmin).
  Updated scripts/pngos2.def, scripts/pngw32.def (Cosmin).
  Updated references to png-mng-implement mailing list.
  Revised man page and libpng.txt to make it clear that one should not call
    png_read_end or png_write_end after png_read_png or png_write_png.
  Optimized zlib window flag (CINFO) in contrib/pngsuite/*.png (Cosmin).
  Default iTXt support was inadvertently enabled.

version 1.2.9beta2 [February 22, 2006]

  Check for png_rgb_to_gray and png_gray_to_rgb read transformations before
    checking for png_read_dither in pngrtran.c
  Revise checking of chromaticity limits to accommodate extended RGB
    colorspace (John Denker).
  Changed line endings in some of the project files to CRLF, even in the
    "Unix" tar distributions (Cosmin).
  Make png_get_int_32 and png_save_int_32 always available (Cosmin).
  Updated scripts/pngos2.def, scripts/pngw32.def and projects/wince/png32ce.def
    with the newly exported functions.
  Eliminated distributions without the "configure" script.
  Updated INSTALL instructions.

version 1.2.9beta3 [February 24, 2006]

  Fix CRCRLF line endings in contrib/visupng/VisualPng.dsp
  Make libpng.pc respect EXEC_PREFIX (D.P.Kreil)
  Remove reference to pngasmrd.h from Makefile.am
  Renamed CHANGES to ChangeLog.
  Renamed LICENSE to COPYING.
  Renamed ANNOUNCE to NEWS.
  Created AUTHORS file.

version 1.2.9beta4 [March 2, 2006]

  Change definition of PKGCONFIG from $prefix/lib to $libdir in configure.ac
  Reverted to filenames LICENSE and ANNOUNCE; removed AUTHORS and COPYING.
  Removed newline from the end of some error and warning messages.
  Removed test for sqrt() from configure.ac and configure.
  Added "OS2" to list of systems that don't need underscores, in pnggccrd.c
  Made swap tables in pngtrans.c PNG_CONST (Carlo Bramix).
  Disabled default iTXt support that was inadvertently enabled in
    libpng-1.2.9beta1.
  Added "OS2" to list of systems that don't need underscores, in pnggccrd.c
  Removed libpng version and date from *.c files.

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