Changes in TIFF v3.7.0beta2

TIFF CHANGE INFORMATION

Current Version: v3.7.0beta2
Previous Version: v3.7.0beta
Master FTP Site: ftp.remotesensing.org, directory pub/libtiff
Master HTTP Site: http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff

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:

- Major Changes
- Changes in the software configuration
- Changes in libtiff
- Changes in the tools
- Changes in the contrib area
- Changes in the LZW compression kit

MAJOR CHANGES:

- The code has been reviewed by Dmitry Levin: added checks for values, returned by the space allocation functions, fixed problems with the possible integer overflows.

CHANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

- Several fixes in the test suite.

CHANGES IN LIBTIFF:

- Preliminary support for BigTIFF files: now libtiff can recognize and reject to open such images. ;-)
- libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c: changed type of XMLPacket (tag 700) to TIFFTAG_BYTE instead of TIFFTAG_UNDEFINED to comply with the info in the Adobe XMP Specification.
- Added many checks for integer overflow and for successful space allocations in the different parts of library. Code review completed by Dmitry V. Levin.
- libtiff/{tiffio.h, tif_compress.c}: Added TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs()function to get the list of configured codecs.

CHANGES IN THE TOOLS:

- tiff2bw: Write ImageWidth/Height tags to output file, as noted by Gennady Khokhorin.

CHANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:

- No changes.

CHANGES IN THE LZW COMPRESSION KIT:

- This one is not longer needed.

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