12th December 2007

Imaging 0.24.2 Released

New version of Imaging was released few hours ago. As stated before it is patch and update release with no important new features added.

News/changes in 0.24.2:

• Updated OpenJPEG (JPEG 2000) library to latest revision and added JPEG 2000 support for 64bit Linux.
• Fixed compatibility issues with new Lazarus 0.9.24 and added project files for RAD Studio 2007.
• Updated LCL Imager demo and added new features to OpenGL texture builder.
• Bug fixes in JPEG and GIF support.
• Pascal translation of Hq resampler with Imaging demo added to Extras directory.

You can download 0.24.2 at Downloads page. Further information about the latest version can be found on Documentation page.

17th September 2007

An Update

Next Imaging version will be patch release 0.24.2 with no new functionality added. You can expect bug fixes, library updates (OpenJPEG, LibTIFF), and compatibility fixes for new RAD Studio, Free Pascal, and Lazarus (if needed). Release date should be sometime in late October or early November.

I'd also like to start working on new 0.3x Imaging during this Autumn. Check out the feature poll.

29th June 2007

Imaging 0.24.0 Released

Version 0.24.0 of Imaging has been released!

Main news/changes in 0.24.0:

• New image file format support: GIF (native), TIFF (libtiff), PSD (native).
• New image data format: BTC (block truncation coding).
• File format compatibility fixes (for BMP, JPEG, and DDS) and platform/compiler support fixes (Win64, UNIX, FPC, ...).
• Bug fixes and some enhancements (buffered file IO, ...).

You can download 0.24.0 at Downloads page. Further information about the latest version can be found on Documentation page.

21st April 2007

News

Imaging version 0.24 will have GIF file format loader/saver as well as PSD Photoshop image loader/saver which is already implemented. There are also many bug fixes and some Unix compatibility fixes in current working version 0.23 which you can get for project's SubVersion repository http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=125626. You may expect 0.24 release in June or July 2007 with possible update to 0.22 release before then.

25th January 2007

Imaging 0.22.0 Released

Version 0.22.0 of Imaging has been released! As I posted before, main new addition is Extras package with several new file formats and other stuff. There are also changes in general file format support and other places. As always, all bugs that were found were fixed (and I hope not many new ones created).

Main news/changes in 0.22.0:

• Extras package with support for PCX, JPEG 2000 (not native), and old Bethesda games images (IMG, CIF, texture.*, BSI).
• Core library support for loading and saving Portable AnyMap formats: PBM, PGM, PPM, PAM, and PFM.
• High level interface classes were extended and updated as well as VCL/CLX/LCL support, low level interface, and canvas classes.
• Demos were extended, updated, and fixed.

You can download 0.22.0 at Downloads page. Further information about the latest version can be found on Documentation page.