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18<B>Current Version</B>: v3.7.0beta2<BR>
19<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.7.0beta.html>v3.7.0beta</a><BR>
20<B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://download.osgeo.org/libtiff">
21download.osgeo.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR>
22<B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/">
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28This document describes the changes made to the software between the
29<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
30If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
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32The following information is located here:
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34<LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A>
35<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
36<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
37<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
38<LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
39<LI><A HREF="#lzwkit">Changes in the LZW compression kit</A>
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46<A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
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50	<li> The code has been reviewed by Dmitry Levin: added checks
51	for values, returned by the space allocation functions, fixed
52	problems with the possible integer overflows.
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60<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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63	<li> Several fixes in the test suite.
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70<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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74	<li> Preliminary support for BigTIFF files: now libtiff can
75	recognize and reject to open such images. ;-)
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77	<li> libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c: changed type of XMLPacket (tag 700) to
78	TIFFTAG_BYTE instead of TIFFTAG_UNDEFINED to comply with the info
79	in the Adobe XMP Specification.
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81	<li> Added many checks for integer overflow and for successful space
82	allocations in the different parts of library. Code review
83	completed by Dmitry V. Levin.
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85	<li> libtiff/{tiffio.h, tif_compress.c}: Added
86	TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs()function to get the list of configured codecs.
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94<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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97	<li> tiff2bw: Write ImageWidth/Height tags to output file, as
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106<A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
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110	<li> No changes.
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116<A NAME="lzwkit"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE LZW COMPRESSION
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120	<li> This one is not longer needed.
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