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Changes since 8.15.1:

• fix deflate compression of tiff pyramids [manthey]
• thumbnail always writes 8-bit thumbnails [turtletowerz]
• lower min scale factor to 0.0 in svgload and pdfload [lovell]
• heifload: don't warn on images with nclx profiles [kleisauke]
• ppmload: ensure multi-line comments are skipped [lovell]
• fix arrayjoin with some pipelines [TheEssem]
• fix high Q mono JPEG TIFF write with mozjpeg [cavenel]
• tiffsave: ensure large file support (>2GB) on MSVC [kleisauke]
• check linker for target_clones support [lovell]

Windows binaries here https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.15.2

Changes since 8.15.0:

• reduceh: fix Highway path on SSE2 [DarthSim]
• fix JPEG in TIFF colourspace for Q >= 90 [heman1-test]
• fix build with upcoming libjxl 0.9 [kleisauke]
• jxlsave: lower min effort value to 1 [DarthSim]
• fix build without libjpeg [ionenwks]
• fix vips7 plugin load [jcupitt]
• allow ".jfif" as a suffix for jpegsave [casperbrike]
• don't let the magick sniffer hijack TIFF [kleisauke]
• ignore BLOCKED classes in foreign map [jcupitt]
• add locks to fftw3 calls [akash-akya]

Windows binaries here shortly:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.15.1

Release notes:

https://www.libvips.org/2023/10/10/What's-new-in-8.15.html

Changes for this release:

• add support for target_clones attribute [lovell]
  • use with (un)premultiply for ~10% perf gain on AVX CPUs
  • use with XYZ to LAB colourspace conversion for ~10% perf gain on AVX CPUs
• add fast path to extract_band and bandjoin for uchar images [lovell]
• reduce vips_sharpen max sigma to 10 [lovell]
• inline scRGB to XYZ colourspace conversion, ~2x faster [lovell]
• set "interlaced=1" for interlaced GIF images [kleisauke]
• add @line_art to find_trim [miltoncandelero]
• improve C++ binding [MathemanFlo]
  • add inplace() / VImage::new_from_memory_copy()
  • add overloads for draw_*() / VImage::thumbnail_buffer()
• allow negative line spacing in text [donghuikugou]
• add VIPS_META_BITS_PER_SAMPLE metadata, deprecate the "palette-bit-depth" and "heif-bitdepth" meta fields [MathemanFlo]
• add "revalidate" to foreign loaders [jcupitt]
• add premultiplied option to smartcrop [lovell]
• add "prewitt" and "scharr" edge detectors, "sobel" is more accurate for non-uchar formats [jcupitt]
• add support for forms in pdfium loader [kleisauke]
• swap built-in profiles with ICC v4 variants [kleisauke]
• remove libgsf dependency in favor of libarchive [kleisauke]
• better chunking for small shrinks [jcupitt]
• use alpha range of 0.0 - 1.0 for scRGB images [DarthSim]
• add support for 16-bit float TIFFs [DarthSim]
• add direct mode to dzsave [jcupitt]
• require C++11 as a minimum standard [kleisauke]
• add support for SIMD via Highway [kleisauke]
• threaded write in tiffsave for tiled JPEG and JPEG2000 [jcupitt]
• add vips_thread_execute() to the public API [jcupitt]
• add "keep" flag to foreign savers, deprecate "strip" [a3mar]
• improve scRGB handling [jcupitt]

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.15.0

A test release for 8.15.

Changes since rc1:

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/compare/v8.15.0-rc1...v8.15.0-rc2

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.15.0-rc2

A test release for 8.15.

Changes for this release:

• add support for target_clones attribute [lovell]
  • use with (un)premultiply for ~10% perf gain on AVX CPUs
  • use with XYZ to LAB colourspace conversion for ~10% perf gain on AVX CPUs
• add fast path to extract_band and bandjoin for uchar images [lovell]
• reduce vips_sharpen max sigma to 10 [lovell]
• inline scRGB to XYZ colourspace conversion, ~2x faster [lovell]
• set "interlaced=1" for interlaced GIF images [kleisauke]
• add @line_art to find_trim [miltoncandelero]
• improve C++ binding [MathemanFlo]
  • add inplace() / VImage::new_from_memory_copy()
  • add overloads for draw_*() / VImage::thumbnail_buffer()
• allow negative line spacing in text [donghuikugou]
• add VIPS_META_BITS_PER_SAMPLE metadata, deprecate the "palette-bit-depth" and "heif-bitdepth" meta fields [MathemanFlo]
• add "revalidate" to foreign loaders [jcupitt]
• add premultiplied option to smartcrop [lovell]
• add "prewitt" and "scharr" edge detectors, "sobel" is more accurate for non-uchar formats [jcupitt]
• add support for forms in pdfium loader [kleisauke]
• swap built-in profiles with ICC v4 variants [kleisauke]
• remove libgsf dependency in favor of libarchive [kleisauke]
• better chunking for small shrinks [jcupitt]
• use alpha range of 0.0 - 1.0 for scRGB images [DarthSim]
• add support for 16-bit float TIFFs [DarthSim]
• add direct mode to dzsave [jcupitt]
• require C++11 as a minimum standard [kleisauke]
• add support for SIMD via Highway [kleisauke]
• threaded write in tiffsave for tiled JPEG and JPEG2000 [jcupitt]
• add vips_thread_execute() to the public API [jcupitt]
• add "keep" flag to foreign savers, deprecate "strip" [a3mar]
• improve scRGB handling [jcupitt]

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.15.0-rc1

A few bugfixes since 8.14.4:

• fix a crash with alpha plus icc_import and icc_export [jcupitt]
• fix a crash in jxlsave [jcupitt]

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.14.5

A few bugfixes since 8.14.3:

• fix null-pointer dereference during svgload [kleisauke]
• heif{load,save}: guard against NULL strings [kleisauke]
• pdfiumload: fix rendering of pages with different sizes [DarthSim]

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.14.4

A few bugfixes since 8.14.2:

• fix ICC handling of greyscale images with a incompatible profile [kleisauke]
• fix use-after-free during tiff pyramid save [kleisauke]
• fix vips7 PNG load and save when using libspng [jcupitt]
• tiffload: slightly relax tile size sanity check [lovell]
• heifsave: limit dimensions to a maximum edge of 16384 [lovell]
• colourspace: ensure CMYK conversion uses the embedded ICC profile [kleisauke]
• ensure chromatic adaptation during icc_{im,ex}port() [kleisauke]
• improve ICC compatibility check for CMYK images [kleisauke]

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.14.3

A few bugfixes since 8.14.1:

• use a private fontmap in vips_text() [jcupitt]
• increase sanity checks on TIFF tile dimensions [lovell]
• ensure compatibility with libheif > 1.14.2 [kleisauke]
• minor doc fixes [jcupitt]
• sanitise dimensions in JPEG-compressed TIFF images [lovell]
• fix target pnm write [ewelot]
• dedupe FITS header write [ewelot]
• fix strip parameter in webpsave [jcupitt]
• earlier abort of webpsave on kill [dloebl]
• fix thumbnail of CMYK images with an embedded ICC profile [kleisauke]
• fix ICC handling of RGB images with a monochrome profile [kleisauke]
• ensure ICC transforms keep all precision [kleisauke]
• fix openslideload associated=XXX load [jcupitt]
• fix compatibility with MSVC [SpaceIm]

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.14.2

Release notes:

https://www.libvips.org/2022/12/22/What's-new-in-8.14.html

Changes for this release:

• expose location of interest when using attention based cropping [ejoebstl]
• remove autotools
• remove various obsolete scripts
• remove benchmark
• jp2ksave defaults to chroma subsample off, and jp2 write
• don't minimise vips_sink_screen() input after expose ... improves caching during interactive use
• require libjxl 0.6+
• add interlace option to GIF save [dloebl]
• magick load sets magick-format metadata [aksdb]
• add .pnm save [ewelot]
• threaded tiff jp2k and jpeg decompress
• improve speed and efficiency of animated WebP write [dloebl]
• add rgb mode to openslideload
• new thread recycler
• threadpools size dynamically with load
• operations can hint threadpool size
• faster dzsave
• support for N-colour ICC profiles
• add bash completions for vips
• fits load and allows many more bands
• fits write doesn't duplicate header fields
• add wrap to vips_text()
• GIF load supports truncated frames [tlsa]
• EXIF support for PNG load and save
• deprecate gifsave reoptimise, add reuse
• add encoder to heifsave [dloebl]
• add cplusplus meson build option [jcupitt]
• arrayjoin is much faster with large arrays

Windows builds here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.14.1