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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]
• make arrayjoin much faster with large arrays

Windows builds will be here shortly:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.14.0

This is test release of 8.14.

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]

Windows builds:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.14.0-rc1

A few bugfixes since 8.13.2:

• improve rules for 16-bit heifsave [johntrunc]
• improve libspng pallette write [kleisauke]
• improve libspng pallette sort [DarthSim]
• ensure EXIF has prefix before parsing [lovell]
• fix low bit depth pallette spng save [DarthSim]
• fix thumbnail of non-sRGB images with an export profile [kleisauke]

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.13.3

A few bugfixes since 8.13.1:

• in dzsave, add add missing include directive for errno/EEXIST [kleisauke]
• fix 8 bit pallete PNG save [lovell]
• fix null string in buffer print [pclewis]
• revise caching of seq mode loaders [jcupitt]
• reduce latency on dzsave kill [kleisauke]
• improve text too large check [kleisauke]
• fix subifd tiff writing for small images [ruven]
• name ICC profiles in spngsave [lovell]

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.13.2

A few bugfixes since 8.13.0:

• fix im7 feature detection in meson
• add a summary table at the end of configure in meson
• fix libpng fallback when spng is disabled in meson
• add "unlimited" to jpegload
• better 0 detection in unpremultiply
• fix low bitdepth spng save [jeffska]
• fix PNG low bitdepth save of high bitdepth images
• add support for libjxl 0.7 [kleisauke]
• improve compatibility with older libgsf versions [kleisauke]

Windows binaries here: https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.13.1

Release notes here:

https://www.libvips.org/2022/05/28/What's-new-in-8.13.html

API docs here:

https://www.libvips.org/API/8.13

Windows binaries here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.13.0

Changes for this release:

• configure fails for requested but unmet dependencies [remicollet]
• add support for another quantiser [DarthSim]
• add "extend", "background" and "premultiplied" to vips_mapim() to fix edge antialiasing [GavinJoyce]
• add support for HDR HEIC and AVIF images
• add vips_spngsave()
• jpeg2000 load left-justifies bitdepth
• add "password" option to pdfload, fix byte ordering of "background"
• add vips_operation_block_set(), vips_block_untrusted_set()
• improve the pixel rng
• new meson build system [tintou]
• improve introspection annotations [tintou]
• add "unlimited" to heifload [lovell]
• add support for regions in C++ API [shado23]
• add "maxerror" to gifsave [dloebl]
• update libnsgif API [tlsa]
• deprecate "properties" option to dzsave (now always on)
• add vips_dzsave_buffer()
• always set the min stack size for pthreads, if we can
• add "fail-on" to thumbnail
• add "gap" option to vips_reducehv and vips_resize() [kleisauke]
• add "ceil" option to vips_shrink() [kleisauke]
• quality improvements for image resizing [kleisauke]
• add vips_source_new_from_target()
• add vips_target_seek(), vips_target_read(), vips_target_new_temp()
• add vips_tiffsave_target()
• add vips_target_end(), deprecate vips_target_finish()
• add "mixed" to webpsave [dloebl]
• add support for ICC profiles and linear encoding to JXL load and save [f1ac]
• add "reoptimise" to gifsave [dloebl]
• add "bitdepth" to magicksave [dloebl]

A range of bugfixes since rc1. We'll leave this a week for testing, then try for 8.13.0 (hopefully).

Release notes here:

https://www.libvips.org/2022/05/28/What's-new-in-8.13.html

API docs here:

https://www.libvips.org/API/8.13/

Please discuss this test release here:

https://github.com/libvips/libvips/issues/2790

Changes for this release:

• configure fails for requested but unmet dependencies [remicollet]
• add support for another quantiser [DarthSim]
• add "extend", "background" and "premultiplied" to vips_mapim() to fix edge antialiasing [GavinJoyce]
• add support for HDR HEIC and AVIF images
• add vips_spngsave()
• jpeg2000 load left-justifies bitdepth
• add "password" option to pdfload, fix byte ordering of "background"
• add vips_operation_block_set(), vips_block_untrusted_set()
• improve the pixel rng
• new meson build system [tintou]
• improve introspection annotations [tintou]
• add "unlimited" to heifload [lovell]
• add support for regions in C++ API [shado23]
• add "maxerror" to gifsave [dloebl]
• update libnsgif API [tlsa]
• deprecate "properties" option to dzsave (now always on)
• add vips_dzsave_buffer()
• always set the min stack size for pthreads, if we can
• add "fail-on" to thumbnail
• add "gap" option to vips_reducehv and vips_resize() [kleisauke]
• add "ceil" option to vips_shrink() [kleisauke]
• quality improvements for image resizing [kleisauke]
• add vips_source_new_from_target()
• add vips_target_seek(), vips_target_read(), vips_target_new_temp()
• add vips_tiffsave_target()
• add vips_target_end(), deprecate vips_target_finish()
• add "mixed" to webpsave [dloebl]
• add support for ICC profiles and linear encoding to JXL load and save [f1ac]
• add "reoptimise" to gifsave [dloebl]
• add "bitdepth" to magicksave [dloebl]

Changes since 8.12.1:

• make exif resunit optional and default to inch
• win: don't set create time on inappropriate file descriptors [lovell]
• fall back to magicksave for gif if cgif is not present [erik-frontify]
• fix a crash with 0 length vectors
• change default frame delay for GIFs from 1s to 0.1s
• remove stray trailing comma from iiif3 dirnames [whalehub]
• fix TTF load [chregu]
• revise GIF save alpha threshold [jfcalvo]
• raise libpng pixel size limit from 1m to 10m pixels [jskrzypek]
• fix gif save change detector [TheEssem]
• fix load from pipe with variable size reads

Windows binaries here: https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.12.2

Changes since 8.12.0

• fix insert [chregu]

Windows binaries are here:

https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/tag/v8.12.1