Changes in TIFF v3.5.4

TIFF CHANGE INFORMATION

Current Version: v3.5.4
Previous Version: v3.5.3
Master FTP Site: ftp.onshore.com, 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:

- Changes in the software configuration
- Changes in libtiff
- Changes in the tools

CHANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:

- None

CHANGES IN LIBTIFF:

- Added Pixar tag support. Contributed by Phil Beffery
- Made one more change to tif_dir.c for removal of LZW compression. Also added notice when LZW compression invoked.
- Fixed bug that caused LZW (non) compression to segfault. Added warning about LZW compression removed being removed, and why.

CHANGES IN THE TOOLS:

- Changed default compression in tools to TIFF_PACKBITS, and changed usage descriptions in tools to reflect removal of LZW compression
- Added nostrip to install in tools/Makefile.in so that debugging symbols are kept.
- Made Packbits the default compression in tools/tiff2rgba.c instead of LZW.

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Last updated $Date: 2006-07-12 11:48:11 +0400 (Wed, 12 Jul 2006) $.