ANNOUNCE

Libpng 1.5.10 - March 29, 2012

This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production codes.

Files available for download:

Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
"configure" script

   libpng-1.5.10.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   libpng-1.5.10.tar.gz
   libpng-1.5.10.tar.bz2

Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script

   lpng1510.7z  (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   lpng1510.zip

Other information:

   libpng-1.5.10-README.txt
   libpng-1.5.10-LICENSE.txt

Changes since the last public release (1.5.9):

  Removed two useless #ifdef directives from pngread.c and one from pngrutil.c
  Always put the CMAKE_LIBRARY in "lib" (removed special WIN32 case).
  Removed empty vstudio/pngstest directory (Clifford Yapp).
  Eliminated redundant png_push_read_tEXt|zTXt|iTXt|unknown code from
    pngpread.c and use the sequential png_handle_tEXt, etc., in pngrutil.c;
    now that png_ptr->buffer is inaccessible to applications, the special
    handling is no longer useful.
  Fixed bug with png_handle_hIST with odd chunk length (Frank Busse).
  Added PNG_SAFE_LIMITS feature to pnglibconf.dfa and code in pngconf.h
    to reset the user limits to safe ones if PNG_SAFE_LIMITS is defined.
    To enable, use "CPPFLAGS=-DPNG_SAFE_LIMITS_SUPPORTED" on the configure
    command or put "#define PNG_SAFE_LIMITS_SUPPORTED" in pnglibconf.h.
  Revised the SAFE_LIMITS feature to be the same as the feature in libpng16.
  Added information about the new limits in the manual.
  Updated Makefile.in
  Removed unused "current_text" members of png_struct and the png_free()
    of png_ptr->current_text from pngread.c
  Fixed PNG_LIBPNG_BUILD_BASE_TYPE definition.
  Fixed CMF optimization of non-IDAT compressed chunks, which was added at
    libpng-1.5.4.  It sometimes produced too small of a window.
  Reject all iCCP chunks after the first, even if the first one is invalid.
  Added palette-index checking. Issue a png_benign_error() if an invalid
    index is found.
  Revised example.c to put text strings in a temporary character array
    instead of directly assigning string constants to png_textp members.
    This avoids compiler warnings when -Wwrite-strings is enabled.
  Prevent PNG_EXPAND+PNG_SHIFT doing the shift twice.
  Revised png_set_text_2() to avoid potential memory corruption (fixes
    CVE-2011-3048).

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