1 libpng 1.6.43 - February 23, 2024
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4 This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production code.
7 Files available for download
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10 Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux):
12 * libpng-1.6.43.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
13 * libpng-1.6.43.tar.gz (deflate-compressed)
15 Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows):
17 * lpng1643.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
18 * lpng1643.zip (deflate-compressed)
28 Changes from version 1.6.42 to version 1.6.43
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31 * Fixed the row width check in png_check_IHDR().
32 This corrected a bug that was specific to the 16-bit platforms,
33 and removed a spurious compiler warning from the 64-bit builds.
34 (Reported by Jacek Caban; fixed by John Bowler)
35 * Added eXIf chunk support to the push-mode reader in pngpread.c.
36 (Contributed by Chris Blume)
37 * Added contrib/pngexif for the benefit of the users who would like
38 to inspect the content of eXIf chunks.
39 * Added contrib/conftest/basic.dfa, a basic build-time configuration.
40 (Contributed by John Bowler)
41 * Fixed a preprocessor condition in pngread.c that broke build-time
42 configurations like contrib/conftest/pngcp.dfa.
43 (Contributed by John Bowler)
44 * Added CMake build support for LoongArch LSX.
45 (Contributed by GuXiWei)
46 * Fixed a CMake build error that occurred under a peculiar state of the
47 dependency tree. This was a regression introduced in libpng-1.6.41.
48 (Contributed by Dan Rosser)
49 * Marked the installed libpng headers as system headers in CMake.
50 (Contributed by Benjamin Buch)
51 * Updated the build support for RISCOS.
52 (Contributed by Cameron Cawley)
53 * Updated the makefiles to allow cross-platform builds to initialize
54 conventional make variables like AR and ARFLAGS.
55 * Added various improvements to the CI scripts in areas like version
56 consistency verification and text linting.
57 * Added version consistency verification to pngtest.c also.
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