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  1. Libpng 1.5.9 - February 18, 2012
  2. This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production codes.
  3. Files available for download:
  4. Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
  5. "configure" script
  6. libpng-1.5.9.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
  7. libpng-1.5.9.tar.gz
  8. libpng-1.5.9.tar.bz2
  9. Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
  10. "configure" script
  11. lpng159.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
  12. lpng159.zip
  13. Other information:
  14. libpng-1.5.9-README.txt
  15. libpng-1.5.9-LICENSE.txt
  16. Changes since the last public release (1.5.8):
  17. Rebuilt configure scripts in the tar distributions.
  18. Removed two unused definitions from scripts/pnglibconf.h.prebuilt
  19. Removed some unused arrays (with #ifdef) from png_read_push_finish_row().
  20. Removed tests for no-longer-used *_EMPTY_PLTE_SUPPORTED from pngstruct.h
  21. Fixed CVE-2011-3026 buffer overrun bug. Deal more correctly with the test
  22. on iCCP chunk length. Also removed spurious casts that may hide problems
  23. on 16-bit systems.
  24. Send comments/corrections/commendations to png-mng-implement at lists.sf.net
  25. (subscription required; visit
  26. https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/png-mng-implement
  27. to subscribe)
  28. or to glennrp at users.sourceforge.net
  29. Glenn R-P