ANNOUNCE

Libpng 1.6.19 - November 12, 2015

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-1.6.19.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   libpng-1.6.19.tar.gz

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

   lpng1619.7z  (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   lpng1619.zip

Other information:

   libpng-1.6.19-README.txt
   libpng-1.6.19-LICENSE.txt
   libpng-1.6.19-*.asc (armored detached GPG signatures)

Changes since the last public release (1.6.18):

  Updated obsolete information about the simplified API macros in the
    manual pages (Bug report by Arc Riley).
  Avoid potentially dereferencing NULL info_ptr in png_info_init_3().
  Rearranged png.h to put the major sections in the same order as
    in libpng17.
  Eliminated unused PNG_COST_SHIFT, PNG_WEIGHT_SHIFT, PNG_COST_FACTOR, and
    PNG_WEIGHT_FACTOR macros.
  Suppressed some warnings from the Borland C++ 5.5.1/5.82 compiler
    (Bug report by Viktor Szakats).  Several warnings remain and are
    unavoidable, where we test for overflow.
  Fixed potential leak of png_pixels in contrib/pngminus/pnm2png.c
  Fixed uninitialized variable in contrib/gregbook/rpng2-x.c
  Moved config.h.in~ from the "libpng_autotools_files" list to the
    "libpng_autotools_extra" list in autogen.sh because it was causing a
    false positive for missing files (bug report by Robert C. Seacord).
  Removed unreachable "break" statements in png.c, pngread.c, and pngrtran.c
    to suppress clang warnings (Bug report by Viktor Szakats).
  Fixed some bad links in the man page.
  Changed "n bit" to "n-bit" in comments.
  Added signed/unsigned 16-bit safety net. This removes the dubious
    0x8000 flag definitions on 16-bit systems. They aren't supported
    yet the defs *probably* work, however it seems much safer to do this
    and be advised if anyone, contrary to advice, is building libpng 1.6
    on a 16-bit system. It also adds back various switch default clauses
    for GCC; GCC errors out if they are not present (with an appropriately
    high level of warnings).
  Safely convert num_bytes to a png_byte in png_set_sig_bytes() (Robert
    Seacord).
  Fixed the recently reported 1's complement security issue by replacing
    the value that is illegal in the PNG spec, in both signed and unsigned
    values, with 0. Illegal unsigned values (anything greater than or equal
    to  0x80000000) can still pass through, but since these are not illegal
    in ANSI-C (unlike 0x80000000 in the signed case) the checking that
    occurs later can catch them (John Bowler).
  Fixed png_save_int_32 when int is not 2's complement (John Bowler).
  Updated libpng16 with all the recent test changes from libpng17,
    including changes to pngvalid.c to ensure that the original,
    distributed, version of contrib/visupng/cexcept.h can be used
    (John Bowler).
  pngvalid contains the correction to the use of SAVE/STORE_
    UNKNOWN_CHUNKS; a bug revealed by changes in libpng 1.7. More
    tests contain the --strict option to detect warnings and the
    pngvalid-standard test has been corrected so that it does not
    turn on progressive-read. There is a separate test which does
    that. (John Bowler)
  Also made some signed/unsigned fixes.
  Make pngstest error limits version specific. Splitting the machine
    generated error structs out to a file allows the values to be updated
    without changing pngstest.c itself. Since libpng 1.6 and 1.7 have
    slightly different error limits this simplifies maintenance. The
    makepngs.sh script has also been updated to more accurately reflect
    current problems in libpng 1.7 (John Bowler).
  Incorporated new test PNG files into make check.  tests/pngstest-*
    are changed so that the new test files are divided into 8 groups by
    gamma and alpha channel.  These tests have considerably better code
    and pixel-value coverage than contrib/pngsuite; however,coverage is
    still incomplete (John Bowler).
  Removed the '--strict' in 1.6 because of the double-gamma-correction
    warning, updated pngstest-errors.h for the errors detected with the
    new contrib/testspngs PNG test files (John Bowler).
  Worked around rgb-to-gray issues in libpng 1.6.  The previous
    attempts to ignore the errors in the code aren't quite enough to
    deal with the 'channel selection' encoding added to libpng 1.7; abort.
  Fixed 'pow' macros in pngvalid.c. It is legal for 'pow' to be a
    macro, therefore the argument list cannot contain preprocessing
    directives.  Make sure pow is a function where this happens. This is
    a minimal safe fix, the issue only arises in non-performance-critical
    code (bug report by Curtis Leach, fix by John Bowler).
  Added sPLT support to pngtest.c
  Prevent setting or writing over-length PLTE chunk (Cosmin Truta).
  Silently truncate over-length PLTE chunk while reading.
  Libpng incorrectly calculated the output rowbytes when the application
    decreased either the number of channels or the bit depth (or both) in
    a user transform.  This was safe; libpng overallocated buffer space
   (potentially by quite a lot; up to 4 times the amount required) but,
   from 1.5.4 on, resulted in a png_error (John Bowler).
  Fixed some inconsequential cut-and-paste typos in png_set_cHRM_XYZ_fixed().
  Clarified COPYRIGHT information to state explicitly that versions
    are derived from previous versions.
  Removed much of the long list of previous versions from png.h and
    libpng.3.

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