ANNOUNCE

Libpng 1.2.27beta02 - April 14, 2008

This is not intended to be a public release.  It will be replaced
within a few weeks by a public version or by another test version.

Files available for download:

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

   libpng-1.2.27beta02.tar.gz
   libpng-1.2.27beta02.tar.lzma
     (Get the lzma codec from <http://tukaani.org/lzma>).
   libpng-1.2.27beta02.tar.bz2

Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) without the
"configure" script

   libpng-1.2.27beta02-no-config.tar.gz
   libpng-1.2.27beta02-no-config.tar.lzma
   libpng-1.2.27beta02-no-config.tar.bz2

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

   lp1227b02.zip
   lp1227b02.7z
   lp1227b02.tar.bz2

Project files

   libpng-1.2.27beta02-project-netware.zip
   libpng-1.2.27beta02-project-wince.zip

Other information:

   libpng-1.2.27beta02-README.txt
   libpng-1.2.27beta02-KNOWNBUGS.txt
   libpng-1.2.27beta02-LICENSE.txt
   libpng-1.2.27beta02-Y2K-compliance.txt
   libpng-1.2.27beta02-[previous version]-diff.txt

Changes since the last public release (1.2.26):

version 1.2.27beta01 [April 12, 2008]
  Fixed bug (introduced in libpng-1.0.5h) with handling zero-length
    unknown chunks.
  Added more information about png_set_keep_unknown_chunks() to the
    documetation.
  Reject tRNS chunk with out-of-range samples instead of masking off
    the invalid high bits as done in since libpng-1.2.19beta5.

version 1.2.27rc01 [April 14, 2008]
  Revised documentation about unknown chunk and user chunk handling.
  Keep tRNS chunk with out-of-range samples and issue a png_warning().

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