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diff --git a/html/v4.0.0.html b/html/v4.0.0.html index e23ac4fd..9694a1e0 100644 --- a/html/v4.0.0.html +++ b/html/v4.0.0.html @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ <UL> <HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> <B>Current Version</B>: v4.0.0<BR> -<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.9.3.html>v3.9.3</a><BR> +<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.9.5.html>v3.9.5</a><BR> <B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff"> ftp.remotesensing.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR> <B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff"> @@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ http://download.osgeo.org/libtiff</a> <P> This document describes the changes made to the software between the -<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above). -If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this -timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. -The following information is located here: +<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above). If you don't +find something listed here, then it was not done in this timeframe, or +it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. Please consult +the ChangeLog file in the source package for full change details. The +following information is located here: <UL> <LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A> <LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A> @@ -154,8 +155,8 @@ Other important backward incompatible changes in the public API: <UL> - <LI>Updated autotools: Autoconf 2.65, Automake 1.11, libtool - 2.2.10. + <LI>Updated autotools: Autoconf 2.68, Automake 1.11.1, libtool + 2.4. <LI>Enabled support for Automake silent build rules (--enable-silent-rules or 'make V=0') @@ -169,6 +170,21 @@ Other important backward incompatible changes in the public API: over 72 tests, which may be executed on Unix-like systems, or under Microsoft Windows using MinGW/MSYS or Cygwin. + <LI>--disable-lzma configure option to disable use of liblzma. + + <LI>--enable-defer-strile-load configure option to enable + experimental deferred strip/tile offset/size loading. May + cause some extremely sophisticated uses of libtiff to fail. + + <LI>--enable-chunky-strip-read configure option to enable + experimental enable reading large strips in chunks in + TIFFReadScanline(). + + <LI>Now always uses WIN32 native I/O functions for Microsoft + Windows except for under Cygwin. + + <LI>Now provides a pkg-config support file (libtiff-4.pc). + </UL> <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> @@ -179,7 +195,7 @@ Other important backward incompatible changes in the public API: <UL> - <LI>Patches/fixes made to stable libtiff (v3.9.0) are also + <LI>Patches/fixes made to stable libtiff (v3.9.X) are also applied to 4.0.0. There are too many to list here. See the distribution ChangeLog for a detailed change list. @@ -210,6 +226,19 @@ Other important backward incompatible changes in the public API: is a signed memory size type, i.e. it is int32 on 32bit machines, or int64 on 64bit machines. + <LI>Optionally support LZMA compression via TIFF tag 34925. + Tiffcp supports compression levels similar to "-c lzma:p1" or + "-c zip:p9 for setting the LZMA compression parameters. + + <LI>Optionally defer the load of strip/tile offset and size + tags for optimized scanning of directories. Enabled with the + --enable-defer-strile-load configure option (DEFER_STRILE_LOAD + #define in tif_config.h). + + <LI>Optionally enable experimental support for reading big + strips in chunks. Enabled with the --enable-chunky-strip-read + configure option. + </UL> <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> @@ -220,6 +249,9 @@ Other important backward incompatible changes in the public API: <UL> + <LI>tiffset: add -d and -sd switches to allow operation on + a particular directory, not just the first. + </UL> <P><HR WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left> @@ -231,7 +263,7 @@ Other important backward incompatible changes in the public API: <UL> </UL> -Last updated $Date: 2010-06-11 22:58:58 $. +Last updated $Date: 2011-04-09 21:01:00 $. </BODY> </HTML> |