1# Rust Image Release Notes
2
3Rust image aims to be a pure-Rust implementation of various popular image formats. Accompanying reading/write support, rust image provides basic imaging processing function. See `README.md` for further details.
4
5## Known issues
6 - Images with *n* bit/channel (*n ≠ 8*) are not well supported but basic
7     support for 16-bit is available and implemented for PNG.
8 - Not all Interlaced (progressive) or animated images are well supported.
9 - The color space information of pixels is not clearly communicated.
10
11## Changes
12
13### Version 0.23.14
14
15- Unified gif blending in different decode methods, fixing out-of-bounds checks
16  in a number of weirdly positioned frames.
17- Hardened TGA decoder against a number of malicious inputs.
18- Fix forward incompatible usage of the panic macro.
19- Fix load_rect for gif reaching `unreachable!()` code.
20
21- Added `ExtendedColorType::A8`.
22- Allow TGA to load alpha-only images.
23- Optimized load_rect to avoid unnecessary seeks.
24
25### Version 0.23.13
26
27- Fix an inconsistency in supported formats of different methods for encoding
28  an image.
29- Fix `thumbnail` choosing an empty image. It now always prefer non-empty image
30  dimensions.
31- Fix integer overflow in calculating requires bytes for decoded image buffers
32  for farbfeld, hdr, and pnm decoders. These will now error early.
33- Fix a panic decoding certain `jpeg` image without frames or meta data.
34- Optimized the `jpeg` encoder.
35- Optimized `GenericImage::copy_from` default impl in various cases.
36
37- Add `avif` decoders. You must enable it explicitly and it is not covered by
38  our usual MSRV policy of Rust 1.34. Instead, only latest stable is supported.
39- Add `ImageFormat::{can_read, can_write}`
40- Add `Frame::buffer_mut`
41- Add speed and quality options on `avif` encoder.
42- Add speed parameter to `gif` encoder.
43- Expose control over sequence repeat to the `gif` encoder.
44- Add `{contrast,brighten,huerotate}_in_place` functions in imageproc.
45
46- Relax `Default` impl of `ImageBuffer`, removing the bound on the color type.
47- Derive Debug, Hash, PartialEq, Eq for DynamicImage
48
49### Version 0.23.12
50
51- Fix a soundness issue affecting the impls of `Pixel::from_slice_mut`. This
52  would previously reborrow the mutable input reference as a shared one but
53  then proceed to construct the mutable result reference from it. While UB
54  according to Rust's memory model, we're fairly certain that no miscompilation
55  can happen with the LLVM codegen in practice.
56  See 5cbe1e6767d11aff3f14c7ad69a06b04e8d583c7 for more details.
57- Fix `imageops::blur` panicking when `sigma = 0.0`. It now defaults to `1.0`
58  as all negative values.
59- Fix re-exporting `png::{CompressionType, FilterType}` to maintain SemVer
60  compatibility with the `0.23` releases.
61
62- Add `ImageFormat::from_extension`
63- Add copyless DynamicImage to byte slice/vec conversion.
64- Add bit-depth specific `into_` and `to_` DynamicImage conversion methods.
65
66
67### Version 0.23.11
68
69- The `NeuQuant` implementation is now supplied by `color_quant`. Use of the
70  type defined by this library is discouraged.
71- The `jpeg` decoder can now downscale images that are decoded by 1,2,4,8.
72- Optimized the jpeg encoding ~5-15%.
73- Deprecated the `clamp` function. Use `num-traits` instead.
74- The ICO decoder now accepts an empty mask.
75- Fixed an overflow in ICO mask decoding potentially leading to panic.
76- Added `ImageOutputFormat` for `AVIF`
77- Updated `tiff` to `0.6` with lzw performance improvements.
78
79### Version 0.23.10
80
81- Added AVIF encoding capabilities using the `ravif` crate. Please note that
82  the feature targets the latest stable compiler and is not enabled by default.
83- Added `ImageBuffer::as_raw` to inspect the underlying container.
84- Updated `gif` to `0.11` with large performance improvements.
85
86### Version 0.23.9
87
88- Introduced correctly capitalized aliases for some scream case types
89- Introduced `imageops::{vertical_gradient, horizontal_gradient}` for writing
90  simple color gradients into an image.
91- Sped up methods iterating over `Pixels`, `PixelsMut`, etc. by using exact
92  chunks internally. This should auto-vectorize `ImageBuffer::from_pixel`.
93- Adjusted `Clone` impls of iterators to not require a bound on the pixel.
94- Add `Debug` impls for iterators where the pixel's channel implements it.
95- Add comparison impls for `FilterType`
96
97### Version 0.23.8
98
99- `flat::Error` now implements the standard `Error` trait
100- The type parameter of `Map` has been relaxed to `?Sized`
101- Added the `imageops::tile` function that repeats one image across another
102
103### Version 0.23.7
104
105- Iterators over immutable pixels of `ImageBuffer` can now be cloned
106- Added a `tga` encoder
107- Added `ColorMap::lookup`, an optional reversal of the map
108- The `EncodableLayout` trait is now exported
109
110### Version 0.23.6
111
112- Added `png::ApngDecoder`, an adapter decoding the animation in an APNG.
113- Fixed a bug in `jpeg` encoding that would darken output colors.
114- Added a utility constructor `FlatSamples::with_monocolor`.
115- Added `ImageBuffer::as_flat_samples_mut` which is a mutable variant of the
116  existing ffi-helper `ImageBuffer::as_flat_samples`.
117
118### Version 0.23.5
119
120- The `png` encoder now allows configuring compression and filter type. The
121  output is not part of stability guarantees, see its documentation.
122- The `jpeg` encoder now accepts any implementor of `GenericImageView`. This
123  allows images that are only partially present in memory to be encoded.
124- `ImageBuffer` now derives `Hash`, `PartialEq`, `Eq`.
125- The `Pixels`/`PixelsMut` iterator no longer yields out-of-bounds pixels when
126  the underlying buffer is larger than required.
127- The `pbm` decoder correctly decodes ascii data again, fixing a regression
128  where it would use the sample value `1` as white instead of `255`.
129- Fix encoding of RGBA data in `gif` frames.
130- Constructing a `Rows`/`RowsMut` iterator no longer panics when the image has
131  a width or height of `0`.
132
133### Version 0.23.4
134
135- Improved the performance of decoding animated gifs
136- Added `crop_imm` which functions like `crop` but on a shared reference
137- The gif `DisposalMethod::Any` is treated as `Keep`, consistent with browsers
138- Most errors no longer allocate a string, instead implement Display.
139- Add some implementations of `Error::source`
140
141### Version 0.23.3
142
143- Added `ColorType::has_alpha` to facilitate lossless conversion
144- Recognize extended WebP formats for decoding
145- Added decoding and encoding for the `farbfeld` format
146- Export named iterator types created from various `ImageBuffer` methods
147- Error in jpeg encoder for images larger than 65536 pixels, fixes panic
148
149### Version 0.23.2
150
151- The dependency on `jpeg-decoder` now reflects minimum requirements.
152
153### Version 0.23.1
154
155- Fix cmyk_to_rgb (jpeg) causing off by one rounding errors.
156- A number of performance improvements for jpeg (encode and decode), bmp, vp8
157- Added more details to errors for many formats
158
159### Version 0.23.0
160
161This major release intends to improve the interface with regards to handling of
162color format data and errors for both decoding and encoding. This necessitated
163many breaking changes anyways so it was used to improve the compliance to the
164interface guidelines such as outstanding renaming.
165
166It is not yet perfect with regards to color spaces but it was designed mainly
167as an improvement over the current interface with regards to in-memory color
168formats, first. We'll get to color spaces in a later major version.
169
170- Heavily reworked `ColorType`:
171  - This type is now used for denoting formats for which we support operations
172      on buffers in these memory representations. Particularly, all channels in
173      pixel types are assumed to be an integer number of bytes (In terms of the
174      Rust type system, these are `Sized` and one can crate slices of channel
175      values).
176  - An `ExtendedColorType` is used to express more generic color formats for
177      which the library has limited support but can be converted/scaled/mapped
178      into a `ColorType` buffer. This operation might be fallible but, for
179      example, includes sources with 1/2/4-bit components.
180  - Both types are non-exhaustive to add more formats in a minor release.
181  - A work-in-progress (#1085) will further separate the color model from the
182      specific channel instantiation, e.g. both `8-bit RGB` and `16-bit BGR`
183      are instantiations of `RGB` color model.
184- Heavily rework `ImageError`:
185  - The top-level enum type now serves to differentiate cause with multiple
186      opaque representations for the actual error. These are no longer simple
187      Strings but contains useful types. Third-party decoders that have no
188      variant in `ImageFormat` have also been considered.
189  - Support for `Error::source` that can be downcast to an error from a
190      matching version of the underlying decoders. Note that the version is not
191      part of the stable interface guarantees, this should not be relied upon
192      for correctness and only be used as an optimization.
193  - Added image format indications to errors.
194  - The error values produced by decoder will be upgraded incrementally. See
195      something that still produces plain old String messages? Feel free to
196      send a PR.
197- Reworked the `ImageDecoder` trait:
198  - `read_image` takes an output buffer argument instead of allocating all
199      memory on its own.
200  - The return type of `dimensions` now aligns with `GenericImage` sizes.
201  - The `colortype` method was renamed to `color_type` for conformity.
202- The enums `ColorType`, `DynamicImage`, `imageops::FilterType`, `ImageFormat`
203  no longer re-export all of their variants in the top-level of the crate. This
204  removes the growing pollution in the documentation and usage. You can still
205  insert the equivalent statement on your own:
206  `use image::ImageFormat::{self, *};`
207- The result of `encode` operations is now uniformly an `ImageResult<()>`.
208- Removed public converters from some `tiff`, `png`, `gif`, `jpeg` types,
209  mainly such as error conversion. This allows upgrading the dependency across
210  major versions without a major release in `image` itself.
211- On that note, the public interface of `gif` encoder no longer takes a
212  `gif::Frame` but rather deals with `image::Frame` only. If you require to
213  specify the disposal method, transparency, etc. then you may want to wait
214  with upgrading but (see next change).
215- The `gif` encoder now errors on invalid dimensions or unsupported color
216  formats. It would previously silently reinterpret bytes as RGB/RGBA.
217- The capitalization of  `ImageFormat` and other enum variants has been
218  adjusted to adhere to the API guidelines. These variants are now spelled
219  `Gif`, `Png`, etc. The same change has been made to the name of types such as
220  `HDRDecoder`.
221- The `Progress` type has finally received public accessor method. Strange that
222  no one reported them missing.
223- Introduced `PixelDensity` and `PixelDensityUnit` to store DPI information in
224  formats that support encoding this form of meta data (e.g. in `jpeg`).
225
226### Version 0.22.5
227
228- Added `GenericImage::copy_within`, specialized for `ImageBuffer`
229- Fixed decoding of interlaced `gif` files
230- Prepare for future compatibility of array `IntoIterator` in example code
231
232### Version 0.22.4
233
234- Added in-place variants for flip and rotate operations.
235- The bmp encoder now checks if dimensions are valid for the format. It would
236  previously write a subset or panic.
237- Removed deprecated implementations of `Error::description`
238- Added `DynamicImage::into_*` which convert without an additional allocation.
239- The PNG encoder errors on unsupported color types where it had previously
240  silently swapped color channels.
241- Enabled saving images as `gif` with `save_buffer`.
242
243### Version 0.22.3
244
245- Added a new module `io` containing a configurable `Reader`. It can replace
246  the bunch of free functions: `image::{load_*, open, image_dimensions}` while
247  enabling new combinations such as `open` but with format deduced from content
248  instead of file path.
249- Fixed `const_err` lint in the macro expanded implementations of `Pixel`. This
250  can only affect your crate if `image` is used as a path dependency.
251
252### Version 0.22.2
253
254- Undeprecate `unsafe` trait accessors. Further evaluation showed that their
255  deprecation should be delayed until trait `impl` specialization is available.
256- Fixed magic bytes used to detect `tiff` images.
257- Added `DynamicImage::from_decoder`.
258- Fixed a bug in the `PNGReader` that caused an infinite loop.
259- Added `ColorType::{bits_per_pixel, num_components}`.
260- Added `ImageFormat::from_path`, same format deduction as the `open` method.
261- Fixed a panic in the gif decoder.
262- Aligned background color handling of `gif` to web browser implementations.
263- Fixed handling of partial frames in animated `gif`.
264- Removed unused direct `lzw` dependency, an indirect dependency in `tiff`.
265
266### Version 0.22.1
267
268- Fixed build without no features enabled
269
270### Version 0.22
271
272- The required Rust version is now `1.34.2`.
273- Note the website and blog: [image-rs.org][1] and [blog.image-rs.org][2]
274- `PixelMut` now only on `ImageBuffer` and removed from `GenericImage`
275  interface. Prefer iterating manually in the generic case.
276- Replaced an unsafe interface in the hdr decoder with a safe variant.
277- Support loading 2-bit BMP images
278- Add method to save an `ImageBuffer`/`DynamicImage` with specified format
279- Update tiff to `0.3` with a writer
280- Update png to `0.15`, fixes reading of interlaced sub-byte pixels
281- Always use custom struct for `ImageDecoder::Reader`
282- Added `apply_without_alpha` and `map_without_alpha` to `Pixel` trait
283- Pixel information now with associated constants instead of static methods
284- Changed color structs to tuple types with single component. Improves
285  ergonomics of destructuring assignment and construction.
286- Add lifetime parameter on `ImageDecoder` trait.
287- Remove unecessary `'static` bounds on affine operations
288- Add function to retrieve image dimensions without loading full image
289- Allow different image types in overlay and replace
290- Iterators over rows of `ImageBuffer`, mutable variants
291
292[1]: https://www.image-rs.org
293[2]: https://blog.image-rs.org
294
295### Version 0.21.2
296
297- Fixed a variety of crashes and opaque errors in webp
298- Updated the png limits to be less restrictive
299- Reworked even more `unsafe` operations into safe alternatives
300- Derived Debug on FilterType and Deref on Pixel
301- Removed a restriction on DXT to always require power of two dimensions
302- Change the encoding of RGBA in bmp using bitfields
303- Corrected various urls
304
305### Version 0.21.1
306
307- A fairly important bugfix backport
308- Fixed a potentially memory safety issue in the hdr and tiff decoders, see #885
309- See [the full advisory](docs/2019-04-23-memory-unsafety.md) for an analysis
310- Fixes `ImageBuffer` index calculation for very, very large images
311- Fix some crashes while parsing specific incomplete pnm images
312- Added comprehensive fuzzing for the pam image types
313
314### Version 0.21
315
316- Updated README to use `GenericImageView`
317- Removed outdated version number from CHANGES
318- Compiles now with wasm-unknown-emscripten target
319- Restructured `ImageDecoder` trait
320- Updated README with a more colorful example for the Julia fractal
321- Use Rust 1.24.1 as minimum supported version
322- Support for loading GIF frames one at a time with `animation::Frames`
323- The TGA decoder now recognizes 32 bpp as RGBA(8)
324- Fixed `to_bgra` document comment
325- Added release test script
326- Removed unsafe code blocks several places
327- Fixed overlay overflow bug issues with documented proofs
328
329### Version 0.20
330
331- Clippy lint pass
332- Updated num-rational dependency
333- Added BGRA and BGR color types
334- Improved performance of image resizing
335- Improved PBM decoding
336- PNM P4 decoding now returns bits instead of bytes
337- Fixed move of overlapping buffers in BMP decoder
338- Fixed some document comments
339- `GenericImage` and `GenericImageView` is now object-safe
340- Moved TIFF code to its own library
341- Fixed README examples
342- Fixed ordering of interpolated parameters in TIFF decode error string
343- Thumbnail now handles upscaling
344- GIF encoding for multiple frames
345- Improved subimages API
346- Cargo fmt fixes
347
348### Version 0.19
349
350- Fixed panic when blending with alpha zero.
351- Made `save` consistent.
352- Consistent size calculation.
353- Fixed bug in `apply_with_alpha`.
354- Implemented `TGADecoder::read_scanline`.
355- Use deprecated attribute for `pixels_mut`.
356- Fixed bug in JPEG grayscale encoding.
357- Fixed multi image TIFF.
358- PNM encoder.
359- Added `#[derive(Hash)]` for `ColorType`.
360- Use `num-derive` for `#[derive(FromPrimitive)]`.
361- Added `into_frames` implementation for GIF.
362- Made rayon an optional dependency.
363- Fixed issue where resizing image did not give exact width/height.
364- Improved downscale.
365- Added a way to expose options when saving files.
366- Fixed some compiler warnings.
367- Switched to lzw crate instead of using built-in version.
368- Added `ExactSizeIterator` implementations to buffer structs.
369- Added `resize_to_fill` method.
370- DXT encoding support.
371- Applied clippy suggestions.
372
373### Version 0.4
374 - Various improvements.
375 - Additional supported image formats (BMP and ICO).
376 - GIF and PNG codec moved into separate crates.
377
378### Version 0.3
379 - Replace `std::old_io` with `std::io`.
380
381### Version 0.2
382 - Support for interlaced PNG images.
383 - Writing support for GIF images (full color and paletted).
384 - Color quantizer that converts 32bit images to paletted including the alpha channel.
385 - Initial support for reading TGA images.
386 - Reading support for TIFF images (packbits and FAX compression not supported).
387 - Various bug fixes and improvements.
388
389### Version 0.1
390- Initial release
391- Basic reading support for png, jpeg, gif, ppm and webp.
392- Basic writing support for png and jpeg.
393- A collection of basic imaging processing function like `blur` or `invert`
394