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GraphicsMagick 1.3.20 is now available. This is the release recommended for use. Please visit http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ to learn more about GraphicsMagick or download the release. Please report any issues to the bug tracker. The following ... [More] are the significant changes since the 1.3.19 release: Special Issues: * Due to GCC bug 53967, several key agorithms (e.g. convolution) may execute much faster (e.g. 2-3X) for x86-64 and/or when SSE is enabled for floating point math (`-mfpmath=sse`) if the GCC option `-frename-registers` is used. Default 32-bit builds do not experience the problem since they use '387 math. It is not clear in what version of GCC this problem started but it was not noticed by the developers until the GCC 4.6 timeframe. Other compilers do not suffer from this bug. Please lobby the GCC project to fix this embarrassing performance bug. Security Fixes: * No security issues were reported or fixed. Bug fixes: * Compilation: No longer undefine __attribute__ since this may be used by system or compiler headers and cause problems. * BMP: Alpha channel from BMP3 format was inverted. * PNG: Fix round-trip repeatability issue (due to rounding algorithm) with modern versions of libpng. Prefer the less accurate method which does not alter the image. * PNG: Fix some memory leaks in error-handling paths. * PNM: Scaling of alpha in sub-ranged pixels is fixed. * Wand API: Removed development debug fprintf which causes each drawing primitive to be printed to stderr. * PS, PS2, PS3, PDF: Only use resolution from image or -density if units was properly specified. Without units, resolution is worthless. * PS, PS2, PS3, PDF: Use resolution from image if it appears to be valid. * WebP: Fix inverted return status which caused failure to be reported instead of success. * Rotation clipping/shearing errors for short wide images at some angles is fixed. * -geometry: Deal with resize geometry missing width or height (e.g. '640x' or 'x480') by substituting the missing value with one which preserves the image aspect ratio. This has been documented to be supported since almost the dawn of GraphicsMagick but was not actually supported until now. * -geometry: Support '>' and '<' qualifiers with '< at >' qualifier to specify if image should be resized if larger or lesser than given area specification. New Features: * Wand API: MagickSetImageGravity() - New function to set image gravity. * Wand API: MagickGetImageGravity() - New function to get image gravity. * Wand API: MagickSetImageMatte() - New function to set the image matte channel enable flag. * Wand API: MagickGetImageMatte() - New function to read the image matte channel enable flag. * Wand API: MagickSetImageGeometry() - New function to set the image geometry string. * Wand API: MagickGetImageGeometry() - New function to get the image geometry string. * Wand API: MagickOperatorImageChannel() - New function to apply an operator to an image channel. * Magick++ API: New Image::thumbnail() method for fast image resizing, particularly to make thumbnails. * Core C API: Added SetLogMethod() to allow an application/library to specify a function to be called for logging. * Clang/LLVM: Provide support for clang/llvm attribute and builtin specifiers similar to that provided for GCC. * OpenMP: OpenMP native locking and thread specific data is supported via a configuration option (is not the default). This offers a "pure" OpenMP compilation mode. No real value for this compilation mode has been observed yet but it seems worthy to support. * Coders: Added BrokenCoderClass to mark coders which often malfunction or are not very useful in their current condition. * Composition: Added HardLight composition operator, which is now used by PSD and XCF formats, and available via command line, Magick++ API, PerlMagick API, and Wand API. * Composition: Added ScreenCompositePixels composition operator. * Composition: Added missing Photoshop separable compositing operations, Overlay, Exclusion, ColorBurn, ColorDodge, SoftLight, LinearBurn, LinearDodge, LinearLight, VividLight, PinLight, HardMix. * +set: Command line utilities now support +set to remove an existing image attribute. * -format: Support additional format specifiers 'g', 'A', 'C', 'D', 'G', 'H', 'M', 'O', 'P', 'Q', 'T', 'U', 'W', 'X', and '< at >', similar to the major brand. * -operator: New quantum operators ThresholdBlackNegateQuantumOp and ThresholdWhiteNegateQuantumOp These correspond to -operator "Threshold-Black-Negate" and "Threshold-White-Negate". * TIFF: Now support setting the TIFF "Software" tag for users who do not want to admit to using GraphicsMagick. * WebP: All of the WebP encoder encoder options are now supported by -define arguments. Feature improvements: * Pixel interpolation quality is greatly improved, with minimal impact on performance. Pixel interpolation now also works well given an alpha channel. * WebP: WebP support is now prepared to compile with most WebP library versions and supports all features except for those pertaining to "RIFF" container support. Performance Improvements: * Non-integral image rotation performance has been improved by about 40%, with lower memory usage as well. * GradientImage: Update image is_grayscale and is_monochrome flags based on gradient color properties. Windows Delegate Updates/Additions: * PNG: Libpng 1.6.12 - June 12, 2014. * JPEG: libjpeg 9a of January 19, 2014. * FreeType: FreeType 2.5.3 of March 6, 2014. * WebP: webp 0.4.0 of January 20, 2013. * zlib: zlib 1.2.8 of April 28, 2013. Build Changes: * --without-threads no longer disables use of OpenMP. Use the already existing option --disable-openmp to disable OpenMP. * Makefiles: Include paths are now exceedingly pedantic to make sure that only the required directories are included. * VisualMagick configure: Improve configure program so that it is possible to select QuantumDepth, OpenMP, and 64-bit build via configure dialog boxes as well as options on the command line. Also automatically detects and deals with similarly named files in subdirectories so that WebP support can now build successfully. Behavior Changes: * MultiplyCompositePixels: Multiply composition now uses SVG interpretation of how alpha should be handled. No longer does a simple multiply of alpha channel. * Composition: The Difference, Darken, Lighten, and HardLight composition operators were modified to support alpha in their computations. * PNG: Using -optimize no longer triggers palette and depth optimizations since their implementations have been problematic. [Less]

GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 is now available. This is the release recommended for use. Please visit http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ to learn more about GraphicsMagick or download the release. Please report any issues to the bug tracker. The following ... [More] are the significant changes since the 1.3.18 release: 1.3.19 (December 31, 2013) ========================== Special Issues: * Due to GCC bug 53967, several key agorithms (e.g. convolution) may execute much faster (e.g. 2-3X) for x86-64 and/or when SSE is enabled for floating point math (`-mfpmath=sse`) if the GCC option `-frename-registers` is used. Default 32-bit builds do not experience the problem since they use '387 math. It is not clear in what version of GCC this problem started but it was not noticed by the developers until the GCC 4.6 timeframe. Other compilers do not suffer from this bug. Security Fixes: * EPT: Fix crash observed when Ghostscript fails to produce useful output. This was particularly noticeable when Ghostscript was not installed. This crash could be used to cause denial of service. * PNG: With libpng 1.6.X, avoid a crash while copying a PNG with a "known incorrect ICC profile". This crash could be used to cause denial of service. Bug fixes: * Build: Fix cross-compilation for MinGW64 on Linux build machine. * Build: configure FreeType test no longer insists that <freetype/freetype.h> can be included. * CMS profile: Only delete the CMS transform if it is non-null. Fixes assersion observed when lcms returned a null profile and GraphicsMagick attempted to deallocate it. * Drawing: Improve error handling logic so that drawing returns quickly on pixel access errors rather than plowing on ahead. This avoids problems with SVGs which take seemingly forever to render. * Drawing via C/C++ APIs: `BevelJoin` no longer causes a MVG parsing error. * EPT: Fix crash observed when Ghostscript fails to produce useful output. This was particularly noticeable when Ghostscript was not installed. * OpenMP: Revert use of omp_set_dynamic() since it caused performance issues when using GCC's GOMP implementation and the number of threads to use is specified. * EXIF profile: Support the `SubjectArea` EXIF tag. * MIFF writer: PseudoClass format was written incorrectly for depth greater than 8. * MIFF writer: RLE compressed format used inverted alpha from the other subformats and contrary to the MIFF specification. * MIFF reader: Fixes Fixes to be able to read MIFF written by ImageMagick 6.X, including DirectClass grayscale images (except for RLE compressed). * Mosaic: Fixed unsigned underflow problem with -mosaic when page offset is negative and exceeds image width or height, resulting in assertions, out of memory errors, or pixel cache limit errors. * PDF: Consistently initialize Image page width and height to image width and height. While general to all of GraphicsMagick, this change is to assure that the PDF writer computes page dimensioning consistently. PDF page dimensioning was wrong if the image had been resized with -geometry "100%". * PAM: Fix MAXVAL scaling when reading PAM images. PAM was only working correctly for images with 256 or 64k levels. * PNM: PGM "P2" format writer wrote bad output for 8-bit depth. * PNG: With libpng 1.6.X, avoid a crash while copying a PNG with a "known incorrect ICC profile". * PNG: Q8 GM build now correctly reads 16-bit PNG files. * TIFF writer: Try to avoid writing more than 32k strips per image by increasing rows-per-strip since some programs fail to read images with more than 32k strips per image. * TIM reader: PSX TIM reports 8-bit depth (rather than 16). * TTF font rendering: Improve FreeType rendering error logic so that rendering returns immediately on pixel access errors rather than plowing on ahead. * TTF font rendering: Support rendering UTF-8 up to 21-bit code points. Was only supporting 16-bit code points. * Wand API: DrawSetStrokeDashArray() / DrawGetStrokeDashArray(), fix failure to work properly due to this code path never being tested. * Windows Ghostscript: 64-bit GraphicsMagick no longer requires both 32-bit and 64-bit builds of Ghostscript to be installed in order to read Postscript and PDF formats. * XPM reader: Reported depth now depends on the colormap rather than always claiming to be 16-bit. New Features: * JPEG: Add support for writing 'XMP' profile. * PNM: As a simple non-standard extension to the standard PNM and PAM formats, support writing and reading 32-bit sample depth. Writing such files is only supported by the Q32 build although they may be read by any build. * WebP: Now supports reading and writing Google's WebP format. This feature is not currently supported by the Windows Visual Studio build. Feature improvements: * Pixel composition based on BlendCompositePixel() is enhanced to completely eliminate under-color from the blending if the under-pixel is fully transparent. Also blends based on the average opacity of both pixels rather than only the over-pixel. This change did not result in any change in the GM test suite results but it is possible that there could be some negative impact from it. Please report any issues noticed which are due to this change. * X11 `display`: For DirectClass image, use ThumbnailImage() rather than SampleImage() when creating the panner icon to improve the quality of the image. Performance Improvements: * PNG: `ping` a PNG faster by avoiding reading the image data. Windows Delegate Updates: * Updated IJG JPEG library to release 9. * Updated PNG library to release 1.6.8. * Updated lcms2 library to release 2.5. * Updated libxml2 library to release 2.9.1. * Updated FreeType library to release 2.5.2. Behavior Changes: * MIFF: Now writes PseudoClass images correctly when depth is greater than 8. This impacts the reader, which will not be able to read previously written incorrect format correctly. Images like this should be very rare. The solution is to use an older GraphicsMagick version to convert such images to a valid storage format (with a depth of 8) so that they may be read with this version. * MIFF: Now writes RLE-compressed RGBA images with correct alpha. This impacts the reader, which will not be able to read previously written incorrect format correctly. Images like this should be very rare. A solution is to use an older GraphicsMagick version to use a compression algorithm other than RLE so that they are read correctly with this version. Another solution is to process problematic images with '-operator Opacity Negate 0' to invert the alpha channel. * TIFF: Returns DirectClass images by default for MINISWHITE and MINISBLACK TIFF formats (rather then colormapped). * Windows: Also search c:\gs\fonts for Ghostscript font files. This search path is normally hard-coded into Ghostscript binaries and is a convenient place to put fonts so they may be shared by multiple Ghostscript versions. * XPM: Now limits color resolution to 16-bits, even with Q32 build. [Less]

Due to SourceForge project "upgrade", GraphicsMagick's Mercurial repository has now been relocated. Please see "http://sourceforge.net/p/graphicsmagick/code" for the new location. Due to the upgrade, the performance of the new repository is 3 times slower for checkout than the old repository. There is nothing we can do about that. Bob

GraphicsMagick 1.3.18 is now available. There are quite a lot of improvements and bug fixes in this release. Windows 64-bit is now officially supported and a 64-bit install package is available. Please note that if Ghostscript is desired, a ... [More] 64-bit ghostscript must be installed if 64-bit GraphicsMagick is installed. The GraphicsMagick web site is at "http://www.graphicsmagick.org/". The news page which describes the details of the release is at "http://www.graphicsmagick.org/NEWS.html". Please report any bugs you may encounter. The following are the new features/fixes in this release: Special Issues: * Due to GCC bug 53967, several key agorithms (e.g. convolution) may execute much faster (e.g. 2-3X) for x86-64 and/or when SSE is enabled for floating point math (`-mfpmath=sse`) if the GCC option `-frename-registers` is used. Default 32-bit builds do not experience the problem since they use '387 math. It is not clear in what version of GCC this problem started but it was not noticed by the developers until the GCC 4.6 timeframe. Other compilers do not suffer from this bug. Security Fixes: * None. Bug fixes: * Fixed bug with format substitutions if input string ends with a single '%'. * BMP: Fixed an old bug with decoding chromaticity primaries. * PNG: Fixed reading of interlaced images. Fix reading of sub-8-bit palette and grayscale images. Some PNG sub-formats were written incorrectly. Fix crash in PNG8 writer if image colors happened to be non-zero but image was not actually colormapped. * PNG: Configure script now also searches for libpng versions 16 and 17. * TIFF: Fix a crash which was noticed when writing RGBA separated (planar) format. * `--enable-symbol-prefix` was not prefixing all of the C symbols. Some core C library functions were not prefixed. This option applies to the Wand library API as well now. * C API: When input is from a user-provided file descriptor, the file position is restored after reading the file header bytes. Previously the file position was rewound to the beginning of the file. This allows reading embedded image data from the current offset in a file, and allows continuing to use the stream after GraphicsMagick has returned the image. * C API: It is now possible to invoke CloseBlob() multiple times. * display: Display was supposed to respond to +/-usePixmap, but was not. It was responding to +/-use_pixmap. Now it responds to both. * Windows/VisualMagick: Fix building GraphicsMagick with Intel ICC compiler driven by Visual Studio Professional 2012. * Windows: Avoid a crash and produce a useful diagnostic if Ghostscript is needed but not yet installed. New Features: * GM utility: New 'batch' command was contributed by Kenneth Xu which supports executing any number of other GM utility sub-commands in a single invokation in a sort of "batch" script. Input may be piped from standard input, from a specified file, or from a 'GM >' command prompt. This utilities front-end allows any other program/script to drive 'gm' using a co-process model and speeds up execution by eliminating utility start-up/shut-down time. * WIN64 (64-bit Windows): Windows 64-bit is now officially supported. * convert/mogrify: Now support -auto-orient to automatically rotate the image upright for viewing based on its current orientation setting. Also support -orient to support setting the current image orientation. Please note that the orientation property of EXIF profiles is not yet updated so the EXIF profile will be wrong after using -auto-orient. * C API: AutoOrientImage(), new New function to automatically orient the image so that it is upright for normal viewing. * Wand API: MagickGetImagePage()/MagickSetImagePage(), new functions to support getting and setting the image page size and offsets. * PNG: Added PNG48 and PNG64 support. Added PNG00 support (png encoder that inherits its color-type and bit-depth from the input, if the input was a PNG datastream). Feature improvements: * GraphicsMagick TAP tests may now be run stand-alone using Perl's 'prove' TAP test driver. Performance Improvements: * Detection of glob specifications in file names is more efficient. Windows Delegate Updates: * None. Behavior Changes: * ltdl: Libltdl is no longer bundled. Libltdl must be previously installed on the system in order to build the modules configuration. * AppendImages() now converts subsequent images to the colorspace of the first image, and no longer converts the first image to RGB. Instead, it is assumed the user knows what she is doing. * SetImageColorRegion() no longer automatically converts the image to RGB. The user is responsible for assuring that the provided color is in the same colorspace as the image. Bob [Less]

The next GraphicsMagick release will include 64-bit Windows install packages. The latest development snapshot includes Windows install packages which are similar to what will be in the next release. If you are interested in Windows 64-bit, please ... [More] test these install packages and report any issues. The install packages may be downloaded from "ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/snapshots/". Thanks, Bob [Less]

Please join us in celebrating GraphicsMagick's 10th Anniversary. Depending on how one evaluates it, GraphicsMagick came to be on November 19th, 2002, but it certainly came to be on December 6, 2002 when the 'gm' utility was introduced and the ... [More] software became as it is today. GraphicsMagick emerged due to a desire for a "stable" form of ImageMagick with a stable code base, an accurate change-log, stable API, carefully-managed ABI, diminishing bugs, and acknowledgment for all contributors and all relevant copyrights and licenses. GraphicsMagick has continued to adhere to its original mission statement which may be read at "http://www.graphicsmagick.org/mission.html". GraphicsMagick continues to survive and evolve based on its volunteers. New volunteers are always welcome. I am looking forward to the next ten years. Bob [Less]

GraphicsMagick 1.3.17 is now available. This release includes both critical bug fixes and significant feature improvements. All users are recommended to update to this release. As usual, this release is API and ABI compatible with previous 1.3.X ... [More] releases so it should be a drop-in replacement. Please visit the web site at http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ to learn more about GraphicsMagick. Of particular note in this release, is that the configure script supports a --enable-quantum-library-names option which allows shared libraries from different quantum build depths to be installed in parallel by including the quantum depth in the shared library name. This will allow OS distributions to satisfy both web and scientific/publishing users by providing a "deep" package for users who need more precision. As a note for those building the software for x86-64 (AMD64) systems, or who have added the -mfpmath=sse option to enable floating point math via SSE, it has been discovered that a GCC bug is severely inhibiting the performance of several key algorithms on this popular architecture (e.g. by a factor of 2-3X). Adding the '-frename-registers' option to CFLAGS avoids the bug but is documented to make the software more difficult to debug. The following are the major changes in this release: Security Fixes: * PNG: Fix for CVE-2012-3438. The Magick_png_malloc function in coders/png.c in GraphicsMagick 6.7.8-6 does not use the proper variable type for the allocation size, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a crafted PNG file that triggers incorrect memory allocation. * Automake (derived): Fix for CVE-2012-3386: The "make distcheck" rule in GNU Automake before 1.11.6 and 1.12.x before 1.12.2 grants world-writable permissions to the extraction directory, which introduces a race condition that allows local users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. Bug fixes: * PNG: Reading sub-8-bit palette images is fixed (images looked stretched). * SVG: Fixed bug which allowed MVG and SVG files with long vector paths to crash the software. * SVG: Ignore XML headers rather than rendering them as text. * MVG/SVG/WMF/-draw: It is now possible to draw a plain ',' character. * WMF: Fixed a bug which caused wrong centered-text placement. * import: Return status was inverted. * configure: Don't force that liblzma is used just because libtiff is used. New Features: * The configure script now supports a --enable-quantum-library-names option to enable that shared library name includes quantum depth to allow shared libraries with different quantum depths to co-exist in same directory (only one can be used for development). * JNX: Support is added for reading the Garmin proprietary Image Format. * BMP: Support an alpha channel in uncompressed 32-bit BMP. Feature improvements: * -lat: The adaptive threshold algorithm is replaced with a new algorithm which scales linearly (rather than quadratically) with area size. * Tests: Test suite is re-written to use TAP-based tests. * GIF: Reader tries to be better at detecting and reporting failures. Performance Improvements: * -lat: Adaptive threshold is much faster with large area sizes. Windows Delegate Updates: * Dcraw 9.16 is now included in the build (with JPEG and JPEG2000 support). * Libxml2 is updated to the 2.9.0 release. * Libtiff is updated to the 4.0.3 release. * Lcms2 is updated to the 2.4 release. * Libpng is updated to the 1.5.13 release. Behavior Changes: * Loading modules is only supported for the modules build. Previously any build using shared libraries could load modules. * Bundled libltdl is now configured as 'installable' rather than 'convenience'. * -enhance: Only filter based on color channels (ignore opacity). * BrowseDelegate: Web browser (for viewing help information) now defaults to 'xdg-open', but if it is not found, then configure will search for firefox, google-chrome, mozilla (in that order). Bob [Less]

GraphicsMagick 1.3.16 is now released, and is the version recommended to use. Please visit the GraphicsMagick web site at http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ to learn more about GraphicsMagick, or to download files. The following are the updates ... [More] since the prior release: Security Fixes: * Don't translate 'comment' and 'label' attributes if the request is made while a file is being read. Only translate such attributes if they come from the command line or API user. Bug fixes: * SWT: SWT reader suffered from a number of implementation errors which caused it not to work any more. Works again. * XBM: Fix memory leak observed when reading file in 'ping' mode. * Support -trim on images which use a consistent (single color) transparent background. In this case, trim is done based on opacity rather than foreground color. * Include <sys/types.h> in order to assure that 'size_t' and 'ssize_t' are declared. This is necessary since MagickExtentImage() uses these types as part of its definition. * +repage was not working because parser was insisting that it should include an argument. * -units was scaling existing resolution the wrong way around (i.e. multiplying rather than dividing). * PerlMagick: Fix compilation with Perl 5.16. * PingBlob(): PingBlob was not working for all cases. Is now based on BlobToImage() for assured reliability. New Features: None Feature improvements: * MAT: Animated movies inside 4D matrices are loaded now. * PDF: File base name is used as the document title. * PNG: Fix issues observed specifically with libpng 1.5.10. Performance Improvements: * Pixel iterators should be more efficient now if the image uses a file-backed cache. * Motion blur algorithm does scale well as cores are added so include OpenMP support for it by default. Windows Delegate Updates: * JPEG: Updated to IJG 8d release. * PNG: Updated to 1.5.11 release * TIFF: Updated to 4.0.2 release. * Zlib: Updated to 1.2.7 release. * libxml2: Updated to 2.8.0 release. Behavior Changes: None [Less]

GraphicsMagick 1.3.15 is now available. This release fixes several bugs and adds a number of new features. This release is binary compatible with all previous 1.3.X releases, however, please read the change notes since there is a change in ... [More] behavior from previous releases. Please visit http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ to learn more about GraphicsMagick, or visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/graphicsmagick/files/ to download GraphicsMagick from SourceForge. The following are the changes in this release: Security Fixes: * Libpng in Windows build is updated to 1.5.10 release. Provides a fix for CVE-2011-3048. Bug fixes: * PNG - fixed problem with bit depth when the encoder decides to write RGBA instead of indexed PNG. * Fixed some temporary file leaks which were caused by the temporary file name being automatically extended to include a scene number, and therefore fail to be deleted. New Features: * Added '+noise random' and '-operator noise-random' to 'convert' and 'mogrify'. This modulates the existing image data with uniformely random noise. * Added -strip option in composite, convert, mogrify, and montage to remove all profiles and text attributes from the image. * Added -repage option to composite, convert, mogrify, and montage subcommands to reset or adjust the current image page offsets based on a provided geometry specification. * New C function StripImage() to remove all profiles and text attributes from the image. * New C function ResetImagePage() to adjust the current image page canvas and position based on a relative page specification. * C functions GenerateDifferentialNoise(), AddNoiseImageChannel(), QuantumOperatorRegionImage(), AddNoiseImage() updated to support RandomNoise enumeration. * New C++ Image method strip(), and unary function stripImage() to remove all profiles and text attributes from the image. * XCF format now respects image subimage and subrange members so that returned image layers may be selected. * The INFO coder (e.g. output file "info:-") now respects the -format option so that its output may be adjusted identically to how -format works for 'identify'. * TclMagick now supports Random noise. Feature improvements: * C function ThumbnailImage() now allows the user to override the filter used, but still defaults to using the box filter. Performance Improvements: * None Behavior Changes: * No longer add a printf-style scene formatting specification to filenames which do not have one and no longer automatically operate in 'adjoin' mode in such cases. If multiple numbered files are intended to be output, then add +adjoin to the command line and use an output filename specification similar to "image-%d.jpg". Output files are now completely specified and predictable but this may break some existing usages which anticipate the automatic file numbering. [Less]

GraphicsMagick 1.3.14 is now available. This is primarily a bug-fix release. The only new features are that MagickExtentImage() is added to the Wand API, and the Mamiya Photo RAW "MEF" format is now supported. The Despeckle algorithm ... [More] (-despeckle) is many times faster now. In my experience, this is a quite worthy agorithm since it does well at removing noise without making the image blurry. Now it is less painful to use. Users of the Windows package should update as soon as possible since the included libpng incorporates a critial security fix. The GraphicsMagick web site is at "http://www.graphicsmagick.org/". The news page which describes the details of the release is at "http://www.graphicsmagick.org/NEWS.html". Please report any bugs you may encounter. Bob [Less]