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Project Summary

LibTIFF provides support for the Tag Image File Format (TIFF), a widely used format for storing image data.

Included in this software distribution is a library, libtiff, for reading and writing TIFF, a small collection of tools for doing simple manipulations of TIFF images, and documentation on the library and tools. Libtiff is a portable software, it was built and tested on various systems: UNIX flavors (Linux, BSD, Solaris, MacOS X), Windows, and OpenVMS. It should be possible to port libtiff and additional tools on other OSes.

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graphics jpeg library picture tiff

In a Nutshell, libTIFF...

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has had 5,020 commits made by 130 contributors
representing 102,613 lines of code
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is mostly written in C
with an average number of source code comments
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
with stable Y-O-Y commits
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took an estimated 26 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in July, 1999
ending with its most recent commit 3 days ago

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Languages

C	90%
9 Other	10%

30 Day Summary

Dec 26 2025 — Jan 25 2026

15 Commits
5 Contributors
including 1 new contributor

12 Month Summary

Jan 25 2025 — Jan 25 2026

244 Commits
Down -29 (10%) from previous 12 months
22 Contributors
Down 0 (0%) from previous 12 months

Most Recent Contributors

	Roger Leigh		Bob Friesenhahn
	Lee Howard		Even Rouault
	Lovell Fuller		Su Laus

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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for tiff )

Repository URL: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff.git

Version: v4.7.1-103-g07c5edfc

2026-01-20
Last Analyzed

135,010
Lines of Code Analyze

0.01
Defect Density

Defects by status for current build

200
Total defects

1
Outstanding

197
Fixed

CWE Top 25 defects

ID	CWE-Name	Number of Defects
190	Integer Overflow or Wraparound	1