ANNOUNCE

Libpng 1.2.11beta1 - May 31, 2006

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-1.2.11beta1.tar.gz
   libpng-1.2.11beta1.tar.bz2

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

   libpng-1.2.11beta1-no-config.tar.gz
   libpng-1.2.11beta1-no-config.tar.bz2

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

   lp1211b01.zip
   lp1211b01.tar.bz2

Project files

   libpng-1.2.11beta1-project-netware.zip
   libpng-1.2.11beta1-project-wince.zip

Other information:

   libpng-1.2.11beta1-README.txt
   libpng-1.2.11beta1-KNOWNBUGS.txt
   libpng-1.2.11beta1-LICENSE.txt
   libpng-1.2.11beta1-Y2K-compliance.txt

Changes since the last public release (1.2.9):

version 1.2.10beta1 [April 15, 2006]
  Renamed "config.h" to "png_conf.h" and revised Makefile.am to add
    -DPNG_BUILDING_LIBPNG to compile directive, and modified pngconf.h
    to include png_conf.h only when PNG_BUILDING_LIBPNG is defined.

version 1.2.10beta2 [April 15, 2006]
  Manually updated Makefile.in and configure.  Changed png_conf.h.in
    back to config.h.

version 1.2.10beta3 [April 15, 2006]
  Change png_conf.h back to config.h in pngconf.h.

version 1.2.10beta4 [April 16, 2006]
  Change PNG_BUILDING_LIBPNG to PNG_CONFIGURE_LIBPNG in config/Makefile*.

version 1.2.10beta5 [April 16, 2006]
  Added a configure check for compiling assembler code in pnggccrd.c

version 1.2.10beta6 [April 17, 2006]
  Revised the configure check for pnggccrd.c
  Moved -DPNG_CONFIGURE_LIBPNG into @LIBPNG_DEFINES@
  Added @LIBPNG_DEFINES@ to arguments when building libpng.sym

version 1.2.10beta7 [April 18, 2006]
  Change "exec_prefix=$prefix" to "exec_prefix=$(prefix)" in makefiles.

version 1.2.10rc1 [April 19, 2006]
  Ensure pngconf.h doesn't define both PNG_USE_PNGGCCRD and PNG_USE_PNGVCRD
  Fixed "LN_FS" typo in makefile.sco and makefile.solaris.

version 1.2.10rc2 [April 20, 2006]
  Added a backslash between -DPNG_CONFIGURE_LIBPNG and -DPNG_NO_ASSEMBLER_CODE
    in configure.ac
  Made the configure warning about versioned symbols less arrogant.

version 1.2.10rc3 [April 21, 2006]
  Added a note in libpng.txt that png_set_sig_bytes(8) can be used when
    writing an embedded PNG without the 8-byte signature.
  Revised makefiles and configure to avoid making links to libpng.so.*

version 1.2.10 [May 31, 2006]
  Reverted configure to "rc2" state.

version 1.2.11beta1 [May 31, 2006]
  scripts/libpng.pc.in contained "configure" style version info and would
    not work with makefiles.
  The shared-library makefiles were linking to libpng.so.0 instead of
    libpng.so.3 compatibility as the library.

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