ANNOUNCE

Libpng 1.2.6beta2 - November 1, 2002

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.

Changes since the last public release (1.2.4):

version 1.2.4patch01 [July 20, 2002]
  Revised makefile.cygwin to use DLL number 12 instead of 13.
version 1.2.5beta1 [August 6, 2002]
  Added code to contrib/gregbook/readpng2.c to ignore unused chunks.
  Replaced toucan.png in contrib/gregbook (it has been corrupt since 1.0.11)
  Removed some stray *.o files from contrib/gregbook.
  Changed png_error() to png_warning() about "Too much data" in pngpread.c
    and about "Extra compressed data" in pngrutil.c.
  Prevent png_ptr->pass from exceeding 7 in png_push_finish_row().
  Updated makefile.hggcc
  Updated png.c and pnggccrd.c handling of return from png_mmx_support()
version 1.2.5beta2 [August 15, 2002]
  Only issue png_warning() about "Too much data" in pngpread.c when avail_in
    is nonzero.
  Updated makefiles to install a separate libpng.so.3 with its own rpath.
version 1.2.5rc1 and 1.0.15rc1 [August 24, 2002]
  Revised makefiles to not remove previous minor versions of shared libraries.
version 1.2.5rc2 and 1.0.15rc2 [September 16, 2002]
  Revised 13 makefiles to remove "-lz" and "-L$(ZLIBLIB)", etc., from shared
    library loader directive.
  Added missing "$OBJSDLL" line to makefile.gcmmx.
  Added missing "; fi" to makefile.32sunu.
version 1.2.5rc3 and 1.0.15rc3 [September 18, 2002]
  Revised libpng-config script.
version 1.2.5 and 1.0.15 [October 3, 2002]
  Revised makefile.macosx, makefile.darwin, makefile.hpgcc, and makefile.hpux,
    and makefile.aix.
  Relocated two misplaced PNGAPI lines in pngtest.c
version 1.2.6beta1 [October 22, 2002]
  Commented out warning about uninitialized mmx_support in pnggccrd.c.
  Changed "IBMCPP__" flag to "__IBMCPP__" in pngconf.h.
  Added missing backslashes in makefile.dec.
  Fixed install-shared target dependency in makefile.32sunu.
  Revised makefile.dec, makefile.macosx, makefile.aix, makefile sg*,
    makefile.hp*, makefile.beos, makefile.*sunu (only affecting LDFLAGS
    used in running pngtest).
version 1.2.6beta2 [November 1, 2002]
  Added libpng-config "--ldopts" output.
  Added "AR=ar" and "ARFLAGS=rc" and changed "ar rc" to "$(AR) $(ARFLAGS)"
    in makefiles.

Send comments/corrections/commendations to
png-implement@ccrc.wustl.edu or to randeg@alum.rpi.edu

Glenn R-P