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	Changes in TIFF v3.7.0beta2
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<B><FONT SIZE=+3>T</FONT>IFF <FONT SIZE=+2>C</FONT>HANGE <FONT SIZE=+2>I</FONT>NFORMATION</B>
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<HR SIZE=4 WIDTH=65% ALIGN=left>
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<B>Current Version</B>: v3.7.0beta2<BR>
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<B>Previous Version</B>: <A HREF=v3.7.0beta.html>v3.7.0beta</a><BR>
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<B>Master FTP Site</B>: <A HREF="ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff">
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ftp.remotesensing.org</a>, directory pub/libtiff</A><BR>
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<B>Master HTTP Site</B>: <A HREF="http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff">
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http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff</a> 
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This document describes the changes made to the software between the
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<I>previous</I> and <I>current</I> versions (see above).
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If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
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timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
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The following information is located here:
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<LI><A HREF="#hightlights">Major Changes</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#configure">Changes in the software configuration</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#libtiff">Changes in libtiff</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#tools">Changes in the tools</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#contrib">Changes in the contrib area</A>
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<LI><A HREF="#lzwkit">Changes in the LZW compression kit</A>
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<A NAME="highlights"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>M</FONT>AJOR CHANGES:</B></A>
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	<li> The code has been reviewed by Dmitry Levin: added checks
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	for values, returned by the space allocation functions, fixed
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	problems with the possible integer overflows.
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<A NAME="configure"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION:</B></A>
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	<li> Several fixes in the test suite.
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<A NAME="libtiff"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN LIBTIFF:</B></A>
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	<li> Preliminary support for BigTIFF files: now libtiff can
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	recognize and reject to open such images. ;-)
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	<li> libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c: changed type of XMLPacket (tag 700) to 
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	TIFFTAG_BYTE instead of TIFFTAG_UNDEFINED to comply with the info
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	in the Adobe XMP Specification.
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	<li> Added many checks for integer overflow and for successful space
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	allocations in the different parts of library. Code review
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	completed by Dmitry V. Levin.
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	<li> libtiff/{tiffio.h, tif_compress.c}: Added
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	TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs()function to get the list of configured codecs.
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<A NAME="tools"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE TOOLS:</B></A>
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	<li> tiff2bw: Write ImageWidth/Height tags to output file, as
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	noted by Gennady Khokhorin.
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<A NAME="contrib"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE CONTRIB AREA:</B></A>
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	<li> No changes.
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<A NAME="lzwkit"><B><FONT SIZE=+3>C</FONT>HANGES IN THE LZW COMPRESSION
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	<li> This one is not longer needed.
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<A HREF="index.html"><IMG SRC="images/back.gif"></A> TIFF home page.<BR>
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Last updated $Date: 2006/03/18 17:12:47 $.
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