
Libpng 1.4.4 - September 23, 2010

This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production codes.

Files available for download:

Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
"configure" script

   libpng-1.4.4.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   libpng-1.4.4.tar.gz
   libpng-1.4.4.tar.bz2

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

   lpng144.zip
   lpng144.7z

Other information:

   libpng-1.4.4-README.txt
   libpng-1.4.4-LICENSE.txt

Changes since the last public release (1.4.3):
  Removed extraneous new_push_process_row.c file.
  Revised the "SEE ALSO" style of libpng.3, libpngpf.3, and png.5
  Removed some newly-added TAB characters from pngpread.c.
  Fixed some indentation in pngpread.c and pngrutil.c
  Changed "extern PNG_EXPORT" to "PNG_EXPORT" in png.h (Jan Nijtmans)
  Changed "extern" to "PNG_EXTERN" in pngpriv.h (except for the 'extern "C" {')
  Put "#ifndef PNG_EXTERN, #endif" around "#define PNG_EXTERN" in pngpriv.h
  Added -DNO_PNG_SNPRINTF to CFLAGS in scripts/makefile.dj2
  Moved the definition of png_snprintf() outside of the enclosing
    #ifdef blocks in pngconf.h
  Made a special case "#define PNGAPI" in pngconf.h for WATCOM.
  Removed reference to cbuilder5/* from Makefile.in and Makefile.am
  Updated the read macros and functions from 1.5.0beta38.
  Updated projects/visualc71 so it can find scripts/pnglibconf.h
  Removed unused png_mem_* defines from pngconf.h.
  Correct use of _WINDOWS_ in pngconf.h
  Don't try to use version-script with cygwin/mingw.
  Revised contrib/gregbook to work under cygwin/mingw.
  Updated prebuilt aclocal.m4 and ltmain.sh
  Add .dll.a to the list of extensions to be symlinked by Makefile.am (Yaakov)
  Updated CMakelists.txt to use CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR variable; useful for
    installing libpng in /usr/lib64 (Funda Wang).
  Revised CMakeLists.txt to put the man pages in share/man/man* not man/man*
  Revised CMakeLists.txt to make symlinks instead of copies when installing.
  Moved "#include pngusr.h" ahead of PNG_USER_PRIVATEBUILD test in pngconf.h
  Eliminated a deprecated reference to png_ptr->io_ptr in pngtest.c
  Eliminated new unnecessary #if tests regarding the sCAL chunk from pngrutil.c
  Updated the xcode project to work with libpng-1.4.x and added iOS targets
    for simulator and device (Philippe Hausler).
  Revised autogen.sh to recognize and use $AUTOCONF, $AUTOMAKE, $AUTOHEADER,
    $AUTOPOINT, $ACLOCAL and $LIBTOOLIZE
  Rebuilt configure scripts with automake-1.11.1 instead of automake-1.11.
  Removed unused mkinstalldirs file.

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