6.7.7 has API bugs. Why not upgrade to 6.8.5-4 which is much better?

Asked by Herbert

I've created a Go binding to ImageMagick and found out that the current Ubuntu's version (6.7.7) have some API bugs. I had to build the newer ImageMagick version in /usr/local to create the binding.

Why Ubuntu's version is so old? The last 6.7.7 release was launched 2012-06-28 6.7.7-10.

I was hoping 13.04 got some upgrade on this and nothing :(

What is blocking this upgrade?

Can I help on something? I'm interested in having an updated official package.

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Herbert (herbert-fischer) said :
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This is the diff on changelog from 6.7.7-10 to the latest version:

2013-05-01 6.8.5-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.5-4, SVN revision 12089.
2013-05-01 6.8.5-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Add DeleteImageArtifact() for jpeg:extent artifact (thanks to Jimmy Xie @ Microsoft).
Track morphology changes per thread to avoid a critical section.
2013-04-28 6.8.5-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.5-3, SVN revision 12025.
2013-04-29 6.8.5-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Add DeleteImageArtifact() for jpeg:extent artifact (thanks to Jimmy Xie @ Microsoft).
Add support for JXR / WDP image format.
2013-04-28 6.8.5-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.5-2, SVN revision 12013.
2013-04-28 6.8.5-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Use GetImageOption() for webp options (e.g. webp:lossless).
2013-04-27 6.8.5-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.5-1, SVN revision 12000.
2013-04-26 6.8.5-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Recognize xc:gray50 is non-linear.
Loop over read() until requested bytes are consumed (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=23268).
Don't use gamma lookup map when HDRI is enabled.
2013-04-24 6.8.5-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.5-0, SVN revision 11979.
2013-04-16 6.8.5-0 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Handle benign errors as warnings in the PNG coder.
2013-04-16 6.8.5-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Don't modify channel values for -separate (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23193).
The -adaptive-sharpen option is now sharpening properly (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23211).
Sometimes an image says its grayscale when its not (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23217).
Use malloc() to allocate X image data (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23221).
If there are more components than quantization tables, the last table is replicated.
Removed the ICC profile from the logo: image definition in coders/magick.c; it was a broken sRGB profile.
Negatives raised to a non-integer power returns NaN's (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23234).
2013-04-15 6.8.4-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-10, SVN revision 11851.
2013-04-11 6.8.4-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Ensure -define jpeg:extent is resticted to at most 7 iterations (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23179).
Move X11 font support from annotate.c source module to xwindow.c.
2013-04-10 6.8.4-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-9, SVN revision 11818.
2013-04-10 6.8.4-9 Bastien Roucaries <roucaries.basti...>
Respect --program-suffix configure script option (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23143).
Update to the newest AX_CHECK_PTHREAD macro from autoconf-archive.
2013-04-10 6.8.4-9 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen@griffith...>
Save the calculated angle for "deskew" as the artifact "deskew:angle"
2013-04-08 6.8.4-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Pass JP2 format type to decoder (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23038).
Previously tinting a grayscale image returned dark results.
The -page option only affects new images (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23172).
Revert 'Move binaries to lib subdirectory and link are created from binary
package' patch. We're getting too many bug reports.
2013-04-07 6.8.4-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-8, SVN revision 11743.
2013-04-06 6.8.4-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Include intensity type in the MIFF metadata.
2013-04-06 6.8.4-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-7, SVN revision 11720.
2013-04-05 6.8.4-7 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen@griffith...>
Fix -sample sampling point to midpoints of sampling areas
add a "sample:offset=" define to allow users to adjust this sampling point position in terms of percentage (default = 50x50)
2013-04-02 6.8.4-7 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Don't write a PNG gAMA or cHRM chunk when writing the iCCP or sRGB chunk.
2013-04-02 6.8.4-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Return MagickWand for the library name for Wand.pc.
The LCH colorspace makes the round-trip now.
Revert the default upsampling algortithm for JPEG (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23100).
Prevent fault when temporary directory is not-writable (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23117).
2013-04-01 6.8.4-7 Bastien Roucaries <roucaries.basti...>
Prepare X11 support as a plugin.
Fix compilation under HPUX of perlmagick
2013-04-01 6.8.4-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-6, SVN revision 11640.
2013-04-01 6.8.4-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
The -clut option return a luma grayscale instead of the expected luminance.
Add moduledir variable to MagickCore.pc to support the MagickFilter and MagickCore kits.
Caption fits the sized area (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23085).
2013-03-31 6.8.4-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-5, SVN revision 11619.
2013-03-30 6.8.4-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Fix transient bug when writing grayscale MIFF images.
Adding noise to a gray image returns a gray image as expected.
Image interlace no longer overwritten by proper cloning for GIF format.
Extract the clipping path from an image file with clip:myimage.
2013-03-29 6.8.4-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-4, SVN revision 11591.
2013-03-29 6.8.4-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Update unit test signatures for Q8.
Resolve send() / recv() socket problems under MinGW.
2013-03-28 6.8.4-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-3, SVN revision 11581.
2013-03-28 6.8.4-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Revert patch to ContrastStretchImage() to match results from 6.8.3-3.
2013-03-27 6.8.4-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-2, SVN revision 11558.
2013-03-27 6.8.4-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Use MorphologyApply() rather than MorphologyImage() for -sharpen / -blur.
2013-03-27 6.8.4-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-1, SVN revision 11552.
2013-03-26 6.8.4-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Sync 'intensity' option with current image.
Normalize sharpen kernel to match that of 6.8.3-3.
2013-03-26 6.8.4-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.4-0, SVN revision 11531.
2013-03-20 6.8.4-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Do not write zero-length TIFF tags (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22957).
Math library should be private for *.pc.in configuration files (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22986).
Do not split words for caption (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=17123).
Modify the configure script check for the webp delegate library (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=23025).
The -blur, -guassian-blur, and -sharpen are now convenience methods for -morphology convolve.
Fix infinite loop for 'display -window' (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23028).
Revert -auto-level patch to match the results of ImageMagick 6.8.3-4.
Revert g_type_init() patch in svg.c (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=23035).
2013-03-18 6.8.3-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-10, SVN revision 11413.
2013-03-15 6.8.3-10 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Added IM, libpng, and zlib version info to debug output.
2013-03-10 6.8.3-10 Bastien Roucaries <roucaries.basti...>
Move PerlMagick arch independant part to 'default' folder.
Move binaries to lib subdirectory and link are created from binary package.
2013-03-10 6.8.3-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
The TXT image format can now generate output compatible with the -sparse-color option (e.g. convert image.png sparse-color:image.txt).
Support -intensity option: method to generate an intensity value from a pixel.
Add -similarity-threshold option to the compare utility, the minimum distortion for a (sub)image match.
Avoid seq-fault in AcquireQuantumInfo() (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22973).
Comment resource initializers in magick/resource.c.
2013-03-10 6.8.3-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-9, SVN revision 11294.
2013-03-09 6.8.3-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Add a space after the LastPage option in coders/ps.c (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22940).
2013-03-08 6.8.3-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-8, SVN revision 11283.
2013-03-05 6.8.3-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
GIF comments are no longer displaced by 1 for animated GIFs (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22901).
A blur kernel with a zero sigma is unity.
2013-03-03 6.8.3-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-7, SVN revision 11249.
2013-03-02 6.8.3-7 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Do not replace gAMA found in input with 1/2.2
Avoid a libpng16 warning about storing unknown chunks.
2013-03-01 6.8.3-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Improve performance when rendering a caption.
The compare 'map' image should not be transparent.
Use only major version for decorating include path.
2013-02-28 6.8.3-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-6, SVN revision 11210.
2013-02-25 6.8.3-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Support built-in 1x1 and 2x1 threshold maps (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22861).
Check for webp version (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22867).
2013-02-25 6.8.3-6 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Relocated png_set_bKGD(), etc., after png_set_IHDR() because they might depend on members of info_ptr that are set by png_set_IHDR().
2013-02-25 6.8.3-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-5, SVN revision 11170.
2013-02-23 6.8.3-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Read the WebP extended file format (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22809).
Add arch annotation to include path to distinquish ImageMagick versions 6 & 7.
2013-02-22 6.8.3-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-4, SVN revision 11127.
2013-02-22 6.8.3-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Reduce default memory resource limit under Windows.
2013-02-19 6.8.3-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-3, SVN revision 11105.
2013-02-19 6.8.3-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Set WEBP lossless / lossy property properly (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22809).
2013-02-18 6.8.3-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-2, SVN revision 11087.
2013-02-17 6.8.3-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Semaphore is now unlocked when an X11 annotation exception is thrown.
WEBP coder enhancement and memory leak patch (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22809).
2013-02-16 6.8.3-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-1, SVN revision 11060.
2013-02-16 6.8.3-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Disable FORTIFY_SOURCE to fix a bug in LVVM / OpenMP support.
2013-02-15 6.8.3-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.3-0, SVN revision 11045.
2013-02-14 6.8.3-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Webp requires alpha, not opacity (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22793).
2013-02-12 6.8.3-0 Bastien Roucaries <roucaries.basti...>
Allow PerlMagick to be multi-quantum (e.g. Image::Magick::Q16).
2013-02-11 6.8.2-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-10, SVN revision 11004.
2013-02-11 6.8.2-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
The XPM regression tests passes now.
2013-02-09 6.8.2-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-9, SVN revision 10995.
2013-02-09 6.8.2-9 Bastien Roucaries <roucaries.basti...>
Export versioning to automake in order to use it for library prefix.
So bump was incomplete due to no changing map file.
Change abi name by adding major version to lib name (will simplify next imagemagick major version release work) and reset release version to 1 (due to changing abi name).
2013-02-09 6.8.2-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
The DOT coders now compiles with GraphViz 2.30 (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22767).
2013-02-09 6.8.2-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-8, SVN revision 10986.
2013-02-09 6.8.2-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
MagickStatisticImage() method signature was corrected, SO bump required.
2013-02-08 6.8.2-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-7, SVN revision 10965.
2013-02-08 6.8.2-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Ensure MagickCore compiles with a C++ compiler.
2013-02-07 6.8.2-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-6, SVN revision 10961.
2013-02-07 6.8.2-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Don't destroy an image that's already destroyed (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22747).
Montage is now invarient to the font when no label image label exists.
2013-02-06 6.8.2-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-5, SVN revision 10952.
2013-02-05 6.8.2-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
FITS now properly renders the 16 bit signed integer format.
2013-02-04 6.8.2-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-4, SVN revision 10909.
2013-02-02 6.8.2-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Do not subsample raw CMYK JPEG images (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22731).
2013-02-02 6.8.2-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-3, SVN revision 10894.
2013-02-01 6.8.2-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Respect endian for FITS image format.
Remove artifact when drawing a circle (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22724).
2013-02-01 6.8.2-3 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Deleted some code added to the PNG decoder in SVN revision 10825; it was failing to handle transparency in paletted images (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22720).
Compare alpha to "QuantumRange-OpaqueOpacity" not just "OpaqueOpacity" when detecting transparency in the PNG encoder.
2013-02-01 6.8.2-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-2, SVN revision 10883.
2013-01-30 6.8.2-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Properly initialize new throttle resource limit.
2013-01-29 6.8.2-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-1, SVN revision 10859.
2013-01-28 6.8.2-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Fix 'format not a string literal' problem (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22656).
2013-01-28 6.8.2-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.2-0, SVN revision 10831.
2013-01-21 6.8.2-0 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Impose a 32k limit on the number of text chunks that will be read.
Implemented PNG00, PNG48 and PNG64 PNG subformats.
Avoid reading back PNG pixel rows while reading a transparent PNG ( by using a local "alpha" value instead of GetPixelOpacity()).
2013-01-21 6.8.2-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Avoid a rare thread lock for timeout event (e.g. MAGICK_TIME_LIMIT=30).
Support a distributed pixel cache.
Fix numerical stability problem for convolution.
Increase segment stack size for -draw option.
2013-01-18 6.8.1-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-10, SVN revision 10667.
2013-01-08 6.8.1-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Add the same noise value to each channel of a grayscale image (+noise).
Fix recursive descent within XGetWindowImage() (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22550).
Multi-plane MatLab images now render properly (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22586).
2013-01-06 6.8.1-10 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Fixed LBR01 (left-bit-replication) macro in coders/png.c; problem reported by the clang compiler.
Chromaticity values were read in the wrong order in the cHRM chunk when it accompanied the sRGB chunk. Libpng applications built with libpng16 and later will detect this and issue a warning (PNG files previously written with the cHRM chunk are OK). Removed the troublesome redundant png_set_cHRM() and png_set_sRGB() calls.
Look for libpng17 and libpng16 while configuring PNG support.
2013-01-06 6.8.1-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-9, SVN revision 10518.
2013-01-06 6.8.1-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Type correction in blob code.
2013-01-02 6.8.1-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-8, SVN revision 10481.
2013-01-02 6.8.1-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Check for a density of zero when rendering with Pango (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewforum.php?f=3).
2013-01-01 6.8.1-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-7, SVN revision 10468.
2013-01-01 6.8.1-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
magick-baseconfig.h is architecture dependant; make headers quantum depth neutral ( reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22509).
2013-01-01 6.8.1-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-6, SVN revision 10461.
2012-12-31 6.8.1-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Repair numerical stability issue with gradients (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22507).
2012-12-30 6.8.1-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-5, SVN revision 10428.
2012-12-29 6.8.1-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Correction to scientific notation for the -evaluate log option (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22496).
2012-12-29 6.8.1-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-4, SVN revision 10420.
2012-12-28 6.8.1-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Support scientific notation for the -evaluate log option (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22496).
2012-12-25 6.8.1-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-3, SVN revision 10394.
2012-12-25 6.8.1-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Remove pow() dependency from public header.
2012-12-24 6.8.1-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-2, SVN revision 10385.
2012-12-23 6.8.1-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Magickcore headers recently used pow() in the inline functions inside public headers. Thus in order to avoid library depends problem, put -lm in library depends (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22483).
Negative exponentiation bug fix (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22484).
2012-12-23 6.8.1-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-1, SVN revision 10350.
2012-12-23 6.8.1-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
More large image performance tuning.
2012-12-20 6.8.1-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.1-0, SVN revision 10327.
2012-12-16 6.8.1-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Return non-zero exit status if two images differ for the compare utility.
Large image performance tuning.
2012-12-15 6.8.0-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-10, SVN revision 10236.
2012-12-13 6.8.0-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Improve exception reporting when AcquireAuthenticCacheView() fails.
2012-12-13 6.8.0-10 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen@griffith...>
Minor tweeks and commenting of Virtual Pixel shortcuts in resampling filters.
Added -define "shepards:power" to control the power setting (def=2) for Shepards Method in -distort and -sparse-color http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=22416
2012-12-13 6.8.0-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-9, SVN revision 10182.
2012-12-10 6.8.0-9 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Prepended "Acquire" and "Relinquish" to debugging log messages in magick/resource.c that only showed the filename.
Added temporary file-count diagnostics to tests/validate.c (this required exporting GetPathTemplate() from magick/resource.c
Eliminate file leak when writing the JNG image format.
2012-12-09 6.8.0-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Further support for associating quantum depth with ABI (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22352).
Check for negative square root when resampling (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22398).
2012-12-07 6.8.0-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-8, SVN revision 10118.
2012-11-28 6.8.0-8 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Fixed problem with writing grayscale PNG, bug introduced in version 6.8.0-0 or 6.8.0-1 (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22355).
2012-11-28 6.8.0-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Allow temporary-path policy to override temporary path environment variables (e.g. MAGICK_TMPDIR).
Implement symbol versioning (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22352).
ABI is incompatible if quantum depth change. Add abi indication to library name, thanks to Bastien Roucaries (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22352).
The stream utility no longer returns a black image (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22046).
2012-11-26 6.8.0-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-7, SVN revision 10029.
2012-11-25 6.8.0-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Width value is optional for label coder (e.g. -size x40 label:Magick).
2012-11-20 6.8.0-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-6, SVN revision 10024.
2012-11-21 6.8.0-6 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Fixed an old bug in chromaticity decoding in coders/bmp.c (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22294).
Fixed bug in coders/bmp.c that failed to read a paletted image properly (fix by J. Summers, reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22316).
2012-11-21 6.8.0-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Fixed bug in coders/bmp.c that failed to read transparency properly (fix by J. Summers, reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22312).
2012-11-20 6.8.0-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-5, SVN revision 10001.
2012-11-15 6.8.0-5 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen@griffith...>
Added % escape prefixes %[artifact:..] and %[option:..] Including glob search, EG: -print "__Options__\n%[option:*]" (backport from IMv7 changes)
2012-11-10 6.8.0-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Revert HCL saturation strategy patch, it improperly clips white to black.
Default to -dEPSCrop for Ghostscript unless eps:use-crop=false (reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=832690#c2).
Add support for -poly, build a polynomial from the image sequence and the corresponding terms (coefficients and degree pairs).
Support the OLE Macintosh image format (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=22257).
2012-11-08 6.8.0-5 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Implemented faster decoding of interlaced PNG images.
2012-11-03 6.8.0-5 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Skip PNG palette-building when it is not needed.
Let libpng expand sub-8-bit pixels while reading a PNG file.
2012-11-01 6.8.0-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-4, SVN revision 9832.
2012-10-31 6.8.0-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
PFM images are grayscale, not sRGB (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22178).
Keep YCbCR JPEG compressed TIFF images in the YCbCr colorspace (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22148).
2012-10-27 6.7.9-4 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Don't write sRGB chunk if image->gamma isn't close to (1/2.2), i.e., (0.45 <= gamma <= 0.46) (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22139).
2012-10-25 6.8.0-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-3, SVN revision 9783.
2012-10-21 6.8.0-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
TIFF positional information must be positive (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22106).
Set the compression quality for the Webp image format.
2012-10-21 6.8.0-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-2, SVN revision 9738.
2012-10-20 6.8.0-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Wait for more bytes if the number of returned bytes is less than requested in ReadBlob().
Prefer fullname property for font, if it exists, otherwise famly + style.
2012-10-17 6.8.0-2 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen@griffith...>
Added LanczosRadius filter, that blurs an EWA Lanczos to a integer support size. Equivalent to Lanczos in tensor resize case.
2012-10-16 6.8.0-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-1, SVN revision 9632.
2012-10-12 6.8.0-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Fix color management for the -solarize option (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22059).
Some colormap unit tests failed for a quantum depth of 32 (problem report from Glenn Randers-Pehrson).
2012-10-12 6.8.0-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.8.0-0, SVN revision 9594.
2012-10-07 6.8.0-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Check -fx expression early to prevent fault.
Performance boost for iOS / Android requires a SO major version increment.
Corrupt PNG image could cause a memory leak (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22024).
2012-10-06 6.7.9-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-10, SVN revision 9514.
2012-10-01 6.7.9-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
SVG specs says "1pt" equals "1.25px" (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21967).
Support TIFF proprietary tag 34118.
The define option is no longer "lazy" interpretation (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=22007).
2012-10-01 6.7.9-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-9, SVN revision 9473.
2012-09-27 6.7.9-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Fix memory leak in JPEG decoder when reading a corrupt image (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21948).
Add exif:thumbnail namespace to distiguish orientation tag (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21938).
Respect DPX data offsets (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21960).
2012-09-26 6.7.9-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-8, SVN revision 9437.
2012-09-24 6.7.9-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Off-by-one error in DrawPolygonPrimitive().
Fix memory leak in WebP decoder (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21943).
Certain caption phrases were cut off (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21550).
2012-09-22 6.7.9-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-7, SVN revision 9410.
2012-09-20 6.7.9-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
jpeg:sampling-factor might be an image property or an option (reference
http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21884).
2012-09-15 6.7.9-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-6, SVN revision 9375.
2012-09-14 6.7.9-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Don't compand the YCC colorspace, its already companded.
2012-09-12 6.7.9-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-5, SVN revision 9358.
2012-09-12 6.7.9-5 Nicolas Robidoux <nicolas.robidoux@gmail...>
Merge static inline Sigmoidal functions from IM7 to IM6.
2012-09-12 6.7.8-5 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen@griffith...>
All untapered windowing filters Welch and Cosine changed to use a 3 lobe support (like Lanczos). These were not part of the original 'zoom' program.
2012-09-11 6.7.9-5 Nicolas Robidoux <nicolas.robidoux@gmail...>
sigmoidal-contrast: prevent out of range argument.
2012-09-09 6.7.9-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
The number of default OpenMP threads is 1 (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=21838).
Only first image of raw grayscale image was set to GRAY (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21428).
Change sigmoidal-contrast define to inline method to conform with ANSI-C requirements.
2012-09-10 6.7.9-5 Nicolas Robidoux <nicolas.robidoux@gmail...>
enhance.c improvements:
Add tanh/atanh clone of legacy sigmoidal map (faster & more accurate);
Add final ClampToQuantum in sigmoidal colormap loop;
Remove OpenMP for threads that do not loop over rows;
Immediate no-op exit from sigmoidal-contrast if contrast<MagickEpsilon.
2012-09-08 6.7.9-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-4, SVN revision 9282.
2012-09-05 6.7.9-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Identify image files with embedded '%d' (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21798).
Don't include TIFF header for compress.c source module http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21800).
2012-09-01 6.7.9-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-3, SVN revision 9202.
2012-08-28 6.7.9-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Support -channel sync option for -equalize (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21746).
Don't remove color profile when setting the image colorspace (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21747).
Recognize ICO format in URL (e.g. http://www.google.com/favicon.ico).
Don't define HAVE_BOOLEAN for JPEG under MinGW (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=14071).
2012-08-26 6.7.9-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-2, SVN revision 9120.
2012-08-25 6.7.9-2 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Fixed bug in Q32 builds that erroneously read grayscale 16-bit PNGs as PseudoColor.
2012-08-24 6.7.9-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Support -channel option for -solarize (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21738).
2012-08-23 6.7.9-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-1, SVN revision 9095.
2012-08-22 6.7.9-1 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
The gAMA chunk with gamma==1.0 was ignored while deciding whether to set the image colorspace to GRAY when reading grayscale PNG images.
2012-08-16 6.7.9-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Adjust scaling for Luv colorspace conversion (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21664).
Copy alpha channel of the -median option (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21694).
Don't add matte channel for -coalesce if input images don't have one.
Prevent memory leak in ImageToBlob() if image write fails.
In rare cases, label would not auto-size properly (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21716).
Identify command now reports the image colorspace for non-verbose results.
Account for stroke width when rendering a caption (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21721).
Don't colorize alpha channel if it is not active (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21547
2012-08-15 6.7.9-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.9-0, SVN revision 8970.
2012-08-14 6.7.9-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
RGB -> HCL, return correct hue when g < b < r (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21646).
Prefer inkscape for best SVG compliance.
HCL -> RGB conversion enhancement (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21663).
Utilize inkscape if it is in your execution path otherwise RSVG. If neither is available, revert to the internal SVG renderer.
Initialize image->x_resolution and y_resolution to 0 in image.c (previously they were initialized to DefaultResolution, which is 72.0).
2012-08-12 6.7.8-10 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-10, SVN revision 8915.
2012-08-10 6.7.8-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Respect the image mask for option -selective-blur (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21631).
Fix multiple issues with BMPv5 colorimetry (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21640).
2012-08-10 6.7.8-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-9, SVN revision 8902.
2012-08-07 6.7.8-9 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Selective blur stopped working after version 6.7.4-10 (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21604).
Color reduction now handles transparent pixel properly (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=18463).
ClipImagePath() now returns a valid SVG XML for Windows x64 (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21617).
2012-08-05 6.7.8-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-8, SVN revision 8845.
2012-08-03 6.7.8-8 Anthony Thyssen <A.Thyssen@griffith...>
Added 2d named convolution kernel Binomial (for Fred Wienhaus)
2012-08-01 6.7.8-8 Nicolas Robidoux <nicolas.robidoux@gmail...>
Clean up sigmoidal-contrast.
2012-07-31 6.7.8-8 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Use ConcatenateString() for multi-block GIF comments.
Caption no longer chops off text (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21558).
Support LUV colorspace.
Support HCL colorspace.
Don't transform the composite image colorspace, set it instead.
Interpret -border 5% as 5% of width and 5% of height (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21537).
Don't normalize zero-sum kernels (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21584).
Transform grayscale to linear RGB if fill color is non-gray (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21586).
2012-07-30 6.7.8-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-7, SVN revision 8766.
2012-07-28 6.7.8-7 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Update certain typecasts for libpng < and >= 1.4.0 to allow memory allocation > 4GB and prevent a DOS.
2012-07-28 6.7.8-7 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Set DICOM grayscale images to the gray colorspace.
Missing grestore from ps3.c (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=20445).
Use GetMagickResourceLimit(ThreadResource) to set the # threads (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21543).
2012-07-22 6.7.8-6 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Only report sRGB, iCCP, gAMA, cHRM chunks in "identify" output when these chunks were actually present in input, and not when they were inserted by the PNG decoder.
2012-07-22 6.7.8-6 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-6, SVN revision 8720.
2012-07-21 6.7.8-6 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Make sure "intent" is initialized in the PNG decoder.
2012-07-21 6.7.8-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-5, SVN revision 8717.
2012-07-20 6.7.8-5 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Corrected an error in the logic introduced in 6.7.8-3 to always write a color PNG when image->colorspace is sRGB.
2012-07-19 6.7.8-5 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Inverse YUV colorspace now produces pure red as expected.
Support halted streams: cat image.pnm | convert 'pnm:fd:0[0]' 'pnm:fd:0[0]' x:.
2012-07-18 6.7.8-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-4, SVN revision 8697.
2012-07-17 6.7.8-4 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Write ICON subimage as PNG32, only when its dimensions are 256x256 and image->compression is UndefinedCompression or ZipCompression.
2012-07-16 6.7.8-4 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
sRGB color gradients should be in a non-linear colorspace.
Fix -fx to interpret scientific notation properly.
The draw epsilon was too sensitive.
2012-07-15 6.7.8-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-3, SVN revision 8675.
2012-07-14 6.7.8-3 Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@image...>
Always write a color PNG when image->colorspace is sRGB.
2012-07-08 6.7.8-3 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Attenuate random noise (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21387).
Return linear grayscale for gradient:white-black.
Promote linear grayscale to linear RGB when compositing.
gradient:white-black is sRGB whereas gradient:'icc-color(rgb,255,255,255)- icc-color(rgb,0,0,0)' is linear RGB whereas gradient:'gray(255)-gray(0)' is linear grayscale.
Revert sigmoidal contrast define (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=21415).
2012-07-08 6.7.8-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-2, SVN revision 8621.
2012-07-02 6.7.8-2 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Set the colorspace to linear gray when reading intensity values (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21362).
Don't overrun pixel buffer on inverse fourier for odd image widths.
Change LAB encoding to permit blurring, resize, etc. (signed A and B channel values now stored using a 50% bias)
Additional.. This removes a non-linear discontinuity from stored LAB space values. As a result you can now Blur, Compose, Resize and Distort in LAB colorspace, without problems that previously existed.
2012-07-04 6.7.8-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-1, SVN revision 8595.
2012-07-02 6.7.8-1 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
A single argument -stereo option now works as documented (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=21348).
The -separate option returns channels as linear grayscale.
Remove the sRGB color profile when converting to grayscale (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=21355).
2012-06-29 6.7.8-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
New version 6.7.8-0, SVN revision 8554.
2012-06-28 6.8.0-0 Cristy <quetzlzacatenango@image...>
Increase epsilon value, smallest difference between two points (reference http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=15870).

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I suggest you create a bug report requesting that the package be updated in the development release.
As soon as the package is updated to the current release in saucy, a backport to raring can be asked for.

You could speed up the process by creating a PPA with the up-to-date version for raring to confirm the feasibility of the upgrade.

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