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  <section id="changes-in-tiff-v3-7-0">
<h1>Changes in TIFF v3.7.0<a class="headerlink" href="#changes-in-tiff-v3-7-0" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h1>
<table class="docutils align-default" id="id1">
<caption><span class="caption-text">References</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Permalink to this table">¶</a></caption>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Current Version</p></td>
<td><p>v3.7.0 (<a class="reference external" href="https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/tags/Release-v3-7-0">tag Release-v3-7-0</a>)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Previous Version</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="v3.7.0beta2.html"><span class="doc">v3.7.0beta2</span></a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Master Download Site</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference external" href="https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/">https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/</a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Master HTTP Site</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/">http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/</a></p></td>
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<p>This document describes the changes made to the software between the
<em>previous</em> and <em>current</em> versions (see above).
If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this
timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned.
The following information is located here:</p>
<section id="major-changes">
<h2>Major changes<a class="headerlink" href="#major-changes" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Several bugs found after 3.7.0beta2 release were fixed.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="software-configuration-changes">
<h2>Software configuration changes<a class="headerlink" href="#software-configuration-changes" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ltmain.sh</span></code>: Fix for MinGW compilation.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="library-changes">
<h2>Library changes<a class="headerlink" href="#library-changes" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
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<li><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_dirread.c</span></code>, <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_jpeg.c</span></code>, <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_luv.c</span></code>,
<code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_ojpeg.c</span></code>, <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_pixarlog.c</span></code>, <code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_write.c</span></code>:
Handle the zero strip/tile sizes properly (Dmitry V. Levin, Marcus Meissner).</p></li>
<li><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c</span></code>: Type of the <code class="xref c c-macro docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TIFFTAG_SUBIFD</span></code> field changed
to <code class="xref c c-enumerator docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TIFF_IFD</span></code>.</p></li>
<li><p>Preliminary support for BigTIFF files: now libtiff can
recognize and reject to open such images. ;-)</p></li>
<li><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_dir.c</span></code>: Initialize <code class="xref c c-member docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">td_tilewidth</span></code> and <code class="xref c c-member docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">td_tilelength</span></code> fields
of the <code class="xref c c-struct docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TIFFDirectory</span></code> structure with the 0 instead of -1 to avoid
confusing integer overflows in <a class="reference internal" href="../functions/TIFFtile.html#c.TIFFTileRowSize" title="TIFFTileRowSize"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TIFFTileRowSize()</span></code></a> for striped images.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_dirinfo.c</span></code>: Fix bug with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tif_foundfield</span></code> and reallocation
of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tif_fieldinfo</span></code> as per bug
<a class="reference external" href="http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630">Remote Sensing bugzilla #630 [no longer available]</a></p></li>
<li><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">libtiff/tif_compress.c</span></code>: Improved error reporting in
<a class="reference internal" href="../functions/TIFFcodec.html#c.TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs" title="TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs"><code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TIFFGetConfiguredCODECs()</span></code></a> (Dmitry V. Levin).</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="tools-changes">
<h2>Tools changes<a class="headerlink" href="#tools-changes" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tiffcmp.c</span></code> (<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">leof()</span></code>): Renamed from &quot;<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">eof</span></code>&quot; in order to avoid
conflict noticed under MinGW.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="file docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tiff2pdf.c</span></code>: Fixed <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TransferFunction</span></code> tag handling reported
by Ross A. Finlayson.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="contributed-software-changes">
<h2>Contributed software changes<a class="headerlink" href="#contributed-software-changes" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>None.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="lzw-compression-kit-changes">
<h2>LZW compression kit changes<a class="headerlink" href="#lzw-compression-kit-changes" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>This one is not longer needed.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
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