GraphicsMagick 1.2.1 Released

GraphicsMagick 1.2.1 is now available.  It is primarily a minor-bug 
fix release to fix minor issues discovered in the 1.2 package. 
However, I did manage to find some more performance robbing fat to 
trim away so 1.2.1 executes a bit faster on many small files than 1.2 
does (now over 3X faster than ImageMagick!).  Be sure to check out the 
benchmark report at 
"http://www.graphicsmagick.org/1.2/www/BENCHMARKS.html".

Read about the GraphicsMagick 1.2 release series at 
"http://www.graphicsmagick.org/1.2/".

The following are the significant changes in 1.2.1 as compared with 
1.2:

Bug fixes:

   * MAT: Provide a correct error report when the Pixels limit has been
     exceeded.

   * RPM Spec file: Fixed naming of NEWS file. Use included libltdl
     (--with-included-ltdl option) in order to avoid possible issues with
     system libltdl.

   * GraphicsMagick-config script should now output correct dependency
     information for --libs when libltdl is needed.

   * GraphicsMagick++-config no longer depends on GraphicsMagick-config to
     be in the executable search path.

Performance improvments:

   * Module loading and execution performance are improved considerably
     for the modules build. On some systems, the modules build is
     considerably faster than the static or shared builds.

Feature improvements:

   * Updated to libtool 1.2.4.

Thanks,

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
[email protected], http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/


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