GraphicsMagick 1.2.8 is released

GraphicsMagick 1.2.8 is now available.  This is a security and bug-fix 
release to the legacy stable code on the 1.2 release branch.  It is 
intended for those who must use a 1.2 version.

See http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ for more information on 
GraphicsMagick.

The following changes (since the 1.2.7 release) are included in this 
release:

Security Fixes:

   * BMP: Fix assertion thrown for BMP files with negative image height
     values.  Resolves SF issue 2523536 "bug in bmp coder".

   * DIB: Fix assertion thrown for DIB files with negative image height
     values.

   * PCX: Detect improper rows, columns, or depth.  Fixes CVE-2008-1097
     "Memory corruption in ImageMagick's PCX coder".

   * SVG/rendering: Avoid access beyond end of array.  Resolves
     SourceForge issue 2832125 "Crash on SVG conversion".

   * Random number generator initialization was insufficient, leading
   * to predictable temporary file names.

Bug fixes:

   * DPX: Fix leak of chroma image when subsampling to 4:2:2.

   * EPT, PDF, PS: PDF bounding box is sometimes incorrect or not
     globally applicable so don't specify bounding box when reading PDF
     files.  Postscript files do need the bounding box so make sure
     that it is still supplied.  Resolves SF tracker issue 2487651
     "convert from pdf chops off rhs".

   * PNG: Ensure that opacity channel is properly initialized.
     Resolves SourceForge issue 2831240 "Possible alpha channel issue
     with PNG w/palette and tRNS".

   * TIFF: In some cases, RowsPerStrip needs to be a multiple of 16 for
     JPEG in TIFF so ensure that RowsPerStrip is a multiple of 16.

   * WMF: Eliminate memory leaks.

   * GetImageBoundingBox(): If we fail to find a smaller bounding box,
     then the returned bounding box is the entire image.

   * ReadMETAImage(): Fix memory leak of profile blob.

   * Magick++: Don't install Magick++ headers if Magick++ is disabled.

   * PerlMagick: Fix Ping of blob.

   * Utilities all: Input wildcard file specifications with a
     subdirectory component such as ``"subdir/*.dpx"`` were not
     working.  Expand ``@filename`` to a list of arguments.

   * RPM spec file: The module .la files need to be installed as part
     of the base install or else the modules will fail to load.

Feature improvements:

   * -resize: When resizing a non-opaque image, attenuate the influence
     of surrounding colors based on their degree of transparency in
     order to avoid "halos" around objects caused by colors which are
     transparent and therefore not part of the visible image.  Patch
     contributed by Pavel Merdin via SourceForge Tracker #2792322.

Performance improvments:

   * None

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

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