OpenEXR v2.2.0 Released

Ed Hanway <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.openexr.devel
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OpenEXR v2.2.0 has been released and is available for download. This release includes the following components:

OpenEXR: v2.2.0
IlmBase: v2.2.0
PyIlmBase: v2.2.0
OpenEXR_Viewers: v2.2.0

This significant new features of this release include:

DreamWorks Lossy Compression - A new high quality, high performance lossy compression codec contributed by DreamWorks Animation. This codec allows control over variable lossiness to balance visual quality and file size. This contribution also includes performance improvements that speed up the PIZ codec.

IlmImfUtil - A new library intended to aid in development of image file manipulation utilities that support the many types of OpenEXR images.

This release also includes improvements to cross-platform build support using CMake.

OpenEXR source can be obtained from the downloads section of www.openexr.com or from the project page on github: https://github.com/openexr/openexr
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