OpenEXR 1.6.0 and CTL 1.4.0 released

August 3, 2007 - New stable versions of OpenEXR and CTL are now available.
The source code has been tested on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (Visual Studio
7 and 8).  Here's a summary of the changes since the last release:

     OpenEXR 1.6.0
         - Reduced generational loss in B44- and B44A-compressed images.
         - Added B44A compression.  This is a variation of B44, but with
           a better compression ratio for images with large uniform areas,
           such as in an alpha channel.
         - Bug fixes.

     CTL 1.4.0
         - Added new functions to the CTL standard library: 3x3 matrix
           support, 1D lookup tables with cubic interpolation.
         - Added new ctlversion statement to the language.
         - Bug fixes.

     OpenEXR_CTL 1.0.0
         - Applying CTL transforms to a frame buffer is multi-threaded.
         - Bug fixes.

     OpenEXR_Viewers 1.0.0
         - Implemented new naming conventions for CTL parameters.

     IlmBase 1.0.0
         - Half now implements "round to nearest even" mode.

ilmbase-1.0.0.tar.gz, openexr-1.6.0.tar.gz and openexr_viewers-1.0.0.tar.gz
can be downloaded from

     http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/openexr

ctl-1.4.0.tar.gz and openexr_ctl-1.0.0.tar.gz can be downloaded from

     http://www.oscars.org/council/ctl.html