ANNOUNCE

libpng 1.6.45.git
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This is a development version, not intended to be a public release.
It will be replaced by a public release, or by another development
version, at a later time.


libpng 1.6.44 - September 12, 2024
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This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production code.


Files available for download
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Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux):

 * libpng-1.6.44.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
 * libpng-1.6.44.tar.gz (deflate-compressed)

Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows):

 * lpng1644.7z (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
 * lpng1644.zip (deflate-compressed)

Other information:

 * README.md
 * LICENSE.md
 * AUTHORS.md
 * TRADEMARK.md


Changes from version 1.6.43 to version 1.6.44
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 * Hardened calculations in chroma handling to prevent overflows, and
   relaxed a constraint in cHRM validation to accomodate the standard
   ACES AP1 set of color primaries.
   (Contributed by John Bowler)
 * Removed the ASM implementation of ARM Neon optimizations and updated
   the build accordingly. Only the remaining C implementation shall be
   used from now on, thus ensuring the support of the PAC/BTI security
   features on ARM64.
   (Contributed by Ross Burton and John Bowler)
 * Fixed the pickup of the PNG_HARDWARE_OPTIMIZATIONS option in the
   CMake build on FreeBSD/amd64. This is an important performance fix
   on this platform.
 * Applied various fixes and improvements to the CMake build.
   (Contributed by Eric Riff, Benjamin Buch and Erik Scholz)
 * Added fuzzing targets for the simplified read API.
   (Contributed by Mikhail Khachayants)
 * Fixed a build error involving pngtest.c under a custom config.
   This was a regression introduced in a code cleanup in libpng-1.6.43.
   (Contributed by Ben Wagner)
 * Fixed and improved the config files for AppVeyor CI and Travis CI.


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