GraphicsMagick 1.3.46 is now available

2025-10-29T22:54:50.445000Z

After excessive delay, GraphicsMagick 1.3.46 is finally available. This release provides fixes for bugs discovered via Google's oss-fuzz fuzz testing, Coverity analysis, Clang scan-build, and user bug reports.

There has been significant work (code reduction) done in the MSL and SVG coders to help them be more secure and easier to maintain.

A significant issue when writing JPEG in the CMYK color-space has been corrected.

The PNG8 (8-bit PNG with bi-level transparency) writer has been improved, and should behave closer to its original intentions.

The TclMagick code has been significantly re-worked to correct many detected issues, get the test suite to pass, and eliminate a helper shared library. There is still more to be done for this non-popular language wrapper, but it should be quite useful for Tcl language users, or those willing to use it.

The HEIF (e.g. AVIF and HEIC) reader has been mostly re-written to use recommended APIs, but unfortunately, there is not yet writer support. Deep images are supported. There is support for returning the image in its original color-space.

The TIFF coder is transferring EXIF tags from embedded EXIF profiles in the TIFF writer so the information is not lost when converting to TIFF. Support is not entirely complete, but it is close. Much thanks to Jaroslav Fojtik for this original work.

The newer Artifex urw-base35-fonts (with long file names) are supported under Unix/Linux. Windows builds still have an issue with using these via a recent Ghostscript installation.

The EXIF parser is significantly updated to support Exif Version 3.0, as well as to do some parameter validation. Tags which fail parameter validation are ignored.

Beware that there are some significant changes in this release!

The SetImageAttribute() function no longer translates special format characters, so if this is needed, the using code needs to call TranslateText() first..

This release requires a real C'99 compatible compiler! For Microsoft Windows this means that Visual Studio 2015 or later (2019 and later is recommended) is required. Due to this, the compiled Windows binaries likely require Windows 10 or later, but they might run under Windows 8.1 if the required run-time libraries are available. Given that Microsoft has now abandoned Windows 10, support for older Windows seems like a minor issue. For UNIX systems, Solaris 10 U8 (from October 2009) is the oldest OS which may be able to compile the software.

The Autoconf-based configure script is significantly re-written to work better with pkg-config while still being able to work without it. There is a more detailed summary at the end to describe what it learned.

For the Windows build, libwmf has moved forward 24 years and is now based on the latest v0.2.13+ code.

Please report any issues which are discovered.

Some of my email addresses are currently inoperable

2025-03-05T15:43:41.559000Z

Several of my email addresses (e.g. which appear in the GraphicsMagick ChangeLog, in Mercurial commit logs, or documentation) have been hosted using a server in my residence since 1994. It has already been planned to move my mail services into the cloud. Unfortunately, there was a major wind storm yesterday, and apparently a power surge came down the line which used to be hosting GraphicsMagick in general, and which was still hosting my email. This seems to have damaged my own router as well as the Internet provider's own equipment. It is not likely that I will replace the router and it is unlikely that the Internet provider will fix their own equipment.

I will be building a new mail server in the cloud. In the mean time, project collaboration using the SourceForge web site and mailing lists continues as usual. Something which will be missing is an email message for each Mercurial commit.

GraphicsMagick Web Site Relocated

2025-01-01T23:07:46.638000Z

The GraphicsMagick web site http://www.graphicsmagick.org/ is now running on a new server. If the site still pauses or seems slow, then it is likely that DNS (Domain Name System) changes have not made it to you yet. There is now also a http://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/ site which contains files from what used to the the ftp server. While there is a lot of monthly bandwidth available, it is not clear what bandwidth management will be needed to stay within limits.

Once DNS changes are stable (there be a change to the primary name servers), I will look into what it takes to add https support using Let's Encrypt certificates.

GraphicsMagick 1.3.45 is now available

2024-08-28T19:27:59.183000Z

GraphicsMagick 1.3.45 provides fixes for a critical regression in 1.3.44. 1.3.44 added support for the Open Raster ("ORA") preview and
Dune HD AAI Image ("AAI") formats. Heap and stack overflows were fixed in the TIFF writer. An issue with the FITS reader could cause a crash. The code compiles clean with GCC 14. Various bug fixes for the JPEG, JXL, TGA, TIFF, and TXT format. Using the GNU style --version option produces GNU style simplified version output. PerlMagick adds API support for adding and removing definitions. See the full NEWS documentation for more.

GraphicsMagick 1.3.43 is now available

2024-03-23T18:27:31.472000Z

GraphicsMagick 1.3.43 introduces some new features, and fixes several bugs. The Autotools-based build now uses information from pkg-config to the maximum extent possible, yet also retains the traditional Autoconf testing mechanism as well. Support for a file write limit imposes a limit on total uncompressed bytes written to a file/blob, and behaves similar to the disk being full when the limit is hit. The TIFF format now supports a native EXIF IFD for the first frame. JPEG support is updated to support reading and writing lossy or lossless 12 bits, and lossless 16-bits when using libjpeg-turbo-3.0 Bugs were fixed, or support improved, for the BMP, JXL, TGA, and WPG formats. The bundled libjpeg and libtiff was updated in the Microsoft Windows build.

graphicsmagick.org is still down

2024-03-01T14:24:21.890000Z

Unfortunately, due to Internet service provider issues, graphicsmagick.org (as well as my simple.dallas.tx.us based email address) are essentially unusable with high packet loss. There was a period of a couple of months where things were acceptable/normal since the last outage. There is a plan to move to cloud-based hosting but there are complexities (e.g. DNS registrations/service) and not much time to attend to it given that I am working for most of the useful hours of the day on my normal day job. It is possible that service will be lost entirely today given the extreme reluctance (really active resistance) of the Internet provider (AT&T) to offer service, and that there will be an attempt to solve the issue by installing a different "modem".

graphicsmagick.org is down

2023-12-23T15:26:15.495000Z

Due to internet service provider issues, the server at graphicsmagick.org is down. This same issue is blocking email to my normal email address. It is not known when/if service will be restored. In the mean time, the GraphicsMagick web site at https://graphicsmagick.sourceforge.io/index.html may be used.

GraphicsMagick Mercurial at SourceForge and Heptapod are still updated and available.

GraphicsMagick 1.3.42 is now available

2023-09-24T14:12:31.913000Z

GraphicsMagick 1.3.42 addresses issues/regressions noted in 1.3.41. The TIFF reader no longer loses the alpha channel for files written by earlier releases. The Windows 64-bit install packages now work properly again (compiled with Visual Studio 2013 so binaries can run under older Windows releases). The BMP reader is significantly improved and can successfully read unusual variants. There is now support for JPEG compression in BMP, and the ability to read PNG-compressed BMP. Comments in PAM format now work properly. Access is provided for the PNG sub-format aliases "PNG00", "PNG48", "PNG64". We do try to make sure that each release is as least as good as before but quite aggressive validation was added for 1.3.41, and this resulted in some unforeseen issues.

Because 1.3.41 is discarded, I has been published 2 builds for WIN32 architecture

2023-08-19T13:36:55.876000Z

Because 1.3.41 was discarded, I has been published 2 builds for WIN32 architecture:
http://78.108.103.11/~fojtik/gm/GraphicsMagick-1.4.020230817-Q16-win32-dll.exe
http://78.108.103.11/~fojtik/gm/GraphicsMagick-1.4.020230817-Q8-win32-dll.exe

The problem does not occur on Win32, so you can try this.

Build based on MSVC2013 runtime:
http://78.108.103.11/~fojtik/gm/GraphicsMagick-1.4.020230821-Q8-win64-dll.exe

GraphicsMagick 1.3.41 is now available

2023-08-13T21:19:18.048000Z

GraphicsMagick 1.3.41 adds many improvements over the prior release. As usual, security issues we became aware of have been fixed. There are now writers for the obscure TopoL map image format, as well as the WPG format. The image orientation is retrieved from a EXIF embedded profile when reading the PNG and HEIF image formats. The TIFF support is updated to better support the forthcoming libtiff release, as well as providing control of the 'sense' used when writing bilevel images. A script (utilities/tests/gen-tiff-images/genimages) is provided to write (and then read) thousands (5568 permutations) of TIFF format variants, as a test, a tech demonstration, and as a source of test images to test other software. The software compiles with latest/forthcoming LibJXL. The TclMagick build scripts have been updated.

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