ANNOUNCE

Libpng 1.6.26 - October 20, 2016

This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production codes.

Files available for download:

Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
"configure" script

   libpng-1.6.26.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   libpng-1.6.26.tar.gz

Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script

   lpng1626.7z  (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   lpng1626.zip

Other information:

   libpng-1.6.26-README.txt
   libpng-1.6.26-LICENSE.txt
   libpng-1.6.26-*.asc (armored detached GPG signatures)

Changes since the last public release (1.6.25):

  Fixed handling zero length IDAT in pngfix (bug report by Agostino Sarubbo,
    bugfix by John Bowler).
  Do not issue a png_error() on read in png_set_pCAL() because png_handle_pCAL
    has allocated memory that libpng needs to free.
  Conditionally compile png_set_benign_errors() in pngread.c and pngtest.c
  Issue a png_benign_error instead of a png_error on ADLER32 mismatch
    while decoding compressed data chunks.
  Changed PNG_ZLIB_VERNUM to ZLIB_VERNUM in pngpriv.h, pngstruct.h, and
    pngrutil.c.
  If CRC handling of critical chunks has been set to PNG_CRC_QUIET_USE,
    ignore the ADLER32 checksum in the IDAT chunk as well as the chunk CRCs.
  Issue png_benign_error() on ADLER32 checksum mismatch instead of png_error().
  Add tests/badcrc.png and tests/badadler.png to tests/pngtest.
  Merged pngtest.c with libpng-1.7.0beta84/pngtest.c
  Updated the documentation about CRC and ADLER32 handling.
  Quieted 117 warnings from clang-3.8 in pngtrans.c, pngread.c,
     pngwrite.c, pngunknown.c, and pngvalid.c.
  Quieted the 144 remaining -Wconversion compiler warnings by
    revising the png_isaligned() macro and trivial changes in png.c,
    pngerror.c, pngget.c, pngmem.c, pngset.c, pngrtran.c, pngrutil.c,
    pngwtran.c, pngwrite.c, and pngwutil.c.
  Quieted (bogus?) clang warnings about "absolute value has no effect"
    when PNG_USE_ABS is defined.
  Fixed offsets in contrib/intel/intel_sse.patch
  Changed integer constant 4294967294 to unsigned 4294967294U in pngconf.h
    to avoid a signed/unsigned compare in the preprocessor.
  Use zlib-1.2.8.1 inflateValidate() instead of inflateReset2() to
    optionally avoid ADLER32 evaluation.
  Cosmetic change, "ptr != 0" to "ptr != NULL" in png.c and pngrutil.c
  Despammed email addresses (replaced "@" with " at ").

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