Changes in TIFF v3.5.1

References

Current Version

v3.5.1 (no release tag)

Previous Version

v3.4beta037 (missing release notes, go to v3.4beta036)

Master Download Site

ftp://ftp.onshore.com/pub/libtiff/

Master HTTP Site

http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/

This document describes the changes made to the software between the previous and current versions (see above). If you don't find something listed here, then it was not done in this timeframe, or it was not considered important enough to be mentioned. The following information is located here:

Software configuration changes

None.

Library changes

  • Support was added for IPTC Newsphoto metadata (TIFFTAG_IPTCNEWSPHOTO)

  • Support was added for photoshop caption handling (TIFFTAG_PHOTOSHOP)

Contributed software changes

  • Bill Radcliffe's iptcutil was added to the contrib subdirectory . It can convert an IPTC binary blob to ASCII text and vice-versa. The blob itself can be extracted from or added to an image with the ImageMagick convert (1) utility.