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@dcommander dcommander released this 31 Jan 21:57
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Packaging Changes

  • The RPM packages now contain SHA-256 header and payload digests. This fixes an issue whereby the RPM signatures could not be verified on Red Hat Enterprise Linux with FIPS mode enabled. The RPM packages now require GLIBC 2.17 or later.

Support

Code Quality: Beta
Current Support Category: EOL

Release Sponsors

This release was made possible via funding from MathWorks.

The MathWorks, Inc.

Release Notes

Significant changes relative to 2.1.5:

  1. Significantly sped up the computation of optimal Huffman tables. This speeds up the compression of tiny images by as much as 2x and provides a noticeable speedup for images as large as 256x256 when using optimal Huffman tables.

  2. All deprecated fields, constructors, and methods in the TurboJPEG Java API have been removed.

  3. Arithmetic entropy coding is now supported with 12-bit-per-component JPEG images.

  4. Overhauled the TurboJPEG API to address long-standing limitations and to make the API more extensible and intuitive:

    • All C function names are now prefixed with tj3, and all version suffixes have been removed from the function names. Future API overhauls will increment the prefix to tj4, etc., thus retaining backward API/ABI compatibility without versioning each individual function.
    • Stateless boolean flags have been replaced with stateful integer API parameters, the values of which persist between function calls. New functions/methods (tj3Set()/TJCompressor.set()/TJDecompressor.set() and tj3Get()/TJCompressor.get()/TJDecompressor.get()) can be used to set and query the value of a particular API parameter.
    • The JPEG quality and subsampling are now implemented using API parameters rather than stateless function arguments (C) or dedicated set/get methods (Java.)
    • tj3DecompressHeader() now stores all relevant information about the JPEG image, including the width, height, subsampling type, entropy coding algorithm, etc., in API parameters rather than returning that information through pointer arguments.
    • TJFLAG_LIMITSCANS/TJ.FLAG_LIMITSCANS has been reimplemented as an API parameter (TJPARAM_SCANLIMIT/TJ.PARAM_SCANLIMIT) that allows the number of scans to be specified.
    • Optimized baseline entropy coding (the computation of optimal Huffman tables, as opposed to using the default Huffman tables) can now be specified, using a new API parameter (TJPARAM_OPTIMIZE/TJ.PARAM_OPTIMIZE), a new transform option (TJXOPT_OPTIMIZE/TJTransform.OPT_OPTIMIZE), and a new TJBench option (-optimize.)
    • Arithmetic entropy coding can now be specified or queried, using a new API parameter (TJPARAM_ARITHMETIC/TJ.PARAM_ARITHMETIC), a new transform option (TJXOPT_ARITHMETIC/TJTransform.OPT_ARITHMETIC), and a new TJBench option (-arithmetic.)
    • The restart marker interval can now be specified, using new API parameters (TJPARAM_RESTARTROWS/TJ.PARAM_RESTARTROWS and TJPARAM_RESTARTBLOCKS/TJ.PARAM_RESTARTBLOCKS) and a new TJBench option (-restart.)
    • Pixel density can now be specified or queried, using new API parameters (TJPARAM_XDENSITY/TJ.PARAM_XDENSITY, TJPARAM_YDENSITY/TJ.PARAM_YDENSITY, and TJPARAM_DENSITYUNITS/TJ.PARAM_DENSITYUNITS.)
    • The accurate DCT/IDCT algorithms are now the default for both compression and decompression, since the "fast" algorithms are considered to be a legacy feature. (The "fast" algorithms do not pass the ISO compliance tests, and those algorithms are not any faster than the accurate algorithms on modern x86 CPUs.)
    • All C initialization functions have been combined into a single function (tj3Init()) that accepts an integer argument specifying the subsystems to initialize.
    • All C functions now use the const keyword for pointer arguments that point to unmodified buffers (and for both dimensions of pointer arguments that point to sets of unmodified buffers.)
    • All C functions now use size_t rather than unsigned long to represent buffer sizes, for compatibility with malloc() and to avoid disparities in the size of unsigned long between LP64 (Un*x) and LLP64 (Windows) operating systems.
    • All C buffer size functions now return 0 if an error occurs, rather than trying to awkwardly return -1 in an unsigned data type (which could easily be misinterpreted as a very large value.)
    • Decompression scaling is now enabled explicitly, using a new function/method (tj3SetScalingFactor()/TJDecompressor.setScalingFactor()), rather than implicitly using awkward "desired width"/"desired height" arguments.
    • Partial image decompression has been implemented, using a new function/method (tj3SetCroppingRegion()/TJDecompressor.setCroppingRegion()) and a new TJBench option (-crop.)
    • The JPEG colorspace can now be specified explicitly when compressing, using a new API parameter (TJPARAM_COLORSPACE/TJ.PARAM_COLORSPACE.) This allows JPEG images with the RGB and CMYK colorspaces to be created.
    • TJBench no longer generates error/difference images, since identical functionality is already available in ImageMagick.
    • JPEG images with unknown subsampling configurations can now be fully decompressed into packed-pixel images or losslessly transformed (with the exception of lossless cropping.) They cannot currently be partially decompressed or decompressed into planar YUV images.
    • tj3Destroy() now silently accepts a NULL handle.
    • tj3Alloc() and tj3Free() now return/accept void pointers, as malloc() and free() do.
    • The C image I/O functions now accept a TurboJPEG instance handle, which is used to transmit/receive API parameter values and to receive error information.

  5. Added support for 8-bit-per-component, 12-bit-per-component, and 16-bit-per-component lossless JPEG images. A new libjpeg API function (jpeg_enable_lossless()), TurboJPEG API parameters (TJPARAM_LOSSLESS/TJ.PARAM_LOSSLESS, TJPARAM_LOSSLESSPSV/TJ.PARAM_LOSSLESSPSV, and TJPARAM_LOSSLESSPT/TJ.PARAM_LOSSLESSPT), and a cjpeg/TJBench option (-lossless) can be used to create a lossless JPEG image. (Decompression of lossless JPEG images is handled automatically.) Refer to libjpeg.txt, usage.txt, and the TurboJPEG API documentation for more details.

  6. Added support for 12-bit-per-component (lossy and lossless) and 16-bit-per-component (lossless) JPEG images to the libjpeg and TurboJPEG APIs:

    • The existing data_precision field in jpeg_compress_struct and jpeg_decompress_struct has been repurposed to enable the creation of 12-bit-per-component and 16-bit-per-component JPEG images or to detect whether a 12-bit-per-component or 16-bit-per-component JPEG image is being decompressed.
    • New 12-bit-per-component and 16-bit-per-component versions of jpeg_write_scanlines() and jpeg_read_scanlines(), as well as new 12-bit-per-component versions of jpeg_write_raw_data(), jpeg_skip_scanlines(), jpeg_crop_scanline(), and jpeg_read_raw_data(), provide interfaces for compressing from/decompressing to 12-bit-per-component and 16-bit-per-component packed-pixel and planar YUV image buffers.
    • New 12-bit-per-component and 16-bit-per-component compression, decompression, and image I/O functions/methods have been added to the TurboJPEG API, and a new API parameter (TJPARAM_PRECISION/TJ.PARAM_PRECISION) can be used to query the data precision of a JPEG image. (YUV functions are currently limited to 8-bit data precision but can be expanded to accommodate 12-bit data precision in the future, if such is deemed beneficial.)
    • A new cjpeg and TJBench command-line argument (-precision) can be used to create a 12-bit-per-component or 16-bit-per-component JPEG image. (Decompression and transformation of 12-bit-per-component and 16-bit-per-component JPEG images is handled automatically.)

    Refer to libjpeg.txt, usage.txt, and the TurboJPEG API documentation for more details.

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