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Notable Changes in OpenSlide
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Version 3.4.1, 2015-04-20
* New formats: Philips TIFF, Ventana TIFF
* Support OpenJPEG 2.1.0
* Improve performance of JPEG and JP2K decoding
* Add openslide.region[i].* properties
* Improve MATLAB compatibility
* Enable function deprecation warnings with MSVC
* Many portability fixes
* aperio: Detect OpenJPEG chroma subsampling breakage during open
* aperio: Fill in missing tiles with downsampled data
* aperio: Report MPP for slides scanned in locales with decimal comma
* hamamatsu: Support NDPI files > 4 GB
* hamamatsu: Properly detect NDPI slides produced by NDP.toolkit
* hamamatsu: Support VMS/VMU slides without a NoLayers key
* hamamatsu: Report MPP for VMS/VMU
* leica: Support slides with 2010/03/10 XML namespace
* leica: Base64-decode leica.barcode property in 2010/10/01 namespace
* sakura: Support slides with multiple focal planes
* sakura: Support slides without tile table
* ventana: Support slides with multiple focal planes
* ventana: Improve positioning of AOIs within level
* ventana: Fix failure to recognize macro image on some slides
Version 3.4.0, 2014-01-25
* Major internal restructuring
* New formats: Hamamatsu NDPI, Sakura SVSLIDE, Ventana BIF (preliminary)
* Add openslide_detect_vendor()
* Deprecate openslide_can_open() (not very useful and often misused)
* Document performance considerations for openslide_open()
* Add properties giving the bounds of the non-empty region of the slide
* leica: Support multiple main images if their levels are coplanar
* leica: Use slide size as level size
* mirax: Support PNG- and BMP-formatted slides
* mirax: Fix "Expected first 0 value" error opening some slides
* mirax: Fix incorrect tile placement on some slides without overlaps
* mirax: Never synthesize downsampled levels
* Add OPENSLIDE_DEBUG environment variable (OPENSLIDE_DEBUG=? for help)
* Fix some crashes in error paths
* Add tests for many error paths
Version 3.3.3, 2013-04-13
* Fix inclusion of openslide.h with MSVC
* Properly handle Aperio JP2K slides with zero-length tiles
* Support Hamamatsu slides with blank MacroImage key
Version 3.3.2, 2012-12-01
* Fix seams in MIRAX 2.2 slides (thanks, Agelos Pappas)
* Fix associated image naming in single-level Aperio slides
* Stop decoding MIRAX tiles outside requested region
* Stop decoding unneeded tiles during tile-aligned accesses
* Increase Hamamatsu VMU tile size to reduce rendering overhead
* Document performance considerations for openslide_can_open()
Version 3.3.1, 2012-10-14
* Parallelize concurrent openslide_read_region calls on an openslide_t
* Eliminate background scanning of tile headers in MIRAX
* Scan many fewer tiles during first accesses to Hamamatsu VMS
* Ignore Leica Z-planes other than 0
* Add experimental tile-size properties
* Document API thread safety
Version 3.3.0, 2012-09-08
* Support Leica SCN format (requires libtiff >= 4) (thanks, Agelos Pappas)
* Allow opening MIRAX 2.2 slides (though there are seams, bug #92)
* Add standardized microns-per-pixel and objective-power properties
* Add "macro" associated image in Trestle
* Rename "layer" to "level" throughout the API (deprecate "layer" functions;
remove "layer" properties)
* Report parse errors in openslide_open() by returning an openslide_t in
error state
* Deprecate openslide_get_comment()
* Add openslide_get_version()
* Improve command-line tools; add manpages
* Support building with MinGW-w64; drop CMake, MSVC, mingw32
* Add tests for many error paths
Version 3.2.6, 2012-02-23
* Support downsampled MIRAX files
* Improve performance on MIRAX slides without tile overlaps
* Fix openslide_read_region for large dimensions on layer > 0
(3.2.5 regression)
* Correct subpixel error in MIRAX tile placement
* Fix unlikely use-after-free with Hamamatsu VMU
Version 3.2.5, 2011-12-16
* Support MIRAX 1.03 files (thanks, Jan Harkes)
* Fix openslide_read_region for large dimensions
* Use subpixel precision in all backends
* Don't keep associated images in memory
* Disable quickhash-1 for TIFF files with very large top layer
* Various build fixes (thanks, Jan, Marco Feuerstein, and
Mathieu Malaterre)
* Fix some unlikely memory leaks
Version 3.2.4, 2011-03-07
* Support MIRAX files that do not have non-hierarchical data
(thanks, Jan Harkes)
* Fix compilation on Windows (thanks Hauke Heibel)
* Work around a bug in GKeyFile parser (thanks, Jan)
Version 3.2.3, 2010-09-09
* Support MIRAX files that use a variant format for tile
positions (thanks, Hauke Heibel and Marco Feuerstein)
* Update location of website
* Add background color property, for slides that have it
* Update CMake scripts and other Windows fixes
(thanks Hauke and Marco)
* Fix some test.c bugs
* Fix incorrect MIRAX drawing at certain resolutions
(thanks Hauke and Marco)
* Support quickhash-1 on older systems (thanks, Jan Harkes)
Version 3.2.2, 2010-06-16
* Rework some internals of openslide_read_region
* Support negative coordinates and zero-sized dimensions
in openslide_read_region
* Clarify the documentation about openslide_read_region
* Fix Windows build bug with new NGR support
* Enable untested BigTIFF support
Version 3.2.1, 2010-06-03
* Fix crashes on Windows when trying to read Hamamatsu files
* Fix jpeg 7 problems in read_from_one_jpeg
* Quiet the error handling system after the first error
Version 3.2.0, 2010-06-01
* Add experimental CMake support and fixes for building with MSVC
(thanks to Hauke Heibel!)
* Enable detecting runtime errors
* Add initial Hamamatsu Nanozoomer VMU support
(thanks to Steve Lamont)
* Add "openslide-write-png" tool
Version 3.1.1, 2010-04-27
* Fix a crash when reading an invalid VMS file
* Fix memory leaks when reading an invalid VMS file
* Accept VMS files that have more than one focal plane (non-0 planes ignored)
* Fix bug that could cause problems with libtiff 4
* Relax the required version of Microsoft.VC80.CRT
Version 3.1.0, 2010-04-01
* Enable large file access on Windows (requires Microsoft.VC80.CRT)
* Support newer Aperio files (compression 33005)
* Be more robust in reading raw TIFF tiles
* Reject invalid TIFF files earlier
* Fix many memory leaks when probing for TIFF files
Version 3.0.3, 2010-03-01
* Fix nasty artifacts in some MIRAX files (seen at some zoom levels)
Version 3.0.2, 2010-02-17
* Restore ability to build with glib 2.12, at the expense
of not having "quickhash-1" in that configuration
Version 3.0.1, 2010-02-04
* Fix edge-drawing bug in TIFF backend
* Ship CHANGELOG.txt
Version 3.0.0, 2010-01-28
* Switch from GPLv2 to LGPLv2
* Reduce some unlikely memory leaks
* Support of more MIRAX files
* Improve performance of MIRAX rendering, vastly in some cases
* Reduce appearance of seams in MIRAX
* Add "quickhash-1" hash property
* Add "openslide-quickhash1sum" and "openslide-show-properties" tools
* Rework the API documentation
* Remove never-implemented prefetch functions from openslide.h (but
retain with warnings in the library)
* Start attempting to figure out Trestle tile position files
* Add some defined property names to the header file
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Version 2.3.1, 2009-12-14
* Eliminate Aperio regression introduced in Version 2.3.0
Version 2.3.0, 2009-12-11
* Support for generic tiled TIFF format (for InterScope files)
* Bug fixes
* Reduction of some TIFF error messages
* Fixes for some build problems
* Deprecate prefetch functions (never implemented)
Version 2.2.1, 2009-10-23
* Fixes for thread safety problems in 2.2.0
Version 2.2.0, 2009-09-15
* Thread safety (lockless with Hamamatsu and MIRAX files)
Version 2.1.0, 2009-08-18
* Support for MIRAX mrxs
Version 2.0.0, 2009-07-16
* Support for image metadata and associated images
* Support Aperio variant
* Internally rework a lot in preparation for MIRAX
* Win32 support
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Version 1.1.1, 2009-02-25
* Remove never-functional generic JPEG 2000 support
* Switch Aperio to use the released version of OpenJPEG
* Be more robust to errors in general
Version 1.1.0, 2008-12-20
* Greatly speed up Hamamatsu with a tile cache and background
scanning thread
Version 1.0.0, 2008-12-09
* Renamed to "OpenSlide"
* Multi-file Hamamatsu support
* Switch to 64-bit signed integers in public API where possible
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Version 0.5.0, 2008-10-21
* GPLv2 release
* Working Aperio support
* More work on generic JPEG 2000
Version 0.4.2, 2008-09-05
* Documentation updates
* For Aperio, remove Jasper in lieu of using OpenJPEG
* Preliminary and non-functional generic JPEG 2000 support
Version 0.4.0, 2008-03-12
* Update simple test program
Version 0.3.0, 2008-01-31
* Broken and unusably slow Aperio support
Version 0.2.0, 2008-01-19
* Using glib
* Layers are numbered instead of named
* Actual start of implementation
* Initial Trestle support
* Initial Aperio support (without tile codec)
* Initial slow and incomplete Hamamatsu support
* Initial test program
* Documentation updates
Version 0.1.0, 2007-12-06
* Unreleased, just documentation and headers (called "Wholeslide")
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