libpng 1.6.53 is out, business-as-usual

[ctruta]

Motto:
"... but it worked on my machine, and it passed CI verification also!"

Hello, everyone,

It feels refreshing to NOT announce what kinds of bad things could happen if one does NOT update libpng to the latest-and-greatest version as soon as possible. Regardless, libpng 1.6.53 is a little better than 1.6.52, which is a lot better than 1.6.51, which is so much better than 1.6.50, and those of you who've been following the libpng announcements recently will know exactly what I mean.

This time around we have two build fixes for two peculiar build scenarios. First, Alexander Smorkalov fixed a misspelled intrinsic in the RISC-V RVV code. (Spell checkers don't grok vector intrinsics, apparently.) Second, Luis Caro Campos fixed a CMake 4.1+ build failure on Windows with Visual C++ without MASM installed. Thank you!

For all other users who could build the previous version (1.6.52) without any hiccup, you should be good to go with that one, and you should be just as good to go with this one, too.

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In the good old tradition of file authentication, here are the SHA-2-256 checksums of the published archive files:

libpng-1.6.53.tar.gz
da0b045cbb1d06a8fc9696f9441359f70645f280ff24ae453ccb7c722353654f

libpng-1.6.53.tar.xz
1d3fb8ccc2932d04aa3663e22ef5ef490244370f4e568d7850165068778d98d4

lpng1653.7z
1a632b27f2dc991d9d5fb01e8e2be44e98318e80600211e456bc9ce68db346ca

lpng1653.zip
140566abc64bb2320cb35f1d154d1cb3eb7174a12234d33bfdffb446bdc0a1d2

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Sincerely,
Cosmin