Changelog

Changes to ChunkyPNG over the subsequent versions since version 0.5.0:

Version 1.2.5

Edge case bugfix in Color.decompose_alpha_component that could get triggered in the change_theme_color! method.

Version 1.2.4

Added data URL importing Canvas.from_data_url.

Version 1.2.3

Added data URL exporting Canvas#to_data_url to easily use PNGs inline in CSS or HTML.

Version 1.2.2

Workaround for performance bug in REE.

Version 1.2.1

Added bicubic resampling of images.
Update resampling code to use integer math instead of floating points.

Version 1.2.0

Properly read PNG files with a tRNS chunk in color mode 0 (grayscale) or 2 (true color).

Version 1.1.2

Added Color.to_grayscale and Canvas#grayscale! to convert colors and canvases to grayscale.
Memory footprint improvement of Canvas#resample!

Version 1.1.1

Added Canvas#to_alpha_channel_bytes and Canvas#to_grayscale_stream to export raw pixel data.
Spec suite cleanup

Version 1.1.0

Add bezier curve drawing: Canvas#bezier_curve.
RDoc fixes & improvements.

Version 1.0.1

Performance improvements.

Version 1.0.0

Note: the are some API changes for this release. If you are using Canvas#compose or Canvas#replace, these methods will no longer operate in place, but will return a new canvas instance instead. The in place versions have been renamed to compose! and replace! to be more consistent with the rest of the API.

Added image resampling using the nearest neighbor algorithm: Canvas#resample.
Added circle and polygon drawing methods: Canvas#circle and Canvas#polygon.
Added in place version of Canvas#crop, Canvas#rotate_180, Canvas#flip_horizontally and Canvas#flip_vertically. Just add a bang to the method name (e.g. Canvas#crop!) and it will change the current canvas instead of returning a new one. These implementations are also more memory and CPU efficient.
Added geometry helper classes: ChunkyPNG::Point, ChunkyPNG::Dimension and ChunkyPNG::Vector.
Added a list of HTML named colors. Get them by calling ChunkyPNG::Color(:teal) or ChunkyPNG::Color('red @ 0.8')
Added encoding support for 1-, 2-, and 4-bit grayscale images.
Cleaned up auto-detection of color mode settings. It will now choose 1 bit grayscale mode if an image only contains black and white. (The other low bitrate grayscale modes are never chosen automatically.)
RDoc improvements. See rdoc.info/gems/chunky_png/frames.
ChunkyPNG is now also tested on Ruby 1.8.6.

Version 0.12.0

Added support for encoding indexed images with a low bitrate. It will automatically use less bits per pixel if possible.
Improved testing setup. ChunkyPNG is now tested on Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2, JRuby and Rubinius.

Version 0.11.0

Decoding of 1, 2 and 4 bit indexed color images.
Decoding of 1, 2 and 4 bit grayscale images.
Decoding 16 bit images. The extra bits will be discarded, so the image will be loaded as 8 bit.
Used the official PNG suite to build a more complete test suite.

Version 0.10.5

Bugfix: allow 256 instead of 255 colors for indexed images.

Version 0.10.4

Improved handling of binary encoding for strings in Ruby 1.9.

Version 0.10.3

Small fix to make grayscale use the B byte consistently.

Version 0.10.2

Another small fix for OilyPNG compatibility

Version 0.10.1

Small fix for OilyPNG compatibility

Version 0.10.0

Refactored decoding and encoding to work on binary strings instead of arrays of integers. This gives a nice speedup and uses less memory. Thanks to Yehuda Katz for the idea.

Version 0.9.2

Fixed an issue with interlaced images.

Version 0.9.1

Fixed image metadata issue when duplicating images.

Version 0.9.0

Added flip_horizontally, flip_vertically, rotate_left, rotate_right and rotate_180 to ChunkyPNG::Canvas.
Now raises ChunkyPNG::OutOfBounds exceptions when referencing coordinates outside the image bounds.
Added Gemfile for development dependency management.

Version 0.8.0

Added ChunkyPNG::Image#rect to draw simple rectangles.
Fixed composing a transparent color on a fully transparent background.

Version 0.7.3

Based on the suggestion of Dirkjan Bussink (Github: github.com/dbussink), introduced custom exception classes:
- ChunkyPNG::SignatureMismatch is raised when the PNG signature could not be found. Usually this means the the file is not a PNG image.
- ChunkyPNG::CRCMismatch is raised when the a CRC check for a chunk in the PNG file fails.
- ChunkyPNG::NotSupported is raised when the PNG image uses a feature that ChunkyPNG does not support.
- ChunkyPNG::ExpectationFailed is raised when a required expectation failed.