VIPS Changelog

What's new in VIPS 7.36.0

Jan 28, 2014
  • Tab indicators in nip2
  • Reduced memory use
  • Simple command-line rotate and scale
  • Improved file format support
  • libvips rewrite continues

New in VIPS 7.28 (Mar 20, 2012)

  • This release adds support for OpenSlide, adds a new read mode that reduces memory use for sequential operations on large images, adds an operation cache that can reuse old results, and improves file format support.

New in VIPS 7.24.1 (Dec 20, 2010)

  • vips now generates vector code at run-time for morphology, convolution and image add.
  • By default, vips now opens images via temporary disc files if necessary. This produces a huge drop in memory use when handling some file formats
  • nip2 has a new menu item, View / Workspace as Graph which shows you graphically how rows in your workspace interrelate.
  • vips can now load FITS images, a popular format in astronomy.
  • We've redone inplace, mask and morphology, just another 6 packages to go. See the API docs for the new stuff. The new versions are faster, more general, and have some obvious missing features added. The old API is still there for compatibility.
  • The nip2 paintbox now has selectable nib radius.
  • The TIFF reader is about twice as fast and needs 3mb less memory. The JPEG reader supports EXIF thumbnails and warns you about interlaced JPEG files.
  • Vips now uses Orc for convolution, erode, dilate and add.
  • vips has a new open mode which opens via a disc file. In the previous version, when you opened a large image in a format which did not support random access (such as JPEG), the image was uncompressed to memory and then processed from there.
  • nip2 now has a View / Workspace as Graph menu item. It uses GraphViz to show the relationships between rows in the workspace.

New in VIPS 7.22 (Sep 3, 2010)

  • Major improvements in this release are a new threading system improving SMP scaling further, a faster and prettier image repaint system, more progress with the core library rewrite, a new command line program for generating image thumbnails, support for PFM files, lower VM use, and new build systems for making Windows and Mac binaries.
  • There are also the usual set of small speedups, portability improvements, and bugfixes.

New in VIPS 7.20.5 (Nov 30, 2009)

  • Better charting system, faster, bug fixes, better documentation.

New in VIPS 7.18.1 (Apr 22, 2009)

  • New interpolation types, speed improvements, more image file types supported.

New in VIPS 7.16.3 (Nov 10, 2008)

  • New filters, UI improvements, speed improvements, language binding improvements.

New in VIPS 7.16.2 (Oct 6, 2008)

  • This is a major new stable version.
  • Features in this release include pluggable image formats, improvements to the Python binding, better progress feedback and image repaint, better batch processing, and many performance and portability improvements.