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SAIL is rebranded ksquirrel-libs rewritten in C, improved and with high-level APIs. Ksquirrel-libs was a set of C++ image codecs for the KSquirrel image viewer. See http://ksquirrel.sourceforge.net.

See README for more.

SAIL (since 0.9.0)

0.9.0 2023-11-06

  • 20 years anniversary!
  • codecs interface has been rewritten in C
  • implemented rich C and С++ client APIs to load and save images: junior, advanced, deep diver, technical diver
  • load from everywhere: files, memory, custom I/O sources
  • codec-specific tuning options like PNG filters
  • step-by-step loading of multi-paged or animated images
  • meta data support: text comments, EXIF, ICC profiles
  • implemented conversion functions (with limitations)
  • SAIL website
  • 19 codecs in total: APNG, AVIF, BMP, CUR, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPEG2000, JPEG XL, PCX, PNG, PSD, QOI, SVG, TGA, TIFF, WAL, WEBP, XBM

ksquirrel-libs (before 0.9.0)

0.8.0 2007-12-08

  • added EPS (reading)
  • added PSP (reading)
  • 59 codecs in total
  • bugfix in PNM decoder on P3 PNMs
  • bugfix in CAMERA codec, when KSquirrel couldn't open raw fotos

0.7.5 2007-11-14

0.7.4 2007-11-05

  • no changes

0.7.3 2007-11-04

  • added DDS (reading)
  • 57 codecs in total
  • JPEG2000 decoder is much faster now
  • check for errors when external converter programs are executed

0.7.2 2007-10-17

  • added DICOM (reading, requires medcon)
  • added APNG (reading, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG)
  • 56 codecs in total
  • fixed rare crashes with some GIFs
  • added LJPEG missing data
  • added TIFF settings UI
  • SVG codec now uses rsvg-convert
  • code cleanup

0.7.1-try3 2007-09-21

  • fixed random crashes with GIFs

0.7.1-try2 2007-09-14

  • added LJPEG (reading)
  • 54 codecs in total
  • configure script now checks for libungif

0.7.1 2007-08-30

  • added XFIG (reading, transfig package is required)
  • added Degas PI3 (reading)
  • 53 codecs in total
  • added mime types
  • TTF codec is designed for freetype 2.2.1 (it should work fine at least in Debian Etch)
  • CAMERA codec now uses dcraw v8.77 without modifications, so it doesn't violate dcraw license anymore
  • bugfixes in scripts

0.7.0 2007-05-13

  • updated Qt examples

0.7.0-preview2 2007-04-09

  • added LEAF, NEO, PI1, PICT, XIM via NetPBM package
  • 51 codecs in total
  • small fixes in configure.ac

0.7.0-preview1 2007-03-09

  • added DjVu (reading, just single page via settings)
  • added AutoCAD DXF (reading, +settings)
  • added GIMP XCF (reading, +settings)
  • 46 codecs in total
  • fixed random segfaults on GIFs and some other codecs
  • CAMERA codec now uses dcraw 8.61
  • added settings support to CAMERA, SVG
  • small fixes in configure script
  • configure output is more verbose now

0.6.2 2006-01-02

  • API changes

0.6.1 2005-12-21

  • MAC, MSP, IFF, and UTAH codecs are disabled as buggy (use --enable-devel to enable them)
  • ksquirrel-libs now installs a development library and header files
  • ksquirrel-libs now must be installed before KSquirrel
  • updated documentation

0.6.0 2005-12-10

  • SVG: added ".svgz" extension
  • MNG: small fix in data types
  • KOALA: small fix in bitdepth (bitdepth was always '0')
  • security fixes

0.6.0-preview9 2005-11-09

  • added TTF fonts support (ttf, pfa, pfb...)
  • added MNG, JNG (reading)
  • added JBIG (slow, reading))
  • 43 codecs in total
  • XCUR: fixed segfault
  • PNM: small fix on pgm images
  • SGI: small improvements
  • CAMERA: new file extensions added
  • code cleanup
  • no more static libraries. Now SVG, GIF, OPENEXR, WMF, and JPEG2000 are optional

0.6.0-preview8 2005-10-10

  • autoconf script cleanup and bugfixes
  • new options in configure script: --disable-gif --disable-camera --disable-wmf --disable-svg --disable-openexr --disable-jpeg2000 --disable-mng --disable-ttf

0.6.0-preview7 2005-10-02

  • added PXR (reading)
  • 40 codecs in total
  • code cleanup
  • added numerous image filtering functions

0.6.0-preview6 2005-08-31

  • added MTV Ray-Tracer (reading, writing)
  • added AVS X (reading, writing)
  • added MAC (reading)
  • added MSP (reading)
  • 39 codecs in total
  • added writing features to PNM
  • some changes in the API
  • LIF: many bugfixes
  • SVG: removed useless "-lfontconfig" dependency which could lead to compile errors on some systems (e.g. Slackware)
  • PNG: fixed autoconf errors on some systems (e.g. Slackware)
  • added new image filtering functions

0.6.0-preview5 2005-08-11

  • added JPEG2000 (reading)
  • added OpenEXR (reading)
  • added WAL Quake2 texture (reading)
  • added MDL HalfLife model (reading)
  • added KOALA (reading)
  • added HDR (reading)
  • added LIF (reading)
  • added SCT (reading)
  • 35 codecs in total
  • CUT decoder is now not-alpha

0.6.0-preview4 2005-06-26

  • cosmetic changes

0.6.0-preview3 2005-05-27

  • added SVG (reading, requires libxml2, freetype)
  • 27 codecs in total
  • some changes in the API makes prevew2 and prevew3 not compatible
  • TGA: small fix (in v0.7.1 flipping was ON by default, in v0.7.2 flipping is determined by image header)
  • XPM: small fix in decoding mechanism
  • new mime icons
  • added image filtering C++ utils

0.6.0-preview2 2005-04-17

  • added CUT (reading)
  • added IFF (reading)
  • added WMF (reading)
  • added SUN Icon (reading)
  • added WBMP (reading)
  • added TIFF (writing)
  • added RAWRGB (reading, writing)
  • added RAW (photos from different cameras, e.g. CRW etc.) through dcraw
  • 26 codecs in total
  • changed installation path /usr/lib/squirrel -> /usr/lib/ksquirrel-libs
  • fully migrated to C++ and classes
  • added some examples (Qt, Qt+OpenGL)

0.6.0-preview1 2005-02-28

  • added interface for write functions
  • added write features for PNG, JPEG, BMP
  • PNG: fixed issues with interlaced images, fixed memory leaks
  • XPM: fixed issues with multiline comments
  • ICO: added support of bit depth 24 and 32
  • PSD: fixed issues with RGB images which have 3 channels instead of 4
  • GIF: added comments support (comment extensions)
  • PNM: fixed issues with Windows-like line breaks (\r\n)

0.5.0 2005-02-20

  • added X cursors
  • added Adobe PSD (RGB,CMYK,Grayscale,Indexed)
  • added FLI Animation
  • 18 codecs in total
  • GIF decoder is much better now (fixed issues with transparency)
  • small fixes in PNM and BMP codecs

0.5.0-preview4 2005-02-04

  • added GIF (beta, including animated)
  • 15 codecs in total
  • migrated from Makefiles to autotools
  • migrated all the rest codecs to the new C++ format
  • interlaced PNG's
  • fixed random crashing on some PNGs

0.5.0-preview2 2004-10-02

  • migrated to C++ (without classes so far)
  • have only three codecs migrated to C++: BPM, JPEG, PNG

libSQlibs (until 0.2.8.1)

0.2.8.1 2004-05-19

  • added back the license file lost in 0.2.8
  • added missing link rules for libjpeg, libpng, libtiff

0.2.8 2004-05-15

  • added Makefiles
  • added RAS
  • 14 codecs in total

0.2.4 2004-04-27

  • added LGPLv2 license
  • added ICO, PCX, PIX, PNM, SGI, XBM, XPM, XWD
  • 13 codecs in total

0.2.1 2004-04-06

  • added TGA, TIFF
  • 5 codecs in total

0.2.0 2004-03-31

  • added BMP, JPG, PNG
  • 3 codecs in total
  • codecs are written in C
  • codecs are compiled with shell scripts

0.0.0 2003-11-06

  • started active development
  • first ideas about KSquirrel were published at linux.org.ru (in Russian)