- version update to 1.3.38
Special Issues:
* The FTP site ftp.graphicsmagick.org is now shut down due to a lack
of bandwith, extremely abusive users (including from Google and
customers of Amazon Web Services), and a lack of support from the
user community. Another factor is that FTP support has been removed
from popular web browsers. This is very unfortunate since the site
served multiple usages, including providing a lot of historical data
(e.g. related to PNG) which may not be available elsewhere.
* GraphicsMagick really does need some additional productive
volunteers. For several years now, the burden has entirely been on
me (Bob Friesenhahn). I have been sheparding the project for 20
years already (and contributed to ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick
combined for 26 years already). It is not reasonable to expect
someone with a full time job (and expecting to retire in a few
years) to do all of the work.
Security Fixes:
* GraphicsMagick is participating in Google's oss-fuzz project due to
the contributions and assistance of Alex Gaynor. Since February 4
2018, ??? issues have been opened by oss-fuzz and ?? issues remain
open. The issues list is available at
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/list under search term
"graphicsmagick". Issues are available for anyone to view and
duplicate if they have been in "Verified" status for 30 days, or if
they have been in "New" status for 90 days. Please consult the
GraphicsMagick ChangeLog file, Mercurial repository commit log, and
the oss-fuzz issues list for details.
Bug fixes:
* Documentation: Generator scripts in 'doc' directory now produce
similar results using GNU sed and Solaris/Illumos sed and don't