
Libpng 1.5.9 - February 18, 2012

This is a public release of libpng, intended for use in production codes.

Files available for download:

Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) and with a
"configure" script

   libpng-1.5.9.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   libpng-1.5.9.tar.gz
   libpng-1.5.9.tar.bz2

Source files with CRLF line endings (for Windows), without the
"configure" script

   lpng159.7z  (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   lpng159.zip

Other information:

   libpng-1.5.9-README.txt
   libpng-1.5.9-LICENSE.txt

Changes since the last public release (1.5.8):

  Rebuilt configure scripts in the tar distributions.
  Removed two unused definitions from scripts/pnglibconf.h.prebuilt
  Removed some unused arrays (with #ifdef) from png_read_push_finish_row().
  Removed tests for no-longer-used *_EMPTY_PLTE_SUPPORTED from pngstruct.h
  Fixed CVE-2011-3026 buffer overrun bug.  Deal more correctly with the test
    on iCCP chunk length. Also removed spurious casts that may hide problems
    on 16-bit systems.

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