News
2025-04-17 - abydos 0.2.11 released
This is mostly a bug fix release. Number of supported formats increased to 243.
2023-06-10 - abydos-testsuite-3 released
This release includes a set of 274 different kinds of images. Information about how the images were created is included. The coverage tests has been converted to use meson.
2023-01-20 - abydos 0.2.10 releaseed
Premiminary support for experimental high bit depth surfaces (added in cairo 1.17.2 unstable). Removed the bundled JPEG-XL in favour of using libjxl. A new JPEG 2000 loader using Grok
was added. Also loaders for qoi, qoir and Acorn Sprites among others.2021-09-27 - abydos 0.2.9 released
This is mostly a bug fix release. Number of supported formats increased to 212, including FAXX, Fax Group 3, DataShow Graphic, DataShow Screen, DataShow Sprite, MLDF Word Perfect Graphics and YAFA.
2021-09-05 - abydos 0.2.8 released
Added a new postscript loader that (unlike libspectre) renders vector graphics. The MNG plugin has been replaced with a brand new one that (unlike libmng) can handle most features of the MNG format, interactivity excluded.
2021-07-10 - abydos 0.2.7 released
Added loaders for FUIF, JPEG-XL and PIK (due to their complexity the size of the source release file almost doubled).
2021-02-21 - abydos 0.2.6 released
Added loaders for CGM, GXPS and comic book archives (all five variants). This makes it the first relase to support every format Wikipedia lists as "commonly used vendor-independent formats
".2021-01-03 - abydos 0.2.5 released
Abart from a few bug fixed the focus for this release is to retain the same functionality, but with a lot less code. First the build system has been migrated from autoconf + make to meson (which is less than half as verbose). And secondly a lot of common code has been moved from various plugins to a shared library. This has reduced the size of the code base with over 80%! (But due to compression the release file isn't a lot smaller). Hopefully this will make maintenance easier and also make it easier for anyone reuse the code.
2020-10-25 - abydos 0.2.4 released
This is mostly a bug fix release. Number of supported formats increased to 187. The new formats are Progressive Graphics File and somewhat experimental support for Spooky Sprites and HiRes Player Missile.
2020-10-03 - abydos 0.2.3 released
MIME type aliases can be configured globally. Number of supported formats increased to 184. New supported formats include NRRD, SuperView Graphics, NeoDesk Icon and and various additional Teletext formats. Also there is a loader based on VIPS.
2020-09-06 - abydos 0.2.2 released
Number of supported formats increased to 158. New loaders include ReGIS, sixel, pkm, tiny stuff and a python based loader using PIL. Support for undocumented Deluxe Paint specific way of specifying speed in video/x-anim animations. First steps towards an API for multiscopic images.
2020-07-13 - abydos-pixbuf 0.2 released
Updated for the abydos-0.2 API changes. Added proxy loaders for AVIF, BPG, Direct Draw Surface, OpenEXR, FLIF, HEIF, MNG, PhotoShop PSD, Tencent TAP.
2020-07-11 - abydos 0.2.1 released
Number of supported formats increased to 138. This includes BPG, GX1, GX2, TheDraw save file and Quake WAD. There are also new loaders using freeimage and OpenImageIO.
2020-04-04 - abydos-testsuite-2 released
This release includes a set of 208 different kinds of images and coverage tests for abydos, Deark, FFmpeg, ImageMagick, libmagic and shared MIME database.
2020-07-03 - abydos 0.2.0 released
Improved API for handling multi page images. Priority for which plugin to use can be configured per MIME type. Number of supported formats increased to 129. This includes some major modern formats like AVIF, HEIF, HVIF and Lottie (while BPG didn't make it into this release unfortunately). There is also quite comprehensive support for the ILBM family of formats including three different types of animation.
2019-05-20 - abydos 0.1.4 released
Number of supported formats increased to 73. Some hightlights include OpenEXR, FLIF, camera raw files, Texas Instruments calculator images. And last but not least STOS packed images (first ever non-STOS reader for those files as far as I know).
2019-04-12 - abydos-testsuite-1 released
First release of abydos testsuite with with a set of 102 different kinds of images and a program that tries to convert them to either PNG, SVG or WebP (for animated images).
2019-04-12 - abydos 0.1.3 released
The number of supported formats is growing, currently 48. It includes all formats currently supported by gdk-pixbuf (inluding all third party loaders I know of). There is also support for easily saving any animation as WebP.
2018-09-12 - abydos-pixbuf 0.2 released
Just some minor fixes and simplifications.
2018-09-12 - abydos 0.1.2 released
This release adds a third GIF loader based on libnsgif (which is the recommended one to use).
2018-09-10 - abydos-pixbuf-0.1 released
Initial release of abydos-pixbuf, a set of gdk-pixbuf loaders that simply act as proxies for abydos.
2018-09-10 - abydos 0.1.1 released
This release add support for Koala, has a working and quite solid GIF animation loader.
2018-09-03 - First release
Initial open source release.
