* libsixel 1.10.4 (2025-01-09)
 * Some bugfixes and protections. Thanks, @hzeller! Anyone interested in
   maintaining this benighted package ought contact me.
   
* libsixel 1.10.2 (2021-10-08)
 * Update python bindings to use python3. Python 3.9 is preferred. File issues
   if bugs are found in python 3.6-8. Thanks, @wsluser
   
* libsixel 1.10.1 (2021-09-18)
 * new maintainer, nick black <dankamongmen@gmail.com>
 * fix two use-after-free()s, one found by @a4865g ("WuLearn") and one
   found by myself. initialize the `out` buffer of `gif_t` objects.


                  ------------------------------
                   What's new in libsixel-1.9 ?
                  ------------------------------

* new maintainer: Fredrick R. Brennan <copypaste@kittens.ph>

* two CVE's fixed: CVE-2020-11721; CVE-2020-19668. Thanks @sleicasper,
  @peanuts62.

* merged 6 pull requests waiting for over a year upstream. One major feature:
  addition of "OR mode", supported in NetBSD. Thanks, @arakiken! Other
  contributors: @auppal, @johnnychen94, @dthadi3, @ttoda, @paulhfischer.

                  ------------------------------
                   What's new in libsixel-1.8 ?
                  ------------------------------

* python: Fix broken python interface problem(#128), reported by @fd00.

* build: Introduce VPATH build support(#56), suggested by @tkelman.

* Security fix for CVE-2019-20205 (#127), integer overflow problem,
  reported by @sleicasper.

* Security fix for CVE-2019-20056 (#126), assertion failure problem,
  reported by @sleicasper.

* Security fix for CVE-2019-20094 (#125), heap overflow problem,
  reported by @cuanduo.

* Security fix for #124, illegal longjump() call problem,
  reported by @cuanduo.

* Serucity fix for #74 and #123, access violation problem,
  reported by @HongxuChen and SuhwanSong.

* Security fix for #122, heap overflow problem,
  reported by @SuhwanSong.

* Security fix for CVE-2019-20023(#117, #119, #120), memory leaks problem,
  reported by @SuhwanSong and @gutiniao.

* Strip first flag check in LZW compression function for issue #118,
  reported by @yoichi

* Security fix for CVE-2019-11024 (#85), recursive loop problem,
  reported by @Loginsoft-Research.

* Security fix for #73, illegal memory access problem,
  reported by @HongxuChen.

* Security fix for #89, core dumped issue,
  reported by @niugx.

* Security fix for #107, large memory allocation problem,
  reported by @cuanduo.

* Security fix for #114, heap-buffer-overflow problem,
  reported by @SuhwanSong.

* Security fix for #116, heap-buffer-overflow problem,
  reported by @SuhwanSong.

* Security fix for #118, heap-buffer-overflow problem,
  reported by @SuhwanSong.

* Security fix for #121, heap-buffer-overflow problem,
  reported by @gutiniao

* Security fix for #73, illegal memory access problem,
  reported by @HongxuChen.

* Security fix for CVE-2018-19757 (#79), NULL pointer dereference problem,
  reported by @nluedtke and fixed by @knok (#91, #94).

* Security fix for CVE-2018-19762 (#81), heap-based buffer overflow problem,
  reported by @nluedtke and fixed by @knok (#92).

* Security fix for CVE-2018-19756 (#80), heap-based buffer over-read problem,
  reported by @nluedtke and fixed by @knok (#93).

* Security fix for CVE-2018-19763 (#82), heap-based buffer over-read problem,
  reported by @nluedtke and fixed by @knok (#95).

* Security fix for CVE-2018-19761, illegal address access, fixed by @knok (#96).

* Security fix for CVE-2018-19759, heap-based buffer over-read problem, fixed by @knok (#98).

* Security fix for CVE-2018-3753 (#83), infinite loop problem,
  reported by @cool-tomato and fixed by @knok (#99).

* Security fix for CVE-2018-19759 (#102),
  heap-based buffer over-read that will cause a denial of service.
  reported and fixed by @YourButterfly. (#106)

* Security fix for CVE-2019-19635 (#103), heap-based buffer overflow,
  reported and fixed by @YourButterfly. (#106)

* Security fix for CVE-2019-19636 (#104) and CVE-2019-19637 (#105), integer overflow problem.
  reported and fixed by @YourButterfly. (#106)

* gif loader: check LZW code size (Issue #75), Thanks to @HongxuChen.
              https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/7808a06b88c11dbc502318cdd51fa374f8cd47ee

* core: Fix a global-buffer-overflow problem (Issue #72), Thanks to @fgeek.
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/c868b59ec89bdb24c42a0de89e5319a989076c66

* core: Fix unexpected hangs/performance issues (Issue #76), Thanks to @HongxuChen.
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/88561b7a810017b91d26b6273323dde4b6f9b273
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/2d3d9ffe8ab886b7bc670fd896d63c628436cc66
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/c9363cd1d5929e1d721af9f09633061dfa8152fe

* core: Upgrade stb_image to 2.19.

* core: Introduce new dithering method, a_dither / x_dither (http://pippin.gimp.org/a_dither/).
        Thanks to @hodefoting.
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/pull/53

* core: Fix wrong HLS color handling.
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/0fb35d22e7ba4ed8bce3be42791e6b39c3187b89

* core: Improve quality of 15bpp(hi-color mode) dither.
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/42f34283defea67c2d6294af4bd7dcb4fdf9f046

* core: Fix memory leak problems(CVE-2018-14072, CVE-2018-14073), Thanks to @fCorleone.
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/f94bc6fec696abd77be275226f28409602bd1f27
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/84ed0bc35e273ebd0a7fbc9d8f8669f7cf5f5612

* core: Fix some heap buffer-overflow problems, Thanks to @fgeek.
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/6a19d99f95dafbbb50facf9267497afbcfba5731
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/0d70e046437370c86696f2ed38ac0413855d98ce
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/438188c1f8b418a38674364cf5c126ef3ed4166a
        https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/ba21bb94d68f8bf7dc590400a707753f5d5c4709

* img2sixel: Allow a deferred clear code in a GIF format
             GIF decoder must do nothing when the table is full.
             See Section "DEFERRED CLEAR CODE IN LZW COMPRESSION" in
             https://www.w3.org/Graphics/GIF/spec-gif89a.txt.
             Thanks to @mame.
             https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/pull/63

* img2sixel: Marks -D option (read source images from stdin continuously) as deprecated
             https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/commit/9c8ffa62203899d866fc28e3ab7c6dfd9a0019b1

* Some bug fixes and minor improvements.
  Thanks to @set135, @ttdoda, @tsutsui.

* Announcement for package maintainers:
  Immutable tarball is provided, because GitHub auto-generated tarball may be not immutable.

    https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/releases/download/v1.8.0/libsixel-1.8.0.tar.gz

  For details, see https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel/issues/64 .


                  ------------------------------
                   What's new in libsixel-1.7 ?
                  ------------------------------
* core: Upgrade stb_image to 2.12.

* core: Upgrade stb_image_write.h to v1.02.

* core: introduce canonical,fast decoder to prevent segmentation faults

* python: add row level API functions to python interface

* img2sixel: fix broken -S option

* img2sixel: fix broken animated GIF resizing feature

* example: add example/drawing

* example: add example/python

* converters: Makefile tweak from yacp(thanks to @fd00)
  https://github.com/fd00/yacp/blob/896e9bd819b373e8e99fefcec12bd85c73e7f123/libsixel/libsixel-1.6.0-1bl1.src.patch

* packaging: fix for cygport compilation


                  ------------------------------
                   What's new in libsixel-1.6 ?
                  ------------------------------
* img2sixel: Add -R(--gri-limit) option.

* configure: Fix check for gdImageCreateFromPngPtr availability(thanks to @hattya).

* core: Upgrade stb_image to 2.10.

* core: Upgrade stb_image_write.h to v1.01.

* libsixel-config: Add --datarootdir option to libsixel-config.

* img2sixel: Solve encoder option confliction between -m/-e/-I/-b.

* core: Introduce new API for output object, sixel_output_set_gri_arg_limit().

* core: Add new API: sixel_encoder_encode_bytes().


                  ------------------------------
                   What's new in libsixel-1.5 ?
                  ------------------------------
* img2sixel: Add -k(--insecure) option.

* img2sixel: Add -B(--bgcolor) option.

* core: Introduce new API for dither object, sixel_dither_set_transparent().

* core: Respect transparency of paletted images(GIF/PNG).

* core: Introduce API set for generic image maniplation:
    sixel_frame_get_pixels()
    sixel_frame_ref()
    sixel_frame_unref()
    sixel_frame_init()
    sixel_frame_get_pixels()
    sixel_frame_get_palette()
    sixel_frame_get_width()
    sixel_frame_get_height()
    sixel_frame_get_ncolors()
    sixel_frame_get_pixelformat()
    sixel_frame_get_transparent()
    sixel_frame_get_multiframe()
    sixel_frame_get_delay()
    sixel_frame_get_frame_no()
    sixel_frame_get_loop_no()
    sixel_frame_strip_alpha()
    sixel_frame_resize()
    sixel_frame_clip()

* core: Introduce API set for load/write well-known image formats:
    sixel_helper_load_image_file()
    sixel_helper_write_image_file()

* core: Add more high level APIs (File-to-File conversion API):
    sixel_encoder_create()
    sixel_encoder_ref()
    sixel_encoder_unref()
    sixel_encoder_set_cancel_flag()
    sixel_encoder_setopt()
    sixel_encoder_encode()
    sixel_decoder_create()
    sixel_decoder_ref()
    sixel_decoder_unref()
    sixel_decoder_setopt()
    sixel_decoder_decode()

* core: Introduce new APIs for semantic error handling:
    sixel_helper_set_additional_message()
    sixel_helper_get_additional_message()
    sixel_helper_format_error()

* core: Introduce custom allocator APIs:
    sixel_allocator_new()
    sixel_allocator_ref()
    sixel_allocator_unref()
    sixel_allocator_malloc()
    sixel_allocator_calloc()
    sixel_allocator_realloc()
    sixel_allocator_free()

* core: Add new constructor methods that returns SIXELSTATUS for semantic error handling:
    sixel_output_new()
    sixel_dither_new()
    sixel_frame_new()
    sixel_encoder_new()
    sixel_decoder_new()
    sixel_allocator_new()
    sixel_output_new()
    sixel_dither_new()
    sixel_frame_new()
    sixel_encoder_new()
    sixel_decoder_new()

* core: Improve processing quality of loading paletted PNG images.

* core: Improve processing quality and performance of loading GIF images.

* core: Update stb_image.h to version 2.06

* core: Update stb_image_write.h to version 0.94

* Add Python interface

* Add Perl interface (alpha)

* Add PHP interface (alpha)

* Add Ruby interface (alpha)

* Add new build helper program: libsixel-config

* A lot of bug fixes and minor improvements.
  Thanks to @msmhrt, @ttdoda, and @msmhrt.


                  ------------------------------
                   What's new in libsixel-1.4 ?
                  ------------------------------
* core: SIXEL encoder supports various pixel formats(thanks to @uobikiemukot).

* core: Supports high-color(15bpp output) mode(thanks to @arakiken).

* core: More high compressed output mode is introduced(thanks to @arakiken).

* core: Fix typoed API(thanks to @waywardmonkeys).

* core: Fix a minor performance bug(thanks to @arakiken).

* img2sixel: New option -D(--pipe-mode) is introduced.
             With this option, img2sixel continuously read source images from
             stdin.

* img2sixel: Introduce -I(--high-color) option, high-color(15bpp) output mode
             is added(thanks to @arakiken).

* img2sixel: New option -E(--encode-policy) is added. high-compressed
             mode(-E size) is introduced(thanks to @arakiken).

* img2sixel: New option -b(--builtin-palette) is added. built-in support of
             VT-340 palette is added(thanks to @vrtsds).

* img2sixel: Performance inprovement for loading 8bit indexed PNG.

* tests: 'make test' achieves 90% coverage.

* A lot of bug fixes and minor improvements.
  Thanks to @obache, @ttdoda, @vrtsds, and @msmhrt.


                   ------------------------------
                   What's new in libsixel-1.3 ?
                  ------------------------------

* Now libcurl is automatically linked to img2sixel.
  If you don't want to build with libcurl, you should configure with
  --without-libcurl option.

* Add libjpeg integration(linked automatically to img2sixel).

* Add libpng integration(linked automatically to img2sixel/sixel2png).

* Introduce -t(--palette-type) option.
  img2sixel can output HLS paletted sixel with "-t hls".
  Add new API sixel_output_set_palette_type.

* Introduce -v(--verbose) option.

* Add new API sixel_dither_set_body_only.

* Now img2sixel can load SIXEL as input data.

* Some bug fixes and minor improvements.
  Thanks to @obache and @arakiken.


                  ------------------------------
                   What's new in libsixel-1.2 ?
                  ------------------------------

* Introduce GNU Screen penetration (-P) feature written by @arakiken.
  This works with arakiken's GNU screen sixel branch
  (screen-sixel, https://bitbucket.org/arakiken/screen/branch/screen).

* Introduce crop operation (-c) feature written by @arakiken.
  This works with arakiken's w3m remoteimg branch
  https://bitbucket.org/arakiken/w3m/branch/remoteimg
  (w3m with "-sixel" option)

* Introduce -C (complexion score) option and implement complexion correction
  feature. (discussion with @tsutsui)

* Introduce static image extraction from Gif animation (-S).
  (discussion with @isaki68k)

* Introduce --enable-debug configure option.

* Add APIs for skipping DCS envelope
  sixel_output_{get,set}_skip_dcs_envelope. (disscussion with @uobikiemukot)

* Some bug fixes and minor improvements.
  Thanks to @elfring, @isaki68k, @knok, @mattn, @tsutsui, @waywardmonkeys
  and @ttdoda.