New in v1.8.4 (2025-06-26):
* bugfixes:
  - Updated cmake_minimum_required command to support CMake >= 3.30
  - Added support for building modern styled documentation
  - Fixed typos found with codespell
  - Case insensitive comparison of supported format specifiers

New in v1.8.3 (2022-04-22):
* bugfixes:
  - Fix regression issue when loading small images (<256 byte)

New in v1.8.2 (2022-04-09):
* bugfixes:
  - Fix for detection of VFW and GdiPlus issue
  - Fix more static analysis issues
  - Fix warning multiplication result converted to larger type
  - Fix warning local variable hides global variable
  - Add missing REQUIRED keyword in CMake build script
  - Fix for Qt6 handling in CMake build script
  - Add Qt6 dependencies to CMake package config file
  - Fix find_dependency calls in CMake package config file
  - Use PROJECT_ variables in CMake build script

New in v1.8.1 (2021-01-11):
* new:
  - Version control system has been changed from Mercurial to Git
  - Home of Coin3d organization has been changed from https://bitbucket.org/Coin3D
    to https://github.com/coin3d due to Bitbucket ending Mercurial support
  - Add Qt6 support

* bugfixes:
  - cpack.d was made optional and disabled by default (add -DSIMAGE_USE_CPACK=ON
    to the cmake commandline to enable it)
  - Miscellaneous documentation fixes
  - Add missing doxygen file for CMake
  - Include copy of GifQuantizeBuffer function from giflib
  - Fix CMake test and link libraries for CGImage
  - Fix potentially uninitialized local pointer variable
  - Add missing math library when linking against static libpng
  - Added missing welcome file
  - Add options to disable building of examples and tests
  - Link FLAC when static linking with libsndfile
  - Fix Ogg and Vorbis static link order and use separate find packages
  - Fix CoreFoundation typo in CGImage test
  - Add support for MSVC static/dynamic runtime libraries (add -DSIMAGE_USE_MSVC_STATIC_RUNTIME=ON
    to enable it)
  - Fix for pkg-config file generation
  - Fix for CMake 3.19.1 regression
  - Fix for MinGW build
  - Add option to prefer static libs for MinGW build (add -DSIMAGE_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON
    to enable it)
  - Fix for interface changes in newer giflib
  - Link LZMA and ZSTD when static linking with libtiff
  - Fix for broken ABI version on .so link

New in v1.8.0 (2019-12-23):
* new:
  - Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS ended simage as a commercial product
    and re-licensed it under the BSD 3-clause license as a service to the
    user community.
  - The build system has been migrated from GNU Autotools to CMake
  - Support for BitBucket and AppVeyor as continuous integration service providers

* bugfixes:
  - Fixed compile issues for newer libpng versions (> v1.4)
  - Fixed compile issues for newer giflib versions
  - Fixed numerous conversion warnings detected by static code analysis

New in v1.7.0 (2010-02-26):
* Added CGImage based backend on OS X.
* Added Quicktime based backend for older OS X versions.
* Added GDI+ based backend for Windows.
* Added Jasper/JPEG 2000 support.
* Added Visual Studio project files.
* Added Universal Binary support for OS X.
* Added pkg-config description.
* Added support for Windows 64-bit.
* Fixed QImage backend to work with Qt4.
* Fixed various memory leaks.
* Fixed various build system and compile/link issues.

New in v1.6.1 (2004-10-08):
* Switched resize filter from Lorenz3 to Bell filter to avoid
  some unwanted artifacts when resizing images.

New in v1.6 (2003-12-12):
* Added support for reading an image one line at a time
* Added functions for setting external dynamic loader interface
  (not currently in use)
* Disabled dysfunctional guile support

New in v1.5:
* Extended streaming interface to support seeking in a stream
* Added functions to set color component order

New in v1.4:
* Added stream interface used for reading audio

New in v1.3 (2001-12-03):
* Added simage_resize3d

New in v1.2 (2001-06-01):
* movie support
* guile binding

New in v1.1 (2001-02-05):
* save capabilities

New in v1.0 (2000-10-23):
* first release
