CHANGELOG.md

dlib 0.12.2 - 7 Nov, 2017

• Enum constants of type Vector now can be assigned to variables.
• Naming of functions in dlib.geometry.bezier is changed. bezier function is now bezierCubic, bezierCurveFunc2D is bezierVector2, bezierCurveFunc3D is bezierVector3. There are aliases with old names for backward compatibility.

dlib 0.12.1 - 28 Oct, 2017

• Fixed loading 16-bit PNG images
• Corrected Bézier function.

dlib 0.12.0 - 16 Oct, 2017

No changes since dlib 0.12.0 beta1.

dlib 0.12.0 beta1 - 9 Oct, 2017

• dlib.core
  • New module dlib.core.ownership - a Delphi-like object ownership system. Objects are registered to parent object, which automatically deletes them when gets deleted itself. In many cases this can be a convenient trade-off between fully automatic and fully manual memory management.
  • New module dlib.core.fiber - initial fibers implementation (Linux-only for now).
• dlib.container
  • Containers now use Phobos-conforming method names. Old names are still supported via aliases.
  • DynamicArray now supports inserting and removing values by arbitrary indices (insertKey and removeKey).
  • ~= operator support for LinkedList.
  • Full unittest coverage of dlib.container.array.
  • More unittests for dlib.container.dict.
• dlib.image
  • New class UnmanagedAnimatedImage - GC-free counterpart of AnimatedImage.
  • Breaking change: dlib.image.tone.contrast is now dlib.image.filters.contrast.
  • dlib.image.fthread is now based on dlib.core.thread.
• dlib.filesystem
  • File access rights in FileStat.
  • Nanosecond modification time precision support in stat under Posix.
• dlib.math
  • New direct solver (solve) in dlib.math.linsolve based on LUP decomposition.
• dlib.geometry
  • Frustum-sphere intersection test (intersectsSphere) for dlib.geometry.frustum.
• dlib.coding
  • Breaking change: dlib.coding.huffman is merged with dlib.image.io.jpeg.
• Misc
  • Added latest DMD (2.075.1, 2.076.0) and LDC (1.3.0, 1.4.0) to Travis CI config.

dlib 0.11.1 - 24 May, 2017

• Added alphaOver in dlib.image.color
• Fixed memory leak in dlib.image.io.png
• Deprecation fix: use dlib.math.transformation everywhere instead of dlib.math.affine.

dlib 0.11.0 - 3 May, 2017

Changes from beta:

• Merged idct.d with jpeg.d, use dlib.math.transformation in dlib.image.transform
• Added hdrTonemapAverageLuminance to dlib.image.hdri
• Fixed memory leak in HDR decoder

dlib 0.11.0 beta1 - 25 Apr, 2017

• dlib.core
  • New and Delete in dlib.core.memory are now based on allocators from dlib.memory. By default Mallocator is used. It is possible to switch global allocator.
• dlib.memory
  • Added GCallocator, an allocator based on on D's built-in garbage collector.
• dlib.image
  • Full-featured APNG support in dlib.image.io.png with dispose and blend operations. Saving animations to APNG is also supported.
• dlib.filesystem
  • Added traverseDir, GC-free recursive directory scanner.
• dlib.math
  • distance and distancesqr overloads for 2D vectors.
  • dlib.math.affine is now deprecated. dlib.math.transformation should be used instead.
• dlib.async
  • Fixed segfault in event loop.
• Misc
  • Removed deprecated dlib.xml package. dlib.serialization.xml should be used instead.
  • Added latest DMD (2.074.0) and LDC (1.2.0) to Travis CI config.
  • A new logo and homepage for the project: https://gecko0307.github.io/dlib.

dlib 0.10.1 - 14 Mar, 2017

• Animated images and basic APNG support (unfinished, without dispose and blend operations, saving to APNG is also missing)
• Fixed some bugs in dlib.text.slicelexer and dlib.serialization.xml. dlib.text.lexer.Lexer is now an alias to dlib.text.slicelexer.SliceLexer
• Added latest DMD (2.073.2) and LDC (1.1.0) to Travis CI config.

dlib 0.10.0 - 23 Jan, 2017

Changes from beta:

• 64-bit fix in dlib.network.socket under Windows
• Unittest fix in dlib.filesystem.local
• Code cleanup, use consistent line endings and indentations everywhere
• EditorConfig support
• dlib now compiles with DMD 2.073.0 and LDC 1.1.0-beta6.

dlib 0.10.0 beta1 - 13 Jan, 2017

• dlib.async - this new package provides a cross-platform event loop and asynchronous programming capabilities. It can be used to implement asynchronous servers. Under the hood the package is based on different multiplexing APIs: Epoll on Linux, IOCP on Windows, and Kqueue on BSD / OSX
• dlib.memory - new tools and interfaces to generalize memory allocation. There is Allocator interface, similar to Phobos' IAllocator, but simpler. There are also several implementations of this interface: Mallocator (malloc based allocator) and MmapPool (block based allocator for Posix systems with mmap/munmap support).
• dlib.serialization - a new home for XML (and, hopefully, other markup languages in future). dlib.xml is deprecated, but left with public imports for compatibility purpose
  • XML parser (dlib.serialization.xml) is now fully GC-free
• dlib.network
  • dlib.network.socket, a cross-platform socket API. Supports Windows and Posix
• dlib.image
  • Breaking change: redesign of dlib.image.hdri module. Now it supports manual memory allocation and has its own image factories. Also implemented simple tone mapping tool based on gamma compression to convert HDR images to LDR
  • Radiance HDR/RGBE format support (only loading for now)
• dlib.container
  • New module - dlib.container.buffer, an interface for input/output buffers
  • Fixed some issues in dlib.container.array
• dlib.text
  • Improved SliceLexer (fixed bug with multicharacter delimiters)
  • Added dlib.text.utils.immutableCopy
• dlib.math
  • dlib.math.vector.normal is now dlib.math.vector.planeNormal
• Other improvements
  • Added latest DMD (2.072.2) to Travis CI config.

Many thanks to Eugene Wissner for implementing dlib.async, dlib.memory and dlib.network.

dlib 0.9.2 - 11 Jun, 2016

• Fixed building with DMD 2.071.1

dlib 0.9.1 - 9 Jun, 2016

• Added SliceLexer in dlib.text
• Fixed wrong opApply in DynamicArray and Trie

dlib 0.9.0 - 23 May, 2016

Changes from beta:

• Bugfix and unittests for ArrayStream
• Fixed loading of 32-bit BMP with bitfield masks.

dlib 0.9.0 beta1 - 14 May, 2016

• dlib.network
  • A new package for networking. So far it contains only one module, dlib.network.url - an URL parser
• dlib.image
  • 2-dimensional iteration for images. Also there are now ImageRegion and ImageWindowRange that simplify writing kernel filters
  • dlib.image.transform module implements affine transformations for images: translation, rotation and scaling. Transformation with arbitrary 3x3 matrix is also possible
  • Improved BMP and TGA support: new color modes and RLE8 for BMP, saving BMP and TGA
  • Improved boxBlur
  • getPixel and setPixe in Image class are now public
• dlib.math
  • New dlib.math.tensor module implements generic multidimensional array, both with static and dynamic memory allocation
• dlib.container
  • Improved LinkedList, added range interface. Added unittests for LinkedList and DynamicArray
• dlib.text
  • UTF8Decoder and Lexer now support range interface. Added unittests for both
• Other improvements
  • Added latest DMD (2.071.0) to Travis CI config, added DUB service files to .gitignore.

dlib 0.8.1 - 13 Feb, 2016

Minor bugfix release: saveWav in dlib.audio.io.wav now uses Sound interface instead of GenericSound class.

dlib 0.8.0 - 12 Feb, 2016

Changes from beta:

• Fixed #87

dlib 0.8.0 beta1 - 7 Feb, 2016

• dlib.audio
  • dlib.audio is a new package for audio processing. Supports 8 and 16 bits per sample, arbitrary sample rate and number of channels. Includes generic sound interfaces (in-memory and streamed) and their implementations. Read more here.
  • dlib.audio.synth implements some basic sound synthesizers (sine wave and white noise)
  • dlib.audio.io.wav - uncompressed RIFF/WAV encoder and decoder
• dlib.image
  • All image filters, arithmetic operations, etc. now support manual memory management
  • New chroma key filter based on Euclidean distance (dlib.image.filters.chromakey.chromaKeyEuclidean)
  • New edge detection filter based on morphological gradient (dlib.image.filters.edgedetect.edgeDetectGradient)
  • Several important bugfixes (image convolution, lanczos and bicubic resampling, wrong deallocation of empty JPEGImage)
• dlib.core
  • Fixed erroneous deleting uninitialized thread in dlib.core.thread
• dlib.filesystem
  • Implemented missing methods in dlib.filesystem.stdfs.StdFileSystem: openForIO, openDir, createDir, remove. There is a known issue with remove: it doesn't delete directories under Windows
• Other improvements
  • Added HTML documentation generator.

dlib 0.7.1 - 2 Dec, 2015

Mostly bugfix release.

• Fixed wrong iteration of dlib.container.dict.Trie
• _allocatedMemory in dlib.core.memory is now marked as __gshared, thus working correctly with dlib.core.thread
• Fixed wrong behaviour of nextPowerOfTwo in dlib.math.utils
• Ambiguous rotation functions in dlib.math.affine and dlib.math.quaternion are renamed into rotation2D and rotationQuaternion, respectively
• Added flatten method for matrices.

dlib 0.7.0 - 2 Oct, 2015

Changes from beta:

• Fixed 64-bit issues
• dlib now compiles with latest LDC
• Continuous integration using Travis-CI: https://travis-ci.org/gecko0307/dlib

dlib 0.7.0 beta1 - 28 Sep, 2015

• dlib.core
  • Added GC-free, Phobos-independent thread module - dlib.core.thread
• dlib.text
  • A new package for GC-free text processing. Includes UTF-8 decoder (dlib.text.utf8) and general-purpose lexical analyzer (dlib.text.lexer)
• dlib.xml
  • XML parser is now GC-free and based on dlib.text.lexer
• dlib.container
  • Added GC-free LinkedList (dlib.container.linkedlist), Stack (dlib.container.stack), Queue (dlib.container.queue)
• dlib.image
  • Fixed segfault with non-transparent indexed PNG loading
• dlib.math
  • Fixed error with instancing of vectors with size larger than 4
• Other improvements
  • Added Travis-CI support

dlib 0.6.4 - 14 Sep, 2015

• Trie-based GC-free dictionary class (std.container.dict)
• Several performance optimizations in dlib.math: vector element access and multiplication for 3x3 and 4x4 matrices are now faster
• Fixed some 64-bit issues.

dlib 0.6.3 - 17 Aug, 2015

• Fixed dlib.filesystem.stdfs compilation under 64-bit systems
• Fixed PNG exporter bug with encoding non-compressible images
• Added basic drawing functions (dlib.image.render.shapes)

dlib 0.6.2 - 20 Jul, 2015

Bugfix release.

• Removed coordinates clamping on pixel write in dlib.image
• Fixed bug with PNG vertical flipping

dlib 0.6.1 - 6 Jul, 2015

• Added memory profiler
• Fixed dlib.math.sse compilation on 64-bit systems

dlib 0.6.0 - 24 Jun, 2015

• dlib.core
  • Got rid of ManuallyAllocatable interface in manual memory management for classes. Added support for deleting via interface or parent class. Deleting can be abstractized with Freeable interface
• dlib.filesystem
  • Added GC-free implementations for FileSystem and file streams
• dlib.image
  • dlib.image.unmanaged provides generalized GC-free Image class with corresponding factory function
  • JPEG decoder had been greatly improved, added more subsampling modes support, COM and APPn markers detection. Decoder now understands virtually any imaginable baseline JPEGs, including those from digital cameras
• dlib.math
  • New module dlib.math.combinatorics with factorial, hyperfactorial, permutation, combinations, lucas number and other functions
  • dlib.math.sse brings x86 SSE-based optimizations for some commonly used vector and matrix operations, namely, 4-vector arythmetics, dot and cross product, 4x4 matrix multiplication.
• dlib.container
  • DynamicArray now supports indexing (as a syntactic sugar).

dlib 0.5.3 - 5 May, 2015

• Added Protobuf-style varint implementation (dlib.coding.varint)
• Streams are now ManuallyAllocatable
• Triangle struct in dlib.geometry.triangle now has tangent vectors
• Fixed unittest build failure (#59)

dlib 0.5.2 - 25 Feb, 2015

• Automated vector type conversion (#57), modulo operator for vectors (#58)
• Fixed warning in dlib.image.io.bmp (#56)

dlib 0.5.1 - 21 Feb, 2015

Small bugfix release:

• Fixed wrong module name in dlib.geometry.frustum
• Updated license information

dlib 0.5.0 - 20 Feb, 2015

• dlib.core
  • Added manual memory management support. dlib.core.memory provide memory allocators based on standard C malloc/free. They can allocate arrays, classes and structs
  • Added prototype-based OOP system for structs (dlib.core.oop) with support for multiple inheritance and parametric polymorphism
• dlib.image
  • Image loaders are now GC-free
  • dlib.image.io.zlib and dlib.image.io.huffman modules are moved to new package dlib.coding. dlib.image.io.bitio moved to dlib.core.
  • Image allocation is based on a factory interface that abstracts over GC or MMM
  • Improved support for indexed PNGs - added alpha channel support
• dlib.container
  • Added GC-free dynamic array implementation (dlib.container.array)
  • BST and AArray now use manual memory management
• dlib.math
  • Quaternion is now based on and interchangeable with Vector via incapsulation
  • Dual quaternion support (dlib.math.dualquaternion)
  • Fixed incorrect dual number pow implementation
• dlib.geometry
  • Breaking change: Frustum plane normals are now pointing outside frustum. Also Frustum-AABB intersection API is changed
  • Fixed bugs in AABB and Plane

dlib 0.4.1 - 30 Dec, 2014

• dlib.image
  • Baseline JPEG decoder (dlib.image.io.jpeg)
• dlib.math
  • New matrix printer with proper alignment (a la Matlab)

dlib 0.4.0 - 27 Oct, 2014

• dlib.filesystem
  • Platform-specific modules are now grouped by corresponding packages (dlib.filesystem.windows, dlib.filesystem.posix)
  • findFiles is now a free function and can be used with any ReadOnlyFileSystem
• dlib.math
  • Implemented LU decomposition for matrices (dlib.math.decomposition)
  • dlib.math.linear is now dlib.math.linsolve. Added solveLU, a new LU-based direct solver
  • Matrix inversion now uses LU decomposition by default (4x performance boost compared to old analytic method). 4x4 affine matrices use an optimized inversion, which is about 6 times faster
  • dlib.math.utils now uses clamp from latest Phobos if available
  • Removed deprecated functionality
• dlib.core:
  • Moved container modules (bst, linkedlist, etc) from dlib.core to separate package dlib.container. Removed useless dlib.core.method
• Overall: improved compatibility with DMD 2.067.

dlib 0.3.3 - 31 Jul, 2014

Mainly bugfix release. Changes:

• Fixed compilation with DMD 2.066
• Added dlib.geometry.frustum
• Improved dlib.math.quaternion

dlib 0.3.2 - 11 Jun, 2014

Bugfix release. The main improvement is fixed compilation with some versions of LDC.

dlib 0.3.1 - 13 May, 2014

Bugfix release. Changes:

• Improved dlib.image, added interpolated pixel reading
• Added matrix addition and subtraction, tensorProduct now works with any matrix sizes
• Addressed many bugs in dlib.image and dlib.math.

dlib 0.3.0 - 25 Mar, 2014

• dlib.core
  • Added simple yet robust I/O streams (dlib.core.stream), which are completely Phobos-independent
• dlib.filesystem
  • Abstract FS interface and it's implementations for Windows and POSIX filesystems
• dlib.image
  • Breaking change: all pixel I/O is now floating-point (via Color4f). This gives an opportunity to define image classes of arbitrary floating-point pixel formats and enables straightforward HDRI: sample 32-bit implementation provided in dlib.image.hdri
  • Pixel iteration now can be done with row and col ranges
  • Parallel filtering is now easy with dlib.image.parallel. You can add multithreading to your existing filter code with just a few changes
  • Added support for TGA and BMP formats (only loading for now)
  • All image format I/O is now stream-based
• dlib.math
  • Breaking change: matrices in dlib.math.matrix are now column-major
  • Imporved constness support in dlib.math.vector, as well as added unittest to the module. Using new string constructor, vectors now can be parsed from strings (e.g., "[0, 1, 2]")
• Overall improvements & bugfixes
  • Much saner DUB support, addressed some serious problems with building, added configuration for pre-compiling as a static library

dlib 0.2.4 - 12 Dec, 2013

Bugfix release + added support for DMD 2.064 package modules.

dlib 0.2.3 - 6 Dec, 2013

Bugfix release. Fixed issues with compiling on 64-bit systems.

dlib 0.2.1 - 20 Nov, 2013

Bugfix release.

dlib 0.2.0 - 11 Oct, 2013

• Added XML parser (alpha quality);
• Massive refactoring of the matrix implementation. All matrix types (Matrix2x2f, Matrix3x3f, Matrix4x4f) are now specializations of generic Matrix!(T,N) struct in dlib.math.matrix;
• Updated dlib.math.dual. Vectors of dual numbers can now be created;
• Added support for Hermite curves (dlib.geometry.hermite).

dlib 0.1.2 - 18 Jul, 2013

• Renamed ColorRGBA and ColorRGBAf into Color4 and Color4f;
• Added support for image convolution. There are several built-in kernels (Identity, BoxBlur, GaussianBlur, Sharpen, Emboss, EdgeEmboss, EdgeDetect, Laplace);
• Added support for HSV color space;
• Added Chroma Keying and Color Pass filters.

dlib 0.1.1 - 13 Jul, 2013

Bugfix release.

dlib 0.1.0 - 13 Jul, 2013

Initial release.

13 Jul, 2013

Project moved to GitHub.

2012-2013

Early development on code.google.com.

28 Sep, 2012

Project started.