ANNOUNCE

Libpng 1.2.49 - March 29, 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-1.2.49.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   libpng-1.2.49.tar.gz
   libpng-1.2.49.tar.bz2

Source files with LF line endings (for Unix/Linux) without the
"configure" script

   libpng-1.2.49-no-config.tar.xz (LZMA-compressed, recommended)
   libpng-1.2.49-no-config.tar.gz
   libpng-1.2.49-no-config.tar.bz2

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

   lpng1249.zip
   lpng1249.7z
   lpng1249.tar.bz2

Project files

   libpng-1.2.49-project-netware.zip
   libpng-1.2.49-project-wince.zip

Other information:

   libpng-1.2.49-README.txt
   libpng-1.2.49-KNOWNBUGS.txt
   libpng-1.2.49-LICENSE.txt
   libpng-1.2.49-Y2K-compliance.txt
   libpng-1.2.49-[previous version]-diff.txt

Changes since the last public release (1.2.48):

version 1.2.49 [March 29, 2012]

  Revised png_set_text_2() to avoid potential memory corruption (fixes
    CVE-2011-3048).
  Prevent PNG_EXPAND+PNG_SHIFT doing the shift twice.

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