Hello everybody, Those of you that are following the GIT page for lcms surely have noticed a huge merge done today just few hours ago.
I've upgraded the repository to the latest development sources, which includes a big amount of changes. Those comes from a great contribution made by Artifex Software (the creators of Ghost-script) and basically it adds many improvements on multithreading. I plan to release all this very soon as lcms2-2.6, so this mail is to announce the availability of first release candidate: http://www.littlecms.com/lcms2-2.6rc0.tar.gz Only as tarball this time. If anybody can't cope with tarballs and desperately needs a zip, please let me know. You can also just wait for about two weeks, which is the intended period of scrutiny. Any feedback before the release will be greatly appreciated. Feedback after the release will be also appreciated, but changes will not made its way until 6 months. At that point I wish to thank Artifex very much for the sponsoring- without their aid, we would never have reached the functionality this release has. What is new: lcms has no longer global variables anymore. By using cmsContext, several apps can share lcms2 as a shared object and use different plug-ins, loggers and settings. Each instance has its private context, and contexts are not shared across apps. Backwards compatibility is mostly maintained but in some minor details. A compilation toggle is provided for cases where absolute backwards compatibility is required. Aside that, a new "locking" plug-in type allows to share profiles between threads reducing the contention problems that would otherwise arise by using mutex when creating transforms. Overall, a big step towards better paralellization and a big advance from the little cms project. Ant that's all for now. If no stopper is found, the release of lcms2-2.6 would happen in two weeks. Please feel free to download and check the CMM in your application, if something does not work, let us know. If it works fine, let us know as well. Weird platforms have an extra bonus. Thank you again for your great support! Best regards Marti Maria The Little CMS project http://www.littlecms.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list Lcms-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
