Congrats, Larry!

-- Jeremy

On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> Long overdue, I hereby designate OpenImageIO 1.0 as officially branched.
>  Major highlights of 1.0 (compared to 0.10) include:
>
>  * Support for PSD, RLA, WebP, and Cineon file formats.
>  * New ImageInput & ImageOutput methods that can efficiently read/write
>   multiple scanlines or tiles at a time.
>  * New ImageInput methods that can read a subset of channels from an image.
>  * New utility: oiiotool.  This is still a work in progress, but largely
>   subsumes the functionality of iprocess, iinfo, iconvert, idiff.
>  * Use of OpenColorIO (www.opencolorio.org) for color space conversion, if
>   detected at build time and a valid OCIO configuration is found at
> runtime.
>  * Many quality and speed improvements to the texture system.
>
> The "RB-1.0" branch is the stable release branch.  We will change it as
> needed, but generally only for bug fixes, and very important performance
> improvements or feature additions that are desperately needed by apps using
> the stable build but that are deemed very low risk for breaking existing
> functionality.  We will strive not to alter the API or change existing
> behavior that isn't obviously wrong.  In the coming days as things settle
> down (and hopefully I have a chance to beef up some documentation and do
> other cleanup), I will make an official "Release-1.0.0" tag.
>
> I will still update 0.10 with critical bug fixes, as long as people are
> dependent upon it.  In fact, I just added a couple recent texture bug fixes
> to RB-0.10 and tagged it as Release-0.10.5.
>
> As far as I know, 0.9 and earlier are no longer used by anybody, so I am
> considering them frozen unless somebody requests otherwise.
>
> The "master" trunk is now development for OIIO 1.1, and will accept API
> changes and other instabilities.  As usual, beware.  (Though, to be fair,
> SPI's internal renderer pulls OIIO straight from the trunk, so anything
> horribly broken will probably be noticed and fixed immediately.)
>
>
> --
> Larry Gritz
> [email protected]
>
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