Dear Ubuntu MOTU Developers, I came across a critical bug with the libvips42 v8.2.2 (and related libvips-dev) packaged in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
As explained in this thread[1], this version of the library has a major memory leak that causes a long-running program to consume very large amount of RAM, eventually crashing. This behavior has been observed in a Python script using the most recent pyvips from pip (2.1.5), but after compilig the latest libvips (8.7.4) the script did not cause a leak (with a caveat, see thread). I would suggest to update the libvips42 and libvips-dev packages with the latest stable release (just curious: what is the "42" in the package name?) Thank you, Stefano Cossu [1] https://github.com/libvips/pyvips/issues/88 -- Ubuntu-motu mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-motu
