libAfterImage

This release adds the ability to set the root background to ascompose, effectively replacing Esetroot. It adds color2alpha transformation and a pixelization filter. It adds the ability to ascompose for continuous update of the display, allowing for things like clocks, calendars, monitor bars and so on. It adds functionality for conversion to/from DIBs as produced by Lead tools on Win32. There are numerous bugfixes.

New features include image slicing, better support for 32-bit visuals, and proper Gaussian blur with radii up to 128.

Image slicing op, better image storage, TGA support, more XML tags, shared memory images, MS windows DIB support, and many bugfixes.

This release has portability and compilation bugfixes. A nasty bug causing XImage to be only 1 pixel wide has been fixed. The documentation has been cleaned up.

This is a major bugfix release with new hue, saturation, value adjustment, and scientific data handling, and a greatly enhanced XML tool ascompose.