tad 2.4 is released

2022-05-25

This release adds builtin support for various image formats so that libtad now does not require any external libraries to be fully usable for image and graphics projects.
Furthermore, several bugs were fixed, mainly for video decoding, csv import/export and a few exotic image file formats.

tad 2.3 is released

2022-02-03

This release improves the import of video data via FFmpeg. It now supports GPU accelerated decoding while still allowing frame-precise seeking.

tad 2.2 is released

2021-08-24

This release adds new options to the tad convert utility.

tad 2.1 is released

2021-04-22

This minor release does not change the core library functions, but improves support for the HDF5 file format and adds a copy function to the calc command of the tad utility.

tad 2.0 is released

2021-02-26

This release brings the following improvements:

• New and improved functionality for the tad command line tool, including a new calc command that allows to compute array contents using mathematical expressions and input from other arrays
• A new manual for the tad tool, including a specification of the TAD file format and of common meta data
• Examples in the libtad documentation
• Tests for the library and the command line tool via make test
• Portability improvements
• Fixes for file formats that handle only one array per file
• Fixes for the TAD::forEachElement family of functions

tad 1.3 is released

2020-10-30

This release fixes building without external libraries and improves error reporting.
This release is API and ABI compatible to previous 1.x releases.

tad 1.2 is released

2020-10-15

This release contains the following changes:

• Fix a null pointer access in HDF5 import/export
• Prevent setting invalid tags
• Fix overwriting of existing tags
• Improve support for global tags for PNG
• Add suppot for global tags for HDF5 and EXR

tad 1.1 is released

2020-09-03

This release fixes a few bugs. Most notably, tad and libtad can be build without any external dependencies. This was always intended but accidentally failed in 1.0.
This release is API and ABI compatible to 1.0.

tad 1.0 is released

2019-12-19

Starting with this release, API and ABI compatibility will be guaranteed for each major release series.
This version adds PDF import and new options -i and -o for the tad utility to set importer and exporter hints.

tad 0.6 is released

2019-12-03

This release adds CSV import and export, improves FFmpeg support, and fixes several bugs.

tad 0.5 is released

2019-11-25

This release improves HDF5 export, supports automatic rotation of JPEG and PNG images, and improves video import via FFmpeg.

tad 0.4 is released

2019-11-08

This release fixes several bugs and cleans up some interfaces.

tad 0.3 is released

2019-10-11

New in this release:

• Support for video input via FFmpeg (including frame-precise seeking!)
• Support for DICOM data input via dcmtk
• Support for FITS image data via cfitsio
• Support for geo and remote sensing data via GDAL
• Support for .hdr high-dynamic range images
• Optimized array access
• Several bug fixes

tad 0.2 is released

2019-09-20

This release adds support for TIFF and Matlab .mat import and export, fixes a few bugs, and adds optimizations.

tad 0.1 is released

2019-09-06

This is the first useful release.