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tgd 4.3 is released

2024-05-30

This release fixes build problems with newer versions of external libraries, and updates the included stb_image and tinyexr libraries.

tgd 4.2 is released

2022-11-16

This release enables PDF write support and updates the included tinyexr.

tgd 4.1 is released

2022-08-30

This release fixed the optional OpenEXR and GTA input/output plugins.

tgd 4.0 is released

2022-08-29

With this release, the project is renamed to TGD instead of TAD due to a naming conflict.
Simply replace TAD with TGD in your code; nothing else has changed.
The new version 4.0 brings several updates to work with the latest versions of compilers and external libraries (if any).

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

This release is API and ABI compatible to previous 1.x releases.

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

This release is API and ABI compatible to previous 1.x releases.

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.