Changes in TIFF v4.5.0 — LibTIFF 4.5.0 documentation

# Changes in TIFF v4.5.0

References
Current Version | v4.5.0 (tag v4.5.0)
Previous Version | v4.4.0
Master Download Site | https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/
Master HTTP Site #1 | http://www.simplesystems.org/libtiff/
Master HTTP Site #2 | https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/
Master HTTP Site #3 | http://libtiff.maptools.org/

This document provides a summary of significant changes made to the software between the previous and current versions (see above). A fully-detailed change summary is provided by the `ChangeLog` file included in the release package and by the Git commit history:

## Major changes

- Whole code base reformatting of .c/.h files using new .clang-format format

- Documentation changed from static HTML and man pages to Restructured Text (rst). HTML and man pages are now build artifacts.

## Software configuration changes

- SONAME version bumped to 6 due to changes in symbol versioning.

- autoconf/cmake: detect (not yet released) libjpeg-turbo 2.2 to take into its capability of handling both 8-bit JPEG and 12-bit JPEG in a single build.

- autoconf/cmake: detect sphinx-build to build HTML and man pages

- CMakeLists.txt: fix warning with -Wdev

- CMake: correctly set default value of ‘lzma’ option when liblzma is detected (issue #482)

- CMake: Moved linking of CMath::CMath into CMath_LIBRARY check.

- Fix CMake build to be compatible with FetchContent.

- cmake: Correct duplicate definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS (issue #443)

- cmake: Fixes for Visual Studio 2022.

- Adds Requires.private generation so that pkg-config can correctly find the dependencies of libtiff.

- Fix dependency on libm on Android

- cmake: libtiffxx is static on win32

- Fix build in tif_lzw.c

- CMake: Add options for disabling tools, tests, contrib and docs.

## Library changes

New/improved functionalities:

- Addition of an open option concept with the new functions `TIFFOpenExt()`, `TIFFOpenWExt()`, `TIFFFdOpenExt()`, `TIFFClientOpenExt()`, `TIFFOpenOptionsAlloc()`, `TIFFOpenOptionsFree()`

- Leveraging above mentioned open option concept, addition of a new capability to limit the size of a single dynamic memory allocation done by the library with `TIFFOpenOptionsSetMaxSingleMemAlloc()`

- Leveraging above mentioned open option concept, addition of a new capability to specify per-TIFF handle re-entrant error and warning callbacks with `TIFFOpenOptionsSetErrorHandlerExtR()` and `TIFFOpenOptionsSetWarningHandlerExtR()`

- Related to IFD-Loop detection refactoring, the number of IFDs that libtiff can browse through has been extended from 65535 to 1048576. This value is a build-time setting that can be configured with CMake’s TIFF_MAX_DIR_COUNT variable or autoconf’s –with-max-dir-count option.

API/ABI breaks:

- tdir_t type updated to uint32_t. This type is now used for the return value of `TIFFCurrentDirectory()` and `TIFFNumberOfDirectories()`, and as the argument of `TIFFSetDirectory()` and `TIFFUnlinkDirectory()`

Bug fixes:

- TIFFWriteRawStrip(): restore capabilities to append data in the current strip (issue #489)

- _TIFFReadEncodedTileAndAllocBuffer(): avoid excessive memory allocation on broken files (issue #479)

- TIFFReadRGBATileExt(): fix (unsigned) integer overflow on strips/tiles > 2 GB (oss-fuzz #53137)

- Replace sprintf calls with snprintf to fix warnings on macOS 13 SDK

- Added warning messages for FIELD_IGNORE tags for writing and for TIFF_SETGET_UNDEFINED for reading added. (issue #438)

- tif_dirinfo.c: fix TIFFTAG_CLIPPATH tag declaration (issue #439)

- tif_dirinfo.c: fix TIFFTAG_COMPRESSION and _BITSPERSAMPLE tag declaration (issue #364)

- Revised handling of TIFFTAG_INKNAMES and related TIFFTAG_NUMBEROFINKS value (issue #149, issue #150, issue #152, issue #168, issue #250, issue #269,:issue:398, CVE-2022-3599, issue #456)

- TIFFAdvanceDirectory(): fix unsigned-integer-overflow in mapped case (oss-fuzz #52309)

- Improved/fixes IFD-Loop Handling (issue #455).

- Update getimage to support large raster images.

- Presetting of default tag values extended (e.g. PlanarConfig). (issue #449)

- Deal with RichTIFFIPTC tag written with LONG type (issue #225)

- TIFFSetValue(): Writing IFD8 & LONG8 tags to ClassicTIFF corrected (issue #442)

- tif_jpeg.c: allow to pass -DEXPECTED_JPEG_LIB_VERSION=number to do optional compile-time version check

- TIFFReadFromUserBuffer(): fix clearing of TIFF_CODERSETUP flag that could cause issues with reading JPEG compressed files

- _TIFFCheckFieldIsValidForCodec(): return FALSE when passed a codec-specific tag and the codec is not configured (issue #433, issue #486, CVE-2022-34526)

- Add basic 16 bit cielab support.

- WEBP codec: avoid temporary buffer and memcpy() on whole tile/strip decoding

- tif_predict.c: make horAcc8() work with icc (ICC) 2021.6.0 20220226 -O2

## Tools changes

New/improved functionality:

- tiffinfo: Updated to parse through SubIFDs and show their tags.

Bug fixes:

- tiffcrop: add check if (bps != 1) in writeSingleSection() (issue #169)

- tiffcrop: Fix too many ‘mode’ options on command line (issue #470 and issue #450)

- tiffcrop: Fix memory allocation to require a larger buffer (issue #271, issue #381, issue #386, issue #388, issue #389, issue #435, CVE-2022-3570, CVE-2022-3598)

- tiffcrop: disable incompatibility of -Z, -X, -Y, -z options with any PAGE_MODE_x option (issue #411, CVE-2022-3627, issue #413, CVE-2022-3597, issue #426, CVE-2022-3626)

- tiffcrop: -S option mutually exclusive (issue #349, issue #414, issue #422, issue #423, issue #424)

- tiffcrop: fix floating-point exception (issue #415, issue #427, issue #428, CVE-2022-2056, CVE-2022-2057, CVE-2022-2058)

- tiff2pdf: Don’t try to seek into stdout (issue #441)

- tiffinfo: update curdir from uint16_t to tdir_t for more than 64k IFD handling.

## Contributed software changes

None