Saturday, 10 February 2007

PHP Compatible GD 2.0.34 has been released

Pierre Alain Joye has made a new entry in his blog announcing the release of PHP compatible GD2.0.34. This version is a bug-fix-only release where the known security issues have been fixed. For the uninitiated, GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD is written in C, and ‘wrappers’ are available for Perl, PHP and other languages. GD creates PNG, JPEG and GIF images, among other formats. GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and others. While not restricted to use on the web, the most common applications of GD involve web site development.

He informs you that this marks the official freeze of the 2.0.x tree, only security-related fixes will be made on this tree from now on. He also says it marks the second birth of libGD project.

The release announcement can be found here.