What is FreeImage? FreeImage is an Open Source library project for developers who would like to support popular graphics image formats like PNG, BMP, JPEG, TIFF and others as needed by today's multimedia applications. FreeImage is easy to use, fast, multithreading safe, compatible with all 32-bit or 64-bit versions of Windows, and cross-platform (works both with Linux and Mac OS X). read more...

News July 31st, 2018

FreeImage 3.18.0 released Release 3.18.0 is a maintenance release that mainly brings updates of its third party libraries.

The library has been updated with the new ZLib (1.2.11), LibJPEG (9c), LibPNG (1.6.35), LibTIFF (4.0.9), LibRaw (0.19.0), LibWebP (1.0.0), OpenEXR (2.2.1).

Other significant improvements concern better support for JPEG saving (when using 32-bit CMYK images) and PSD saving.

Lastly, the library contains many bug fixes provided by our users (will concern especially plugins PCX, TIFF, XPM, GIF, TARGA, PSD, BMP, DDS, PNG, HDR).

As usual, check the changes log for full details (especially for bug fixes) and check also the updated FreeImage documentation.

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