------- April 1999 -------

??      Wrote load_png wrapper

??+1    Cleaned up a bit, tried getting grayscale and
        auto-MagicPink conversion working.

9       Now can read gamma from environment variable.
        Changed default gamma to 2.2.

13      Added save_png, using pieces from allpng.c

15      Fixed stupid bug I created in save_hicolour.
        Added copyright notice.
        Now uses packfile routines.
        Added #ifdef __cplusplus hack.
        Released: version 0.1.

------- December 1999 -------

22      Updated to work with Allegro 3.9.xx.
        Fixed alpha channel support.
        Added alpha.c
        test.c renamed to example.c
        Released: version 0.2

------- January 1999 -------

3       Applied fix for < 8 bpp images (thanks to Dave Dribin)
        Released: version 0.3

------- October 2000 -------

12      Updated const-correctness in accordance with Allegro.
        Released: version 0.4

------- April 2001 -------

11      "Fixed" RGB/BGR problem with loading RGBA images.
        Use GFX_AUTODETECT in examples (GFX_SAFE changed in Allegro).
        Released: version 0.5

------- July 2001 -------

13      Reverted to 0.4 codebase, as 0.5 was really broken (oops).
        Added "depth" argument to examples.
        Commented out the BGR flipping code, which was incorrect I think
          anyway.  Someone with a BGR card should check it out.
        Released: version 0.6

------- January 2002 -------

03      allegro/aintern.h -> allegro/internal/aintern.h (Allegro 4.0)
        Released: version 0.7

------- February 2002 -------

25      Fixed a problem with passing NULL for pal to load_png.
        Released: version 0.8

------- March 2002 -------

30      Tentative fixes for loading/saving RGBA images.
          Thanks to Chris Graham for reporting the problem.
        Minor changes to examples and makefile.

------- May 2002 -------

06      Added shared library (unix) and install support into makefiles,
          and cleaned them up.  Thanks to Robbert Haarman for the start.
        Minor changes for -W warnings.

07      Dave Dribin fixed a problem that surfaced with some buggy versions
          of libpng (1.0.13, 1.2.2).
        Moved the thanks section into a separate document.

08      Fixed a puny mistake in the makefile.

12      Released: version 0.9

16      Tentative fixes for sometimes-problems loading RGB images.

19      Released: version 0.10

------- September 2002 -------

03      Dave Dribin fixed two problems with images with alpha channels.

04      Released: version 0.11

------- April 2003 -------

27      Mostly incorporated Ceniza's changes (load_memory_png and loading
          from datafile support, plus an example).

28      Reworked those changes a little.

------- May 2003 -------

02      Miscellaneous changes; put examples into separate directory
          (now that we have three!).

04      Signal errors on read/write failure.
        Released: version 1.0.

20      Calling load_png with NULL for palette argument was not converting
          paletted images to high/truecolour properly.  Fixed.  Thanks to
          Lothar May for pointing it out.
        Released: version 1.1.

------- October 2003 -------

13      Changed the method of scaling of palette values from 6 bits
          to 8 bits.  Instead of just multiplying by 4, now we use
          _rgb_scale_6[] so that e.g. 0 -> 0, but 63 -> 255.
          Thanks Nicolas Lemal for the idea.
        Released: version 1.2.

16      MSVC doesn't like pointer arithmetic on void*'s, pointed out by
          Chris Condrat.
        Re-released: version 1.2 (I forgot to update version constants anyway).

------- April 2004 -------

26      Jon Rafkind suggested to use _getpixel*/_putpixel* in loader to
          speed up loading of large images.
        Split up the code into three files.  This prevents the linker pulling
          in unused code, e.g. many people don't need save_png.

28      It turns out that loadpng's origin (example.c from libpng docs) was in
          the public domain, so now loadpng is in the public domain as well.
        Released: version 1.3.

------- October 2004 -------

09      Made save_png handle non-memory bitmaps as well.

10      Fixed some bugs with load_png().  Now everything in PngSuite loads
          properly, and with correct gamma correction, except for:
          - bKGD chunks (solid background colours) are not respected.
            I chose this in the past, but I wonder if I should change it?
          - pHYs chunks (physical dimensions) are not respected.
          (BTW, this was all tested with Valgrind - no errors)

        _png_screen_gamma can now be 0.0 to disable gamma correction, i.e. if
          you don't know the screen gamma, it might be best not to guess.

        Got rid of inefficient BGR-handling hack and did things properly.

        New example: browse.c (for mass testing, e.g. PngSuite)

        Released: version 1.4pre1.

------- August 2005 -------

18      Emmanuel Anne made _png_compression_level actually work.

        Released: version 1.4.

------- April 2006 -------

9       Fix an endianness on big-endian machines, from Siarhei Siamashka.
        I haven't tested it.

        Released: version 1.5.

From December 2007, loadpng lives in the Allegro repository.
This file is no longer updated.