About:
libpng (PNG library) is a collection of routines used to create and manipulate PNG format graphics files. The PNG format was designed as a replacement for GIF and, to a lesser extent, TIFF, with many improvements and extensions.

Author:
Glenn Randers-Pehrson [contact developer]

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8.64/10.00 (8 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5624
Tar/BZ2:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5624
Zip:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=5624
Bug tracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5624
Mirror site:
ftp://ftp.simplesystems.org/pub/png/src

Trove categories: [change]

[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved
[Topic]		Software Development :: Libraries

Dependencies: [change]
zlib (required)
[download links]

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	1.2.29	08-May-2008	OSI Approved

 Articles referencing this project

Red Hat: Updated libpng packages fix security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Oct 28th 2007 07:49 Red Hat: Updated libpng packages fix security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, May 20th 2007 11:05 Red Hat: Updated libpng packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Feb 13th 2006 09:34 Debian: New libpng packages fix several vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Oct 20th 2004 09:19 Debian: New libpng, libpng3 packages fix multiple vulnerabilities by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Aug 4th 2004 22:56

Red Hat: Updated libpng packages fix security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Wed, Aug 4th 2004 07:01 Red Hat: Updated libpng packages fix security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Fri, Jun 18th 2004 10:42 Red Hat: Updated libpng packages fix crash by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, May 20th 2004 02:41 Red Hat: Updated libpng packages fix crash by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sat, May 1st 2004 08:14 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Libpng and Gnome
by Codesurfer - Jul 4th 2000 00:51:14

After installing libpng 1.0.7 my gnome-help-browser segfaulted and the toolbars would not display any png icons. I recompiled imlib to fix the segfault problem and gdk-pixbuff to fix the display problem.

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