[Lcms-user] [Release candidate] Little CMS 2.13 is ready to be released

[LittleCMS c. s. <in...@li...>]

Happy new year!


I am glad  to announce the imminent release of lcms2-2.13.

The first release candidate is available here:

https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/releases/tag/lcms2.13rc1 <https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/releases/tag/lcms2.13rc1>

(Sorry, now with the right link behind the text)


Changes 

- Added support for premultiplied alpha
- tifficc can now handle alpha channels, both unassociated and premultiplied
- Better documentation
- CGATS parser can now deal with very long strings
- Added Projects for Visual Studio 2020
- Travis CI discontinued, GitHub actions used instead
- Added a very preliminary meson build script (thanks to xclaesse)
- Added ARM64 target to visual studio 2019 (thanks to gaborkertesz-linaro)
- Added thread safe code to get time
- Added automatic linear space detection 
- Added cmsGetStageContextID function
- configure now accepts --without-fastfloat to turn plugin off
- autogen.sh has now a --distclean toggle to get rid of all autotools generated files
- Checked to work on STM32 Cortex-A, Cortex-M families
- Bug & typos fixing (thanks to many reporters and contributors)


Feel free to test it on all your products, tentative release date for final lcms2-2.13 is end of Jan-2022 Please contact me on any issue either on info { at } littecms.com <mailto:in...@li...> or using this list.


Best regards
Marti Maria
The LittleCMS Project
http:\www.littlecms.com <http://www.littlecms.com/>