Wand Changelog

Version 0.3.0

Released on June 17, 2013.

See also

What’s new in Wand 0.3?

This guide introduces what’s new in Wand 0.3.

• Now also works on Python 2.6, 2.7, and 3.2 or higher.
• Added wand.drawing module. [#64 by Adrian Jung]
• Added Drawing.get_font_metrics() method. [#69, #71 by Cha, Hojeong]
• Added Image.caption() method. [#74 by Cha, Hojeong]
• Added optional color parameter to Image.trim() method.
• Added Image.border() method. [2496d37f75d75e9425f95dde07033217dc8afefc by Jae-Myoung Yu]
• Added resolution parameter to Image.read() method and the constructor of Image. [#75 by Andrey Antukh]
• Added Image.liquid_rescale() method which does seam carving. See also Seam carving (also known as content-aware resizing).
• Added Image.metadata immutable mapping attribute and Metadata mapping type for it. [#56 by Michael Elovskikh]
• Added Image.channel_images immutable mapping attribute and ChannelImageDict mapping for it.
• Added Image.channel_depths immutable mapping attribute and ChannelDepthDict mapping for it.
• Added Image.composite_channel() method.
• Added Image.read() method. [#58 by Piotr Florczyk]
• Added Image.resolution property. [#58 by Piotr Florczyk]
• Added Image.blank() method. [#60 by Piotr Florczyk]
• Fixed several memory leaks. [#62 by Mitch Lindgren]
• Added ImageProperty mixin class to maintain a weak reference to the parent image.
• Ranamed wand.image.COMPOSITE_OPS to COMPOSITE_OPERATORS.
• Now it shows helpful error message when ImageMagick library cannot be found.
• Added IPython-specialized formatter.
• Added QUANTUM_DEPTH constant.
• Added these properties to Color class:
  • red_quantum
  • green_quantum
  • blue_quantum
  • alpha_quantum
  • red_int8
  • green_int8
  • blue_int8
  • alpha_int8
• Added Image.normalize() method. [#95 by Michael Curry]
• Added Image.transparent_color() method. [#98 by Lionel Koenig]
• Started supporting resizing and cropping of GIF images. [#88 by Bear Dong, #112 by Taeho Kim]
• Added Image.flip() method.
• Added Image.flop() method.
• Added Image.orientation property. [88574468a38015669dae903185fb328abdd717c0 by Taeho Kim]
• wand.resource.DestroyedResourceError becomes a subtype of wand.exceptions.WandException.
• Color is now hashable, so can be used as a key of dictionaries, or an element of sets. [#114 by klutzy]
• Color has normalized_string property.
• Image has histogram dictionary.
• Added optional fuzz parameter to Image.trim() method. [#113 by Evaldo Junior]

Version 0.2.4

Released on May 28, 2013.

• Fix NameError in Resource.resource setter. [#89 forwareded from Debian bug report #699064 by Jakub Wilk]
• Fix the problem of library loading for Mac with Homebrew and Arch Linux. [#102 by Roel Gerrits, #44]

Version 0.2.3

Released on January 25, 2013.

• Fixed a bug that Image.transparentize() method (and Image.watermark() method which internally uses it) didn’t work.
• Fixed segmentation fault occured when Color.red, Color.green, or Color.blue is accessed.
• Added Color.alpha property.
• Fixed a bug that format converting using Image.format property or Image.convert() method doesn’t correctly work to save blob.

Version 0.2.2

Released on September 24, 2012.

• A compatibility fix for FreeBSD. [Patch by Olivier Duchateau]
• Now Image can be instantiated without any opening. Instead, it can take width/height and background. [#53 by Michael Elovskikh]
• Added Image.transform() method which is a convenience method accepting geometry strings to perform cropping and resizing. [#50 by Mitch Lindgren]
• Added Image.units property. [#45 by Piotr Florczyk]
• Now Image.resize() method raises a proper error when it fails for any reason. [#41 by Piotr Florczyk]
• Added Image.type property. [#33 by Yauhen Yakimovich, #42 by Piotr Florczyk]

Version 0.2.1

Released on August 19, 2012. Beta version.

• Added Image.trim() method. [#26 by Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson]
• Added Image.depth property. [#31 by Piotr Florczyk]
• Now Image can take an optional format hint. [#32 by Michael Elovskikh]
• Added Image.alpha_channel property. [#35 by Piotr Florczyk]
• The default value of Image.resize()‘s filter option has changed from 'triangle' to 'undefined'. [#37 by Piotr Florczyk]
• Added version data of the linked ImageMagick library into wand.version module:
  • MAGICK_VERSION (GetMagickVersion())
  • MAGICK_VERSION_INFO (GetMagickVersion())
  • MAGICK_VERSION_NUMBER (GetMagickVersion())
  • MAGICK_RELEASE_DATE (GetMagickReleaseDate())
  • MAGICK_RELEASE_DATE_STRING (GetMagickReleaseDate())

Version 0.2.0

Released on June 20, 2012. Alpha version.

• Added Image.transparentize() method. [#19 by Jeremy Axmacher]
• Added Image.composite() method. [#19 by Jeremy Axmacher]
• Added Image.watermark() method. [#19 by Jeremy Axmacher]
• Added Image.quantum_range property. [#19 by Jeremy Axmacher]
• Added Image.reset_coords() method and reset_coords option to Image.rotate() method. [#20 by Juan Pablo Scaletti]
• Added Image.strip() method. [#23 by Dmitry Vukolov]
• Added Image.compression_quality property. [#23 by Dmitry Vukolov]
• Now the current version can be found from the command line interface: python -m wand.version.

Version 0.1.10

Released on May 8, 2012. Still alpha version.

• So many Windows compatibility issues are fixed. [#14 by John Simon]
• Added wand.api.libmagick.
• Fixed a bug that raises AttributeError when it’s trying to warn. [#16 by Tim Dettrick]
• Now it throws ImportError instead of AttributeError when the shared library fails to load. [#17 by Kieran Spear]
• Fixed the example usage on index page of the documentation. [#18 by Jeremy Axmacher]

Version 0.1.9

Released on December 23, 2011. Still alpha version.

• Now wand.version.VERSION_INFO becomes tuple and wand.version.VERSION becomes a string.
• Added Image.background_color property.
• Added == operator for Image type.
• Added hash() support of Image type.
• Added Image.signature property.
• Added wand.display module.
• Changed the theme of Sphinx documentation.
• Changed the start example of the documentation.

Version 0.1.8

Released on December 2, 2011. Still alpha version.

• Wrote some guide documentations: Reading images, Writing images and Resizing and cropping.
• Added Image.rotate() method for in-place rotation.
• Made Image.crop() to raise proper ValueError instead of IndexError for invalid width/height arguments.
• Changed the type of Image.resize() method’s blur parameter from numbers.Rational to numbers.Real.
• Fixed a bug of raising ValueError when invalid filter has passed to Image.resize() method.

Version 0.1.7

Released on November 10, 2011. Still alpha version.

• Added Image.mimetype property.
• Added Image.crop() method for in-place crop.

Version 0.1.6

Released on October 31, 2011. Still alpha version.

• Removed a side effect of Image.make_blob() method that changes the image format silently.
• Added Image.format property.
• Added Image.convert() method.
• Fixed a bug about Python 2.6 compatibility.
• Use the internal representation of PixelWand instead of the string representaion for Color type.

Version 0.1.5

Released on October 28, 2011. Slightly mature alpha version.

• Now Image can read Python file objects by file keyword argument.
• Now Image.save() method can write into Python file objects by file keyword argument.
• Image.make_blob()‘s format argument becomes omittable.

Version 0.1.4

Released on October 27, 2011. Hotfix of the malformed Python package.

Version 0.1.3

Released on October 27, 2011. Slightly mature alpha version.

• Pixel getter for Image.
• Row getter for Image.
• Mac compatibility.
• Windows compatibility.
• 64-bit processor compatibility.

Version 0.1.2

Released on October 16, 2011. Still alpha version.

• Image implements iterable interface.
• Added wand.color module.
• Added the abstract base class of all Wand resource objects: wand.resource.Resource.
• Image implements slicing.
• Cropping Image using its slicing operator.

Version 0.1.1

Released on October 4, 2011. Still alpha version.

• Now it handles errors and warnings properly and in natural way of Python.
• Added Image.make_blob() method.
• Added blob parameter into Image constructor.
• Added Image.resize() method.
• Added Image.save() method.
• Added Image.clone() method.
• Drawed the pretty logo picture (thanks to Hyojin Choi).

Version 0.1.0

Released on October 1, 2011. Very alpha version.