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Contents 1 What is the GD library? 2 News 2.1 2007-11-28 2.2 2007-06-21 2.3 2007-06-14 2.4 2007-05-22 2.5 2007-04-10 2.6 2007-02-26 2.7 2007-02-07 2.8 2007-02-03 2.9 2007-01-30 2.10 2007-01-03

What is the GD library?

GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers. GD creates PNG, JPEG and GIF images, among other formats. GD is commonly used to generate charts, graphics, thumbnails, and most anything else, on the fly. While not restricted to use on the web, the most common applications of GD involve web site development.

GD is written in C and various binding are available. See a non exaustive list here .

The library was originally developped by Thomas Boutell and is now maintained by Pierre-A. Joye under the umbrella of PHP.net.

News

2007-11-28

The first release candidate for 2.0.36 has been released!

• Downloads
• Changelog

2007-06-21

GD-2.0.35 has been released!

After five release candidates, 2.0.35 has been finally released. See the release announcement ReleaseNote020035 for all the details.

Thanks the following people for their patches, contributions, and feedback (alphabetical order): Alexey Chupahin, Antony Dogval, Elliot, Pierre-A. Joye, Guenter Knauf, Nuno Lopes, Seth Price, Scott MacVicar, Roman Nemecek, Xavier Roche

• Downloads
• Release notes ReleaseNote020035

2007-06-14

GD-2.0.35RC5 released!

An small regression (introduced in the last RC) has been fixed in the gdImageFilledArc function. Two new bugs have been discovered.

• gd-2.0.35RC5.tar.bz2
• gd-2.0.35RC5.tar.gz

2007-05-22

GD-2.0.35RC4 released!

An important regression (introduced in the last RC) has been fixed in the gdImageLine function. This regression affected gdImageArc and gdImagePolygon. A couple of important bugs have been fixed in gdImageArc and in the PNG loader.

• gd-2.0.35RC4.tar.bz2
• gd-2.0.35RC4.tar.gz

2007-04-10

GD-2.0.35RC2 is out (finally)!

Five new bugs have been fixed since the first release candidate. Four of them are related to the GIF and Freetype support (thread safety issues). This release also adds a couple of tests which helps with the 2.1.0 development. These fixes have required a lot of testing, that's also why we need another RC before the final release which is planed for Wednesday, 2007/04/16 (if...).

• gd-2.0.35RC2.tar.bz2
• gd-2.0.35RC2.tar.gz

2007-02-26

GD-2.0.35RC1 is out!

Three minor bugs have been fixed in this release. The most important one is about two possible race conditions in the Freetype code. If you use GD in a threaded environment, it is the good time to run some more tests. If no new issue are found, the final release will be published on Monday, 2007/03/05.

• gd-2.0.35RC1.tar.bz2
• gd-2.0.35RC1.tar.gz

2007-02-07

GD-2.0.34 has been released!

It was a long road to get GD released. I like to consider this release as a second born for the libGD project. See the release announcement ReleaseNote020034 for all the details.

This release also marks an official freeze of the 2.0.x tree. Only security related fixes will make it into future 2.0.x releases. The development tree now targets version 2.1.0. Additional information about the roadmap will come in the next few weeks.

• Downloads
• Release notes ReleaseNote020034

2007-02-03

GD-2.0.34RC2 has been released today. Two fixes have been applied since RC1. One restores the Adobe Custom font (symbols) support (Thanks to Ethan Merritt/Gnuplot). The second patch adds shared library support on cygwin (Thanks to Dr. Volker Zell).

See the roadmap in the issues tracker for the full changes log or the NEWS file inside the release.

• RC2 tar.gz
• RC2 tar.bz2

2007-01-30

The first 2.0.34 release candidate has been uploaded this morning. Many bugs have been fixed since 2.0.33, both from a behavior or security point of view. See the roadmap in the issues tracker for the detailed changes log or the NEWS file inside the release.

Please test this release and report any issue or trouble in our mailing list (support) or issues tracker .

I would like to thank all contributors, helpers and users for their work and precious feedbacks .A complete list of the contributions will be added for the final release.

2007-01-03

The libGD has been moved to its definitive host. I like to thank the following persons or companies.

• BinarySEC for sponsoring the machine
• messagesystems and Wez for all the mails/lists configuration and their tools
• Open Source Lab for the mail server (php.net)

The issues tracker is finally online and ready to be used. New accounts will be available as soon as I am done with the sync with the CVS Issues file. The other long awaited additions like the Changelog, CVS snapshots and releases (yes, a release is coming, stay tuned!) will follow in the next few days.