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+CHANGE LOG for Independent JPEG Group's JPEG software
+
+
+Version 5  24-Sep-94
+--------------------
+
+Version 5 represents a nearly complete redesign and rewrite of the IJG
+software.  Major user-visible changes include:
+  * Automatic configuration simplifies installation for most Unix systems.
+  * A range of speed vs. image quality tradeoffs are supported.
+    This includes resizing of an image during decompression: scaling down
+    by a factor of 1/2, 1/4, or 1/8 is handled very efficiently.
+  * New programs rdjpgcom and wrjpgcom allow insertion and extraction
+    of text comments in a JPEG file.
+
+The application programmer's interface to the library has changed completely.
+Notable improvements include:
+  * We have eliminated the use of callback routines for handling the
+    uncompressed image data.  The application now sees the library as a
+    set of routines that it calls to read or write image data on a
+    scanline-by-scanline basis.
+  * The application image data is represented in a conventional interleaved-
+    pixel format, rather than as a separate array for each color channel.
+    This can save a copying step in many programs.
+  * The handling of compressed data has been cleaned up: the application can
+    supply routines to source or sink the compressed data.  It is possible to
+    suspend processing on source/sink buffer overrun, although this is not
+    supported in all operating modes.
+  * All static state has been eliminated from the library, so that multiple
+    instances of compression or decompression can be active concurrently.
+  * JPEG abbreviated datastream formats are supported, ie, quantization and
+    Huffman tables can be stored separately from the image data.
+  * And not only that, but the documentation of the library has improved
+    considerably!
+
+
+The last widely used release before the version 5 rewrite was version 4A of
+18-Feb-93.  Change logs before that point have been discarded, since they
+are not of much interest after the rewrite.