[gdal-dev] libtiff 4.5.1 is released

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks Even.  One question (for packagers), is if the tools you 
mentioned to be removed are set through -Dtiff-contrib correct?

thanks,

-jeff




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On 2023-06-14 9:45 a.m., Even Rouault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've promoted rc3 as the final 4.5.1 release.
> 
> Read about this release at:
> https://libtiff.gitlab.io/libtiff/releases/v4.5.1.html
> 
> Note the following warning:
> This version will be the last one supporting most TIFF tools (except 
> tiffinfo,
> tiffdump, tiffcp and tiffset), whose maintenance will be discontinued, due
> to the lack of contributors able to address reported security issues.
> Starting with libtiff v4.6.0, their source code, at this time ,will 
> still be
> available in the source distribution, but they will no longer be built by
> default, and issues related to them will no longer be accepted in the
> libtiff bug tracker.
> 
> The release tarball can be downloaded at:
> 
> https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.5.1.tar.gz
> https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.5.1.tar.xz
> https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.5.1.zip
> 
> Signatures:
> https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.5.1.tar.gz.sig
> https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.5.1.tar.xz.sig
> https://download.osgeo.org/libtiff/tiff-4.5.1.zip.sig
> 
> The release is also available at:
> https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/releases/v4.5.1
> 
> Even
>