(Including the 0.48 release notes here too)

0.49:

• fixes a problem in decoding JPEG EXIF blocks.
• fixes some memory leaks

0.48:

• Imager API introduced - see perldoc Imager::API
• fix a test failure in non-English locales
• various documentation updates
• paste() enhancements
• added sample files that were listed in samples/README but missing from MANIFEST, and added a test to ensure new samples show up there
• workaround freetype-config returning includes in the wrong order
• better error reporting when writing (or failing to write) some image formats
• make "faxable" TIFF use a more natural Photmetric Interpretation to work around problems in some TIFF readers.