• don't access deprecated members of the png_structp. RT #60242

• document that using color objects is faster than supplying colors by name, etc. RT #61047

• Imager::Probe now accepts array references for incpath and libpath. RT #60244

From 0.77_02:

• moved Win32, FreeType 2 font support into sub-modules. RT #49616 (partial)

• Uses Imager::Probe now. RT #61328

• tested successfully with jpeg-8b. RT #60221

Bug fixes:

• from _01: look for missing file support test files in the right places.

• flood_fill() wouldn't fill the right side of a single scan-line fill area. Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.

• flood_fill wouldn't fill to the left edge of the image if the starting line didn't reach the left edge. Thanks to Nicolas Roggli for reporting this.

From 0.77_01:

• add each library-directory/pkgconfig/ to the pkg-config search path in Imager::Probe. Thanks to Justin Davis. RT #60491

• moved GIF, TIFF, JPEG file handling code into sub-modules in preparation for separate distribution. RT #49616 (partial)
• optimize filled box drawing (color, not fill)

Bug fixes:

• Imager::Probe was calling ExtUtils::Liblist to initialize LD_RUN_PATH supplying an undefined value rather than the found directory. Thanks to Justin Davis. RT #60491

• only prepend ./ to font filenames when passing them to T1Lib and then only when it would use its search mechanisms. RT #60509

• fix the cache check for the X rgb.txt loader. This is typically used for color translation on Unix-like systems, and the fix improves performance of supplying colors by name by about 80 times. Test code that managed 3400 10x10 pixel boxes/second sped up to 25700 boxes/second.

• clarify that Imager doesn't write EXIF metadata to images. RT #60637

• Imager::Probe can now search subdirectories under its include path. Used by the PNG Makefile.PL to find headers and libraries when they aren't in the base directory, as in cygwin. RT #60635