Release Notes

v0.4.0

New features:

• Support for arm sbsa and jetson.

• Python wheels (binaries only) are available on pypi.

• nvtiffStreamParse() API added to support tiff files already on host memory.

• nvtiffDecodeImage() API added which can decode a single image from a tiff file. It also supports region of interest for decoding and also provides the ability to select output format.

Breaking Changes:

• nvtiff-*.whl which was posted as part of nvTIFF github samples is no longer supported. Python API support for nvTIFF will be available in a future nvImageCodec release.

• Centos 7 is no longer supported.

v0.3.1

• This release provides important security updates for CVE-2023-31027 and is recommended for all users.

  • To view any published security bulletins for NVIDIA products, see the NVIDIA product security page (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/security/).

  • For more information regarding NVIDIA’s security vulnerability remediation policies, see (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/security/psirt-policies/)

v0.3.0

New features:

• CUDA 12 support - Binaries for both CUDA 11.x and CUDA 12.x are available.

• APIs to retrieve GeoTIFF metadata.

• TIFF files with the following characteristics can now be decoded -

  • TIFF files with multiple images having different properties.

  • Pixel data can be organized as tiles.

  • Planar Configuration can now be Planar Separate.

  • Upto 8 samples per pixel in Planar Contiguous mode.

  • JPEG compression (via nvJPEG).

  • Color space can be Palette or Transparency Mask.

Breaking Changes:

• nvTiff.h renamed to nvtiff.h

• Following APIs have been dropped

  • nvTiffFile_t *nvTiffOpen

  • void nvTiffClose

  • void nvTiffDumpRaw

  • void nvTiffPrint

  • void nvTiffH2DAsync

  • int nvTiffDecode

  • int nvTiffDecodeRange

  • int nvTiffDecodeRange

v0.2.0

New features:

• New API added to support zlib decode with nvCOMP Library .

• Encoder/Decoder supports 16bit and fp32 pixel formats.

• Hopper (sm90) support is added.

Deprecated Features:

The following APIs will be removed in next release

• nvTiffFile_t NVTIFFAPI *nvTiffOpen

• void NVTIFFAPI nvTiffClose

• void NVTIFFAPI nvTiffDumpRaw

• void NVTIFFAPI nvTiffPrint

• void NVTIFFAPI nvTiffH2DAsync

• int NVTIFFAPI nvTiffDecode

• int NVTIFFAPI nvTiffDecodeRange

• int NVTIFFAPI nvTiffDecodeRange

Note

This release tar ball / Windows files will be updated to new installer packages soon.

v0.1.0

• First release of the nvTiff library.

• Refer to the Introduction section of the documentation for the list of features supported.