
New since 2.0

	Support loading PNG color files with alpha planes,
	Support 24 and 32 bit true color visuals,
	Do diffusion for 16 bit true color display,
	Expand Ik_SetImage_fun functions list,
	Add jpeg gray-only reading,
	Minor display performance improvements.

New since 1.1

	Release 2.0
	Color map handling replaced with Ik_palette.
	Fast (diffused) display in true color visuals
	Ik_SetImage_fun interface generalized
	Added alpha blending
	Added ndiffuse for N-plane error diffusion
	Added plot of column averages
	Added visual selection in IKIT GUI
	Port ik_pane and ik_viewport to Windows NT
	Major cleanup of rendering
	TIFF sets palette information if available

New since 1.0

	Improved color map handling.
	Improved JPEG image performance, especially gray.
	Fixed PNG binary image handling.
	Fix xform in multiplane images. This corrected a cropping problem.
	Far superior (and portable) file selection interface.
	Add bmask
	Add lcexp
	Add detail enhancment filter.

New since 0.5

	Add support for HP laserjet output of raster images (binary).
	Cope with image create errors. (don't consume the name.)
	Improve the GUI to better handle resizing
	Add double-click to display image
	FIXED: Crop failed when out of memory
	PNG supports reading palette images, and 8bpi.
	FIXED: ik_line_1op, Ik_line_2op failed to support 8bpi images.
	FIXED: sqe miscounted source image pixels.
	Add FFT.
	Add writing of PGMRAW files.
	Add writing of 8bit PNG files.
	More efficient PGMRAW read method.
	Add writing of BMP (uncompressed) images.
	Add bilinear upscalling.
	replicate can now take natural number replication(subsample) factors.
	Vast numbers of bug fixes.

New since 0.4

	NT makefile now takes care of install for you,
	the kit.tcl script limps under NT (without ikitx)
	ikit_load added, to mask platform and install issues.
	Fix broken colormap hashing
	add raw file format support
	include 8bpi internal representations
	remove point operations in xform.
	Define pixel BPI promotion rules.

New since 0.3

	libtiff is now optional, instead of required.
	libpng is now optional, instead of required.
	Support for certain pbm formats has been added.
	Support for JPEG (JFIF) input and output (optional).
	replaced color palette handling with faster method.
	ikit (not ikitx) compiles into a DLL on Windows NT.

New since 0.2

	Take proper account of display bit ordering.
	Port to Linux/Alpha
	pane widget handles image contents changes
	More varied depth support in line transformations
	Add the rgbmatch function
	The Ik.h header no longer needs Tk.
	Use the mit-shm extension when available
	use GNU autoconf configuration

New since 0.1

	Support for non-linux targets (assuming other prerequisites
	are met.)

	many more image transforms

	Support for png graphics format

	more flexible internal image formats (in order to save
	vast quantities of memory.)

	User interface improvements.
