News and History of the MNG Developers from 2005

Herein lie news items and historical stuff regarding MNG. Feel free to poke around, but note that some of the links, particularly the older ones, may be broken. Keep in mind that this is history here...

• latest - see here

• 18 July 2005 - zlib 1.2.3 is released. This version fixes a pair of security vulnerabilities when decoding invalid compressed data. The bugs can cause denial-of-service problems (crashes), at a minimum; the CERT page notes unconfirmed reports of remote code execution. Also note that zlib.org is now a redirector to zlib.net.

• 12 June 2005 - The replacement for the swrinde ftp site, ftp.simplesystems.org, is now online, courtesy of Bob Friesenhahn and Simple Systems. Previously Bob had hosted a mirror of the master site (see the 20&nbps;October 2001 PNG news item). A very big thanks to Bob and Simple Systems for hosting the new master site! Thanks also to Glenn Randers-Pehrson, who will help maintain it (along with Greg).

• 9 May 2005 - After many years of excellent service, the ftp archive at swrinde.nde.swri.edu--and the PNG and MNG resources on it--has been retired. A hearty PNG/MNG thanks to Keith S. Pickens, Alan Schaeffer, and Jay Fisher for setting up and maintaining the archive for so long! Swrinde will be missed.

Here are the other MNG-related pages at this site:

• Historical MNG news:
  • 2006 · 2005 · 2004 · 2003 · 2002 · 2001 · 2000 · 1999 · 1998 · 1997 · 1996
• MNG Documentation
  • MNG Specification
    • MNG-LC subset (low complexity)
    • MNG-VLC subset (very low complexity)
    • JNG subset (JPEG Network Graphics)
  • PNG Documentation
• MNG-supporting Applications
• MNG home page
• PNG home page

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