OpenEXR Release Notes

Version 2.3.0:

Features/Improvements:

• ThreadPool overhead improvements, enable custom thread pool to be registered via ThreadPoolProvider class
• Fixes to enable custom namespaces for Iex, Imf
• Improve read performance for deep/zipped data, and SIMD-accelerated uncompress support
• Added rawPixelDataToBuffer() function for access to compressed scanlines
• Iex::BaseExc no longer derived from std::string.
• Imath throw() specifiers removed
• Initial Support for Python 3

Bugs:

• 25+ various bug fixes

Security Vulnerabilities:

This release addresses vulnerability CVE-2017-12596.

Build Fixes:

• Various fixes to the cmake and autoconf build infrastructures
• Various changes to support compiling for C++11 / C++14 / C++17 and GCC 6.3.1
• Various fixes to address Windows build issues
• 60+ total build-related fixes (see detailed Release Notes for the full list)