openE57/CHANGELOG.md

openE57

[1.7.4] - 2025-12-26

Changed

• Bumped Conan requirement to 2.0.0
• Updated Boost Libraries to 1.90.0
• Updated Xerces Libraries to 3.3.0
• Updated ICU to 78.1
• Updated Doctest to 2.4.12
• Updated Doxygen to 1.15.0

[1.7.3] - 2025-06-22

Changed

• Skip linking ICU explicitly, if Xerces-C is dynamically linked

[1.7.2] - 2025-04-24

Changed

• Modernization of codebase
• Reduction of MSVC compiler warnings

[1.7.1] - 2025-02-28

Changed

• Fixed build for mingw-w64
• CMake Build improvements

[1.7.0] - 2024-01-27

Changed

• Updated Boost Libraries to 1.84.0
• Updated CRC32-Castagnoli to 1.2.0.0
• Ported the Time Conversion library from C to C++

[1.6.5] - 2024-01-24

Changed

• Updated support for Conan 2.0
• Updated Boost Libraries to 1.83.0
• Updated ICU to 74.1

[1.6.4] - 2022-11-28

Changed

• Updated Boost Libraries to 1.80.0
• Updated Xerces-C to 3.2.4
• Updated ICU to 72.1
• Updated Doxygen to 1.9.4

[1.6.3] - 2022-03-03

Changed

• Moved documentation on root folder
• Improving build of documentation with CMake
• Added doxygen as requirements in conan if the build option is activated
• Updated the CRC32-Castagnoli implementation to newest version

[1.6.2] - 2022-02-19

Changed

• Re-enabled e57unpack as tool
• Improved Conan recipe, including tools
• Added formatting target with clang-format
• Minor improvements in CMake
• Minor improvements in CPack

Removed

• Removed custom option to build with PIC on Unix, using CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE

[1.6.1] - 2022-02-16

Changed

• Fixed issues on Visual Studio by setting incorrectly CMAKE_MSVC_RUNTIME_TYPE
• Improved compatibility with conan build process
• Added option to disable -fPIC on Linux (enabled by default)
• Updated README.md

[1.6.0] - 2022-02-05

Changed

• Added conan packaging support
• Refactored project structure
• Renamed LASReader to openE57las
• Moved time_conversion to tools folder
• Updated Boost to 1.78.0 (only used if building tools)
• Fixed WIN32 code path in OpenE57simple

Removed

• config.h template (definition passed through the compiler)
• Removed the dependency of time_conversion from openE57
• Removed the generation of time_conversion as artifact of openE57 (used only by tools)
• Disabled building of tool "e57unpack" due to issues with Boost

[1.5.1] - 2021-12-09

Changed

• Updated Boost to 1.77.0
• Updated ICU to 70.1

[1.5.0] - 2021-01-18

Changed

• Removed the dependency of Boost in the core library, keeping it only in tools and examples.
• Converted boost smart pointers with STL ones
• Converted boost standard integers to STL ones
• Using std::numeric_limits max/lower instead of hardcoded magic values
• Switched CRC32-Castagnoli implementation from boost::crc_optimal to Daniel Bahr's one (https://github.com/d-bahr/CRCpp)
• Made Boost required only for tools and examples, switched to the newer conan cmake_find_package resolution method with conan

Removed

• macos from CI pipeline, since Boost library from conan fails to build

[1.4.1] - 2021-01-15

Changed

• Updated dependencies: Boost 1.75, Xerces 3.2.3, ICU 68.2

[1.4.0] - 2020-07-16

Added

• clang-format as CMake target

Changed

• Renamed references to openE57

[1.3.0] - 2020-07-02

Changed

• Reduced compiler warnings
• Minor code optimizations

[1.2.0] - 2020-06-26

Added

• New CMake options such as
  • BUILD_EXAMPLES
  • BUILD_TOOLS
  • BUILD_WITH_MT
• Dependency management with conan.io
• Support for Apple compiler
• LICENSE, CONTRIBUTORS files

Changed

• Project structure with separated options for tools and examples
• Uniform code formatting with .clang-format
• Update to latest version of dependencies (Boost, Xerces, ICU)

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libE57 Reference Implementation

[1.1.350] - 2013-04-03

Changed

• e57unpack now also can handle 2d images

[1.1.332] - 2011-03-14

Added

• Missing library identifier string to cmake build
• E57RefImplConfig.cmake file
• e57validate tool
• e57unpack tool

Changed

• Update to use boost version 1.46.1
• Streamlined cmake files for better static linking