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Many thanks to Zykaris for the pull request.\n* In http\\_request.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/http_request.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/http_request.htm"},{"insert":" constants for HTTP status codes have been added. Many thanks to Barankegnu for providing the change.\n* A coercing of http request properties to lowercase has been added (header names are case insensitive). Expect-Header support has been added as well. 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This library supports IEEE 754 16-bit half-precision floats.\n* The new library pcx.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/pcx.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/pcx.htm"},{"insert":" has been added. This library supports the PCX image file format. PCX magic numbers have been added to magic.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/magic.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/magic.htm"},{"insert":" and support for PCX has been added to imagefile.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/imagefile.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/imagefile.htm"},{"insert":".\n* The picture viewer pv7.sd7 "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/scrshots\/pv7.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/scrshots\/pv7.htm"},{"insert":" has been improved to support PCX "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/pcx.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/pcx.htm"},{"insert":" and a list of image parameters.\n* In bin32.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/bin32.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/bin32.htm"},{"insert":" and bin64.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/bin64.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/bin64.htm"},{"insert":" conversions from bin32 "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/types.htm#bin32"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/types.htm#bin32"},{"insert":" and bin64 "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/types.htm#bin64"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/types.htm#bin64"},{"insert":" to char "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/types.htm#char"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/types.htm#char"},{"insert":" have been added.\n* In lzw.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/lzw.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/lzw.htm"},{"insert":" the performance of the LZW decompression has been improved by 0.9%.\n* The bmp.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/bmp.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/bmp.htm"},{"insert":" library has been improved:\n * Support for the Huffman 1D compressed BMP format has been added.\n * Support for top-to-bottom bitmaps with 8 bits per pixel has been added.\n * Functions for line-wise processing of pixels have been added.\n * The pixel data of a BMP with 1, 2 and 4 bits per pixel is read with one gets().\n * An in-parameter "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/params.htm#in_parameter"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/params.htm#in_parameter"},{"insert":" is used for bmpHeader parameters in places where it does not change.\n * The calculation of colorEntrySize has been improved.\n* The libraries tga.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/tga.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/tga.htm"},{"insert":" and pcx.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/pcx.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/pcx.htm"},{"insert":" have been improved to use the in-var-parameter "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/params.htm#in_var_parameter"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/params.htm#in_var_parameter"},{"insert":" byteIndex instead of the in-parameter "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/params.htm#in_parameter"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/manual\/params.htm#in_parameter"},{"insert":" byteIndexStart.\n* The jpeg.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/jpeg.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/jpeg.htm"},{"insert":" library has been improved:\n * The function showHeader(), which shows the header struct, has been added.\n * In getSymbol() the condition to recognize negative numbers has been changed.\n* The tiff.s7i "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/tiff.htm"},"insert":"https:\/\/seed7.net\/libraries\/tiff.htm"},{"insert":" library has been improved:\n * Support for tiled images has been added. 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See here "},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/github.com\/ThomasMertes\/seed7\/releases\/tag\/Seed7_release_2026-07-11"},"insert":"https:\/\/github.com\/ThomasMertes\/seed7\/releases\/tag\/Seed7_release_2026-07-11"},{"insert":" for more.\n\nRegards,\n\nThomas Mertes \n"},{"insert":{"mention":{"denotationChar":"#","value":"technology"}}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"mention":{"denotationChar":"#","value":"dev"}}},{"insert":" "},{"insert":{"mention":{"denotationChar":"#","value":"programming"}}},{"insert":" \n"},{"attributes":{"link":"https:\/\/www.reddit.comhttps:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/seed7\/comments\/1uvbc5a\/seed7_version_20260711_released_on_github_and_sf\/"},"insert":"source"}]}