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New in release 0.1.0
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 o improvment in the direction determination
 o improvment in the gabor filter parameter, added radius in function
 o better demo programs by bluring the input image before computing
 o less destructive thinning, the spurious line removal did remove
   completely some lines oriented in a special way.
 o removed the mask computation as it did not work reliabely
 o added support for more than 40 image formats thanks ImageMagick


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New in release 0.0.9
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Thanks to Tony Xu:
 o improvment in the thinning algorithm that produces much more
   reliable results by removing spurious pixels.

Thanks to Chris Kuethe:
 o fixed a portability issue, stdint.h or inttypes.h in fvstypes.h
 o fixed a compilation issue in ImageFlood. 


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New in release 0.0.8
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Fixed 2 critical bugs in Import of 8 bit RLE compressed bitmaps and in
the gabor filtering.
Enhanced Minutia extraction by removing resembling minutia from the set.


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New in release 0.0.7
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Support for splint (static semantic checking, allows to detect common
programming errors while using the library)
Changes in the API, cleaning up and removed non implemented code,
concerning mainly the matching part.


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New in release 0.0.4
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Experimental Minutia extraction
Still lacks a mask detection and removal of falsly detected minutia.


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New in release 0.0.3
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Correct thinning algorithms
Fix in installation of header files


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New in release 0.0.2
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HTML help files
Some demo programs
A new directory tree
Changes in the API types
and ... some small bug fixes

