What's New in IDL 8.8.2
This article contains release notes for IDL 8.8.2.
See the following sections:
For system requirements, see Platform Support for ENVI 5.6.2 and IDL 8.8.2.
New Features
Added platform support for macOS 12 (M1 and Intel 64-bit).
Updates
WRITE_TIFF Procedure - COMPRESSION Keyword
The COMPRESSION keyword of WRITE_TIFF procedure has been updated to include DEFLATE as a compression mode.
SAVE Procedure - EMBED Keyword
The keyword EMBED has been added to the SAVE procedure, which adds the Next-Generation embedded license to the SAVE file if the IDL session has access to a Developer’s Kit license.
Video Support
Windows 32-bit video support for the following has been dropped: IDLffVideoRead, IDLffVideoWrite, READ_VIDEO, WRITE_VIDEO.
Library Updates
The 3rd party libraries listed below have been updated to these versions:
- CEF 99.2.14
- curl 7.82.0
- Eclipse Temurin JDK 17.0.1 (formerly AdoptOpenJDK JDK)
- Eclipse Temurin JRE 17.0.1 (formerly AdoptOpen JRE)
- Esri Projection Engine 12.9.0
- FFMPEG 4.4.1
- GDAL 3.4.2
- libxml2 2.9.13
- OpenSSL 1.1.1n
- POCO 1.11.1
- SQLite 3.38.1
- xerces-c 3.2.3
The following 3rd party libraries have been added:
- IDL Python Bridge support for python 3.10
The following 3rd party libraries have been removed:
- IDL Python Bridge support for python 3.6