LibRaw 0.13-Beta1 is ready for download from usual place.

This version introduces many major changes:

• New buffering code for all huffman decompressors. Unpacking of Canon .CR2 is about 1.5x times faster, other huffman-compressed files are unpacked 20-30% faster.
• Many new features in demosaic packs:
  • Banding and impulse noise suppression code.
  • Automatic chromatic aberration correction.
  • Exposure correction with highlights preserving.
  • Green-channels averaging (maze artifacts prevention).
• OpenMP speed-up for median filters.
• All changes from LibRaw 0.12 are imported.

Please feel free to contact us if you have questions, suggestions or bug reports.