[Openexr-announce] OpenEXR v2.2.0 Released

[Ed Hanway]

OpenEXR v2.2.0 has been released and is available for download. This release 
includes the following components:

OpenEXR: v2.2.0
IlmBase: v2.2.0
PyIlmBase: v2.2.0
OpenEXR_Viewers: v2.2.0

This significant new features of this release include:

DreamWorks Lossy Compression - A new high quality, high performance lossy 
compression codec contributed by DreamWorks Animation. This codec allows 
control over variable lossiness to balance visual quality and file size. This 
contribution also includes performance improvements that speed up the PIZ codec.

IlmImfUtil - A new library intended to aid in development of image file 
manipulation utilities that support the many types of OpenEXR images.

This release also includes improvements to cross-platform build support using 
CMake.

OpenEXR source can be obtained from the downloads section of www.openexr.com or 
from the project page on github: https://github.com/openexr/openexr