The following packages have been upgraded in the Cygwin distribution:

* libwebp		1.4
* libwebp-devel		1.4
* libwebp7		1.4
* libwebpdecoder3	1.4
* libwebpmux3		1.4
* libwebpdemux2		1.4

WebP is a modern web image format with superior compression.
WebP lossless images are 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs.
Lossless WebP supports (alpha channel) transparency at a cost of 22% overhead.
WebP lossy images are 25-34% smaller than JPEG images at equivalent quality.
Lossy WebP supports transparency with 3× smaller file sizes than PNG.
A WebP file consists of VP8 or VP8L image data in a RIFF container.

For more information see the project home page:

	https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/

As there are multiple components and changes each release please
see below or read /usr/share/doc/libwebp/NEWS after installation;
for complete details of changes see:

	/usr/share/doc/libwebp/ChangeLog
or

https://chromium.googlesource.com/webm/libwebp/+log/refs/tags/v1.4.0/ChangeLog


2024-04-12	1.4

This is a binary compatible release.

- further security related hardening in libwebp & examples
- some minor optimizations in the lossless encoder
- added WEBP_NODISCARD to report unused result warnings; enable with
  -DWEBP_ENABLE_NODISCARD=1
- improvements and corrections in webp-container-spec.txt and
  webp-lossless-bitstream-spec.txt (#611)
- miscellaneous warning, bug & build fixes

API changes:

- libwebpmux: WebPAnimEncoderSetChunk, WebPAnimEncoderGetChunk,
  WebPAnimEncoderDeleteChunk
- libsharpyuv: SharpYuvOptionsInit, SharpYuvConvertWithOptions
- extras: SharpYuvEstimate420Risk