A serious bug in the IDCT algorithm of the jpeg decoder has been found.

The bug has been introduced in the version 2011-09-18_22-24-41 and may introduce minor artifacts when the library decodes lossy jpeg images stored in jpeg files or embedded in DICOM files.

A new version of Imebra that solves the bug will be released during the next few days.

A patch that fixes the error is available here: https://bitbucket.org/puntoexe/imebra/changeset/41b5421a1b7f

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