+ security notes

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Kleis Auke Wolthuizen 2021-06-03 15:50:06 +02:00
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@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ pipelines and long-running processes, a performance improvement can be observed.
libvips now supports building OpenSlide, libheif, Poppler and
{Image,Graphics}Magick as a dynamically loadable module. This makes it easier
for distributions to provide separate (optional) packages for these dependencies,
making the core package much slimmer.
making the core package much slimmer and thus reducing the attack surface.
[GModule](https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Dynamic-Loading-of-Modules.html)
is used to accomplish this in a portable way. We already had a simple plugin system