sharp 0.26.3 → 0.28.0

package/README.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 The typical use case for this high speed Node.js module
 is to convert large images in common formats to
-smaller, web-friendly JPEG, PNG and WebP images of varying dimensions.
+smaller, web-friendly JPEG, PNG, WebP and AVIF images of varying dimensions.
 
 Resizing an image is typically 4x-5x faster than using the
 quickest ImageMagick and GraphicsMagick settings
@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ rotation, extraction, compositing and gamma correction are available.
 Most modern macOS, Windows and Linux systems running Node.js v10+
 do not require any additional install or runtime dependencies.
 
+## Documentation
+
+Visit [sharp.pixelplumbing.com](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/) for complete
+[installation instructions](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install),
+[API documentation](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/api-constructor),
+[benchmark tests](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/performance) and
+[changelog](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/changelog).
+
 ## Examples
 
 ```sh
@@ -43,6 +51,7 @@ sharp(inputBuffer)
 sharp('input.jpg')
   .rotate()
   .resize(200)
+  .jpeg({ mozjpeg: true })
   .toBuffer()
   .then( data => { ... })
   .catch( err => { ... });
@@ -84,25 +93,17 @@ readableStream
   .pipe(writableStream);
 ```
 
-[![Test Coverage](https://coveralls.io/repos/lovell/sharp/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/r/lovell/sharp?branch=master)
-[![N-API v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/N--API-v3-green.svg)](https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/docs/api/n-api.html#n_api_n_api_version_matrix)
-
-### Documentation
-
-Visit [sharp.pixelplumbing.com](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/) for complete
-[installation instructions](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install),
-[API documentation](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/api-constructor),
-[benchmark tests](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/performance) and
-[changelog](https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/changelog).
-
-### Contributing
+## Contributing
 
 A [guide for contributors](https://github.com/lovell/sharp/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md)
 covers reporting bugs, requesting features and submitting code changes.
 
-### Licensing
+[![Test Coverage](https://coveralls.io/repos/lovell/sharp/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/r/lovell/sharp?branch=master)
+[![N-API v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/N--API-v3-green.svg)](https://nodejs.org/dist/latest/docs/api/n-api.html#n_api_n_api_version_matrix)
+
+## Licensing
 
-Copyright 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Lovell Fuller and contributors.
+Copyright 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Lovell Fuller and contributors.
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

package/binding.gyp

@@ -140,8 +140,7 @@
             'link_settings': {
               'library_dirs': ['<(sharp_vendor_dir)/lib'],
               'libraries': [
-                'libvips-cpp.42.dylib',
-                'libvips.42.dylib'
+                'libvips-cpp.42.dylib'
               ]
             },
             'xcode_settings': {
@@ -153,13 +152,12 @@
           }],
           ['OS == "linux"', {
             'defines': [
-              '_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0'
+              '_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1'
             ],
             'link_settings': {
               'library_dirs': ['<(sharp_vendor_dir)/lib'],
               'libraries': [
-                '-l:libvips-cpp.so.42',
-                '-l:libvips.so.42'
+                '-l:libvips-cpp.so.42'
               ],
               'ldflags': [
                 # Ensure runtime linking is relative to sharp.node

package/install/dll-copy.js

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const path = require('path');
 
 const libvips = require('../lib/libvips');
-const npmLog = require('npmlog');
 
 const minimumLibvipsVersion = libvips.minimumLibvipsVersion;
 
@@ -12,13 +11,13 @@ const platform = process.env.npm_config_platform || process.platform;
 if (platform === 'win32') {
   const buildDir = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'build');
   const buildReleaseDir = path.join(buildDir, 'Release');
-  npmLog.info('sharp', `Creating ${buildReleaseDir}`);
+  libvips.log(`Creating ${buildReleaseDir}`);
   try {
     libvips.mkdirSync(buildDir);
     libvips.mkdirSync(buildReleaseDir);
   } catch (err) {}
   const vendorLibDir = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'vendor', minimumLibvipsVersion, 'lib');
-  npmLog.info('sharp', `Copying DLLs from ${vendorLibDir} to ${buildReleaseDir}`);
+  libvips.log(`Copying DLLs from ${vendorLibDir} to ${buildReleaseDir}`);
   try {
     fs
       .readdirSync(vendorLibDir)
@@ -32,6 +31,7 @@ if (platform === 'win32') {
         );
       });
   } catch (err) {
-    npmLog.error('sharp', err.message);
+    libvips.log(err);
+    process.exit(1);
   }
 }

package/install/libvips.js

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ const stream = require('stream');
 const zlib = require('zlib');
 
 const detectLibc = require('detect-libc');
-const npmLog = require('npmlog');
 const semver = require('semver');
 const simpleGet = require('simple-get');
 const tarFs = require('tar-fs');
@@ -22,34 +21,50 @@ const minimumGlibcVersionByArch = {
   x64: '2.17'
 };
 
+const hasSharpPrebuild = [
+  'darwin-x64',
+  'linux-arm64',
+  'linux-x64',
+  'linuxmusl-x64',
+  'linuxmusl-arm64',
+  'win32-ia32',
+  'win32-x64'
+];
+
 const { minimumLibvipsVersion, minimumLibvipsVersionLabelled } = libvips;
 const distHost = process.env.npm_config_sharp_libvips_binary_host || 'https://github.com/lovell/sharp-libvips/releases/download';
 const distBaseUrl = process.env.npm_config_sharp_dist_base_url || process.env.SHARP_DIST_BASE_URL || `${distHost}/v${minimumLibvipsVersionLabelled}/`;
 const supportsBrotli = ('BrotliDecompress' in zlib);
 
 const fail = function (err) {
-  npmLog.error('sharp', err.message);
+  libvips.log(err);
   if (err.code === 'EACCES') {
-    npmLog.info('sharp', 'Are you trying to install as a root or sudo user? Try again with the --unsafe-perm flag');
+    libvips.log('Are you trying to install as a root or sudo user? Try again with the --unsafe-perm flag');
   }
-  npmLog.info('sharp', 'Attempting to build from source via node-gyp but this may fail due to the above error');
-  npmLog.info('sharp', 'Please see https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install for required dependencies');
+  libvips.log('Attempting to build from source via node-gyp but this may fail due to the above error');
+  libvips.log('Please see https://sharp.pixelplumbing.com/install for required dependencies');
   process.exit(1);
 };
 
-const extractTarball = function (tarPath) {
+const extractTarball = function (tarPath, platformAndArch) {
   const vendorPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'vendor');
   libvips.mkdirSync(vendorPath);
   const versionedVendorPath = path.join(vendorPath, minimumLibvipsVersion);
   libvips.mkdirSync(versionedVendorPath);
+
+  const ignoreVendorInclude = hasSharpPrebuild.includes(platformAndArch) && !process.env.npm_config_build_from_source;
+  const ignore = function (name) {
+    return ignoreVendorInclude && name.includes('include/');
+  };
+
   stream.pipeline(
     fs.createReadStream(tarPath),
     supportsBrotli ? new zlib.BrotliDecompress() : new zlib.Gunzip(),
-    tarFs.extract(versionedVendorPath),
+    tarFs.extract(versionedVendorPath, { ignore }),
     function (err) {
       if (err) {
         if (/unexpected end of file/.test(err.message)) {
-          npmLog.error('sharp', `Please delete ${tarPath} as it is not a valid tarball`);
+          fail(new Error(`Please delete ${tarPath} as it is not a valid tarball`));
         }
         fail(err);
       }
@@ -62,11 +77,11 @@ try {
 
   if (useGlobalLibvips) {
     const globalLibvipsVersion = libvips.globalLibvipsVersion();
-    npmLog.info('sharp', `Detected globally-installed libvips v${globalLibvipsVersion}`);
-    npmLog.info('sharp', 'Building from source via node-gyp');
+    libvips.log(`Detected globally-installed libvips v${globalLibvipsVersion}`);
+    libvips.log('Building from source via node-gyp');
     process.exit(1);
   } else if (libvips.hasVendoredLibvips()) {
-    npmLog.info('sharp', `Using existing vendored libvips v${minimumLibvipsVersion}`);
+    libvips.log(`Using existing vendored libvips v${minimumLibvipsVersion}`);
   } else {
     // Is this arch/platform supported?
     const arch = process.env.npm_config_arch || process.arch;
@@ -74,6 +89,9 @@ try {
     if (arch === 'ia32' && !platformAndArch.startsWith('win32')) {
       throw new Error(`Intel Architecture 32-bit systems require manual installation of libvips >= ${minimumLibvipsVersion}`);
     }
+    if (platformAndArch === 'darwin-arm64') {
+      throw new Error("Please run 'brew install vips' to install libvips on Apple M1 (ARM64) systems");
+    }
     if (platformAndArch === 'freebsd-x64' || platformAndArch === 'openbsd-x64' || platformAndArch === 'sunos-x64') {
       throw new Error(`BSD/SunOS systems require manual installation of libvips >= ${minimumLibvipsVersion}`);
     }
@@ -82,6 +100,11 @@ try {
         throw new Error(`Use with glibc ${detectLibc.version} requires manual installation of libvips >= ${minimumLibvipsVersion}`);
       }
     }
+    if (detectLibc.family === detectLibc.MUSL && detectLibc.version) {
+      if (semver.lt(detectLibc.version, '1.1.24')) {
+        throw new Error(`Use with musl ${detectLibc.version} requires manual installation of libvips >= ${minimumLibvipsVersion}`);
+      }
+    }
 
     const supportedNodeVersion = process.env.npm_package_engines_node || require('../package.json').engines.node;
     if (!semver.satisfies(process.versions.node, supportedNodeVersion)) {
@@ -94,13 +117,11 @@ try {
     const tarFilename = ['libvips', minimumLibvipsVersion, platformAndArch].join('-') + '.tar.' + extension;
     const tarPathCache = path.join(libvips.cachePath(), tarFilename);
     if (fs.existsSync(tarPathCache)) {
-      npmLog.info('sharp', `Using cached ${tarPathCache}`);
-      extractTarball(tarPathCache);
+      libvips.log(`Using cached ${tarPathCache}`);
+      extractTarball(tarPathCache, platformAndArch);
     } else {
-      const tarPathTemp = path.join(os.tmpdir(), `${process.pid}-${tarFilename}`);
-      const tmpFile = fs.createWriteStream(tarPathTemp);
       const url = distBaseUrl + tarFilename;
-      npmLog.info('sharp', `Downloading ${url}`);
+      libvips.log(`Downloading ${url}`);
       simpleGet({ url: url, agent: agent() }, function (err, response) {
         if (err) {
           fail(err);
@@ -109,24 +130,37 @@ try {
         } else if (response.statusCode !== 200) {
           fail(new Error(`Status ${response.statusCode} ${response.statusMessage}`));
         } else {
+          const tarPathTemp = path.join(os.tmpdir(), `${process.pid}-${tarFilename}`);
+          const tmpFileStream = fs.createWriteStream(tarPathTemp);
           response
-            .on('error', fail)
-            .pipe(tmpFile);
+            .on('error', function (err) {
+              tmpFileStream.destroy(err);
+            })
+            .on('close', function () {
+              if (!response.complete) {
+                tmpFileStream.destroy(new Error('Download incomplete (connection was terminated)'));
+              }
+            })
+            .pipe(tmpFileStream);
+          tmpFileStream
+            .on('error', function (err) {
+              // Clean up temporary file
+              fs.unlinkSync(tarPathTemp);
+              fail(err);
+            })
+            .on('close', function () {
+              try {
+                // Attempt to rename
+                fs.renameSync(tarPathTemp, tarPathCache);
+              } catch (err) {
+                // Fall back to copy and unlink
+                fs.copyFileSync(tarPathTemp, tarPathCache);
+                fs.unlinkSync(tarPathTemp);
+              }
+              extractTarball(tarPathCache);
+            });
         }
       });
-      tmpFile
-        .on('error', fail)
-        .on('close', function () {
-          try {
-            // Attempt to rename
-            fs.renameSync(tarPathTemp, tarPathCache);
-          } catch (err) {
-            // Fall back to copy and unlink
-            fs.copyFileSync(tarPathTemp, tarPathCache);
-            fs.unlinkSync(tarPathTemp);
-          }
-          extractTarball(tarPathCache);
-        });
     }
   }
 } catch (err) {

package/lib/channel.js

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ function extractChannel (channel) {
  * - sRGB: 0: Red, 1: Green, 2: Blue, 3: Alpha.
  * - CMYK: 0: Magenta, 1: Cyan, 2: Yellow, 3: Black, 4: Alpha.
  *
- * Buffers may be any of the image formats supported by sharp: JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG, TIFF or raw pixel image data.
+ * Buffers may be any of the image formats supported by sharp.
  * For raw pixel input, the `options` object should contain a `raw` attribute, which follows the format of the attribute of the same name in the `sharp()` constructor.
  *
  * @param {Array<string|Buffer>|string|Buffer} images - one or more images (file paths, Buffers).

package/lib/colour.js

@@ -57,6 +57,13 @@ function grayscale (grayscale) {
 /**
  * Set the output colourspace.
  * By default output image will be web-friendly sRGB, with additional channels interpreted as alpha channels.
+ *
+ * @example
+ * // Output 16 bits per pixel RGB
+ * await sharp(input)
+ *  .toColourspace('rgb16')
+ *  .toFile('16-bpp.png')
+ *
  * @param {string} [colourspace] - output colourspace e.g. `srgb`, `rgb`, `cmyk`, `lab`, `b-w` [...](https://github.com/libvips/libvips/blob/master/libvips/iofuncs/enumtypes.c#L568)
  * @returns {Sharp}
  * @throws {Error} Invalid parameters

package/lib/composite.js

@@ -105,8 +105,9 @@ function composite (images) {
       input: this._createInputDescriptor(image.input, inputOptions, { allowStream: false }),
       blend: 'over',
       tile: false,
-      left: -1,
-      top: -1,
+      left: 0,
+      top: 0,
+      hasOffset: false,
       gravity: 0,
       premultiplied: false
     };
@@ -125,21 +126,23 @@ function composite (images) {
       }
     }
     if (is.defined(image.left)) {
-      if (is.integer(image.left) && image.left >= 0) {
+      if (is.integer(image.left)) {
         composite.left = image.left;
       } else {
-        throw is.invalidParameterError('left', 'positive integer', image.left);
+        throw is.invalidParameterError('left', 'integer', image.left);
       }
     }
     if (is.defined(image.top)) {
-      if (is.integer(image.top) && image.top >= 0) {
+      if (is.integer(image.top)) {
         composite.top = image.top;
       } else {
-        throw is.invalidParameterError('top', 'positive integer', image.top);
+        throw is.invalidParameterError('top', 'integer', image.top);
       }
     }
-    if (composite.left !== composite.top && Math.min(composite.left, composite.top) === -1) {
+    if (is.defined(image.top) !== is.defined(image.left)) {
       throw new Error('Expected both left and top to be set');
+    } else {
+      composite.hasOffset = is.integer(image.top) && is.integer(image.left);
     }
     if (is.defined(image.gravity)) {
       if (is.integer(image.gravity) && is.inRange(image.gravity, 0, 8)) {

package/lib/constructor.js

@@ -18,12 +18,10 @@ try {
     help.push(`- Ensure "${process.platform}" is used at install time as well as runtime`);
   } else if (/dylib/.test(err.message) && /Incompatible library version/.test(err.message)) {
     help.push('- Run "brew update && brew upgrade vips"');
-  } else if (/Cannot find module/.test(err.message)) {
-    help.push('- Run "npm rebuild --verbose sharp" and look for errors');
   } else {
     help.push(
       '- Remove the "node_modules/sharp" directory then run',
-      '  "npm install --ignore-scripts=false --verbose" and look for errors'
+      '  "npm install --ignore-scripts=false --verbose sharp" and look for errors'
     );
   }
   help.push(
@@ -40,7 +38,7 @@ const debuglog = util.debuglog('sharp');
 /**
  * Constructor factory to create an instance of `sharp`, to which further methods are chained.
  *
- * JPEG, PNG, WebP or TIFF format image data can be streamed out from this object.
+ * JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF or TIFF format image data can be streamed out from this object.
  * When using Stream based output, derived attributes are available from the `info` event.
  *
  * Non-critical problems encountered during processing are emitted as `warning` events.
@@ -90,10 +88,39 @@ const debuglog = util.debuglog('sharp');
  * // Convert an animated GIF to an animated WebP
  * await sharp('in.gif', { animated: true }).toFile('out.webp');
  *
- * @param {(Buffer|string)} [input] - if present, can be
- *  a Buffer containing JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG, TIFF or raw pixel image data, or
- *  a String containing the filesystem path to an JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG or TIFF image file.
- *  JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG, TIFF or raw pixel image data can be streamed into the object when not present.
+ * @example
+ * // Read a raw array of pixels and save it to a png
+ * const input = Uint8Array.from([255, 255, 255, 0, 0, 0]); // or Uint8ClampedArray
+ * const image = sharp(input, {
+ *   // because the input does not contain its dimensions or how many channels it has
+ *   // we need to specify it in the constructor options
+ *   raw: {
+ *     width: 2,
+ *     height: 1,
+ *     channels: 3
+ *   }
+ * });
+ * await image.toFile('my-two-pixels.png');
+ *
+ * @example
+ * // Generate RGB Gaussian noise
+ * await sharp({
+ *   create: {
+ *     width: 300,
+ *     height: 200,
+ *     channels: 3,
+ *     noise: {
+ *       type: 'gaussian',
+ *       mean: 128,
+ *       sigma: 30
+ *     }
+ *  }
+ * }).toFile('noise.png');
+ *
+ * @param {(Buffer|Uint8Array|Uint8ClampedArray|string)} [input] - if present, can be
+ *  a Buffer / Uint8Array / Uint8ClampedArray containing JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, SVG, TIFF or raw pixel image data, or
+ *  a String containing the filesystem path to an JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, SVG or TIFF image file.
+ *  JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, GIF, SVG, TIFF or raw pixel image data can be streamed into the object when not present.
  * @param {Object} [options] - if present, is an Object with optional attributes.
  * @param {boolean} [options.failOnError=true] - by default halt processing and raise an error when loading invalid images.
  *  Set this flag to `false` if you'd rather apply a "best effort" to decode images, even if the data is corrupt or invalid.
@@ -103,19 +130,23 @@ const debuglog = util.debuglog('sharp');
  * @param {boolean} [options.sequentialRead=false] - Set this to `true` to use sequential rather than random access where possible.
  *  This can reduce memory usage and might improve performance on some systems.
  * @param {number} [options.density=72] - number representing the DPI for vector images in the range 1 to 100000.
- * @param {number} [options.pages=1] - number of pages to extract for multi-page input (GIF, TIFF, PDF), use -1 for all pages.
- * @param {number} [options.page=0] - page number to start extracting from for multi-page input (GIF, TIFF, PDF), zero based.
+ * @param {number} [options.pages=1] - number of pages to extract for multi-page input (GIF, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, PDF), use -1 for all pages.
+ * @param {number} [options.page=0] - page number to start extracting from for multi-page input (GIF, WebP, AVIF, TIFF, PDF), zero based.
  * @param {number} [options.level=0] - level to extract from a multi-level input (OpenSlide), zero based.
  * @param {boolean} [options.animated=false] - Set to `true` to read all frames/pages of an animated image (equivalent of setting `pages` to `-1`).
  * @param {Object} [options.raw] - describes raw pixel input image data. See `raw()` for pixel ordering.
- * @param {number} [options.raw.width]
- * @param {number} [options.raw.height]
- * @param {number} [options.raw.channels] - 1-4
+ * @param {number} [options.raw.width] - integral number of pixels wide.
+ * @param {number} [options.raw.height] - integral number of pixels high.
+ * @param {number} [options.raw.channels] - integral number of channels, between 1 and 4.
  * @param {Object} [options.create] - describes a new image to be created.
- * @param {number} [options.create.width]
- * @param {number} [options.create.height]
- * @param {number} [options.create.channels] - 3-4
+ * @param {number} [options.create.width] - integral number of pixels wide.
+ * @param {number} [options.create.height] - integral number of pixels high.
+ * @param {number} [options.create.channels] - integral number of channels, either 3 (RGB) or 4 (RGBA).
  * @param {string|Object} [options.create.background] - parsed by the [color](https://www.npmjs.org/package/color) module to extract values for red, green, blue and alpha.
+ * @param {Object} [options.create.noise] - describes a noise to be created.
+ * @param {string} [options.create.noise.type] - type of generated noise, currently only `gaussian` is supported.
+ * @param {number} [options.create.noise.mean] - mean of pixels in generated noise.
+ * @param {number} [options.create.noise.sigma] - standard deviation of pixels in generated noise.
  * @returns {Sharp}
  * @throws {Error} Invalid parameters
  */
@@ -211,7 +242,7 @@ const Sharp = function (input, options) {
     jpegOptimiseCoding: true,
     jpegQuantisationTable: 0,
     pngProgressive: false,
-    pngCompressionLevel: 9,
+    pngCompressionLevel: 6,
     pngAdaptiveFiltering: false,
     pngPalette: false,
     pngQuality: 100,
@@ -233,9 +264,11 @@ const Sharp = function (input, options) {
     tiffTileWidth: 256,
     tiffXres: 1.0,
     tiffYres: 1.0,
-    heifQuality: 80,
+    heifQuality: 50,
     heifLossless: false,
-    heifCompression: 'hevc',
+    heifCompression: 'av1',
+    heifSpeed: 5,
+    heifChromaSubsampling: '4:2:0',
     tileSize: 256,
     tileOverlap: 0,
     tileContainer: 'fs',
@@ -246,6 +279,7 @@ const Sharp = function (input, options) {
     tileSkipBlanks: -1,
     tileBackground: [255, 255, 255, 255],
     tileCentre: false,
+    tileId: 'https://example.com/iiif',
     linearA: 1,
     linearB: 0,
     // Function to notify of libvips warnings

package/lib/input.js

@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@ function _createInputDescriptor (input, inputOptions, containerOptions) {
   } else if (is.buffer(input)) {
     // Buffer
     inputDescriptor.buffer = input;
+  } else if (is.uint8Array(input)) {
+    // Uint8Array or Uint8ClampedArray
+    inputDescriptor.buffer = Buffer.from(input.buffer);
   } else if (is.plainObject(input) && !is.defined(inputOptions)) {
     // Plain Object descriptor, e.g. create
     inputOptions = input;
@@ -134,22 +137,50 @@ function _createInputDescriptor (input, inputOptions, containerOptions) {
         is.object(inputOptions.create) &&
         is.integer(inputOptions.create.width) && inputOptions.create.width > 0 &&
         is.integer(inputOptions.create.height) && inputOptions.create.height > 0 &&
-        is.integer(inputOptions.create.channels) && is.inRange(inputOptions.create.channels, 3, 4) &&
-        is.defined(inputOptions.create.background)
+        is.integer(inputOptions.create.channels)
       ) {
         inputDescriptor.createWidth = inputOptions.create.width;
         inputDescriptor.createHeight = inputOptions.create.height;
         inputDescriptor.createChannels = inputOptions.create.channels;
-        const background = color(inputOptions.create.background);
-        inputDescriptor.createBackground = [
-          background.red(),
-          background.green(),
-          background.blue(),
-          Math.round(background.alpha() * 255)
-        ];
+        // Noise
+        if (is.defined(inputOptions.create.noise)) {
+          if (!is.object(inputOptions.create.noise)) {
+            throw new Error('Expected noise to be an object');
+          }
+          if (!is.inArray(inputOptions.create.noise.type, ['gaussian'])) {
+            throw new Error('Only gaussian noise is supported at the moment');
+          }
+          if (!is.inRange(inputOptions.create.channels, 1, 4)) {
+            throw is.invalidParameterError('create.channels', 'number between 1 and 4', inputOptions.create.channels);
+          }
+          inputDescriptor.createNoiseType = inputOptions.create.noise.type;
+          if (is.number(inputOptions.create.noise.mean) && is.inRange(inputOptions.create.noise.mean, 0, 10000)) {
+            inputDescriptor.createNoiseMean = inputOptions.create.noise.mean;
+          } else {
+            throw is.invalidParameterError('create.noise.mean', 'number between 0 and 10000', inputOptions.create.noise.mean);
+          }
+          if (is.number(inputOptions.create.noise.sigma) && is.inRange(inputOptions.create.noise.sigma, 0, 10000)) {
+            inputDescriptor.createNoiseSigma = inputOptions.create.noise.sigma;
+          } else {
+            throw is.invalidParameterError('create.noise.sigma', 'number between 0 and 10000', inputOptions.create.noise.sigma);
+          }
+        } else if (is.defined(inputOptions.create.background)) {
+          if (!is.inRange(inputOptions.create.channels, 3, 4)) {
+            throw is.invalidParameterError('create.channels', 'number between 3 and 4', inputOptions.create.channels);
+          }
+          const background = color(inputOptions.create.background);
+          inputDescriptor.createBackground = [
+            background.red(),
+            background.green(),
+            background.blue(),
+            Math.round(background.alpha() * 255)
+          ];
+        } else {
+          throw new Error('Expected valid noise or background to create a new input image');
+        }
         delete inputDescriptor.buffer;
       } else {
-        throw new Error('Expected width, height, channels and background to create a new input image');
+        throw new Error('Expected valid width, height and channels to create a new input image');
       }
     }
   } else if (is.defined(inputOptions)) {

package/lib/is.js

@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ const buffer = function (val) {
   return val instanceof Buffer;
 };
 
+/**
+ * Is this value a Uint8Array or Uint8ClampedArray object?
+ * @private
+ */
+const uint8Array = function (val) {
+  // allow both since Uint8ClampedArray simply clamps the values between 0-255
+  return val instanceof Uint8Array || val instanceof Uint8ClampedArray;
+};
+
 /**
  * Is this value a non-empty string?
  * @private
@@ -110,6 +119,7 @@ module.exports = {
   fn: fn,
   bool: bool,
   buffer: buffer,
+  uint8Array: uint8Array,
   string: string,
   number: number,
   integer: integer,

package/lib/libvips.js

@@ -37,10 +37,28 @@ const cachePath = function () {
   return libvipsCachePath;
 };
 
+const log = function (item) {
+  if (item instanceof Error) {
+    console.error(`sharp: ${item.message}`);
+  } else {
+    console.log(`sharp: ${item}`);
+  }
+};
+
+const isRosetta = function () {
+  /* istanbul ignore next */
+  if (process.platform === 'darwin' && process.arch === 'x64') {
+    const translated = spawnSync('sysctl sysctl.proc_translated', spawnSyncOptions).stdout;
+    return (translated || '').trim() === 'sysctl.proc_translated: 1';
+  }
+  return false;
+};
+
 const globalLibvipsVersion = function () {
   if (process.platform !== 'win32') {
-    const globalLibvipsVersion = spawnSync(`PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${pkgConfigPath()}" pkg-config --modversion vips-cpp`, spawnSyncOptions).stdout || '';
-    return globalLibvipsVersion.trim();
+    const globalLibvipsVersion = spawnSync(`PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${pkgConfigPath()}" pkg-config --modversion vips-cpp`, spawnSyncOptions).stdout;
+    /* istanbul ignore next */
+    return (globalLibvipsVersion || '').trim();
   } else {
     return '';
   }
@@ -81,7 +99,10 @@ const useGlobalLibvips = function () {
   if (Boolean(env.SHARP_IGNORE_GLOBAL_LIBVIPS) === true) {
     return false;
   }
-
+  /* istanbul ignore next */
+  if (isRosetta()) {
+    return false;
+  }
   const globalVipsVersion = globalLibvipsVersion();
   return !!globalVipsVersion && /* istanbul ignore next */
     semver.gte(globalVipsVersion, minimumLibvipsVersion);
@@ -91,6 +112,7 @@ module.exports = {
   minimumLibvipsVersion,
   minimumLibvipsVersionLabelled,
   cachePath,
+  log,
   globalLibvipsVersion,
   hasVendoredLibvips,
   pkgConfigPath,