On 7/30/2010 Pillow, the friendly PIL fork, was released.
Since then, there have been a number of releases:
$ vanity Pillow
Pillow-1.0.tar.gz 2010-07-31 800
Pillow-1.1.tar.gz 2010-08-01 652
Pillow-1.2.tar.gz 2010-08-02 1,987
Pillow-1.3.zip 2010-11-28 589
Pillow-1.4.zip 2010-11-28 587
Pillow-1.5.zip 2010-11-28 876
Pillow-1.6.zip 2010-12-01 6,706
Pillow-1.7.0.zip 2011-05-28 678
Pillow-1.7.1.zip 2011-05-31 663
Pillow-1.7.2.zip 2011-06-02 3,460
Pillow-1.7.3.zip 2011-07-21 569
Pillow-1.7.4.zip 2011-07-21 4,156
Pillow-1.7.5.zip 2011-09-07 17,429
Pillow-1.7.5-py2.7-win32.egg 2011-09-08 917
Pillow-1.7.5-py2.6-win32.egg 2011-09-08 918
Pillow-1.7.5-py2.5-win32.egg 2011-09-08 516
Pillow-1.7.5-py2.4-win32.egg 2011-09-08 477
Pillow-1.7.6.zip 2012-01-21 7,401
Pillow-1.7.6.tar.gz 2012-01-21 10,540
Pillow-1.7.6-py2.7-win32.egg 2012-01-21 632
Pillow-1.7.6-py2.6-win32.egg 2012-01-21 439
Pillow-1.7.6-py2.5-win32.egg 2012-01-21 332
Pillow-1.7.6-py2.4-win32.egg 2012-01-21 336
Pillow-1.7.7.zip 2012-04-05 28,704
Pillow-1.7.7-py2.7-win32.egg 2012-04-09 716
Pillow-1.7.7-py2.6-win32.egg 2012-04-09 354
Pillow-1.7.7-py2.5-win32.egg 2012-04-09 198
Pillow-1.7.7-py2.4-win32.egg 2012-04-09 201
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Pillow has been downloaded 91,833 times!
Originally, I thought if the fork went nowhere, at least the Plone
community could maintain it for its own needs. However since then, a
number of folks outside the Plone community have taken an interest, so
I’ve decided to move the repository from the Plone collective to a
new organization called python-imaging. With this change, I hope to
gather folks to help develop a Python 3-compat release before PyCon
2013. (There are various PIL forks with Python 3-compat already in
existence, as well as the official PIL 1.2-dev tarball available from
bitbucket, which has some Python 3-compat if I understand correctly.)
The new home for Pillow is: