Pillow is the friendly PIL fork by Alex Clark and Contributors. PIL is the Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and Contributors
Since Pillow 2.0, the Pillow Team has adopted a quarterly release cycle; as such, Pillow 2.3.0 has just been released. Here’s what’s new in this release:
2.3.0 (2014-01-01)
- Stop leaking filename parameter passed to getfont
[jpharvey] - Report availability of LIBTIFF during setup and selftest
[cgohlke] - Fix msvc build error C1189: “No Target Architecture”
[cgohlke] - Fix memory leak in font_getsize
[wiredfool] - Correctly prioritize include and library paths
[ohanar] - Image.point fixes for numpy.array and docs
[wiredfool] - Save the transparency header by default for PNGs
[wiredfool] - Support for PNG tRNS header when converting from RGB->RGBA
[wiredfool] - PyQT5 Support
[wiredfool] - Updates for saving color tiffs w/compression using libtiff
[wiredfool] - 2gigapix image fixes and redux
[wiredfool] - Save arbitrary tags in Tiff image files
[wiredfool] - Quote filenames and title before using on command line
[tmccombs] - Fixed Viewer.show to return properly
[tmccombs] - Documentation fixes
[wiredfool] - Fixed memory leak saving images as webp when webpmux is available
[cezarsa] - Fix compiling with FreeType 2.5.1
[stromnov] - Adds directories for NetBSD.
[deepy] - Support RGBA TIFF with missing ExtraSamples tag
[cgohlke] - Lossless WEBP Support
[wiredfool] - Take compression as an option in the save call for tiffs
[wiredfool] - Add support for saving lossless WebP. Just pass ‘lossless=True’ to save()
[liftoff] - LCMS support upgraded from version 1 to version 2, fixes #343
[wiredfool] - Added more raw decoder 16 bit pixel formats
[svanheulen] - Document remaining Image* modules listed in PIL handbook
[irksep] - Document ImageEnhance, ImageFile, ImageFilter, ImageFont, ImageGrab, ImageMath, and ImageOps
[irksep] - Port and update docs for Image, ImageChops, ImageColor, and ImageDraw
[irksep] - Move or copy content from README.rst to docs/
[irksep] - Respect CFLAGS/LDFLAGS when searching for headers/libs
[iElectric] - Port PIL Handbook tutorial and appendices
[irksep] - Alpha Premultiplication support for transform and resize
[wiredfool] - Fixes to make Pypy 2.1.0 work on Ubuntu 12.04/64
[wiredfool]
Thanks to everyone who contributed fixes to 2.3.0, especially Eric Soroos AKA “wiredfool” who is officially now “Pillow Man #2” [1].
Handbook
Additionally, we’ve forked the PIL handbook and have included it with our documentation here: http://pillow.readthedocs.org. Special thanks to Stephen Johnson AKA “irksep” for working on this.
Distributions
Lastly, I’m very grateful to Christopher Gohlke for producing Windows Egg, Exe, and Wheel distributions to accompany each source release. I suspect Christopher will produce his 2.3.0 distributions any second now at which point I will upload them to PyPI via twine.
Enjoy Pillow 2.3.0! And please report any issues you find here: https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues
| [1] | In case I’m hit by a bus, Eric Soroos has the keys. |