Release Notes

Pillow is released quarterly on January 2nd, April 1st, July 1st and October 15th. Patch releases are created if the latest release contains severe bugs, or if security fixes are put together before a scheduled release. See Versioning for more information.

Please use the latest version of Pillow. Functionality and security fixes should not be expected to be backported to earlier versions.

Note

Contributors please include release notes as needed or appropriate with your bug fixes, feature additions and tests.

• 9.4.0
  • API Additions
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 9.3.0
  • API Additions
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 9.2.0
  • Deprecations
  • API Additions
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 9.1.1
  • Security
• 9.1.0
  • API Changes
  • Deprecations
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 9.0.1
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 9.0.0
  • Fredrik Lundh
  • Backwards Incompatible Changes
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 8.4.0
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 8.3.2
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 8.3.1
  • Fixed regression converting to NumPy arrays
  • Catch OSError when checking if destination is sys.stdout
  • Fixed removing orientation in ImageOps.exif_transpose
• 8.3.0
  • Deprecations
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 8.2.0
  • Deprecations
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 8.1.2
  • Security
• 8.1.1
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 8.1.0
  • Deprecations
  • API Additions
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 8.0.1
  • Security
• 8.0.0
  • Backwards Incompatible Changes
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 7.2.0
  • API Changes
• 7.1.2
  • Fix another regression seeking PNG files
• 7.1.1
  • Fix regression seeking PNG files
• 7.1.0
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 7.0.0
  • Backwards Incompatible Changes
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 6.2.2
  • Security
• 6.2.1
  • API Changes
  • Other Changes
• 6.2.0
  • API Additions
  • API Changes
  • Security
  • Other Changes
• 6.1.0
  • Deprecations
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 6.0.0
  • Backwards Incompatible Changes
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 5.4.1
  • Installation on Termux
  • PNG: Handle IDAT chunks after image end
  • PNG: MIME type
  • File closing
• 5.4.0
  • API Changes
  • Other Changes
• 5.3.0
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 5.2.0
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 5.1.0
  • New File Format
  • API Changes
  • Other Changes
• 5.0.0
  • Backwards Incompatible Changes
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 4.3.0
  • API Changes
  • API Additions
  • Other Changes
• 4.2.1
  • Fixed Windows PyPy Build
• 4.2.0
  • Added Complex Text Rendering
  • New Optional Parameters
  • New DecompressionBomb Warning
  • Removed Deprecated Items
  • Removed Core Image Function
• 4.1.1
  • Fix Regression with reading DPI from EXIF data
  • Incompatibility between 3.6.0 and 3.6.1
• 4.1.0
  • Removed Deprecated Items
  • Closing Files When Opening Images
  • Changes to GIF Handling When Saving
  • New Method: Image.remap_palette
  • Added Decoder Registry and Support for Python Based Decoders
  • Tests
• 4.0.0
  • Python 2.6 and 3.2 Dropped
  • Support added for Python 3.6
  • OleFileIO.py
  • SGI image save
  • Zero sized images
  • Internal handles_eof flag
  • Image.core.stretch removed
• 3.4.0
  • New resizing filters
  • Deprecation Warning when Saving JPEGs
  • New DDS Decoders
  • Append images to GIF
  • Save multiple frame TIFF
  • Image.core.open_ppm removed
• 3.3.2
  • Integer overflow in Map.c
  • Sign Extension in Storage.c
• 3.3.0
  • Libimagequant support
  • New Setup.py options
  • Resizing
  • Rotation
  • Image Metadata
• 3.2.0
  • New DDS and FTEX Image Plugins
  • Updates to the GbrImagePlugin
  • Passthrough Parameters for ImageDraw.text
  • ImageSequence.Iterator changes
• 3.1.2
  • CVE-2016-3076 – Buffer overflow in Jpeg2KEncode.c
• 3.1.1
  • CVE-2016-0740 – Buffer overflow in TiffDecode.c
  • CVE-2016-0775 – Buffer overflow in FliDecode.c
  • CVE-2016-2533 – Buffer overflow in PcdDecode.c
  • Integer overflow in Resample.c
• 3.1.0
  • ImageDraw arc, chord and pieslice can now use floats
  • Consistent multiline text spacing
  • Exif, Jpeg and Tiff Metadata
• 3.0.0
  • Saving Multipage Images
  • Tiff ImageFileDirectory Rewrite
  • Deprecated Methods
  • LibJpeg and Zlib are Required by Default
• 2.8.0
  • Open HTTP response objects with Image.open
• 2.7.0
  • Sane Plugin
  • Png text chunk size limits
  • Image resizing filters
  • Image transposition
  • Gaussian blur and unsharp mask
  • TIFF Parameter Changes
• Versioning