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 ---------------------------------------------------- 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: