Pillow 2.2.1 Released

Pillow 2.2.1 Released

Mon 02 September 2013

By aclark

In Blog . tags: Django Python Plone Pillow is the "friendly" PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library. The Pillow 2.2.1 source distribution is now available on PyPI [1] , featuring over 30 documented bug fixes and enhancements since 2.1.0 was released 3 months ago:

Fix #254 : Bug in image transformations resulting from uninitialized memory [nikmolnar] Fix for encoding of b_whitespace, similar to closed issue #272 [mhogg] Fix #273 : Add numpy array interface support for 16 and 32 bit integer modes [cgohlke] Partial fix for #290 : Add preliminary support for TIFF tags. [wiredfool] Fix #251 and #326 : circumvent classification of pngtest_bad.png as malware [cgohlke] Add typedef uint64_t for MSVC. [cgohlke] Fix #329 : setup.py: better support for C_INCLUDE_PATH, LD_RUN_PATH, etc. [nu774] Fix #328 : _imagingcms.c: include windef.h to fix build issue on MSVC [nu774] Automatically discover homebrew include/ and lib/ paths on OSX [donspaulding] Fix bytes which should be bytearray [manisandro] Add respective paths for C_INCLUDE_PATH, LD_RUN_PATH (rpath) to build if specified as environment variables. [seanupton] Fix #312 + gif optimize improvement [d-schmidt] Be more tolerant of tag read failures [ericbuehl] Fix #318 : Catch truncated zTXt errors. [vytisb] Fix IOError when saving progressive JPEGs. [e98cuenc] Add RGBA support to ImageColor [yoavweiss] Fix #304 : test for str, not "utf-8". [mjpieters] Fix missing import os in _util.py. [mnowotka] Added missing exif tags. [freyes] Fail on all import errors, fixes #298 . [macfreek, wiredfool] Fixed Windows fallback (wasn't using correct file in Windows fonts). [lmollea] Moved ImageFile and ImageFileIO comments to docstrings. [freyes] Restore compatibility with ISO C. [cgohlke] Use correct format character for C int type. [cgohlke] Allocate enough memory to hold pointers in encode.c. [cgohlke] Fix #279 , fillorder double shuffling bug when FillOrder ==2 and decoding using libtiff. [wiredfool] Moved Image module comments to docstrings. [freyes] Add 16-bit TIFF support, fixes #274 . [wiredfool] Ignore high ascii characters in string.whitespace, fixes #272 . [wiredfool] Added clean/build to tox to make it behave like travis. [freyes] Adding support for metadata in webp images. [heynemann]

The Pillow Team has really settled in to the groove of making Pillow releases every three months, and I am very proud to be a part it! Special thanks to Eric Soroos and Christopher Gohlke for their invaluable help in getting the 2.2.1 release completed. If you use Pillow professionally, please consider supporting its development .

[1] If there are no issues with 2.2.1 within 24 hours, Python Eggs and the first ever Pillow Wheel will be uploaded to PyPI.

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