v0.14.0

Added

• Synonym for chroma encoder parameter: subsampling(usage is the same as in Pillow JPEG). #161 #165
• Passing image_orientation value to libheif, instead of manually rotating image according to EXIF before encoding. #168
• Pillow plugin: support for images in YCbCr mode for saving without converting to RGB. #169
• Pi-Heif: Python3.12 32-bit armv7 wheels. #160

Changed

• Increased the minimum required libheif version to 1.14.1.
• Linux: When building from source, libheif and other libraries are no longer try built automatically. #158
• Libheif updated from 1.16.2 to 1.17.5 version. #166 #175
• NCLX color profile - was reworked, updated docs, see PR for more info. #171
• Minimum supported Pillow version raised to 9.2.0.
• Pi-Heif: As last libheif version requires minimum cmake>=3.16.3 dropped Debian 10 armv7 wheels. #160
• libde265 updated from 1.0.12 to 1.0.14. changelog

Fixed

• Support of libheif 1.17.x. #156
• Windows : Build from source with MinGW Python. #178

v0.13.1

Added

• Returned PyPy 3.8 wheels.

Changed

• Linux: libaom updated to 3.6.1, musllinux builds switched to musllinux_1_2 tag.

Fixed

• When building from source, the installer additionally searches for libheif using pkg-config. #128

v0.13.0

Added

• Python 3.12, PyPy 3.10 wheels.
• Depth Image read support, they are available as a list in im.info["depth_images"] #116
• options.SAVE_NCLX_PROFILE - default False to be full compatible with previous versions, but in next versions may be changed to True. #118 Thanks to @wiggin15
• Support for Pillow 10.1.0

Changed

• The license for the project itself has been changed to "BSD-3-Clause" since "Apache 2.0" is not compatible with the "x265" encoder. #111 Thanks to @mattip
• Minimum required Pillow version increased from 8.4.0 to 9.1.1
• Dropped Python 3.7 support, PyPy 3.8 wheels.
• Dropped 32-bit wheels for Pillow-Heif. Pi-Heif still have 32-bit wheels.

v0.12.0

This release is fully compatible with previous versions.

Added

• (Heif) restored lost ability after 0.9.x versions to open HDR images in 10/12 bit. #96

Changed

• libde265(HEIF decoder) updated from 1.0.11 to 1.0.12 version. changelog
• libheif updated to 1.16.2.

Fixed

• Building from source when using apt-repository ppa:strukturag/libheif
• (Heif) encode function with stride argument correctly saves image.
• (Heif) HeifFile class created with from_bytes function with stride argument respect stride value during save.
• (Heif) HeifFile class created with from_bytes function with stride argument can correctly translate to numpy array.

v0.11.1

This release is fully compatible with 0.10.x versions.

Fixed

• Revert EXIF changes from 0.11.0 - raw data again can begin with Exif\x00\x00. Thanks to @fabbaum #93
• (Heif) deepcopy support for HeifFile class.

v0.11.0

Changed

• EXIF raw data in info["exif"] is now skipping first 6 bytes(Exif\x00\x00). Like in Pillow for WEBP.

Fixed

• EXIF parsing(Xiaomi images and possible others). Thanks to @mxsleo #92
• (Pillow) deepcopy support for HeifImageFile and AvifImageFile
• (macOS, arm64) libde265(HEIF decoder) now has the same version as in other builds(1.0.8->1.0.11)
• (macOS, arm64) libaom(AVIF) now has the same version as in other builds(3.4.0->3.6.0)

v0.10.1

Added

• Windows PyPy wheels.
• Faster image loading implementation with Pillow 9.5.0
• options.ALLOW_INCORRECT_HEADERS option to allow loading files with invalid ispe header. Thanks to @Soooda #86

Changed

• libheif updated from 1.14.2 to 1.15.2

v0.10.0

Reworked version with native C extension.

Added

• Restored ability to build from source with libheif==1.12.0
• Ability to encode images in LA mode

Changed

• libde265(HEIF decoder) updated from 1.0.9 to 1.0.11 version. changelog
• (Heif) convert_to method was removed, bgr_mode opt. parameter added to open_heif
• Many other changes mostly for standalone usage. topic

Changed

• Fixed Access Violation(all version was affected) when image size after decoding differs. #79

v0.9.3

Fixed

Two bugs in XMP metadata handling that were causing exceptions. All versions were affected. Thanks to @eeyrw for pointing out such a problem.

• Handling XMP data with zero byte at the end. #69
• Handling XMP data in latin1 encoding. #69

v0.9.2

Changed

• libheif updated from 1.14.0 to 1.14.2