What's Changed

• Fix sphinx build errors by @zerolab in #140
• Remove old imghdr patch test by @Stormheg in #143
• test_detect_faces: sort array for determinism by @stephanlachnit in #135
• Add transform_colorspace_to_srgb operation and use it to fix inaccurate colors when saving specific image files by @Stormheg in #142
• Add support for ICO images by @RealOrangeOne in #141

New Contributors

• @Stormheg made their first contribution in #143

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0

This release is officially tested with Python 3.12, adds shorthand optional dependencies for Pillow/Wand (Willow[Pillow]/Willow[Wand]) so as to get the correct image library versions and fixes a few long standing issues

What's Changed

• Test with Python 3.12 by @zerolab in #124
• Add optional dependencies for Pillow/Wand by @zerolab in #130
• test_wand.py: fix typo in test skip by @stephanlachnit in #133
• test_image.py: replace wrong unicdoe character by @stephanlachnit in #132
• Tidy up testing linting deps by @zerolab in #131
• Replace the wrong unicode character in the image/heic mime type by @stephanlachnit in #132
• Preserve ICC profiles and EXIF metadata when saving to PNG, WebP, AVIF by @stefanistrate and @andre-fuchs in #136, via #63
  This will help preserve colours and image orientation when resaving to a different format

New Contributors

• @stephanlachnit made their first contribution in #133
• @andre-fuchs made their first contribution in #136
• @stefanistrate made their first contribution in #136 (which contains original code from #63)

Full Changelog: v1.6.2...v1.7.0

This release:

• Replaces the wrong unicode character in the image/heic mime type (by @stephanlachnit in #132)
• Preserves ICC profiles and EXIF metadata when saving to PNG, WebP, AVIF (@stefanistrate, @andre-fuchs in #136, via #63)
  This should help with colour and orientation

Full Changelog: v1.6.2...v1.6.3

This release ensures that all Willow ImageFile subclasses define a mime_type attribute.

What's Changed

• Ensure SVG files are given a mime type by @RealOrangeOne in #129

New Contributors

• @RealOrangeOne made their first contribution in #129

Full Changelog: v1.6.1...v1.6.2

This release ensures that all Willow ImageFile subclasses define a mime_type attribute.

What's Changed

• Ensure SVG files are given a mime type by @RealOrangeOne in #129

New Contributors

• @RealOrangeOne made their first contribution in #129

Full Changelog: v1.5.2...v1.5.3

Accounts for the full allowed notation in SVG viewBox, for example -5.000000011410315e-06 (reference)

What's Changed

• Fix NUMBER_PATTERN regex for parsing SVG viewboxes by @jams2 in #128

Full Changelog: v1.6...v1.6.1

Accounts for the full allowed notation in SVG viewBox, for example -5.000000011410315e-06 (reference)

What's Changed

• Fix NUMBER_PATTERN regex for parsing SVG viewboxes by @jams2 in #128

Full Changelog: v1.5.1...v1.5.2

🖼️ This release adds support for AVIF images via pillow-heif for Pillow, or ImageMagick 7.0.25+ for Wand.

🚀 It also introduces a new optimizer mechanism that allows optimizing images using dedicated libraries. Out of the box, Willow comes with optimizers for gifsicle, jpegoptim, optipng, pngquant and cwebp.

🐍 Willow no longer supports Python 3.7.

What's Changed

• Add linting by @zerolab in #116
• Switch to using flit for packaging by @zerolab in #117
• Use RTD config v2, update Sphinx configuration and use the Wagtail sphinx theme by @zerolab in #118
• Fix minor typos in README by @lb- in #120
• Re-add williow.image import in init by @zerolab in #121
• Add code coverage by @zerolab in #122
• Add check for CMYK when saving as PNG by @zerolab in #123
• Add AVIF support by @salty-ivy in #115
• Image optimisation operations by @zerolab in #69
• Add optional heif dependency to allow installing via pip install willow[heif] by @zerolab in #126

New Contributors

• @lb- made their first contribution in #120
• @salty-ivy made their first contribution in #115

Full Changelog: v1.5...v1.6

This release fixes an SVG cropping issue (#113, @jams2)

Full Changelog: v1.5...v1.5.1

• Drop support for Python versions below 3.7
• Drop support for Pillow versions below 9.1 and fix Pillow 10 deprecation warnings (Alex Tomkins)
• Replace deprecated imghdr with filetype. This allows detecting newer image formats such as HEIC (Herbert Poul)
• Add SVG support (Joshua Munn)
• Add HEIF support via the pillow-heif library (Alexander Piskun)