2.8.2

This is a stable bugfix release, with the following changes:

• Fixed crash loading LBM images
• Automatically set the colorkey for indexed PNG images with transparency

2.8.1

This is a stable bugfix release, with the following changes:

• Updated libavif to version 1.0.3
• Indexed PNG images with alpha have blending automatically enabled
• Fixed a crash in the 32-bit webp DLLs on Windows
• Fixed issue extracting the tar release archives on Linux

2.8.0

Here are the highlights since the last release:

• Updated image decoding libraries
• Added support for loading WEBP animations
• PNG images with a palette are loaded as SDL surfaces with a palette

2.7.1

This is a release candidate for 2.8.0.

These are the changes since the last release:

• Added support for loading WEBP animations
• PNG images with a palette are loaded as SDL surfaces with a palette

2.6.3

This is a stable bugfix release, with the following changes:

• Fixed loading of 4-bit .ico files

2.6.2

This is a quick update to fix building with homebrew on macOS

2.6.1

This is a quick bug-fix release to fix grayscale image loading using the stb_image decoder for PNG and JPEG images.

2.6.0

In addition to new CMake support by @madebr and many bug fixes, here are the highlights since the last release:

• API documentation is now available on the wiki: https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_image
• Added stb_image as the default backend for JPG and PNG images loading.
  To use libpng and libjpg instead, configure using --disable-stb-image
• Added IMG_LoadSizedSVG_RW()
• Added support for AVIF images (https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif)
• Added IMG_ReadXPMFromArrayToRGB888()
• Added support for JXL images (https://jpegxl.info/)
• Added support for QOI images (https://qoiformat.org/)
• Fixed XCF regression introduced in 2.0.5
• Added support for loading animated GIFs
• LoadBMP() now loads files using SDL2
• Allow using libwebpdecoder instead libwebp

2.5.3

This is hopefully the final release candidate for 2.6.0.

The header documentation has been updated and is available at https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL_image

2.5.2

This is a release candidate for 2.6.0.

In addition to new CMake support by @madebr and many bug fixes, here are the highlights since the last release:

• Added stb_image as the default backend for JPG and PNG images loading.
  To use libpng and libjpg instead configure using --disable-stb-image
• Added IMG_LoadSizedSVG_RW()
• Added support for AVIF images (https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif)
• Added IMG_ReadXPMFromArrayToRGB888()
• Added support for JXL images (https://jpegxl.info/)
• Added support for QOI images (https://qoiformat.org/)
• Fixed XCF regression introduced in 2.0.5
• Added support for loading animated GIFs
• LoadBMP() now loads files using SDL2
• Allow using libwebpdecoder instead libwebp.