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- Deprecate ImageFont.getsize and related functions 6381
[nulano, radarhere]

- Fixed null check for fribidi_version_info in FriBiDi shim 6376
[nulano]

- Added GIF decompression bomb check 6402
[radarhere]

- Handle PCF fonts files with less than 256 characters 6386
[dawidcrivelli, radarhere]

- Improved GIF optimize condition 6378
[raygard, radarhere]

- Reverted to __array_interface__ with the release of NumPy 1.23 6394
[radarhere]

- Pad PCX palette to 768 bytes when saving 6391
[radarhere]

- Fixed bug with rounding pixels to palette colors 6377
[btrekkie, radarhere]

- Use gnome-screenshot on Linux if available 6361
[radarhere, nulano]

- Fixed loading L mode BMP RLE8 images 6384
[radarhere]

- Fixed incorrect operator in ImageCms error 6370
[LostBenjamin, hugovk, radarhere]

- Limit FPX tile size to avoid extending outside image 6368
[radarhere]

- Added support for decoding plain PPM formats 5242
[Piolie, radarhere]

- Added apply_transparency() 6352
[radarhere]

- Fixed behaviour change from endian fix 6197
[radarhere]

- Allow remapping P images with RGBA palettes 6350
[radarhere]

- Fixed drawing translucent 1px high polygons 6278
[radarhere]

- Pad COLORMAP to 768 items when saving TIFF 6232
[radarhere]

- Fix P -> PA conversion 6337
[RedShy, radarhere]

- Once exif data is parsed, do not reload unless it changes 6335
[radarhere]

- Only try to connect discontiguous corners at the end of edges 6303
[radarhere]

- Improve transparency handling when saving GIF images 6176
[radarhere]

- Do not update GIF frame position until local image is found 6219
[radarhere]

- Netscape GIF extension belongs after the global color table 6211
[radarhere]

- Only write GIF comments at the beginning of the file 6300
[raygard, radarhere]

- Separate multiple GIF comment blocks with newlines 6294
[raygard, radarhere]

- Always use GIF89a for comments 6292
[raygard, radarhere]

- Ignore compression value from BMP info dictionary when saving as TIFF 6231
[radarhere]

- If font is file-like object, do not re-read from object to get variant 6234
[radarhere]

- Raise ValueError when trying to access internal fp after close 6213
[radarhere]

- Support more affine expression forms in im.point() 6254
[benrg, radarhere]

- Populate Python palette in fromarray() 6283
[radarhere]

- Raise ValueError if PNG chunks are truncated 6253
[radarhere]

- Use durations from each frame by default when saving GIFs 6265
[radarhere]

- Adjust BITSPERSAMPLE to match SAMPLESPERPIXEL when opening TIFFs 6270
[radarhere]

- Search pkgconf system libs/cflags 6138
[jameshilliard, radarhere]

- Raise ValueError for invalid PPM maxval 6242
[radarhere]

- Corrected screencapture argument in ImageGrab.grab() 6244
[axt-one]

- Deprecate support for Qt 5 (PyQt5 and PySide2) 6237
[hugovk, radarhere]

- Increase wait time of temporary file deletion on Windows 6224
[AlexTedeschi]

- Deprecate FreeTypeFont.getmask2 fill parameter 6220
[nulano, radarhere, hugovk]

- Round lut values where necessary 6188
[radarhere]

- Load before getting size in resize() 6190
[radarhere]

- Load image before performing size calculations in thumbnail() 6186
[radarhere]

- Deprecated PhotoImage.paste() box parameter 6178
[radarhere]

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**Improvements**

- Speed optimization in `iter_content` with transition to `yield from`. (6170)

**Dependencies**

- Added support for chardet 5.0.0 (6179)
- Added support for charset-normalizer 2.1.0 (6169)