Announcing SDL_image 2.6.0

[slouken]

Thanks to all the people who contributed code and feedback, SDL_image 2.6.0 is now available!

Release 2.6.0 · libsdl-org/SDL_image

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: SDL_image/FrontPage - SDL Wiki
• 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 (GitHub - AOMediaCodec/libavif: libavif - Library for encoding and decoding .avif files)
• 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

[slouken]

A minor update to grayscale image loading has been released:

Release 2.6.1 · libsdl-org/SDL_image

[slouken]

A minor update to address building using homebrew on macOS has been released:

Release 2.6.2 · libsdl-org/SDL_image

[Gianfranco_Berardi]

I see that the minimum OS targets update didn’t make it in to the latest release. Do we know when we might expect it?

Updated minimum OS targets on Apple platforms to match supported platforms using Xcode 13

[slouken]

I’m not sure when the next big release of SDL_image will be, but you’re welcome to pull that change into your own build.

[slouken]

A minor update with bug fixes has been released:

Release 2.6.3 · libsdl-org/SDL_image