Announcing SDL_image 2.6.0

slouken · July 8, 2022, 4:59pm

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

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 · August 1, 2022, 3:59pm

A minor update to grayscale image loading has been released:

slouken · August 19, 2022, 5:25pm

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

Gianfranco_Berardi · August 30, 2022, 7:19pm

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?

slouken · February 7, 2023, 12:26am

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 · February 7, 2023, 12:32am

A minor update with bug fixes has been released: