NEWS.md

📰 Picopt News

v4.0.4

• Pillow 11 support.
• Better jpeg xmp preservation.
• Fix crash on reporting some errors.
• README Redhat installation and spelling fixes by @bpepple

v4.0.3 - Bad release

v4.0.2

• Fix windows mmap crash. Thanks @Fletcher.

v4.0.1

• Reduce overzealous png optimization. Provide an option to do that.

v4.0.0

• Alert!
  • Timestamps options changed, invalidating old timestamps. On your first run in a path with picopt 4.0 use the -N option to ignoring the old timestamp.
• Features
  • Support optimizing SVG with svgo.
  • Support converting more lossless formats to PNG & WEBP: CUR, DIB, FITS, IMT, PCX, PIXAR, PSD, QOI, SGI, SPIDER, SUN, TGA, XBM, XPM.
  • Support converting animated formats to animated PNG.
  • Support converting losslessly converting MPO to JPEG (choose primary image)
  • Internal oxipng replaces external optipng for png compression.
  • Better support for preserving EXIF, ICC_PROFILE, & XMP data across optimization and conversion.
  • --destroy-metadata option becomes --strip-metadata
  • --near-lossless option for lossless WebP.
  • --preserve file attributes after optimization.
  • --disable-programs option.
  • ~25% faster due to avoiding disk io.
• Fixes
  • wal file would write illegal key names and fail to load for some files.
• Dev
  • walk.run now returns totals instead of running report on them.

v3.3.7

• Fix
  • Remove Lossy WebP optimization. Wasn't optimal.
  • Fix non zero exit code on success.
• Features
  • Improve WebP optimization.

v3.3.6

• If unrar is not available do not convert rar. Was making empty zips.
• Support zip deflate64

v3.3.5

• Wasn't skipping directories appropriately.

v3.3.4

• Keep original path suffix if not converting.

v3.3.3

• Update treestamps fixes bugs.

v3.3.2

• Upstream treestamps returns to relative stamp paths for portability.

v3.3.1

• Upstream treestamps fixes crashes and check_config option.

v3.3.0

• Update deps including treestamps.
• New option to disable treestamps check of config section for a run.

v3.2.6

• Fix cleanup of temp dir when repacking a container or animated images fails.
• Simple error message instead of stack trace on config failure.

v3.2.5

• Fix occasionally removing both final and originals on case insensitive filesystem.

v3.2.4

• Fix error reporting
• Fix WebP Lossless detection

v3.2.3

• Color help. Change bigger color to blue.

v3.2.2

• Remove more debug print statements.

v3.2.1

• Remove debug print statements.

v3.2.0

• Animated PNG conversion to WEBP support
• Fixed showing total saved at the end
• Highlight conversions with color output
• Lowlight nothing saved results with dark colors
• Suppress stdout from programs
• Report errors in more detail
• Fixed verbosity count for cli
• Report on unhandled formats at verbosity > 1.

v3.1.4

• Remove extraneous debug print statement.

v3.1.3

• Fix not deleting working files
• Add progress dots to verbose level 1

v3.1.2

• Fix treestamps factory breaking.

v3.1.1

• Fix not skipping older than timestamp files.
• Add verbose logging skip files reason.

v3.1.0

• Change walk algorithm to complete directories and containers before opening new ones.
• Case insensitive format config.
• Ignore symlinks when asked to in timestamps.

v3.0.5

• Timestamps respect ignore option.
• Don't record timestamps for items inside containers.
• Traverse directories alphabetically.

v3.0.4

• Fix timestamps not recording sometimes.

v3.0.3

• Don't dump full timestamps after every dir completes.

v3.0.2

• Trap container repack errors.

v3.0.1

• Update treestamps to accept string paths.

v3.0.0

• Formats
  • WebP lossless, lossy and animated support.
  • Gain support for .zip archives
  • EPub support. ePub contents are never converted.
  • TIFF support
• Timestamps
  • Timestamps are now kept in .picopt_treestamps.yaml files.
  • Picopt will convert and clean up old style timestamps.
  • Timestamps are now recorded after optimizing every image for each image individually instead of directories, preserving progress.
  • Timestamps record configuration. Running with a new config invalidates non-matching timestamps.
• Configuration
  • .picoptrc.yaml files can configure options
  • Changed cli option names.
  • Removed cli args for manually disabling programs
  • Faster checking for external programs
• Fall back to Pillow optimization if better external programs not found.
• Colored terminal output.
• Fixes
  • Cleans up old temporary files from aborted picopt runs.
  • Fix condition where new files in an old archive were not processed.
  • optiping optimization level changed to o5
  • Exif & icc metadata preserved in all formats much better by default.

v2.2.1

• Support python v3.9
• Preserve comments when optimizing comic archives

v2.2.0

• Walk in alphabetical order
• Check code with vulture and radon

v2.1.0

• Remove adv support.
• Remove jpegrescan support. Inferior to mozjpeg
• Don't preserve ctime/mtime when making new pngs
• Use pytest instead of nosetest
• Require formatting with black & isort

v2.0.1

• Pillow 7 compatibility

v2.0.0

• Stop supporting python 2
• Switch to poetry build system
• Type checking with mypy

v1.6.3

• Don't use pngout on 16 bit pngs because it crashes
• Fix broken option -D --optimize_after

v1.6.2

• Fix illegal stack trace call.

v1.6.1

• Fix exception handling when extern process returns non-zero

v1.6.0

• Report on all errors at the end
• Remove PIL support in favor of Pillow.
• Python3 proof

v1.5.3

• Fix hang on external program error. Likely with 16 bit PNGs and pngout.

v1.5.2

• More compatibility with Python 3
• Fix formats as a list when it should be a set issue

v1.5.1

• Drop TIFF support.
• Fix space savings reporting bug where savings always equaled zero

v1.4.5

• When setting new timestamps, don't remove timestamps above the root paths specified as input

v1.4.4

• Use timestamp caching more often

v1.4.3

• Fix bug where files were not detected
• Fix broken timestamp processing.

v1.4.1

• fix main entry bug for cli

v1.4.0

• let the archive date override the newness of its contained files.
• let the cli run programmatically with passed in args
• code no longer relies on cwd for finding its way
• -d --directory argument goes away
• nosetests now run the old inadequate cli tests
• big code cleanup
• don't redetect new image format type

v1.3.3

• Print found picopt timestamps
• Lots of linting
• Fix jpeg_multithread flag
• moved tests out of picopt module

v1.3.2

• Keep version in one place in picopt/init.py

v1.3.1

• Remove dev dependencies from installed requirements.

v1.3

• break up monolithic picopt into modules. No functional change.

v1.2

• picopt learned the -j option for specifying number of subprocesses (thanks @DarwinAwardWinner)

v1.1.3

• fixed rare crash on sequential gif detection

v1.1.2

• detect PNM images properly for conversion with optipng

v1.1.1

• fix verifying gif crash (thanks @DarwinAwardWinner)

v1.1.0

• mozjpeg support (thanks to @crass00)

v1.0.6

• Fix disabled comic archive switch.

v1.0.5

• Fix timestamp writing to happen once workers have finished
• Fix size saved if size in is zero

v1.0.3

• Fix -v to actually be more verbose than default
• Fix from Dennis Schwertel to jpegtran runner

v1.0.2

• Fix -Y to actually disable not enable type conversion

v1.0.1

• Fix typos in --help

v1.0.0

• Packaging for PyPI
• Internal changes to make picopt more modular and library friendly
• CHANGED COMMAND LINE ARGUMENT LETTERS.
• Added verbosity setting
• Truncated relative and in-archive path names for readibiliy
• Nag about animated gifs less

v0.12.0.1

• Fix error on no directories

v0.12.0

• Added multithreaded jpegrescan operation when picopt isn't using up all the cores at the suggestion of Alex Roe.
• Added destroy metadata option at the suggestion of Alex Roe.

v0.11.4

• Added to ArchLinux by Alex Roe.