gdk-pixbuf-2.44.2

[Bruce Dubbs]

New minor version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

2.44.0

• build: Fix cross-building
• build: Don't build documentation by default
• glycin: Implement animation
• Translation updates

2.43.5 (development)

• The animation-related APIs have been deprecated
• jpeg: Fix a crash related to icc data (CVE-2025-7345)
• glycin: Save jpeg without alpha
• glycin: Simplify wrapping code and avoid a copy
• glycin: Support exif orientation
• glycin: Set sandbox mode for saving
• Plug some memory leaks
• build: Disabled the thumbnailer by default on Linux
• Prefer builtin modules

2.43.3 (development)

• Add a native loader for Android builds
• Use the glycin loader for SVG as well.
• Change the default build options to be 'auto' for all loader options. On Linux, we build only the glycin loader, unless overwritten.
• Change the default value for the builtin_loaders option to 'default'. On Linux, we interpret 'default' as 'glycin'. On other platforms, we interpret it as 'png,jpeg' (which was the previous default value).
• Require Meson 1.5 to build gdk-pixbuf
• Use glycin for saving. The following formats are supported: png, jpeg, tiff, webp, ico, bmp. For png, jpeg and tiff, the most common options are supported when saving.
• Fix introspection annotations for loading and saving GdkPixbuf from and to streams asynchronously

2.43.2 (development)

• Make the thumbnailer optional
• Add a glycin loader. Glycin is a sandboxed image loading framework that is written in rust, and supports more image formats than gdk-pixbuf ever did. On Linux, we recommend that you build gdk-pixbuf with *only* the glycin loaders, and rely on glycin for thumbnailers too. Like this:

meson configure -Dpng=disabled \

-Dtiff=disabled \ -Djpeg=disabled \ -Dgif=disabled \ -Dothers=disabled \ -Dglycin=enabled \ -Dbuiltin_loaders='glycin' \ -Dthumbnailer=disabled

Note that this change has some potential for fallout: use of gdk-pixbuf (e.g. for pixdata conversions) will fail if bubblewrap sandboxing is not available (as is the case in many build systems). The recommendation is to simply stop using pixdata as a format for resources, and just use png.

• Deprecate "gtk_doc" configuration option; to conform with the rest of the GNOME core libraries, use "documentation" instead
• Remove the long-since deprecated "docs" configuration option
• Require Meson 1.0 to build gdk-pixbuf
• Deprecate the XPM-related API; the XPM loader is disabled by default, and we have better API for loading those kinds of assets, though nobody should be shipping XPM files in 2025

[Bruce Dubbs]

Now version 44.2.

2.44.2

• glycin: Ignore unknowns keys when saving
• Translation updates

2.44.1

• Re-enable animation tests
• Fix leak in load_animation_with_glycin

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit de36a675a9.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed