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# 8.1.0

## Security

This release includes security fixes.

- An out-of-bounds read when saving TIFFs with custom metadata through LibTIFF

- An out-of-bounds read when saving a GIF of 1px width

### CVE 2020-35653: Buffer read overrun in PCX decoding

The PCX image decoder used the reported image stride to calculate the row buffer, rather than calculating it from the image size. This issue dates back to the PIL fork. Thanks to Google’s OSS-Fuzz project for finding this.

### CVE 2020-35654: TIFF out-of-bounds write error

Out-of-bounds write in `TiffDecode.c` when reading corrupt YCbCr files in some LibTIFF versions (4.1.0/Ubuntu 20.04, but not 4.0.9/Ubuntu 18.04). In some cases LibTIFF’s interpretation of the file is different when reading in RGBA mode, leading to an out-of-bounds write in `TiffDecode.c`. This potentially affects Pillow versions from 6.0.0 to 8.0.1, depending on the version of LibTIFF. This was reported through Tidelift.

### CVE 2020-35655: SGI decode buffer overrun

4 byte read overflow in `SgiRleDecode.c`, where the code was not correctly checking the offsets and length tables. Independently reported through Tidelift and Google’s OSS-Fuzz. This vulnerability covers Pillow versions 4.3.0->8.0.1.

### Dependencies

OpenJPEG in the macOS and Linux wheels has been updated from 2.3.1 to 2.4.0, including security fixes.

LibTIFF in the macOS and Linux wheels has been updated from 4.1.0 to 4.2.0, including security fixes discovered by fuzzers.

## Deprecations

### FreeType 2.7

Support for FreeType 2.7 is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 9.0.0 (2022-01-02), when FreeType 2.8 will be the minimum supported.

We recommend upgrading to at least FreeType 2.10.4, which fixed a severe vulnerability introduced in FreeType 2.6 (CVE 2020-15999).

### Makefile

The `install-venv` target has been deprecated.

## API additions

### Append images to ICO

When saving an ICO image, the file may contain versions of the image at different sizes. By default, Pillow will scale down the main image to create these copies.

With this release, a list of images can be provided to the `append_images` parameter when saving, to replace the scaled down versions. This is the same functionality that already exists for the ICNS format.

## Other changes

### Makefile

The `co` target has been removed.

### PyPy wheels

Wheels have been added for PyPy 3.7.

### PySide6

Support has been added for PySide6. If it is installed, it will be used instead of PyQt5 or PySide2, since it is based on a newer Qt.