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Dominant language: Python
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Last GitHub push: Sep 19, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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71 open issues indexed

ImageText.wrap() doesn't wrap text by width on height fit with shrink scaling Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

python-pillow/Pillow#10024 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2026
ImageOps.contain and pad fail when a narrow image rounds to zero pixels Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9997 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 13, 2026
BOX filter missed some edge-case pixels Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9939 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 1, 2026
Warn that pre-applying arabic_reshaper + python-bidi corrupts text on a Raqm build Open

Documentation Font Rendering Third Party Framework

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9907 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Kerning woes Open

Font Rendering

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9898 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2026
Exporting an image created by Image.fromarrow with __arrow_c_array__ crashes with a segmentation fault Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 76/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9896 · Opened Aug 24, 2026
getlist()/_putdata(): OOB read when __len__ overstates materialized items Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9892 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Release Pillow 13.0.0 on October 15, 2026 Open

Release

python-pillow/Pillow#9885 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 20, 2026
Supporting future-portable build targets (PEP 803 limited API) Open

Build

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9836 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2026
Release notes for 12.3.0 not updated to show CVEs Open

Documentation

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9810 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Incomplete license header for `src/libImaging/Arrow.h` Open

License

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9657 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 4, 2026
Move custom build in setup.py to custom backend in _custom_build Open

Build

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9643 · 4 comments · Opened May 30, 2026
Jarvis-judice-ninke dithering Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9619 · 3 comments · Opened May 7, 2026
Image.putpixel incorrectly labels supported arguments in type annotations Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9584 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 23, 2026
Can't save all extensions to BytesIO Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9428 · 13 comments · Opened Feb 10, 2026
Python 3.15 support Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9330 · 15 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 6, 2025
Binary Raster Support (JBIG/JBG/JBIG2) Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9174 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 25, 2025
Support for dashed lines? Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9127 · 9 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2025
Consider adopting an image-format-per-plugin model Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python-pillow/Pillow#9101 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 19, 2025
Create a `Framework :: Pillow` Trove classifier? Open

Question

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python-pillow/Pillow#8892 · 9 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 14, 2025
FreeType license is applied incorrectly Open

License

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 58/100

python-pillow/Pillow#8880 · 10 comments · Opened Apr 10, 2025
Running the tests in multiple threads fails because of thread-unsafe Python code Open

Free-threading

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

python-pillow/Pillow#8492 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 23, 2024
Arrow Support Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python-pillow/Pillow#8329 · 26 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Aug 25, 2024
Add support for Ultra HDR Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

python-pillow/Pillow#8036 · 6 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 1, 2024
Some unpackers are misnamed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python-pillow/Pillow#8021 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 27, 2024
Memory of copied PIL Images is not released Open

Memory

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

python-pillow/Pillow#7935 · 13 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 2, 2024
FitsImagePlugin does not support RICE_1 compression Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

python-pillow/Pillow#7771 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 1, 2024
Additional financial or other support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

python-pillow/Pillow#7610 · 21 comments · Opened Dec 8, 2023
Progress indication when writing multiple frames Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python-pillow/Pillow#7433 · 4 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2023
ImageEnhance is not working on 16 bit images Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

python-pillow/Pillow#7397 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2023
Loading icons from a DLL file? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

python-pillow/Pillow#7191 · 12 comments · Opened May 28, 2023
FreeType sub-pixel text rendering Open

Enhancement Font Rendering

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python-pillow/Pillow#7176 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 21, 2023
Color and quality loss with similar colors or from RGBA Open

GIF

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

python-pillow/Pillow#6832 · 23 comments · Opened Dec 27, 2022
GaussianBlur does not work with I;16 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

python-pillow/Pillow#6667 · 12 comments · Opened Oct 17, 2022
Performance of ImageDraw::text() and potential use of FTC_Manager() Open

Performance

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 32/100

python-pillow/Pillow#6618 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2022
Dependency Dashboard Open

Dependency

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

python-pillow/Pillow#6604 · Opened Sep 20, 2022
Change pixel size of "LA", "La", and "PA" from 4 to 2 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

python-pillow/Pillow#6503 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 14, 2022
Raw formats (DNG, GPR, NEF) Open

Enhancement TIFF

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

python-pillow/Pillow#6482 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 5, 2022
Use xdg-desktop-portal for Image.grab() on Linux Open

Linux Screen grab

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python-pillow/Pillow#6392 · 13 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 22, 2022
Automatic text wrapping/text box filling Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

python-pillow/Pillow#6201 · 27 comments · 9 reactions · Opened Apr 11, 2022
SVG font support Open

Font Rendering

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

python-pillow/Pillow#6170 · 5 reactions · Opened Mar 31, 2022
Drawing methods edges aren't smooth Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python-pillow/Pillow#5960 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 15, 2022
Inconsistent use of dithering in `convert` and `quantize` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

python-pillow/Pillow#5836 · 21 reactions · Opened Nov 16, 2021
quantize() reduces to far fewer colors than requested in some cases Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

python-pillow/Pillow#5204 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 12, 2021
JPEG-LS support Open

Enhancement JPEG

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

python-pillow/Pillow#4841 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 6, 2020
Backup font for missing characters when drawing text Open

Enhancement Fonts

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

python-pillow/Pillow#4808 · 30 comments · 31 reactions · Opened Jul 22, 2020
Better morphological operations Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python-pillow/Pillow#4762 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 6, 2020
3-D Volumes Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python-pillow/Pillow#4672 · 6 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2020
Identify dominant colors Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

python-pillow/Pillow#4634 · 5 comments · Opened May 20, 2020
DiscreteCosineTransform (DCT) Open

Enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

python-pillow/Pillow#4487 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 28, 2020

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