0.6.0 (New features, API changes, library/viewer separation and fixes)

Highlights

• Moved the image viewer to a separate project, termvisage
• Urwid image support

0.6.0 - 2023-03-30

Fixed

• Resource leaks via unclosed PIL image instances (cdc6650).
• Unhandled initialization of images with null-sized PIL image instances (54665f8).
• 'iterm2' render output on non-Konsole terminal emulators when rendered height is 1, for WHOLE render method and native animations (f82aef0).
• Uppercase letters in hex BG colors being flagged as invalid (b4533d5).

Added

• term_image.image.auto_image_class() (538d408 in #70, 45898e8).
• BaseImage.forced_support for render style forced support (5979612 in #70, 889a4ca).
• term_image.DEFAULT_QUERY_TIMEOUT (be603f7 in #70, #82).
• New utilities in term_image.utils (#70):
  • get_terminal_name_version()
  • get_terminal_size()
  • read_tty_all()
  • write_tty()
• Support for clearing kitty images by z-index (97eceab).
• Support for clearing iterm2 images on konsole by intersection with cursor position (807a9ec).
• Widgets and related classes to display images with urwid (#73).
  • term_image.widget subpackage
  • term_image.widget.UrwidImage
  • term_image.widget.UrwidImageCanvas
  • term_image.widget.UrwidImageScreen
    • Support for terminal-synchronized output (#80).
• Support for path-like objects as image sources (f359d4e).

Changed

• (BREAKING!) Redefined KittyImage.clear() (97eceab).
• (BREAKING!) Changed the valid values for the z_index style-specific parameter of the kitty render style (#74).
• Computed image size and image.rendered_size (regardless of the value of image.scale) can no longer be null (contain 0) (#78).
  • No more "Image size or scale too small" error at render time.
• (BREAKING!) Redefined gloabl settings and moved all to package top-level (#82).
  • term_image.utils.set_query_timeout() -> term_image.set_query_timeout()
  • term_image.utils.DISABLE_QUERIES -> term_image.disable_queries() and term_image.enable_queries()
  • term_image.utils.SWAP_WIN_SIZE -> term_image.enable_win_size_swap() and term_image.disable_win_size_swap()
• Removed restrictions on iterm2 native animation (#84).
• Replaced ITerm2Image class variables with class and class/instance properties (c4050bd).
  • JPEG_QUALITY -> jpeg_quality
  • NATIVE_ANIM_MAXSIZE -> native_anim_max_bytes
  • READ_FROM_FILE -> read_from_file
• Store downloaded image files in an OS/env-specific temporary directory (1750e75).

Removed

• The CLI and TUI (#72).
• term_image.utils.read_tty() from the public API (#70).