This page lists Pillow features that are deprecated, or have been removed in past major releases, and gives the alternatives to use instead.
Below are features which are considered deprecated. Where appropriate, a DeprecationWarning is issued.
8.1.0
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).
7.2.0
The command parameter will be removed in Pillow 9.0.0 (2022-01-02). Use a subclass of :py.ImageShow.Viewer instead.
7.2.0
Image._showxv will be removed in Pillow 9.0.0 (2022-01-02). Use :py.Image.Image.show instead. If custom behaviour is required, use :py.ImageShow.register to add a custom :py.ImageShow.Viewer class.
7.2.0
IOError was merged into OSError in Python 3.3. So, ImageFile.raise_ioerror will be removed in Pillow 9.0.0 (2022-01-02). Use ImageFile.raise_oserror instead.
5.2.0
PILLOW_VERSION will be removed in Pillow 9.0.0 (2022-01-02). Use __version__ instead.
It was initially removed in Pillow 7.0.0, but brought back in 7.1.0 to give projects more time to upgrade.
8.2.0
Support for Tk/Tcl 8.4 is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 10.0.0 (2023-01-02), when Tk/Tcl 8.5 will be the minimum supported.
8.2.0
im.category is deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 10.0.0 (2023-01-02), along with the related Image.NORMAL, Image.SEQUENCE and Image.CONTAINER attributes.
To determine if an image has multiple frames or not, getattr(im, "is_animated", False) can be used instead.
8.3.0
JPEG quantization is now automatically converted, but still returned as a dictionary. The :py~PIL.JpegImagePlugin.convert_dict_qtables method no longer performs any operations on the data given to it, has been deprecated and will be removed in Pillow 10.0.0 (2023-01-02).
Deprecated features are only removed in major releases after an appropriate period of deprecation has passed.
1.1.2
8.0.0
im.offset() has been removed, call :py.ImageChops.offset() instead.
It was documented as deprecated in PIL 1.1.2, raised a DeprecationWarning since 1.1.5, an Exception since Pillow 3.0.0 and NotImplementedError since 3.3.0.
2.0.0
8.0.0
Image.fromstring()has been removed, call :py.Image.frombytes()instead.im.fromstring()has been removed, call :py~PIL.Image.Image.frombytes()instead.im.tostring()has been removed, call :py~PIL.Image.Image.tobytes()instead.
They issued a DeprecationWarning since 2.0.0, an Exception since 3.0.0 and NotImplementedError since 3.3.0.
3.2.0
8.0.0
Some attributes in :pyPIL.ImageCms.CmsProfile have been removed. From 6.0.0, they issued a DeprecationWarning:
| Removed | Use instead |
|---|---|
color_space |
Padded :py~.CmsProfile.xcolor_space |
pcs |
Padded :py~.CmsProfile.connection_space |
product_copyright |
Unicode :py~.CmsProfile.copyright |
product_desc |
Unicode :py~.CmsProfile.profile_description |
product_description |
Unicode :py~.CmsProfile.profile_description |
product_manufacturer |
Unicode :py~.CmsProfile.manufacturer |
product_model |
Unicode :py~.CmsProfile.model |
6.0.0
7.0.0
Python 2.7 reached end-of-life on 2020-01-01. Pillow 6.x was the last series to support Python 2.
6.1.0
7.0.0
Implicitly closing the image's underlying file in Image.__del__ has been removed. Use a context manager or call Image.close() instead to close the file in a deterministic way.
Previous method:
im = Image.open("hopper.png")
im.save("out.jpg")Use instead:
with Image.open("hopper.png") as im:
im.save("out.jpg")6.0.0
7.0.0
The version constants of individual plugins have been removed. Use PIL.__version__ instead.
| Removed | Removed | Removed |
|---|---|---|
BmpImagePlugin.__version__ |
Jpeg2KImagePlugin.__version__ |
PngImagePlugin.__version__ |
CurImagePlugin.__version__ |
JpegImagePlugin.__version__ |
PpmImagePlugin.__version__ |
DcxImagePlugin.__version__ |
McIdasImagePlugin.__version__ |
PsdImagePlugin.__version__ |
EpsImagePlugin.__version__ |
MicImagePlugin.__version__ |
SgiImagePlugin.__version__ |
FliImagePlugin.__version__ |
MpegImagePlugin.__version__ |
SunImagePlugin.__version__ |
FpxImagePlugin.__version__ |
MpoImagePlugin.__version__ |
TgaImagePlugin.__version__ |
GdImageFile.__version__ |
MspImagePlugin.__version__ |
TiffImagePlugin.__version__ |
GifImagePlugin.__version__ |
PalmImagePlugin.__version__ |
WmfImagePlugin.__version__ |
IcoImagePlugin.__version__ |
PcdImagePlugin.__version__ |
XbmImagePlugin.__version__ |
ImImagePlugin.__version__ |
PcxImagePlugin.__version__ |
XpmImagePlugin.__version__ |
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6.0.0
7.0.0
Qt 4 reached end-of-life on 2015-12-19. Its Python bindings are also EOL: PyQt4 since 2018-08-31 and PySide since 2015-10-14.
Support for PyQt4 and PySide has been removed from ImageQt. Please upgrade to PyQt5 or PySide2.
5.3.0
7.0.0
Setting the size of a TIFF image directly (eg. im.size = (256, 256)) throws an error. Use Image.resize instead.
5.2.0
6.0.0
VERSION (the old PIL version, always 1.1.7) has been removed. Use __version__ instead.
4.3.0
6.0.0
Several undocumented functions in ImageOps have been removed. Use the equivalents in ImageFilter instead:
| Removed | Use instead |
|---|---|
ImageOps.box_blur |
ImageFilter.BoxBlur |
ImageOps.gaussian_blur |
ImageFilter.GaussianBlur |
ImageOps.gblur |
ImageFilter.GaussianBlur |
ImageOps.usm |
ImageFilter.UnsharpMask |
ImageOps.unsharp_mask |
ImageFilter.UnsharpMask |
4.0.0
6.0.0
PIL.OleFileIO was removed as a vendored file in Pillow 4.0.0 (2017-01) in favour of the upstream olefile Python package, and replaced with an ImportError in 5.0.0 (2018-01). The deprecated file has now been removed from Pillow. If needed, install from PyPI (eg. python3 -m pip install olefile).