python-pillow#6102 added support for RLE8

radarhere · Mar 24, 2022 · 47426c5 · 47426c5
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@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ BMP
 ^^^
 
 Pillow reads and writes Windows and OS/2 BMP files containing ``1``, ``L``, ``P``,
-or ``RGB`` data. 16-colour images are read as ``P`` images. Run-length encoding
-is not supported.
+or ``RGB`` data. 16-colour images are read as ``P`` images. 4-bit run-length encoding
+is not supported. Support for reading 8-bit run-length encoding was added in Pillow
+9.1.0.
 
 The :py:meth:`~PIL.Image.open` method sets the following
 :py:attr:`~PIL.Image.Image.info` properties: