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PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animation
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APNG is what they're using in v3, so all many libraries need to do* is update that code for HDR.
* surely that's easy, right?
I mean, on a Linux system that's not riddled with flatpak / snap / ... You'd basically only need to update libpng and you'd be good.
Yes. But if you live in the future, you have to wait for dozens of dozens of intermediate to do so! Great!