I can't speak to backwards compatibility, but since its a minor version change I would expect nothing to break. With my example images everything still works (including exif).
Release notes of 0.16.0 list breaking changes for monochrome images though.
Script failed for me with
cannot identify image file(no error at all in UI). Underlying error wasUnidentifiedImageError, as in https://github.com/bigcat88/pillow_heif/issues/249 This was fixed with https://github.com/bigcat88/pillow_heif/releases/tag/v0.18.0, so bumping to that version seemed appropriate.I can't speak to backwards compatibility, but since its a minor version change I would expect nothing to break. With my example images everything still works (including exif).
Release notes of
0.16.0list breaking changes for monochrome images though.