After two decades of stagnation, the PNG specification has been updated with significant new features
Proper HDR support added, enabling a wider color gamut with only four extra bytes
APNG animations are now officially recognized in the spec
Native Exif metadata support included for copyright, camera, and GPS information
General cleanup of errata, clarifications, and spec improvements
Backed by major organizations including Adobe, Apple, BBC, Comcast/NBCUniversal, Google, MovieLabs, and W3C
Next editions will focus on better SDR/HDR interoperability, compression improvements, and parallel encoding
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