diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/8.4.0.rst b/docs/releasenotes/8.4.0.rst index 42e57745b..74b7d4438 100644 --- a/docs/releasenotes/8.4.0.rst +++ b/docs/releasenotes/8.4.0.rst @@ -35,7 +35,13 @@ TODO Other Changes ============= -TODO -^^^^ +Speed improvement when rotating square images +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -TODO +Starting with Pillow 3.3.0, the speed of rotating images by 90 or 270 degrees was +improved by quickly returning :py:meth:`~PIL.Image.Image.transpose` instead, if the +rotate operation allowed for expansion and did not specify a center or post-rotate +translation. + +Since the ``expand`` flag makes no difference for square images though, Pillow now +uses this faster method for square images without the ``expand`` flag as well.