FeRD - 2026-03-05

This will likely have changed on any system using the new GdkPixbuf, which is based on a Rust loader called Glycin and has all-new support for a wider variety of image types and features. (For example, it now supports reading EXIF data from PNG files, something the old one never did.)

This support is enabled automatically whenever the new GdkPixbuf is available, which means it will be present in Fedora 43 and later, but is still absent from Ub untu as of 25.10, as they chose to hold GdkPixbuf back to the older version for compatibility reasons. (The new reader does potentially cause some compatibility issues with software using GdkPixbuf , though MComix is unlikely to be affected as it uses the Gio bindings.)