Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.246,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The image read path accepts a maximum-bytes argument, defaulting to the same module constant it used before, and applies it when deciding whether to re-encode as JPEG. Nothing changes for callers that do not pass one.
Evidence
Image file is empty:
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.