The PNG file format gets an update after 20 years of stagnation As spotted by Tom's Hardware, the head of the PNG Working Group, Chris Blume, made a post on his website describing what's going on ...

PNG, short for Portable Network Graphics, is a popular and high-quality graphic file format. The PNG format is lossless and supports transparency.

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Tom’s Hardware writes that this is the first time the W3C has updated the file format since 2003. The PNG image file format was originally launched in 1996, but this is only the third version ever.