Any plan to release new version of libwebp version ? iOS's integration need version release fix to supports Xcode 12

[李卓立]

Hi.

I'm the maitainer of iOS's package manager for libwebp. This is not maintained by libwebp's Google's git, but using another DSL.

The GitHub repo is here: https://github.com/SDWebImage/libwebp-Xcode

We supports 3 different package managers on iOS devs:

+ CocoaPods

+ Carthage

+ Swift Package Manager

However, due to the Xcode 12 release, which drop the min deployment target for iOS 8+ (See: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-12-release-notes)

The current latest version of that package, does not specify any deployment target version limit. Which will cause Xcode 12 to assume it using iOS 9+.

However, many other components which dependency libwebp, still use iOS 8+.

This will cause the package manager resolve failure. (Because, higher deployment target version should not dependency lower deployment target version).

So, we have to fill the deployment target limit for libwebp, so I create a MR:

https://github.com/SDWebImage/libwebp-Xcode/pull/5

However, the problem is:

Our `libwebp-Xcode` (iOS integration) need to release the same version timeline as Google's libwebp official repo. This cause issue because libwebp latest version released **on 7 Jan**

There are more than half a year no version bumped. This cause a pain for us. And I rememeber that I previouslly have the familiar issue: 

https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/g/webp-discuss/c/CPWy7iVc0JU/m/QYVmfxqtCwAJ

So, any plan about the libwebp 1.1.1 ? Or 1.2.0 release date ? 

[James Zern]

Hi,

Thanks for the report. I filed https://crbug.com/webp/484 to track the release. There have been a few issues brought up with Xcode / iOS that we'll try to address as part of this.