GIF support in 2.42 is gone?

I was re-rendering a scene created with a previous version of Blender, 
under the lastest release 2.42, and my "gif" texture files would not 
load.  I checked the message window and it was filled with "blender 
does not recognized this file format" messages.  I used a small 
application and loaded up my "gif" files and saved them a "jpg" and 
changed the pic reference to the .jpg and now they do show up.

Anyone knows what happened here?  I can convert the "gif" to "jpg", 
but that is a rather silly waste of time, and the "jpg" files are 4 to 
5 times larger than the "gif".  So what happened to "gif" format 
access?


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