Leipzig, December 17th 2025 – In the last year, 2024, we reported that the Apple Mac platform currently has the most advanced JPEG support integrated in the operating system. In October 2024 Microsoft released a new platform version of their current operating system, the Windows 11 2024 Update, also called the Germanium or Hudson Valley platform. This system has now finally support for advanced JPEG with arithmetic coding (JPEG 7)

Leipzig, December 20th 2024 – This year, in January 2024, the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) released a new version 9f (9.6) of the JPEG reference software. This release proved to be quite stable so far, and it will be the last version of the 9 series. JPEG 10 is now in preparation and will be the next version, with a preview version scheduled for publication in the next year 2025