Leipzig, December 21th 2023 – Last year, in October 2022, the Independent JPEG Group (IJG) provided a new preview version of libjpeg 9f, completing the support for the two major Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for the creation of applications with a graphical user interface (GUI) on the Microsoft Windows platform: Microsoft Visual Studio/Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) and Embarcadero RAD Studio (Rapid Application Development)/C++Builder/Delphi. Microsoft Windows is the dominant platform in

Press Release Leipzig, October 14th 2022 – One year ago, in October 2021, the Independent JPEG Group celebrated the 30th anniversary of the most successful electronic image format JPEG. Now we are preparing for the 30th anniversary of the most common Integrated Development Environments (IDE) for Graphical User Interface (GUI) Application Software: Microsoft Visual Studio/Microsoft Visual C++ (MSVC) and Embarcadero RAD Studio (Rapid Application Development)/C++Builder/Delphi. Both were first released in

On October 07th 1991 the first version of libjpeg, the code library responsible for the success of the JPEG format, was released. What follows is a success story that appears to be unparalleled. The format was supported by more and more applications. A large boost for the spread of JPEG was obtained by the emergence of the World Wide Web: it was presentable in almost all browsers. At present billions

The new release of libjpeg, the reference library for decoding and encoding JPEG images, has been published in version 9d and is available as of now. The new library contains many changes to optimize JPEG-rendering and to increase the stability of the process. Minor new features have been added, while the focus of most developers and users is on reliability of the application. Libjpeg can be used as it is

In January 2018 the Independent JPEG Group released a new version 9c of libjpeg. This version contains numerous improvements in security, performance and stability. Few days after the release a first application (cpicture.thecloudsite.net) included the new library into its new version. Other companies announced the use of the library for the next release, e.g. PhotoLine, Directory Opus or StudioLine Photo. Libjpeg developer Guido Vollbeding: “It is recommended that application developers

Guido Vollbeding was invited to give a presentation on libjpeg reference software at a conference of the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI)) at June 19th 2017 in Leipzig. The topic of the session was “long lasting software projects”. Celebrating its 25th birthday, libjpeg is indeed a long lasting software project. The majority of the audience were professors of computer science. Vollbeding explained basic features of libjpeg architecture

Google recently released an image encoder that is able to compress JPEG images 20-30% better than libjpeg without compromising on the visual quality. Very good. You can use it on every platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS) to compress your images. Though needing many resources the result seems to be almost unrivalled compared to what other systems do. So far so good. It would be worthwile to add that this software as