libjpeg-turbo 3.0 Released But May Be The End Of Feature Work Due To Funding Constraints

[phoronix]

Phoronix: libjpeg-turbo 3.0 Released But May Be The End Of Feature Work Due To Funding Constraints

The libjpeg-turbo 3.0 open-source release occurred today for this open-source JPEG image codec implementation focused on SIMD instruction usage for optimized efficiency. While libjpeg-turbo has been a great open-source development success and has seen widespread use, its feature development moving forward may be limited due to funding gaps...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/libjpeg-turbo-3.0-Released

[Sonadow]

Good riddance.

Just use IJG libjpeg or ISO libjpeg.

[rogerx]

Anybody want to hear about me and my problems?

[mirmirmir]

Anybody want to hear about me and my problems?

Thats what thought

Counter argment: You maintain open source project? Write news for living?

[Rallos Zek]

Good riddance.

Just use IJG libjpeg or ISO libjpeg.

Nobody sane would consider such a thing.

[ElectricPrism]

Anybody want to hear about me and my problems?

In times such as these...

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[Nocturnal64]

> As it stands, libjpeg-turbo only has general funding for about 8-10 hours of labor per month. Finishing the 3.0 beta release required borrowing against all expected general funding for 2023

I completely don’t understand. OK, maintaining the serverver (with various compiler and static analysis pipelines) needs some money, but why the labor? Unless he is hiring someone to do the work for the project.

[Sonadow]

Nobody sane would consider such a thing.

Only a moron will use a gimped library that has no support for JPEG9 or JPEG XT

[Setif]

Shouldn't RedHat pay for it?

[lectrode]

Hopefully standalone implementations of JPEG won't be required for much longer. The ongoing effort by the JPEG committee to supersede JPEG with JPEG-XL will also provide a new reference implementation of JPEG that supports both the old and the new formats, simplifying the transition process and hopefully consolidating efforts to support JPEG moving forward.