Ubuntu 25.04 Now Ships with JPEG-XL Support Enabled by Default
a year ago
- #Linux
- #Ubuntu
- #JPEG-XL
- Ubuntu 25.04 will ship with JPEG-XL support enabled by default.
- JPEG-XL offers better compression efficiency compared to JPEG and competes with AVIF and WebP.
- Google Chrome has dropped JPEG-XL, slowing its adoption.
- Prior Ubuntu releases required manual installation of the 'jpeg-xl' package for JPEG-XL support.
- Canonical engineer Jeremy Bicha confirmed the last-minute inclusion of JPEG-XL in Ubuntu 25.04.