New Version Of JPEG-Turbo Quietly Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 7 October 2015 at 07:49 PM EDT. 7 Comments
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While the Internet has been buzzing recently about the new FLIF image format, libjpeg-turbo developers released a new version of their JPEG library.

Libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2 is the new release and it quietly made it out at the end of September. Libjpeg-Turbo 1.4.2 features at least five known bug fixes resulting in crashes and other problems.

Details on the new libjpeg-turbo 1.4.2 release that was pointed out by an anonymous Phoronix reader can be found via the SourceForge.net project site.
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