JPEG-Turbo Library 1.5.1 Released

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 21 September 2016 at 06:24 AM EDT. Add A Comment
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Version 1.5.1 of the libjpeg-turbo library is now available. For those that have somehow managed to never hear of it, libjpeg-turbo is a BSD-licensed, faster JPEG image codec than libjpeg and has various other feature differences.

With libjpeg-turbo 1.5.1, there is mostly a number of bug-fixes. There are some changes concerning this JPEG library on PowerPC, various ARM fixes, fancy upsampling in more conditions, the TurboJPEG API supporting JPEG decompression in more conditions, and various other fixes.

Those interested in libjpeg-turbo 1.5.1 can find out more via the GitHub repository.
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