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Chrome 155 adds JPEG XL decoding
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Chrome 155 can decode JPEG XL (.jxl) images, reported on the Hacker News front page on October 7. The format claims 30%–50% better compression than JPEG, plus lossless compression, built-in HDR and lossless JPEG transcoding. Chrome's decoder, jxl-rs, is a pure Rust rewrite that keeps SIMD performance while staying memory-safe; the report says no memory-safety bugs were found in its history.
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Chrome 155 decodes JPEG XL, using the pure Rust jxl-rs decoder.Coverage
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Oct 7
- Hacker News front pageShipping JPEG XL in Chrome
Chrome 155 起支持解码 JPEG XL（.jxl）图片格式，相比 JPEG 可提供 30-50% 的压缩率，并支持无损压缩、内置 HDR 和无损 JPEG 转码。Chrome 用纯 Rust 重新实现了 JPEG XL 解码器 jxl-rs，在保证内存安全的同时维持 SIMD 性能，整个实现历史中未发现内存安全 bug。
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