AVIF Linux & Open-Source News |
| KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release | KDE | 2026-06-13 |
| Blender 5.1 Released With Raycast Nodes, AMD GPU Ray-Tracing By Default | Free Software | 2026-03-17 |
| libavif 1.4 Released For Advancing AVIF Image Support | Free Software | 2026-03-05 |
| AOMedia Open Audio Codec "OAC" Aims To Be The Successor To Opus | Multimedia | 2026-02-22 |
| SVT-AV1 4.0 Released With More Performance Optimizations | Multimedia | 2026-01-25 |
| GNOME 50 Alpha Released With The X11 Code Gutted | GNOME | 2026-01-15 |
| OpenCV 4.13 Brings More AVX-512 Usage, CUDA 13 Support, Many Other New Features | Free Software | 2025-12-31 |
| Google Looks To Bring JPEG-XL Support Back To Chrome / Chromium | Google | 2025-11-23 |
| AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End | Multimedia | 2025-09-15 |
| GNOME 49 Beta Ships Many Last Minute Features - Including Greater systemd Reliance | GNOME | 2025-08-15 |
| PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs | Standards | 2025-06-25 |
| Ubuntu 25.04 Now Ships With JPEG-XL Support Enabled By Default | Ubuntu | 2025-04-09 |
| SVT-AV1 3.0 Released With Faster CPU-Based AV1 Encoding | Multimedia | 2025-02-23 |
| RadeonSI Lands Async Video Operations For Improving FFmpeg Performance | Mesa | 2024-10-30 |
| AV1 Still Picture Encoding Merged For Mesa 24.3 Radeon Driver | Mesa | 2024-10-29 |
| Google Increases AVIF Image Format Support With Google Search Support | Google | 2024-09-03 |
| libavif 1.1 Released For Improving AVIF Image Encoding | Free Software | 2024-07-12 |
| Shotcut 24.06 Supports SVT-AV1 Encode & AVIF Images, Many Fixes | Free Software | 2024-06-28 |
| FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI | Multimedia | 2024-04-05 |
| AOMedia Announces Royalty-Free IAMF Audio Container Specification | Standards | 2023-11-10 |
| Google Releases libaom 3.7 AV1 Encoder With More Optimizations | Multimedia | 2023-09-01 |
| libavif 1.0 Released With Stable ABI, Experimental AV2 Support | Free Software | 2023-08-28 |
| Google May Reconsider JPEG-XL Image Support Within Chrome | Google | 2023-08-07 |
| Linux Mint 21.2 Released With Cinnamon Enhancements, Other Desktop Polishing | Operating Systems | 2023-07-16 |
| OpenCV 4.8 Released With TensorFlow Lite Model Support, AVIF Image Handling | AI | 2023-06-29 |
| Linux Mint 21.2 Promoted To Beta With Desktop Improvements, HEIF & AVIF Support | Operating Systems | 2023-06-21 |
| Dav1d 1.2.1 Released With More Performance Optimizations | Multimedia | 2023-06-06 |
| Firefox 113 Available With Animated AV1 Image Support (AVIS) | Mozilla | 2023-05-09 |
| Experimental AV2 Support Added To AVIF Image Encoder | Free Software | 2023-05-05 |
| FSF Slams Google Over Dropping JPEG-XL In Chrome | Free Software | 2023-04-16 |
| digiKam 8.0 Released With Expanded File Format Support, New OCR Tool | KDE | 2023-04-16 |
| Firefox 113 Beta Adds Animated AV1 Image Support | Mozilla | 2023-04-11 |
| AOM AV1 3.6 Brings More Performance & Efficiency Optimizations | Multimedia | 2023-02-08 |
| Mozilla Comes Out Neutral On JPEG-XL Image Format Support | Mozilla | 2023-01-31 |
| KDE Kicks Off 2023 With UI Refinements, More Fixes | KDE | 2023-01-07 |
| Haiku R1 Beta 4 Released With Improved HiDPI, WiFi Updates, Wayland Compatibility Layer | Operating Systems | 2022-12-23 |
| Google Chrome/Chromium Goes Ahead In Removing JPEG-XL Support | Google | 2022-12-11 |
| GIMP 2.99.14 Released As Another Step Toward GIMP 3.0 | Free Software | 2022-11-19 |
| Google Outlines Why They Are Removing JPEG-XL Support From Chrome | Google | 2022-10-31 |
| Google Chrome Is Already Preparing To Deprecate JPEG-XL | Google | 2022-10-29 |
| KDE Starts More Feature Work On Plasma 5.27, Fixes For Plasma 5.26 | KDE | 2022-10-22 |
| Kdenlive 22.08 Video Editor Brings UI Improvements, Experimental Parallel Processing | KDE | 2022-08-22 |
| FFmpeg 5.1 Released With Many Improvements To This Important Multimedia Project | Multimedia | 2022-07-22 |
| Google Chrome 102 Released With Capture Handle, File Handling For Given MIME Types | Google | 2022-05-24 |
| FFmpeg Lands AVIF Muxer For This Image Format Based On AV1 | Multimedia | 2022-05-13 |
| LibreOffice Finally Adding Support For The WebP Image Format | LibreOffice | 2022-02-04 |
| Clear Linux Container Performance Continues Showing Sizable Gains | Clear Linux | 2022-01-30 |
| GIMP 2.10.30 Released With Better Adobe PSD Support, Improved Portals Integration | Free Software | 2021-12-21 |
| Firefox 93 Primed For Release With AVIF Image Support, Canonical Managing Official Snap | Mozilla | 2021-10-05 |
| Android 12 Now Available From The Android Open-Source Project | Google | 2021-10-04 |
| Krita 5.0 Beta Released With Better Performance, UI Polishing | KDE | 2021-08-18 |
| Firefox 92 Beta Takes Flight With AVIF Image Support | Mozilla | 2021-08-12 |
| Firefox 91 Released As New ESR Base, HTTPS First Policy For Private Mode | Mozilla | 2021-08-10 |
| Firefox 92 To Try Again With AVIF Image Support By Default | Mozilla | 2021-08-06 |
| Libaom, SVT-AV1 Mark New Open-Source AV1 Encoder Releases This Week | Multimedia | 2021-05-09 |
| Firefox 87 Released With Privacy Improvements But Backs Out AVIF | Mozilla | 2021-03-23 |
| Vulkan Ray-Tracing Along With Other New/Updated Benchmarks For February | Phoronix Test Suite | 2021-02-28 |
| Android 12 Developer Preview Released | Google | 2021-02-18 |
| Plasma 5.21 Continues Seeing Lots Of Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release | KDE | 2021-02-13 |
| Chrome 89 Beta Enables WebHID By Default, Other New Web APIs | Google | 2021-01-29 |
| Mozilla Firefox Flips On AVIF Image Decoding By Default | Mozilla | 2021-01-08 |
| Mozilla Firefox Appears Ready To Enable AVIF Image Handling Support By Default | Mozilla | 2020-12-20 |
| KDE Sees New Features, Bug Fixes Ahead Of Christmas | KDE | 2020-12-19 |
| Google Is Already Experimenting With WebP2 As Successor To WebP Image Format | Google | 2020-11-15 |
| GIMP 2.10.22 Released With AVIF Image Support | Free Software | 2020-10-07 |
| Intel Media Driver 2020.3 Released With Gen12 AV1 Decode, Other Improvements | Intel | 2020-09-30 |
| AV2 Is In R&D As The Eventual Successor To The AV1 Video Codec | Multimedia | 2020-09-07 |
| Chrome 85 Is Clang PGO'ing Binaries For Better Performance But Linux Left Out | Google | 2020-08-25 |
| AOMedia Forms AV1 Software Working Group Using Intel's SVT-AV1 | Multimedia | 2020-08-20 |
| Chrome 85 Beta Brings WebHID API For Better Gamepad Support, AVIF Image Decode | Google | 2020-07-23 |
| Firefox 77 Released With Security Fixes, AV1 Image File Support | Mozilla | 2020-06-02 |
| Firefox 77 Nightly Adds Initial AV1 Image File Support (AVIF) | Mozilla | 2020-05-04 |
| Netflix Now Exploring AVIF For Image Compression | Free Software | 2020-02-15 |
| AV1 Image File Format v1.0 Finalized | Standards | 2019-02-28 |
