Introducing Jpegli: A New JPEG Coding Library (Google Open Source Blog)

The Google Open Source Blog is carrying anannouncement for a new JPEG library called "Jpegli". There are anumber of advantages claimed, including:

Jpegli can be encoded with 10+ bits per component. Traditional JPEGcoding solutions offer only 8 bit per component dynamics causingvisible banding artifacts in slow gradients. Jpegli's 10+ bitscoding happens in the original 8-bit formalism and the resultingimages are fully interoperable with 8-bit viewers. 10+ bit dynamicsare available as an API extension and application code changes areneeded to benefit from it.

The library is BSD-licensed.