GNOME's Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default

GNOME's Rust-based and sandboxed Glycin image loading library focused on safety now supports JPEG 2000 images by default. Glycin 2.1 beta released this week and there is now JPEG 2000 image format support by default. This comes thanks to a new JPEG 2000 implementation written in Rust. This should be helpful particularly for PDF files where JPEG 2000 images are sometimes found. This JPEG 2000 support was highlighted by This Week in GNOME.

Also happening this week was a new GTK toolkit beta and the Resources system monitor adding AMD Ryzen AI NPU support. For third-party projects around GNOME there is now Sitra as an app to install and manage fonts via Google Fonts. AppManager is another new one as a Vala-based app for installing and managing AppImages on Linux. The Parabolic web video and audio downloader meanwhile saw its downloading engine rewritten in C# rather than C++. With the C# rewrite they aim for more stable performance and faster iteration.