Version 0.10 of libjxl, the reference implementation for JPEG XL, has just been released. The main improvement this version brings, is that the so-called “streaming encoding” API has now been fully implemented. This API allows encoding a large image in “chunks.” Instead of processing the entire image at once, which may require a significant amount of RAM if the image is large, the image can now be processed in a more memory-friendly way. As a side effect, encoding also becomes faster, in particu...