Install jxl-oxide with Homebrew

Project links

• Homepage
• Package manager page

Commands and aliases

• jxl-oxide

Project history

The project emerged during the broader JPEG XL adoption debate as an independent Rust implementation rather than a binding to the C++ libjxl reference implementation. Its changelog marks version 0.1.0 on May 17, 2023 as the first official release and says frequently used features were mostly implemented at that point.

The project then expanded from a basic decoder into a set of smaller crates and integrations. The changelog records cropped decoding and output-format options in 0.4.0, parallel decoding and SIMD work in 0.5.0, HDR tone mapping and external color-management hooks in 0.6.0, WebAssembly bindings in 0.7.0, image crate integration work in 0.10.0 and 0.12.5, JPEG bitstream reconstruction in 0.11.0, and Rust 2024 adoption in 0.12.0.

Adoption history

jxl-oxide matters because JPEG XL support often depends on embeddable decoder libraries. The README documents a blanket `jxl-oxide` crate for library users and a `jxl-oxide-cli` crate that installs the command-line binary, while the crates.io and docs.rs badges show it is distributed through Rust's normal package infrastructure.

How it is used

Library users add the `jxl-oxide` crate to `Cargo.toml`; command-line users install `jxl-oxide-cli` with Cargo and run the `jxl-oxide` binary. Feature flags expose choices such as Rayon multithreading, Little CMS 2 integration, pure-Rust moxcms integration, and integration with the Rust `image` crate.

Why package nerds care

For package nerds, jxl-oxide is a signal package: it turns a modern image format with complicated browser and platform politics into a Rust-native decoder that can be packaged, audited, fuzzed, and embedded without C++ runtime assumptions.

Timeline

• 2023-05-17: 0.1.0 first official release.
• 2023-11-21: 0.5.0 introduces parallelism and a pushed-data decoder API.
• 2024-01-13: 0.6.0 adds HDR tone mapping and color-management integration points.
• 2024-02-24: 0.7.0 adds WebAssembly bindings.
• 2024-12-28: 0.11.0 implements JPEG bitstream reconstruction.
• 2025-09-30: 0.12.5 adds an `image` crate decoding hook.
• 2026-05-29: 0.12.6 fixes several security and correctness issues.

Related projects

• Related projects include the JPEG XL standard and libjxl reference implementation, Rust image-processing crates that can consume decoder hooks, and color-management libraries such as lcms2 and moxcms.

Sources

• https://crates.io/crates/jxl-oxide
• https://docs.rs/crate/jxl-oxide/
• https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide
• https://github.com/tirr-c/jxl-oxide/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
• https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/