Developers, get 'image conscious' for royalty-free image codec JPEG XL Latest Blog Posts Related Content Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes CIO interview: Laura Dawson, CIO, London School of Economics Download Current Issue This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr. Jon Sneyers in his capacity as senior image researcher, Cloudinary. Dr. Sneyers is the co-chair of JPEG XL adhoc group. He invented the Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF) upon which JPEG XL is partly based. His image processing ‘Muscles from Brussels’ technology process helps deliver super-optimised images, super-fast. JPEG XL is a new image codec conceived for delivering high-quality images on the modern web, notable for its high-fidelity compression and progressive rendering. The ‘bitstream freeze’ for the codec’s upcoming version, JPEG XL 0.2, is imminent. At that point, all past and future JPEG XL images will be compatible with future codec versions.