v3.0 of pyvips, the libvips binding for python, is out! pypi.org/project/pyvi... This release is much easier to install -- it's just `pip install pyvips[binary]` and it'll automatically download the right libvips for your platform. Linux / macOS / Win, x64 and arm64.

nip4 has a first test release! github.com/jcupitt/nip4... This is a rewrite of nip2 for the gtk4 UI toolkit. The backend is all the same, so it should run all old workspaces, but the UI is new and quite a bit slicker. Any feedback would be very welcome!

nip4, the libvips image processing spreadsheet, is almost done! www.libvips.org/2025/01/31/n... It's correctly loading all the test workspaces I have, including a monster with 8.500 rows and 15,000 images. I'm aiming for late Feb for a first alpha release.

You can compare speed and memory use like this: $ /usr/bin/time -f %M:%e vipsthumbnail big.jpg --size 256x256 -o x.jpg 58180:0.20 $ /usr/bin/time -f %M:%e convert big.jpg -resize 256x256 x.jpg 717356:1.39 The output is peak memory use in kb, elapsed time in seconds. This is a 10k x 10k pixel JPG.

libvips 8.16 (used for image handling on bsky) is out now! Here are the release notes: www.libvips.org/2024/10/10/W... Headlines: - added signed distance fields for image generation - much better JXL support (animation, metadata, colour management) - better webp support - ... some minor things