Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 was released this week for the GNOME project providing a Rust-based library for decoding, editing, and creating images and associated metadata. Glycin is in turn used by a growing number of GNOME components for imaging needs.

Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 was [1]released earlier today as a nice step up for the project ahead of next month's GNOME 49 release. The Rust-written Glycin image loading and editing code has "dramatically improved" its JPEG-XL image loading speed with Glycin 2.0 Beta 3. There are also Glycin bug fixes and other enhancements in this new test release.

The faster JPEG-XL loading comes from not using the image-rs feature to convert texture data to avoid an extra copy of the data.

More details on the Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 release via the [2]GNOME GitLab . More details on this update and the other interesting GNOME project changes for the week via [3]This Week in GNOME 213 .



[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glycin/-/tags/2.0.beta.3

[2] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glycin/-/tags/2.0.beta.3

[3] https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/08/twig-213/