Blog – IIPImage

New Official APT Repository: Faster Access to the Latest IIPImage Releases for Debian & Ubuntu

13 January, 2026 Ruven

A new official IIPImage APT repository has been put in place to provide the latest IIPImage packages as soon as they are released. Users can now get faster access to the latest version of iipsrv with all the latest features and enhancements without having to wait for the official Debian or Ubuntu distro freezes. The packages are based on updated versions of the original Debian builds and include all available features in an easy to install package. These packages are configured to provide full TIFF, JPEG2000 and JPEG input support as well as TIFF, PNG, WebP and AVIF output. They also provide both a fully configured IIP URL endpoint as well as a ready-to-use IIIF Image API v3 endpoint. […]

iipsrv 1.3

28 May, 2025 Ruven

Version 1.3 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released and available for download! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations and numerous bug-fixes. This is a fast, stable and production-ready release. New features include: Support for JPEG input images New output formats: TIFF […]

Alpine Linux

30 April, 2025 Ruven

The IIPImage server, iipsrv, is now available as an Alpine Linux package. Alpine Linux is a security-oriented, lightweight Linux distribution that is designed to be small, simple, and secure and thanks to its small footprint is widely used for virtual machines and container environments, such as Docker. […]

TIFF Image Encoding: Optimizing for Size, Speed and Quality

3 December, 2024 Ruven

The TIFF image format is the recommended input format for use with IIPImage due to it’s flexibility, unrivaled speed as well as its ability to handle multiple bit depths, scientific imaging and multidimensional datasets. However, how a TIFF is encoded and structured can make a large difference to the resulting file size as well as […]

iipsrv 1.2 released

3 September, 2023 Ruven

Version 1.2 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released and available for download! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. Major new features include support for output in PNG and WebP formats, support for TIFF image stacks such […]

OME-TIFF Whole Slide Microscopy

29 March, 2023 Ruven

The Open Microscopy Environment’s OME-TIFF specification is a TIFF-based format designed for whole-slide microscopy designed to replace various proprietary formats. It essentially consists of a standard TIFF file with one or more images to create a stack or time series of microscopy images. In addition, OME-TIFF defines an XML metadata structure which provides information on […]

Image Comparison of Ancient Mummy Portraits: The Appear Project

29 November, 2021 Ruven

Guest Post by Marie Svoboda, J. Paul Getty Museum Mummy Portrait of a Young WomanTempera on wood, about A.D. 170–200 In 2013, the Antiquities Conservation Department at the J. Paul Getty Museum launched a collaborative study inviting major museums around the world to participate in the study and characterization of the manufacturing practices and material […]

iipsrv 1.1 released

24 June, 2019 Ruven

Version 1.1 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server, is now officially released! This is a major new version containing a whole host of new features, major performance enhancements, optimizations, numerous bug-fixes and stability enhancements. Major new features include support for decoding JPEG2000 images via the OpenJPEG library, support for several new image processing functions, ICC profile […]

IIIFServer

7 June, 2017 Ruven

IIPImage has teamed up with Klokan Technologies to make the adoption of IIIF (the International Image Interoperability Framework) and JPEG2000 faster and easier for institutions seeking to implement the IIIF standard. IIIFServer is a high performance IIIF 2.1 image server that has been optimized for fast efficient use with IIIF and JPEG2000. The server is […]

IIPImage on Solaris

11 May, 2017 Ruven

A binary distribution of iipsrv version 1.0 is now available for the latest version of Solaris, Solaris 11.3, for x86 Solaris users. This distribution contains both 32bit and 64bit compiled IIPImage server binaries. […]