Packaging scripts for building pre-compiled libvips shared libraries and their dependencies across common operating systems and CPU architectures (Linux, Windows, macOS, and WebAssembly). Published to the npm registry under the img organization, this is useful if you want the prebuilt libvips binaries rather than compiling libvips yourself.
Project status
- Actively maintained: Recent activity shows multiple tagged
v1.3.0-rc.*update series, with a new upstream push on 2026-06-02 and recent update tags through 2026-05-21. - Apparent update cadence: Updates are fairly frequent, with
rc.5on 2026-04-19,rc.6on 2026-04-23, andrc.7on 2026-05-21 (roughly weeks apart, with a short interval early in the cycle).
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Recent updates
v1.3.0-rc.7
1 week agov1.3.0-rc.7 bumps a large set of native dependency versions (codecs, image libraries, typography libs) as listed in the release notes, and updates the published npm package versions from rc.6 to rc.7. The code diff also shows build-script and cross-compilation environment changes that are not described in the release notes, including how libheif and highway are downloaded and built.
v1.3.0-rc.6
1 month agov1.3.0-rc.6 updates the bundled native dependency versions used to build sharp/libvips related artifacts. The release notes only document version bumps, but the code diff shows a substantial change to how libtiff is downloaded and built in the posix build pipeline.
v1.3.0-rc.5
1 month agov1.3.0-rc.5 primarily updates the bundled native dependency versions used to build libvips and related image codecs. The diff also shows small but meaningful build-script changes around how libheif is fetched and configured during the build.
v1.3.0-rc.4
2 months agov1.3.0-rc.4 bumps a set of native dependency versions (notably libvips, aom, harfbuzz, cairo, jpeg/png, and others). The code diff also changes multiple build scripts and build configurations, including patching behavior for libaom and mozjpeg and adjusting how harfbuzz and Windows architectures are configured.
v1.3.0-rc.3
2 months agoRelease v1.3.0-rc.3 does not include narrative changelog text, it only lists a set of bundled dependency version numbers. The code diff shows additional build system, CI, and container environment changes that are not described in the release notes.
v1.3.0-rc.2
5 months agov1.3.0-rc.2 release notes only document updated native dependency versions (glib, harfbuzz, heif, vips, and others). The actual diff also includes build-script changes that alter how bundled/native libraries are compiled (notably JPEG compression behavior and Harfbuzz build options).
v1.3.0-rc.1
5 months agoRelease v1.3.0-rc.1 appears to be a packaging/build iteration with no application-level code changes shown in the diff. The only functional code-related change in the provided diff is a modification to the wasm build tar packaging command, plus version bumps across the generated npm package manifests.
v1.3.0-rc.0
5 months agoRelease v1.3.0-rc.0 updates the set of bundled native image-processing libraries and their pinned versions used to build sharp's prebuilt artifacts. The release notes are dependency-version focused, and the diff shows corresponding changes in build scripts and third-party notices, including swapping out one HDR/Png-related library and introducing libultrahdr.
v1.2.4
7 months agoRelease v1.2.4 appears to finalize a previously published release candidate (v1.2.4-rc.0). The provided code diff shows only npm package.json version string updates across multiple platform-specific packages and the workspace root.
v1.2.4-rc.0
7 months agov1.2.4-rc.0 primarily updates the bundled native dependency versions (for example: aom, expat, glib, harfbuzz, mozjpeg, rsvg, tiff, vips, xml2) for the release. The actual code diff also shows CI and build-script changes beyond the dependency version bumps, including updated macOS runners, a Node.js GitHub Action major bump, and several changes to how dependencies are patched and configured during the native build.