Server – IIPImage

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

Ruven — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:55:51 +0000

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

Ruven — Wed, 28 May 2025 09:17:02 +0000

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

Ruven — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 08:40:05 +0000

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

Ruven — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 10:11:29 +0000

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

Ruven — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 19:30:06 +0000

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

Ruven — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:45:10 +0000

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 [...]

iipsrv 1.1 released

Ruven — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:22:37 +0000

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 [...]

IIPImage on Solaris

Ruven — Thu, 11 May 2017 12:54:40 +0000

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. [...]

IIPImage now an Official FreeBSD Package

Ruven — Tue, 06 Sep 2016 09:09:17 +0000

IIPImage is is now an official FreeBSD package. As of version 1.0 of iipsrv, the IIPImage server is now included as part of the FreeBSD ports package collection. [...]

iipsrv 1.0

Ruven — Tue, 22 Mar 2016 15:35:10 +0000

Version 1.0 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. [...]