1.11.6: libJPEGXL.dll crashes Windows Explorer on right-click .zip file

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AWBbox
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1.11.6: libJPEGXL.dll crashes Windows Explorer on right-click .zip file

Post by AWBbox »

XnView: MP 1.11.6 - 64-bit
OS: Windows 11 - 64-bit

Windows Explorer

Effect: XnView crashes Windows Explorer completely due to an exception in libJPEGXL.dll when a .zip file is right-clicked

To reproduce:
1. Ensure the XNView MP shell extension is added to the context menu
2. Browse a folder containing a .zip file
3. Right-click the .zip file
Actual behaviour (bug): Windows Explorer crashes and restarts :bug:

Expected behaviour: The context menu is displayed for the file in question
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Re: 1.11.6: libJPEGXL.dll crashes Windows Explorer on right-click .zip file

Post by xnview »

Please download again the package
AWBbox
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Re: 1.11.6: libJPEGXL.dll crashes Windows Explorer on right-click .zip file

Post by AWBbox »

xnview wrote: Tue Sep 01, 2026 5:53 am Please download again the package
The new copy of the file XnView_MP-1.11.6-win-x64.exe (SHA256: 0116231a5e626bbc5efb9da0c180d43dd452dcafa35c869886fea4fd93ac6031) does not result in this problem, thank you.

Assuming that the original copy of the file XnView_MP-1.11.6-win-x64.exe (SHA256: 90e67e12e73b22525e6bbb97438003db079c1d9d4a3a4cbe916827311253cc5b) contained corrupted data?
tuxfanmatze
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Re: 1.11.6: libJPEGXL.dll crashes Windows Explorer on right-click .zip file

Post by tuxfanmatze »

For me the same with Windows 10. Your new version of 1.11.6 fixed the File-Explorer right-click bug. Thank you.

Temporarily, disabling the XnView MP shell extension with Nirsoft's ShellExView tool helped me.
sheik124
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Re: 1.11.6: libJPEGXL.dll crashes Windows Explorer on right-click .zip file

Post by sheik124 »

xnview wrote: Tue Sep 01, 2026 5:53 am Please download again the package
I get a libJPEGXL.dll crash in Windows Explorer when right clicking .jxl files unless I manually revert to the version of libJPEGXL.dll from 1.11.2
It was crashing in 1.11.5 as well.

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Faulting application name: Explorer.exe, version: 10.0.19041.7548, time stamp: 0xd203369f
Faulting module name: libJPEGXL.dll, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x6a95b9d1
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x00000000000104ce
Faulting process id: 0xae44
Faulting application start time: 0x01dd3fc264dbe93e
Faulting application path: C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Program Files\XnViewMP\Plugins\libJPEGXL.dll
Report Id: 9b22fd09-3863-4390-9ad1-88eaf0142ab2
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 
Does it by any chance require AVX2?

I tried downloading the reference release of libjxl 0.12.0 and neither the static or dynamic versions of the cjxl/djxl/etc programs cause any crashes.

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JPEG XL decoder v0.12.0 4128790 [_SSE4_,SSE2] {Clang 22.1.3}
Decoded to pixels.
2560 x 1440, 14.293 MP/s, 8 threads.