Automattic / Automattic/jetpack

Enhancement: avif support for Photon

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[Feature] Photon [Plugin] Boost [Plugin] Jetpack [Pri] Normal Customer Report [LEGACY] Enhancement Triaged
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Description

### Impacted plugin

Jetpack

### What

Avif support for Photon

### How

With the latest Edge version adding support for avif, all maintained browsers now support avif.

Work on adding avif support for WordPress core is made, and it might land with WordPress 6.5.

Is there a plan to add avif support for Photon?

Also, how currently Photon treats avif? Is it excluded from the CDN?

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by tracing the Photon entry point and how it currently handles AVIF requests; the issue does not name specific files or tests. Establish whether AVIF is excluded from the CDN, then define the implementation and verification work needed for Photon to support it, considering the WordPress core AVIF work mentioned in the issue.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
php, wordpress
Domain
cloud, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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