ImageMagick + HEIC / AVIF disappeared after updates

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What happened to ImageMagick AVIF support after the latest Fedora 41 updates?

After installing the latest updates on Fedora 41, AVIF support in ImageMagick seems to be gone. Running:

magick -list format | grep AVIF

Now returns nothing, and AVIF/HEIC formats are no longer supported.

However, on systems with Fedora 41 without the latest updates, the same command returns:

AVIF HEIC rw+ AV1 Image File Format (1.17.6)

I haven’t made any configuration changes—only installed the latest system updates.

Is this a known issue? Has something changed in the package dependencies?

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HEIC is patent encumbered. I guess someome noticed.

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install libheif-freeworld from rpmfusion repositories

https://koji.rpmfusion.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=31009

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It’s a miracle after installing ImageMagick-heic everything is working again.
The problem is that I hadn’t removed ImageMagick-heic
I don’t know whats is going on

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I had this happen about a month ago. I think my use of the RPMFusion package and a conflict caused the issue. I didn’t document it as I was in a hurry to get my script going. I use ImageMagick to convert .jpeg, .png to .avif with parallel

This has now happened to me again.

mogrify: unrecognized image format `avif' @ error/mogrify.c/MogrifyImageCommand/4950.

So I ran :

dnf update libavif avif-pixbuf-loader libheif-freeworld libheif
Last metadata expiration check: 1:08:21 ago on Sat 08 Feb 2025 10:16:16 AM EST.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!

So running :

Also has not fixed it for me.

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Install ImageMagick-heic, as mentioned.