PicView is a fast, free and fully customizable image viewer for Windows 10 and 11. It supports a vast range of image file types [...]. Additional features includes viewing EXIF metadata, image compression, batch resizing, viewing images within archives and comic books, image effects, image galleries, and more. [...] Available in portable and installable versions.
PicView is currently at v2.2, released 2024-01-01 (changes and downloads at https://github.com/Ruben2776/PicView/releases).