New Salesforce Commerce Cloud Integration

• Easily load and optimize images in Page Designer directly from your existing cloud storage with the imgix Salesforce Commerce Cloud integration. Get more information and watch a demo here.

New Magento (Adobe Commerce) Plugin

• This app allows users to easily connect to imgix via Image Manager within Magento for product creation and page creation. It is compatible with Magento 2 Open Source/Community Edition. Install it and read the user guide here.

Added Inclusion and Exclusion Paths to Image Manager

• Now you can configure your Source to include or exclude certain paths from asset discovery in Image Manager. This does not affect which assets can be rendered via imgix, only which assets are eligible to appear in Image Manager.

Video Now In Limited Availability

• We are excited to announce that our new Video API is now in Limited Availability for all of our Enterprise Customers. This enables you to process, optimize, and deliver your videos from the same Source you currently serve images from. Contact us if you would like to have the Video API enabled for your account.

Performance Improvements

• Released upgrades to our image processing resulting in up to 20% faster average render times and up to 34% faster average render times for certain file formats.

Log4j Update

• We would like all of our users to know that imgix does not use Log4j in any of our services so we are not impacted by the recently publicized exploits. As always, we are continuously monitoring our services and staying up to date with security best practices.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where some Purge API requests would intermittently return a 401 Unauthorized error.

AVIF Update: Animations and New AVIF Default

• Animated AVIFs are now supported (previously, animated images converted to AVIF would render as static files). Note: some versions of Firefox still do not support animated AVIFs and any animated AVIF returned to Firefox will render as a static image.
• The rollout making AVIF the default format for auto=format is currently underway and all users will gradually start seeing requests return AVIFs for compatible browsers. You can read more about our AVIF solution here or contact us if you want to opt out.

XMP Metadata

• XMP metadata can now be preserved for JPG to JPG transformations. If you would like to learn more about this feature, please reach out to us.

Search in Contentful

• The imgix App on Contentful now supports search! Quickly find the right image and optimize it with imgix.

Rendering Bug Fixes

• Fixed some cases where transparent backgrounds were not being properly preserved with auto=compress.
• Fixed some cases where fill=blur was not working in PNG to JPG transformations.
• Fixed some cases where trim was not working as expected with transparent borders.

Japanese Quick Start Guide

• Our Quick Start guide has now been translated into Japanese.

New Contentful App Available

• The imgix App on Contentful allows content creators to browse, preview, and select images in the content development process. Read our blog post about it for more details.

AVIF and auto=format

• We announced that AVIF will be the default format for auto=format later this year, which can result in image size savings of up to 30% over WebP. If you are not ready for this transition, please reach out to us by December 1.

AVIF For auto=format Now In Limited Release

• Use imgix to serve AVIFs when the browser supports it by using auto=format and decrease your image sizes by up to 30% over WebP (and up to 62% over JPGs). If you would like this enabled on your account, contact your Account Manager or Support.

Bug Fixes

• Various bug fixes for minor display issues in Dashboard.

New Beta Feature: IPTC Metadata Passthrough

• We are currently beta testing preserving IPTC metadata on rendered JPGs. If you would like this enabled on your account, contact your Account Manager or Support.

Switch From Legacy To New Pricing

• Customers can now switch their billing plan from our legacy plan to one of our new pricing plans. Previously this required contacting our Support team. You can read more about our new pricing plans here.

Bug Fixes

• Various bug fixes for minor display issues in Dashboard.

Increased Render Input Size

• We have increased the cap on input images for Enterprise customers (by default it is 500MB). Contact your Account Manager or Support to get it enabled for your account.

Only Enabled Sources Count Toward Source Limits

• Previously, all Sources (whether enabled or not) would count toward account Source Limits.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue with the Dashboard signing tool that was not accepting certain characters.
• Reduced the number of network calls for account and plan information, resulting in faster Dashboard load times.

Use Aspect Ratio Param With fit=fill

• ar can now be used along with fit=fill instead of having to specify both a w and a h. Previously, ar only had an effect with fit=crop.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where lossless was not behaving properly with some WebP and JXR images.

Brotli Compression Now In Limited Release

• Brotli compression for non-image assets is now available in Limited Release. Contact support if you would like to have it enabled for your Sources.
• Brotli can compress static files like JS and HTML up to 20% more than other compression technologies like Gzip, resulting in faster load times.

Automatic Image Sizing Added To imgix.js

• New ix-sizes=auto mode automatically updates an img tag's sizes attribute to match the image's display size.

fm=avif Now In Limited Release

• After many tests and performance analyses we are excited to announce that fm=avif is now available in limited release. Contact support if you would like to have it enabled for your Sources.
• This change does not include returning AVIF files for auto=format until further performance testing informs when auto=format should return AVIF.

New Notifications Available in Dashboard

• Stay up to date with your Image Manager uploads, account invoices, and more with the Notifications view. New notifications will also trigger the notifications icon to light up in the Dashboard header.

Path Encoding Fixes

• We've fixed an issue in four of our core libraries where, in certain cases, file paths were not being encoded correctly: imgix-rb, imgix-swift, imgix-java, imgix-csharp

imgix-core-js is now @imgix/js-core

• Read about all of the improvements to our core Javascript library here.

New Postman Collection for Management APIs

• To make using the Management API as easy as possible, we have published a Postman collection with sample API calls.

Support For gatsby-plugin-image

• Our Gatsby image plugin now supports the newly-released Gatsby v3, including the new gatsby-plugin-image.

Support For HEIC Uploads

• Image Manager now supports uploading HEIC files via the Image Manager UI. Previously this was only available via the API.

Image Manager Bug Fixes

• Fixed wrong content type for some video files.
• Fixed asset refresh behavior on directories.

Support For BlurHash

• fm now supports a new value, blurhash, which generates a string represenation of a blurred image. Read more about it in our blog post.

New Gatsby Plugin

• @imgix/gatsby is a multi-faceted plugin to help developers use imgix with static website generator Gatsby.

Bug Fixes

• More precise error messaging in Dashboard for cache TTL settings.

New Param mark-rot

• We added a new parameter, mark-rot that rotates a watermark. Read more about tiling and rotating watermarks in our announcement.

Bug fixes

• Updated error messages for Source deploys.
• Fixed an edge case causing 503 errors for certain types of HEIC images.

New Angular Library Released

• Our newest library, angular, supports imgix URL building, lazy loading, placeholders, and more. Read the full announcement here.

Legacy API Keys Removed

• With the launch of our new Management APIs we will be deprecating our old purge and reports APIs in March 2021. To that end, legacy API keys have been removed from the Account page in Dashboard. New API keys can be generated via the API Keys page.

New PDF Param pdf-annotations

• We have upgraded our PDF rendering and it is now possible for PDF renders to show annotations. The parameter pdf-annotation controls whether to show or hide the annotations.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a bug which prevented valid hostnames from being used as Web Folder Base URLs
• Fixed a bug in Dashboard which prevented some accounts from using the Purge tool.

Image Manager Now Supports Uploads and API access

• Contact us to try out the new Image Manager or read the API documentation.

Configure Your Sources Via API

• Create, edit, and deploy imgix Sources all through an API. Read the documentation to get started.

Updated Permissions for Users and API Keys

• Get more control over who can access what with our new account permissions. Read the blog post to learn more.

New Go Library Version

• The latest version of imgix-go brings the library to parity with the rest of our Core Libraries. Easily generate imgix URLs, srcset attributes, and more.

New Parameter: mark-tile

• Protect your images with a tiled watermark. Read the mark-tile docs for more information.

New parameters for uneven border and pad

• There are now four additional parameters for adding padding and borders to individual sides of an image, allowing for uneven applications of both.

blend and watermark can now be scaled by relative size

• You can now set the Blend Height and Blend Width relative to the base image size using a value between 0.0 and 1.0.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug in the Signing Tool that was causing some base64-encoded parameters to be improperly signed.
• Bug fixes and improvements to the imgix Dashboard.

New Vue Library

• Integrating the imgix API into your Vue app is now easier than ever thanks to our new Vue Library.

Custom srcset Generation Available Across All Core Libraries

• Browse our libraries and generate custom srcsets in your preferred language.

crop Now Supports Fallback to focalpoint

• Learn more about how to use Focal Point Crop.

New transparency Parameter

• The new transparency param underlays a checkerboard grid under your image to show which parts of the image are transparent.

New Edge Nodes Available in Milan and Palo Alto

• New edge nodes are now available in Milan, IT and Palo Alto, US. See the CDN map..

Bug Fix

• The imgix Dashboard now shows more specific error messages when encountering S3 Source validation errors.

We are excited to reintroduce the imgix Changelog! Moving forward we will be publishing a monthly changelog that includes all user-facing product changes. Thanks and stay tuned!

Audience Analytics & More

• We launched Audience Analytics for Premium customers.

New docs for expires

• Added new documentation for expires.

PDF invoices

• Customers can now receive their invoices as a PDF attachment.

Bug fixes

• Corruption on certain HEIC files has been addressed.
• Fixed a bug where customers with more than 24 Sources could not see all of their Sources in their Dashboard.