Changelog: Feb 26, 2016

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New Tutorial: Managing User-Generated Images

• Published another in our series of tutorials, this time about using imgix to standardize user-generated content for a better user experience. Bonus experimental section on using images as their own masks for product photos.

Base64 Variant Parameters

• All values passed to parameters in the imgix URL API can now be encoded using a URL-safe Base64 scheme. To enable this encoding, simply append 64 to the end of a parameter name (e.g., txt becomes txt64). More details can be found in the imgix documentation.

Dashboard

• Overhauled the "Update Billing" to improve its usability and fix some bugs

Developer Tools

imgix-rb 1.1.0

• Added automatic Base64 encoding for all Base64 variant parameters.
• Properly encoding all keys and values output by Imgix::Path.
• Better URL encoding for spaces, with ERB::Util.url_encode.
• Normalize trailing / in passed hosts.

imgix-rails 1.1.0

• Updated imgix-rb dependency to version 1.1.0, which gives imgix-rails all the new features/fixes in imgix-rb.

imgix-php 1.1.0

• Remove http_build_url dependency.
• Proper encoding for all passed parameters and values, including Base64 params.
• Fix incorrect URL generation for signed images with no other params.

imgix-objc 1.0.0

• Complete overhaul of how the library works. Now uses an options NSDictionary instead of getters and setters, to make things simpler overall and bring it more in line with the rest of the imgix libraries.
• Properly encode all passed parameters and values, including Base64 variant params.

imgix-core-js 0.3.0

• Added automatic Base64 encoding for all Base64 variant parameters.
• Properly encoding all keys and values output by Path#toUrl.

imgix-python 1.1.0

• Added automatic Base64 encoding for all Base64 variant parameters.
• Properly encoding all query keys and values.

imgix-java 1.1.0

• Added automatic Base64 encoding for all Base64 variant parameters.
• Properly encoding all query string keys and values.