Site Updates

• Check out the beaming mugs of the smiling team members of team imgix
• Download imgix logos and branding resources from our in-progress Press Kit

Typesetting Endpoint Blog Post

• Learn the best practices for compositing multiline text on images with our Typesetting Endpoint: Multiline Text & Overlays with the Typesetting Endpoint

Securing Images Guide

• Added supporting screenshots to our Securing Images Guide

New Front-End Libraries

• Released Luminous and Drift, new open-source Javascript libraries for lightboxes and zoom viewers. See the blog post for more details
• Released an imgix plug-in for the Statamic CMS

Typesetting Endpoint

• Released the Typesetting Endpoint, which enables multi-line text, leading, tracking, and text overlays on images

Documentation Updates

• Improved examples for the bc, bs, bx, and by parameters

Fingerprinting Guide

• Released a guide discussing how to fingerprint image assets to improve page speed by better managing cache keys and eviction. Read the guide in the documentation.

Documentation Updates

• We clarified how the service handles duplicate URL parameters in our Serving Images guide.

imgix-core-js

• Fixed a few bugs around URL encoding, rolling the version to 0.2.4. View on GitHub or npmjs.org.

Guide—Improving SEO with imgix

• Added a guide to document best practices for image SEO, and how imgix can help by reducing image file size.

imgix-rb 1.0.0

• Removed Client#sign_path to provide a consistent method and code path for generating URLs.
• Changed :secure option to the more clear :use_https.
• Changed :token option to the more clear :secure_url_token.
• Fixed URL query strings beginning with ?&s= instead of ?s= when no other params are present.

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imgix-rails 1.0.0

• Updated imgix-rb dependency to version 1.0.0.
• Changed :secure option to :use_https to be more clear and consistent with imgix-rb.

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Added: Employee Festive Stockings v.20.15

Exposure Case Study

• We released our third case study (and a landing page so they're all easy to find). This time it's about Exposure, a platform for building beautiful photo narratives. Find out how Exposure handles 15,000 image uploads a week without touching the photos.

Serving Images Guide

• There's a new guide in town, showing you the ins and outs of serving images and how your image Source is used to build out image request URLs.

imgix.js 2.1.0

• Fixed a bug in imgix.getBackgroundImage() that was failing to return a proper background-image URL in some corner cases.
• Removed unnecessary imgix.getRawBackgroundImage() method.

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Documentation Updates

• Added a downloadable font list for supported fonts to be used with the txtfont parameter.

image-api-spec

• Published a new repo on GitHub which provides structured documentation for the imgix URL API. View imgix/image-api-spec on GitHub.

Documentation Updates

• Updated note regarding URI encoding on watermark compositing parameters.

Client Library Updates

• Updates to imgix-core.js, bump to v0.2.3
• Updates made to react-imgix to include srcset support.

Office Updates

• Beautiful new succulents for our kitchen wall courtesy of Terrarium Girl

Our First Customer Meetup

• Thanks to everyone who joined us at the Meetup this week—it was great to talk to you all face-to-face. Look for more in-person events in the future.