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.