imgix updates

New Guides

imgix and Third-Party CDNs: Learn about imgix's CDN and how using third-party CDNs affects your image delivery

Library and Tool Updates

imgix-python 1.0.0

Change UrlBuilder#create_url to accept dict instead of kwargs. This fixes an issue with reserved words that are also imgix params potentially causing errors.

Luminous 0.2.3

Added caption support.

Added closeOnScroll option.

Improved image positioning.

Fixed package.json main should now point to dist file usable by more JS build setups.

Drift 0.1.5

Fixed package.json main should now point to dist file usable by more JS build setups.

Fixed HAS_ANIMATION bug when loaded in head

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

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

imgix Slack Community

Launched a Slack community for discussion and questions about the imgix service and libraries at slack.imgix.com

Documentation Updates

Fingerprinting Blog Post

Released a blog post discussing how to fingerprint image assets to improve page speed by better managing cache keys and eviction. Read the post on our blog.

Documentation Updates

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

imgix-core-js

Improving SEO with imgix Guide

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.

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.

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 Tutorial

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.

Documentation Updates

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

imgix.js v2.0.0

Removed all parameter-specific getters and setters from the imgix.URL object (i.e. imgix.URL.getSepia(), imgix.URL.setWidth(), et cetera). This drastically reduces the library's footprint and future-proofs it by ensuring that the list of allowed parameters cannot get out of sync with our API.

See the release log on GitHub for a complete list of changes.

New Swift Library

Added a new Swift library to the imgix libraries page. This library is called Iris and was created by the team at Hodinkee. It offers simple integration into Swift-based iOS, tvOS, and OS X projects. It can be installed using Carthage.

Documentation Updates

Fixed a few links in the fit=facearea documentation.

Released a new blend mode, normal . This allows you to overlay one image onto another, similar to the mark parameter.

November Meetup

Unsplash Case Study

We released our second case study, this time about Crew's community-contributed, completely free-use photography site, Unsplash. It covers how Unsplash uses imgix to build new features quickly and serve 350 million images per month. Find out how Unsplash saved Crew.

November Meetup

We’re hosting a meetup for current and future imgix customers in San Francisco on November 17. Come by and have a drink on us. We hope you can make it!

Client Library Updates

Point-of-Interest Cropping

Officially released point-of-interest cropping with the crop=entropy parameter. You can read about it in our blog post: Automatic Point-of-Interest Cropping with imgix.

New Libraries

A member of the community, Frederick Fogerty, put together an imgix React component. You can read the documentation and view the source on GitHub.

After porting our own blog to Jekyll, we abstracted some of the functionality into a Jekyll plugin for using imgix. We've published the jekyll-imgix gem on Rubygems and have posted the source on GitHub.

imgix.js

Replaced how console.warn is called to prevent errors on older browsers.

imgix-rails

Merged a pull request from Louis Cuny to namespace an instance variable the imgix-rails view helper. This will help prevent naming collisions. These actions meant it was time to increment the gem version to 0.3.1.

Site & Documentation Updates

Fixed an issue with the documentation for the markscale parameter.

Added a few newsbits to the bottom of our homepage.

Cleaned up a few miscellaneous pages around the site like our Terms of Service.

Client Hints

Introduced support for Client Hints, a new way to serve better-sized images to browsers. Read the blog post for more information: Next Generation Responsive Images with Client Hints.

Documentation Updates

Added documentation for saliency-based cropping via crop=entropy.

Added a link to the Sandbox in the sidebar of every documentation page.

Added a new Contact Us page.

Documented the Client Hints ch parameter.

Updated auto parameter documentation to reflect current functionality.

Library Updates

Fixed an issue with the build and test process for imgix-wordpress. View on GitHub.

Updated the URIjs dependency to use the new npm package. Thanks to @oaleynik for the Pull Request!

Eventbrite Case Study

We released our first case study with Eventbrite. It covers how Eventbrite uses imgix to delivery imagery for millions of events in more than 180 countries. Read the Eventbrite case study.

imgix.js 1.2.0

Updated imgix.URL.getColors() method to use simple AJAX instead of CSS-injection. As a result of this, colors are being returned from lightest to darkest, rather than from darkest to lightest as they were previously. This change was made to bring the behavior of this method in line with the palette=json image API, which it now uses.

Removed several unnecessary polyfills, shaving 4KB off of the minified file size.

Documentation Updates

Fixed an an issue with the palette parameter example. We now display example link elements in the palette=css example. Read the palette parameter documentation.

Sandbox

Service Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fixed a bug where the bg and mask parameters would interact. bg dictates the background for the main image, while maskbg should be used to set the background for a mask.

Fixed a bug where rotated images would improperly rotate an additional 180 degress when using the rot parameter.

Improved border path scaling.

Webapp Bug Fixes and Enhancements

Fixed a bug that was preventing read-only users from logging in.

imgix.js 1.1.4

Fixed a bug in imgix.buildUrl() that was causing port numbers to be ignored.

Fixed a bug where imgix.fluid() would ignore the crossorigin attribute on its targets.

Broke core.js and tests up into separate components.

Documentation Updates

Corrected discrepancies between trimcol and trimcolor in the docs. Note: trimcolor is the correct way to specify a trim color.

Added a note about using Dropbox as an origin for an imgix Source. Dropbox has made changes recently that prevents files from being permanently publicly accessible. For easy file hosting, we instead recommend using Amazon S3.

Doc Updates

Shipped more descriptive docs for the blend fit parameter.

Added documentation for the invert parameter.

imgix-core-js

Added NodeJS v4.0.0 to the continuous integration build matrix, ensuring support for this latest version. See imgix-core-js on GitHub.

New Framework Libraries

We’ve created 3 new framework-level libraries for easier integration in your projects: one for Rails, one for Ember, and one for WordPress. Check out the new Frameworks Libraries section of the libraries page.

imgix.js

Integrated a few low-hanging performance improvements to how imgix.js handles scroll events. See Pull Request #52 for more information.

Released version 1.1.3.

FAQ Updates

Added 2 answers to our FAQ page: "Can I control how long my images remain in a cache?" and "Can I add users to my account?"

imgix-wordpress

Thanks to Wladston Viana Ferreira Filho for contributing a big Pull Request to fix several bugs within imgix-wordpress.

Moved to a Docker-based setup for running tests for this repository. The result: an easy, repeatable way to run tests without affecting local database setups.

As a result of these changes, we've incremented the version number to 1.1.0. Download on GitHub.

imgix-rails

Thanks to Ryan LeFevre at Hodinkee for submitting a bugfix for the new imgix-rails gem.

Thanks to Paul Straw for opening a Pull Request to introduce a new method for including imgix URLs in data attributes.

imgix-blueprint

StackShare Guest Post

Our friends at StackShare asked us to write a guest post about the current imgix infrastracture. We detailed how imgix can serve 100,000 images per second with our current infrastructure.

Sandbox Updates

Added a debounce to all input changes, which cuts down on the number of requests Sandbox makes leading to a snappier experience.

Documentation Updates

Clarified the behavior of using w and h parameters without a fit parameter.