Cloudimage release notes www.cloudimage.io

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (BT) Custom global headers

You are now able to set any custom headers, including "User Agent" information, for origin files download. It can allow for whitelisting, authentication or some advanced filtering or better handling of Cloudimage requests by your origin storage. Doc here

Admin console

• (SR) Admin interface in Japanese

Cloudimage 管理インターフェースが日本語で利用できるようになりました。

We speak your language and have the Cloudimage admin to prove it.

• (RI) Round corner function

The "Round corner" function was not checking if the values passed were valid, giving in some extreme cases an error (broken image), now a valid values control is in place.

• (RI) Blank page at first login

When login for the first time, an error could appear in the inspect console, the browser displaying a blank (empty) page instead of the admin panel. This was due to the initialisation of an account's variable not being properly done in some rare cases.

Plugins & Integrations

• (SR) Shopware plugin

Integration with Cloudimage is available for Shopware admins. Doc here

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (BT) Control DPI for vector formats

Now for SVG and other vector formats, it is easy to adjust the output file DPI level when rasterizing. Doc here

Admin console

• (BT) CNAME modification

It is now possible to edit a CNAME directly from the console. Doc here

Plugins & Integrations

• (BT) Vue.js version 3

Our popular Cloudimage Vue.js plugin for image acceleration is now updated to be fully compatible with v3. Doc here

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (SR) SVG compression logic improved

Even better compression for SVG format, smarter automatic trigger. Doc here

Admin console

• (SR) Phone verification improved

You are now able to search for your country code by digit

• (SR) Multi-lingual banners

Depending on your interface's selected language, a banner in yours will be displayed. Now activated for French and German on top of English, and soon more.

• (RI) Interface has not been loaded and shows a blank page

• (RI) Screen flattering when switching tabs in Admin

• (RI) React error while switching tokens while in the statistics dashboard

Plugins & Integrations

• (SR) New NextJS library

Following popular demand, we updated our library for NextJS, complete with Demo and code Sandbox. Doc here

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (SR) Improved background removal

We have implemented an improved and even free to try version of the on-the-fly background removal transformation. Doc here

• (SR) Industrialized warm-up API

A new and faster version of the warm-up API have been developed, to meet all your dynamic needs for images' cache renewal. Doc here

Admin console

• (SR) Frequently used shortcuts list

We added a series of 4 "most used shortcuts" for your convenience at the top of the home dashboard, along with a dedicated place for latests offers and free trials you can benefit from.

• (SR) Italian translation of the administration interface

You recorded a request to have an additional language available for the admin interface, and we want to speak your langage. So in this case, noi parliamo italiano!

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (SR) Compression of SVG files

Cloudimage now natively compress the SVG files, on-the-fly, without perceptible quality loss, to an average of x50 size reduction. Simply activate the option in your Admin interface, under "Image Settings", or add svg_minify=svgo in the URL. Doc here

New

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (BT) Inline background removal

Users will be able to remove the background of a product image to replace it by a colour/white/black background for example. It will be requested with a URL parameter. Doc here

Plugins & Integrations

• (SR) Sylius plugin

The Sylius x Cloudimage plugin was released to enable Sylius acceleration and optimisation by Cloudimage. Doc here

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (SR) AVIF format support

AVIF images are now available as a standard option (for compatible browsers). This is an asynchronous process so the first request will return the next best format while the AVIF is created in the background, to be sent on the following requests. Doc here

Admin Console

• (SR) Improved Statistics documentation

We reviewed and described all measurements available in the "Stats & Logs" and added the precise description of the measurements so you can tell exactly what is looked at, and of course request additional measures should you need them. Doc here

Plugins & Integrations

• (SR) Wordpress plugin improvements (v3.1.1)

The Wordpress x Cloudimage plugin was updated with user feedback for UI -tooltips- and more intuitive default settings. Doc here

• (SR) Magento plugin improvements (v2.0.2)

The Magento x Cloudimage plugin received new advanced settings like "max Pixel Ratio" and "fotorama compatibility" mode. -pending Magento approval- Doc here

• (SR) 360 plugin's improvements (v3.0.1)

Brand new 360 plugin! The 360's design changed with showing live preview for different examples, live configurations change with possibility to copy code, padding the top using branding & many new improvements. Doc here & Demo there

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (SR) Animated GIF and WEBP optimisation

You can now shrink the size of animated GIFs and even convert then on-the-fly to animated WEBPs. Enabling lossy compression for GIFs (an algorithm designed to reduce the size of GIF animated sequences with minimum quality loss) is also an option if you wish to keep the animated GIF format .

Admin Console

• (RI) Billing UX improvement

The billing was displaying misleading message/button for Direct Debit payment type, and sometimes details were not visible even when this method was selected.

• (RI) Multi-token dashboards

The Statistics dashboard had been updated to include a summary page totalling the consumption for all tokens in the account, provided the account is multi-tenant and the logged user has rights, and Summary in Home had been added, to give an overview of the last 30 days.

Plugins & Integrations

• (SR) Wordpress plugin improvements

Our Wordpress x Cloudimage plugin received a new look and new (advenced) options to further increase the compatibility with specific themes and use-cases. Doc here

• (SR) Magento plugin improvements

We added the possibility to use the most recent token configuration on the Magento x Cloudimage plugin, no need to contact the support to remove the v7 part of the URL, now. simple switch in the plugin administration page allows you to use any token with a simple click. Doc here

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (SR) Face-Hide function

You can crop out automatically a face if present in the picture. The cropping will cut out (hide) AI-identified faces, on the fly. Doc here

• (RI) Invalidation We globally improved the internal way of flushing Cloudimage nodes for better overall flushing and solved issues on restarting specific invalidations. We also improved flushing flow in the "No CDN provider" case.

Admin Console

• (SR) Improved QuickStart experience

From onboarding to quick-start, we redesigned the experience to be faster, easier, and bring more insights on how to use Cloudimage. Restart the onboarding or simply click on the quick-start link that appeared on your admin panel!

• (SR) Multi-tenant accounts dashboard

We added a summary dashboard allowing you to list and see global statistics across all your tokens at a glance. Let us know what additional information you'd like to see summarised there.

Plugins & Integrations

• (SR) Magento plugin improvement

Published an improved version with even more advanced options. Doc here

New

This monthly release is categorized as follow:

• BT (Beta Testing): feature in Beta, feedback welcome!
• SR (Stable Release): tested and stable after 1 release in BT (~ 1 month)
• RI (Resolved Issues): resolved issues and problems, tested and stable

Transformation Engine

• (SR) Improved Focal Point function

We added support for 0.xyz format percentage in the popular "gravity" function of the Focal Point Crop. Doc here

• (SR) Image flip function

You have to possibility to automatically and on-the-fly "flip" your original images, in any or both directions. Doc here

• (SR) Increased speed of new variant generation

We optimised the generation of new image variants generation by removing intermediate steps to gain x2 speed of display time for the first call.

• (SR) v6 compatibility mode for URL signature

We added a compatibility mode in order to use Sealing in v7 as it was in v6 URL syntax. Doc here

Admin Console

• (SR) New onboarding and Quickstart

Faster, personalized onboarding experience along with an "all you need to know" Quick Start guided tour to make sure you have everything you need for starting your accelerated images' journey.

• (SR) Home page Dashboard

You now have additional information regarding token use and statistics on the home page to help you manage even more efficiently your Cloudimage delivery platform.

Plugins & Integrations

• (SR) Wordpress plugin improvements

Published and improved version of the Cloudimage x Wordpress plugin with more parameters and options to fine tune your connector.

• (SR) Opencart plugin release

Published a brand new Cloudimage x Opencart plugin. Doc here

• (SR) Improvements to RUM dashboards New measures are now available, and a reorganised dashboard now helps you gain deeper insights on your media delivery performance. (this feature is available upon request, please contact our Sales Team)