Release History

  • 2.1.0 29 January, 2024
    • Check whether the vips CLI is installed before trying to use it. Thanks to @philrb for #299
    • Update minimum required mocha version to maintain compatibility with minitest
  • 2.0.4 August 16, 2022
    • Fix backend format support detection for new versions of libvips & imagemagick
  • 2.0.3 April 1, 2021
    • Improve backend format support detection
  • 2.0.2 March 31, 2021
    • Do not pass a quality argument when generating PNG files.
      • It only works on newer versions of vips, breaking builds when using older versions (such as when deploying to netlify.)
      • It's not remarkably useful in the first place.
  • 2.0.1 March 31, 2021
    • Select imagemagick deliberately when appropriate, rather than simply rescuing all vips errors and trying again. This will stop JPT from suppressing useful vips errors.
  • 2.0 March 25, 2021 - Migration guide
    • Switch from ImageMagick to libvips.
      • 🚀🔥🔥MUCH MORE FASTER🔥🔥🚀
      • Will still attempt to use imagemagick if libvips cannot handle a particular image format.
      • Eliminate the ImageMagick v7 on Ubuntu pain we've been dealing with for so long.
    • Require Ruby >= 2.6, support Ruby 3.0
    • Require Jekyll >= 4.0
    • Cropping is changing.
      • We now use the libvips smartcrop function, which does some magic to keep the most useful part of the image.
      • Geometry is renamed to ‘crop', and reduced to simple aspect ratios only. (width:height)
      • Gravity is gone, replaced by ‘keep' which is translated to a libvips interestingness setting.
    • Add stock presets and media queries, under the jpt- prefix.
    • Add format_quality default settings for webp, avif, and jp2.
    • Add image-format-specific write options.
    • Overhaul user input handling; we can now validate inputs and give error messages which are less useless. Stronger validation and nicer errors will be added in future releases.
    • Drop support for markup_presets and media_presets. They are now officially and only presets and media_queries.
    • Improve docs with an introductory tutorial and ‘how-to' flow.
  • 1.14.0 January 10, 2021
    • Gracefully handle empty tag arguments.
    • Re-add metadata stripping. I removed it inadvertently when refactoring; now there's a test and a setting to turn it off.
    • Respect Jekyll's --disable-disk-cache argument.
    • Add baseurl configuration, allowing increased plugin support (such as I18n via jekyll-multiple-languages-plugin)
    • Tooling & test suite maintenance and improvements.
  • 1.13.0 November 23, 2020
    • Add image quality interpolation; allows for variable image quality based on image size.
    • Bugfix: Perform format, resize, and quality changes simultaneously rather than individually.
      • Allows for actual lossless webp: simply set quality to 100.
      • Improves fresh (no cached images) build times by ~15%
      • Fix problems with poor image quality.
  • 1.12.0 July 30, 2020
    • Documentation overhaul. Now with 87% less scrolling!
    • Rename markup_presets and media_presets to presets and media_queries. The old names were bad and caused confusion. The old names will continue to work until the next major version is released.
  • 1.11.0 July 27, 2020
    • Width and height attribute support! Begone, page reflow.
    • Cache image information between builds
    • Change image naming format. This update will trigger all images to be regenerated, so you may want to delete your generated images folder beforehand.
  • 1.10.2 July 6, 2020
    • Bugfix for fallback image files not actually getting generated
  • 1.10.1 July 2, 2020
    • Bugfix for erroneously regenerated images
  • 1.10.0 May 11, 2020
    • Image Cropping support! access the power of ImageMagick's crop function.
    • Don't issue a warning when default preset is not found.
    • Documentation improvements
  • 1.9.0 Feb 2, 2020
    • Add fast_build global setting
    • Add disabled global setting
    • Reduce unnecessary disk IO; sites with many source images should see build times improve when no new images need to be generated.
    • Add support for empty attributes; specifically so best-practice for decorative images (alt="") is possible.
  • 1.8.0 Nov 25, 2019
    • Add data_sizes setting for the data_ family of output formats.
  • 1.7.1 Nov 14, 2019
    • Fix some HTML attribute related bugs
    • Add a few items to the FAQ
  • 1.7.0 Aug 12, 2019
    • Add support for setting generated image quality, either generally or specific to given formats.
    • Add support for spaces and other url-encoded characters in filenames
    • Documentation restructure - Moved it out of the wiki, into the docs folder.
    • Bugfix: Fallback image width will now be checked against source image width.
    • Bugfix: Minor fix to nomarkdown wrapper output
    • link_source will now target the base source image, rather than finding the biggest one.
    • Remove fastimage dependency, add addressable dependency.
    • Moderately significant refactoring and code cleanup
    • Decent set of tests added
  • 1.6.0 Jul 2, 2019:
    • Missing Preset warning respects data_dir setting
    • Add continue_on_missing option
  • 1.5.0 Jun 26, 2019:
    • better {::nomarkdown} necessity detection
    • allow user to override {::nomarkdown} autodetection
  • 1.4.0 Jun 26, 2019:
    • Rename gem from jekyll-picture-tag to jekyll_picture_tag, allowing us to use rubygems again.
    • Add new output format: naked_srcset.
  • 1.3.1 Jun 21, 2019: Bugfix
  • 1.3.0 Jun 7, 2019:
    • Initial compatibility with Jekyll 4.0
    • bugfixes
    • change to generated image naming– The first build after this update will be longer, and you might want to clear out your generated images.
  • 1.2.0 Feb 9, 2019:
    • Add nomarkdown fix
    • noscript option
    • relative url option
    • anchor tag wrappers
  • 1.1.0 Jan 22, 2019:
    • Add direct_url markup format,
    • auto-orient images before stripping metadata
  • 1.0.2 Jan 18, 2019: Fix ruby version specification
  • 1.0.1 Jan 13, 2019: Added ruby version checking
  • 1.0.0 Nov 27, 2018: Rewrite from the ground up. See the migration guide.
  • 0.2.2 Aug 2, 2013: Bugfixes
  • 0.2.1 Jul 17, 2013: Refactor again, add Liquid parsing.
  • 0.2.0 Jul 14, 2013: Rewrite code base, bring in line with Jekyll Image Tag.
  • 0.1.1 Jul 5, 2013: Quick round of code improvements.
  • 0.1.0 Jul 5, 2013: Initial release.