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Changelog

Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and fixes.

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September 2026

API keys
  • New keys are prefixed pic_live_ so they can be recognised in logs and by secret scanners. Existing bare-hex keys keep working; nothing to rotate.
  • The dashboard Settings page shows keys masked (pic_live_…3f2a9) with one-click copy, rotate and revoke.
Templates
  • A template’s card in the dashboard shows its latest render as the thumbnail; GET /templates returns thumbnail and lastRenderedAt per template.
  • Creating and rendering templates works on accounts without a team. Teams stay optional.
Rendering
  • Images referenced by a template are awaited before capture, so <img> tags no longer come out blank on the first render.
  • Legacy IANA time-zone names such as Asia/Calcutta are accepted by the renders feed.
  • Authenticated POST /image no longer times out on pages that keep a connection open.
Free tools
  • The HTML-to-image tools accept pasted or typed HTML again, alongside file upload.
Retired
  • Workflows (CSV or webhook runs with per-recipient email delivery) are retired, and the Workflows API page has been removed. Use batch rendering for one render per row.

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August 2026

Video Templates
  • Video template API: build a template once (visual timeline studio or a single-file Remotion scene), render it with variables per request — POST /video/templates/:uid/render
  • GIF output from the video engine: the same render call takes format: "gif" — palette-optimised (timeline templates: 15fps / 720px caps; code templates encode natively at half the composition frame rate)
  • AI template generation: POST /video/templates/generate designs a motion brief, writes the scene code, compiles it, renders frames and reviews them visually before returning a draft template
  • AI copilot in the studio: describe a change — or a whole video — and it is designed, built with validated edits, and reviewed, with one-click undo per run
  • Captions from speech, stock media search, effects, keyframes, transitions and a font library in the timeline studio
  • Server-rendered posters: every code template gets a thumbnail automatically
Templates
  • Saved-template plan limits enforced server-side, shared across image and video templates
Improvements
  • API Playground reorganised by product — HTML Rendering, Image Templates, Batch, PDF, Video — with PDF and video endpoints included for the first time
  • Documentation corrected against the live API: real key format, real error shapes, real rate-limit behaviour

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January 2026

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January 29, 2026

New Features
  • Agent Screenshot API - AI-powered screenshots using natural language prompts
  • MCP Server - Model Context Protocol support for AI agent integration
  • Multi-page PDF generation from templates
Improvements
  • 40% faster GIF generation
  • Improved error messages across generation endpoints
  • Better WebP compression quality

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January 15, 2026

New Features
  • Bindings API for automatic image updates
  • Webhook filters for targeted event subscriptions
  • Ruby SDK v1.0.0 released
Improvements
  • Template editor performance improvements
  • Dashboard usage analytics enhancements

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December 2025

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December 20, 2025

New Features
  • FabricJS canvas rendering endpoint
  • PDF presets for standard paper sizes
  • Go SDK v1.0.0 released
Improvements
  • Rate limit headers on all responses
  • Improved template variable extraction

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December 5, 2025

New Features
  • Batch rendering with webhook notifications
  • Template version history
  • Python SDK async support
Fixes
  • Fixed timeout issues with complex templates
  • Resolved font loading for certain Google Fonts

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November 2025

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November 22, 2025

New Features
  • Custom fonts in templates
  • Expression engine with 40+ built-in functions
  • Idempotency support for POST requests
Improvements
  • Reduced image generation latency by 25%
  • Better handling of large HTML content

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November 8, 2025

New Features
  • GIF capture from URLs
  • Webhook signature verification
  • Node.js SDK v2.0.0 with TypeScript support
Fixes
  • Fixed transparency in WebP images
  • Resolved CSS Grid rendering issues

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October 2025

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October 25, 2025

New Features
  • Templates API with variable interpolation
  • Retina/high-DPI image support
  • Dashboard template editor

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October 10, 2025

Initial Release
  • Image generation from HTML/CSS
  • Screenshot from URL
  • PNG, JPEG, WebP format support
  • Node.js and Python SDKs

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API v1 Stability

API v1 is now stable. We commit to backward compatibility for all documented endpoints. Breaking changes will only be introduced in new API versions.

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