The image engine in Aurora has been rewritten from the ground up! Now faster and more streamlined than ever, with increased support for the latest image formats, as well as providing nuanced control over quality and caching.

• Intelligent support for WebP has been added, offering smaller image file sizes for the same quality, falling back to traditional image formats where WebP is not supported.

• Improved performance and stability, with faster image generation that can scale on-demand to meet any volume of traffic

• Image URLs are even more SEO friendly

• Images called using product_image_uri or content_image_uri can now be served directly from a CDN

• Image quality can now be adjusted in real time

• Full control of your image caches

The new image engine will be rolling out across test sites over the next few weeks. These improvements will be transparent - all existing images will continue to work as they did before. Additionally, any images already using product_image_uri or content_image_uri will automatically start to benefit from the above improvements.

For more information, please view the Image Improvements article.