Changelog (page 23)

September 23, 2026

• fixed

  The bulk resizer shows its four rules again on a wide screen, where only the longest edge rule could be used.

• added

  A PNG can now be brought under a file size target, in the editor and the bulk resizer: when the full-colour file is too large it is reduced to the most colours that fit, and the meter says how many.

• changed

  Moving a control no longer decodes the photo again, so editing an iPhone HEIC photo no longer freezes the page for over a second at every step.

• changed

  File size targets are found with fewer trial encodes, a target no setting can reach is reported at once, and a photo that fits at the top quality now gets it.

• changed

  The measured tables on the file size pages were taken again with the updated engine.

• added

  Passport photo pages save the file with the print resolution its size was worked out at, so it prints at the right size instead of several times too large.

• added

  Opening an animated GIF now says that only its first frame will be kept.

• fixed

  The editor no longer stays on "working" forever if the image engine stops; it shows an error, and the next change starts a fresh engine.

• fixed

  Resizing with the proportions kept no longer trims a column of pixels off the edge when the new height is rounded.

• fixed

  Cropping a very large photo no longer makes a full-size copy of the crop first, which used a lot of memory.

• added

  A US visa photo page for the DS-160 upload: square, 600 to 1200 pixels, up to 240 kB, and the 20 to 1 compression limit that sets a minimum file size too.

• fixed

  The UK passport page no longer describes its pixel size as our conversion. The UK publishes pixels itself, and the page now says so.

• added

  A 10 KB page, with a measured answer to the question it raises: our test photos only fitted once their longest side was 688 pixels or less.

• changed

  The measured results on every file size page were taken again. One test photo is now served at a larger size, which moved a few figures by 1 to 3 percent.

• changed

  The tool icons are clearer. Percent has its own icon instead of borrowing the resize one, and the compress icon is legible at small sizes.

• fixed

  The tool links in the home page comparison table are now easy to tap. Only the text was hittable before, inside a row three times its height.

• added

  Document and social pages now state their source and the date it was read in machine-readable form, so a search engine can see the same provenance you can.

• added

  A page for the Belgian passport photo size, 35 by 45 mm, read from the Fotomatrix published by the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries.

• changed

  Advertising stays off, and is now a single switch in the site config rather than something an environment variable could turn on by accident.

• fixed

  The quality slider is now easy to grab on a phone. Its drag area was only three pixels tall, so a tap just above or below the line did nothing.

• changed

  A page that does not exist now offers every tool on the site, instead of pointing you at a sitemap file.

• changed

  A new logo, and the same one everywhere: the browser tab, the home screen icon, the header, the footer and every share card.

• changed

  Every tool page now frames the editor the way the home page does, and names the mode it opens in above the photo.

• changed

  On a phone, Download and Start over now stay in view at the bottom of the editor while you work through the settings above them.