The main topic in this release is improvements to the AVIF image handling that we introduced in v0.162.0. See the docs for details, but:

• We have turned down the default quality for AVIF to 60. Turns out, JPEG/WebP with quality 75 is comparable to AVIF with quality 60. You can now also set quality per image format in your project config (and also per image processed if needed).
• We have added a hint to the AVIF with the same values as for WEBP. For lossy compression, the photo/picture hints (and the default) encodes with YUV420 chroma subsampling instead of YUV444, keeping 444 for text/icon/drawing. This greatly reduces the memory needed to encode these images.

Improvements

• resources/jsconfig: Remove deprecated baseUrl setting ff2903a @bep #14991 #14996
• all: Adjust tests for deprecated link and image render hook settings ca68936 @jmooring
• all: Run go fix ./... 781fabf @bep
• pagesfromdata: Use relative path for content adapter template metrics 1d018ef @anupamojha-eng #14999
• ci: Re-add macos-latest to the test matrix 121bc6c @bep
• images: Deprecate Imaging.Compression and move it down to webp and avif configs cf18b82 @bep #14998
• Only support the latest Go version 98ad9b3 @bep #14997
• page: Add IsBranch and deprecate IsNode b89e7fe @bep #11574
• images: Force cache invalidation for AVIF target e8fefc8 @bep #14990
• images: Add a per-format AVIF hint setting a043d3e @bep #14992
• images: Make AVIF chroma subsampling content-aware via the hint 341f575 @bep #14987
• Cap AVIF lossy quality at 99 248241b @bep #14981
• config: Deprecate the glogal imaging quality setting 4e47d95 @bep #14979
• images: Make 60 the default quality for AVIF 03b4b54 @bep #14979
• livereload: Disconnect from websocket server on pageswap 79be053 @bep #14983
• tpl/tplimpl/embedded: Prevent leading newline in sitemap template 0f44046 @bep #14977
• images: Recover from memory alloc errors in WASM image processors 4e17421 @bep #14985
• images: Add quality setting per image format b01ecd4 @bep #14957
• misc: Remove duplicate words in comments 45c00b7 @jmooring #14936 #14950 #14965
• Add some PNG to AVIF golden test cases 28d882a @bep

Dependency Updates

• build(deps): bump github.com/bits-and-blooms/bitset 0d29fc8 @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump github.com/tetratelabs/wazero bb57404 @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal from 1.14.1 to 1.15.0 7d1b1fb @dependabot[bot]
• build(deps): bump github.com/getkin/kin-openapi from 0.138.0 to 0.139.0 77a1147 @dependabot[bot]