Changelog
A list of Bannerbear product updates by date
24 January 2024
- API: Template Sets
- API: Video Templates
- API: Hydrate a Project
- Custom S3 Buckets now support folder name prefix
- Airtable Access Token compatibility
30 July 2023
- API: Sessions
- API: Projects
- API: Signed Bases
- Master API key feature
- DPI can be set at the Project level
- Version locking for signed and simple URLS
- Template listing now has an optional grid style view
- Optional Open AI Whisper engine for voice transcribing
- HEIC support
- Custom S3 Bucket now supports Video media
08 August 2022
- API: Added timestamp support for the Video API
- API: Rasterize PDF API
- API: Join PDF API
- API: Target template versions via API
- API: Register project webhooks via PI
- API: Added an extended JSON response for templates
- API: Screenshot API now has language attribute
- Videos: Added a Ken Burns video effect (see zoom_factor)
- Images: More layer attributes modifiable via API
- Editor: Ability to duplicate template set
- Editor: Batch template actions
- Editor: Added a truncate text option for text boxes
- Editor: Ability to add optional layer descriptions
- Integrations: update to Zapier / Integromat integrations enabling modification of all layer attributes
17 December 2021
- Official SDKs now available:
- Bannerbear Ruby
- Bannerbear Node
- Bannerbear PHP
27 September 2021
- API: can now render PDFs in addition to images
23 September 2021
- Images: can now set Custom Compression Level for JPG output
- API: can now set gradients for shape objects
- Videos: can now set a custom size and position for video container
24 August 2021
- Editor: New Uppercase, Italic options for text boxes
- Templates: View historical changes with restore feature
- Forms: Added an Embed feature to copy-paste forms to your site
- Forms: Collections (multiple images) now have a Download Zip feature
- Dashboard: New Playground tool
14 July 2021
- Editor: All new editor launched, with various updated features
- Editor: Larger canvases now possible
- Editor: Added optional AI face detect to image containers
- Editor: Added 1000+ fonts
- Dashboard: Added optional Two Factor Authentication
- API: added new /movies endpoint to join video clips together
- API: added create_gif_preview parameter to /videos
- Zapier: updated integration
- Integromat: updated integration
28 April 2021
- New API Reference site
- New Bannerbear Mini apps launched
- New sync.api.bannerbear.com endpoint for synchronous calls
- New logs viewer and diagnostic tool
- Videos: added Multi Overlay build pack
- API: added shift_x and shift_y parameters
15 March 2021
- Editor: Image containers now have a Smart Crop setting
- Video: Transcription layers can now have word highlighting
- Integromat integration launched
02 March 2021
- Videos: can now add animated layers to videos
- Videos: new blur effect
- Animated Gifs: are now better quality
- Animated Gifs: can set number of loops
- Editor: can set templates as editable by other team members
- Editor: can save without exiting editor
16 February 2021
- New Line Chart template object
- Rendering engine improvements to handle up to 100 layers
01 February 2021
- You can group layers in the template editor for ease of moving multiple objects
- Animated Gifs now have a {loop: false} flag if you want to prevent looping
- Animated Gifs now have a {frame_durations} property that allows setting frame lengths on a per-frame basis
19 January 2021
- API enhancement: Change the font_family of text boxes
- Project Advanced Settings: add webhooks to be notified of template changes
- Template Settings: add tags for organization inside your app
05 January 2021
- New Screenshots API endpoint
- New API enhancement: Change the Anchor X/Y of Image Containers
15 December 2020
- Faster image generation via signed urls and query string urls
- On-demand (synchronous) is now the default option for signed urls
- New animated gifs API endpoint
30 November 2020
- New "Query String" integration for simple on-demand image generation
- New demo tool - Github Social Preview Image Generator Tool
13 November 2020
- Signed URLs now have an "on demand" option for synchronous image generation
- Airtable integration added to Template Sets
- Sepia effect added to image container effects
27 October 2020
- Team management now features standard and extended permissions
- Extended permissions allow team members to use integrations
- New QR Code object in template editor
19 October 2020
- Textbox Secondary Style options now include font family and weight
- Video API page added to marketing site
12 October 2020
- Special effects for image containers added to editor: blur, grayscale, gameboy
- Forms integration added for Video API
- Fix for videos recorded on phones with rotation data
- Dashboard UI update
- Transparency option added to Airtable integration
- Video quota added to free trial
24 September 2020
- Video API v1 is now live
- Developer and Marketer plan limits increased
07 September 2020
- Updated Tweetagram demo to 2.0
- Added "Anchor to…" feature in Template Editor (currently only on Image objects)
01 September 2020
- Added {hide: true} property to the modifications API
31 August 2020
- Added Star Rating object in template editor
- Added Auto Fit Text setting in template editor
27 August 2020
- Added Forms integration for Template Sets
- Added more Forms settings to enable default data, dropdowns
- Added CSV data export
26 August 2020
- Added Template Set feature (one API request → multiple images)
- Added Bar Chart object in Editor
- Added Signed URL integration
- Added Crawlers integration
- Added Emoji support
- Added Secondary Text styles in Editor
- Added API Endpoint for Airtable Import
- Added text Auto Fit feature
- Added Airtable integration