CHANGELOG.md

Nuke 12

Nuke 12.4

Feb 10, 2024

What's Changed

• Enable visionOS support for all APIs by @zachwaugh in kean#752
• Update documentation by @tkersey in kean#747

Full Changelog: https://github.com/kean/Nuke/compare/12.3.0...12.4.0

Nuke 12.3

Jan 6, 2024

• Add support for visionOS by @bobek-balinek in kean#743

Nuke 12.2

Nov 23, 2023

• Add another file type signature for .m4v files by @leonid-shevtsov in kean#735
• Added the onStart callback to SwiftUI.LazyImage by @urbaneewe in kean#736

Nuke 12.1.6

Aug 19, 2023

• Improve ImageCache performance (20%)
• Improve NukeExtensions performance (5%)
• Update the code to support future visionOS releases by switching to canImport where possible

Nuke 12.1.5

Jul 29, 2023

• Fix kean#717 by moving DataCache metadata to a hidden file - kean#718

Nuke 12.1.4

Jul 22, 2023

• Upgrade to CryptoKit from CommonCrypto and slightly optimize how cryptographic hashes are converted to strings (used as filenames for DataCache)
• Deprecate DataCache/isCompressionEnabled. It was initially added as a general-purpose feature, but it's not recommended to be used with most image formats.
• DataCache now performs sweeps less frequently
• Minor docs correction – kean#715 by @tdkn

Nuke 12.1.3

Jul 10, 2023

• Fix kean#709: LazyImage fails to perform memory cache lookup in some scenarios

Nuke 12.1.2

Jun 25, 2023

• Fix kean#710: build failure on watchOS in debug mode – kean#711 by @FieryFlames

Nuke 12.1.1

Jun 22, 2023

• Fix kean#693: ImageRequest created with an async function now executes it lazily - kean#708 by @khlopko
• Fix kean#695: byCroppingToSquare() always return square image – kean#696 by @zzmasoud
• Update unit tests – kean#701 by @woxtu
• Fix upcoming warnings in Xcode 15

Nuke 12.1

Mar 25, 2023

• Add makeImageView closure to LazyImageView to allow using custom views for rendering images
• Add onCompletion closure to LazyImage and FetchImage
• Fix an issue with .videoAssetKey value missing from ImageContainer
• Fix an issue with .gif being encoded as .jpeg when .storeEncodedImages policy is used

Nuke 12.0

Mar 4, 2023

Nuke 12 enhances the two main APIs introduced in the previous release: LazyImage and the async ImagePipeline methods. They are faster, more robust, and easier to use.

The migration guide is available to help with the update. The minimum requirements are unchanged from Nuke 11.

Concurrency

Redesign the concurrency APIs making them more ergonomic and fully Sendable compliant.

• Add ImagePipeline/imageTask(with:) method that returns a new type AsyncImageTask

let task = ImagePipeline.shared.imageTask(with: URL(string: "example.com"))
task.priority = .high
for await progress in task.progress {
    print("Updated progress: ", progress)
}
let image = try await task.image

• The existing convenience ImagePipeline/image(for:) method now returns an image instead of ImageResponse
• Remove the delegate parameter from ImagePipeline/image(for:) method to address the upcoming concurrency warnings in Xcode 14.3
• Remove ImageTaskDelegate and move its methods to ImagePipelineDelegate and add the pipeline parameter

NukeUI 2.0

NukeUI started as a separate repo, but the initial production version was released as part of Nuke 11. Let's call it NukeUI 1.0. The framework was designed before the AsyncImage announcement and had a few discrepancies that made it harder to migrate from AsyncImage. This release addresses the shortcomings of the original design and features a couple of performance improvements.

• LazyImage now uses SwiftUI.Image instead of NukeUI.Image backed by UIImageView and NSImageView. It eliminates any discrepancies between LazyImage and AsyncImage layout and self-sizing behavior and fixes issues with .redacted(reason:), ImageRenderer, and other SwiftUI APIs that don't work with UIKIt and AppKit based views.
• Remove NukeUI.Image so the name no longer clashes with SwiftUI.Image
• Fix #669: redacted not working for LazyImage
• GIF rendering is no longer included in the framework. Please consider using one of the frameworks that specialize in playing GIFs, such as Gifu. It's easy to integrate, especially with LazyImage.
• Extract progress updates from FetchImage to a separate observable object, reducing the number of body reloads
• LazyImage now requires a single body calculation to render the response from the memory cache (instead of three before)
• Disable animations by default
• Fix an issue where the image won't reload if you change only LazyImage processors or priority without also changing the image source
• FetchImage/image now returns Image instead of UIImage
• Make _PlatformImageView internal (was public) and remove more typealiases

Nuke

• Add a new initializer to ImageRequest.ThumbnailOptions that accepts the target size, unit, and content mode - #677
• ImageCache uses 20% of available RAM which is quite aggressive. It's an OK default on iOS because it clears 90% of the used RAM when entering the background to be a good citizen. But it's not a good default on a Mac. Starting with Nuke 12, the default size is now strictly limited to 512 MB.
• ImageDecoder now defaults to scale 1 for images (configurable using UserInfoKey/scaleKey)
• Removes APIs deprecated in the previous versions
• Update the Performance Guide

NukeVideo

Video playback can be significantly more efficient than playing animated GIFs. This is why the initial version of NukeUI provided support for basic video playback. But it is not something that the majority of the users need, so this feature was extracted to a separate module called NukeVideo.

There is now less code that you need to include in your project, which means faster compile time and smaller code size. With this and some other changes in Nuke 12, the two main frameworks – Nuke and NukeUI – now have 25% less code compared to Nuke 11. In addition to this change, there are a couple of improvements in how the precompiled binary frameworks are generated, significantly reducing their size.

• Move all video-related code to NukeVideo
• Remove ImageContainer.asset. The asset is now added to ImageContainer/userInfo under the new .videoAssetKey.
• Reduce the size of binary frameworks by up to 50%

Nuke 11

Nuke 11.6.4

Feb 19, 2023

• Fix #671: ImagePipeline/image(for:) hangs if you cancel the async Task before it is started

Nuke 11.6.3

Feb 18, 2023

• Fix warnings in Xcode 14.3

Nuke 11.6.2

Feb 9, 2023

• Fix an issue with static GIFs not rendered correctly – #667 by @Havhingstor

Nuke 11.6.1

Feb 5, 2023

• Fix #653: ImageView wasn't calling prepareForReuse on its animatedImageView

Nuke 11.6.0

Jan 27, 2023

• Fix #579: ImageEncoders.ImageIO losing image orientation - #643
• Deprecate previously soft-deprecated ImageRequestConvertible - #642
• Add isCompressionEnabled option to DataCache that enables compression using Apple’s lzfse algorithm
• Add ExpressibleByStringLiteral conformance to ImageRequest
• Make compatible with Swift 6 mode

Nuke 11.5.3

Jan 4, 2023

• Remove DocC files to address kean#609

Nuke 11.5.1

Dec 25, 2022

• Fix ImagePipeline.shared warning with Strit Concurrency Checking set to Complete
• Fix an issue where ImagePrefetcher/didComplete wasn't called in some scenarios
• ImagePrefetcher/didComplete is now called on the main queue

Nuke 11.5.0

Dec 17, 2022

• DataLoader/delegate now gets called for all URLSession/delegate methods, not just the ones required by Pulse. It allows you to modify DataLoader behavior in new ways, e.g. for handling authentication challenges.
• Add new unit tests, thanks to @zzmasoud - #626
• Fix an issue with ImagePrefetcher/didComplete not being called when images are in the memory cache, thanks to @0xceed - #635
• Move .docc folders back to Sources/, so that the Nuke docs are now again available in Xcode

Nuke 11.4.1

Dec 15, 2022

• Correct the release commit/branch

Nuke 11.4.0

Dec 14, 2022

• Add isVideoFrameAnimationEnabled option to NukeUI views, thanks to @maciesielka

Nuke 11.3.1

Oct 22, 2022

• Fix deprecated withTaskCancellationHandler usage - #614, thanks to @swasta
• Fix xcodebuild & docc build issue on Xcode 14.0.1 - #609

Nuke 11.3.0

Sep 17, 2022

• Add support for loading image into TVPosterView (tvOS) - #602, thanks to @lukaskukacka

Nuke 11.2.1

Sep 10, 2022

• Fix an issue with Mac Catalyst on Xcode 14.0

Nuke 11.2.0

Sep 10, 2022

• Add support for Xcode 14.0
• Fix #595 – compilation issue on macOS

Nuke 11.1.1

Aug 16, 2022

• Breaking Progressive decoding is now disabled by default as a way to mitigate #572
• Add prefersIncrementalDelivery to DataLoader. When progressive decoding is disabled, it now uses prefersIncrementalDelivery on URLSessionTask, slightly increasing the performance
• Fix an issue with placeholder not being shown by LazyImage when the initial URL is nil – #586, thanks to @jeffreykuiken
• Add convenience options to Image and LazyImage: resizingMode(_:), videoRenderingEnabled(_:), videoLoopingEnabled(_:), animatedImageRenderingEnabled(_:)
• Fix an issue where AVPlayerLayer was created eagerly
• Disable prepareForDisplay by default and add a configuration option to enable it

Nuke 11.1.0

Aug 7, 2022

• Add DataLoader delegate for easy Pulse integration - #583
• Add missing content mode to NukeUI - #582, thanks to Ethan Pippin

Nuke 11.0.1

Jul 24, 2022

• Fix an issue with cancellation of requests created with Combine publishers - #576, thanks to douknow

Nuke 11.0.0

Jul 20, 2022

Nuke 11 embraces Swift Structured Concurrency with full feature parity with legacy completion-based APIs. NukeUI is now part of the main repo. Docs were completely rewritten using DocC and hosted on GitHub: Nuke, NukeUI, NukeExtensions.

There are no major source-breaking changes in this release. Instead, it adds dozens of API refinements to make the framework more ergonomic.

• Increase the minimum supported Xcode version to 13.3
• Increase minimum supported platforms: iOS 13.0, tvOS 13.0, watchOS 6.0, macOS 10.15

Structured Concurrency

Extend Async/Await APIs to have complete feature parity with the existing completion-based APIs paving the road for its eventual deprecation and removal in the future major versions.

• Add @MainActor to the following types: FetchImage, LazyImage, LazyImageView, Nuke loadImage(into:) method
• Add Sendable to most of the Nuke types, including ImagePipeline, ImageRequest, ImageResponse, ImageContainer, ImageTask, and more
• Add ImageTaskDelegate to achieve complete feature-parity with completion-based APIs - #559
• ImageRequest now accepts async/await function to fetch data as a resource

Loading an image and monitoring download progress:

func loadImage() async throws {
    let response = try await pipeline.image(for: "https://example.com/image.jpeg", delegate: self)
}

func imageTaskCreated(_ task: ImageTask) {
    // You can capture the task instance here to change priority later, etc
}

func imageTask(_ task: ImageTask, didUpdateProgress progress: ImageTask.Progress) {
    // Update progress
}

func imageTask(_ task: ImageTask, didReceivePreview response: ImageResponse) {
    // Display progressively decoded image
}

// And more...

NukeUI and NukeExtensions

NukeUI is now part of the main repo and the existing UIKit and AppKit UI extensions were moved from the main module to NukeExtensions and soft-deprecated.

• Move NukeUI to the main Nuke repo
• Move UIImageView / NSImageView extensions to a separate target NukeExtensions and soft-deprecated them - #555
• Remove deprecated APIs from NukeUI
• Add ImageResponse typealias to NukeUI
• Use new ImageTask.Progress in NukeUI
• NukeUI no longer exposes public Gifu dependency or its APIs

Error Reporting Improvements

A complete overhaul of ImagePipeline.Error with many new cases covering every single point of failure in the pipeline.

• Add throws to "advanced" ImageProcessing
• Add throws to ImageDecoding
• Add support for throwing processing in ImageProcessors.CoreImageFilter
• Add ImageDecoding instance, ImageDecodingContext, and underlying error to .decodingFailed error case
• Add ImageProcessingContext and underlying error to .processingFailed error case
• Add .dataMissingInCache error case for a scenario where data is missing in cache and download is disabled using .returnCacheDataDontLoad.
• Add .dataIsEmpty error case for a scenario where the data loader doesn't report an error, but the response is empty.
• Add .decoderNotRegistered(context:) error case for a scenario where no decoders are registered for the downloaded data. This should never happen unless you remove the default decoder from the registry.
• Add .imageRequestMissing error case for a scenario when the load image method is called with no image request.
• Add cacheType to ImageDecodingContext

Other Changes

• Fix #511 OSAtomic deprecation warnings - #573
• Add ImageTask.State. Improve performance when canceling and changing priority of completed tasks.
• Add ImageTask.Progress to simplify progress reporting APIs
• Add ImageRequest.Options.skipDecompression
• Add public ImageCacheKey initializer with ImageRequest
• Add imageCache(for:pipeline:) method to ImagePipelineDelegate
• Add automatic hashableIdentifier implementation to ImageProcessing types that implement Hashable protocol - #563
• Add a way to customize decompression using ImagePipelineDelegate
• Add ImageRequest to ImageResponse
• Improve decompression performance by using preparingForDisplay on iOS 15 and tvOS 15
• Add metrics reporting using DataLoaderObserving protocol
• Add custom disk caching for requests backed by data publishers - #553
• Add .pipelineInvalidated error that is thrown for new requests started on the invalidated pipeline
• Add public write access to ImageDecodingContext, ImageProcessingContext, ImageResponse properties
• Add static default and imageIO functions to ImageEncoding protocol for easy creating of encoders
• Add sizeLimit to withDataCache ImagePipeline.Configuration initializer
• Make ImageCache ttl optional instead of using 0 as a "never expires" indicator

Removals and Deprecations

• Soft-deprecate ImageRequestConvertible and use ImageRequest and URL directly in all news APIs for better discoverability and performance - #567
• Deprecate ImageDecoderRegistering
• Deprecate ImageCaching extension that works with ImageRequest
• Rename isFinal in ImageProcessingContext to isCompleted to match the renaming APIs
• Rename ImagePipeline/Configuration/DataCachePolicy to ImagePipeline/DataCachePolicy
• Remove ImageRequestConvertible conformance from String
• Remove ImageTaskEvent and consolidate it with the new ImageTaskDelegate API - #564
• Remove progress monitoring using Foundation.Progress
• Remove WKInterfaceObject support (in favor of SwiftUI)
• Remove ImageType typealias (deprecated in 10.5)
• Remove Cancellable conformance from URLSessionTask
• Remove public ImagePublisher class (make it internal)

Non-Code Changes

• Automatically discover typos on CI - #549
• Remove CocoaPods support

Nuke 10

Nuke 10.11.2

Jun 9, 2022

• Revert changes to the deployment targets introduced in Nuke 10.10.0

Nuke 10.11.1

Jun 9, 2022

• Fix an issue with data not always being attached to an error when decoding fails

Nuke 10.11.0

Jun 8, 2022

• Add associated Data to ImagePipeline.Error.decodingFailed - #545, thanks to Shai Mishali

There are other major improvements to error reporting coming in Nuke 11

Nuke 10.10.0

May 21, 2022

• Remove APIs deprecated in Nuke 10.0
• Increase minimum deployment targets

Nuke 10.9.0

May 1, 2022

• Rename async/await loadImage(with:) method to image(for:), and loadData(with:) to data(for:)
• Add Sendable conformance to some of the types

Nuke 10.8.0

Apr 24, 2022

• Add async/await support (requires Xcode 13.3) – #532

extension ImagePipeline {
    public func loadImage(with request: ImageRequestConvertible) async throws -> ImageResponse
    public func loadData(with request: ImageRequestConvertible) async throws -> (Data, URLResponse?)
}

extension FetchImage {
    public func load(_ action: @escaping () async throws -> ImageResponse)
}

Nuke 10.7.2

Apr 23, 2022

• Remove code deprecated in Nuke 9.4.1

Nuke 10.7.1

Jan 27, 2022

• Fix intermittent SwiftUI crash in NukeUI/FetchImage

Nuke 10.7.0

Jan 24, 2022

• Fix M4V support – #523, thanks to Son Changwoo
• Make ImagePrefetcher didComplete closure public – #528, thanks to Winston Du
• Rename internal didEnterBackground selector - #531

Nuke 10.6.1

Dec 27, 2021

• Remove async/await support

Nuke 10.6.0

Dec 27, 2021

This release added async/await, but the change was reverted in 10.6.1 (for CocoaPods) and the release was deleted in GitHub.

Nuke 10.5.2

Dec 2, 2021

• Revert preparingForDisplay changes made in #512
• Add URLSession & URLSessionDataTask descriptions - #517, thanks to Stavros Schizas

Nuke 10.5.1

Oct 23, 2021

• Fix build for Catalyst

Nuke 10.5.0

Oct 23, 2021

• Improve image decompressiong performance on iOS 15 and tvOS 15 by using preparingForDisplay() (requires Xcode 13) - #512
• On iOS 15, tvOS 15, image decompressiong now preserves 8 bits per pixel for grayscale images - #512
• Adopt extended static member lookup (SE-0299) (requires Xcode 13) - #513

// Before
ImageRequest(url: url, processors: [ImageProcessors.Resize(width: 320)])

// After
ImageRequest(url: url, processors: [.resize(width: 320)])

• ImageRequest now takes a non-optional array of image processors in its initializers. This change is required to mitigate an Xcode issue where it won't suggest code-completion for SE-0299 - #513
• Add ImageDecoders.Video (registered by default)

Nuke 10.4.1

Aug 30, 2021

• Fix build on watchOS (needs investigation why xcodebuild returns 0 for failed watchOS builds) - #505, thanks to David Harris

Nuke 10.4.0

Aug 28, 2021

• Add an API for efficiently image thumbnails or retrieving existings ones - #503
• Fix an issue with scale (ImageRequest.UserInfoKey.scaleKey) not being applied to progressively decoded images

Nuke 10.3.4

Aug 26, 2021

• Fix an issue where if you pass incorrect strings (String) in the request, the pipeline eventually start failing silently - #502

Nuke 10.3.3

Aug 18, 2021

• Fix an issue with disk cache images being overwritten in some scenarios (with disk cache policies that enable encoding and storage of the processed images) - #500

Nuke 10.3.2

Jul 30, 2021

• Add podspec

Nuke 10.3.1

Jul 8, 2021

• Fix ImagePublisher crash with some Combine operators combinations - #494, thanks to Tyler Nickerson

Nuke 10.3.0

Jun 10, 2021

• Add animation property to FetchImage that significantly simplifies how to animate image appearance
• Add imageType parameter to ImageDecoders.Empty
• Add an option to override image scale (ImageRequest.UserInfoKey.scaleKey)

Nuke 10.2.0

Jun 6, 2021

See also Nuke 10.0 Release Notes

• ImageDecoders.Default now generates previews for GIF
• Add onSuccess, onFailure, and other callbacks to FetchImage
• Add progressive previews in memory cache support to FetchImage
• Add a convenience property with an ImageContainer to FechImage
• Update FetchImage loadImage() method that takes publisher to no longer require error to match ImagePipeline.Error
• Add an option to set default processors via FetchImage

Nuke 10.1.0

Jun 3, 2021

• Enable progressive decoding by default – it can now be done without sacrificing performance in any meaningful way. To disable it, set isProgressiveDecodingEnabled to false.
• Enable storing progressively decoding previews in the memory cache by default (isStoringPreviewsInMemoryCache)
• Add isAsynchronous property to ImageDecoding that allows slow decoders (such as custom WebP decoder) to be executed on a dedicated operation queue (the existing imageDecodingQueue), while allows fast decoders to be executed synchronously
• Add entryCostLimit property to ImageCache that specifies the maximum cost of a cache entry in proportion to the costLimit. 0.1, by default.

Nuke 10.0.1

Jun 1, 2021

• Fix watchOS target

Nuke 10.0

Jun 1, 2021

Nuke 10 is extreme in every way. It is faster than the previous version (up to 30% improvement to some operations), more powerful, more ergonomic, and is even easier to learn and use. It brings big additions to the caching infrastructure, great SwiftUI and Combine support, and more ways to adjust the system to fit your needs.

This release is also a massive step-up in the general quality of the framework. It has many improvements to the docs (for example, a complete rewrite of the caching guide), more inline comments, more unit tests (Nuke now has ~100% test coverage with 2x number of lines of code in the test target compared to the main target). It's as reliable as it gets.

Migration. The compiler will assist you with the migration, but if something isn't clear, there is a comprehensive migration guide available.

Switching. Switching from Kingfisher? There is now a dedicated guide available to assist you. There is also one for migrating from SDWebImage.

Caching

• Add DataCachePolicy to replace deprecated DataCacheOptions.storedItems. The new policy fixes some of the inefficiencies of the previous model and provides more control. For example, one of the additions is an .automatic policy: for requests with processors, encode and store processed images; for requests with no processors, store original image data. You can learn more about the policies and other caching changes in "Caching: Cache Policy."
• Add ImagePipeline.Cache with a whole range of convenience APIs for managing cached images: read, write, remove images from all cache layers.
• Add ImagePipeline.Configuration.withDataCache (aggressive disk cache enabled) and withURLCache (HTTP disk cache enabled) to make it easier to set up a pipeline with a configuration you want. Learn more in "Caching: Configuration."
• Add removeAll() method to ImageCaching and DataCaching protocols
• Add containsData(for:) method to DataCaching and DataCache which checks if the data exists without bringing it to memory
• Add ImageResponse.CacheType to address #361 and #435. It defines the source of the retrieved image.
• The pipeline no longer stores images fetched using file:// and data:// schemes in the disk cache
• ImageCaching protocols now works with a new ImageCacheKey type (an opaque container) instead of ImageRequest. If you are providing a custom implementation of the ImageCaching protocol, it needs to be updated. It is now easier because there is no need to come up with a key.

NukeUI (Beta)

NukeUI is a new Swift package. It is a comprehensive solution for displaying lazily loaded images on Apple platforms.

It uses Nuke for loading images and has all customization options you can possibly imagine. It also supports animated GIFs rendering thanks to Gifu and caching and displayng short videos as a more efficient alternative to GIF.

The library contains two types:

• LazyImage for SwiftUI
• LazyImageView for UIKit and AppKit

Both views have an equivalent sets of APIs.

struct ContainerView: View {
    var body: some View {
        LazyImage(source: "https://example.com/image.jpeg")
            .placeholder { Image("placeholder") }
            .transition(.fadeIn(duration: 0.33))
    }
}

SwiftUI

Nuke now has first-class SwiftUI support with FetchImage which is now part of the main repo, no need to install it separately. It also has a couple of new additions:

• Add result property (previously you could only access the loaded image)
• Add AnyPublisher support via a new func load<P: Publisher>(_ publisher: P) where P.Output == ImageResponse, P.Failure == ImagePipeline.Error method. You can use it with a custom publisher created by combining publishers introduced in Nuke 9.6.
• Add ImageRequestConvertible support

Combine

Nuke 10 goes all-in on Combine. ImagePublisher was initially introduced in the previous release, Nuke 9.6, and now Combine is supported across the framework.

• ImageRequest now supports Combine Publisher via a new initializer ImageRequest(id:data:) where data is a Publisher. It can be used in a variety of scenarios, for example, loading data using `PhotosKit.
• As mentioned earlier, FetchImage now also supports publishers. So when you create a publisher chain, there is now an easy way to display it.

ImageRequest.Options

Nuke 10 has a reworked ImageRequest.Options option set replacing removed ImageRequestOptions. The name is similar, but the options are slightly different. The new approach has more options while being optimized for performance. ImageRequest size in memory reduced from 176 bytes to just 48 bytes (3.7x smaller).

• Deprecate ImageRequest.CachePolicy which is now part of the new ImageRequest.Options option set
• Remove filteredURL, you can now pass it using userInfo and .imageIdKey key instead. It's a rarely used option, and this is why it is now less visible.
• Remove cacheKey and loadKey (hopefully, nobody is using it because these weren't really designed properly). You can now use the new methods of ImagePipeline.Delegate that allows customizing the keys.
• Add more options for granular control over caching and loading. For example, ImageRequest.Options has a new .disableDiskCache option.
• Move userInfo directly to ImageRequest. It's now easier to pass and it allows the framework to perform some additional optimizations.
• userInfo now uses ImageRequest.UserInfoKey wrapper for keys replacing AnyHashable. The new approach is faster and adds type-safety.

ImagePipeline.Delegate

• Add ImagePipeline.Delegate with a variety of advanced per-request customization options that were previously not possible. For example, with dataCache(for:pipeline:) method you can specify a disk cache for each request. With will​Cache(data:​image:​for:​pipeline:​completion:​) you can disable caching per-request or modify the cached data. And there are more.
• Deprecated ImagePipelineObserving protocol is now fully covered by ImagePipeline.Delegate

Performance

• ImageRequest size in memory reduced from 176 bytes to just 48 bytes (3.7x smaller), which is due to the OptionSet usage and also reordering of properties to take advantage of gaps in memory stride. The size of other types was also reduced, but not as dramatically. For example, ImageTask and ImagePipeline.Configuration now also take a bit less memory
• Coalescing now supports even more scenarios. For example, setting ImageRequest options with a cache policy no longer prevents coalescing of data tasks.
• The pipeline now performs memory cache lookup of intermediate (not all processors are applied) progressive image previews and apply the remaining processors on demand
• Extend fast track decoding to the disk cache lookup
• For cache policies that require image encoding, encode decompressed images instead of uncompressed ones

Nuke Builder

NukeBuilder is a package that adds a convenience API for creating image requests inspired by SwiftUI. It was updated with support Nuke 10 and some quality-of-life improvements.

• Rename package to NukeBuilder
• Update to Nuke 10.0
• Add ImageRequestConvertible support which means it now supports more types: URLRequest and String
• Add Combine support
• Add ImagePipeline typealias for convenience – you only need to import NukeBuilder in many cases

Other

• Increase minimum required Xcode version to 12; no changes to the supported platforms
• New releases now come with a pre-compile XCFramework
• Nuke.loadImage() methods now work with optional image requests. If the request is nil, it handles the scenario the same way as failure.
• ImageRequest now also works with optional URL
• String now also conforms to ImageRequestConvertible, closes #421
• Optional URL now also conforms to ImageRequestConvertible
• Streamline pipeline callback closures
• Pass failing processor to ImagePipeline.Error.processingFailed
• Add type-safe ImageContainer.UserInfoKey and ImageRequest.UserInfoKey
• Pass additional parameter Data? to nuke_display (ImageView extensions)
• ImagePrefetcher now always sets the priority of the requests to its priority
• ImagePrefetcher now works with ImageRequestConvertible, adding support for URLRequest and String
• ImagePipeline can now be invalidated with invalidate() method

Deprecations

There are deprecation warnings in place to help guide you through the migration process.

• Deprecate ImageRequestOptions, use ImageRequest.Options instead (it's not just the name change)
• Deprecate ImagePipelineObserving, use imageTask(_:,didReceiveEvent) from ImagePipeline.Delegate instead
• Rename isDeduplicationEnabled to isTaskCoalescingEnabled
• Deprecate animatedImageData associated object for platform images. Use data property of ImageContainer instead. animatedImageData was initially soft-deprecated in Nuke 9.0.
• Deprecate the default processors in ImagePipeline; use the new processors options in ImageLoadingOptions instead
• Deprecate ImageEncoder and ImageDecoder typealiases.

Nuke 9

Nuke 9.6.1

May 24, 2021

• Remove some risky DataLoader optimizations

Nuke 9.6.0

May 2, 2021

• Add ImageRequest.CachePolicy.returnCacheDataDontLoad, #456
• Add ImagePublisher (Combine extensions)
• Add a convenience dataLoadingError property to ImagePipeline.Error
• Remove APIs deprecated in versions 9.0-9.1
• Add a note on waitsForConnectivity in Nuke Docs
• Add "Low Data Mode" in Nuke Docs

Nuke 9.5.1

Apr 28, 2021

• Update to Xcode 12.5. Fixes #454.

Nuke 9.5.0

Apr 3, 2021

• Add priority property to ImagePrefetcher which changes the priority of both new and outstanding tasks. By default, .low. Use-case: reducing the priority to .veryLow when moving to a new screen.
• Further ImagePrefetcher performance improvements: one less allocation per request, ImageRequest instances are now created in background, reduce closure capture lists, optimize cancellation
• ImagePrefetcher now automatically sets the proper request priority even when you start prefetching withImageRequest

Nuke 9.4.1

Mar 27, 2021

• Shorter names for parameters in loadImage() and loadData methods to improve ImagePipeline APIs ergonomics
• Rename ImagePreheater to ImagePrefetcher (via deprecation)
• Rewrite ImagePrefetcher documentation

Nuke 9.4.0

Mar 26, 2021

• Reduce the number of context switches in ImagePrefetcher and DataLoader
• Atomics are back, improves direct ImagePipeline usage performance
• Fast-track default decoding operations
• Reduce the number of allocations per task
• Deprecate typealiases for progress and completion closures to improve auto-completion
• You can now toggle ImagePipeline.Configuration.isSignpostLoggingEnabled while the app is running and without re-creating the pipeline, #443
• Add convenience subscript that takes URL to ImageCaching protocol as extension

Nuke 9.3.1

Mar 21, 2021

• Fix DataCache trim ratio, previously was applying size limit too aggressively.
• Deprecate DataCache.countLimit. The default limit is now Int.max.
• Move demo project to a separate repo. Fixes #442.

Nuke 9.3.0

Feb 22, 2021

• Improve ImagePipeline background performance by ~40% (measuring after taking out system calls)
• Reduce number of allocations per task
• Improve Task infrastructure, make ImagePipeline vastly easier to read and understand
• Add more performance and unit tests. Tests are now clocking at 6000 lines of code.
• Add infrastructure for automated memory management testing

Nuke 9.2.4

Jan 16, 2021

• Add support for image orientation in ImageProcessors.Resize - #429

Nuke 9.2.3

Dec 30, 2020

• Fix regression introduced in Nuke 9.2.1 where some image processors would not render transparent background correctly - #424

Nuke 9.2.2

Dec 26, 2020

• Deprecate crop parameter in ImageProcessors.Resize init(height:) and init(width:) initializers (crop doesn't make sense in with these parameters)

Nuke 9.2.1

Dec 15, 2020

• Fix CGBitmapContextCreate: unsupported parameter combination warnings - #416

Nuke 9.2.0

Nov 28, 2020

Additions

• Add an option to remove an image from all cache layers pipeline.removeCachedImage(for:)
• Add ImageRequest.CachePolicy to ImageRequest. Use .reloadIgnoringCachedData to reload the image ignoring all cached data - #411
• Add support for extended color spaces - #408
• Add ImageProcessors.Circle and ImageProcessors.RoundedCorners on macOS - #410
• Add ImageProcessors.CoreImage and ImageProcessors.GaussianBlur on macOS - #413
• Add ImageType.webp. WebP is natively supported by the latest Apple platforms - #412

Improvements

• Introduce ImageRequestConvertible protocol to narrow the number of public APIs. For example, if you type ImagePipeline.shared.loadImage..., it's now going to suggest twice fewer options.
• Remove Image typealias deprecated in Nuke 8.4
• Remove public CGSize: Hashable conformance - #410
• Decompression and resizing now preserve image color space and other parameters. For example, grayscale images with 8 bits per component stay images with 8 bits per component.
• Switch from Travis to GitHub Actions - #409
• Fix "Backward matching of the unlabeled trailing closure is deprecated" warnings

Nuke 9.1.3

Nov 17, 2020

• Fix an issue where HTTP range for resumable requests would sometimes be sent incorrectly - #389
• Fix compile time warnings in Xcode 12

Nuke 9.1.2

Aug 25, 2020

• Fix an issue with ImageCache memory pressure monitoring where it was clearing it when memory pressure changes to normal level - #392 by Eric Jensen

Nuke 9.1.1

June 19, 2020

Fixes

• Fix how RateLimiter clamps the delay – #374 by Tangent
• Fix an issue where ImageTask would stay in memory indefinitely in certain situations - #377 by Ken Bongort
• Fix an issue in a demo project where "Rate Limiter" demo would use incorrect cell size on first draw

Nuke 9.1

June 1, 2020

Enhancements

• ImageCache now uses DispatchSourceMemoryPressure instead UIApplication.didReceiveMemoryWarningNotification to improve watchOS support - #370, by Dennis Oberhoff
• Add tintColor option to ImageLoadingOptions - #371 by Basem Emara
• Minor documentation fixes and improvements

Nuke 9.0

May 20, 2020

Nuke 9 is the best release so far with refinements across the entire framework and some exciting new additions.

SwiftUI · Combine · Task builder API · New advanced set of core protocols for power-users · HEIF · Transcoding images in disk cache · Progressive decoding performance improvements · Improved resizing APIs · Automatic registering of decoders · SVG · And More

Most of the Nuke APIs are source compatible with Nuke 8. There is also a Nuke 9 Migration Guide to help with migration.

Overview

The primary focus of this release was to build on top the infrastructure introduced in Nuke 8 to deliver more advanced features while keeping the easy things easy. To achieve this, in Nuke 9, all core protocols, like ImageProcessing, ImageEncoding, ImageDecoding, now have a basic subset of methods that you must implement, and then there are new advanced methods which are optional and give you full control over the pipeline.

Along with Nuke 9, three new amazing Swift packages were introduced:

• FetchImage which makes it easy to use Nuke with SwiftUI
• ImagePublisher with Combine publishers for Nuke
• And finally ImageTaskBuilder which introduces a new fun and convenient way to use Nuke. I really love this package. Just look at these APIs:

ImagePipeline.shared.image(with: URL(string: "https://")!)
    .resize(width: 320)
    .blur(radius: 10)
    .priority(.high)
    .load { result in
        print(result)
    }

I would also like to highlight a few other changes to improve documentation.

First, there is a completely new API Reference available generated using SwiftDoc, a new package for generating documentation for Swift projects.

There is a completely new README and two new guides:

• Image Pipeline Guide with a detailed description of how the pipeline delivers images
• Image Formats Guide with an overview of the improved decoding/encoding infrastructure and information how to support variety of image formats: GIF, HEIF, SVG, WeP, and more.

There is also a new Troubleshooting Guide.

Another small but delightful change the demo project which can now be run by simply clicking on the project and running it, all thanks to Swift Package Manager magic.

Changelog

General Improvements

• Bump minimum platform version requirements. The minimum iOS version is now iOS 11 which is a 64-bit only system. This is great news if you are installing your dependencies using Carthage as Nuke is now going to compile twice as fast: no need to compile for i386 and armv7 anymore.

Documentation Improvements

• Rewrite most of the README
• Add a completely new API Reference available generated using SwiftDoc, a new package for generating documentation for Swift projects
• Add a completely new Image Pipeline Guide which describes in detail how the pipeline works.
• Add a new Image Formats Guide

ImageProcessing improvements

There are now two levels of image processing APIs. For the basic processing needs, implement the following method:

func process(_ image: UIImage) -> UIImage? // NSImage on macOS

If your processor needs to manipulate image metadata (ImageContainer), or get access to more information via the context (ImageProcessingContext), there is now an additional method that allows you to do that:

func process(_ container: ImageContainer, context: ImageProcessingContext) -> ImageContainer?

• All image processors are now available ImageProcessors namespace so it is now easier to find the ones you are looking for. Unrelated types were moved to ImageProcessingOption.
• Add ImageResponse to ImageProcessingContext
• New convenience ImageProcessors.Resize.init(width:) and ImageProcessors.Resize.init(height:) initializers

ImageDecoding Improvements

• Add a new way to register the decoders in ImageDecoderRegistry with ImageDecoderRegistering protocol. public func register<Decoder: ImageDecoderRegistering>(_ decoder: Decoder.Type) - #354

/// An image decoder which supports automatically registering in the decoder register.
public protocol ImageDecoderRegistering: ImageDecoding {
    init?(data: Data, context: ImageDecodingContext)
    // Optional
    init?(partiallyDownloadedData data: Data, context: ImageDecodingContext)
}

• The default decoder now implements ImageDecoderRegistering protocol
• Update the way decoders are created. Now if the decoder registry can't create a decoder for the partially downloaded data, the pipeline will no longer create (failing) decoding operation reducing the pressure on the decoding queue
• Rework ImageDecoding protocol
• Nuke now supports decompression and processing of images that require image data to work
• Deprecate ImageResponse.scanNumber, the scan number is now passed in ImageContainer.userInfo[ImageDecodert.scanNumberKey] (this is a format-specific feature and that's why I made it non-type safe and somewhat hidden). Previously, it was also only working for the default ImageDecoders.Default. Now any decoder can pass scan number, or any other information using ImageContainer.userInfo
• All decoders are now defined in ImageDecoders namespace
• Add ImageDecoders.Empty
• Add ImageType struct

ImageEncoding Improvements

#353 - There are now two levels of image encoding APIs. For the basic encoding needs, implement the following method:

func encode(_ image: UIImage) -> UIImage? // NSImage on macOS

If your encoders needs to manipulate image metadata (ImageContainer), or get access to more information via the context (ImageEncodingContext), there is now an additional method that allows you to do that:

func encode(_ container: ImageContainer, context: ImageEncodingContext) -> Data?

• All image encoders are now available ImageEncoders namespace so it is now easier to find the ones you are looking for.
• Add ImageEncoders.ImageIO with HEIF support - #344
• The default adaptive encoder now uses ImageEncoders.ImageIO under the hood and can be configured to support HEIF

Progressive Decoding Improvements

• You can now opt-in to store progressively generated previews in the memory cache by setting the pipeline option isStoringPreviewsInMemoryCache to true. All of the previews have isPreview flag set to true. - $352

Improved Cache For Processed Images - #345

Nuke 9 revisits data cache for processed images feature introduced in Nuke 8.0 and fixes all the rough edges around it.

There are two primary changes.

1. Deprecate isDataCachingForOriginalImageDataEnabled and isDataCachingForProcessedImagesEnabled properties.

These properties were replaced with a new DataCacheOptions.

public struct DataCacheOptions {
    /// Specifies which content to store in the `dataCache`. By default, the
    /// pipeline only stores the original image data downloaded using `dataLoader`.
    /// It can be configured to encode and store processed images instead.
    ///
    /// - note: If you are creating multiple versions of the same image using
    /// different processors, it might be worse enabling both `.originalData`
    /// and `.encodedImages` cache to reuse the same downloaded data.
    ///
    /// - note: It might be worth enabling `.encodedImages` if you want to
    /// transcode downloaded images into a more efficient format, like HEIF.
    public var storedItems: Set<DataCacheItem> = [.originalImageData]
}

public enum DataCacheItem {
    /// Original image data.
    case originalImageData
    /// Final image with all processors applied.
    case finalImage
}

Now we no longer rely on documentation to make sure that you disable data cache for original image data when you decide to cache processed images instead.

2. Rework DataCacheItem.finalImage behavior.

The primary reason for deprecation is a significantly changed behavior of data cache for processed images.

The initial version introduced back in Nuke 8.0 never really made sense. For example, only images for requests with processors were stored, but not the ones without. You can see how this could be a problem, especially if you disable data cache for original image data which was a recommended option.

The new behavior is much simpler. You set configuration.dataCacheOptions.storedItems to [. finalImage], and Nuke encodes and stores all of the downloaded images, regardless of whether they were processed or not.

DataCache Improvements - #350

Nuke 9 realized the original vision for DataCache. The updated staging/flushing mechanism now performs flushes on certain intervals instead of on every write. This makes some of the new DataCache features possible.

• flush not performs synchronously
• Add flush(for:) methods which allows to flush changes on disk only for the given key
• Add public property let queue: DispatchQueue
• Add public method func url(for key: Key) -> URL?

ImageContainer

This release introduces ImageContainer type. It is integrated throughout the framework instead of PlatformImage.

Reasoning

• Separate responsibility. ImageResponse - result of the current request with information about the current request, e.g. URLResponse that was received. ImageContainer - the actual downloaded and processed image regardless of the request
• Stop relying on Objective-C runtime which animatedImageData was using
• Stop relying on extending Objective-C classes like UIImage
• Add type-safe way to attach additional information to downloaded images

Changes

• Update ImageCaching protocol to store ImageContainer instead of ImageResponse. ImageResponse is a result of the individual request, it should not be saved in caches.

public protocol ImageCaching: AnyObject {
    subscript(request: ImageRequest) -> ImageContainer?
}

• Update ImagePipeline.cachedImage(for:) method to return ImageContainer
• Deprecate PlatformImage.animatedImageData, please use ImageContainer.data instead
• Deprecated ImagePipelineConfiguration.isAnimatedImageDataEnabled, the default ImageDecoder now set ImageContainer.data automatically when it recognizes GIF format

Other

• ImagePreheater now automatically cancels all of the outstanding tasks on deinit - #349
• ImagePipeline now has func cacheKey(for request: ImageRequest, item: DataCacheItem) -> String method which return a key for disk cache
• Change the type of ImageRequest.userInfo from Any? to [AnyHashable: Any]
• Remove DFCache from demo - #347
• Remove FLAnimatedImage and Carthage usage from demo - #348
• Migrate to Swift 5.1 - #351
• Add ImageType.init(data:)
• Add ImageLoadingOptions.isProgressiveRenderingEnabled
• Add public ImageContainer.map
• Add "Rendering Engines" section in image-formats.md
• ImageDecoder now attaches ImageType to the image
• ImageProcessingOptions.Border now accepts unit as a parameter

Fixes

• Fix how ImageProcesors.Resize compares size when different units are used
• Fix an issue with ImageProcessors.Resize String identifier being equal with different content modes provided
• Fix TSan warnings - #365, by Luciano Almeida

Nuke 8

Nuke 8.4.1

March 19, 2020

• Podspec now explicitly specifies supported Swift versions - 340, Richard Lee
• Fix a memory leak when the URLSession wasn't deallocated correctly - 336

Announcements

There are two new Swift packages available in Nuke ecosystem:

• FetchImage that makes it easy to download images using Nuke and display them in SwiftUI apps. One of the notable features of FetchImage is support for iOS 13 Low Data mode.
• ImagePublisher that provides Combine publishers for some of the Nuke APIs.

Both are distributed exclusively via Swift Package Manager. And both are API previews. Please, try them out, and feel free to contact me with any feedback that you have.

Nuke 8.4.0

November 17, 2019

• Fix an issue with RoundedCorners image processor not respecting the Border parameter – 327, Eric Jensen
• Add an optional border parameter to the Circle processor – 327, Eric Jensen
• Add ImagePipelineObserving and DataLoaderObserving protocols to allow users to tap into the internal events of the subsystems to enable logging and other features – 322
• Deprecate Nuke.Image to avoid name clashes with SwiftUI.Image in the future , add PlatformImage instead – 321
• Make ImagePipeline more readable – 320
• Update demo project to use Swift Package Manager instead of CocoaPods – 319

Nuke 8.3.1

October 26, 2019

• Add dark mode support to the demo project – #307, Li Yu

Nuke 8.3.0

October 06, 2019

• Add processors option to ImagePipeline.Configuration – 300, Alessandro Vendruscolo
• Add queue option to loadImage and loadData methods of ImagePipeline – 304
• Add callbackQueue option to ImagePipeline.Configuration – 304

Nuke 8.2.0

September 20, 2019

• Add support for Mac Catalyst – #299, Jonathan Downing

Nuke 8.1.1

September 1, 2019

• Switch to a versioning scheme which is compatible with Swift Package Manager

Nuke 8.1

August 25, 2019

• Configure dispatch queues with proper QoS – #291, Michael Nisi
• Remove synchronization points in ImageDecoder which is not needed starting from iOS 10 – #277
• Add Swift Package Manager to Installation Guides
• Improve Travis CI setup: run tests on multiple Xcode versions, run thread safety tests, run SwiftLint validations, build demo project, validate Swift package – #279, #280, #281, #284, #285

Nuke 8.0.1

July 21, 2019

• Remove synchronization in ImageDecoder which is no longer needed – #277

Nuke 8.0

July 8, 2019

Nuke 8 is the most powerful, performant, and refined release yet. It contains major advancements it some areas and brings some great new features. One of the highlights of this release is the documentation which was rewritten from the ground up.

Cache processed images on disk · New built-in image processors · ImagePipeline v2 · Up to 30% faster main thread performance · Result type · Improved deduplication · os_signpost integration · Refined ImageRequest API · Smart decompression · Entirely new documentation

Most of the Nuke APIs are source compatible with Nuke 7. There is also a Nuke 8 Migration Guide to help with migration.

Image Processing

#227 Cache Processed Images on Disk

ImagePipeline now supports caching of processed images on disk. To enable this feature set isDataCacheForProcessedDataEnabled to true in the pipeline configuration and provide a dataCache. You can use a built-in DataCache introduced in Nuke 7.3 or write a custom one.

Image cache can significantly improve the user experience in the apps that use heavy image processors like Gaussian Blur.

#243 New Image Processors

Nuke now ships with a bunch of built-in image processors including:

• ImageProcessor.Resize
• ImageProcessor.RoundedCorners
• ImageProcessor.Circle
• ImageProcessor.GaussianBlur
• ImageProcessor.CoreImageFilter

There are also ImageProcessor.Anonymous to create one-off processors from closures and ImageProcessor.Composition to combine two or more processors.

#245 Simplified Processing API

Previously Nuke offered multiple different ways to add processors to the request. Now there is only one, which is also better than all of the previous versions:

let request = ImageRequest(
    url: URL(string: "http://..."),
    processors: [
        ImageProcessor.Resize(size: CGSize(width: 44, height: 44), crop: true),
        ImageProcessor.RoundedCorners(radius: 16)
    ]
)

Processors can also be set using a respective mutable processors property.

Notice that AnyImageProcessor is gone! You can simply use ImageProcessing protocol directly in places where previously you had to use a type-erased version.

#229 Smart Decompression

In the previous versions, decompression was part of the processing API and ImageDecompressor was the default processor set for each image request. This was mostly done to simplify implementation but it was confusing for the users.

In the new version, decompression runs automatically and it no longer a "processor". The new decompression is also smarter. It runs only when needed – when we know that image is still in a compressed format and wasn't decompressed by one of the image processors.

Decompression runs on a new separate imageDecompressingQueue. To disable decompression you can set a new isDecompressionEnabled pipeline configuration option to false.

#247 Avoiding Duplicated Work when Applying Processors

The pipeline avoids doing any duplicated work when loading images. Now it also avoids applying the same processors more than once. For example, let's take these two requests:

let url = URL(string: "http://example.com/image")
pipeline.loadImage(with: ImageRequest(url: url, processors: [
    ImageProcessor.Resize(size: CGSize(width: 44, height: 44)),
    ImageProcessor.GaussianBlur(radius: 8)
]))
pipeline.loadImage(with: ImageRequest(url: url, processors: [
    ImageProcessor.Resize(size: CGSize(width: 44, height: 44))
]))

Nuke will load the image data only once, resize the image once and apply the blur also only once. There is no duplicated work done at any stage. If any of the intermediate results are available in the data cache, they will be used.

ImagePipeline v2

Nuke 8 introduced a major new iteration of the ImagePipeline class. The class was introduced in Nuke 7 and it contained a lot of incidental complexity due to addition of progressive decoding and some other new features. In Nuke 8 it was rewritten to fully embrace progressive decoding. The new pipeline is smaller, simpler, easier to maintain, and more reliable.

It is also faster.

+30% Main Thread Performance

The image pipeline spends even less time on the main thread than any of the previous versions. It's up to 30% faster than Nuke 7.

#239 Load Image Data

Add a new ImagePipeline method to fetch original image data:

@discardableResult
public func loadData(with request: ImageRequest,
                     progress: ((_ completed: Int64, _ total: Int64) -> Void)? = nil,
                     completion: @escaping (Result<(data: Data, response: URLResponse?), ImagePipeline.Error>) -> Void) -> ImageTask

This method now powers ImagePreheater with destination .diskCache introduced in Nuke 7.4 (previously it was powered by a hacky internal API).

#245 Improved ImageRequest API

The rarely used options were extracted into the new ImageRequestOptions struct and the request initializer can now be used to customize all of the request parameters.

#255 filteredURL

You can now provide a filteredURL to be used as a key for caching in case the URL contains transient query parameters:

let request = ImageRequest(
    url: URL(string: "http://example.com/image.jpeg?token=123")!,
    options: ImageRequestOptions(
        filteredURL: "http://example.com/image.jpeg"
    )
)

#241 Adopt Result type

Adopt the Result type introduced in Swift 5. So instead of having a separate response and error parameters, the completion closure now has only one parameter - result.

public typealias Completion = (_ result: Result<ImageResponse, ImagePipeline.Error>) -> Void

Performance

Apart from the general performance improvements Nuke now also offers a great way to measure performance and gain visibility into how the system behaves when loading images.

#250 Integrate os_signpost

Integrate os_signpost logs for measuring performance. To enable the logs set ImagePipeline.Configuration.isSignpostLoggingEnabled (static property) to true before accessing the shared pipeline.

With these logs, you have visibility into the image pipeline. For more information see WWDC 2018: Measuring Performance Using Logging which explains os_signpost in a great detail.

Documentation

All the documentation for Nuke was rewritten from scratch in Nuke 8. It's now more concise, clear, and it even features some fantastic illustrations:

The screenshots come the the reworked demo project. It gained new demos including Image Processing demo and also a way to change ImagePipeline configuration in runtime.

Misc

• Add a cleaner way to set ImageTask priority using a new priority property – #251
• [macOS] Implement image cost calculation for ImageCache – #236
• [watchOS] Add WKInterfaceImage support
• Future-proof Objective-C ImageDisplaying protocol by adding nuke_ prefixes to avoid clashes in Objective-C runtime
• Add convenience func decode(data: Data) -> Image? method with a default isFinal argument to ImageDecoding protocol – e3ca5e
• Add convenience func process(image: Image) -> Image? method to ImageProcessing protocol
• DataCache will now automatically re-create its root directory if it was deleted underneath it
• Add public flush method to DataCache

Nuke 7

Nuke 7.6.3

May 1, 2019

• Fix #226 ImageTask.setPriority(_:) sometimes crashes

Nuke 7.6.2

Apr 24, 2019

• Fix Thread Sanitizer warnings. The issue was related to unfair_lock usage which was introduced as a replacement for OSAtomic functions in Nuke 7.6. In order to fix the issue, unfair_lock was replaced with simple NSLock. The performance hit is pretty insignificant and definitely isn't worth introducing this additional level of complexity.

Nuke 7.6.1

Apr 13, 2019

• Fix SwiftPM 5.0 support by adding explicit platform version requirements – Vadim Shpakovski in #220
• Update Nuke 7 Migration Guide

Nuke 7.6

Apr 7, 2019

• Add Swift 5.0 support – Daniel Storm in #217
• Add SwiftPM 5.0 support – Vadim Shpakovski in #219
• Remove Swift 4.0 and Swift 4.1 support
• Remove iOS 9, tvOS 9, watchOS 2.0, macOS 10.10 and macOS 10.11 support
• Add a single Nuke target which can build the framework for any platform
• Replace deprecated OSAtomic functions with unfair_lock, there are no performance regressions

Nuke 7.5.2

Dec 26, 2018

• [macOS] Fix Nuke.loadImage image is not displayed when .fadeIn transition is used – #206
• Add .alwaysTransition flag to ImageLoadingOptions – @gabzsa in #201

Nuke 7.5.1

Nov 8, 2018

• Update Swift version in pbxproj to Swift 4.2, #199
• Update demo to Swift 4.2

Nuke 7.5

Oct 21, 2018

Additions

• #193 Add an option to ImageDecompressor to allow images to upscale, thanks to @drkibitz
• #197 Add a convenience initializer to ImageRequest which takes an image processor (ImageProcessing) as a parameter, thanks to @drkibitz

Improvements

• Add a guarantee that if you cancel ImageTask on the main thread, you won't receive any more callbacks (progress, completion)
• Improve internal Operation performance, images are loading up to 5% faster

Removals

Nuke 7 had a lot of API changes, to make the migration easier it shipped with Deprecated.swift file (536 line of code) which enabled Nuke 7 to be almost 100% source-compatible with Nuke 6. It's been 6 months since Nuke 7 release, so now it's finally a good time to remove all of this code.

Nuke 7.4.2

Oct 1, 2018

• #174 Fix an issue with an ImageView reuse logic where in rare cases a wrong image would be displayed, thanks to @michaelnisi

Nuke 7.4.1

Sep 25, 2018

• Disable automatic stopPreheating which was causing some issues

Nuke 7.4

Sep 22, 2018

Prefetching Improvements

• Add an ImagePreheater.Destination option to ImagePreheater. The default option is .memoryCache which works exactly the way ImagePreheater used to work before. The more interesting option is .diskCache. The preheater with .diskCache destination will skip image data decoding entirely to reduce CPU and memory usage. It will still load the image data and store it in disk caches to be used later.
• Add convenience func startPreheating(with urls: [URL]) function which creates requests with .low requests for you.
• ImagePreheater now automatically cancels all of the managed outstanding requests on deinit.
• Add UICollectionViewDataSourcePrefetching demo on iOS 10+. Nuke still supports iOS 9 so Preheat is also still around.

Other Changes

• #187 Fix an issue with progress handler reporting incorrect progress for resumed (206 Partial Content) downloads
• Remove enableExperimentalAggressiveDiskCaching function from ImagePipeline.Configuration, please use DataCache directly instead
• Update Performance Guide

Nuke 7.3.2

Jul 29, 2018

• #178 Fix TSan warning being triggered by performance optimization in ImageTask.cancel() (false positive)
• Fix an issue where a request (ImageRequest) with a default processor and a request with the same processor but set manually would have different cache keys

Nuke 7.3.1

Jul 20, 2018

• ImagePipeline now updates the priority of shared operations when the registered tasks get canceled (was previously only reacting to added tasks)
• Fix an issue where didFinishCollectingMetrics closure wasn't called for the tasks completed with images found in memory cache and the tasks canceled before they got a chance to run. Now every created tasks gets a corresponding didFinishCollectingMetrics call.

Nuke 7.3

Jun 29, 2018

This release introduces new DataCache type and features some other improvements in custom data caching.

• Add new DataCache type - a cache backed by a local storage with an LRU cleanup policy. This type is a reworked version of the experimental data cache which was added in Nuke 7.0. It's now much simpler and also faster. It allows for reading and writing in parallel, it has a simple consistent API, and I hope it's going to be a please to use.

Migration note: The storage format - which is simply a bunch of files in a directory really - is backward compatible with the previous implementation. If you'd like the new cache to continue working with the same path, please create it with "com.github.kean.Nuke.DataCache" name and use the same filename generator that you were using before:

try? DataCache(name: "com.github.kean.Nuke.DataCache", filenameGenerator: filenameGenerator)

• #160 DataCache now has a default FilenameGenerator on Swift 4.2 which uses SHA1 hash function provided by CommonCrypto (CommonCrypto is not available on the previous version of Swift).

• #171 Fix a regression introduced in version 7.1. where experimental DataCache would not perform LRU data sweeps.

• Update DataCaching protocol. To store data you now need to implement a synchronous method func cachedData(for key: String) -> Data?. This change was necessary to make the data cache fit nicely in ImagePipeline infrastructure where each stage is managed by a separate OperationQueue and each operation respects the priority of the image requests associated with it.

• Add dataCachingQueue parameter to ImagePipeline.Configuration. The default maxConcurrentOperationCount is 2.

• Improve internal Operation type performance.

Nuke 7.2.1

Jun 18, 2018

Nuke's roadmap is now publicly available. Please feel free to contribute!

This update addresses tech debt introduces in version 7.1 and 7.2. All of the changes made in these version which improved deduplication are prerequisites for implementing smart prefetching which be able to skip decoding, load to data cache only, etc.

Enhancements

• Simpler and more efficient model for managing decoding and processing operations (including progressive ones). All operations now take the request priority into account. The processing operations are now created per processor, not per image loading session which leads to better performance.
• When subscribing to existing session which already started processing, pipeline will try to find existing processing operation.
• Update DFCache integration demo to use new DataCaching protocol
• Added "Default Image Pipeline" section and "Image Pipeline Overview" sections in README.
• Update "Third Party Libraries" guide to use new DataCaching protocol

Nuke 7.2

Jun 12, 2018

Additions

• #163 Add DataCaching protocol which can be used to implement custom data cache. It's not documented yet, the documentation going to be updated in 7.2.1.

Improvements

• Initial iOS 12.0, Swift 4.2 and Xcode 10 beta 1 support
• #167 ImagePipeline now uses OperationQueue instead of DispatchQueue for decoding images. The queue now respects ImageRequest priority. If the task is cancelled the operation added to a queue is also cancelled. The queue can be configured via ImagePipeline.Configuration.
• #167 ImagePipeline now updates processing operations' priority.

Fixes

• Fix a regression where in certain deduplication scenarios a wrong image would be saved in memory cache
• Fix MP4 demo project
• Improve test coverage, bring back DataCache (internal) tests

Nuke 7.1

May 27, 2018

Improvements

• Improve deduplication. Now when creating two requests (at roughly the same time) for the same images but with two different processors, the original image is going to be downloaded once (used to be twice in the previous implementation) and then two separate processors are going to be applied (if the processors are the same, the processing will be performed once).
• Greatly improved test coverage.

Fixes

• Fix an issue when setting custom loadKey for the request, the hashValue of the default key was still used.
• Fix warnings "Decoding failed with error code -1" when progressively decoding images. This was the result of ImageDecoder trying to decode incomplete progressive scans.
• Fix an issue where ImageDecoder could produce a bit more progressive scans than necessary.

Nuke 7.0.1

May 16, 2018

Additions

• Add a section in README about replacing GIFs with video formats (e.g. MP4, WebM)
• Add proof of concept in the demo project that demonstrates loading, caching and displaying short mp4 videos using Nuke

Fixes

• #161 Fix the contentModes not set when initializing an ImageLoadingOptions object

Nuke 7.0

May 10, 2018

Nuke 7 is the biggest release yet. It has a lot of massive new features, new performance improvements, and some API refinements. Check out new Nuke website to see quick videos showcasing some of the new features.

Nuke 7 is almost completely source-compatible with Nuke 6.

Progressive JPEG & WebP

Add support for progressive JPEG (built-in) and WebP (build by the Ryo Kosuge). See README for more info. See demo project to see it in action.

Add new ImageProcessing protocol which now takes an extra ImageProcessingContext parameter. One of its properties is scanNumber which allows you to do things like apply blur to progressive image scans reducing blur radius with each new scan ("progressive blur").

Resumable Downloads (HTTP Range Requests)

If the data task is terminated (either because of a failure or a cancellation) and the image was partially loaded, the next load will resume where it was left off. In many use cases resumable downloads are a massive improvement to user experience, especially on the mobile internet.

Resumable downloads require the server support for HTTP Range Requests. Nuke supports both validators (ETag and Last-Modified).

The resumable downloads are enabled by default. The resumable data is automatically stored in efficient memory cache. This is a good default, but future versions might add more customization options.

Loading Images into Views

Add a new set of powerful methods to load images into views. Here's one of those methods:

@discardableResult
public func loadImage(with request: ImageRequest,
                      options: ImageLoadingOptions = ImageLoadingOptions.shared,
                      into view: ImageDisplayingView,
                      progress: ImageTask.ProgressHandler? = nil,
                      completion: ImageTask.Completion? = nil) -> ImageTask?

You can now pass progress and completion closures as well as new ImageLoadingOptions struct which offers a range of options:

public struct ImageLoadingOptions {
    public static var shared = ImageLoadingOptions()
    public var placeholder: Image?
    public var transition: Transition?
    public var failureImage: Image?
    public var failureImageTransition: Transition?
    public var isPrepareForReuseEnabled = true
    public var pipeline: ImagePipeline?
    public var contentModes: ContentModes?

    /// Content modes to be used for each image type (placeholder, success, failure).
    public struct ContentModes {
        public var success: UIViewContentMode
        public var failure: UIViewContentMode
        public var placeholder: UIViewContentMode
    }

    /// An animated image transition.
    public struct Transition {
        public static func fadeIn(duration: TimeInterval, options: UIViewAnimationOptions = [.allowUserInteraction]) -> Transition
        public static func custom(_ closure: @escaping (ImageDisplayingView, Image) -> Void) -> Transition
    }
}

ImageView will now also automatically prepare itself for reuse (can be disabled via ImageLoadingOptions)

Instead of an ImageTarget protocol we now have a new simple ImageDisplaying protocol which relaxes the requirement what can be used as an image view (it's UIView & ImageDisplaying now). This achieves two things:

• You can now add support for more classes (e.g. MKAnnotationView by implementing ImageDisplaying protocol
• You can override the display(image: method in UIImageView subclasses (e.g. FLAnimatedImageView)

Image Pipeline

The previous Manager + Loading architecture (terrible naming, responsibilities are often confusing) was replaced with a new unified ImagePipeline class. ImagePipeline was built from the ground-up to support all of the powerful new features in Nuke 7 (progressive decoding, resumable downloads, performance metrics, etc).

There is also a new ImageTask class which feels the gap where user or pipeline needed to communicate between each other after the request was started. ImagePipeline and ImageTask offer a bunch of new features:

• To cancel the request you now simply need to call cancel() on the task (ImageTask) which is a bit more user-friendly than previous CancellationTokenSource infrastructure.
• ImageTask offers a new way to track progress (in addition to closures) - native Foundation.Progress (created lazily)
• ImageTask can be used to dynamically change the priority of the executing tasks (e.g. the user opens a new screen, you lower the priority of outstanding tasks)
• In ImagePipeline.Configuration you can now provide custom queues (OperationQueue) for data loading, decoding and processing (separate queue for each stage).
• You can set a custom shared ImagePipeline.

Animated Images (GIFs)

Add built-in support for animated images (everything expect the actual rendering). To enable rendering you're still going to need a third-party library (see FLAnimatedImage and Gifu plugins). The changes made in Nuke dramatically simplified those plugins making both of them essentially obsolete - they both now have 10-30 lines of code, you can just copy this code into your project.

Memory Cache Improvements

• Add new ImageCaching protocol for memory cache which now works with a new ImageRespone class. You can do much more intelligent things in your cache implementations now (e.g. make decisions on when to evict image based on HTTP headers).
• Improve cache write/hit/miss performance by 30% by getting rid of AnyHashable overhead. ImageRequest cacheKey and loadKey are now optional. If you use them, Nuke is going to use them instead of built-in internal ImageRequest.CacheKey and ImageRequest.LoadKey.
• Add TTL support in ImageCache

Aggressive Disk Cache (Experimental)

Add a completely new custom LRU disk cache which can be used for fast and reliable aggressive data caching (ignores HTTP cache control). The new cache lookups are up to 2x faster than URLCache lookups. You can enable it using pipeline's configuration:

When enabling disk cache you must provide a keyEncoder function which takes image request's url as a parameter and produces a key which can be used as a valid filename. The demo project uses sha1 to generate those keys.

$0.enableExperimentalAggressiveDiskCaching(keyEncoder: {
    guard let data = $0.cString(using: .utf8) else { return nil }
    return _nuke_sha1(data, UInt32(data.count))
})

The public API for disk cache and the API for using custom disk caches is going to be available in the future versions.

Existing API already allows you to use custom disk cache by implementing DataLoading protocol, but this is not the most straightforward option.

Performance Metrics

When optimizing performance, it's important to measure. Nuke collects detailed performance metrics during the execution of each image task:

ImagePipeline.shared.didFinishCollectingMetrics = { task, metrics in
    print(metrics)
}

(lldb) po metrics

Task Information {
    Task ID - 1
    Duration - 22:35:16.123 – 22:35:16.475 (0.352s)
    Was Cancelled - false
    Is Memory Cache Hit - false
    Was Subscribed To Existing Session - false
}
Session Information {
    Session ID - 1
    Total Duration - 0.351s
    Was Cancelled - false
}
Timeline {
    22:35:16.124 – 22:35:16.475 (0.351s) - Total
    ------------------------------------
    nil – nil (nil)                      - Check Disk Cache
    22:35:16.131 – 22:35:16.410 (0.278s) - Load Data
    22:35:16.410 – 22:35:16.468 (0.057s) - Decode
    22:35:16.469 – 22:35:16.474 (0.005s) - Process
}
Resumable Data {
    Was Resumed - nil
    Resumable Data Count - nil
    Server Confirmed Resume - nil
}

Other Changes

• ImagePreheater now checks ImageCache synchronously before creating tasks which makes it slightly more efficient.
• RateLimiter now uses the same sync queue as the ImagePipeline reducing a number of dispatched blocks
• Smarter RateLimiter which no longer attempt to execute pending tasks when the bucket isn't full resulting in idle dispatching of blocks. I've used a CountedSet to see how well it works in practice and it's perfect. Nice small win.
• Add ImageDecoderRegistry to configure decoders globally.
• Add ImageDecodingContext to provide as much information as needed to select a decoder.
• ImageTask.Completion now contains ImageResponse (image + URLResponse) instead of just plain image.

Deprecations

• CancellationToken, CancellationTokenSource - continued to be used internally, If you'd like to continue using cancellation tokens please consider copying this code into your project.
• DataDecoding, DataDecoder, DataDecoderComposition - replaced by a new image decoding infrastructure (ImageDecoding, ImageDecoder, ImageDecodingRegistry etc).
• Request renamed to ImageRequest.
• Deprecate Result type. It was only used in a single completion handler so it didn't really justify its existence. More importantly, I wasn't comfortable providing a public Result type as part of the framework.

Nuke 6

Nuke 6.1.1

Apr 9, 2018

• Lower macOS deployment target to 10.10. #156.
• Improve README: add detailed Image Pipeline section, Performance section, rewrite Usage guide

Nuke 6.1

Feb 24, 2018

Features

• Add Request.Priority with 5 available options ranging from .veryLow to .veryHigh. One of the use cases of Request.Priority is to lower the priority of preheating requests. In case requests get deduplicated the task's priority is set to the highest priority of registered requests and gets updated when requests are added or removed from the task.

Improvements

• Fix warnings on Xcode 9.3 beta 3
• Loader implementation changed a bit, it is less clever now and is able to accommodate new features like request priorities
• Minor changes in style guide to make codebase more readable
• Switch to native NSLock, there doesn't seem to be any performance wins anymore when using pthread_mutex directly

Fixes

• #146 fix disk cache path for macOS, thanks to @willdahlberg

Nuke 6.0

Dec 23, 2017

About 8 months ago I finally started using Nuke in production. The project has matured from a playground for experimenting with Swift features to something that I rely on in my day's job.

There are three main areas of improvements in Nuke 6:

• Performance. Nuke 6 is fast! The primary loadImage(with:into:) method is now 1.5x faster thanks to performance improvements of CancellationToken, Manager, Request and Cache types. And it's not just main thread performance, many of the background operations were also optimized.
• API refinements. Some common operations that were surprisingly hard to do are not super easy. And there are no more implementation details leaking into a public API (e.g. classes like Deduplicator).
• Fixes some inconveniences like Thread Sanitizer warnings (false positives!). Improved compile time. Better documentation.

Features

• Implements progress reporting kean#81
• Scaling images is now super easy with new convenience Request initialisers (Request.init(url:targetSize:contentMode: and Request.init(urlRequest:targetSize:contentMode:)
• Add a way to add anonymous image processors to the request (Request.process(key:closure:) and Request.processed(key:closure:))
• Add Loader.Options which can be used to configure Loader (e.g. change maximum number of concurrent requests, disable deduplication or rate limiter, etc).

Improvements

• Improve performance of CancellationTokenSource, Loader, TaskQueue
• Improve Manager performance by reusing contexts objects between requests
• Improve Cache by ~30% for most operations (hits, misses, writes)
• Request now stores all of the parameters in the underlying reference typed container (it used to store just reference typed ones). The Request struct now only has a single property with a reference to an underlying container.
• Parallelize image processing for up to 2x performance boost in certain scenarios. Might increase memory usage. The default maximum number of concurrent tasks is 2 and can be configured using Loader.Options.
• Loader now always call completion on the main thread.
• Move URLResponse validation from DataDecoder to DataLoader
• Make use of some Swift 4 feature like nested types inside generic types.
• Improve compile time.
• Wrap Loader processing and decoding tasks into autoreleasepool which reduced memory footprint.

Fixes

• Get rid of Thread Sanitizer warnings in CancellationTokenSource (false positive)
• Replace Foundation.OperationQueue & custom Foundation.Operation subclass with a new Queue type. It's simpler, faster, and gets rid of pesky Thread Sanitizer warnings kean#141

Removed APIs

• Remove global loadImage(...) functions kean#142
• Remove static Request.loadKey(for:) and Request.cacheKey(for:) functions. The keys are now simply returned in Request's loadKey and cacheKey properties which are also no longer optional now.
• Remove Deduplicator class, make this functionality part of Loader. This has a number of benefits: reduced API surface, improves performance by reducing the number of queue switching, enables new features like progress reporting.
• Remove Scheduler, AsyncScheduler, Loader.Schedulers, DispatchQueueScheduler, OperationQueueScheduler. This whole infrastructure was way too excessive.
• Make RateLimiter private.
• DataLoader now works with URLRequest, not Request

Nuke 5

Nuke 5.2

Sep 1, 2017

Add support for both Swift 3.2 and 4.0.

Nuke 5.1.1

Jun 11, 2017

• Fix Swift 4 warnings
• Add DataDecoder.sharedUrlCache to easy access for shared URLCache object
• Add references to RxNuke
• Minor improvements under the hood

Nuke 5.1

Feb 23, 2017

• De facto Manager has already implemented Loading protocol in Nuke 5 (you could use it to load images directly w/o targets). Now it also conforms to Loading protocols which gives access to some convenience functions available in Loading extensions.
• Add static func targetSize(for view: UIView) -> CGSize method to Decompressor
• Simpler, faster Preheater
• Improved documentation

Nuke 5.0.1

Feb 2, 2017

• #116 Manager can now be used to load images w/o specifying a target
• Preheater is now initialized with Manager instead of object conforming to Loading protocol

Nuke 5.0

Feb 1, 2017

Overview

Nuke 5 is a relatively small release which removes some of the complexity from the framework.

One of the major changes is the removal of promisified API as well as Promise itself. Promises were briefly added in Nuke 4 as an effort to simplify async code. The major downsides of promises are compelex memory management, extra complexity for users unfamiliar with promises, complicated debugging, performance penalties. Ultimately I decided that promises were adding more problems that they were solving.

Changes

Removed promisified API and Promise itself

• Remove promisified API, use simple closures instead. For example, Loading protocol's method func loadImage(with request: Request, token: CancellationToken?) -> Promise<Image> was replaced with a method with a completion closure func loadImage(with request: Request, token: CancellationToken?, completion: @escaping (Result<Image>) -> Void). The same applies to DataLoading protocol.
• Remove Promise class
• Remove PromiseResolution<T> enum
• Remove Response typealias
• Add Result<T> enum which is now used as a replacement for PromiseResolution<T> (for instance, in Target protocol, etc)

Memory cache is now managed exclusively by Manager

• Remove memory cache from Loader
• Manager now not only reads, but also writes to Cache
• Manager now has new methods to load images w/o target (Nuke 5.0.1)

The reason behind this change is to reduce confusion about Cache usage. In previous versions the user had to pass Cache instance to both Loader (which was both reading and writing to cache asynchronously), and to Manager (which was just reading from the cache synchronously). In a new setup it's clear who's responsible for managing memory cache.

Removed DataCaching and CachingDataLoader

Those two types were included in Nuke to make integrating third party caching libraries a bit easier. However, they were actually not that useful. Instead of using those types you could've just wrapped DataLoader yourself with a comparable amount of code and get much more control. For more info see Third Party Libraries: Using Other Caching Libraries.

Other Changes

• Loader constructor now provides a default value for DataDecoding object
• DataLoading protocol now works with a Nuke.Request and not URLRequest in case some extra info from URLRequest is required
• Reduce default URLCache disk capacity from 200 MB to 150 MB
• Reduce default maxConcurrentOperationCount of DataLoader from 8 to 6
• Shared objects (like Manager.shared) are now constants.
• Preheater is now initialized with Manager instead of Loading object
• Add new Third Party Libraries guide.
• Improved documentation

Nuke 4

Nuke 4.1.2

Oct 22, 2016

Bunch of improvements in built-in Promise:

• Promise now also uses new Lock - faster creation, faster locking
• Add convenience isPending, resolution, value and error properties
• Simpler implementation migrated from Pill.Promise*

*Nuke.Promise is a simplified variant of Pill.Promise (doesn't allow throws, adds completion, etc). The Promise is built into Nuke to avoid fetching external dependencies.

Nuke 4.1.1

Oct 4, 2016

• Fix deadlock in Cache - small typo, much embarrassment 😄 (kean/Nuke-Alamofire-Plugin#8)

Nuke 4.1 ⚡️

Oct 4, 2016

Nuke 4.1 is all about performance. Here are some notable performance improvements:

• loadImage(with:into:) method with a default config is 6.3x faster
• Cache operations (write/hit/miss) are from 3.1x to 4.5x faster

Nuke 4.0 focused on stability first, naturally there were some performance regressions. With the version 4.1 Nuke is again the fastest framework out there. The performance is ensured by a new set of performance tests.

If you're interested in the types of optimizations that were made check out recent commits. There is a lot of awesome stuff there!

Nuke 4.1 also includes a new Performance Guide and a collection of Tips and Tricks.

Other Changes

• Add convenience method loadImage(with url: URL, into target: AnyObject, handler: @escaping Handler) (more useful than anticipated).
• #88 Add convenience cancelRequest(for:) function
• Use @discardableResult in Promise where it makes sense
• Simplified Loader implementation
• Cache nodes are no longer deallocated recursively on removeAll() and deinit (I was hitting stack limit in benchmarks, it's impossible in real-world use).
• Fix: All Cache public trim() methods are now thread-safe too.

Nuke 4.0 🚀

Sep 19, 2016

Overview

Nuke 4 has fully adopted the new Swift 3 changes and conventions, including the new API Design Guidelines.

Nuke 3 was already a slim framework. Nuke 4 takes it a step further by simplifying almost all of its components.

Here's a few design principles adopted in Nuke 4:

• Protocol-Oriented Programming. Nuke 3 promised a lot of customization by providing a set of protocols for loading, caching, transforming images, etc. However, those protocols were vaguely defined and hard to implement in practice. Protocols in Nuke 4 are simple and precise, often consisting of a single method.
• Single Responsibility Principle. For example, instead of implementing preheating and deduplicating of equivalent requests in a single vague ImageManager class, those features were moved to separate classes (Preheater, Deduplicator). This makes core classes much easier to reason about.
• Principle of Least Astonishment. Nuke 3 had a several excessive protocols, classes and methods which are all gone now (ImageTask, ImageManagerConfiguration just to name a few). Those features are much easier to use now.
• Simpler Async. Image loading involves a lot of asynchronous code, managing it was a chore. Nuke 4 adopts two design patterns (Promise and CancellationToken) that solve most of those problems.

The adoption of those design principles resulted in a simpler, more testable, and more concise code base (which is now under 900 slocs, compared to AlamofireImage's 1426, and Kingfisher's whopping 2357).

I hope that Nuke 4 is going to be a pleasure to use. Thanks for your interest 😄

You can learn more about Nuke 4 in an in-depth Nuke 4 Migration Guide.

Highlighted New Features

LRU Memory Cache

Nuke 4 features a new custom LRU memory cache which replaced NSCache. The primary reason behind this change was the fact that NSCache is not LRU]. The new Nuke.Cache has some other benefits like better performance, and more control which would enable some new advanced features in future versions.

Rate Limiter

There is a known problem with URLSession that it gets trashed pretty easily when you resume and cancel URLSessionTasks at a very high rate (say, scrolling a large collection view with images). Some frameworks combat this problem by simply never cancelling URLSessionTasks which are already in .running state. This is not an ideal solution, because it forces users to wait for cancelled requests for images which might never appear on the display.

Nuke has a better, classic solution for this problem - it introduces a new RateLimiter class which limits the rate at which URLSessionTasks are created. RateLimiter uses a token bucket algorithm. The implementation supports quick bursts of requests which can be executed without any delays when "the bucket is full". This is important to prevent the rate limiter from affecting "normal" requests flow. RateLimiter is enabled by default.

You can see RateLimiter in action in a new Rate Limiter Demo added in the sample project.

Toucan Plugin

Make sure to check out new Toucan plugin which provides a simple API for processing images. It supports resizing, cropping, rounded rect masking and more.

Nuke 3

Nuke 3.2

Sep 8, 2016

• Swift 2.3 support
• Preheating is now thread-safe #75

Nuke 3.1.3

Jul 17, 2016

#72 Fix synchronization issue in ImageManager loader:task:didFinishWithImage... method

Nuke 3.1.2

Jul 14, 2016

• #71 ImageViewLoadingController now cancels tasks synchronously, thanks to @adomanico

Nuke 3.1.1

Jun 7, 2016

• Demo project update to support CocoaPods 1.0
• #69 Bitcode support for Carthage builds, thanks to @vincentsaluzzo

Nuke 3.1

Apr 15, 2016

• #64 Fix a performance regression: images are now decoded once per DataTask like they used to
• #65 Fix an issue custom on-disk cache (ImageDiskCaching) was called setData(_:response:forTask:) method when the error wasn't nil
• Add notifications for NSURLSessionTask state changes to enable activity indicators (based on kean/Nuke-Alamofire-Plugin#4)

Nuke 3.0

Mar 26, 2016

• Update for Swift 2.2
• Move ImagePreheatController to a standalone package Preheat
• Remove deprecated suspend method from ImageTask
• Remove ImageFilterGaussianBlur and Core Image helper functions which are now part of Core Image Integration Guide
• Cleanup project structure (as expected by SPM)
• Manager constructor now has a default value for configuration
• nk_setImageWith(URL:) method no longer resizes images by default, because resizing is not effective in most cases
• Remove nk_setImageWith(request:options:placeholder:) method, it's trivial
• ImageLoadingView default implementation no longer implements "Cross Dissolve" animations, use ImageViewLoadingOptions instead (see animations or handler property)
• Remove ImageViewDefaultAnimationDuration, use ImageViewLoadingOptions instead (see animations property)
• ImageDisplayingView protocol now has a single nk_displayImage(_) method instead of a nk_image property
• Remove nk_targetSize property from UI(NS)View extension

Nuke 2

Nuke 2.3

Mar 19, 2016

• #60 Add custom on-disk caching support (see ImageDiskCaching protocol)
• Reduce dynamic dispatch

Nuke 2.2

Mar 11, 2016

• ImageTask suspend method is deprecated, implementation does nothing
• ImageLoader now limits a number of concurrent NSURLSessionTasks
• Add maxConcurrentSessionTaskCount property to ImageLoaderConfiguration
• Add taskReusingEnabled property to ImageLoaderConfiguration
• Add Swift Package Manager support
• Update documentation

Nuke 2.1

Feb 27, 2016

• #57 ImageDecompressor now uses CGImageAlphaInfo.NoneSkipLast for opaque images
• Add ImageProcessorWithClosure that can be used for creating anonymous image filters
• ImageLoader ensures thread safety of image initializers by running decoders on a NSOperationQueue with maxConcurrentOperationCount=1. However, ImageDecoder class is now also made thread safe.

Nuke 2.0.1

Feb 10, 2016

• #53 ImageRequest no longer uses NSURLSessionTaskPriorityDefault, which requires CFNetwork that doesn't get added as a dependency automatically

Nuke 2.0

Feb 6, 2016

Nuke now has an official website!

Main Changes

• #48 Update according to Swift API Design Guidelines. All APIs now just feel right.
• Add UIImage extension with helper functions for Core Image: nk_filter(_:), etc.
• Add ImageFilterGaussianBlur as an example of a filter on top of Core Image framework
• Add ImageRequestMemoryCachePolicy enum that specifies the way Manager interacts with a memory cache; NSURLRequestCachePolicy no longer affects memory cache
• #17 Add priority to ImageRequest
• Add removeResponseForKey() method to ImageMemoryCaching protocol and the corresponding method to Manager
• Implement congestion control for ImageLoader that prevents NSURLSession trashing
• Simplify ImageLoaderDelegate by combining methods that were customizing processing in a single high-level method: imageLoader(_:processorFor:image:). Users now have more control over processing
• Add NSURLResponse? parameter to decode method from ImageDecoding protocol
• DataLoading protocol no longer has isLoadEquivalentRequest(_:toRequest) and isCacheEquivalentRequest(_:toRequest). Those methods are now part of ImageLoaderDelegate and they have default implementation
• ImageResponseInfo is now a struct
• Improved error reporting (codes are now stored in enum, more codes were added, error is now created with a failure reason)

UI Extensions Changes

• Move nk_ImageTask(_:didFinishWithResponse:options) method to ImageLoadingView protocol, that's really where it belongs to
• Add handler property to ImageViewLoadingOptions that allows you to completely override display/animate logic in ImageLoadingView
• Remove nk_prepareForReuse method from ImageLoadingView extensions (useless)
• Remove placeholder from ImageViewLoadingOptions, move it to a separate argument which is only available on ImageDisplayingViews
• Add animated, userInfo to ImageViewLoadingOptions
• ImageViewLoadingOptions is now nonull everywhere
• Add setImageWith(task:options:) method to ImageViewLoadingController

Other Changes

• If you add a completion handler for completed task, the response is now marked as isFastResponse = true
• Fix an issue that allowed incomplete image downloads to finish successfully when using built-in networking
• equivalentProcessors(rhs:lhs:) function is now private (and it also is renamed)
• Remove public isLoadEquivalentToRequest(_:) and isCacheEquivalentToRequest(_:) methods from ImageRequest extension
• Add ImageTaskProgress struct that represents load progress, move fractionCompleted property from ImageTask to ImageTaskProgress
• Remove public helper function allowsCaching from ImageRequest extension
• Remove deprecated XCPSetExecutionShouldContinueIndefinitely from playground

Nuke 1

Nuke 1.4

Jan 9, 2016

• #46 Add option to disable memory cache storage, thanks to @RuiAAPeres

Nuke 1.3

Dec 7, 2015

• Add Core Image Integration Guide
• Fill most of the blanks in the documentation
• #47 Fix target size rounding errors in image downscaling (Pyry Jahkola @pyrtsa)
• Add imageScale property to ImageDecoder class that returns scale to be used when creating UIImage (iOS, tvOS, watchOS only)
• Wrap each iteration in ProcessorComposition in an autoreleasepool

Nuke 1.2

Nov 15, 2015

• #20 Add preheating for UITableView (see ImagePreheatControllerForTableView class)
• #41 Enhanced tvOS support thanks to @joergbirkhold
• #39 UIImageView: ImageLoadingView extension no available on tvOS
• Add factory method for creating session tasks in DataLoader
• Improved documentation

Nuke 1.1.1

Oct 30, 2015

• #35 ImageDecompressor now uses 32 bpp, 8 bpc, CGImageAlphaInfo.PremultipliedLast pixel format which adds support for images in an obscure formats, including 16 bpc images.
• Improve docs

Nuke 1.1

Oct 23, 2015

• #25 Add tvOS support
• #33 Add app extensions support for OSX target (other targets were already supported)

Nuke 1.0

Oct 18, 2015

• #30 Add new protocols and extensions to make it easy to add full featured image loading capabilities to custom UI components. Here's how it works:

extension MKAnnotationView: ImageDisplayingView, ImageLoadingView {
    // That's it, you get default implementation of all the methods in ImageLoadingView protocol
    public var nk_image: UIImage? {
        get { return self.image }
        set { self.image = newValue }
    }
}

• #30 Add UIImageView extension instead of custom UIImageView subclass
• Back to the Mac! All new protocol and extensions for UI components (#30) are also available on a Mac, including new NSImageView extension.
• #26 Add getImageTaskWithCompletion(_:) method to Manager
• Add essential documentation
• Add handy extensions to ImageResponse

Nuke 0.x

Nuke 0.5.1

Oct 13, 2015

Nuke is now available almost everywhere. Also got rid of CocoaPods subspecs.

New Supported Platforms

• CocoaPods, Nuke, watchOS
• CocoaPods, Nuke, OSX
• CocoaPods, NukeAlamofirePlugin, watchOS
• CocoaPods, NukeAlamofirePlugin, OSX
• Carthage, Nuke, watchOS
• Carthage, Nuke, OSX
• Carthage, NukeAlamofirePlugin, iOS
• Carthage, NukeAlamofirePlugin, watchOS
• Carthage, NukeAlamofirePlugin, OSX

Repo Changes

• Remove Nuke/Alamofire subspec, move sources to separate repo Nuke-Alamofire-Plugin
• Remove Nuke/GIF subspec, move sources to separate repo Nuke-AnimatedImage-Plugin

Code Changes

• #9, #19 ImageTask now has a closure for progress instead of NSProgress
• Rename ImageLoadingDelegate to ImageLoadingManager
• Add ImageLoaderDelegate with factory method to construct image decompressor, and shouldProcessImage(_:) method
• Make ImageRequest extensions public
• Make ImageTask constructor public; Annotate abstract methods.

Nuke 0.5

Oct 9, 2015

This is a pre-1.0 version, first major release which is going to be available soon.

Major

• #18 ImageTask can now be suspended (see suspend() method). Add suspendLoadingForImageTask(_:) method to ImageLoading protocol
• #24 ImageRequest can now be initialized with NSURLRequest. ImageDataLoading imageDataTaskWithURL(_:progressHandler:completionHandler:) method changed to imageDataTaskWithRequest(_:progressHandler:completionHandler:). First parameter is ImageRequest, return value change from NSURLSessionDataTask to NSURLSessionTask.
• ImageLoader no longer limits number of concurrent NSURLSessionTasks (which had several drawbacks)
• Add base ImagePreheatingController class
• Multiple preheating improvements: significantly simplified implementation; visible index paths are now subtracted from preheat window; performance improvements.

Minor

• BUGFIX: When subscribing to an existing NSURLSessionTask user was receiving progress callback with invalid totalUnitCount
• Add public equivalentProcessors(lhs:rhs:) -> Bool function that works on optional processors
• Add essential documentation

Nuke 0.4

Oct 4, 2015

Major

• Make ImageLoading protocol and ImageLoader class public
• Make ImageManager cachedResponseForRequest(_:) and storeResponse(_:forRequest:) methods public
• Make ImageRequestKey class and ImageRequestKeyOwner protocol public
• Remove unused ImageManaging and ImagePreheating protocols

Minor

• #13 BUGFIX: Crash on 32-bit iOS simulator on Mac with 16Gb+ of RAM (@RuiAAPeres)
• BUGFIX: Processing operation might not get cancelled in certain situations
• ImageProcessing protocol now provides default implementation for isEquivalentToProcessor(_:) method including separate implementation for processors that also conform to Equatable protocol.
• Add identifier: Int property to ImageTask
• ImageRequestKey now relies on Hashable and Equatable implementation provided by NSObject
• ImageMemoryCaching protocol now works with ImageRequestKey class

Plumbing

• Adopt multiple Swift best practices (tons of them in fact)
• ImageManager is now fully responsible for memory caching and preheating, doesn't delegate any work to ImageLoader (simplifies its implementation and limits dependencies)
• Remove ImageRequestKeyType enum
• Rename ImageManagerLoader to ImageLoader
• Simply ImageManagerLoader (now ImageLoader) implementation
• Add multiple unit tests

Nuke 0.3.1

Sep 22, 2015

#10 Fix Carthage build

Nuke 0.3

Sep 21, 2015

• ImageTask now acts like a promise
• ImageManager.shared is now a property instead of a method
• ImageTask progress is now created lazily
• Add maxConcurrentTaskCount to ImageManagerConfiguration
• Move taskWithURL method to ImageManaging extension
• Add ImagePreheating protocol
• Multiple improvements across the board

Nuke 0.2.2

Sep 20, 2015

• Add limited Carthage support (doesn't feature FLAnimatedImage and Alamofire integration yet, you'll have to stick with CocoaPods for that)
• ImageTask resume() and cancel() methods now return Self
• ImageTask completion property is now public
• Minor implementation improvements

Nuke 0.2.1

Sep 19, 2015

• Add ImageCollectionViewPreheatingController (yep)
• Add Image Preheating Guide
• Add preheating demo

Nuke 0.2

Sep 18, 2015

Major

• Optional Alamofire integration via 'Nuke/Alamofire' subspec
• Optional FLAnimatedImage integration via 'Nuke/GIF' subspec
• More concise API
• Add image filters to ImageRequest
• Add ImageManaging protocol
• Add ImageDecoderComposition
• Add ImageProcessorComposition
• watchOS
• Add convenience functions that forward calls to the shared manager

Minor

• Use ErrorType
• Add removeAllCachedImages method
• ImageRequest userInfo is now Any? so that you can pass anything including closures
• ImageResponseInfo now has userInfo: Any? property
• ImageResponseInfo is now a struct
• CachedImageResponse renamed to ImageCachedResponse; userInfo is now Any?
• Multiple improvements across the board

Nuke 0

Mar 11, 2015

• Initial commit