Upgrade to v1.8.1 or later of fastimage

[nhoizey]

It seems dependency to '> 1.6.4' of fastimage is blocking upgrade to Jekyll 3 if we use the jekyll-assets plugin because it requires fastimage '> 1.8'.

Current version of fastimage is 1.8.1: https://github.com/sdsykes/fastimage/releases

[envygeeks]

It's not just FastImage that needs to be updated, but MiniMagick will need to be updated or you won't be able to use our proxied image resizers as we only support 4+, this is stuck on 3.

[nhoizey]

Ok, so I'm doomed… :-/

[stuntbox]

It seems like this repo hasn't gotten much love for awhile, though I've spotted some furtive attempts to bring it back up to speed. I frankly haven't found anything that comes close to filling this badly-needed gap in our Jekyll site work. What else are folks using these days to fill the image-generation-plus-picture-element gap?

[nhoizey]

There's this other plugin: https://github.com/wildlyinaccurate/jekyll-responsive-image

And also, I have great hopes in Jekyll Assets future: envygeeks/jekyll-assets#172

[Boucherie]

I forked this gem, changed the pessimistic dependency to an optimistic one (~> to (>=), and linked the gemfile request the the forked repo. Can the same be done for minimagick?

[envygeeks]

IIRR there was some API change that happened in MiniMagick. It wasn't drastic, it just required a little bit of thought around how you handled some things. It's been a long time since Jekyll Assets upgraded, and a long time since I seen this ticket. If you wanna update it and post the error you get (if any) I'm sure I'll remember what changed.