v2.26 (November 2020)

Welcome to gatsby@2.26.0 release (November 2020).

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Key highlights of this release:

• New Image Plugin (beta) - access static images without GraphQL, high Lighthouse scores again
• File System Route API - create routes from your data using filename conventions
• New Release Process - more stability and clarity around Gatsby releases
• gatsby-source-contentful v4.0 - new RichText implementation, performance improvements

Other notable changes:

• gatsby-plugin-mdx - performance improvements
• Enable compression in the dev server - speeds up remote previews

Sneak peek to next releases:

• Queries on Demand - improves gatsby develop bootup time
• Experimental: Lazy images in develop
• Documentation Reorganization

Bleeding Edge: Want to try new features as soon as possible? Install gatsby@next and let us know
if you have any issues.

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