v2.30 (January 2021 #1)

Welcome to gatsby@2.30.0 release (January 2021 #‎1)

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Key highlights of this release:

• Query on Demand and Lazy Images: Generally available - improves gatsby develop bootup time
• Server Side Rendering (SSR) in development — helps you find and fix many build errors in development. We're starting a partial release of this feature to 5% of users.
• gatsby-plugin-sass v3 - use the latest sass-loader and Dart Sass by default
• Image transformations up to 30% faster

And several impactful updates in the new gatsby-plugin-image (beta):

• AVIF support - enjoy next-gen image format
• Support remote static images - download, transform and optimize remote images with a single line

Also, check out notable bugfixes.

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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