Dicebear

2025-01-04

Back-end

The back-end has been reworked a lot to make the whole framework faster and more efficient. The package now also supports caching to avoid making redundant requests.

A safer way of making requests to avoid hanging indefinitely or raising generic/unnecessary errors has been implemented.

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2024-07-28

Added

* New styles [`dylan`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/start/customization#styles) and [`glass`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/start/customization#styles)
* New modern alternative file formats [`webp`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/start/customization#formats) and [`avif`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/start/customization#formats) (use these instead of `png` or `jp(e)g`)

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2024-07-06

Back-end

* Dicebear version upgrade to 9.x

Improvements

* Added tox for code quality automation

Changed

* Moved style metadata to separate file [`dicebear.metadata.Metadata`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/reference/metadata#variables)

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2024-04-24

Back-end

* Back-end cleanup
* Dicebear version upgrade to 8.x (API bug fixes)

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2024-03-09

Added

* [`styles_metadata`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/reference/models#variables) (models.py) to directly get metadata of every style

Back-end

* Made usage stats opt-in with environment variable [`ENABLE_PYTHON_DICEBEAR_USAGE_STATS`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/start/statistics) set to true

Fixed

* [`notionists`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/start/customization#styles) and [`notionists-neutral`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/start/customization#styles) were not implemented but have been added now

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2023-12-12

Added

* New attribute [`schema`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/reference/avatar#properties) for [`DAvatar`](https://dicebear.vhjan.me/reference/avatar#class-davatar) class

Back-end

* Removed `test` parameter on all functions
* Improved type hinting and imports

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