Now You Can Have Shorter Image File Names with Hugo

Until recently, when Hugo processed images, you would have ended up with huge file names, like this:

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I always had to try to add image file names as short as possible, so I wouldn’t make that “snake” even bigger.

Good news, though! With the release of version 0.131.0, the images processed by Hugo will get shorter file names because now they use xxHash to create the image file hashes.

If you want to benefit from the new feature, you must upgrade to that version or up.

So, are the image file names short now? I wouldn’t say short, but definitely a lot shorter. Here’s an example of the new hash used:

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Compared to the one above, it’s pretty short.

That’s a Wrap

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