September 7th, 2026

New

Improved

Fixed

Alpha mattes and matte-quality headers

Alpha mattes. channels=alpha now returns the real grayscale alpha matte, and channels=rgb is accepted as documented, returning an opaque image on a white background by default.

Matte-quality headers. Every response includes X-Matte-Confidence and X-Matte-Ambiguous-Ratio, heuristic signals you can use to flag results that may need review, alongside X-Image-Width and X-Image-Height.

SDK updates. The JavaScript (@poof-bg/js) and Python (poofbg) SDKs are updated with the new channel option, matte metadata and corrected size presets.