What's new on Cloudsmith

Good news! When you're embedding version badges elsewhere, you'll probably have noticed that services like GitHub like to cache them for an excruciatingly long time*, often well beyond the lifetime of the package version itself. That changes today, along with a stylish (yes, stylish, not just style) update:

Couple of things to note:

• The cache TTL (Time-To-Live) time has been reduced from 86400 seconds (1 day) to 300 seconds (5 mins).
• You can now generate badges for Docker images that have a version (non-hashref) assigned to them.
• The latest version badges will now show a "(latest)" prefix; you can turn this off via "show_latest=false".
• You can now customise the appearance of the badge (see below for more details).
• We'll now generate a (much) nicer "version not found" badge if a package or version isn't found.

Tweaking the badge appearance:

• Figure out how you want to tweak it by looking at the official shields attributes.
• Find the query string in the snippet (near the question mark), and add <attribute>=<value> to it.
• Don't forget to put an ampersand between your new value and the next part of the string.

For example, why not go for a wild and crazy alternative colour badge?