User blog comment:Harbumz/Introducing Vignette, Wikia's New Thumbnailer/@comment-3328029-20150213145640

That explains why I've been having weird issues with images being blank before purging a page. And glad to hear this, should make using images in certain dev scripts / templates much easier.

And I've been seeing Vignette for weeks if not months; did you just recently add the new format for the links, or is this just the official news post about this?