7.0.0

⚠️ BREAKING CHANGES ⚠️

• web-ext npm package is now a pure ESM package (#2405), and so it breaks backward compatibility for requiring web-ext from nodejs CommonJS modules. See Using web-ext in NodeJS code README section for some more updated details about the web-ext APIs exported as web-ext ES Modules.

• Dropped support for NodeJS 12 👋

Features

• web-ext lint: Updated to use addons-linter v5.7.0 (#2400, #2404, #2425)
  • Imported Firefox 99.0b8, Firefox 100 and Firefox 101.0b6 API Schema data
  • Updated @mdn/browser-compat-data to v5
  • Added detection and reporting of privileged permissions and properties based on the extension manifest.json file
  • Allow wasm-unsafe-eval keyword in the custom extension CSP
  • See all addons-linter changes: 4.14.0...5.7.0
• web-ext lint: Added a new --privileged CLI flag to enable privileged extensions linting mode (#2398)

Bug Fixes

• Dependencies updates:
  • camelcase to v7 (#2414, #2419)
  • chrome-launcher to v0.15.1 (#2410)
  • debounce to v1.2.1 (#2190)
  • decamelize to v6 (#2325, #2420)
  • fs-extra to v10 (#2237)
  • multimatch to v6 (#2421)
  • node-notifier to v10 (#2194, #2255)
  • open to v8 (#2175)
  • parse-json to v6 (#2422)
  • promise-toolbox to v0.21.0 (#2415)
  • sign-addon to v5 (#2423, #2426)
  • source-map-support to v0.5.21 (#2411)
  • strip-bom to v5 (#2224)
  • strip-json-comments to v4 (#2301)
  • watchpack to v2.4.0 (#2253)
  • ws to v8 (#2270, #2288)
  • yargs to v17 (#2235)
  • @devicefarmer/adbkit to v3.2.3 (#2397)

See all changes 6.8.0...7.0.0

6.8.0

Features

• web-ext lint: Updated to use addons-linter v4.14.0 (#2386)
  • Imported Firefox 98.0b10 API schema
  • Updated browser-compat-data
  • Fixed TypeError raised in opendialog-remote-uri rule
  • See all addons-linter changes: 4.9.0...4.14.0

Bug Fixes

• web-ext run:
  • Improved debounce to prevent multiple extension reloads on consecutive file changes (#2385) (6c53a01)
• Replaced deprecated dependency event-to-promise with promise-toolbox/fromEvent (#2367) (2cfd843)

See all changes 6.7.0...6.8.0

6.7.0

Features

• web-ext lint: Updated to use addons-linter v4.9.0 (#2374, #2376)
  • Imported Firefox 96.0b7 and 97.0b8 API schema
  • Updated known libraries hashes (added new DOMPurify versions)
  • Updated browser-compat-data
  • Improved memory usage and performance on linting big js files
  • See all addons-linter changes: 4.4.0...4.9.0

Bug Fixes

• web-ext lint: Fixed unexpected linting failures triggered by conflicting eslint versions
  when web-ext is included as a dev dependency (#2245, fixed in #2374)
• web-ext run -t chromium: Applied fix to reload extensions already enabled (#2365)
• web-ext sign: Updated dependency sign-addon to v3.11.0 (#2377)

See all changes 6.6.0...6.7.0

6.6.0

Features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter v4.4.0 (#2346, #2350)
  • Imported Firefox 94.0b8 and Firefox 95.0b8 API schema
  • Updated browser-compat-data
  • Updated to use eslint v8, which enables ECMAScript 2022 syntax (e.g. public field declaration and top-level await)
  • See all addons-linter changes: 3.20.0...4.4.0

Bug Fixes

• web-ext run:
  • fixed issues related to the nodejs 17 dns resolution behavior on systems where localhost is resolved to an ipv6 address (#2337)
  • fixed issue with removing temporary profile on nodejs <= 14.4 (#2344, saadtazi/firefox-profile-js#128)
  • deps: update dependency fx-runner to v1.2.0 (#2351)
• Fixed yargs module resolution issue on yarn 3.x + pnp (#2348)
• Wrap web-ext usage output at terminal width (#2329)

See all changes: 6.5.0...6.6.0

6.5.0

Features

• web-ext lint: Updated to use addons-linter v3.20.0 (#2318)
  • Imported Firefox 93.0b7 API schema (mozilla/addons-linter#3919)
  • Updated browser compat data (mozilla/addons-linter#3918, mozilla/addons-linter#3930)
  • Detect and report INVALID_ZIPFILE linting error on zip files with invalid chars in filenames (mozilla/addons-linter#3940)
  • Report RESTRICTED_PERMISSION linting error on permissions that requires strict_min_version set to a specific Firefox version
    (e.g. proxy permissions requires strict_min_version set to 91.1.0 or above)
  • See all addons-linter changes: 3.14.0...3.20.0

Bug Fixes

• Updated dependencies:
  • sign-addon to v3.9.0 (#2327)
  • firefox-profile to v4.2.1 (#2317)
  • source-map-support to v0.5.20 (#2316)

See all changes: 6.4.0...6.5.0

6.4.0

Features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter v3.14.0 (#2308, #2315)
  • Imported Firefox 92.0b7 (mozilla/addons-linter#3872, mozilla/addons-linter#3888)
  • Updated browser compat data (mozilla/addons-linter#3870, mozilla/addons-linter#3887)
  • See all addons-linter changes: 3.12.0...3.14.0

Bug Fixes

• web-ext run -t firefox-android: Fixed issue on running recent Firefox for Android builds (also known with the internal code name "Fenix") due to the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE android permission not being granted (#2304)

• web-ext sign: updated to use sign-addon v3.8.0 (#2313)

See all changes: 6.3.0...6.4.0

6.3.0

Features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter v3.12.0 (#2274)
  • Imported Firefox 91.0b5 API Schema (mozilla/addons-linter#3844)
  • Imported Firefox 90.0b5 API Schema (mozilla/addons-linter#3763)
  • Updated browser compat data (mozilla/addons-linter#3775, mozilla/addons-linter#3809, mozilla/addons-linter#3833, mozilla/addons-linter#3857)
  • See all addons-linter changes: 3.8.0...3.12.0

Bug Fixes

• web-ext sign: updated to use sign-addon 3.7.0 (#2290)

See all changes: 6.2.0...6.3.0

6.2.0

Bug Fixes

• Removed npm engine compatibility restriction < npm v7 (#2271)

  • Fixes EBADENGINE warning logged when installing web-ext using npm v7

• Updated dependencies:

  • ws to v7.4.6 (#2250) - ⚠ This update include a fix for a ReDoS vulnerability ⚠
  • chrome-launcher to v0.14.0 (#2252)
  • sign-addon to v3.5.0 (#2233)

Features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter v3.8.0 (#2234, #2258)
  • Imported Firefox 89.0b8 API schema (mozilla/addons-linter#3710)
  • Updated browser compat data (mozilla/addons-linter#3688, mozilla/addons-linter#3698, mozilla/addons-linter#3708, mozilla/addons-linter#3736, mozilla/addons-linter#3748, mozilla/addons-linter#3758)
  • See all addons-linter changes: 3.2.0...3.8.0

See all changes: 6.1.0...6.2.0

6.1.0

Bug Fixes

• web-ext run -t firefox: Fixed installed Firefox lookup on Windows to include both HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE windows registry keys (introduced by updating fx-runner dependency to v1.1.0 - #2227)

• web-ext run -t firefox-android: Fixed issue when using web-ext to run an extension on Android 11 (#2200)

• web-ext build: Fixed filename sanitizing issue when using a --filename option including arbitrary manifest property to be interpolated (#2222, fixes #2119)

Features

• web-ext lint: Updated to use addons-linter v3.2.0 (#2204)
  • Imported Firefox 88.0b5 API schema (mozilla/addons-linter#3651)
  • Updated browser compat data (mozilla/addons-linter#​3664, mozilla/addons-linter#​3628, mozilla/addons-linter#​​3609)
  • Updated parsing logic to prefer parsing as ESM module any js scripts with .mjs (mozilla/addons-linter#​3641, fixes mozilla/addons-linter#​3639)
  • Updated linting message collected on js parsing errors to include more details (mozilla/addons-linter#​3556)
  • See all addons-linter changes: 2.21.0...3.2.0

See all changes: 6.0.0...6.1.0

6.0.0

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES ⚠

• Dropped support for node.js 10 👋

• The filename option has been moved in the build options (where it does actually belong), if you were setting the filename option value from a config file you'll need to update the config file:

module.exports = {
  build: { filename: "...." },
};

Bug Fixes

• web-ext build: Moved filename option into the build command options (#2178)

• web-ext sign: Updated sign-addon to v3.3.0 (#2128 / #2153)

• Various dependencies updated to their last released versions: bunyan v1.8.15 (#2114), camelcase v6.2.0 (#2046), decamelize v5 (#2117), firefox-profile v4.1.0 (#2170), fs-extra v9.1.0 (#2132), multimatch v5 (#2048), node-notifier v9 (#2103), open v7.4.2 (#2111 / #2140 / #2158 / #2161), parse-json v5.2.0 (#2005), update-notifier to v5.1.0 (#2063 / #2139), watchpack v2 (#2024), ws v7.4.3 (#2141), yargs v16 (#2015), zip-dir v2 (#2080)

Features

• web-ext run: --watch-file can now be used to watch more than one file (#2125), and --watch-files is now an additional alias for this option (#2182)

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter v2.21.0 (#2087 / #2131 / #2152 / #2162 / #2176 / #2189):

  • Imported Firefox 85.0b5, 86.0b5 and 87.0b6 API schema (mozilla/addons-linter#3538 / mozilla/addons-linter#3562 / mozilla/addons-linter#3598)
  • Updated browser compat data (mozilla/addons-linter#3587 / mozilla/addons-linter#3597)
  • Enabled support for Numeric Separators (mozilla/addons-linter#3543)
  • See all addons-linter changes: 2.13.1...2.21.0

• web-ext does now exports some adb utility methods, they are meant to be used in third party nodejs scripts that are including web-ext as a library (#2116), more details about how to use the newly exported utilities have been added in the "Using web-ext in NodeJS code" section of the README file

See all changes: 5.5.0...6.0.0