4.0.0

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES ⚠

• Dropped support for node.js 8 👋

Features

• Suggest matching commands (#1763)
• Updated web-ext lint to use addons-linter v1.19.0:
  • Imported Firefox 71 APIs schema (#2892)
  • Imported Firefox 72 APIs schema (#2964)
  • Updated list of known libraries
  • See all addons-linter changes: 1.14.0...1.19.0

Bug Fixes

• web-ext sign:
  • Fixed command timeout (fixed upstream in sign-addon v2) (#1773)
• web-ext run:
  • Fixed --start-url regression on multiple urls (#1707)
• web-ext run Firefox Desktop:
  • Enabled by default visibility of extension pages and content scripts logs in the BrowserConsole (#1725)
  • Reset browser.link.open_newwindow when running Firefox desktop (#1766)
• web-ext run Chromium Desktop:
  • Fixed intermittent Chromium extension runner startup failure on MacOS (#1779, #1796)
  • Removed default '--mute-audio' flag for chromium (#1775)

See all changes: 3.2.0...4.0.0

3.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Increased web-ext sign default timeout (#1748)

See all changes: 3.2.0...3.2.1

3.2.0

Features

• web-ext run --target chromium can now be used to run a WebExtension on Chromium-based browsers (by default web-ext will search and run Google Chrome, --chromium-binary BINARY_PATH can be used to run a specific Chromium-based browser, including Brave, Edge, Opera or Vivaldi) (#1392)
• web-ext commands are now showing a code frame when parsing manifest.json or messages.json files fails (thanks to parse-json dependency updated to v5)
• Updated web-ext lint to use addons-linter version 1.14.0:
  • Imported Firefox 70 APIs schema
  • Imported Firefox 69 APIs schema
  • Updated mdn-browser-compat-data to v.0.0.94
  • Support linting for all icons in manifest.json (#2677)
  • Support linting CRX3 files (#2621)
  • Limit extension id to 255 chars max to match AMO limit on submissions (#2643)
  • See all addons-linter changes: 1.10.0...1.14.0

Bug Fixes

• web-ext now strips the UTF-8 BOM before parsing manifest.json/messages.json (#1712, closes #1013)
• web-ext run is now choosing a random free tcp port for the Firefox Desktop remote debugging server (#1669, closes #1509), use web-ext run --verbose ... if you need to know which port Firefox Desktop is listening on
• Updated dependencies:
  • yargs v13.3.0 (#1658)
  • Changed npm dependency from opn to open (#1715)
  • Changed npm dependency from require-uncached to import-fresh (#1691)
  • node-notifier v6 (#1710)
  • source-map-support v0.5.13 (#1671)

See all changes: 3.1.1...3.2.0

3.1.1

Bug Fixes

• Added explicit validation of the choices supported by the --target option (#1644) (739aa52)
• Fixed regression on supporting multiple values after --ignore-files/-i (#1652) (ff0ffa5)
• Updated dependencis:
  • fx-runner to v1.0.11 (e2537d9), fixes #1659 (npm audit failure, security advisor related lodash dependency)
  • update-notifier to v3.0.1 (#1646) (72bb28c)

See all changes: 3.1.0...3.1.1

3.1.0

Features

• Added a new --arg/--args web-ext run CLI option to pass additional flags to Firefox binary
  (#1563) (44114ee)
• Added support for --pref CLI option in "web-ext run" for Android (3ad3485)
• Updated web-ext lint to use addons-linter version 1.10.0
  • Imported Firefox 67 APIs schema (mozilla/addons-linter#2572)
  • Imported Firefox 68 APIs schema (mozilla/addons-linter#2624)
  • See all addons-linter changes: 1.6.1...1.10.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed incompatibility with some old android versions, by allowing comma as separator when checking permissions via adb (f187d76)
• Normalized default_locale before use (#1637) (805b617), closes 1632
• Restored default value for "browser.link.open_newwindow" about:config pref on Firefox for Android (b2aed74), closes #1592
• Stop bundling dependencies with slashes (#1634) (fd336bb), closes #1629
• Updated dependencies: adbkit to v2.11.1, camelcase to version 5.3.1, debounce to version 1.2.0, decamelize to version 3.2.0, git-rev-sync to version 1.12.0, multimatch to version 4, node-notifier to version 5.4.0, opn to version 5.5.0, require-uncached to version 2.0.0, source-map-support to version 0.5.11, update-notifier to version 3, watchpack to version 1.6.0, yargs to v13.2.4, source-map-support to v0.5.12, strip-json-comments to v3, tmp to v0.1.0

See all changes: 3.0.0...3.1.0

3.0.0

This is the first web-ext version that officially requires nodejs >= 8.

Features

• Updated web-ext lint to use addons-linter version 1.6.1 (#1503) (1e500f2)
  • Imported Firefox 66.0b3 APIs schema (mozilla/addons-linter#2419)
  • Imported Firefox 65.0b4 APIs schema (mozilla/addons-linter#2325)
  • Detect API and manifest key incompatibilities with strict_min_version using mdn-browser-compat-data
    (mozilla/addons-linter#1493) mozilla/addons-linter#2290
  • addons-linter rules do not ignore files and folders with a leading dot anymore (mozilla/addons-linter#2316)
• See all addons-linter changes: 1.4.1...1.6.1

Other Fixes

• Updated npm packages which could be affected by vulnerabilities and raise errors on npm audit:
  fx-runner updated to version 1.0.10 (cf1dd31)
• Deprecated support for nodejs 6 (#1490) (e5a73d9)
• Upgraded project development environment to Babel 7 and Webpack 4 (#1505) (5d2dfb4)

See all changes: 2.9.3...3.0.0

2.9.3

This is going to be the last web-ext version still compatible with nodejs 6 👋.

Features

• Added release channel as optional sign parameter (simple test) (#1400) (942c308)
• Updated web-ext lint to use addons-linter to version 1.4.1 (#1407) (4eb7ca0)
  • Added support for browser_specific_settings as an alias for the applications manifest key (mozilla/addons-linter#2280)
  • Added new linting rules for the validation of static themes (mozilla/addons-linter#2271, mozilla/addons-linter#2051)
• See all addons-linter changes: 1.3.8...1.4.1

See all changes: 2.9.2...2.9.3

2.9.2

Features

• Updated web-ext lint to use addons-linter 1.3.8 (#1395) (051e10f):
  • Imported Firefox 63 API schemas
  • Imported Firefox 64 API schemas
  • See all addons-linter changes: 1.3.1...1.3.8

Bug Fixes

• firefox-android: Added support for RDB abstract sockets (#1391) (46f0cfe), which fixes web-ext run issues with connecting to the remote debugging server on Firefox for Android 63 (and Firefox For Android Beta 64)
• Fixed support of named profiles and --keep-profile-changes in web-ext run (#1149) (c85aa6e), closes #932

See all changes: 2.9.1...2.9.2

2.9.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue with loading locale JSON files which include single-line comments (#1361)

See all changes: 2.9.0...2.9.1

2.9.0

Features

• Updated web-ext lint to use addons-linter 1.3.1 (#1362) (088ba87),
  See addons-linter version 1.2.7, 1.3.0 and 1.3.1:
  • Added basic support for WebExtensions dictionaries
  • WebExtensions API Schemas updated up to Firefox 62b15
  • Added support for ES6 modules

Bug Fixes

• Fixed lags due to large amount of warnings logged in the console when javascript.options.strict is set to true (#1357) (dfad256, closes #1355)
• Update firefox-profile to version 1.2.0 (#1359) (0731209, closes #1358)

See all changes: 2.8.0...2.9.0