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

2.8.0

Features

• Added support for negated patterns in --ignore-files (#1348) (065188d), closes #1347
• Supported selection of any given APK when running an extension on Android (#1338) (1cd88a1)
• Updated "web-ext lint" to use addons-linter version 1.2.6 (which fixes mozilla/addons-linter#2108)

See all changes: 2.7.0...2.8.0

2.7.0

Features

• Updated web-ext lint to the Firefox 61 schema. See addons-linter version 1.0.0

Bug Fixes

• Improved web-ext start-up time by lazy loading some modules (#1302) (f9db35b)
• Updated or replaced some npm packages which could be affected by vulnerabilities and raise errors on nsp check / npm audit (#1323):
  • Replaced open npm dependency with opn 5.3.0 (0915b4a)
  • Updated fx-runner to version 1.0.9 (d6d253c)
  • Updated sign-addon to version 0.3.1 (23fc1d8)
• Fixed incompatibility with json-parse-better-errors 1.0.2 (#1303) (00f71a3)

See all changes: 2.6.0...2.7.0

2.6.0

Bug Fixes

• Allowed comments in manifest.json (#1294) (acef712), closes #1285

Features

• Updated web-ext lint to the Firefox 60 schema (680544d and 671e7e8). See addons-linter version 0.40.0 and 0.41.0

See all changes: 2.5.0...2.6.0

2.5.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed web-ext run in Firefox 60.0a1 (2018-03-07) (#1284) (759658b), closes #1282

Features

• Added support to configure web-ext by declaring a webExt object within package.json (#1266) (523767a)

See all changes: 2.4.0...2.5.0

2.4.0

Features

• Update web-ext lint to the Firefox 59 schema. See addons-linter version 0.35.0.

See all changes: 2.3.2...2.4.0