8.0.0

What's changed

300+ commits have been written to get this new version 8 out of the door (see link to the full changelog at the bottom). Please take a look at the official documentation to know what has changed but expect some breaking changes.

Specifically, web-ext sign has been heavily refactored. Among other things, you can create new add-ons (not just versions) from the command line now 🎉 Unfortunately, this command is not backward compatible with v7.

While we're keeping the v7 branch around to ease the transition, we will mainly fix bugs and introduce new features in v8.

New contributors

• @zmckenney made their first contribution in #2734
• @uiolee made their first contribution in #2843
• @afonsojramos made their first contribution in #2760
• @lm1 made their first contribution in #2857
• @dotproto made their first contribution in #3111

Full changelog: 7.12.0...8.0.0

7.12.0

📣 We're finalizing web-ext v8 (the next major release), which will use a new AMO API to sign add-ons. Please try it out now by passing the --use-submission-api flag to the sign command in web-ext v7. More information at: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/web-ext-command-reference-v7/#use-submission-api

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features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter to 6.28.0
• web-ext run: fixed a bug related to the use of work profiles on Android devices (backport #2857)

See all changes: 7.11.0...7.12.0

7.11.0

📣 We're finalizing web-ext v8 (the next major release), which will use a new AMO API to sign add-ons. Please try it out now by passing the --use-submission-api flag to the sign command in web-ext v7. More information at: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/web-ext-command-reference/#use-submission-api

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Features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter to 6.21.0
• web-ext run: remove READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission requirement (backport #3018)

See all changes: 7.10.0...7.11.0

7.10.0

📣 We're finalizing web-ext v8 (the next major release), which will use a new AMO API to sign add-ons. Please try it out now by passing the --use-submission-api flag to the sign command in web-ext v7. More information at: https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/develop/web-ext-command-reference/#use-submission-api

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Features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter to 6.20.0
• web-ext run: fixed an issue with Firefox on macOS (#2975) by updating fx-runner to 1.4.0

See all changes: 7.9.0...7.10.0

7.9.0

Features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter 6.19.0 (it was 6.13.0 before)

See all changes: 7.8.0...7.9.0

7.8.0

main changes

Warn web-ext v7 users about upcoming changes to the sign command: as of v8, the
submission API will be used (instead of the signing API) and users will likely
need to take some actions. Users of v7 can already test this upcoming change by
using web-ext sign --use-submission-api.

7.7.0

main changes

• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 6.13.0 (#2870)
• Updated: dependency eslint to 8.48.0 (#2853)

See all changes: 7.6.2...7.7.0

7.6.2

main changes

• Fixed: Android 13 startActivity with correct intent action and category (#2734)

7.6.1

main changes

• Update xml2js and firefox-profile (#2721)

7.6.0

Features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter to 5.32.0 (#2680)
• web-ext sign: add a CLI option to disable the progress bar (#2625)

Bug Fixes

• web-ext run: fix help message to mention "deved" alias for "firefoxdeveloperedition" (#2637)
• Other dependencies updated:
  • @babel/runtime to 7.21.0 (#2648)
  • jose to 4.13.1 (#2660)
  • node-fetch to 3.3.1 (#2666)
  • open to 8.4.2 (#2651)
  • sign-addon to 5.3.0 (#2664)
  • ws to 8.13.0 (#2671)
  • yargs to 17.7.1 (#2654)
  • ... and some other dev dependencies

See all changes: 7.5.0...7.6.0

Note: this will very likely be the last web-ext version that officially supports Node 14.