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Release notes

Notable changes in each release of fabr. The CLI (@fabr-build/cli), the engine (@fabr-build/core) and the JavaScript plugin (@fabr-build/js) are released together and share a version number.

Fabr 0.2.1

@fabr-build/core:

  • include paths may now glob (include lib/**/*.fabr;).
  • Cap maximum concurrent connections + executing processes.
  • New ‘fetch’ download source for arbitrary http/https fetching.
  • Enable automatic extraction and traversal of archive files.
  • Add support for bash extended globs (eg !(expr) ).
  • Add support for default targets and default target properties.
  • Add support for package renaming using -> rename syntax.
  • Add repository_group target for adding multiple scoped repositories and package overrides.
  • Detect a plugin that loads its own nested copy of @fabr-build/core (a broken install) and report it clearly.
  • Allow rename from wildcard to fixed name (if matched once only)
  • Fix: generate command names resolved incorrectly.
  • Fix: remove excessive synchronous mkdirs
  • Fix: sync targets being unavailable to other build steps.

@fabr-build/js:

  • Add a jest compatibility test runner (JS_TEST_RUNNER = @fabr-build/js-tools/jest-runner;)
  • Generated package.json now strips build-only fields (devDependencies, scripts, …) from an imported manifest, and emits array metadata (keywords, os, cpu) as JSON arrays.
  • Add support for package aliases in external dependencies.
  • Add resources (copied as-is) inputs to js_package.
  • Add ability to use package members as bundle entry points (like scripts)
  • Add ts/experimental_decorators + ts/emit_decorator_metadata flags and cover the rest of the strict flags.
  • Emitting below es2015 now also automatically enables downlevelIteration
  • Handle package resolution edge cases with missing specified versions.
  • Make esModuleInterop: true by default; ts/no_es_module_interop to disable.
  • Revise MVS resolution to drop the ‘independent major versions’ concept we accidentally imported from Go.
  • Generate resolution repair lists on resolution failures.
  • Readd es* flags as source version dependency flags.
  • Drop lightningcss; esbuild now handles css modules directly.
  • Fix TS source importing local references using full package path.
  • Fix esbuild resolver erroring on survivable misses.
  • Fix sass errors to report positions in the original sources via source maps.
  • Fix assorted dependency resolution issues.
  • Fix creating hardlinks in NPM publish tarballs (rejected by NPM)

Fabr 0.1.0

  • First release - fully self hosting, with general support for JavaScript and TypeScript.