Change Log
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
Note that references to the Font-Awesome-Pro repository refer to a GitHub repository that is by invitation only. You will get a 404 - Not Found if you do not have access
5.1.0 - 2018-06-20
Minor version upgrade notice: there are some backward-incompatible changes to this release. See the UPGRADING.md guide for more information.
Added
- New Emoji, Design, and Travel category pack
- Another group of requested and commissioned icons
- Version 4 shim for Web Fonts with CSS
- New simplified download and NPM packages
- @fortawesome/fontawesome-free and @fortawesome/fontawesome-pro NPM packages that match what’s available in the CDN and .ZIP files
- Brand icons rev, nimblr, megaport, mailchimp, hornbill, wix, weebly, themeco, squarespace, aws, shopware
- API method toHtml() for converting abstract objects to HTML
- API method counter() to generate Layers Counters
- API method watch() to configure MutationObserver and watch DOM for icon changes and additions
Changed
- Relocating sponsor data to a separate sponsors.yml
- Updated teamspeak brand icon
- No more default exports in the CommonJS/ES packages (anything installed from NPM)
- Greatly improved performance and rendering of CSS pseudo-elements with SVG and JavaScript
- Configuration of SVG with JavaScript can now be done with attributes on the script tag
- SVG with JavaScript pseudo-elements now match syntax (font-family, font-weight) of Web Fonts with CSS
Fixed
- Tree shaking of all NPM packages by default
- Alignment of the book-open and dice-six icon
- Correcting creative-commons
- Incorrect license on the fontawesome-common-types package
- Improve ligatures that share a base name with another ligature
- Correcting solid style of the digital-tachograph icon
- Prevent duplicating classes in some scenarios with SVG with JavaScript
- Duplicate insertion of CSS when insertCss() method was called
- Missing TypeScript definitions for the free-brands-svg-icons package
5.0.13 - 2018-05-10
Added
- 68 icons to Free and 165 to Pro of the most requested icons in Font Awesome
5.0.12 - 2018-05-03
Added
- A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away some icons were added
Fixed
- Renamed the r brand to r-project to prevent ligature collision with the “r” glyph
5.0.11 - 2018-05-01
Added
- 16 new user icons
- Full set of Creative Commons symbols
- Regular style comment-dots used for v4 comment-alt in shim
- Top 6 brand icons: r, ebay, mastodon, researchgate, keybase, teamspeak
Changed
- Revised slider icons FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#11872
- Make desktop typeface easier to find in apps that support ligature previews
Fixed
- Remove errant XML entity from the lastfm-square icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#12847
- Correcting paths in cloud icons FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#920
5.0.10 - 2018-04-10
Added
- New java brand icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#386
Changed
- Updating depth of dna icon
- Updating pied-piper, adding pied-piper-hat
Fixed
- Correcting path errors on readme icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#12754
- Light style of lamp icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#12725
5.0.9 - 2018-03-27
Added
- New Chat icon pack and category
- New Charity icon pack and category
- New Moving icon pack and category
- New icons hands and hand-holding
Changed
- Updated flipboard, readme, and houzz brand icon
- Making all solid icons in the medical icon pack free
- Updated hand-holding-box and hand-receiving in the Light style
Fixed
- Missing box-sizing CSS property for fa-layers-counter
5.0.8 - 2018-03-01
Fixed
- OTF font files missing ligatures for Pro styles FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#12486 FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#1034
5.0.7 - 2018-02-26
Added
- New Logistics category
- New Medical category
- Individual SVG files available from the Font Awesome CDN
- Additional search terms
Changed
- Apple brand icon update FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#12337
- Disable mutation observers with fontawesome.noAuto() is called
- License information now references https URL scheme
Fixed
- Missing TypeScript names FortAwesome/react-fontawesome#83
- Adding categories metadata FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#12034
- TypeScript improvement for fontawesome.layer()
- Correcting a melting, wobbling, weird-looking whistle
5.0.6 - 2018-01-25
Fixed
- @fortawesome/fontawesome-pro-light missing submodules
5.0.5 - 2018-01-25
Added
- New Sports category
- New Chess category
- Added brand icons for flipboard, php, quinscape, and hips
Fixed
- Sass and Less mixin fa-icon() now uses ems instead of percentage
- Corrected misspelling of “Alternate” in category labels
- Improved TypeScript definitions for @fortawesome/fontawesome
- Server-side rendering was failing due to DOM-specific object access
- SVG attributes “data-fa-processed” renamed to “data-fa-i2svg”, only applies if rendered with i2svg() method
5.0.4 - 2018-01-10
Changed
- Updating all NPM package READMEs
Fixed
- Improving TypeScript exports and fixing some incorrect definitions
- TypeScript error when importing entire style Fort-Awesome/Font-Awesome#12072
- Pseudo-elements erasing text contents in parent container Fort-Awesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#11995
- fa-layers-text misalignment when using Bootstrap Fort-Awesome/Font-Awesome#11871
5.0.3 - 2018-01-08
Added
- Adding elementor, youtube-square brand icons
- Adding window-minimize to the Free subset
- TypeScript support for all NPM packages
Fixed
- Corrected uneven spacing in university, address-book, address-card, id-badge, id-card, mouse-pointer, phone-volume, portrait, user-alt, user-circle, user-md, user-plus, user-times, user , users
- Corrected uneven spacing in brand icons behance-square, dashcube, discourse, ember, erlang, fort-awesome, js-square, laravel, mix, patreon, palfed, phoenix-framework, node-js, skyatlas, stack-exchange, stripe, viber, weixin, yahoo , yoast
5.0.2 - 2017-12-19
Added
- Adding amazon-pay, cc-amazon-pay, korvue, ethereum brand icons
- Adding stopwatch to Free version
Changed
- Ligatures now support capital case, all caps, and title case
Fixed
- NPM packages now behave the same way as CDN and browser-specific packages FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#727 FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#896 FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#891
- Icon doesn’t change when pseudo-element content changes FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#839
- Invalid XML in sprites FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#927
- Incorrect version in Sass and Less variable files
5.0.1 - 2017-12-08
Added
- Adding font-awesome-flag, lock-open, redo-alt, sync-alt, undo-alt to the Free version
- New NPM packages
fontawesome-free-webfonts and fontawesome-pro-webfonts - Adding old icon names to search terms for renamed icons
- Extensive metadata added to the
advanced-options directory - Adding stripe-s brand icon
- Adding typo3 brand icon
Changed
- Updated dropbox brand icon to match new branding guidelines
- Updated firefox brand icon
- Updated strava brand icon
- OTF font file now include a space character
Fixed
- OTF font file now supports different styles in Windows
- OTF font file “j” character now has correct space on the right
- Modifying the
class attribute on an existing <svg> allows you to change the icon
5.0.0 - 2017-12-01
Added
Changed
- CSS vertical-align now “em”-based instead of percentage making it more consistent
- fa-ul width now closer to default browser size
This release includes breaking changes
Added
- Brand icons: gitter, cc-stripe, stripe, hooli, aviato, strava, ember, angular, font-awesome-flag
- Icons compress-alt and expand-alt
- Adding calendar to Font Awesome 5 Free
- SASS function that makes it easier to use variables FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#824
Changed
- BREAKING Renamed icon composition to mask (“data-fa-compose” becomes “data-fa-mask”)
- BREAKING Re-organized directory structure to match upcoming documentation
- BREAKING Font Awesome styles inserted into the
<head> will now precede other link and style definitions - BREAKING
fontawesome.text and fontawesome.icon now use styles param instead of style - Updated sizing for twitter, discord, youtube
- Class fa-li now respects line-height and has new recommended markup (see included docs)
Fixed
- Duplicate
style tags being added in the head FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#858 - Error with icon composition/masking that caused a confusing error message
- An error when using pseudo elements and the element is empty (Array.reduce error)
- Icons not being replaced with SVG if the text content is not empty
Added
- Ligature support in the OTF font
- Vue.js brand icon
- Sass and Less brand icons
- Autoprefixer brand icon
- Individual icon imports in icon packages FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#808
Changed
- Better poo eyes
- Renamed HTML status classes to
fontawesome-i2svg-active, fontawesome-i2svg-pending, fontawesome-i2svg-complete - HTML status class for active is added only after the first batch of icon replacements occur
- Added mention of newer versions of iOS in documentation FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#810
Fixed
- Performance and missing features with mutation observer (should fix FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#813)
- Incorrect handling of icon class and style attributes when using autoReplace = ‘nest’ FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#809
- Pseudo elements not added or removed when class mutations occur FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#821
Added
- Node.js brand icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#779
- React brand icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#780
- OSI brand icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#748
- Add a class to the html element when icon replacement is complete FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#778
- Add support for symbols in API including ability to name the symbol
- Use CSS pseudo elements (:before and :after) to make trigger SVG replacements
Changed
- Switched the locations of fork and knife in utensils-alt FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#466
- Updated the AWS brand icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#735
- Updated Apple App Store icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#728
Fixed
- Do not throw an error if icon is missing when calling icon() method in API
- Ensure that unicode values do not change between releases
- Version field is missing in fontawesome-pro-brands/package.json FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#781
- Repeated commenting out of fa-layers when i2svg is called FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#788
- Title not showing up correctly for SVG FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#786
Added
- Brand icons: accusoft, ns8, uniregistry
Fixed
- Link to the npm package in the docs FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#729
- Incorrect reference to fontawesome-pro.js in docs
Changed
- New Bitbucket logo FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#720
- Modifed the star icons to match use case better FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#710
- Switched names of css3 and css3-alt to reflect correct branding
Fixed
- Correct whitespace with the Visa logo FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#719
- Improve OTF support by passing through FontForge FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#565
- Fonts with “undefined” name FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#711
- Shims will only function if using old prefix of “fa” FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#692
- Added missing “youtube” icon to categories
Added
- Ability to nest the
<svg> tag within the <i> FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#624 - Define icons as symbols and leverage SVG sprites FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#629
- Added alternative CSS3 logo FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#682
Changed
- Power Transforms now execute inside the SVG instead of on the root element
- Filenames have changed to reflect a better division between Font Awesome Free and Pro
Fixed
- More improvements to the version 4 shim FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#673 FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#678 FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#686 FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#687 FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#692
- Animation support for inline SVG now works as expected FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#662
Added
- Ability to flip horizontal and vertical with CSS classes fa-flip-horizontal and fa-flip-vertical
- New film-alt icon that allows for layering other icons
- Microsoft brand
Changed
- New YouTube branding FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#646
Fixed
- Fixed a bunch of shim-related issues
- Cogs off center FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#663
- Corrected icons/categories.yml with canonical names
Added
- Full parity with Font Awesome 4! 616 total core icons in each style
- 297 total brand and logo icons
- Separate CSS file to accompany the SVG Framework FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#627
- Alternative to the dots icon FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#608
- Made window icons consistent FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#611
Fixed
- Production builds not correctly being detected FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#631
Added
- 590 total core icons in each style
- 291 total brand and logo icons
Fixed
- Reduced the size of JS file from 66 to 22 kb
- Regression caused by with web font alignment FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#460
Added
- 583 total core icons in each style
Fixed
- Documentation improvements and fixes FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#586
- Vertical alignment of TTF and OTF fonts FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#460
- The “fa_500px” icon should be named “fa500px” FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#578
Added
- 570 total core icons in each style
- 291 total brand and logo icons
- NPM (ES6, CommonJS, AMD) packages for use with other JavaScript libraries and tools FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#574
- Added a guide to choosing which implementation is best for you FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#532
Changed
- Showing a missing icon is now configurable FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#569
Fixed
- Composition framework now works in browsers that do not support transform-origin FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#564
Added
- 524 total core icons in each style
- 289 total brand and logo icons
- New composition framework FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#537
- Animated indicator if you use an icon that does not exist
Changed
- Basic linting for Sass and Less files
- Add JavaScript guard block to prevent leaking errors
- Add support for automatic accessibility to SVG Framework Layers
Fixed
- Regression where stacks and pulled and bordered were not working in SVG Framework
- SVG sprite example had confusing inline styles FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#549
- Make getting started page more consistent between examples FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#544
- Added missing sizes fa-[6-10], xs, sm FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#546
- Title tag missing in SVG sprites FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#536
Added
- 451 total core icons in each style
- 281 total brand and logo icons
- Less support is back!
- OpenType (.otf) file formats for web fonts
Changed
- Changes the fa-spin animation to go from 0deg to 360deg to eliminate hitch FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#522
- Improved mutation handling FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#517
Fixed
- fa-fw now works correctly with the SVG framework FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#530
- Removed execute bit on some icon files FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#520
Added
- 410 total core icons in each style
- 270 total brand and logo icons
- All new Font Awesome 4 shim file
- Beginnings of a public JS API FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#512
Changed
- Added Firefox ESR and Chrome for Businesses to browser compatibility FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#506
Fixed
- Ensure that SVG title attributes are unique
- Fixed incorrect viewBox sizes FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#492
- Fix chart-area alignment in the solid style FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#508
- Add missing xmlns attributes in some SVGs FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#509
Added
- 228 total brand and logo icons
- New transform framework for sizing, moving, rotating, and flipping icons
- New icon counters
- New layers framework
- New text overlays
- Auto-comments with the original source icons alongside SVG replacements
Changed
- Autoprefixer to correctly add browser prefixes for supported browsers
- Removed browser-specific CSS properties in Sass source files (now relies on autoprefixer)
Fixed
- The rotation on checkmark icons
- Other icon feedback from previous weeks
- Correct fixed width settings to 1.25em (based on the new 16px grid)
- Icons displaying as block instead of inline-block in IE and older Safari
Added
Added
- 95 additional icons; including file types, directional, and some existing and new brand icons
Fixed
- Wrong content type in generated CSS FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#458
- Removal of query string from static resources FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#458
- SVG font ID’s are incorrect in webfont implementation FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#474
Added
- How/When to upgrade from FA4 to FA5 FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#454
Fixed
- Links to SVG files broken in the example files FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#456
- Misnamed icon names in examples FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#445
- Mangled HTML in the Getting Started example FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#442
- Bad grammar and typos FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#443
- fas-arrow-to-top is identical to fas-arrow-to-right FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#423
- Vertical alignment issues with webfont implementation FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#444
- Add browser compatibility tables to demo FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#435
- Remove MAC OS feces from builds FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#437
- TTF naming issues that prevent correct usage/installation FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#450
- Correct CSS for SVG framework stacking, was reversed from normal FortAwesome/Font-Awesome-Pro#452
Added
- 300+ more icons
- Brands pack
- New JavaScript based SVG Framework
- New SVG Sprites based framework
- Source SVGs
- Documentation with a convenient build-in web server
Changed