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Typescript

• Reverted Component state from read-only to mutable object
• inferno-router typings improved
• type IComponentConstructor removed it was not needed for anything

Typescript

• Fixes an issue where mixing React and Inferno in same application failed to resolve JSX Component type https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/issues/1599 https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/5192eef02bc8e7775da573cac5f11f0e348ae7bc

Inferno

• Added new Component lifecycle methods componentWillMove, componentDidAppear and componentWillDisappear
• Added a warning when rendering links with javascript: URLs https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/7bc376300cea89de28e1368c3dcdf25e4ba4e2c0
• Inferno now uses String.prototype.substring instead of deprecated String.prototype.substr https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/06195ad0c8bf965ba16b4a42f67f836abc8896ab https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/substr
• Removed development bundle warning when Inferno is used in Jest test environment https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/5c017e189c67875516145f3efb56b0a8e6d124f3

Typescript

• Added basic support for JSX Component default props https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/696006c3d817fc4f0af45d422eb78ad6deeb1caa
• Added missing optimization flag https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/pull/1595

Inferno-animation

• inferno-animation is a new package that eases animation work using inferno v8 componentDidAppear and componentWillDisappear hooks to coordinate animations and reduce number of repaints browsers have to do https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/tree/master/packages/inferno-animation https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/pull/1583

Special thanks for improving inferno animations to @jhsware

Inferno-router

• history package has been updated to version 5

Inferno-mobx

• Document details about server side rendering for inferno-mobx https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/d0ed1ca70ef4f81491c037f5a001d86833657a74
• Forward exceptions thrown by render so MobX does not eat them https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/0165ff0b2067a8c94b71e9bc04fce1b571324ee8
• inferno-mobx observer now correctly throws an exception for incompatible components https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/2da4cb66ba2c07a5e3361d360a297feeda3ba201
• Clean up new inferno-mobx examples https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/779f04fd14de3054cd0dcb8610d16b87876b2240
• Added observerPatch to inferno-mobx https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/8b6750fa4143ea9d7283e157daa5ecf719361246

Special thanks for improving inferno-mobx to @Gwenio

Build system and internal changes

• Inferno build system has been improved and is now 13 times faster thanks to @jhsware https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/pull/1558
• Development dependencies have been updated
• Inferno build scripts have been converted to ESM syntax https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/614a1d2b48ccf7633800245beeaebca5d228b1f5
• Removed color.js and colored output from build, because its maintainer created infinite loop on purpose https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/320be7db7541aca2adaddf7c0e603c6ad04b8375 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gh88-3pxp-6fm8
• Removed rollup-plugin-typescript2 https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/4e36aa7fbbbe991e2a61bb4034ae98fa09960e26
• Sinon.Js has been removed https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/0abcc9fc96c5737422f08ae091dd97e67eb618f1
• Benchmarks and Examples have been merged https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/pull/1554 https://infernojs.github.io/inferno/

Breaking changes

• VNodeFlags.Void has been removed https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/c658a41266e97e1a33d65f536c705cc70f5bd997, use null or undefined vNode instead
• Internet Explorer is not actively tested anymore due to Internet Explorer retiring on June 15, 2022 and jasmine v4 has dropped IE support https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine/blob/main/release_notes/4.0.0.md
• inferno-component package has been removed. Component is available in "inferno" main package
• inferno-devtools is discontinued https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/537cb2d343744aa9c81f57a27300c0fa7788ee88
• method findDOMfromVNode is now called findDOMFromVNode
• method isDOMinsideComponent is now called isDOMInsideComponent

inferno

• Fixes performance regression in patch method https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/9dcc1984ec7cbf5c929d006ce250821f99e66512
• Fixes performance regression in unmounting logic https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/1170cea51dddfee16bfe68b06ee759ada491cd27
• Small performance optimization to moveVNodeDOM method https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/7b66a2d4e7b8b9a45daa886126fd39327bae74cb

Breaking change

• inferno-devtools is discontinued https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/537cb2d343744aa9c81f57a27300c0fa7788ee88
• method findDOMfromVNode is now called findDOMFromVNode
• method isDOMinsideComponent is now called isDOMInsideComponent

Inferno

• Removes development bundle warning when infernojs is used in Jest test environment https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/5c017e189c67875516145f3efb56b0a8e6d124f3
• Fixes an issue where context becomes null when fragment is used to render single vNode https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/ef07f26bbca0359e61c302f8c566bfb98da07724

Inferno-animations

• New feature global animations https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/776b607573445a8891d8c9a11dee2e2ca791a0c2

• Fixes an issue where top level context becomes null if Fragment was rendered having single child node https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/issues/1579

• Fixes inferno-animation server side rendering bug https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/commit/a71edbb805d70a142f22f35e0e447824635ab4d2

• inferno-component package has been removed. Component is available in "inferno" main package
• inferno-animation clean up and performance bug fixes: https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/pull/1575 https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/pull/1576
• internal dependencies updated

New package inferno-animation has been added

Inferno-router

"history" package has been updated to the latest major version 5

Multiple internal changes to build system and dependencies

Note

This is preview release available for testing and there might be breaking changes in future releases

All packages

This release fixes a possible supply chain attack by adding repository link to all packages https://github.com/infernojs/inferno/pull/1574