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📣 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

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: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/compare/7.10.0...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

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: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/compare/7.9.0...7.10.0

Features

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

See all changes: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/compare/7.8.0...7.9.0

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.

main changes

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

See all changes: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/compare/7.6.2...7.7.0

main changes

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

main changes

• Update xml2js and firefox-profile (#2721)

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: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/compare/7.5.0...7.6.0

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

Features

• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter v5.27.0 (#2573, #2583, #2602, #2619)
  • import Firefox 109.0b9 API schema
  • ensure empty ZIP files will output results when auto-close feature is disabled
  • switch to vendored ajv-merge-patch library to fix a potential security issue
  • prevent errors when permissions in manifest.json isn't an array
• web-ext sign: send user agent header with signing requests (#2540)

Bug Fixes

• web-ext sign: added missing type for channel parameter (#2546)
• web-ext sign: fixed the default AMO API base URL used by the experimental --use-submission-api CLI flag (#2621)
• Other dependencies updated:
  • sign-addon to v5.2.0 (#2584)
  • camelcase to v7.0.1 (#2574)
  • eslint to v8.29.0 (#2569)
  • mocha to v10.2.0 (#2572)
  • prettier to v2.8.1 (#2571)
  • ... and some other dev dependencies

See all changes: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/compare/7.4.0...7.5.0

Features

• web-ext lint: enabled MV3 by default (#2557)
• web-ext lint: updated to use addons-linter v5.23.0 (#2537) (#2561)
  • Firefox 108.0b5 schema has been imported
  • MV3 event pages are now fully supported by the linter
  • Various fixes related to CSP have been made in the linter

Bug Fixes

• Other dependencies updated:
  • jose to v4.11.1 (#2534) (#2560)
  • node-fetch to v3.3.0 (#2554)
  • ws to v8.11.0 (#2536)
  • yargs to v17.6.2 (#2545)

See all changes https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/compare/7.3.1...7.4.0