1.7.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a hang on Windows with web-ext --verbose ... (#691) (fa594fb)

Features

• Added a new option to provide ad hoc preferences more easily. Example: web-ext run --pref=general.useragent.locale=fr-FR (#658) (a650164)
• Added a new option for stricter linting. Example: web-ext lint --warnings-as-errors (#613) (ec7a1ee)
• All commands will now alert you if a newer version of web-ext is available (#676) (31d2e46)
• When web-ext run automatically reloads your extension, it shows the last reload time more concisely now (#707) (b265d44)
• Enhanced JSON parse errors so that they provide file context (#594) (d74bc4c)

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1.6.0

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Error: Cannot find module 'regenerator-runtime' (#591) (584f3b2)
• web-ext sign now exits with a non-zero status if signing fails (#586) (74a208d)
• web-ext sign no longer logs an irrelevant temp directory path (#577) (441b1b6)
• Fixed commit format verification prompt for Windows users (#561) (c0dc674)

Features

• web-ext sign now supports using a proxy when connecting to the signing API (#571) (a853e4d)
• web-ext --version now shows the commit hash it was built from, unless it's a production release (#565) (1fcb2e2)
• web-ext build now uses the default locale (if applicable) when generating a file name (#487) (aeff9ba)
• web-ext run now makes it clear when auto-reloading is turned on (#564) (8e4e657)
• The web-ext run command is a little less chatty now (#573) (f09d0e3)

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1.5.0

Bug Fixes

• An error is now properly reported if you accidentally pass a non-option argument to web-ext lint (and any other command) (#474) (a25c04f)
• Fixed a possible web-ext sign timeout if your connection was slow or the XPI file was very large (see mozilla/sign-addon#213)

Features

• Shortened the --firefox-binary option to --firefox but the former is still supported as an alias (#440, #468, #523) (96748e3)
• web-ext run now tries in a loop to discover an open remote debugger port (#472) (0d1b824)
• Added errno support to onlyErrorsWithCode(), which is a helper used internally by web-ext (#488) (0d4141b)
• Disabled caching during npm run lint to catch errors better (#434) (ee422b7)

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1.4.0

Bug Fixes

• web-ext lint now ignores node_modules and other artifacts (#405) (cd9adac)
• web-ext run
  • Irrelevant errors about the Normandy CDN are suppressed (42b0c88)
  • the UI tour is disabled by default now (42b0c88)

Features

• Deprecated Node 0.12 in order to support the latest addons-linter (#414) (23e59df). Version 0.12 was moved out of long term support mode and put into maintenance mode in April 2016. Node 4.0.0 or higher is now required.

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1.3.0

Features

• Added web-ext lint to validate extension source code (fb5b974)

1.2.4

Bug Fixes

• Fixed TypeError: fxRunner is not a function in the run command (4c73242)

1.2.3

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cannot find module 'when' error after installing from npm 2.x (17cf9d3)

1.2.2

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cannot find module 'any-promise' after installing on npm 2.x (1db86e4)

1.2.1

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Cannot find module '../dist/web-ext' error that happened after installation (62dbc2e)
• Fixed incorrect help message for web-ext sign --id (51b0d93)

1.2.0

Bug Fixes

• Increased the timeout for connecting to the Firefox debugger (during web-ext run) from 6 seconds to 30 seconds (436ccd4)
• Relative --source-dir paths are handled correctly now (bf266d8)
• Installation should now fail if your npm is not up to date (9cec25a)

Features

• web-ext sign, build, and run now support extensions without explicit IDs (fdf3d3b, 295f8fc)
• Extensions are now built to ZIP files instead of XPI files for cross-platform compatibility (07ff822)
• web-ext run --pre-install no longer connects to the remote debugger. This allows you to run the extension even if there are problems connecting to the debugger. (47d7230)