v8.0.1

Commits

@angular/cli (8.0.1)
Commit	Description	Notes
	provide an option to update dirty repositories
	ng-update migrations not running with --migrate-only	[Closes #14565]
	check for CI environment variable in tty helper	[Closes #14563]
@schematics/angular (8.0.1)
Commit	Description	Notes
	TypeScript related migrations should cater for BOM	[Closes #14551]
@angular-devkit/architect (0.800.1)
Commit	Description	Notes
	support all observable types as build results	[Closes #14579]
@angular-devkit/build-angular (0.800.1)
Commit	Description	Notes
	exclude map files from 'bundle' budgets
@ngtools/webpack (8.0.1)
Commit	Description	Notes
	update supported compiler-cli supported version
@schematics/update (0.800.1)
Commit	Description	Notes
	improve error message when finding incompatible peer dependencies	[Closes #14562]
	respect semver rules for migration from & to	[Closes #14559]

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Special Thanks

Charles Lyding, Alan Agius, Nick Webster, Paul Gschwendtner, Filipe Silva

v8.0.0

Welcome to version 8.0 of Angular and the CLI.

This release includes some significant new features:

• Differential Loading is a build system feature in the CLI. It builds two versions of your application. One version is for modern browsers, and has a 10-30% smaller JS bundle size and fewer required polyfills. The second version works in older browsers. During ng update, we make some minor changes to your application to make it possible for all browsers to automatically downloaded the most suitable bundles. This change requires no server-side or serving infrastructure changes. The change is enabled by default via the target field set to es2015 in application’s tsconfig.json. If this change breaks your application, you can change the value back to es5 which disables differential loading. Thanks to Manfred Steyer https://github.com/manfredsteyer for upstreaming his excellent work on ngx-build-plus. See the documentation at https://angular.io/guide/deployment#differential-loading
• Support for EcmaScript dynamic import() for lazy loading of routes. This aligns Angular with the JavaScript specification and makes your application more compatible with tooling. ng update will automatically change the loadChildren syntax to import(), and we no longer recommend using the string-based style like path/to/module#ModuleName. Thanks to Craig Spence https://github.com/phenomnomnominal for adding support for this.
• WebWorker bundling is now automatic in the CLI. This lets you easily write code that moves expensive computation to a separate thread, and have that bundled in a separate script that works in the browser. Thanks to Jason Miller https://github.com/developit for writing the Webpack plugin and assisting us with integrating this feature into the CLI. See the documentation at https://angular.io/guide/web-worker.
• CLI telemetry is an opt-in feature that lets you report CLI usage data to the Angular team, and also to your own Google Analytics account. This lets us make better decisions about which CLI features to prioritize, and measure the impact of our improvements. See the documentation at https://angular.io/analytics
• Builders is a new API in the CLI that allows tooling developers to replace the behavior of CLI commands such as build and test. Before 8.0.0 we will add documentation, for now you can see a preview at https://pr29964-c99aea0.ngbuilds.io/guide/architect and read the blog post. As part of 8.0.0 we are working with cloud providers to take advantage of Architect to provide a new deploy command. Along with Architect, we've added a Workspace API for tools that need to read or write the angular.json file; see https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/blob/master/packages/angular_devkit/core/README.md#workspaces
• Reduced transitive tarball download size of @angular/cli by 60%

To update, please visit https://update.angular.io

Note: if you configure Node.js with extra memory for your ng build command, you may need to do the same for ng update since this update loads your program in memory.

Breaking Changes

@angular-devkit/build-angular: use `sass` instead of `node-sass` (ce15899)

we no longer use `node-sass` by default, instead we use `sass` (dart-sass).

While in most cases this should not have an impact the generated code, dart sass has some differences from Ruby Sass. See https://github.com/sass/dart-sass#behavioral-differences-from-ruby-sass for more details

If you wish to use node-sass instead of sass you need to install node-sass as a dev dependency.

npm users

npm install node-sass --save-dev

yarn users

yarn add node-sass --dev

Note: for larger Sass projects to avoid this performance hit you might want to install fibers. See: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fibers

Ref: TOOL-748

@angular-devkit/core: Remove dep on chokidar (eb5643e)

Users who rely on angular-devkit/core to do the file watching must add chokidar to their devDependencies.

@angular-devkit/build-angular: disable by default stylesheet root relative URL rebasing (94b087c)

Root relative URLs are a standardized method to reference a resource path from the root of a host. The previous behavior of the Angular CLI prevented this from occuring and resulted in an inability to reference stylesheet assets in this manner. The initial reason for this behavior is no longer present in the internal implementation of the Angular CLI. Therefore, this now unnecessary and non-standard behavior is being phased out. If an application currently relies on this behavior, a compatibility option `rebaseRootRelativeCssUrls` has been provided for the 8.x release cycle to facilitate transition away from this non-standard and limiting behavior. The recommended method to transition is to use relative paths within the source stylesheet. This allows the build system to process and generate a full URL for the asset.

Schematics are now async

For Schematics authors: note that schematics have always been potentially async, but now they all are.

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Commits

@angular/cli (8.0.0)
Commit	Description	Notes
	verify Angular version is supported
	automatically update angular builders when CLI is updated	[Closes #13581]
	add tracking for command duration
	support stable architect API
	allows analytics sharing with a third party
	add validation logic for analytics in ng config
	add custom implementation for analytics for commands
	add support for analytics command proper
	add prompt on post install step
	add analytic support to commands and command-runner
	add universal-analytics as dependency
	add `@nguniversal/*` to ng version	[Closes #9959]
	update minimum required Node.js v...

v7.3.9

Commits

@angular-devkit/build-angular (0.13.9)
Commit	Description	Notes
	update node-sass to 4.12.0 (#14358)	[Closes #14339]

v7.3.8

Commits

@schematics/angular (7.3.8)
Commit	Description	Notes
	buildRelativePath handles files in root
@angular-devkit/build-angular (0.13.8)
Commit	Description	Notes
	ensure correct dev server path with public host option
	update speed-measure-webpack-plugin to 1.3.1	[Closes #12763]
@ngtools/webpack (7.3.8)
Commit	Description	Notes
	changes in non module code are not picked up when using barrel files	[Closes #13975]
	replace resources should return class node when modified

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Special Thanks

Minko Gechev, Charles Lyding, Alan, Andriy Pyvovarchuk, ukrukar, Keen Yee Liau, Alan Agius

v7.3.7

Commits

@angular-devkit/build-angular (0.800.0-beta.10)
Commit	Description	Notes
	update speed-measure-webpack-plugin to 1.3.1	[Closes #12763]
	passing port 0 when using serve will not find a suitable port

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Special Thanks

Alan Agius

v7.3.6

Commits

@schematics/angular (7.3.6)
Commit	Description	Notes
	reintroduce `.sass` as a supported file extention	[Closes #13739]
	change entry file name of the library schematic according to the kebab-case convention
@angular-devkit/build-angular (0.13.6)
Commit	Description	Notes
	fix base href insertion when HTML is in a single line	[Closes #13851]
	fix check for absolute paths in windows in server config	[Closes #13865] [Closes #1139]
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer (0.13.6)
Commit	Description	Notes
	don't add pure comments inside arrow functions	[Closes #13768]

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Special Thanks

Alan, Vikram Subramanian, WilliamKoza

v7.3.5

Commits

@schematics/angular (7.3.5)
Commit	Description	Notes
	kebab case prefix causes lint errors in new directives	[Closes #13796]
@angular-devkit/build-angular (0.13.5)
Commit	Description	Notes
	don't bundle linked modules when `bundleDependencies` in `none` in server builder	[Closes #13817]

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Special Thanks

Alan, Hans Larsen, Alan Agius

v7.3.4

Commits

@schematics/angular (7.3.4)
Commit	Description	Notes
	default newProjectRoot to current directory
	remove ViewEncapsulation from root component
	JsonUtils should respect indent
@angular-devkit/build-angular (0.13.4)
Commit	Description	Notes
	sourceMap option not working in tests	[Closes #13766]

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Special Thanks

Keen Yee Liau, Hans Larsen, Charles Lyding, Alan Agius, Cédric Exbrayat

v7.3.3

Commits

@schematics/angular (7.3.3)
Commit	Description	Notes
	update karma to version 4	[Closes #13724]
	`findModuleFromOptions` not handling properly different casing in name	[Closes #13714]
	undefined is used as newProjectRoot when none is set	[Closes #13703]
	add file extensions to style prompt
	fixes issue that `ViewEncapsulation` is not being configured when provided	[Closes #13689]
@angular-devkit/build-angular (0.13.3)
Commit	Description	Notes
	improve webpack loader resolution
	minimum threshold

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Special Thanks

Alan Agius, Amadou Sall, Alan, Charles Lyding, hrocha16

v7.3.2

Commits

@angular/cli (7.3.2)
Commit	Description	Notes
	wrap `opn` in a new Promise because `opn` is already resolve is already resolve.
@schematics/angular (7.3.2)
Commit	Description	Notes
	respect the flag when we create a guard with schematics
	Include bazel-out in .gitignore	[Closes #13636]
	set restartOnFileChange to true in karma.conf templates	[Closes #13542]
	e2e test fails strict TS config
@angular-devkit/build-angular (0.13.2)
Commit	Description	Notes
	added warning for ES2017
	error when both `baseUrl` and `devServerTarget` are used in protractor	[Closes #13611]
@angular-devkit/schematics (7.3.2)
Commit	Description	Notes
	add aliases to collection-schema.json
	use `join` instead of normal string concatenation	[Closes #13654]

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Special Thanks

Alan, WilliamKoza, Louis Larry, Alan Agius, Renovate Bot, Charles Lyding, hrocha16, Luis Confraria, Cédric Exbrayat