v8.0.0

What's Changed

This version contains the following breaking changes:

1. Upgraded Node version to 18.12.1
2. Removed node-sass in favor of sass
3. Upgraded webpack and related loaders

Further explanation of each item is detailed below.

1. Upgraded Node version to 18.12.1

Typically, the Node version of an application can be updated without any breaking change. However, Node 18 requires an upgraded version of glibc. This has impact on Travis.

The default distribution used for builds and test execution (xenial) does not have the version of glibc required by Node 18. See this Travis community forum note for a discussion of this issue. See this Node issue for a discussion of the new glibc version requirement.

To resolve this issue, a specific Linux distribution (focal) is specified in the .travis.yml configuration file. This disribution has the correct glibc version. See this Travis documentation for a description of the focal build environment.

This version of lp-components will not support older Node versions. You must use Node version ^18.12.1.

2. Removed node-sass in favor of sass

node-sass has been deprecated and the latest version does not support the later glibc version (an exception is generated when one tries to execute node-sass with the later Node version). To resolve this, node-sass was removed and sass (Dart Sass, the currently active Sass implementation) was added. This change required an additional update to the build:styles script to use sass for style builds.

3. Upgraded webpack and related loaders

The Node upgrade mentioned above also fixed an OpenSSL issue. That fix required that the latest version of Webpack be used, along with configuration of a specific hashing function. To accommodate this change, webpack was upgraded to ^5.75.0 and the css-loader, style-loader, and sass-loader were also upgraded to their latest versions.

Change Log

Full Changelog: v7.0.2...v8.0.0