Added
- New Emoji, Design, and Travel category pack
- Another group of requested and commissioned icons
- Version 4 shim for Web Fonts with CSS
- New simplified download and NPM packages
- @fortawesome/fontawesome-free and @fortawesome/fontawesome-pro NPM packages that match what's available in the CDN and .ZIP files
- Brand icons rev, nimblr, megaport, mailchimp, hornbill, wix, weebly, themeco, squarespace, aws, shopware
- API method toHtml() for converting abstract objects to HTML
- API method counter() to generate Layers Counters
- API method watch() to configure MutationObserver and watch DOM for icon changes and additions
Changed
- Relocating sponsor data to a separate sponsors.yml
- Updated teamspeak brand icon
- No more default exports in the CommonJS/ES packages (anything installed from NPM)
- Greatly improved performance and rendering of CSS pseudo-elements with SVG and JavaScript
- Configuration of SVG with JavaScript can now be done with attributes on the script tag
- SVG with JavaScript pseudo-elements now match syntax (font-family, font-weight) of Web Fonts with CSS
Fixed
- Tree shaking of all NPM packages by default
- Alignment of the book-open and dice-six icon
- Correcting creative-commons
- Incorrect license on the fontawesome-common-types package
- Improve ligatures that share a base name with another ligature
- Correcting solid style of the digital-tachograph icon
- Prevent duplicating classes in some scenarios with SVG with JavaScript
- Duplicate insertion of CSS when insertCss() method was called
- Missing TypeScript definitions for the free-brands-svg-icons package