9.2.0

main changes

• Fixed: Ensured navigator.webdriver != true in launched Chromium (#3553)
• Added: web-ext lint now supports Firefox 145 and 146 schemas

dependencies

• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 9.2.0 (#3559)
• Updated: dependency open to 11.0.0 (#3554)
• Updated: dependency pino to 10.1.0 (#3538)

dev dependencies

• Updated: dependency mocha to 11.7.5 (#3546)
• Updated: dependency chai to 6.2.1 (#3550)

others

• Migrate project to ESLint v9 (#3552)

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9.1.0

main changes

• web-ext lint: the linter now emits a warning when the add-on ID is missing in the manifest file (MISSING_ADDON_ID).

dependencies

• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 8.4.0 (#3543)
• Updated: dependency pino to 9.12.0 (#3525)

dev dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/core to 7.28.5 (#3544)
• Updated: dependency @babel/eslint-parser to 7.28.5 (#3542)
• Updated: dependency @babel/preset-env to 7.28.5 (#3541)
• Updated: dependency @commitlint/cli to 20.1.0 (#3527)
• Updated: dependency @commitlint/config-conventional (#3523)
• Updated: dependency chai to 6.2.0 (#3524)
• Updated: dependency mocha to 11.7.4 (#3529)

others

• Fixed: update the description of the sign command (#3537)

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9.0.0

Important: we are now using Node v20 to build and release web-ext.

main changes

• Breaking change: web-ext no longer accepts .js config files. You must rename your config file to .cjs or .mjs and export the config accordingly. More information at: https://mzl.la/web-ext-config-file (#3519)
• Bump node versions (#3428)

dependencies

• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 8.0.0 (#3520)
• Updated: dependency parse-json to 8.3.0 (#3390)
• Updated: dependency pino to 9.11.0 (#3518)

dev dependencies

• Updated: dependency cross-env to 10.0.0 (#3475)

others

• Updated link to web-ext documentation (#3517)
• Adjust functional test ran by addons-linter because require(esm) is now a thing in Node 20.19+ (#3516)

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8.10.0

main changes

• Added: Enable support for data collection permissions in web-ext lint (#3514)
• Added: web-ext lint supports Firefox schema up to 144 (included) (#3513)

dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/runtime to 7.28.4 (#3506)
• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 7.20.0 (#3513)
• Updated: dependency decamelize to 6.0.1 (#3495)
• Updated: dependency pino to 9.9.5 (#3510)
• Updated: dependency strip-json-comments to 5.0.3 (#3482)
• Updated: dependency tmp to 0.2.5 (#3483)

dev dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/preset-env to 7.28.3 (#3487)
• Updated: dependency @babel/register to 7.28.3 (#3489)
• Updated: dependency @babel/cli to 7.28.3 (#3488)
• Updated: dependency chai to 6.0.1 (#3498)
• Updated: dependency @babel/eslint-parser to 7.28.4 (#3505)
• Updated: dependency chai-as-promised to 8.0.2 (#3497)
• Updated: dependency babel-plugin-istanbul to 7.0.1 (#3508)
• Updated: dependency @babel/core to 7.28.4 (#3507)
• Updated: dependency fs-extra to 11.3.2 (#3512)
• Updated: dependency mocha to 11.7.2 (#3502)

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See all changes: 8.9.0...8.10.0

8.9.0

main changes

• Fixed: Correct file name in web-ext submit in Node 24 (#3466)

dependencies

• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 7.18.0 (#3471)
• Updated: dependency open to 10.2.0 (#3469)

dev dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/cli to 7.28.0 (#3462)
• Updated: dependency @babel/core to 7.28.0 (#3461)
• Updated: dependency @babel/eslint-parser to 7.28.0 (#3464)
• Updated: dependency @babel/preset-env to 7.28.0 (#3463)
• Updated: dependency chai to 5.2.1 (#3467)
• Updated: dependency eslint-plugin-import to 2.32.0 (#3454)
• Updated: dependency mocha to 11.7.1 (#3455)
• Updated: dependency prettier to 3.6.2 (#3458)
• Updated: dependency sinon to 21.0.0 (#3447)

others

• Avoid EINVAL in fake-firefox-binary (#3451)

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See all changes: 8.8.0...8.9.0

8.8.0

main changes

• Added: Support loading extensions in Chrome 137+ (#3434)
• Added: Auto-reload support for Chrome using CDP (#3434)
• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 7.15.0, which includes the Fx140 schema (#3448)
• Fixed: npm audit for brace-expansion (#3450)

dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/runtime to 7.27.6 (#3444)

dev dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/core to 7.27.4 (#3438)
• Updated: dependency @babel/eslint-parser to 7.27.5 (#3442)
• Updated: dependency mocha to 11.7.0 (#3449)
• Updated: dependency pretty-quick to 4.2.2 (#3440)

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8.7.1

main changes

• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 7.13.0, which includes support for required data collection permissions (part of the Fx139 schema) (#3426)

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8.7.0

main changes

• Fixed: restore stdin raw mode to off after ctrl-c quit (#3395)
• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 7.12.0 (#3425)
  • Imported WebExtensions API JSON schema data for Firefox 139

dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/runtime to 7.27.1 (#3405)
• Updated: dependency chrome-launcher to 1.2.0 (#3412)
• Updated: dependency open to 10.1.2 (#3403)
• Updated: dependency pino to 9.7.0 (#3421)
• Updated: dependency strip-json-comments to 5.0.2 (#3420)
• Updated: dependency watchpack to 2.4.4 (#3424)
• Updated: dependency ws to 8.18.2 (#3407)

dev dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/cli to 7.27.2 (#3411)
• Updated: dependency @babel/core to 7.27.1 (#3399)
• Updated: dependency @babel/eslint-parser to 7.27.1 (#3401)
• Updated: dependency @babel/preset-env to 7.27.2 (#3410)
• Updated: dependency @babel/register to 7.27.1 (#3400)
• Updated: dependency @commitlint/cli to 19.8.1 (#3415)
• Updated: dependency @commitlint/config-conventional (#3416)
• Updated: dependency mocha to 11.4.0 (#3423)

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See all changes: 8.6.0...8.7.0

8.6.0

main changes

• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 7.11.0 (#3396)
  • Imported WebExtensions API JSON schema data for Firefox 138
  • Added a new error when data_collection_permissions is used in the manifest

dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/runtime to 7.27.0 (#3382)
• Updated: dependency pino to 9.6.0 (#3328)

dev dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/cli to 7.27.0 (#3385)
• Updated: dependency @babel/eslint-parser to 7.27.0 (#3383)
• Updated: dependency html-entities to 2.6.0 (#3387)
• Updated: dependency sinon to 20.0.0 (#3384)

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8.5.0

main changes

• Updated: dependency addons-linter to 7.9.0 (#3335)
  • This version contains the JSON schemas for Firefox 136/137

dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/runtime to 7.26.10 (#3374)
• Updated: dependency ws to 8.18.1 (#3358)

dev dependencies

• Updated: dependency @babel/core to 7.26.10 (#3372)
• Updated: dependency @babel/eslint-parser to 7.26.10 (#3375)
• Updated: dependency @babel/preset-env to 7.26.9 (#3355)
• Updated: dependency @commitlint/cli to 19.8.0 (#3368)
• Updated: dependency chai to 5.2.0 (#3354)
• Updated: dependency prettier to 3.5.3 (#3364)
• Updated: dependency pretty-quick to 4.1.1 (#3365)

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