Alpha 2 6.0.0-alpha2

Released December 22, 2020

Added

• NPM-installable packages (SVG core, icon content packages, pro and free)
• Alias support in browser-centric JavaScript and NPM packages
• New icons for latin alphabet characters (a-z, 0-9) including circle and square variants
• New JavaScript API parse.icon method which parses various input formats to specify icons
• New commissioned icons
• New commissioned brand icons
• New round of top icons requests
• New plus, minus, exclamation variants of more icons
• SCSS/Less pre-processor map for brand icons
• SCSS/Less pre-processor map for official icons
• fa-spin-reverse utility to render icon animations in reverse
• Support for adjusting speed of icon animations
• Support for CSS Custom Properties use across the styling toolkit
• Support for Vue and React components
• A way to dynamically import icons in React

Changed

• Removed explicit CSS custom property fallbacks in SCSS/Less files in favor of using Autoprefixer
• JavaScript API findIconDefinition method now supports aliases
• Revised Duotone Icon layers to be more consistent across the collection
• CSS3 Notation is used when selecting Pseudo-Elements
• Icon sizing now has separate relative and literal size scales and classes
• Relative icon sizing has an expanded scale (2xs - 2xl) and provides vertical alignment with text
• Renamed 'pulse' animation to 'spin-pulse'
• Added more SCSS/Less pre-processor variables for easier customization
• Renamed _larger SCSS/Less pre-processor partial to _sizing
• Added an 'fa-' prefix to namespace screen reader-based utilities
• Updated screen reader-based utilities to current best practices
• Separated brand and official icon definitions in SCSS/Less
• Separated brand and official icon definitions in CSS
• Removed .eot and .svg web font-face files and support
• Removed IE8 + 9 support across styling toolkit
• Updated syntax used to reference icons in Vue and React components

Fixed

• Lots of icon fixes, removal of duplicates, typo corrections
• Corrected Less syntax for defining the .fa, .fad, and .fa-duotone classes
• Corrected styling for Text and Counter-based layers
• Removed unused SCSS/Less pre-processor variables
• Removed unused SCSS/Less pre-processor utilities and mixins
• Fixed vertical alignment of icons in a list for SVG + JS framework
• Corrected box-sizing and the box-model for SVG + JS framework-rendered icons

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Alpha 1 6.0.0-alpha1

Released October 27, 2020

Added

• All new Font Awesome Thin style of every icon
• 350+ all new, never-been-seen-before icons
• Web Fonts + CSS assets to host and use V6 icons in a Web project
• Ligature-based .otf font files to use V6 icons in a Desktop project
• Individual .svg icon files to use V6 icons in a Desktop project
• Support for Icon aliases in Web Fonts + CSS framework to help with upgrading

Changed

• Revisited, revamped, and gave all 1,800+ existing icons some design love and attention
• Revised icon names according to new collection-wide naming conventions and standards