6.1.1

Released March 22, 2022

Added

• Added a plus-large variant of our plus icon

• Added new child-dress icon

• Added a TypeScript d.ts file for the import.macro.js module

Changed

• Adjusted the children icon to be more consistent with the new child and child-dress icons

• Lowered the arms on the child icon and added a new child-reaching variant to match v5 icon

Fixed

• Brought back a handful of version 4 compatibility unicode aliases (like "plus" and "asterisk") that were incorrectly removed in 6.1.0

• Fixing light style of square-star, so it looks less like circle-star

• Made thin style of cubes-stacked actually thin

• Fixed dial-max icon in the light and thin styles, and standardized width on dial indicators in the solid and duotone styles

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6.1.0

Released March 15, 2022

Added

• Collaborated with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on a set of new icons that depict themes of interest to the humanitarian community such as clusters, disaster types, categories of affected people, and relief items.

  • New Humanitarian category
  • New Disaster + Crisis category
  • All icons in Humanitarian category added to Font Awesome Free

• Crossed over with a new sponsored bridge-suspension icon

• Cut the deck with a new cards-blank icon

• Pointed to new sponsored icons (arrow-right-from-arc and arrow-right-to-arc) and added a couple alternates (arrow-down-to-arc and arrow-up-from-arc)

• New down-to-bracket and up-from-bracket icons

• Merged in a new merge icon to match our existing split icon

• New sponsored ScreenPal brand icon

• Claimed our stake in new sponsored hexagon-vertical-nft and hexagon-vertical-nft-slanted icons

• Made an entirely fungible new sponsored hexagon-image icon

• Nearly communicated some new sponsored NFC-related icons: nfc-directional and nfc-symbol

• New shield-quartered icon

• Zoomed in on our xmark icon, and made an xmark-large variant

Changed

• Reverted our shield icon so it matches the v5 styling and renamed the old shield-alt icon to shield-halved. Aliases should make this change seamless.

• Reverted our folder icon so it matches the v5 styling and updated naming of v6 icon to folder-closed to match our existing folder-open icon

• Updated Elementor brand icon

• Went back to flight school, and replaced the oddly incongruous propellors on our light plane-engines icon with actual, you know, jet engines

• Consolidated all the Sass functions to _functions.scss

• Switched to a Sass/Less loop to build Duotone icons pre-processor files

Fixed

• The metadata directory has been re-introduced into download and package files

• Fixed vertical alignment of light-emergency-on icon so that it has same baseline as light-emergency icon

• Nudged the circle-half, circle-quarter, and circle-three-quarters icons so they're a bit more consistent and don't jump .05 pixels when swapping between them

• Tuned up the solid style of the truck-fast icon

• Chopped our solid heart-half icon so it was actually half a heart.

• Fixed the handle on our duotone mailbox icon

• Took to the friendly skies and added a missing propellor to our plane-prop icon

• We are no longer missing icons in the thin style of the house-user and house-chimney-user

• Aligned the version number for @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core and @fortawesome/fontwesome-common-types to make it easier to know what version goes with the icon packages

• Added the missing . for the .fa class in the Less pre-processor files

• Cleaned up some junk unicode aliases for several icons

• Replaced {{currentYear}} with the actual year in NPM package attribution

• Removed an example that contained <script> that was messing with some build tools

• Prevent aliases from overwriting main icon modules for deep imports in our NPM packages (faPaintbrush.js and faPaintBrush.js gave folks the most grief)

• Mark the styles.css as having side effects to prevent CSS processors from tree-shaking out Font Awesome styles

• Add number as a supported type for aliases and ligatures in TypeScript .d.ts file

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6.0.0

Released Feb 7, 2022

Added

• The official release of a whole new version of Font Awesome! This is a major release that we've been carefully brewing for over a year, and it includes:

  • Over 7,000 new icons, which means Font Awesome now has over 14,000 icons available, and over 1,700 of those are Free!
  • Font Awesome now has 5 styles - Solid, Regular, Light, Duotone, and now, the all-new Thin style!
  • Official support for uploading your own icon and Version 6 in Kits, the easiest way to use Font Awesome.
  • A bunch of new animations that you can add to any icon, including fade, bounce, spin, and flip, just to name a few.
  • A ton more CSS custom properties to customize and style your icons just the way you want.
  • New and improved icon search and expanded icon categories that let's you find - and use! - any icon in a couple of clicks.
  • New and improved documentation to help you through any situation.
  • Improved ligatures for designing on the Desktop, especially for Duotone icons.
  • New Python/Django plugin.
  • Updated Vue and React components.
  • Updates to our Javascript, GraphQL, and Conflict Detection APIs.
  • Smooooth upgrading! We spent a lot of time making upgrading easy, so grab the latest and kick back while our icons do the work.

• New convenience functions that make working with CSS Pseudo-elements in SASS and LESS a breeze.

• New fun animations fa-bounce and fa-shake

• A few more new icons

Changed

• Removed penny-arcade and acquisitions-incorporated at the request of the copyright holder

Fixed

• NPM packages now contain a "styles" and "modules" export in the "exports" section of the package.json

• Removed the use of Object.fromEntries to prevent syntax warnings in older targets and browsers

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Unicorn Frappe Beta 3 6.0.0-beta3

Released Nov 23, 2021

Added

• New charts icon category, including new chart-simple and chart-simple-horizontal icons

• New sponsored diagram icons

• New calendar-circle and other calendar variants

• New face variants like face-spiral-eyes and face-melting

• New fort, cabin, and apartment icons

• New sushi and sushi-roll icons

• New bird icon, so you can put a bird on it

• New 00 icon

• New earth-oceania icon

• New block icon

• New brazilian-real-sign currency icon

• New square-kanban icon

• Added our full license text to our free License.txt file for 5.x and our free License.txt file for 6.x

Changed

• When you search for icons, you'll now see the details for a selected icon in a dedicated modal window, and you can move between icons using the arrow keys or the previous/next buttons

• Simplified the design of traffic-light, basket-shopping, earth, ellipsis, and bullhorn icons

• Updated and standardized the design of the cart-shopping, money-check, grid, chart and diagram, animals, and face icons

• Minor revisions to the money-bill, credit-card, and hospital icons

• Cleaned up the calendar and alarm icons

• Updated unity and vk, brand icons

• Removed a readme file regarding duotones in the free otf directory

• Deleted the attribution.js file within the free zip download

• Do not show missing icon indicator if no icon specified for SVG + JavaScript (this aligns the behavior with our web fonts implementation)

• Simplified how CSS Pseudo-elements can be used with CSS Custom Properties and made them future proof for later major releases of Font Awesome

• Added a specific letter-spacing for Duotone CSS/SCSS/Less to prevent icons from being misaligned if this was used elsewhere in the DOM

• Version 6 will no longer support Internet Explorer

  We have ended support for Internet Explorer in v6 - all IE specific fallbacks and assets have been removed. As always, you can view the official list of browsers that Font Awesome supports.

• Breaking Changes to the "flash" animation

  The new in v6 CSS "flash" animation has been renamed to " beat-fade" to avoid collisions with v4 icon names and for more consistent animation naming.

Fixed

• Corrected many compatibility issues with version 4 and 5 allowing for easy upgrades to version 6

• Corrected license restriction issue that would not allow applications like Illustrator and InDesign to save in PDF-compatible formats

• Improved non-English language support for desktop OTF in apps like Pages and Keynote on macOS

• Duotone icons with only one layer now show up when using a Kit

• Added the missing sideEffects: false to the @fortawesome/pro-thin-svg-icons package

• Renamed the SCSS and Less divide() function to fa-divide() to avoid conflict with the Bootstrap version

• Removed extraneous parenthesis to work around a bug with the scssphp library

• Setting config.showMissingIcons to false now hides this indicator on the page

• Improved ligatures support for a small number of icons that were not working in desktop apps

• Add exports for styles.css to @fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core to fix "Missing exports" error in newer versions of Node.js and build tools like Webpack and Rollup

• Added more appropriate fallback glyphs for Duotone desktop OTF files for application that do not support embedded SVG

• Corrected some bits for unicode ranges in the OS/2 table in the desktop OTF file

• Improve import.macro error handling when macro wasn't called

• Corrected an issue where SVG symbols could not be used with nested icon mode

• Corrected thin style of the bowl-soft-serve icon

• Corrected regular style of the money-bill-1 icon

• Fixed a bug that could cause an empty comment to appear when using svgs

• Fixed a bug where using library.add() did NOT register the new v6-style style class selectors

• Fixed a bug where thin style would not be available when importing and using with SVG + JavaScript

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PSL Beta 2 6.0.0-beta2

Released Sept 21, 2021

Added

• 690 New Icons

• Fresh batch of food icons to match the food-vegetable and food-prepared emoji blocks

• Some coiffure options on our user icons

• Satisfied our sweet tooth with some candy icons

• Big ol' batch of new arrows

• Shuffled the deck with new playing card icons

• New sailboat, puzzle icon, block-question and block-brick icons

• New maritime category

• New batch of sponsored icons, including some fire safety icons

• New sportsball and pickleball icons

• New train-track and train-tunnel icons

• Standard variations to the shopping cart icons

• New h5 and h6 icons

• New face-awesome and hundred-points icons

• Added bilibili, pix, and go brand icons, all voted in by the community

• Added a Staff Favorites filter in our Icon Search in case you ever wondered what we thought were the fa-cream of the fa-crop

• Search Improvements

  We've improved and added even more features to the Version 6 Icon Search! You can narrow down your icons search by multiple categories, styles, and filters at one time. We've also added paging and a bunch of display options to improve browsing through our thousands of icons. To see see all the new icons we've added, check out our "New in v6" filter.

• Improved and Expanded Docs

  We've buffed and polished our Docs: made the navigation easier to get to, created a new welcome mat at the front door of Docs, and improved the consistency and accuracy of the how-to's, examples, and overall readability of the content.

Changed

• Updated otter icon to be more otter-y

• Simplified landmark and landmark-dome icons

• Updated school icon to be more school-y

• Added landing gear to our plane-arrival icon

• Adjusted camera-viewfinder icon

• Removed Tripadvisor icon at request of copyright holder

• Breaking Changes to Duotone Unicodes and Ligatures

  We fixed an issue in the Beta 1 release with our Duotone unicodes and ligatures when referencing Duotone layers in both Desktop OTF and Webfonts. If you installed Beta 1 and use ligatures on the desktop or unicodes in your CSS pseudo-elements, you'll need to update to the latest (Beta 3) font files AND update any ligature or unicode references that used the Beta 1 syntax.

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where some duotone icons used in pseudo-elements would be missing a second layer

• Fixed a bug where certain animations would not work in the latest version of Edge

• Fixed a bug where SVG nested icons would endlessly replace the SVG tag with ... a new SVG tag

• Fixed a Dart Sass division (“/”) deprecation issue

• Fixed an issue with auto-accessibility and the use of the title attribute within the <svg> element

• Fixed a bug centering around customizing the width of an SVG-based icon element (fa-w)

• Separated out the Less and SCSS duotone classes into different files to help reduce the CSS size

• Fixed a bug where a zero-width-space unicode value could cause our icon not to show

• Fixed a bug where layered text would not be shown correctly on screen

• Fixed an issue where using fontawesome-svg-core would not render v6 icons

• Fixed an issue when using fa-regular style, which would render a solid style rather than the regular style

• Removed the extra .tgz file getting bundled within the NPM packages

• Fixed the conflict detection feature to detect conflicts with Font Awesome v5 when using Web Fonts + CSS

• Fixed font metadata in the font files to improve validation in some situations

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Orange Mocha Frappuccino Beta 1 6.0.0-beta1

Released May 29, 2021

Added

• Over 775 New Icons

• New Emoji icons - Now we have Emoji-parity with all "smiley face" icons

• New Sports + Fitness icons, and some new Gaming icons

• New icons for aligning and distributing objects

• New clock face icons in half-hour increments

• A variety of new icons across many categories, plus a bunch of commissioned icons

• v6 Support in Kits

  You can now choose the v6 Beta from the version select in your kits' settings

• New and Improved Icon Search

  We crafted a new icon search from the ground up so you get quick access to copy options, a bigger icon preview without leaving the search, more options for filtering and sorting, better alias and synonym search options, improved icon detail pages, all-around snappier searching, and now we hold your place in search when you jump into details and back!

• The beta Python/Django plugin now supports v6 icons and styling

• The Javascript API, GraphQL API, and Conflict Detection API now all support v6

• You can happily use jQuery, Turbolinks for Rails, and Require.js with v6

Changed

• Changes to Duotones on the Desktop

  • Ligatures Changes: You can now get an entire duotone icon with the touch of a wand - ahem - ligature. (If you want the separate pieces, you'll need to use unicodes.)
  • Unicode Changes: In v5, our secondary duotone unicode was generated by adding 0x10 to the front of the primary unicode. In v6, we will use the unicode variation selector instead, so the icon will have a unicode value and then you can select the primary layer with 0xfe01 or secondary layer with 0xfe02 (the universal unicode variation selector values).
  • More Unicode Changes: We now have a single unicode for entire duotone icons (not just the primary and secondary parts). So 0xe2f5 will get you the full duotone icon for citrus-slice, but 0xe2f5 0xfe01 will get you just the primary layer and 0xe2f5 0xfe01 will get you just the secondary layer.

• Breaking Changes to Some CSS, SCSS, and Less

  • Removed .fa-icon-rotate and .fa-icon-flip SCSS/Less mixins
  • Changed .sr-only and .sr-only-focusable classes to be namespaced to .fa-sr-only and .fa-sr-only-focusable (.sr-only and .sr-only-focusable will be silenty supported until the next major version release)
  • Updated CSS properties used in .fa-sr-only utilities to use a more modern technique
  • Removed CSS support for IE9 and below, including the removal of .eot and .svg font files/references from @font-face definitions
  • Renamed _larger SCSS and Less files to _sizing
  • Removed @fa-display, @fa-font-size, @fa-font-size-base, @fa-version variables in both SCSS and Less files
  • Renamed fa-pulse to fa-spin-pulse (fa-pulse will be silently supported until the next major version release)

Fixed

• Continued fixes and improvements to many icons

• Fixed line-height of base Web Fonts icon styling for better alignment with text

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Triple Espresso Alpha 3 6.0.0-alpha3

Released March 29, 2021

Added

• Even More New Icons

• New commissioned icons

• New commissioned brand icons

• New round of top icons requests

• New fruit and vegetable icons

• New brightness, notebook, cart, trash-can, and hand ribbon icons

• New beat, fade, flash, and flip

• Added support for prefers-reduced-motion CSS media feature in CSS animations.

Changed

• Added additional metadata to improve searching for an icon

• Revised icon categories to be more balanced in subject matter and icon counts

• Renamed air-freshener icon to spray-can-sparkles

• Updated punctuation-based icons

• Made stroke-width on solid style icons more consistent across collection

• Updated every Version 6 SVG and font file thanks to a fresh import of every Font Awesome icon using new and spiffy tooling. While we've hunted for them ourselves, there may be some unforeseen glitches. Shout if you see any !

Fixed

• General fixes and improvements to many icons

• Reverted layers icon to layer-group

• Reverted layers-plus icon to layer-plus

• Fixed solid style tugrik-sign icon

• Fixed solid style question icon

• Removed overprescriptive --fa-color CSS Custom Property and color rule that used it

• Added missing --fa-animation-delay CSS Custom Property to .fa-spin and .fa-pulse animations

• Added missing .fa-spin-reverse utility to Less source files

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Double Shot 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 moreicons

• 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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Pot o' Coffee Alpha 1 6.0.0-alpha1

Released October 27, 2020

Added

• All new Font Awesome Thin styles 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