Released November 30, 2023
Released November 27, 2023
Introducing Font Awesome Sharp Thin!
Released August 1, 2023
arrow-*-to-*-arc and arrow-*-from-*-arc icons.
classic light style of the arrow-down-wide-short icon.
Released March 3, 2023
Introducing Font Awesome Sharp Light!
Released February 1, 2023
Introducing Font Awesome Sharp Regular!
Released Nov 15, 2022
Introducing the Icon Wizard! We have an exciting new beta feature for Pro folks to explore!
circle-plus, slash, or even poo—to any icon and save it to a Font Awesome Kitfak or fa-kit prefixes)flag icons and variations to be better balanced within the icon grid
cart icons for better consistency and balance
note-sticky and note icons and variations for consistency
pen icon
child-rifle icon to child-combatant. This icon was added as part of our collaboration with the United Nations.
droplet icons for consistency
Released Aug 30, 2022
Introducing the Font Awesome Sharp family!
metadata directory: icon-families.json and icon-families.yml which are restructured to support Font Awesome Families.
font-family.es.js to .mjs Font-Awesome#19041Released July 6, 2022
-square suffix with a square- prefix in our Brands family. This better aligns with our new naming structure. The old names with still work thanks to aliases.
fa-solid Font-Awesome#18835Released March 22, 2022
d.ts file for the import.macro.js module
Released March 15, 2022
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.
Humanitarian category added to Font Awesome Freeshield-alt icon to shield-halved. Aliases should make this
change seamless.
folder-open icon
_functions.scssmetadata directory has been re-introduced into download and package files
.05 pixels when swapping between them
@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core and
@fortawesome/fontwesome-common-types to make it easier to know what version goes with the icon
packages
. for the .fa class in the Less pre-processor files
{{currentYear}} with the actual year in NPM package attribution
<script> that was messing with some build tools
faPaintbrush.js and faPaintBrush.js gave folks the most grief)
styles.css as having side effects to prevent CSS processors from tree-shaking out Font
Awesome styles
number as a supported type for aliases and ligatures in TypeScript .d.ts file
Released Feb 7, 2022
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:
fa-bounce and fa-shakepenny-arcade and acquisitions-incorporated at the request of the copyright
holder
Object.fromEntries to prevent syntax warnings in older targets and browsers
6.0.0-beta3
Released Nov 23, 2021
License.txt file for 5.x and our free
License.txt file for 6.x
readme file regarding duotones in the free otf directory
attribution.js file within the free zip download
letter-spacing for Duotone CSS/SCSS/Less to prevent icons from being
misaligned if this was used elsewhere in the DOM
sideEffects: false to the @fortawesome/pro-thin-svg-icons package
divide() function to fa-divide() to avoid conflict
with the Bootstrap version
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
import.macro error handling when macro wasn't called
library.add() did NOT register the new v6-style style class selectors
6.0.0-beta2
Released Sept 21, 2021
title attribute within the
<svg> elementfa-w)
fa-regular style, which would render a solid
style rather than the regular style
.tgz file getting bundled within the NPM packages
6.0.0-beta1
Released May 29, 2021
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).
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.
.fa-icon-rotate and
.fa-icon-flip SCSS/Less mixins
.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)
.fa-sr-only utilities
to use a more modern technique
@font-face definitions
_larger SCSS and Less files to
_sizing@fa-display, @fa-font-size,
@fa-font-size-base,
@fa-version variables in both SCSS and Less files
fa-pulse to fa-spin-pulse (fa-pulse
will be silently supported until the next major version release)
6.0.0-alpha3
Released March 29, 2021
prefers-reduced-motion
CSS media feature
in
CSS animations.
air-freshener icon to spray-can-sparkleslayers icon to layer-grouplayers-plus icon to layer-plustugrik-sign iconquestion icon--fa-color CSS Custom Property and color rule that
used it--fa-animation-delay CSS Custom Property to .fa-spin and
.fa-pulse animations
.fa-spin-reverse utility to Less source files
6.0.0-alpha2
Released December 22, 2020
parse.icon method which parses various input formats to specify icons
fa-spin-reverse utility to render icon
animations in
reverse
'fa-' prefix to namespace
screen reader-based utilities
.eot and .svg web font-face files and support.fa, .fad, and .fa-duotone classes
6.0.0-alpha1
Released October 27, 2020