v5.6.0

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We expect this release to ship in the DevTools of Chrome 79.

New contributors!

Thanks to @​dpacassi, @​lirantal and @​yeonjuan for their first contributions!

Notable

• gather: add new MainDocumentContent public artifact (#​9781)
• stack-packs: add angular, react, amp, and magento packs (#​9797)

Core

• tracehouse: allow child to start <1ms before parent (#​9786)
• driver: fix error handling for Runtime.evaluate (#​9831)
• errors-in-console: add ignoredPatterns option (#​9480, #​9829)
• image-elements: cache naturalSize results (#​9818)
• link-elements: ignore non-HTMLLinkElements (#​9765)
• optimized-images: log errors (#​9782)
• seo: support korean in link-text audit (#​9804)
• tracehouse: allow nested trace events without an end (#​9785)
• rename Element to LHElement (#​9832)

Deps

• update third-party-web to 0.11.0 (#​9849)
• snyk: update snyk snapshot (#​9793)

Report

• rephrase titles for 3rdparty & crc (#​9419)
• rewrite dom-size description (#​9821)
• update logo in top bar (#​9728)
• remove some dead code (#​9800)

Clients

• lr: don't include html report assets in bundle (#​9828)
• viewer: minify inlined report-generator bundle (#​9596)

I18n

• import: web.dev links and small corrections (#​9846)
• import translations (#​9802)

Docs

• related-projects: add lighthouse-check (#​9753)
• related-projects: add the is-website-vulnerable CLI tool (#​9810)
• related-projects: add the gradle lighthouse plugin (#​9789)
• document 'meaning' field in i18n readme (#​9787)
• update stale references to audits (#​9760)

Tests

• use firehouse smoke test runner to test bundle (#​9791)
• attempt bundle test three times in CI (#​9830)
• smokehouse: fix tmp directory creation (#​9855)
• smokehouse: use static requires for test definitions (#​9501)

Misc

• build: minify report javascript for lightrider report generator (#​9823)
• more releasing tweaks (#​9772)
• add compare-timings script (#​9723, #​9776)

v5.5.0

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5.5.0 (2019-10-02)

Notable changes

• Preliminary implementation of the Largest Contentful Paint metric has landed (devtools and provided throttling only) and can be found in the hidden metrics audit in the raw LHR JSON (#​9706)
• The creation of main-thread tasks from a trace is now more robust. This should significantly reduce the occurrence of Issue #​7764, "Fatal trace logic error - expected start event, got X" (#​9491)
• <script> element id has been added to the ScriptElements artifact (#​9718)

New contributors!

Thanks to @​LarsKumbier, @​TimvdLippe, and @​uchoudh for their first contributions!

Core

• network-recorder: remove quic-request-finished workaround (#​9744)
• network-recorder: optimize network idle detection (#​9712)
• unused-css-rules: no more infinity savings (#​9731)

Clients

• devtools: expose registerLocaleData to worker (#​9645)
• devtools: update references to Runtime.cachedResources (#​9758)

Docs

• new documentation for running Lighthouse on authenticated pages (#​9628, #​9705)
• point more docs links to web.dev (#​9540, #​9711, #​9761)
• readme: add more related projects (#​9716, #​9743)
• releasing: add schedule, more integration testing (#​9695)
• add links to more info about throttling and variability (#​9734)
• update scoring calculator link to v5 (#​9729)

Tests

• add Lighthouse CI dogfood script to travis (#​9677, #​9745)
• report: update utm_medium check for web.dev links (#​9737)
• smokehouse: add check for any runWarnings (#​9732)
• attempt to download lantern test trace set a few times (#​9766)

Misc

• devtools: remove version replacement for expectations (#​9702)
• remove unnecessary return in Promise (#​9703)
• assets: update logo (#​9694)

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v5.4.0

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5.4.0 (2019-09-18)

Expected DevTools release in Chrome 79 (December 2019)

Core

• iframe-elements: Include new IFrameElements gatherer (#​8979)

Report

• update favicon (#​9688)

Docs

• plugins: update recipe's lighthouse peerDependency version (#​9653)

I18n

• treat Infinity and NaN as numeric values (#​9687)

Tests

• smokehouse: fix unintentional 404, relax max-len (#​9665)

v5.3.0

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5.3.0 (2019-09-16)

Expected DevTools release in Chrome 79 (December 2019)

New contributors!

Thanks to our new contributors @​alabiaga, @​olore, @​letanure, and @​mfriesenhahn!

Core

• point audit descriptions to new web.dev Lighthouse docs (#​9538, #​9539, #​9084, #​9537)
• constants: increase default maxWaitForFcp to 30s (#​9509)
• font-size: gather style declaration of type attributes (#​9414)
• gather-runner: only fail on interstitials interrupting the mainRecord (#​9576)
• lightwallet: add path property to budget.json (#​9453)
• seo: support portuguese in link-text audit (#​9446)
• start-url: stay offline for entirety of offlinePass (#​9451)
• third-party-summary: add blocking-time impact (#​9486)
• tracehouse: sort trace events by nesting order (#​9230)
• add source-maps gatherer (#​9101)
• unused-css: allow up to 10KB of unused CSS per file (#​9479)

CLI

• list audit categories in help text (#​9399)

Clients

• devtools: fix collapsing-width svg in flexbox (#​9602)
• devtools: update test command to run only .js files (#​9532)
• proto: don't filter channel from configSettings (#​9554)
• viewer: remove obsolete polyfills (#​9553)
• proto: update import hooks, obey line length (#​9595)

Deps

• chrome-launcher: update to 0.11.2 (#​9515)
• details-element-polyfill: update to 2.4.0 (#​9552)
• jsonlint-mod: update to 1.7.5 (#​9465)
• update transitive deps (#​9670)

Docs

• fix broken plugin example link (#​9524)
• lightwallet: add link to budget.json repo (#​9579)

I18n

• import translations from tc/ (#​9577, #​9620, #​9454)
• add registerLocaleData() method (#​9638)
• rewrite aria-required-children titles (#​9590)
• reword pwa-page-transitions description (#​9615)
• throw on excess placeholder replacement values (#​9580)
• remove translated messages when ICU arguments change (#​9598)
• use better types for intl-messageformat (#​9570)
• add code spans to uses-rel-preconnect description (#​9568)
• fix bugs in locale-importing scripts (#​9621)
• fix custom formatted ICU within plurals (#​9460)
• capitalize robots.txt displayValue (#​9567)
• add link to cldr parentLocales (#​9520)
• move pwa audits to i18n system (#​9105)
• use TypeScript compiler to collect UIStrings (#​9487)
• align type names with docs (#​9461)
• expand placeholder support (#​9114)
• rewrite td-headers-attr titles (#​9587)
• improve Intl polyfill and use it in Util (#​9584)

Report

• make dropdown match ARIA action menu button pattern (#​9433)
• move drop-down logic into a separate class (#​9564)
• topbar: fix overflowing url (#​9497)
• viewer: add option for loading from the PSI API (#​9546)
• viewer: fix favicon typo (#​9629)
• don't use unnessary monospace (#​9626)
• remove PWA badge flicker workaround for Chrome (#​9636)
• add utm params to web.dev links (#​9555)
• update favicon to new logo (#​9591)
• render unstyled json (rather than throwing) when LHR contains unknown details type (#​9557)

Tests

• migrate travis to xenial for modern Chrome support (#​9654)
• fixtures: use relative path in static server 404 page (d0e5c58)
• report: add axe-core validation of report output (#​9421)
• add index page for static server (#​9541)
• smokehouse: use mime-types + proper encoding for response write (#​9542)
• retry cli tests up to 3 times in appveyor (#​9512)
• simplify serving of zone.js (#​9672)

Misc

• add comment on diff between document.write() audit and intervention (#​9644)
• refactor collect-strings to use glob and work on windows (#​9406)
• trim missed yarn.lock cruft & deduplicate dependencies (#​9603, #​9600)
• replace deprecated uglify-es with terser (#​9594)
• share markdown parsing in collect-strings and the report (#​9514)
• add note about global.URL in node 10 (#​9449)
• build: include locale files in devtools roll (#​9639)