21 May 2020
We’re closing in on 700 icons in Bootstrap Icons with today’s release, Alpha 4! We’ve spent some time under the hood of our build process to improve a few things, added tons of new icons, and fixed some bugs and inconsistencies.
We’ve shipped tons of new commerce icons for all your shopping cart needs, added tons of calendar options (I couldn’t settle on one design), tons of new shape arrows, and more.
~700 icons!
With 140 new icons in this release, we’ve almost hit 700 icons. We’re likely to fly by that in our next release, but in the meantime, have a look for yourself at the breadth of icons. Every icon has also been reprocessed to resolve SVGO issues that prevented them from being opened in some apps.
Download
Alpha 4 has been published to GitHub and npm (package name bootstrap-icons). Get your hands on it from GitHub, by updating to v1.0.0-alpha4, or by snagging the icons from Figma.
<3,
@mdo & team
12 May 2020
Bootstrap v4.5.0 has landed with dozens of bug fixes, some small new features, and some changes to our development. Originally planned as a v4.4.2 patch release, we’ve bumped this to a minor release on account of our new features that help bridge the gap between v4 and our upcoming v5.
Highlights
Here’s what you need to know about v4.5.0. Remember that with every minor and major release of Bootstrap, we ship a new URL for our hosted docs to ensure URLs continue to work.
- New interaction utilities. Quickly set
user-select with the new utilities and Sass map.
- New Reboot style for pointer cursors. We now include a
role="button" selector in Reboot to set cursor: pointer on non-<button> element buttons.
- Examples are now downloadable. We’ve added a script to zip up and offer all our Examples as their own download from the docs.
- Saved ~5% from the compressed minified JS builds.
- Added guidance to our docs for how to work around our longstanding input group rounded corner bug.
- Redesigned docs homepage and navbar to increment us towards v5’s new docs design.
- Deprecated
bg-gradient-variant mixin as it’s being removed in v5.
- Updated to jQuery v3.5.1, Jekyll v4, and dropped Node.js < 10 for development.
We’ve shipped a lot more in this release, so be sure to check out the v4.5.0 GitHub release and the v4.5.0 project for closed issues and merged pull requests for more details.
Head to the v4.5.0 docs to see the latest in action. The full release has been published to npm and will soon appear on the BootstrapCDN and Rubygems.
Support the team
Visit our Open Collective page or our team members’ GitHub profiles to help support the maintainers contributing to Bootstrap.
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@mdo & team
19 Mar 2020
While we continue to work on Bootstrap 5, I’ve been jamming away on the Bootstrap Icons library, continuing to create as many icons as time allows. Today marks the third alpha, and massive update to the project. We’ve officially crossed 500 icons!
We’ve cleaned up existing icons, created new permalink pages for each and every icon, and added hundreds of new icons—all in one release.
500+ icons!
I’ve added 221 new icons in our third alpha, the most ever in an alpha release thus far. And while I was drawing all these new awesome icons, I also cleaned up the existing ones by changing their viewBox size and redrew many to ensure more pixel perfect icons.
Why change the viewBox? In the first two alphas, I was drawing icons on 20x20 artboards in Figma. This seemed like a good idea, but every icon was roughly 16x16, so it ended up being dead space. Now, every icon has been updated to eliminate the 2px inner padding, making the viewBoxs 0 0 16 16 instead of 0 0 20 20.
This change has some slight file size improvements, and should help with sizing and positioning as well.
Permalink pages
Looking for a particular icon, but don’t want to download the entire project to snag the SVG source code? Need to send someone a link to an icon? Look no further than the new icon permalink pages!
From the Bootstrap Icons homepage, click any icon and you’ll be taken to a page dedicated to just that icon. It features the icon in various sizes and renders the source code like you’re used to seeing in Bootstrap’s docs.
Since this is still an alpha, some features are still missing from our docs. This includes unlinked tags, no category listing, and no copy to clipboard. I hope to see those added before our stable v1.0.0 release. PRs are very much welcome if you’d like to contribute!
Download
Alpha 3 has been published to GitHub and npm (package name bootstrap-icons). Get your hands on it from GitHub, by updating to v1.0.0-alpha3, or by snagging the icons from Figma.
<3,
@mdo & team
14 Dec 2019
There’s a brand new update of Bootstrap Icons today with our second alpha release! We’ve updated nearly 20 icons and added over 100 new icons since our last release just a few weeks ago.
New icons
With over 120 new and updated icons, this is likely going to be our largest update before we our first stable release. We have some renamed icons, fixed bugs, new tools icons, new typography icons, tons of new arrows, and so much more.
Highlights
Here’s a summary of what’s been fixed, updated, or renamed in this release. For a full summary of what’s new, head to the GitHub release or Alpha 2 pull request.
- Fixed:
- Bootstrap icon stroke now 1px instead of 1.5px
- tv-fill icon no longer has graphical glitch
- circle-slash icon strokes now connect
- trash icons now use a single shape
- trash-fill icon no longer has a gap between lid and bin
- layout-split no longer has space between vertical divide
- Updated:
- blockquote icons now feature more legible quotation marks
- command icon now 1px smaller, no longer sitting on half pixel
- gear icons now have rounded corners
- eye is now outline by default (use new eye-fill variant if needed)
- redrew sound waves on volume icons
- corrected (reversed) the direction of backspace icon
- Renamed:
- changed microphone to mic
- existing expand/contract icons are now angle-expand and angle-contract
Get ‘em
Alpha 2 has been published to GitHub and npm (package name bootstrap-icons). Get your hands on it from GitHub, by updating to v1.0.0-alpha2, or by snagging the icons from Figma.
<3,
@mdo & team
28 Nov 2019
Today we’re shipping Bootstrap v4.4.1!
In v4.4.0, we added add() and subtract() functions to avoid errors when using zero values in CSS’s built in calc() function. While these functions work as expected with our build system, which is based on node-sass, some alert developers noticed that things broke when using another Sass compiler like Dart Sass or Ruby Sass. To resolve this issue, we’ve tweaked these functions a bit to output what we would expect.
Lastly, we also added a theming fix for some custom forms in a disabled fieldset.
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@mdo & team