Bootstrap v4.6.1 has finally arrived! Biggest change here is a re-implementation of our Sass division functions and updates from v5, as well as some accessibility improvements and general bug fixes.
We’ll be flipping back to v5 development after this release, focusing on v5.2.0 with some additional updates to using more CSS variables and other awesome features. Sometime after that, we hope to ship a v4.7.0 release with some additional backported features and improvements to v4.
Please keep the feedback coming on what we can improve, how our releases are performing, and any other suggestions.
Bootstrap Icons v1.6.0 adds over 30 new icons, adds official Composer support, includes a new .scss stylesheet for the icon font, plus some other enhancements and bug fixes. Keep reading to see what’s new!
1,400+ icons
We’ve officially passed 1,400 glyphs in Bootstrap Icons with this release—woohoo! Seems utterly insane to me that the project has come this far and there are still so many more icons to include.
We have a few dozen new and updated icons in this release, including:
New brand icons for Apple, Behance, Dribbble, Line, Medium, Microsoft, PayPal, Pinterest, Signal, Snapchat, Spotify, Stack Overflow, Strava, Vimeo, Windows, and WordPress
Two new easel variations
New fingerprint icon
New magic stick
New people variations for rolodex, workspace, and video chat
New webcam icons
New radioactive icon
New fan icon
New hypnotize icon
New yin yang icon
New activity/pulse icon
Updated large dash, plus, slash, x, i, ?, !, and check icons to have a thinner stroke that better matches other icons
Updated lamp icons
Updated graph-up and graph-down icons, with the previous ones being renamed to graph-up-arrow and graph-down-arrow
New features
We’ve added a handful of new features and enhancements to how you can use Bootstrap Icons in this release:
Added Composer support with automatic publishing to Packagist. See the official package for more information.
Added new bootstrap-icons.scss stylesheet for the icon font. This includes font name and path variables, plus a Sass map of icon names and unicode values.
Added new .bi CSS selector to the icon font ruleset (in addition to the attribute selectors we had through v1.5.0) to allow for easier @extending of icon styles. This has also been reflected in the new .scss stylesheet.
Our next minor release will continue to see improvements to our icon permalink pages, adding more options for copying and pasting our icons. If you have other suggestions, please don’t hesitate to open a new issue!
Bug fixes
We’ve fixed a few glitches with existing icons in this release:
droplet-fill now renders correctly thanks to an updated fill rule
lamp and lamp-fill now look more like lamps and less like toilets 😅
coin now renders correctly thanks to an updated fill rule
cloud now renders correctly thanks to an updated fill rule
textarea-resize is no longer incorrectly placed in the viewBox
Found another bug, or have a suggestion? Check out the issue tracker and open an issue if you don’t see one already opened.
The Figma file is now published to the Figma Community! It’s the same Bootstrap Icons Figma file you’ve seen from previous releases, just a little more accessible to those using the app.
Bootstrap v5.1.2 is here with a handful of improvements across our components, plus a fix for an issue in another project that prevented our Sass from compiling properly. Keep reading for the highlights.
Highlights
Temporarily patched a postcss-values-parser issue by rearranging our calc() functions that use negative numbers. This should restore the ability to import and compile Bootstrap’s Sass in create-react-app.
Added border-radius sizes to small and large .form-selects
Added align-self: center to buttons for improved rendering in flex containers
Fixed Collapse regression that prevented toggling between sibling children
Updated JS Sanitizer to add sms in the SAFE_URL_PATTERN
Improved docs around .img-fluid
Added role="switch" to our form switches in our docs
Implemented GitHub Issue forms to replace our previous issue templates.
Up next
Up next is our v5.2.0 release, adding more utility improvements and fixing an issue with how Sass handles re-assigned maps and variables. Alongside that, we’ll be shipping an update to v4 soon as well.
Bootstrap v5.1.1 has landed with a handful of bug fixes and documentation improvements. Following this release, we’ll be shipping another bugfix and docs update before moving onto additional new features. Keep reading for the highlights.
Highlights
Fixed broken .bg-body utility. This was caused by the same --body-rgb CSS variable for both text and background. --body-rgb is now split into --body-color-rgb and --body-bg-rgb for proper usage. While this could be considered a breaking change, the current implementation was outright broken, so we’ve chosen to address this head-on.
All CSS dist builds now include _root.scss and all our :root-level CSS variables. The goal here is consistency across the distribution files so that no matter what CSS build you use, you have the same level of customization potential.
We’ve had a number of Visual Studio users mention that Sass compiling for Bootstrap 5.1.0 is broken when using the Web Compiler extension. This extension hasn’t been updated in more than five years, so we recommend moving to a newer alternative. Some users mentioned the Sass Compiler extension as a successful alternative. If you have additional recommendations, please leave a comment to share.
Ten years ago today, we shipped the first release of Bootstrap. Releasing it on GitHub was my first real plunge into open source—what an introduction! Here we are a decade later with one of the most widely used open source projects and frontend toolkits on the web. Happy birthday, Bootstrap—what a ride!
While numbers certainly don’t tell the whole story, Bootstrap has reached some incredible milestones over the past decade. Here are some highlights:
Over 2.5 billion pageviews for our docs. That’s more than 685,000 a day.
394,000,000 npm downloads since 2015—over 131 million of which were in 2020 alone. That’s 180,000 a day over the last six years.
Over 21,100 commits on GitHub with nearly 35,000 issues and pull requests
Hidden in all those numbers are millions and millions of people that interact with Bootstrap just by visiting the sites and apps built with it. It’s still mind-blowing to see what’s been built with it after over the years, especially with how it all started.
Back in early 2011, the two of us were just a couple of nerds working at Twitter—Jacob was an engineer working on internal tools, me a product designer working on ads. Our paths crossed when the project I was working on needed to have its own internal tools app built for managing Twitter ad campaigns. Over a few months, we started working more and more together before ultimately deciding to release our project to the world.
Here we are 10 years later, still just a handful of nerds doing what we love, contributing to open source, and having an impact on people’s lives through our work. Bootstrap continues to be a passion project for me, from major rewrites to new features and from a growing icon library to a full-blown marketplace. It’s been an incredible journey, and one that’s still going strong thanks to the community’s love and the support of a small group of maintainers over the years.
The maintainers and contributors deserve the utmost thanks and appreciation. Please join me in thanking them—and every other open source maintainer!—whenever and however frequently you can. While this list can never fully represent all the contributions made to Bootstrap, I want to give a special shoutout to maintainers past and present, and some of the most prolific contributors.
Thank you again, folks. And to everyone who has used Bootstrap over the years, thank you for making a decade of building with Bootstrap possible. Cheers to whatever comes next, and see you soon for our next release.
@mdo
October 28, 2021
