With Node.js 8.x nearing end-of-life status at the end of this year, and
Node.js 12 now in LTS, we think it makes sense to finalize Meteor 1.9
sooner rather than later, and continue working to take advantage of all
the great features of Node 12 in future 1.9.x releases.
As usual, the meaning of "release candidate" is that we can still fix bugs
before the final release, but there will be no new features added.
Now that Meteor 1.8.2 has moved to the RC phase of testing, I think it
makes sense to promote Meteor 1.9 from alpha to beta, especially if we are
hoping to release Meteor 1.9 around/after October 1st, when Node.js 12
offically enters Long-Term Support (LTS).
Now that we've moved into the release candidate phase, there will be no
more new features added to Meteor 1.8.1, and all remaining effort will be
focused on fixing bugs.
Please test the release candidate if you have time, by running the
following command in any application directory:
meteor update --release 1.8.1-rc.0
* Update the default CSS parsing/combining/minifying tools
The `minifier-css` package is currently using outdated
(and abandoned) npm packages (`css-parse` and `css-stringify`),
as part of its parsing/minification process. This commit
replaces those packages with the robust, modern and maintained
`postcss` package.
* Adjust CSS source file fallback value
* Self test adjustments and cleanup
* Disable sourcesContent generation by postcss
The `standard-minifier-css` package is already associating
source content with the source map, so we don't need to
do this twice.
* Add History.md entry covering backwards compatibility details
* Bump major version due to backwards compatibility breaking changes
* Bump minor versions
* Code review changes (boolean formatting, concat to spread)
I had to scrap the 1.4.2-beta.8 release because meteor-tool@1.4.2-beta.8
got published by a partial run of the publish-release script, but then the
publish-release script thought meteor-tool changed after that, and I
didn't want to republish it as something like 1.4.2-1-beta.8.
