v3.5 Release Notes

Welcome to gatsby@3.5.0 release (May 2021 #1)

Key highlights of this release:

• Performance improvements - up to 20% faster CLI startup, up to 20% faster query running, 70% speedup to creating pages
• gatsby-graphql-source-toolkit v2 - Compatibility with Gatsby v3
• New SSR in Develop overlay - the experimental SSR in Develop feature got a new overlay
• Documentation updates - new docs: Functions, CSS, and our image plugins

Also check out notable bugfixes.

Bleeding Edge: Want to try new features as soon as possible? Install gatsby@next and let us know if you have any issues.

Previous release notes

Full changelog

Performance Improvements

We’re always working hard on making Gatsby faster. In this release we shipped three improvements:

• Speedup CLI startup by lazily requiring some modules. PR #31134
• Create page object & SitePage node in same action creator. In our synthetic create-pages benchmark (for 100K pages) this reduced the createPages activity from 16s to 4.5s (~70% drop) and peak RSS memory from 1.4gb to 0.7gb (~50% drop). PR #31104
• Up to ~20% improvement to running queries by switching to a faster queue library (fastq). The improvements are most noticeable if you use the fastest query filters (e.g. eq filter on the id property) and don’t do CPU intensive work in query running e.g. process markdown or MDX. PR #31269

gatsby-graphql-source-toolkit v2

The gatsby-graphql-source-toolkit simplifies data sourcing from remote GraphQL APIs into Gatsby. While it’s not a source plugin by itself, it helps you writing custom GraphQL source plugins by providing a set of convenience tools and conventions. Craft CMS or GraphCMS use it for their source plugins.

The bump to a new major version ensures compatibility with gatsby@^3.0.0. No breaking changes were in this release.

New SSR in Develop overlay

Previously the error overlay (when the page didn’t successfully SSR) consisted out of a HTML page served by express. But that wasn’t tied into our already existing Fast Refresh overlay we use throughout Gatsby. The information on the page stays the same but it now has the look & feel of all our other errors:

Documentation Updates

• New Functions docs — PR #31066
• New top-level CSS doc - PR #31138
• Architecture of Gatsby’s image plugins - PR #31096
• If you’re maintaining a plugin, please subscribe to this GitHub discussion to receive information about changes that may require updates to the plugins you maintain

Notable bugfixes & improvements

• Fix support of theme shadowing in monorepo PR #30435
• Fix scroll restoration for layout components PR #26861
• gatsby-plugin-mdx: make HMR work again for MDX PR #31288
• gatsby-plugin-preact: enable error-overlay PR #30613
• gatsby-plugin-sitemap: allow writing sitemap to the root of the public folder PR #31130
• gatsby-transformer-remark: restore support for footnotes PR #31019
• Add ImageDataLike as an exported type of gatsby-plugin-image PR #30590
• Update the public plugin API types PR #30819

Contributors

A big Thank You to our community who contributed to this release 💜

• micha149: fix(gatsby-react-router-scroll): scroll restoration for layout components PR #26861

• hoobdeebla: chore(renovate): update typescript as its own group PR #30909

• P177: fix(docs): replace invalid style prop with emotion css prop in tutorial PR #31062

• fshowalter: fix(gatsby-transformer-remark): Activate footnotes by default & remove included options with remark v13 PR #31019

• axe312ger

  • test(e2e-contentful): add schema.sql for comparison with later updates PR #31074
  • fix(gatsby): upgrade css-minimizer-webpack-plugin to v2 PR #31176

• joshua-isaac: chore(docs): Update sourcing from agility cms PR #30966

• Auspicus: fix(gatsby-source-drupal): remove computed fields before running createNode on existing node PR #28682

• mjameswh: fix(webpack-theme-component-shadowing): Support shadowing in yarn-style workspaces with Webpack 5 PR #30435

• ben-xD: Update Cloudflare Workers Sites deployment documentation PR #31173

• pedrolamas: Allows sitemap output on root of public folder PR #31130

• nrandell: Don’t remove gatsby-source-filesystem PR #31069

• ridem: fix(gatsby-plugin-netlify-cms): Fix typo in semver PR #31177

• benomatis: chore(docs): GATSBY_ACTIVE_ENV is undefined by default PR #31136

• donno2048: chore: Fix grammar error in README PR #31186

• junaidilyas: fix(gatsby): add generic type to GatsbyFunctionResponse PR #31182

• MorrisonCole: fix(gatsby-plugin-image): add @babel/core peer dependency PR #31188

• kimbaudi: fix(gatsby): rehydration issue in Dev404Page with DEV_SSR PR #30581

• FlxAlbroscheit: docs: Updates file name suggestion in babel.md PR #31198

• dev-szymon: added breakpoints to sharp_attributes set in babel-helpers PR #30451

• tobyglei: chore(docs): Update 21yunbox guide PR #28848

• pvpg: chore(docs): Update sourcing-from-prismic PR #29237

• gabo2192: docs: Update example to apollo-client v3 PR #29737

• Js-Brecht: fix(gatsby): update plugin api types PR #30819

• cobraz: feat(gatsby-plugin-image): Export ImageDataLike type PR #30590

• Hannah-goodridge: chore(docs): Update MDX frontmatter for programmatic pages PR #29798

• alowdon: chore(docs): Update “Adding Search with Algolia” guide PR #29460

• YehudaKremer: fix(gatsby-plugin-image): print error details PR #30417

• kelvindecosta: docs(gatsby-plugin-image): Add docs for customizing default options PR #30344