v4.12 Release Notes

Welcome to gatsby@4.12.0 release (April 2022 #1)

Key highlights of this release:

• New RFCs

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

New RFCs

The Gatsby core team is running a collection of RFC’s for new features coming to Gatsby. Please review the open RFC’s and share your perspective to help us deliver the best possible experience for Gatsby developers, like you!

• RFC for new Script component in Gatsby - the script component will make it easier to incorporate 3rd party scripts without negatively impacting site performance
• RFC for new Bundler in Gatsby - Gatsby is evaluating other bundlers in order to deliver faster local development and production build speeds

Notable bugfixes & improvements

• gatsby
  • Fix React 18 hydration with offline plugin via PR #35319
  • Use gatsby root instead of process.cwd() when initializing cache via PR #35263
  • Fix intermittent wrong sort results when sorting on materialized field via PR #35271
  • Fix URL encoding issue with DSG urls via PR #35336
  • Fix URL encoding issue with SSR urls via PR #35346
• create-gatsby: Fix missing site title prompt via PR #35272
• gatsby-core-utils: Fix exports map for importing from dist via PR #35274
• gatsby-plugin-sharp: Handle slashes and .. within paths for Windows via PR #35246
• gatsby-plugin-utils: Fix path pieces being too long in image URLs and make url safely encoded via PR #35160
• gatsby-source-contentful: Handle backreferences on data updates properly via PR #35214
• gatsby-source-wordpress: Fix logic for matching image nodes via PR #35324

Contributors

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

• oneknucklehead: chore(babel-preset-gatsby): Updated README to include babel presets PR #35069
• me4502: fix(gatsby): ignore crawlers when prefetching PR #35260
• g00glen00b: fix(gatsby-source-filesystem): use correct hash when using createFileNodeFromBuffer PR #35243
• jasonbosco: chore(docs): Add Typesense as a search engine option PR #35257
• gmourier: chore(docs): Fix Meilisearch spelling PR #35275
• BrunoAderaldo: chore(docs): typo in 4.11 release notes PR #35349