Grunt 1.0.0 rc1 released

Posted on February 11, 2016

The Grunt team is pleased to announce the first release candidate for 1.0.0.

This release is made possible by @shama, @vladikoff, @jkaussieskater. With support from the jQuery foundation, in particular @dmethvin and @aulvi.

Also thanks to contributions by @XhmikosR, @paladox, @FredyC, @sindresorhus, @mrjoelkemp and more.

This release focuses on fixing critical issues and improved support with Node.js v0.10, v0.12, v4.0, v5.0 and io.js on Windows, OSX and Linux. We ask you to test the rc1 and report any issues you are experiencing.

npm install grunt@1.0.0-rc1 --save-dev

Be advised Grunt 1.0.0 will no longer support Node.js v0.8.

Peer Dependencies

If you have a Grunt plugin that includes grunt in the peerDependencies section of your package.json, we recommend tagging with "grunt": ">=0.4.0". Otherwise when grunt@1.0.0 is released, npm@2 users will receive a hard error when trying to install your plugin and npm@3 users will get a warning.

Be aware, peer dependencies are no longer installed for users as of npm@3. Users of Grunt plugins are expected to npm install grunt --save-dev alongside any Grunt plugin install.

We ask you to send pull requests to your favourite plugins and ask them to update the peerDependencies section of their package.json.

Request For Comments

We have created an new repo to encourage members of the community interested in shaping the future of Grunt to submit a RFC.

Submitting an RFC will allow you to formally propose a significant change to Grunt and elicit feedback from the core team and community.

The active proposals will help portray the future roadmap for Grunt and hopefully expedite community contributions into future Grunt releases.

npm scripts

We now install grunt-cli as part of grunt. Many users do not wish to perform the extra step of npm install grunt-cli -g. To better conform to the idioms of Node.js, you can now npm install grunt --save-dev then include Grunt in your npm scripts:

{
  "scripts": {
    "grunt": "grunt"
  }
}

Your users now only have to npm install and npm run grunt to run your Gruntfile.js.

Users on npm >= 2.0.0 can also pass tasks and options with: npm run grunt -- task --option=foo which is equivalent to grunt task --option=foo.

If you would like the grunt command on your computer, please continue to npm install grunt-cli -g and use as before.

API Changes

Be aware, some APIs have changed warranting a major version update:

coffee-script is upgraded to ~1.10.0 which could incur breaking changes when using the language with plugins and Gruntfiles.
nopt is upgraded to ~3.0.6 which has fixed many issues, including passing multiple arguments and dealing with numbers as options. Be aware previously --foo bar used to pass the value 'bar' to the option foo. It will now set the option foo to true and run the task bar.
glob is upgraded to ~6.0.4 and minimatch is upgraded to ~3.0.0. Results are now sorted by default with grunt.file.expandMapping(). Pass the nosort: true option if you don't want the results to be sorted.
lodash was upgraded to ~4.3.0. Many changes have occurred. Some of which that directly affect Grunt are grunt.util._.template() returns a compile function and grunt.util._.flatten no longer flattens deeply. grunt.util._ is deprecated and we highly encourage you to npm install lodash and var _ = require('lodash') to use lodash. Please see the lodash changelog for a full list of changes: https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/Changelog
iconv-lite is upgraded to ~0.4.13 and strips the BOM by default.
js-yaml is upgraded to ~3.5.2 and may affect grunt.file.readYAML. We encourage you to please npm install js-yaml and use var YAML = require('js-yaml') directly in case of future deprecations.
A file mode option can be passed into grunt.file.write().
Done, without errors. was changed to Done. to avoid failing by mistake on the word errors.

We encourage you to try out this release.

We are also looking for contributors to all Grunt repositories and are willing to mentor you to get more experience with open source.