Release Cat's Eye · chrisblakley/Nebula

9.0 - Released May 1, 2021

The ninth major release of Nebula.

There were roughly 152 closed tickets for this release. Minor note that the documentation website has been migrated to AWS and switched to using the subdomain https://nebula.gearside.com (rather than the former subdirectory https://gearside.com/nebula).

Named after NGC 6543, or Cat's Eye nebula.

Milestones

Dropped support for Internet Explorer 🎉
WP JavaScript Hooks API implemented
Dynamic imports added for JavaScript modules
All jQuery AJAX functionality changed to Fetch
Drag & Drop File Upload Helper
Overhauled Performance Dashboard Metabox
Service Worker optimization (HTTP2 Server Push)
New Nebula Options for easily scanning and dequeuing assets on the front-end
Administrative log feature added to the Diagnostic tab of Nebula Options
Additional advanced Google Analytics events (including "Browser Navigation" detections)
Drastically improved the usefulness of Nebula's DataLayer events
Major Workbox version update (including addition of Workbox Window)
Major Mmenu version update
Minor overhaul of the Nebula Autocomplete Search functionality
Removed jQuery version selector
Removed Autotrack library
Removed Device Detector library