2.5.1

• Fix problems with less being async in some browsers
• Minor fix only likely to affect programmatic usage of ruleset find
• Fix error when a namespaced mixin is invoked in global scope

2.5.0

• supports the scoped @plugin directive to load function plugins
• All directives are bubbled (e.g. supports), not just media
• Performance improvements to the parser - should help non-chrome browsers with very large less files to be a lot quicker.
• the image size function respects include paths like other file functions
• colour functions take a relative argument that applies percentages relatively instead of absolutely
• include paths now allows : as a separator on windows (recognising and not splitting drive names by the backslash)
• @import (css) does not pull the directive above comments
• Fix for import statements without quotes sometimes causing issues
• replace supports dimensions and colours
• the browser field is set in the package.json for use with browserify
• another fix to support paths being passed as a string instead of an array
• detached rulesets can be used as default arguments
• Fix a lot of false warnings about extends
• errors written to stderr more consistently
• consistently keep units if strict units is off
• Better support for comments in function all arguments

2.4.0

• Support for plugins that pre-process (to add libraries silently etc.)
• Empty sourcemaps now work
• Extract and Length functions now ignore comments in a list (more work to come to fix the general problem)
• fragment urls are treated absolute since they refer to the html document
• Extends on a selector joined with & now work better
• Nested mixins work better with !important (regression in 2.3.0)
• The promise dependency is now actually optional (introduced in 2.0.0)
• Files with just \r newlines now process ok (regression in 2.0.0)
• When strict units is off and the unit is 1/x, (e.g. 1 / 12px) the unit output is x, previously nothing (regression in 2.0.0)

v2.3.1

• Fix depends option (regression in 2.3.0)
• Support parent selector (&) used in sub element expression (e.g. :not(.c_&))

v2.3.0

• add isruleset function
• add optional import option, causing less to not fail if file not found
• Fix browsers-side cache.
• Many fixes to import reference - support @support and keyframe
• Selectors now interpolate pseudo selectors (e.g. :@{hover})
• Fix comments missed off if they were at the end of the file
• Fix !important used with parametric mixins
• Emits warnings for extends when the target is not found
• include-path now works on data-uri
• variables and function calls work for path in data-uri
• Fix absolute paths not working on imports sometimes.
• Unicode BOM removed again
• Misc. bug fixes

v2.2.0

• do not apply relative paths to svg-gradient and data-uri functions data-uri output
• using import filename interpolation and import inline together now works
• deprecate the compression option (still works, but outputs a warning unless silent)
• The node version of less now has image-size, image-width, image-height which return the image dimensions of a file
• Fixed an issue that could cause the parse to occur more than once and the callback be called multiple times
• if you are outputting to the console, lessc defaults to silent so warnings do not end up in output
• isunit function supports '' to test if a dimension has no unit
• data-uri function now counts characters after base64 encoding instead of bytes before encoding to determine ie8 support
• fix bug effecting guards on pseudo class selectors
• do not cache on the browser when used with modifyVars
• detection if less does not parse last character in file
• detection of whether a file is css now requires /css, .css, ?css, &css instead of just css. You can still tell less the type of file using import options.
• remove extra new line added to sourcemap entry inline file
• support safari extension
• less.parse now exposes a way to get the AST. We do not recommend you use this unless you need to.

v2.1.2

• Fix for use with requirejs
• Fixes for data-uri function

v2.1.1

• Improved keyword and anonymous usage with the replace function
• Added getCSSAppendage to sourcemap builder to avoid duplication in plugins
• Fix problem with plugins when used with the promises version of render
• If the render callback throws an exception it now propogates instead of calling the callback again with an error

2.1.0

• Fixed isSync option, it was using sync file operations but promises are guaranteed to call back async. We now support promises as a feature rather than the 1st class way of doing things.
• Browser code is now synchronous again, like in v1, meaning it blocks the site until less is compiled
• Some fixes for variable imports which affected filemanagers when synchronous
• Fixed lessc makefile dependencies option
• output now reports back a imports field with an array of imported files
• relative path test for drive names (so windows only) is now case insensitive
• Fix for IE7 - use getChar instead of indexing array
• variables using !important now output !important, which bubbles up to affect the rule
• livereload cache buster is now treated specially
• upgrade dependencies

v2.0.0

• Fixed multiplication in non strict units mode to take the left operand unit, in the case that the unit cannot be resolved
• Some fixes for browser cross-compatibility
• browser tests now pass in IE 8-11 and FF
• added index.js and browser.js in root as shortcuts
• fixed some local variable spellings
• support for @counter-style directive