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v4.0.0

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Banner celebrating the release of SVGO v4.0.0. Includes the SVGO mascot drawing on a chalkboard with the changes in default plugins. For example, removeViewBox was moved from default plugins to available plugins.

Illustration by Vukory

It's been just over a year since our first release candidate, but I believe we can now release SVGO v4.0.0 with confidence! Thank you to all contributors who tested our RC builds and reported issues back up, this really smoothed out the process.

We actually wanted to do the release sooner, but it was a challenge to find the right time to publish a major release, since that means setting time aside to support users through migrations, helping downstream projects migrate, being available to fix or document things that users found to have an unexpected impact by this release, etc. I appreciate everyone's patience, and now that this is done, we can hopefully increase the pace of development again and tackle that backlog of old bugs. ^-^'

Breaking Changes

Please refer to the Migration Guide from v3 to v4 for a more concise version! This section is more verbose as it delves into the motivation of changes too.

Dropped Support for Node.js v14

Node.js v14 is no longer supported by the Node.js team, including security support, since 30 April 2023. Node.js v16 is no longer supported either, but as some are still using it, we'll save dropping support for Node.js v16 for the next major release.

This allows us to update our dependencies to more recent versions and to access more modern Node.js APIs.

Node.js v14 may still work at the time of this release, but we'll no longer be testing against v14 from now on.

Default Plugins

Both removeViewBox and removeTitle have been disabled by default. Both have been major pain points for users and don't make sense to enable in most cases. Other libraries wrapping SVGO have also been disabling these plugins by default, such as Docusaurus and SVGR.

  • removeViewBox removes the scalability of SVGs.
  • removeTitle reduces accessibility, which preserving accessibility is more important than optimization.

If you would like either of these plugins enabled, you can do so by configuring it in the SVGO config, see the README for more context, however please read the warnings described in the documentation of the plugins first:

  export default {
    plugins: [
      'preset-default', // built-in plugins enabled by default
+     'removeViewBox',
+     'removeTitle',
    ],
  };
removeScriptElement → removeScripts

The removeScriptElement plugin has been renamed to removeScripts, to more accurately reflect what the plugin does. It does not only remove the <script> tag, but also event handlers and script URIs from links.

To migrate, amend your SVGO config to refer to removeScripts instead if you use that plugin.

  export default {
    plugins: [
      'preset-default', // built-in plugins enabled by default
-     'removeScriptElement',
+     'removeScripts',
    ],
  };
Imports/Exports

We now enforce boundaries between the intended public API and any internal structures/helpers. This is the biggest change in SVGO's JavaScript API and will enable maintainers and users to have a mutual understanding of what is public API and what isn't.

There are two ways to import SVGO:

  • svgo — for normal usage, such as scripts or server-side applications.
  • svgo/browser — for browser usage.

If you use the browser bundle, you must amend how you import SVGO:

- import { optimize } from 'svgo/dist/svgo.browser.js';
+ import { optimize } from 'svgo/browser';

For ESM/browser, you must use named imports:

// ESM and Browser, named exports
import { VERSION } from 'svgo';
console.log(VERSION);  // 4.0.0-rc.0

// ESM and Browser, import all
import * as svgo from 'svgo/browser';
console.log(svgo.VERSION); // 4.0.0-rc.0

// Common JS, default export
const svgo = require('svgo');
console.log(svgo.VERSION);  // 4.0.0-rc.0

// CommonJS, named exports
const { VERSION } = require('svgo');
console.log(VERSION); // 4.0.0-rc.0

We support 3 environments, ESM, Common JS, and browser. The only functional difference is that the loadConfig function is not exported in the browser bundle.

If you depended on a helper that we haven't declared as public, then you are encouraged to implement it yourself, or dig into our source and copy it over to your project.

Importing Plugins

If you import/require the array of built-in plugins, or a single plugin during runtime, this is now a top-level export instead:

// builtin.mjs - get an array of all built-in plugins
- import { builtin } from 'svgo/lib/builtin';
+ import { builtinPlugins } from 'svgo'

// plugin.mjs - get a single plugin
- import presetDefault from 'svgo/plugins/preset-default';
+ import { builtinPlugins } from 'svgo';
+ const prefixDefault = builtinPlugins.find(plugin => plugin.name === 'preset-default');

// plugin-map.mjs - get all plugins as a map using the plugin name as a key
import { builtinPlugins } from 'svgo';
const pluginMap = builtinPlugins.reduce((acc, val) => acc.set(val.name, val), new Map());
Selector Helpers

The XastNode#parentNode property was declared legacy and pending removal for v4, but was still used internally. The remaining instances have now been removed, which required a refactor of the selector helpers.

This effects custom plugins that use any of the following functions, where the selector (2nd) argument could reference parent or sibling nodes (i.e. div > span):

  • querySelectorAll
  • querySelector
  • matches

Previously, these functions had the context of the whole node tree, even if a child node was passed to it. It no longer has that context by default. The new API for these functions is as follows:

// applies `selector` with the context of the `childNode` and its descendants
const nodes = querySelectorAll(childNode, selector);

// applies `selector` with the context of the entire node tree relative from `childNode`
// the `rootNode` is required if the result of `selector` may depend on the parent or sibling of `childNode`
const nodes = querySelectorAll(childNode, selector, rootNode);

// this usage has the same behavior as v3, as `rootNode` is already the entire node tree 
const nodes = querySelectorAll(rootNode, selector);

A helper has been provided named #mapNodesToParents, which does this for you. This can be used to easily migrate to the new API. If you're not sure if you need it, then it's safer to take this approach. The third argument won't be necessary if selector does not traverse nodes, for example, querying using one or more attributes of a single node.

- import { querySelectorAll } from 'svgo';
+ import { querySelectorAll, mapNodesToParents } from 'svgo';

- const nodes = querySelectorAll(childNode, selector);
+ const nodes = querySelectorAll(childNode, selector, mapNodesToParents(rootNode));

What Else

ESM

SVGO is now a dual package, serving for both Common JS and ESM usage. To be more explicit, SVGO will continue to work on Common JS projects!

Thanks to @​jdufresne for doing the bulk of the work.

Default Behavior
  • convertColors, now converts all references to colors excluding references to IDs to lowercase. This can be disabled by setting convertCase to false.
Bug Fixes
Features
  • Add VERSION export so get the version of SVGO during runtime. By @​SethFalco in #​2016
  • Introduce an isPreset and plugins property to plugins, which are only defined for presets. This will indicate if the plugin is a preset, and return the plugins that are in the preset in the order they are invoked.
SVG Optimization
  • convertColors, introduce parameter to convert colors to common casing (lowercase/uppercase). By @​JayLeininger in #​1692
  • removeDeprecatedAttrs, new plugin that is disabled by default to remove SVG attributes that are deprecated. By @​jdufresne in #​1869
  • removeEditorsNSData, include Boxy SVG namespace in the list of editor namespaces to remove. By @​sisp in #​2008
  • removeEditorsNSData, include Krita namespace in the list of editor namespaces to remove. By @​SethFalco in #​2131
Performance
Developer Experience
  • We now generate our type declarations from JSDoc comments instead of maintaining them manually. Types will be much more accurate, include more documentation, and are guaranteed to be in sync with the implementation.

Metrics

Before and after using vectors from various sources, with the default preset of each respective version:

SVG Original v3.3.2 v4.0.0 Delta
Arch Linux Logo 9.529 KiB 4.115 KiB 4.097 KiB ⬇️ 0.018 KiB
Blobs 50.45 KiB 42.623 KiB 42.633 KiB ⬆️ 0.01 KiB
Isometric Madness 869.034 KiB 540.582 KiB 540.141 KiB ⬇️ 0.441 KiB
tldr-pages Banner 2.071 KiB 1.07 KiB 1.07 KiB
Wikipedia Logo 161.551 KiB 111.668 KiB 111.727 KiB ⬆️ 0.059 KiB

Note: The increase in size from previous versions is from disabling removeViewBox and removeTitle, with the benefit of preserving scalability and accessibility.

Before and after of the browser bundle of each respective version:

v3.3.2 v4.0.0 Delta
svgo.browser.js 753.0 kB 780.2kB ⬆️ 27.2 kB

v3.3.2

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Notice

An update on what happened with v3.3.0 and v3.3.1. While we have retained CJS support, the migration to ESM has changed the acceptable ways to import SVGO, in ways that users depended on before. This effectively made SVGO v3 a breaking change.

Rather than resolve or workaround these differences, we've opted to release SVGO v3.3.2, which is effectively a revert to v3.2.0, and deprecate versions v3.3.0 and v3.3.1. We'll then proceed to work on releasing v4 which will document the breaking changes, and feature further breaking changes that were slated for v4, like disabling removeViewBox by default.

Before the v4.0.0 release, I'll put more focus on testing and use release candidates, just to make the release go smoothly! 👍🏽

Sorry for the headache, and thank you for your patience.

v3.3.1

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Notice

SVGO v3.3.0, which was meant to migrate to ESM without breaking CJS support, unfortunately broke CJS projects. There was a mistake with exports, so the loadConfig function wasn't available in the CJS bundle and lead to issues for many users.

Thanks to everyone who raised the issue, and to @​nuintun who submitted a pull request to resolve it so quickly.

I apologize for letting that breaking change through, and will aim to do better. Namely, by adding more tests to cover our exports, and any other public interface in general for each distribution of SVGO, so this doesn't happen again.

SVGO v3.3.1 should resolve the issue for CJS projects, but if you encounter anything else, do let us know by opening an issue on GitHub.

v3.3.0

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Deprecated

This release introduced breaking changes, which have been reverted in v3.3.2. The bug fixes will be reintroduced in v4.0.0.

What's Changed

ESM

SVGO is now a dual package, serving for both Common JS and ESM usage. We believe there shouldn't be any problems, especially as SVGO as largely stateless, but feel free to open an issue if you encounter problems with this.

To be explicit, this is not a breaking change, and SVGO should continue to work in Common JS projects!

Thanks to @​jdufresne for doing the bulk of the work.

Default Behavior
  • convertColors, now converts all references to colors excluding references to IDs to lowercase. This can be disabled by setting convertCase to false.
Bug Fixes
SVG Optimization
  • convertColors, introduce parameter to convert colors to common casing (lowercase/uppercase). By @​JayLeininger in #​1692
  • removeDeprecatedAttrs, new plugin that is disabled by default to remove SVG attributes that are deprecated. By @​jdufresne in #​1869

Metrics

Before and after using vectors from various sources, with the default preset of each respective version:

SVG Original v3.2.0 v3.3.0 Delta
Arch Linux Logo 9.529 KiB 4.115 KiB 4.097 KiB ⬇️ 0.018 KiB
Blobs 50.45 KiB 42.623 KiB 42.609 KiB ⬇️ 0.014 KiB
Isometric Madness 869.034 KiB 540.582 KiB 540.073 KiB ⬇️ 0.509 KiB
tldr-pages Banner 2.071 KiB 1.07 KiB 1.07 KiB
Wikipedia Logo 161.551 KiB 111.668 KiB 111.668 KiB

Before and after of the browser bundle of each respective version:

v3.2.0 v3.3.0 Delta
svgo.browser.js 910.9 kB 753.0 kB ⬇️ 157.9 kB

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