3.7.0

2018-07-11

New each() function! See docs
New math modes! Also see docs.
Bug fixes

3.6.0

2018-07-10

Allows plain conditions in if(true, 1, 2) (vs. if((true), 1, 2))
Fixes svg-gradient() for Firefox
Adds more 3rd-party tests for fewer surprises when upgrading
Removes (broken) less-rhino implementation - use other Java ports

3.5.3

2018-07-06

Reverts @media eval change
Other bug fixes

3.5.0

2018-07-05

Feature: Namespaced Values / Maps e.g. color: @color[primary]
Fixes to calc()
Permissive parsing of custom properties and variables
Inline expressions now not evaluated in at-rules @media (min-width: @var) {} works, @media (min-width: @var + 1) {} will not
Allows unnamed lookups i.e. "functions" e.g. .mixin(@a, @b)[]
Lots of bug fixes

3.5.0-beta.4

2018-06-30

Fixes #3235, #3187
Feature: Namespaced Values e.g. color: #color[primary]

3.5.0-beta.3

2018-06-29

Fix: browser cache is always considered stale if .modifyVars wasn't

3.5.0-beta.2

2018-06-27

Re-parses selectors after variables in selectors are evaluated - Fixes #1421
Fixes #3191

3.5.0-beta

2018-06-24

Adds permissive parsing for at-rules and custom properties - fixes #3147 #2715
Updates dependencies
Fixes file caching issue (not reloading modified files in "watched" environments)

3.0.4

2018-05-06

Update source-map to 0.6.x (#3180). Enforces node 6+ though.

3.0.0

2018-02-10

Fix calc() function to not do math operations on compile
Rename Directive -> AtRule & Rule -> Declaration
Cross-platform @plugin loading! (Node & Browser)
Numerous changes / improvements to plugin architecture
Simplified API calls in plugins (less.atrule() vs new less.tree.AtRule())
Property accessors ($width to refer to width: 300px value)
Inline JavaScript disabled by default for security reasons (use @plugin)
Improvements in Less error reporting
Added feature: returning null / false from Less functions will remove that line
Simple boolean() and if() functions added
Bug fixes
Removal of unnecessary nodes from API (like IE's alpha())

2.7.3

2017-10-23

Bump request dependency

2.7.2

2017-01-04

Revert breaking changes to contrast() function
Fix error reporting of lessc executable
Changed octals to hex for ES6 strict mode

2.7.1 HOTFIX

2016-05-09

Revert commit 470af20 (source map performance) which broke source maps

2.7.0

2016-05-07

Fixes for contrast() function
Allow root functions for plugins
Allow semi-colon separators in functions
Performance improvements for source maps
Fix "blank page" issue in browser
Compatibility fixes for Node 6.x
Fix AST to include single-line comments
Fix reversion for "color-like" words (outputting color values)

2.6.1

2016-03-04

Update Less.js dependencies
Fix comments after named color regression
use instanceof operator instead of class comparison optimization
disallow whitespace in variable calls

2.6.0

2016-01-29

Underscore now allowed in dimension unit
Fixes for import by reference
Fix for #2384 Changes HTTPRequest "sync" setting to simply hide the page until less has rendered, browser version is now orders of magnitude faster.
Added ability to cache stylesheets while using modifyVars
Error when when image-size functions are used in browser-less
Fixed extend leaking through nested parent selector. #2586
Added "or" keyword and allowed arbitrary logical expression in guards
Fixing #2124 - Parsing Error "Unrecognised input" for color operations
Logical operator and now has higher precedence than logical operator or.
Allow unknown at-rules w/o {} block

2.5.3

2015-09-25

Fix import inline a URL

2.5.2

2015-09-24

No output should result in an empty sourcemap
Import inline located inside file imported by reference should not be present in output
Shorthand colors will stay shorthand
Make percentage work like other math functions and throw an error on NaN
Fixed mixin definition matching problem when mixin definition contains parameters with default values
Observe reference for imported comments

2.5.1

2015-05-21

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

2015-04-03

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

2015-02-07

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)

2.3.1

2015-01-28

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

2.3.0

2015-01-27

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

2.2.0

2015-01-04

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.

2.1.2

2014-12-20

Fix for use with requirejs
Fixes for data-uri function

2.1.1

2014-11-27

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 propagates instead of calling the callback again with an error

2.1.0

2014-11-23

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

2.0.0

2014-11-09

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

2.0.0-b3

2014-11-01

some refactoring of browser structure to allow use of api vs normal browser bundle
browser bundle no longer leaks require
browser can now be scoped with just window
browser useFileCache defaults to true, but file cache is now cleared when refreshing or in watch mode

2.0.0-b2

2014-10-26

Imports are now sequenced and so are consistent (previously some complex projects might end up with occasional different orderings)
Imports with variables are better supported - variables can be specified in sub imports
Support for rebeccapurple
Browser can now accept options as attributes on the script tag and the link tags e.g. <script data-verbose="false" src="less.js"...
adding a .less file extension is done in the abstract file manager so it the behaviour can be overridden by certain file managers
Fixed a bug where unquoted urls beginning // e.g. url(//file/file.less) would be incorrectly interpreted (bug introduced in b-1)
lessc plugins can be a function, used as a constructor as well as an object - this to allow the plugin more flexibility to be used programattically

2.0.0-b1

2014-10-19

Public Beta / Release Candidate - Feedback welcome For a guide to breaking changes see the v2 upgrade guide
no longer including old versions of less in the repo or npm
not including test less and gradle files in npm
colours now output in the format they are added, so yellow will output yellow, not its hex counterpart
better parsing - better comment support and comments in brackets can now contain comments including quotes.
Removal of dependency on clean-css - install less-plugin-clean-css and use --clean-css to reference plugin
Environment Support - less is now separate from its node and browser environment implementations and adding support for another javascript environment should be straight forward.
Plugin Support - it is now straight forward to add AST manipulations (see less-plugin-inline-images), file managers (see less-plugin-npm-import) and post processors (see less-plugin-clean-css and less-plugin-autoprefix).
We now recommend using less.render and using the parser directly is not in the same way as in v2. It is possible but it would require changes and we do not guarantee it will not be broken in minor version releases.
In the browser, less.pageLoadFinished will be a promise, resolved when less has finished its initial processing. less.refresh and less.modifyVars also return promises.
In the browser, as before less is used as options, however this is now copied to less.options if you need to access after less has run
In the browser, the cache can be overwritten by setting less.cache before less loads. After load less.cache will be the default implementation.
less.js now uses browserify to generate its browser side component
default values for the sourcemap options have been re-done and improved to hopefully mean creating sourcemaps is easier
Many smaller bugfixes and API changes. Please let us know if something you relied on has disappeared or an area should be better documented.

1.7.5

2014-09-03

Allow comments in keyframe (complete comment support coming in 2.0)
pass options to parser from less.render
Support /deep/ combinator
handle fragments in data-uri's
float @charsets to the top correctly
updates to some dependencies
Fix interpolated import in media query
A few other various small corrections

1.7.4

2014-07-27

Handle uppercase paths in browser
Show error if an empty selector is used in extend
Fix property merging in directives
Fix ordering of charset and import directives
Fix race condition that caused a rules is undefined error sometimes if you had a complex import strategy
Better error message for imports missing semi-colons or malformed
Do not use util.print to avoid deprecate warnings in node 0.11

1.7.3

2014-06-22

Include dist files, missing from 1.7.2
Do not round the results of color functions, like lightness, hue, luma etc.
Support cover and contain keywords in background definitions

1.7.2

2014-06-19

Allow paths option to be a string (in 1.7.1 less started throwing an exception instead of incorrectly processing the string as an array of chars)
Do not round numbers when used with javascript (introduced 1.7.0)

1.7.1

2014-06-08

Fix detection of recursive mixins
Fix the paths option for later versions of node (0.10+)
Fix paths joining bug
Fix a number precision issue on some versions of node
Fix an IE8 issue with importing css files
Fix IE11 detection for xhr requests
Modify var works if the last line of a less file is a comment.
Better detection of valid hex colour codes
Some stability fixes to support a low number of available file handles
Support comparing values with different quote types e.g. "test" now === 'test'
Give better error messages if accessing a url that returns a non 200 status code
Fix the e() function when passed empty string
Several minor bug fixes

1.7.0

2014-02-27

Add support for rulesets in variables and passed to mixins to allow wrapping
Change luma to follow the w3c spec, luma is available as luminance. Contrast still uses luma so you may see differences if your threshold % is close to the existing calculated luma.
Upgraded clean css which means the --selectors-merge-mode is now renamed --compatibility
Add support for using variables with @keyframes, @namespace, @charset
Support property merging with +_ when spaces are needed and keep + for comma separated
Imports now always import once consistently - a race condition meant previously certain configurations would lead to a different ordering of files
Fix support for .mixin(@args...) when called with no args (e.g. .mixin();)
Do unit conversions with min and max functions. Don't pass through if not understood, throw an error
Allow % to be passed on its own to the unit function e.g. unit(10, %)
Fix a bug when comparing a unit value to a non-unit value if the unit-value was the multiple of another unit (e.g. cm, mm, deg etc.)
Fix mixins with media queries in import reference files not being put into the output (they now output, they used to incorrectly not)
Fix lint mode - now reports all errors
Fixed a small scope issue with & {} selector rulesets incorrectly making mixins visible - regression from 1.6.2
Browser - added log level "debug" at 3 to get less logging, The default has changed so unless you set the value to the default you won't see a difference
Browser - logLevel takes effect regardless of the environment (production/dev)
Browser - added postProcessor option, a function called to post-process the css before adding to the page
Browser - use the right request for file access in IE

1.6.3

2014-02-08

Fix issue with calling toCSS twice not working in some situations (like with bootstrap 2)

1.6.2

2014-02-02

The Rhino release is fixed!
ability to use uppercase colours
Fix a nasty bug causing syntax errors when selector interpolation is preceded by a long comment (and some other cases)
Fix a major bug with the variable scope in guards on selectors (e.g. not mixins)
Fold in & when () { to the current selector rather than duplicating it
fix another issue with array prototypes
add a url-args option which adds a value to all urls (for cache busting)
Round numbers to 8 decimal places - thereby stopping javascript precision errors
some improvements to the default() function in more complex scenarios
improved missing '{' and '(' detection

1.6.1

2014-01-12

support ^ and ^^ shadow dom selectors
fix sourcemap selector (used to report end of the element or selector) and directive position (previously not supported)
fix parsing empty less files
error on (currently) ambiguous guards on multiple css selectors
older environments - protect against typeof regex returning function
Do not use default keyword
use innerHTML in tests, not innerText
protect for-in in case Array and Object prototypes have custom fields

1.6.0

2014-01-01

Properties can be interpolated, e.g. @{prefix}-property: value;
a default function has been added only valid in mixin definitions to determine if no other mixins have been matched
Added a plugins option that allows specifying an array of visitors run on the less AST
Performance improvements that may result in approx 20-40% speed up
Javascript evaluations returning numbers can now be used in calculations/functions
fixed issue when adding colours, taking the alpha over 1 and breaking when used in colour functions
when adding together 2 colours with non zero alpha, the alpha will now be combined rather than added
the advanced colour functions no longer ignore transparency, they blend that too
Added --clean-option and cleancssOptions to allow passing in clean css options
rgba declarations are now always clamped e.g. rgba(-1,258,258, -1) becomes rgba(0, 255, 255, 0)
Fix possible issue with import reference not bringing in styles (may not be a bugfix, just a code tidy)
Fix some issues with urls() being prefixed twice and unquoted urls in mixins being processed each time they are called
Fixed error messages for undefined variables in javascript evaluation
Fixed line/column numbers from math errors

1.5.1

2013-11-17

Added source-map-URL option
Fixed a bug which meant the minimised 1.5.0 browser version was not wrapped, meaning it interfered with require js
Fixed a bug where the browser version assume port was specified
Added the ability to specify variables on the command line
Upgraded clean-css and fixed it from trying to import
correct a bug meaning imports weren't synchronous (syncImport option available for full synchronous behaviour)
better mixin matching behaviour with calling multiple classes e.g. .a.b.c;

1.5.0

2013-10-21

sourcemap support
support for import inline option to include css that you do NOT want less to parse e.g. @import (inline) "file.css";
better support for modifyVars (refresh styles with new variables, using a file cache), is now more resiliant
support for import reference option to reference external css, but not output it. Any mixin calls or extend's will be output.
support for guards on selectors (currently only if you have a single selector)
allow property merging through the +: syntax
Added min/max functions
Added length function and improved extract to work with comma separated values
when using import multiple, sub imports are imported multiple times into final output
fix bad spaces between namespace operators
do not compress comment if it begins with an exclamation mark
Fix the saturate function to pass through when using the CSS syntax
Added svg-gradient function
Added no-js option to lessc (in browser, use javascriptEnabled: false) which disallows JavaScript in less files
switched from the little supported and buggy cssmin (previously ycssmin) to clean-css
support transparent as a color, but not convert between rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) and transparent
remove sys.puts calls to stop deprecation warnings in future node.js releases
Browser: added logLevel option to control logging (2 = everything, 1 = errors only, 0 = no logging)
Browser: added errorReporting option which can be "html" (default) or "console" or a function
Now uses grunt for building and testing
A few bug fixes for media queries, extends, scoping, compression and import once.

1.4.2

2013-07-20

if you don't pass a strict maths option, font size/line height options are output correctly again
npmignore now include .gitattributes
property names may include capital letters
various windows path fixes (capital letters, multiple // in a path)

1.4.1

2013-07-05

fix syncImports and yui-compress option, as they were being ignored
fixed several global variable leaks
handle getting null or undefined passed as the options object

1.4.0

2013-06-05

fix passing of strict maths option

1.4.0 Beta 4

2013-05-04

change strictMaths to strictMath. Enable this with --strict-math=on in lessc and strictMath:true in JavaScript.
change lessc option for strict units to --strict-units=off

1.4.0 Beta 3

2013-04-30

strictUnits now defaults to false and the true case now gives more useful but less correct results, e.g. 2px/1px = 2px
Process ./ when having relative paths
add isunit function for mixin guards and non basic units
extends recognise attributes
exception errors extend the JavaScript Error
remove es-5-shim as standard from the browser
Fix path issues with windows/linux local paths

1.4.0 Beta 1 & 2

2013-03-07

support for :extend() in selectors (e.g. input:extend(.button) {}) and &:extend(); in ruleset (e.g. input { &:extend(.button all); })
maths is now only done inside brackets. This means font: statements, media queries and the calc function can use a simpler format without being escaped. Disable this with --strict-maths-off in lessc and strictMaths:false in JavaScript.
units are calculated, e.g. 200cm+1m = 3m, 3px/1px = 3. If you use units inconsistently you will get an error. Suppress this error with --strict-units-off in lessc or strictUnits:false in JavaScript
(~"@var") selector interpolation is removed. Use @{var} in selectors to have variable selectors
default behaviour of import is to import each file once. @import-once has been removed.
You can specify options on imports to force it to behave as css or less @import (less) "file.css" will process the file as less
variables in mixins no longer 'leak' into their calling scope
added data-uri function which will inline an image into the output css. If ieCompat option is true and file is too large, it will fallback to a url()
significant bug fixes to our debug options
other parameters can be used as defaults in mixins e.g. .a(@a, @b:@a)
an error is shown if properties are used outside of a ruleset
added extract function which picks a value out of a list, e.g. extract(12 13 14, 3) => 14
added luma, hsvhue, hsvsaturation, hsvvalue functions
added pow, pi, mod, tan, sin, cos, atan, asin, acos and sqrt math functions
added convert function, e.g. convert(1rad, deg) => value in degrees
lessc makes output directories if they don't exist
lessc @import supports https and 301's
lessc "-depends" option for lessc writes out the list of import files used in makefile format
lessc "-lint" option just reports errors
support for namespaces in attributes and selector interpolation in attributes
other bug fixes

1.3.3

2012-12-30

Fix critical bug with mixin call if using multiple brackets
when using the filter contrast function, the function is passed through if the first argument is not a color

1.3.2

2012-12-28

browser and server url re-writing is now aligned to not re-write (previous lessc behaviour)
url-rewriting can be made to re-write to be relative to the entry file using the relative-urls option (less.relativeUrls option)
rootpath option can be used to add a base path to every url
Support mixin argument separator of ';' so you can pass comma separated values. e.g. .mixin(23px, 12px;);
Fix lots of problems with named arguments in corner cases, not behaving as expected
hsv, hsva, unit functions
fixed lots more bad error messages
fix @import-once to use the full path, not the relative one for determining if an import has been imported already
support :not(:nth-child(3))
mixin guards take units into account
support unicode descriptors (U+00A1-00A9)
support calling mixins with a stack when using & (broken in 1.3.1)
support @namespace and namespace combinators
when using % with colour functions, take into account a colour is out of 256
when doing maths with a % do not divide by 100 and keep the unit
allow url to contain % (e.g. %20 for a space)
if a mixin guard stops execution a default mixin is not required
units are output in strings (use the unit function if you need to get the value without unit)
do not infinite recurse when mixins call mixins of the same name
fix issue on important on mixin calls
fix issue with multiple comments being confused
tolerate multiple semi-colons on rules
ignore subsequant @charset
syncImport option for node.js to read files syncronously
write the output directory if it is missing
change dependency on cssmin to ycssmin
lessc can load files over http
allow calling less.watch() in non dev mode
don't cache in dev mode
less files cope with query parameters better
sass debug statements are now chrome compatible
modifyVars function added to re-render with different root variables

1.3.1

2012-10-18

Support for comment and @media debugging statements
bug fix for async access in chrome extensions
new functions tint, shade, multiply, screen, overlay, hardlight, difference, exclusion, average, negation, softlight, red, green, blue, contrast
allow escaped characters in attributes
in selectors support @{a} directly, e.g. .a.@{a} { color: black; }
add fraction parameter to round function
much better support for & selector
preserve order of link statements client side
lessc has better help
rhino version fixed
fix bugs in clientside error handling
support dpi, vmin, vm, dppx, dpcm units
Fix ratios in media statements
in mixin guards allow comparing colors and strings
support for -*-keyframes (for -khtml but now supports any)
in mix function, default weight to 50%
support @import-once
remove duplicate rules in output
implement named parameters when calling mixins
many numerous bug fixes

1.3.0

2012-03-10

@media bubbling
Support arbitrary entities as selectors
Variadic argument support
Behaviour of zero-arity mixins has changed
Allow @import directives in any selector
Media-query features can now be a variable
Automatic merging of media-query conditions
Fix global variable leaks
Fix error message on wrong-arity call
Fix an @arguments behaviour bug
Fix :: selector output
Fix a bug when using @media with mixins

1.2.1

2012-01-15

Fix imports in browser
Improve error reporting in browser
Fix Runtime error reports from imported files
Fix File not found import error reporting

1.2.0

2012-01-07

Mixin guards
New function percentage
New color function to parse hex color strings
New type-checking stylesheet functions
Fix Rhino support
Fix bug in string arguments to mixin call
Fix error reporting when index is 0
Fix browser support in WebKit and IE
Fix string interpolation bug when var is empty
Support !important after mixin calls
Support vanilla @keyframes directive
Support variables in certain css selectors, like nth-child
Support @media and @import features properly
Improve @import support with media features
Improve error reports from imported files
Improve function call error reporting
Improve error-reporting

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