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SharePoint Framework v1.8.1 release notes

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This is a minor bump that fixes the issues with the Yeoman generator, projects using the SharePoint 2016 and 2019 configurations, and an issue around using the legacy Fabric CSS setting.

Released: April 16, 2019

Important

This page addresses details related to a specific SPFx release version. This page doesn't include additional SPFx prerequisites that must be installed in order to develop SPFx solutions, including Node.js, Yeoman, and other tools.

To learn more about these prerequisites, see Set up your SharePoint Framework development environment.

Upgrading projects from v1.8.0 to v1.8.1

In the project's package.json file, identify all SPFx v1.8.0 packages. For each SPFx package:

  1. Uninstall the existing v1.8.0 package:

    npm uninstall @microsoft/{spfx-package-name}@1.8.0

  2. Install the refreshed v1.8.1 package:

    npm install @microsoft/{spfx-package-name}@1.8.1.0 --save --save-exact

Tip

The CLI for Microsoft 365 provides an easy step-by-step guidance to upgrade your solutions to latest SharePoint Framework version.

Changes in this release

  • Fixed: Not able to set up SharePoint Server 2016 or SharePoint Server 2019 on premises using @microsoft/sharepoint Yeoman generator (two issues mentioned – incorrect SupportedHosts property and incorrect reference to sp-property-pane)
  • Fixed: Can't use loadLegacyFabricCss in SPFX 1.8
  • Fixed: issues around unmet peer dependencies with certain versions of rush-stack-compiler. You can use the recent versions.

Investigating

We're still looking into the issues around out of memory conditions during builds – the current information looks like an issue with the 3.x compilers, tslint configurations, and office-ui-fabric-react.

If you're coming across this memory issue, the current workaround is to add --max_old_space_size=8192 to your gulp commands. We'll release another update when we have a more concrete solution. So as an example you can bundle your solution using the following command:

gulp bundle --ship --max_old_space_size=4000

We're looking into potentially addressing the memory and version conflict/confusion with additional 1.8.2 version, including updated version matrix related on the React, TypeScript, and Office UI Fabric releases.