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September 4, 2020

Tailwind CSS v1.8.0

Adam Wathan

@adamwathan

Tailwind CSS v1.8 is now available with a handful of new utilities, a couple new features, and an exciting new experiment!

New features

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• New font-variant-numeric utilities (#2305 )
• New place-items, place-content, place-self, justify-items, and justify-self utilities (#2306 )
• New preserveHtmlElements option for purge (#2283 )
• New layers mode for purge (#2288 )
• Support configuring variants as functions (#2309 )
• Dark mode variant (experimental) (#2279 )

Changes

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• CSS within @layer at-rules are now grouped with the corresponding @tailwind at-rule (#2312 )

Deprecations

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• The conservative purge mode has been deprecated in favor of the new layers mode (#2288 )

Check out the full release notes on GitHub for more details.

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