January 23

First release of 2023 is out (v20.19.6) and is packed with goodies. Read about the new features/enhancements and bug fixes. We hope it improves your dx@scale experience significantly.

⭐ New Features

• sfpowerscripts now support for declarative field history tracking and feed tracking. Read more on how to use this feature here @MengAQi has written a blog which details more on how this functionality work under the hoods. Check out the article here
• Missed declaring a package dependency? sfpowerscripts now feature a transitive dependency resolution which fills in the gaps. Don't like it, use disableTransitiveDependencyResolver:false to turn this feature off. Read more about the feature here

  "plugins": {
          "sfpowerscripts": {
              "disableTransitiveDependencyResolver": true
          }
  

• 3 New additional commands to help with dependency management, with more enhancements slated for upcoming releases. These commands are in the dependency topic

Commmand	Description
dependency: expand	Expand the dependency list in sfdx-project.json file for each package, fix the gap of dependencies from its dependent packages
dependency: shrink	Shrink the dependency list in sfdx-project.json file for each package, remove duplicate dependencies that already exist in its dependent packages
dependency: install	Install all the external dependencies of a given project

⭐ Enhancements

• Add support for sfpowerscripts orchestrator extensions to unlocked packages #1204
• Additional parameters to pre/post script to manipulate contents of a package #1196
• publish command to push only packages version tags #1183
• Create scratch orgs in parallel during prepare #1142
• More concise logs, by removing borders around tables

🪲 Bug Fixes

• pool. Available metrics not reporting poolname #1214
• Unpackaged metadata not provided to sfdx build in newest sfpowerscripts version #1202
• GitLab NPM Scope adds second @ in orchestrator:release #1200
• releasedefinition:generate does not generate "promotePackagesBeforeDeploymentToOrg" attributes correctly to Release Definition File #1180
• Quickbuild command is not respecting .forceIgnore specific file #1178
• Publish command tags HEAD instead of artifact commit ID #983

New Contributors

• @gz77a made their first contribution in #1181

Full Changelog: https://github.com/dxatscale/sfpowerscripts/compare/@dxatscale/[email protected]...@dxatscale/[email protected]