[ROADMAP] UI5 Tooling 4.0 / Specification Version 4.0

[flovogt]

This is a draft, likely to contain more topics than we will actually be able to work on. We appreciate your feedback.

UI5 Tooling 4.0

Breaking changes

• ui5-builder: Change default of bundle option usePredefineCalls to true (API) (CPOUI5FOUNDATION-760)
• ui5-project: Set default workspaceName to "default" for API usage ([INTERNAL] graph: Add TODO about workspaceName param default ui5-project#586) (CPOUI5FOUNDATION-802)
  • [BREAKING] Set default workspaceName to "default" for API usage ui5-project#706
• ui5-project: Rename ui5HomeDir to ui5DataDir also in APIs (CPOUI5FOUNDATION-802)
  • [BREAKING] Rename ui5HomeDir to ui5DataDir in APIs ui5-project#707
  • [BREAKING] Rename ui5HomeDir to ui5DataDir in APIs ui5-cli#687
• ui5-fs: Remove non-public DuplexCollection#byGlobSource API (CPOUI5FOUNDATION-802)
  • [BREAKING] DuplexCollection: remove byGlobSource method ui5-fs#552
• ui5-builder: Task API changes (minify / buildThemes) in context of Task Workers RFC (CPOUI5FOUNDATION-700)
• ui5-builder: Task API "namespace" option got renamed to "projectNamespace" (CPOUI5FOUNDATION-802)
  • [BREAKING] Task API arguments rename ui5-builder#995
• all modules: Occurrences of native console should be re-considered to use stderr instead of stdout
  • [BREAKING] Replace console.log with process.stderr #930
  • [BREAKING] Replace console.log with process.stderr  ui5-server#643
  • [BREAKING] Replace console.log with process.stderr ui5-cli#686
• all modules: Node version support ^20.11.0 || >=21.2.0 (CPOUI5FOUNDATION-800, [BREAKING] Require Node.js 20.11.x/>=21.2.0 and npm >=10 #928)
• all modules: NPM version support >= 10 (CPOUI5FOUNDATION-800, [BREAKING] Require Node.js 20.11.x/>=21.2.0 and npm >=10 #928)

Features

• [FEATURE] manifest.json: Auto-fill supportedLocales ui5-builder#957

Dependencies

• CPOUI5FOUNDATION-801
  • ui5-logger: Upgrade breaking (dev-)dependencies
  • ui5-fs: Upgrade breaking (dev-)dependencies
  • ui5-builder: Upgrade breaking (dev-)dependencies
  • ui5-project: Upgrade breaking (dev-)dependencies
  • ui5-server: Upgrade breaking (dev-)dependencies
  • ui5-cli: Upgrade breaking (dev-)dependencies

Specification Version 4.0

Breaking changes

• Change default of bundle option usePredefineCalls to true (CPOUI5FOUNDATION-760)

Features

None

Next (5.0+)

UI5 Tooling

Breaking changes

• ui5-builder: Remove XMLCompositeAnalyzer.js. XMLComposite controls were deprecated with UI5 1.88.0
  • Note long-term support of older UI5 releases which still make use of this. Maybe make this an opt-in option in ui5.yaml?
• ui5-builder: Relocate generateJSDoc to thirdparty module (JIRA: CPOUI5FOUNDATION-593)
• ui5-server: Remove or deprecate testRunner middleware (required resources are part of the npm packages since UI5 1.115)
• ui5-project: Limit execution of generateManifest task to framework libraries?

Features

• New type component (Serve application projects listed as project dependencies in /resources #45)
• CDN proxy or adapter as an alternative to downloading UI5 dependencies in environments with slow I/O
  • Possible a server-only setting or CLI flag
  • Would also pose a workaround for SAPUI5 1.71 is not supported #265
• New extension deployment-task (name to be decided) (Feature Request: Provide hook for executing custom task after build has been completed #490); with corresponding enhancements in specVersion
• New project type project-expansion (name to be decided) which allows to add resources from a different module to an existing project (Relative paths for project shims #500)
  • For example the resources of a polyfill module will then become part of an application project's resources (i.e. included in preloads and with the same flattening on build/serve); with corresponding enhancements in specVersion
• ui5-fs: Add an Adapter to handle archives, e.g. .zip / .jar ([POC][FEATURE] Add archive adapter ui5-fs#454)

Specification Version

Breaking changes

• Breaking change: Require a manifest.json for libraries

[mauriciolauffer]

Regarding deployment-task, pls don't!
#490 (comment)