Full Changelog

We expect this release to ship in the DevTools of Chrome 100, and to PageSpeed Insights within 2 weeks.

Notable Changes

• Fixed a major bug introduced in 9.0 that broke --cli-flags-path #13589

Core

• preload-lcp-image: enable audit (#13599)
• ensure good and average scores start exactly at control points (#13559)
• fr: don't throw on unknown --only-categories value (#13499)
• inspector-issues: collect all issue types (#13462, #13603, #13595)
• object-alt: remove md syntax around "alt" (#13517)
• runner: asset manager helper (#13519)

CLI

• remove update-notifier (#13588)
• asset-saver: end devtoolsLog with a newline (#13566)

Report

• allow client to configure how save-html is implemented (#13518)

Deps

• update various runtime deps (#13483)
• update various devDeps (#13485)
• update robots-parser to latest (#13554)
• update transitive deps to quiet vulnerability alerts (#13538)
• lighthouse-stack-packs: upgrade to 1.7.0 (#13604)
• snyk: update snyk snapshot (#13498, #13598)
• yargs: upgrade to 17.3.1 (#13590)
• yargs-parser: upgrade to 21.0.0 (#13597)

Clients

• use minimal 'url' polyfil instead of url-shim (#13545)
• devtools: add FR runners to DevTools entry (#13593)

I18n

• import (#13602)

Docs

• update devtools panel throttling details (#13504)

Tests

• add snapshot tests for cli-flags.js (#13596)
• tweak some CI job names for clarity (#13549)
• split devtools ci into build, web-tests and smoke jobs (#13546)
• more targeted caching for devtools build (#13540)
• run most smoke tests on devtools (#13456)
• clean up and add comments to cdt layout test scripts (#13471)
• devtools: ensure WebSQL table is populated (#13579)