Release notes for Kiln, the build tool. Shipped every other Tuesday, written by whoever did the work.
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The first build on a fresh CI runner used to pay for everything. Now it pays for what changed.
kiln cache warm primes the remote cache from the last green build before the first task runs.
Cold builds on a 14k-module monorepo went from 3m 41s to 52s on an 8-core runner.
Watch mode no longer rebuilds twice when an editor saves by writing a temp file and renaming it.
Source maps for re-exported barrel files point at the original module again.
kiln build --profile writes valid JSON on Windows paths with spaces.
Set a ceiling per package. The build fails with a diff of what grew, not just a number.
[budgets]"@acme/checkout" = "48 kB""@acme/search" = "32 kB"
Per-package size budgets in kiln.toml, checked on every production build.
kiln why <module> prints the import chain that pulled a module into a chunk.
Tree-shaking now drops unused class members in side-effect-free packages.
A new resolver written in Rust, and Node 20 is the floor. Upgrade notes cover the three breaking changes.
Rust module resolver: 6.1× faster on deep node_modules trees.
Config errors name the key, the file and the line instead of a stack trace.
Circular imports through type-only re-exports no longer stall the graph walker.