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Font Awesome · Version history

Font Awesome changelog and version history

Latest version
5.2.1
Aug 13, 2026 (2 months ago)
Releases
50
since 2012
In the last year
6
about one every 48 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4
PHP 7.4 or later

Releases each year

  • 20121 release
  • 20131 release
  • 20187 releases
  • 20197 releases
  • 20207 releases
  • 20217 releases
  • 20226 releases
  • 20231 release
  • 20259 releases
  • 20264 releases

20264 releases

  1. Font Awesome 5.2.1Latest

    • Fix the registration of script translations to enable non-English languages to work correctly in the plugin’s admin interface.

  2. Font Awesome 5.2.0

    • Update the icon chooser to be Kit subset aware. Only icons included in a Kit’s subset will be available for search and selection. If it surprises you to see fewer icons available in the Icon Chooser, the solution is to add more icons to your Kit’s subset on fontawesome.com. You could even use a Ful…
    • Fix for WordPress 7 compatibility: loading assets within the block editor content iframe.

  3. Font Awesome 5.1.5

    • Minor update to the icon chooser, fixing a bug in the previous update.

  4. Font Awesome 5.1.4

    • Update the icon chooser package. This is only for compatibility with other tools that may be loaded on a page that also use the icon chooser package. It does not change how the icon chooser functions in this plugin.

20259 releases

  1. Font Awesome 5.1.3

    • Resolve a compatibility conflict with Toolset Types in the classic editor.

  2. Font Awesome 5.2.0-1

  3. Font Awesome 5.1.2

    • Fix a bug where clicking “Style” on a rich text icon (inside a paragraph block, for example), would result in an error in the block editor. This bug was introduced in 5.1.1 and does not affect icons created as blocks–only those added as inline rich text.

  4. Font Awesome 5.1.1

    • Enable changing the icon within the block editor styling UI.
    • Fix a bug in block editor icon styling UI where the theme color palette options were incorrect when any custom colors were defined in the theme.
    • Fix animations on SVGs in some use cases when added in the block editor. This loads a different SVG support stylesheet that includes the animations CSS rules.
    • Fix a bug where when there are multiple empty icon blocks, changing an icon in one might affect others. The now function independently of one another as expected.

  5. Font Awesome 5.1.0

    • Minor updates to support Font Awesome 7.
    • Allow kits to use a version “7.x”.
    • Update icon chooser to support Font Awesome 7.
    • Use the new svg.css for SVG support styling. (Reverted in 5.1.1)

  6. Font Awesome 5.0.2

    • Fix a bug in the Classic Editor involving interaction with some other plugins, where the Font Awesome media button would not be visible.
    • Make it an admin warning instead of an error when the plugin can’t fetch SVG support stylesheet.
    • Add a font_awesome_disable_block_editor_support filter to allow disabling the block editor support entirely.
    • Changes to enable usage of the self-hosted SVG support stylesheet on systems where file system access is not available.

  7. Font Awesome 5.0.1

    • Automatically fetch the SVG stylesheet any time the WP admin dashboard or Font Awesome plugin settings page is loaded. This stylesheet is required for the new embedded SVG icons to display correctly when they are added using the Icon Chooser in the Block Editor. If you do not use the Block Editor,…

  8. Font Awesome 5.0.0

    • Enhance support for the Block Editor. Add icons as blocks or as inline Rich Text using the Icon Chooser. Icons added in the Block Editor using the Icon Chooser are added as inline SVGs, and can be visually previewed, styled, sized, and animated within the Block Editor. This works for pages, posts,…
    • Improve Icon Chooser performance.
    • Remove support for Font Awesome 3 icon names in the [icon] shortcode.
    • Change minimum supported WordPress to 5.8.
    • Change minimum supported PHP to 7.4.

  9. Font Awesome 4.5.0

    • Update the Icon Chooser to support all available family styles for the active version of Font Awesome. The available family styles are dynamically loaded so that when new family styles are introduced in new versions of Font Awesome, they will be immediately available in the Icon Chooser.
    • Make the Icon Chooser available in the Full Site Editor.
    • Change the format of some network requests in order to accommodate common Web Application Firewall settings. This resolves a common cause of error messages, such as: “Something has gone horribly wrong” in the Icon Chooser, or “Couldn’t save those changes” on the plugin’s settings page.

20231 release

  1. Font Awesome 4.4.0

    • Update the Icon Chooser to fix the use of Sharp Solid in more recent versions of Font Awesome, and include Sharp Regular and Sharp Light.
    • Add the “defer” attribute to script tags when in “Use a Kit” mode. This was already the behavior under “Use CDN” mode.
    • Fix some deprecation notices for php 8.2.

20226 releases

  1. Font Awesome 4.3.2

    • Security Fix: escape shortcode attribute values.

  2. Font Awesome 4.3.1

    • Increase network request timeout to accommodate some slow-running Icon Chooser searches. We’ve recently added some new functionality to the Font Awesome API server. We’re in the process of optimizing it for performance. In the meantime, some icon searches that return lots of search results are runn…

  3. Font Awesome 4.3.0

    • Introduce support for Sharp Solid. The Icon Chooser now includes Sharp Solid among the available styles when using a Font Awesome Pro Kit.
    • Introduce support for WordPress multisite. Allows installing the plugin network-wide and configuring each site separately. Previous versions of this plugin were not compatible with multisite, though it was possible to install and get partial functionality on multisite. However, this could also resu…

  4. Font Awesome 4.2.0

    • Make Font Awesome 6 the default version on new activations.
    • On the version selection dropdown, distinguish between the latest 5.x and the latest 6.x.
    • Maintenance updates to JavaScript dependencies.
    • Developers: the latest_version() method has been deprecated and replaced by two alternatives: latest_version_5() and latest_version_6().

  5. Font Awesome 4.1.1

    • Simplified upgrade logic: makes the upgrade process on the first page load after upgrade quicker and smoother.

  6. Font Awesome 4.1.0

    • Added support for using Font Awesome Version 6 Free with CDN. In order to use Version 6 Pro with this plugin, it’s still necessary to use a Kit, since Version 6 Pro is not available on the classic CDN.
    • Renamed the “Version 4 Compatibility” option as “Older Version Compatibility”, since compatibility features may now involve both Version 4 and Version 5.
    • Updated version of the conflict detection script used when configured for CDN.
    • FIX: in some cases, when running the conflict detector on the back end, there was an error about an undefined variable called $should_enable_icon_chooser. Fixed.
    • FIX: in some cases, when running php 8.0 or higher, there was an error related to calling method_exists(). Fixed.
    • Developers: The v4_compatibility() method has been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. It’s now just compatibility().
    • Developers: The preference named “v4Compat” in the array argument to the register() method has been deprecated and renamed “compat”. Any uses of “v4Compat” are automatically translated to “compat”.
    • Developers: There are no breaking changes. Any code that uses the above deprecated features will continue to work the same without modification in this release.

20217 releases

  1. Font Awesome 4.0.4

    • FIX: add hash values to JavaScript chunk file names to resolve the problem where sometimes an old cached version of a JavaScript file would load in the browser instead of the intended updated one. This caused some users to see a blank settings page after upgrading from a previous version of the plu…

  2. Font Awesome 4.0.3

    • FIX: When in the Classic Editor in WordPress 5, do not load block editor script dependencies that assign to the global wp.editor object. This prevents problems with other plugins on the page that may depend on that global.
    • FIX: When in the Classic Editor where multiple editor instances are present, ensure that the Add Font Awesome media button on each is wired up to load the Icon Chooser on click, not just those buttons that were on the page at the time this plugin’s initialization code is run.

  3. Font Awesome 4.0.2

    • FIX: re-enable the Icon Chooser in the Classic Editor on WordPress 4.
    • FIX: in some cases where the path to the plugin was a non-standard location–such as when installed via composer–the admin settings page and Icon Chooser would not load correctly. Fixed.
    • FIX: the global version of the lodash JavaScript library was again being overwritten by the version used by this plugin. Fixed.
    • The Icon Chooser’s integration with the Block Editor (Gutenberg) has been disabled for WordPress 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, and 5.3, due to incomptabile JavaScript libraries. All other features of the plugin work normally on those versions, including Icon Chooser integration with the Classic Editor.

  4. Font Awesome 4.0.1

    • FIX: In scenarios where both Gutenberg (Block) and TinyMCE (Classic) editors were being loaded onto the same page, the Gutenberg editor was not displaying properly. Now, in that multi-editor situation, the Icon Chooser integration is only enabled for the block editor. In those cases, you can still…
    • FIX: In scenarios where there are multiple TinyMCE editor instances on the same page, such as WooCommerce product editing pages, only the “Add Font Awesome” media button on the first of those editors was working correctly. Now all of them work correctly.
    • FIX: In the Classic Editor, when other themes or plugins added media buttons after the “Add Font Awesome” button, those buttons were showing up as combined together and not working properly. Now they’re separated and working great.
    • The Icon Chooser integration for the Classic Editor in WordPress 4 has been temporarily disabled. Everything else works as before in WP4, just not the new Icon Chooser.

  5. Font Awesome 4.0.0

    • OFFICIAL 4.0.0 STABLE RELEASE
    • FEATURES: Includes all the features from the early 4.0.0 release candidates (details below)
    • FEATURE: Visual icon chooser lets you search and easily insert the correct shortcode.
    • Fixed regression on overriding global lodash version.
    • Added PHP API method to get current Kit token.
    • Removed the filter to process all shortcodes in widget text. This seems to have been an overly eager approach on our part. If you want shortcodes to be processed in widget text – all shortcodes, not just this plugin’s icon shortcode – you can add a line like this to your theme’s functions.php file:…

  6. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc23

    • FIX: plugin now handles Kits with version “5.x” or “6.x”
    • FEATURE: shortcode supports attributes: style, role, title, aria-hidden, aria-label, aria-labelledby

  7. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc22

20207 releases

  1. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc21

  2. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc20

  3. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc19

  4. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc18

  5. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc17

  6. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc16

  7. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc15

20197 releases

  1. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc13

  2. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc12

  3. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc11

  4. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc10

  5. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc9

  6. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc8

  7. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc7

20187 releases

  1. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc6

  2. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc5

  3. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc4

  4. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc3

  5. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc2

  6. Font Awesome 4.0.0-rc1

  7. Font Awesome 3.2.1

20131 release

  1. Font Awesome 3.1

20121 release

  1. Font Awesome 1.1

Questions about Font Awesome’s releases

What is the latest version of Font Awesome?

5.2.1, released on Aug 13, 2026 (2 months ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4 and needs PHP 7.4 or later.

How often is Font Awesome updated?

6 releases in the last year, about one every 48 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from September 2012.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Font Awesome’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.