Apostrophe 3.19.0: New date/time field, faster asset builds

[agilbert]

Hi everyone,

Back at it with another quick release, a bit smaller this time after last week's big feature drop (do check out those release notes if you haven't already).

A few highlights:

• There's now a new dateAndTime field you can use in your schemas to select date and time together – we'll be using this as part of our upcoming release of the new "scheduled publishing" feature.
• We added a new webpack caching mechanism that should significantly speed up your front-end build process.

We look forward to any feedback on these new features. As always, read on for the full notes below and have a great day 🌞

Apostrophe 3.19

Adds

• New schema field type dateAndTime added. This schema field type saves in ISO8601 format, as UTC (Universal Coordinated Time), but is edited in a user-friendly way in the user's current time zone and locale.
• Webpack disk cache for better build performance in development and, if appropriately configured, production as well.
• In development, Webpack rebuilds the front end without the need to restart the Node.js process, yielding an additional speedup. To get this speedup for existing projects, see the nodemonConfig section of the latest package.json in a3-boilerplate for the new "ignore" rules you'll need to prevent nodemon from stopping the process and restarting.
• Added the new command line task apostrophecms/asset:clear-cache for clearing the webpack disk cache. This should be necessary only in rare cases where the configuration has changed in ways Apostrophe can't automatically detect.
• A separate publishedLabel field can be set for any schema field of a page or piece. If present it is displayed instead of label if the document has already been published.

Fixes

• The admin UI now rebuilds properly in a development environment when new npm modules are installed in a multisite project (apos.rootDir differs from apos.npmRootDir).

Apostrophe 3.x modules

document-versions 1.0.1

• Bump peer dependencies to ensure a compatible version of apostrophe is in use, no functional changes

multisite 3.4.0

• Add APOS_THEME environment variable support, for faster startup when only one theme is needed for testing.

cypress-tools 1.0.0-beta.2

• Addressed breaking change in Cypress 9.6.0