Changelog

All notable user-facing changes to the Bevy CLI will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

All Changes: cli-v0.1.0-alpha.2...main

v0.1.0-alpha.2 - 2025-09-22

All Changes: cli-v0.1.0-alpha.1...cli-v0.1.0-alpha.2

Added

• bevy build web and bevy run web commands will now automatically apply the web backend for getrandom if necessary. getrandom requires both a feature and a rustflag to be enabled by the user, which can quickly lead to compile errors when not set up correctly. The CLI will automatically set the rustflag if needed and provide easy instructions on how to configure the features (#547)
• The CLI is now able to list and install all available versions of the Bevy linter with bevy lint list and bevy lint install (#529)
• You can now run the linter on web builds with bevy lint web (#523)
• You can now specify the host address in bevy run web with the --host flag (#472)
• It is now possible to customize the arguments passed to wasm-opt when optimizing a build for the web (#486)
  • You can pass flags to the CLI like --wasm-opt=-Oz --wasm-opt=--enable-bulk-memory, or you can change the wasm-opt configuration value to an array instead of a boolean, like wasm-opt = ["-Oz", "--enable-bulk-memory"] (#486)
• It is now possible to specify bevy run web HTTP headers in Cargo.toml using the headers array (#544)
• The Bevy CLI now has colorful --help output, matching Cargo's style (#464)
• The main --help message now contains links to Bevy's website, Bevy's source code, and the CLI's documentation (#457, #482)
• (Unstable) It is now possible to build apps for the web with support for multi-threading (#499)
  • Use the --unstable multi-threading flag or set the unstable.web-multi-threading config to true to run an app using multi-threaded Wasm
  • This is only available when compiling the CLI with the unstable feature, however it is enabled by default
  • This depends on an unstable flag in the Rust compiler, and thus requires a nightly toolchain of Rust
  • Bevy doesn't natively utilize multi-threaded WASM, so this will only benefit plugins that support it or code you write yourself

Changed

• The CLI no longer uses cargo-generate as a library dependency. Instead, if you don't have the cargo-generate executable installed, the CLI will ask to automatically install it for you when you first run bevy new (#597)
  • This makes it slightly more challenging to use bevy new, but it significantly decreases compilation times for the CLI (up to 3x!) and allows passing more options to cargo-generate.
• When building a project, the CLI can now load the assets and web folders next to the crate Cargo.toml, rather than just the workspace Cargo.toml. Crate-specific folders will be prioritized over workspace folders (#485, #490)
• rustflags specified in .cargo/config.toml and the RUSTFLAGS environmental variable are now respected and will be merged with those defined in the CLI's configuration (#540)
• bevy build web and bevy run web now support JS snippets (#527)
• The --no-default-features option confusingly used to accept true and false as inputs, but has been changed to be a simple toggle flag, matching Cargo's behavior (#473)
• The --yes flag from bevy lint has been moved to the bevy lint install subcommand (#583)
• The error message has been improved in cases where the CLI fails to gather project information using cargo metadata (#543, #545)

Fixed

• bevy build web and bevy run web now respect the target configuration option, meaning it's now possible to build for WASM targets like wasm32v1-none instead of just wasm32-unknown-unknown (#481)
• bevy run now respects the default-members workspace field in Cargo.toml when selecting which crate to run (#477)
• bevy new now emits an error if the name of the crate is invalid (#480)
• Instructions in bevy lint --help no longer incorrectly says the linter needs to be installed manually (#465)
• The example for bevy completions has been reworded to be clearer (#466)

v0.1.0-alpha.1 - 2025-05-23

All Changes: cli-v0.1.0-alpha.1

Added

• bevy new: create new projects from a template using cargo-generate (#2)
  • bevy_new_minimal is the default template if none is specified (#80)
  • There are shortcuts for templates from TheBevyFlock. For example, -t 2d uses bevy_new_2d (#82)
• bevy lint: invoke the linter if bevy_lint is installed (#4)
• bevy build and bevy run: build and run your program with Bevy-specific configuration (#76, #103, #102, #120)
  • You can use bevy build web and bevy run web to build and run your program for the web using Wasm.
  • Web binaries can be optimized with wasm-opt (#206, #430)
  • You can pass --bundle to pack all files needed for the web into a single folder (#195)
• bevy completions: generate terminal auto-complete scripts for a variety of shells (#265)
• The CLI can be configured with [package.metadata.bevy_cli] (#331, #355, #351)