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Lucide

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Velocity6.3

Open-source icon library; community fork of Feather Icons with thousands of consistent SVG icons.

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Lucide folds its icon incubator into the main repo and tightens CI supply-chain posture.

icon-librarycommunity-contributionsmonorepo-consolidationci-securitydesign-refinement
◆Current state
Lucide ships a roughly weekly minor release, and the contents are consistently icon additions, icon geometry refinements, and framework-package fixes across Angular, Vue, and React Native. The community pipeline is the engine — most releases carry several contributors making their first commit. In late July the project folded @lucide/lab, its experimental icon incubator, into the main monorepo.
◆Where it's heading
The consolidation is the through-line: one repository, and a formal path from experimental icon to core set. Alongside it, a sustained CI investment — SHA-pinned actions, explicit workflow permissions, grouped dependabot config — indicates supply-chain posture is now an active concern for a package with this install base. Icon work itself is drifting from raw additions toward metadata quality and optical refinement of icons that already exist.
◆Prediction
Expect the weekly minors to continue, dominated by community icon additions, with more graduations out of @lucide/lab into the core set now that both live in one repository.

◆Recent moves

  1. 9d ago

    Three new icons: mail-badge, angle, and eject

    The routine weekly beat — three community-contributed icons and two first-time contributors. Additions like these, not headline features, are what the release cadence is actually made of.

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  2. 11d ago

    Emoji icons renamed, shield-lock added, CI actions SHA-pinned

    Mixes icon work with the CI security hardening running through recent releases; pinning actions to SHAs continues the supply-chain tightening. The emoji rename pass reflects the shift toward naming consistency over raw icon count.

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  3. 12d ago

    Dependency bumps, CI permissions, and a lab build fix

    Almost entirely dependency bumps, workflow permissions, and dependabot configuration, with no user-facing icon changes. It marks the point where CI and supply-chain plumbing consumed an entire release.

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  4. 18d ago

    Lucide lab merges into the main repo, drops 16 graduated icons

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    This is the structural move behind the consolidation arc: the lab incubator stops being a standalone repository and becomes a stage inside the main one. The 16 removals are that mechanism made visible — icons leave lab at the moment they enter core.

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  5. 20d ago

    Calendar icons rebalanced for optical centering

    A single-change release adjusting the optical balance of the calendar icons. Releases this small show the icon work moving toward refinement of what already ships rather than expansion of the set.

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  6. 24d ago

    Brand names stripped from icon tags; pending-cw and square-off added

    Strips brand names from icon tags and revises stopwords — a search-quality change affecting how icons get discovered — alongside the usual additions and an Angular SVG attribute fix. Icon metadata is becoming its own workstream.

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