# postcss-loader: what changed from 7 to 8

- Product: postcss-loader (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/postcss-loader)
- Vendor: webpack
- Range: changelog entries numbered after v7.3.4 up to and including v8.2.1, stable releases only
- Entries below: 5 releases (newest first)
- Resolved: 7 is v7.3.4 and 8 is v8.2.1, the newest stable release of each major we track
- Carrying security changes: 0 · CVEs mentioned: 0 · Mentioning breaking changes: 1 · Removing or deprecating something: 0
- Page: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/postcss-loader/compare/7...8

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

## What changed (5 changes, grouped by kind)

### Added

#### v8.1.0 (2024-01-30)

- Add @rspack/core as an optional peer dependency

### Changed

#### v8.2.0 (2025-09-01)

- Update jiti from v1 to v2

#### v8.0.0 (2024-01-16)

- Minimum supported Node.js version is now 18.12.0

### Fixed

#### v8.2.1 (2026-02-15)

- Update peer dependency for @rspack/core v2

#### v8.1.1 (2024-02-28)

- respect `default` when loading postcss esm configs

## Release notes

### v8.2.1

- Date: 2026-02-15
- Version: v8.2.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/webpack/postcss-loader/releases/tag/v8.2.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/postcss-loader/releases/v8.2.1

- **fixed** — Update peer dependency for @rspack/core v2

###### [8.2.1](https://github.com/webpack/postcss-loader/compare/v8.2.0...v8.2.1) (2026-02-15)


###### Bug Fixes

* update peer dependency for @rspack/core v2 ([#717](https://github.com/webpack/postcss-loader/issues/717)) ([a3ed7e2](https://github.com/webpack/postcss-loader/commit/a3ed7e236b6414efdb89084fb90861a16db84b6a))

### v8.2.0

- Date: 2025-09-01
- Version: v8.2.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/webpack/postcss-loader/releases/tag/v8.2.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/postcss-loader/releases/v8.2.0

- **changed** — Update jiti from v1 to v2

##### [8.2.0](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/compare/v8.1.1...v8.2.0) (2025-09-01)


###### Features

* update `jiti` from v1 to v2 ([9c74974](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/commit/9c749746df8ddadbac3af60387dc562242350c9a))

### v8.1.1

- Date: 2024-02-28
- Version: v8.1.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/webpack/postcss-loader/releases/tag/v8.1.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/postcss-loader/releases/v8.1.1

- **fixed** — respect `default` when loading postcss esm configs

###### [8.1.1](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/compare/v8.1.0...v8.1.1) (2024-02-28)


###### Bug Fixes

* respect `default` when loading postcss esm configs ([52d8050](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/commit/52d8050335ca803572e9cc9eae9583c2bb505612))

### v8.1.0

- Date: 2024-01-30
- Version: v8.1.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/webpack/postcss-loader/releases/tag/v8.1.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/postcss-loader/releases/v8.1.0

- **added** — Add @rspack/core as an optional peer dependency

##### [8.1.0](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/compare/v8.0.0...v8.1.0) (2024-01-30)


###### Features

* add `@rspack/core` as an optional peer dependency ([#679](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/issues/679)) ([512e4c3](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/commit/512e4c33a6072534008c0eefc481139f58effbdf))

### v8.0.0

- Date: 2024-01-16
- Version: v8.0.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/webpack/postcss-loader/releases/tag/v8.0.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/postcss-loader/releases/v8.0.0

- **changed** — Minimum supported Node.js version is now 18.12.0

##### [8.0.0](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/compare/v7.3.4...v8.0.0) (2024-01-16)


###### ⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

* minimum supported Node.js version is `18.12.0` ([#677](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/issues/677)) ([8dd0315](https://github.com/webpack-contrib/postcss-loader/commit/8dd0315c03e0f608b6a9a4c6a58e9e7a64775e56))