fix(deps): update font awesome (major)

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This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core (source)	6.7.2 -> 7.1.0
@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons (source)	6.7.2 -> 7.1.0
@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons (source)	6.7.2 -> 7.1.0
@fortawesome/react-fontawesome	0.2.6 -> 3.1.1

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Release Notes

FortAwesome/Font-Awesome (@​fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core)

v7.1.0

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Change log available at https://fontawesome.com/docs/changelog/

v7.0.1

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Change log available at https://fontawesome.com/docs/changelog/

v7.0.0

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Change log available at https://fontawesome.com/docs/changelog/

FortAwesome/react-fontawesome (@​fortawesome/react-fontawesome)

v3.1.1

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Bug Fixes

• WCAG: allow custom role attribute on svgs like previous versions (ef4986b)

Documentation

• remove irrelevant upgrade guide from 0.1-0.2x (7d41077)

Chores

• deps: fix GH advisory GHSA-5j98-mcp5-4vw2 (2cd0c3f)
• deps: regenerate lockfile (779488e)
• deps: upgrade all dev deps (b92e5a7)
• release: explicit registry in publish script (2aee952)
• release: fix semantic release config missing npm plugin (ebabf46)

v3.1.0

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Features

• custom cssPrefix support (ad42835)
• layers: add support for layers with FontAwesomeLayers component (2c84902)

Bug Fixes

• better export path for CustomPrefixProvider (663cd25)
• browser-support: don't use string.replaceAll to fix safari 12 support (1776e3a)

Testing

• layers: add unit tests for FontAwesomeLayers (d31480b)
• utils: unit tests for withPrefix utility (982f649)

Documentation

• add inline documentation for CustomPrefixProvider (46f69d4)
• remove .env requirement (c942c6a)

Chores

• release: use @​semantic-release/exec for multi-publish rather than third-party plugin (5a47e13)

v3.0.2

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Bug Fixes

• constants: resolve JSON import errors for vite/remix users (850a804)
• test: flaky converter performance test in CI (8f43f0e)
• WCAG: correctly read aria-label and ensure aria-hidden is false when label present (19ddeb3)

Testing

• converter: fix unit test for aria-label handling (8c49cdc)
• remove flaky test (f9605ab)
• remove unnecessary test conditionals for v5 (fd5bf9b)

Chores

• don't include release notes in release commit (78ce3f8)
• dx: integrate semantic-release and commitlint (de5b958)
• remove dependency on semver (066019b)
• update release config for better changelogs (7d2c242)

CI/CD

• actions: refactor CI workflow to split some jobs out of matrix (d0d1fb6)
• actions: use commitlint github action (4ab8726)
• use public npm registry for npm ci (69ea57b)

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v3.0.1

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Bug Fixes

• Added additional module resolution configs in package.json (b078d99)
• Refactored SVGCore version checks to use dynamic import to fix #​589 (bc7cad0)

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v3.0.0

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BREAKING

• Dropped support for end-of-life FontAwesome versions (below v6), Node versions (below 20.x) and React versions (below 18.x)
• Dropped support for browser versions that don't support the ES2020 standard, namely JavaScript built-in: globalThis

Changes

• Rewrote the entire library from plain JavaScript to TypeScript
• Replaced rollup with tsup for providing both ESM and CJS exports from one TypeScript source
• Removed prop-types in favour of colocated typings for React component props
• Added better type definitions to each prop including examples of usage
• Upgraded eslint from v6 to v9, rewrote config as Flat Config, modernised ESLint config, plugins and rules
• Refactored all unit tests from the deprecated react-test-renderer to the industry standard @testing-library/react
• Upgraded all other development dependencies to latest versions as of release date
• Optimised FontAwesomeIcon by reducing per-render function calls and memory allocations
• Optimised classList function by removing runtime semver checks and array operations
• Optimised converter with a full rewrite for significant performance increases (~70%)
• Moved inline class strings from getClassListFromProps to pre-computed maps

Bug Fixes

• Fixed accessibility ID generation (titleId, maskId) for SSR ensuring a consistent ID across server and client renders (#​93, #​550, #​573)
• Fixed TypeScript errors when styling duotone icons with CSS variables (#​509)
• Fixed aria-hidden so it is false if there is a non-empty aria-label attribute (#​126)
• Resolved large number of npm audit issues by removing and updating dependencies

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