# Tailwind CSS v2.2.5 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Tailwind CSS (https://tailwindcss.com)
- **Version:** v2.2.5
- **Released:** Jul 21, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/tailwind/updates/v2.2.5/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Tailwind CSS v2.2.5. Source highlight: Added `self-baseline` utility (I know this is a patch release, no one's going to die relax) (#5000)

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- This provides a very significant performance boost on pages with a huge number of DOM nodes, but there's a chance it could be a breaking change in very rare edge cases we haven't thought of. Please open an issue if anything related to shadows, rings, transforms, filters, or backdrop-filters seems to be behaving differently after upgrading.

## Bug Fixes
- Added `self-baseline` utility (I know this is a patch release, no one's going to die relax) (#5000)
- Fix support for `step-start` and `step-end` in animation utilities (#4795))
- JIT: Prevent presence of `!*` in templates from ruining everything (#4816))
- JIT: Improve support for quotes in arbitrary values (#4817))
- Fix filter/backdrop-filter/transform utilities being inserted into the wrong position if not all core plugins are enabled (#4852))
- JIT: Fix `@layer` rules being mistakenly inserted during incremental rebuilds (#4853))

## Upgrade Command
```bash
npm install --save-exact tailwindcss@2.2.5
```