Importing remote urls broken with v3.0.1

With less v2.7.3 (using webpack v3.1.0 and less-loader v4.1.0) I could import remote fonts like this in my main.less file:

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito');

With less v3.0.1 using the same config and dependencies I now only get this error when trying to build:

Message:
    ./node_modules/css-loader??ref--1-2!./node_modules/postcss-loader/lib??ref--1-3!./node_modules/less-loader/dist/cjs.js??ref--1-4!./src/css/main.less
Module build failed:

 */
@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito');
^
Can't resolve './https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito' in 'C:\Projekte\mine\homepage\src\css'
      in C:\Projekte\mine\homepage\src\css\main.less (line 6, column 0)

[matthew-dean]

I think this might be related to the fact that Less no longer auto-switches to a “css” import (preserving the @import statement) just because it finds a “css” string somewhere in the URL.

Try @import (css) url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito');

[seven-phases-max]

so just wondering if I could do this with a config option instead?

No. More over the very idea of importing fonts.googleapis.com into a compiled CSS is dangerous because fonts.googleapis.com does sniff the used browser (obvoiusly Less in node will report itself as Chrome/Chromium) and may return different results depending on that (so far I did not heard of any problem in this regards but it is free to break at any moment).