v2.3.0 - devServer.colors option not working

package.json devDependencies “webpack”: “^2.1.0-beta.25”, “webpack-dev-server”: “^2.1.0-beta.0”,

i checked the package.json present in node_modules/webpack-dev-server folder it shows 2.3.0 which is the latest release according to npm.

webpack devServer config

devServer: {
    hot: true,
    progress: true,
    colors: true,
    host: devServerSettings.FLASH_DEV_SERVER_HOST,
    port: devServerSettings.FLASH_DEV_SERVER_PORT,
},

ERROR:

Invalid configuration object. webpack-dev-server has been initialised using a configuration object that does not match the API schema.
 - configuration has an unknown property 'colors'. These properties are valid:
   object { hot?, hotOnly?, lazy?, host?, filename?, publicPath?, port?, socket?, watchOptions?, headers?, clientLogLevel?, overlay?, key?, cert?, ca?, pfx?, pfxPassphrase?, inline?, public?, https?, contentBase?, watchContentBase?, open?, features?, compress?, proxy?, historyApiFallback?, staticOptions?, setup?, stats?, reporter?, noInfo?, quiet?, serverSideRender?, index?, log?, warn? }

npm ERR! Linux 3.19.0-68-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "run" "dev"
npm ERR! node v5.0.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.3.12
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! belong@1.0.0 dev: `webpack-dev-server --config /home/avinash/code/flash/webpack.devoffice.config.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the belong@1.0.0 dev script 'webpack-dev-server --config /home/avinash/code/flash/webpack.devoffice.config.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the belong package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     webpack-dev-server --config /home/avinash/code/flash/webpack.devoffice.config.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls belong
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/avinash/code/flash/npm-debug.log

i checked the node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js source it does have the following code

"color": {
    type: "boolean",
    alias: "colors",
    default: function supportsColor() {
        return require("supports-color");
    },
    group: DISPLAY_GROUP,
    describe: "Enables/Disables colors on the console"
},

while searching for solutions I came across this issue https://github.com/webpack/webpack-dev-server/issues/609 which was a missing devServer.progress issue is similar fix needed for devServer.colors?

[SpaceK33z]

Thanks for your clear bugreport! Whether your terminal has color support is now calculated automatically, so you could remove that property from your config. If you want to force it, you can pass --color (or --no-color). Another options is to add stats: { colors: true } in devServer, but that shouldn’t be necessary.

This was not part of any changelog (AFAIK), sorry!

[shellscape]

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