All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
Unreleased (date goes here)
7.0.0 (2020-12-20)
auto
label now scans forpackage.json
only if it can not find a version control file (#644)
engine
label to look forengines.node
inpackage.json
(as used byauto
) (#644)
- avoid colorized grep output via
GREP_OPTIONS
breaking version lookup (#643)
6.8.0 (2020-12-12)
- suppress unwanted warning during
auto
when using npx with npm 7 - temporary fix for installing on Mac with Apple M1 chip, look for x64 versions of node as arm64 not available yet
6.7.1 (2020-11-25)
- detect and handle a failed download of full archive (#635)
6.7.0 (2020-07-25)
auto
support for:.node-version
.nvmrc
engines
field ofpackage.json
6.6.0 (2020-07-04)
- labels for node support aliases, such as
lts_latest
- Enable
xz
support by default for macOS 11+ (#624)
6.5.1 (2020-04-11)
- specify
auto
to read the target version from a.n-node-version
file (i.e. change filename)
6.5.0 (2020-04-11) [YANKED]
- specify
auto
to read the target version from a.node-version
file (#616)
6.4.0 (2020-03-10)
- treat
armv8l
asarm64
(#614)
6.3.1 (2020-02-25)
- remove old version of node before copy to avoid firewall issues on macOS (#394)
6.3.0 (2020-02-24)
--preserve
to preserve npm and npx during install of node (#587)
6.2.0 (2020-01-29)
- Downloads now default to using tarballs compressed by
xz
overgzip
, ifxz
support detected. (#606 #607)
6.1.3 (2019-11-23)
- added How It Works to README
- simplified layout for
n doctor
output
6.1.2 (2019-11-16)
- advice to reset command hash when node location changes (#170 #381 #451 #588)
- in README describe raw download of
n
to bootstrap install of node and npm
6.1.1 (2019-11-10)
- Specify
--no-same-owner
for tarball extraction so cache files not owned by unexpected user (when run with sudo) (#593)
6.1.0 (2019-10-25)
- deletion of cached versions from menu using 'd' (#590)
6.0.1 (2019-08-20)
- allow options to come after commands, especially
n lsr --all
6.0.0 (2019-08-16)
- version specified using release stream codenames, like
argon
(#423) - version specified using nightly et al (#376)
n exec
for running arbitrary command with node and npm inPATH
(#185)n run
with legacy aliases ofas
anduse
n lsr
for listing matching remote versions, limited to 20 by default (#383)n doctor
for displaying diagnostic informationn install
for people used to other products with this command (#524)--insecure
to disable curl/wget certificate checks- added npm version to installed message (#210 #484 #574)
- Breaking wget now checks certificates (secure by default, same as curl setup). (#475 #509)
- failure messages go to stderr instead of stdout
- prefixed
N_NODE_MIRROR
to eventually replaceNODE_MIRROR
- Breaking
n ls
now lists local download versions (rather than remote versions) - lookup available versions using
index.tab
rather than screen-scraping (#560)
- download errors display informative message, instead of just
Invalid version
(#482 #492 et al) - improve reliability of downloads from custom node mirrors, including removing broken
is_oss_ok
(#560) - restrict downloads to versions with architecture available (#463)
- Breaking support for
PROJECT_NAME
andPROJECT_URL
for custom downloads (#342)
5.0.2 (2019-08-02)
- instructions to bottom of menu version selection
5.0.1 (2019-07-20)
- removed reference to prerelease version of v5.0.0 from README
5.0.0 (2019-07-20)
- log message after install from cache (previously silent)
- extra logging after install if the active and installed node locations are different
- support for NO_COLOR and CLICOLOR=0
- suppress progress and colour if not interactive tty
- define
N_USE_XZ
to download.xz
compressed archives instead of.gz
archives
- reinstalling active node version always does reinstall (previously silently did nothing)
- log message for installing using menu now same format as
npm install
message - updates to GitHub templates and guidelines for contributing et al
4.1.0 (2019-05-10)
- 'n uninstall` to remove node and npm
- describe
NODE_MIRROR
inREADME
PROJECT_NAME
andPROJECT_URL
fromREADME
. First step to deprecatingn project
. Open an issue if you still need this!
4.0.0 (2019-05-05)
Only minor functional changes, but technically could break scripts relying on specific behaviour.
- remove trailing space from
bin
output #456
- development tests #545
- internal: improve shell script based on ShellCheck suggestions, quoting variables use etc #187 #465
- put single quote marks around parameters to clarify error messages #485
- update terminology to be more careful with current/latest #522
3.0.2 (2019-04-07)
- permission denied errors when running read-only commands without sudo #416
3.0.1 (2019-04-05)
- lts lookup on node mirrors which don't purge old versions (e.g. taobao) #512
- hide cursor while selecting version from menu #528
- gitter badge from README, as gitter chatroom inactive
- inactive Core Team from README
- instructions for scripted install of npm from README, which should no longer be needed and not working on Mac #536
3.0.0 (2019-03-29)
- allow
n rm
of active version of node #541 #169 #327 #441 - show more version examples in README, including partial version number #548
- updated description of interactive version selection #518
- make (old) stable an alias for lts #467 #335
- replace use of
which
with more standardcommand -v
#532