All notable changes will be recorded here.
The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
- fix(Body): Discourage form-data and buffer() by @jimmywarting in node-fetch#1212
- fix: Pass url string to http.request by @serverwentdown in node-fetch#1268
- Fix octocat image link by @lakuapik in node-fetch#1281
- fix(Body.body): Normalize
Body.body
into anode:stream
by @jimmywarting in node-fetch#924 - docs(Headers): Add default Host request header to README.md file by @robertoaceves in node-fetch#1316
- Update CHANGELOG.md by @jimmywarting in node-fetch#1292
- Add highWaterMark to cloned properties by @davesidious in node-fetch#1162
- Update README.md to fix HTTPResponseError by @thedanfernandez in node-fetch#1135
- docs: switch
url
toURL
by @dhritzkiv in node-fetch#1318 - fix(types): declare buffer() deprecated by @dnalborczyk in node-fetch#1345
- chore: fix lint by @dnalborczyk in node-fetch#1348
- refactor: use node: prefix for imports by @dnalborczyk in node-fetch#1346
- Bump data-uri-to-buffer from 3.0.1 to 4.0.0 by @dependabot in node-fetch#1319
- Bump mocha from 8.4.0 to 9.1.3 by @dependabot in node-fetch#1339
- Referrer and Referrer Policy by @tekwiz in node-fetch#1057
- Add typing for Response.redirect(url, status) by @c-w in node-fetch#1169
- chore: Correct stuff in README.md by @Jiralite in node-fetch#1361
- docs: Improve clarity of "Loading and configuring" by @serverwentdown in node-fetch#1323
- feat(Body): Added support for
BodyMixin.formData()
and constructing bodies with FormData by @jimmywarting in node-fetch#1314
- @serverwentdown made their first contribution in node-fetch#1268
- @lakuapik made their first contribution in node-fetch#1281
- @robertoaceves made their first contribution in node-fetch#1316
- @davesidious made their first contribution in node-fetch#1162
- @thedanfernandez made their first contribution in node-fetch#1135
- @dhritzkiv made their first contribution in node-fetch#1318
- @dnalborczyk made their first contribution in node-fetch#1345
- @dependabot made their first contribution in node-fetch#1319
- @c-w made their first contribution in node-fetch#1169
Full Changelog: https://github.com/node-fetch/node-fetch/compare/v3.0.0...v3.1.0
- other: Marking v3 as stable
- docs: Add example for loading ESM from CommonJS (#1236)
- Breaking: minimum supported Node.js version is now 12.20.
- Breaking: node-fetch is now a pure ESM module.
- Other: update readme to inform users about ESM.
- Other: update dependencies.
This is an important security release. It is strongly recommended to update as soon as possible.
- Fix: honor the
size
option after following a redirect.
- Enhance: remove string-to-arraybuffer (#882).
- Enhance: remove parted dependency (#883).
- Fix: export package.json (#908).
- Fix: minimum Node.js version (#874).
- Other: fix typo.
- Breaking: minimum supported Node.js version is now 10.17.
- Enhance: update
fetch-blob
. - Enhance: add insecureHTTPParser Parameter (#856).
- Enhance: drop custom Promises and refactor to
async
functions (#845). - Enhance: polyfill
http.validateHeaderName
andhttp.validateHeaderValue
(#843). - Enhance: should check body source on redirect (#866).
- Enhance: remove code duplication in custom errors (#842).
- Enhance: implement form-data encoding (#603).
- Fix: improve TypeScript types (#841).
- Fix: data URI handling and drop all URL analysis RegExps (#853).
- Fix: headers import statement (#859).
- Fix: correct Node versions were not installed on test matrix (#846).
- Other: test CommonJS build artifact (#838).
- Other: create Code of Conduct (#849).
- Other: readme update.
- Fix:
fetch
function export & declaration, which broke the previous release.
- Breaking: minimum supported Node.js version is now 10.16.
- Breaking: removed
timeout
option. - Breaking: revamp TypeScript declarations.
- Enhance: improve coverage.
- Enhance: drop Babel (while keeping ESM) (#805).
- Enhance: normalize export (#827).
- Enhance: remove guard for Stream.Readable.destroy (#824).
- Enhance: remove custom isArrayBuffer (#822).
- Enhance: use normal class inheritance instead of Body.mixIn (#828).
- Enhance: follow xo linter rules more strictly (#829).
- Enhance: revamp Headers module (#834).
- Fix: export the
AbortError
class. - Fix: example using
file-type
(#804). - Fix: settle
consumeBody
promise when the response closes prematurely (#768). - Fix: disambiguate timeout behavior for response headers and body (#770).
- Fix: make sure the default
highWaterMark
equals 16384. - Fix: default user agent (#818).
- Other: readme update.
- Other: update copyright information.
NOTE: Since the previous beta version included serious issues, such as #749, they will now be deprecated.
- Enhance: use built-in AbortSignal for typings.
- Enhance: compile CJS modules as a seperate set of files.
- Enhance: add more complete stream download example.
- Fix: question mark stripped from url when no params are given.
- Fix: path to tests file in error handling doc.
- Fix: import URL and URLSearchParams in typings.
- Fix: Ensure search parameters are included in URL path (#759).
- Fix: exporting
main
andtypes
at the correct path, oops.
- Breaking: minimum supported Node.js version is now 10.
- Enhance: added new node-fetch-only option:
highWaterMark
. - Enhance:
AbortError
now uses a w3c defined message. - Enhance: data URI support.
- Enhance: drop existing blob implementation code and use fetch-blob as dependency instead.
- Enhance: modernise the code behind
FetchError
andAbortError
. - Enhance: replace deprecated
url.parse()
andurl.replace()
with the new WHATWG'snew URL()
- Enhance: allow excluding a
user-agent
in a fetch request by setting it's header to null. - Fix:
Response.statusText
no longer sets a default message derived from the HTTP status code. - Fix: missing response stream error events.
- Fix: do not use constructor.name to check object.
- Fix: convert
Content-Encoding
to lowercase. - Fix: propagate size and timeout to cloned response.
- Other: bundle TypeScript types.
- Other: replace Rollup with @pika/pack.
- Other: introduce linting to the project.
- Other: simplify Travis CI build matrix.
- Other: dev dependency update.
- Other: readme update.
This is an important security release. It is strongly recommended to update as soon as possible.
- Fix: honor the
size
option after following a redirect.
- Enhance:
options.agent
, it now accepts a function that returns custom http(s).Agent instance based on current URL, see readme for more information. - Fix: incorrect
Content-Length
was returned for stream body in 2.5.0 release; note thatnode-fetch
doesn't calculate content length for stream body. - Fix:
Response.url
should return empty string instead ofnull
by default.
- Enhance:
Response
object now includesredirected
property. - Enhance:
fetch()
now accepts third-partyBlob
implementation as body. - Other: disable
package-lock.json
generation as we never commit them. - Other: dev dependency update.
- Other: readme update.
- Fix:
Blob
import rule for node < 10, asReadable
isn't a named export.
- Enhance: added
Brotli
compression support (using node's zlib). - Enhance: updated
Blob
implementation per spec. - Fix: set content type automatically for
URLSearchParams
. - Fix:
Headers
now reject empty header names. - Fix: test cases, as node 12+ no longer accepts invalid header response.
- Enhance: added
AbortSignal
support, with README example. - Enhance: handle invalid
Location
header during redirect by rejecting them explicitly withFetchError
. - Fix: update
browser.js
to support react-native environment, whereself
isn't available globally.
- Fix:
compress
flag shouldn't overwrite existingAccept-Encoding
header. - Fix: multiple
import
rules, wherePassThrough
etc. doesn't have a named export when using node <10 and--experimental-modules
flag. - Other: Better README.
- Enhance: Support all
ArrayBuffer
view types - Enhance: Support Web Workers
- Enhance: Support Node.js'
--experimental-modules
mode; deprecate.es.js
file - Fix: Add
__esModule
property to the exports object - Other: Better example in README for writing response to a file
- Other: More tests for Agent
- Fix: allow
Body
methods to work onArrayBuffer
-backedBody
objects - Fix: reject promise returned by
Body
methods when the accumulatedBuffer
exceeds the maximum size - Fix: support custom
Host
headers with any casing - Fix: support importing
fetch()
from TypeScript inbrowser.js
- Fix: handle the redirect response body properly
Fix packaging errors in v2.1.0.
- Enhance: allow using ArrayBuffer as the
body
of afetch()
orRequest
- Fix: store HTTP headers of a
Headers
object internally with the given case, for compatibility with older servers that incorrectly treated header names in a case-sensitive manner - Fix: silently ignore invalid HTTP headers
- Fix: handle HTTP redirect responses without a
Location
header just like non-redirect responses - Fix: include bodies when following a redirection when appropriate
This is a major release. Check our upgrade guide for an overview on some key differences between v1 and v2.
- Major: Node.js 0.10.x and 0.12.x support is dropped
- Major:
require('node-fetch/lib/response')
etc. is now unsupported; userequire('node-fetch').Response
or ES6 module imports - Enhance: start testing on Node.js v4.x, v6.x, v8.x LTS, as well as v9.x stable
- Enhance: use Rollup to produce a distributed bundle (less memory overhead and faster startup)
- Enhance: make
Object.prototype.toString()
on Headers, Requests, and Responses return correct class strings - Other: rewrite in ES2015 using Babel
- Other: use Codecov for code coverage tracking
- Other: update package.json script for npm 5
- Other:
encoding
module is now optional (alpha.7) - Other: expose browser.js through package.json, avoid bundling mishaps (alpha.9)
- Other: allow TypeScript to
import
node-fetch by exposing default (alpha.9)
- Major: overwrite user's
Content-Length
if we can be sure our information is correct (per spec) - Fix: errors in a response are caught before the body is accessed
- Fix: support WHATWG URL objects, created by
whatwg-url
package orrequire('url').URL
in Node.js 7+
- Major:
response.text()
no longer attempts to detect encoding, instead always opting for UTF-8 (per spec); useresponse.textConverted()
for the v1 behavior - Major: make
response.json()
throw error instead of returning an empty object on 204 no-content response (per spec; reverts behavior changed in v1.6.2) - Major: internal methods are no longer exposed
- Major: throw error when a
GET
orHEAD
Request is constructed with a non-null body (per spec) - Enhance: add
response.arrayBuffer()
(also applies to Requests) - Enhance: add experimental
response.blob()
(also applies to Requests) - Enhance:
URLSearchParams
is now accepted as a body - Enhance: wrap
response.json()
json parsing error asFetchError
- Fix: fix Request and Response with
null
body
- Major: remove
headers.getAll()
; makeget()
return all headers delimited by commas (per spec) - Enhance: make Headers iterable
- Enhance: make Headers constructor accept an array of tuples
- Enhance: make sure header names and values are valid in HTTP
- Fix: coerce Headers prototype function parameters to strings, where applicable
- Enhance: more comprehensive API docs
- Enhance: add a list of default headers in README
See changelog on 1.x branch for details.
- Enhance: error handling document to explain
FetchError
design - Fix: support
form-data
2.x releases (requiresform-data
>= 2.1.0)
- Enhance: minor document update
- Fix: response.json() returns empty object on 204 no-content response instead of throwing a syntax error
- Fix: if
res.body
is a non-stream non-formdata object, we will callbody.toString
and send it as a string - Fix:
counter
value is incorrectly set tofollow
value when wrapping Request instance - Fix: documentation update
- Enhance: added
res.buffer()
api for convenience, it returns body as a Node.js buffer - Enhance: better old server support by handling raw deflate response
- Enhance: skip encoding detection for non-HTML/XML response
- Enhance: minor document update
- Fix: HEAD request doesn't need decompression, as body is empty
- Fix:
req.body
now accepts a Node.js buffer
- Fix: handle 204 and 304 responses when body is empty but content-encoding is gzip/deflate
- Fix: allow resolving response and cloned response in any order
- Fix: avoid setting
content-length
whenform-data
body use streams - Fix: send DELETE request with content-length when body is present
- Fix: allow any url when calling new Request, but still reject non-http(s) url in fetch
- Fix: allow node.js core to handle keep-alive connection pool when passing a custom agent
- Fix: redirect mode
manual
should work even when there is no redirection or broken redirection
- Enhance: rejected promise now use custom
Error
(thx to @pekeler) - Enhance:
FetchError
containserr.type
anderr.code
, allows for better error handling (thx to @pekeler) - Enhance: basic support for redirect mode
manual
anderror
, allows for location header extraction (thx to @jimmywarting for the initial PR)
- Fix: wrapping Request instance with FormData body again should preserve the body as-is
- Enhance: Request and Response now have
clone
method (thx to @kirill-konshin for the initial PR) - Enhance: Request and Response now have proper string and buffer body support (thx to @kirill-konshin)
- Enhance: Body constructor has been refactored out (thx to @kirill-konshin)
- Enhance: Headers now has
forEach
method (thx to @tricoder42) - Enhance: back to 100% code coverage
- Fix: better form-data support (thx to @item4)
- Fix: better character encoding detection under chunked encoding (thx to @dsuket for the initial PR)
- Fix: make sure
Content-Length
header is set when body is string for POST/PUT/PATCH requests - Fix: handle body stream error, for cases such as incorrect
Content-Encoding
header - Fix: when following certain redirects, use
GET
on subsequent request per Fetch Spec - Fix:
Request
andResponse
constructors now parse headers input usingHeaders
- Enhance: allow auto detect of form-data input (no
FormData
spec on node.js, this is form-data specific feature)
- Enhance: allow custom host header to be set (server-side only feature, as it's a forbidden header on client-side)
- Enhance: now
fetch.Request
is exposed as well
- Enhance:
Headers
now normalizedNumber
value toString
, prevent common mistakes
- Enhance: now fetch.Headers and fetch.Response are exposed, making testing easier
- Fix:
Headers
should only supportString
andArray
properties, and ignore others
- Enhance: now req.headers accept both plain object and
Headers
instance
- Enhance: timeout now also applies to response body (in case of slow response)
- Fix: timeout is now cleared properly when fetch is done/has failed
- Fix: less greedy content-type charset matching
- Fix: when
follow = 0
, fetch should not follow redirect - Enhance: update tests for better coverage
- Enhance: code formatting
- Enhance: clean up doc
- Enhance: test iojs support
- Enhance: timeout attached to socket event only fire once per redirect
- Fix: response size limit should reject large chunk
- Enhance: added character encoding detection for xml, such as rss/atom feed (encoding in DTD)
- Fix: added res.ok per spec change
- Enhance: better test coverage and doc
- Major: initial public release