HORIZON PROJECT

## **6.5.1**

- [Fix] Fix parsing & compacting very deep objects (#224)

- [Refactor] name utils functions

- [Dev Deps] update `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `tape`

- [Tests] up to `node` `v8.4`; use `nvm install-latest-npm` so newer npm doesn’t break older node

- [Tests] Use precise dist for Node.js 0.6 runtime (#225)

- [Tests] make 0.6 required, now that it’s passing

- [Tests] on `node` `v8.2`; fix npm on node 0.6

## **6.5.0**

- [New] add `utils.assign`

- [New] pass default encoder/decoder to custom encoder/decoder functions (#206)

- [New] `parse`/`stringify`: add `ignoreQueryPrefix`/`addQueryPrefix` options, respectively (#213)

- [Fix] Handle stringifying empty objects with addQueryPrefix (#217)

- [Fix] do not mutate `options` argument (#207)

- [Refactor] `parse`: cache index to reuse in else statement (#182)

- [Docs] add various badges to readme (#208)

- [Dev Deps] update `eslint`, `browserify`, `iconv-lite`, `tape`

- [Tests] up to `node` `v8.1`, `v7.10`, `v6.11`; npm v4.6 breaks on node < v1; npm v5+ breaks on node < v4

- [Tests] add `editorconfig-tools`

## **6.4.0**

- [New] `qs.stringify`: add `encodeValuesOnly` option

- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #201)

- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)

- [Fix] chmod a-x

- [Dev Deps] update `eslint`

- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds

- [eslint] reduce warnings

## **6.3.2**

- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200)

- [Dev Deps] update `eslint`

- [Fix] chmod a-x

- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)

- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds

## **6.3.1**

- [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties (thanks, @snyk!)

- [Dev Deps] update `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `browserify`, `iconv-lite`, `qs-iconv`, `tape`

- [Tests] on all node minors; improve test matrix

- [Docs] document stringify option `allowDots` (#195)

- [Docs] add empty object and array values example (#195)

- [Docs] Fix minor inconsistency/typo (#192)

- [Docs] document stringify option `sort` (#191)

- [Refactor] `stringify`: throw faster with an invalid encoder

- [Refactor] remove unnecessary escapes (#184)

- Remove contributing.md, since `qs` is no longer part of `hapi` (#183)

## **6.3.0**

- [New] Add support for RFC 1738 (#174, #173)

- [New] `stringify`: Add `serializeDate` option to customize Date serialization (#159)

- [Fix] ensure `utils.merge` handles merging two arrays

- [Refactor] only constructors should be capitalized

- [Refactor] capitalized var names are for constructors only

- [Refactor] avoid using a sparse array

- [Robustness] `formats`: cache `String#replace`

- [Dev Deps] update `browserify`, `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`; add `safe-publish-latest`

- [Tests] up to `node` `v6.8`, `v4.6`; improve test matrix

- [Tests] flesh out arrayLimit/arrayFormat tests (#107)

- [Tests] skip Object.create tests when null objects are not available

- [Tests] Turn on eslint for test files (#175)

## **6.2.3**

- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200)

- [Fix] chmod a-x

- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)

- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds

## **6.2.2**

- [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties

## **6.2.1**

- [Fix] ensure `key[]=x&key[]&key[]=y` results in 3, not 2, values

- [Refactor] Be explicit and use `Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call`

- [Tests] remove `parallelshell` since it does not reliably report failures

- [Tests] up to `node` `v6.3`, `v5.12`

- [Dev Deps] update `tape`, `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `qs-iconv`

## [**6.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=36&state=closed)

- [New] pass Buffers to the encoder/decoder directly (#161)

- [New] add "encoder" and "decoder" options, for custom param encoding/decoding (#160)

- [Fix] fix compacting of nested sparse arrays (#150)

## **6.1.2

- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200)

- [Fix] chmod a-x

- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)

- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds

## **6.1.1**

- [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties

## [**6.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=35&state=closed)

- [New] allowDots option for `stringify` (#151)

- [Fix] "sort" option should work at a depth of 3 or more (#151)

- [Fix] Restore `dist` directory; will be removed in v7 (#148)

## **6.0.4**

- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200)

- [Fix] chmod a-x

- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)

- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds

## **6.0.3**

- [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties

- [Fix] Restore `dist` directory; will be removed in v7 (#148)

## [**6.0.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=33&state=closed)

- Revert ES6 requirement and restore support for node down to v0.8.

## [**6.0.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=32&state=closed)

- [**#127**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/pull/127) Fix engines definition in package.json

## [**6.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=31&state=closed)

- [**#124**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/124) Use ES6 and drop support for node < v4

## **5.2.1**

- [Fix] ensure `key[]=x&key[]&key[]=y` results in 3, not 2, values

## [**5.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=30&state=closed)

- [**#64**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/64) Add option to sort object keys in the query string

## [**5.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=29&state=closed)

- [**#117**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/117) make URI encoding stringified results optional

- [**#106**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/106) Add flag `skipNulls` to optionally skip null values in stringify

## [**5.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=28&state=closed)

- [**#114**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/114) default allowDots to false

- [**#100**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/100) include dist to npm

## [**4.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=26&state=closed)

- [**#98**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/98) make returning plain objects and allowing prototype overwriting properties optional

## [**3.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=24&state=closed)

- [**#89**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/89) Add option to disable "Transform dot notation to bracket notation"

## [**3.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=23&state=closed)

- [**#80**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/80) qs.parse silently drops properties

- [**#77**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/77) Perf boost

- [**#60**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/60) Add explicit option to disable array parsing

- [**#74**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/74) Bad parse when turning array into object

- [**#81**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/81) Add a `filter` option

- [**#68**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/68) Fixed issue with recursion and passing strings into objects.

- [**#66**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/66) Add mixed array and object dot notation support Closes: #47

- [**#76**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/76) RFC 3986

- [**#85**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/85) No equal sign

- [**#84**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/84) update license attribute

## [**2.4.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=20&state=closed)

- [**#73**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/73) Property 'hasOwnProperty' of object #<Object> is not a function

## [**2.4.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=19&state=closed)

- [**#70**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/70) Add arrayFormat option

## [**2.3.3**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=18&state=closed)

- [**#59**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/59) make sure array indexes are >= 0, closes #57

- [**#58**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/58) make qs usable for browser loader

## [**2.3.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=17&state=closed)

- [**#55**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/55) allow merging a string into an object

## [**2.3.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=16&state=closed)

- [**#52**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/52) Return "undefined" and "false" instead of throwing "TypeError".

## [**2.3.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=15&state=closed)

- [**#50**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/50) add option to omit array indices, closes #46

## [**2.2.5**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=14&state=closed)

- [**#39**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/39) Is there an alternative to Buffer.isBuffer?

- [**#49**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/49) refactor utils.merge, fixes #45

- [**#41**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/41) avoid browserifying Buffer, for #39

## [**2.2.4**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=13&state=closed)

- [**#38**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/38) how to handle object keys beginning with a number

## [**2.2.3**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=12&state=closed)

- [**#37**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/37) parser discards first empty value in array

- [**#36**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/36) Update to lab 4.x

## [**2.2.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=11&state=closed)

- [**#33**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/33) Error when plain object in a value

- [**#34**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/34) use Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call instead of obj.hasOwnProperty

- [**#24**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/24) Changelog? Semver?

## [**2.2.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=10&state=closed)

- [**#32**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/32) account for circular references properly, closes #31

- [**#31**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/31) qs.parse stackoverflow on circular objects

## [**2.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=9&state=closed)

- [**#26**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/26) Don't use Buffer global if it's not present

- [**#30**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/30) Bug when merging non-object values into arrays

- [**#29**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/29) Don't call Utils.clone at the top of Utils.merge

- [**#23**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/23) Ability to not limit parameters?

## [**2.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=8&state=closed)

- [**#22**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/22) Enable using a RegExp as delimiter

## [**2.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=7&state=closed)

- [**#18**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/18) Why is there arrayLimit?

- [**#20**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/20) Configurable parametersLimit

- [**#21**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/21) make all limits optional, for #18, for #20

## [**1.2.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=6&state=closed)

- [**#19**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/19) Don't overwrite null values

## [**1.2.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=5&state=closed)

- [**#16**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/16) ignore non-string delimiters

- [**#15**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/15) Close code block

## [**1.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=4&state=closed)

- [**#12**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/12) Add optional delim argument

- [**#13**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/13) fix #11: flattened keys in array are now correctly parsed

## [**1.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=3&state=closed)

- [**#7**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/7) Empty values of a POST array disappear after being submitted

- [**#9**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/9) Should not omit equals signs (=) when value is null

- [**#6**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/6) Minor grammar fix in README

## [**1.0.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=2&state=closed)

- [**#5**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/5) array holes incorrectly copied into object on large index