CHANGES.md

restify Changelog

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2.6.2

• #496 static plugin incorrectly handling directories; revert back to 2.6.0 version
• #495 Don't override client response code with custom error object
• #494 socket connecting detection logic incorrect
• #492 client false needs to actually disable retries

2.6.1

• #478 Add req.timers to audit logging plugin.
• #487 RequestCaptureStream: dumpDefault, haveNonRawStreams, zero ring after dump
• #407 - bunyan 0.21.3
• Add CSV/TSV parser (Dominik Lessel)
• Add req.timers: a list of hrtime's for each handler
• Set TCP SO_KEEPALIVE when default KeepAliveAgent is on (client)

2.6.0

• EXPERIMENTAL: Native websocket support via watershed (Josh Clulow)
• Pass entire route, not just route.name to after (Dingman)
• Type coercion bug in Cache Control API (Chris Cannell)

2.5.1

• GH-401 RegEx routes stomp one another, resulting in 404
• GH-389 StringClient should handle garbage servers that send neither Content-Length nor Transfer-Encoding: chunked headers.

2.5.0

• Pick up http-signature@0.10.0 (breaking change, to those using it); see TritonDataCenter/node-http-signature#10
• GH-388 JSON client blows up on bad content
• GH-379 Static plugin: NotAuthorizedError for file path with parentheses (Ricardo Stuven)
• GH-370 Add charSet option for static file plugin (Jonathan Dahan)

2.4.1

• Support node 0.10.X TLS options in client(s)

2.4.0

• GH-368 Route //.*/ does not match request /? (Ben Hutchison)
• GH-366 req.accepts() not working with short-hand mime types
• GH-362 Empty body throws TypeError in StringClient (Bryan Donovan)
• GH-355 Serve gzip encoded files from static if they are available (Nathanael Anderson)
• GH-338 turn req.body into an Object when content-type is JSON (Daan Kuijsten)
• GH-336 res.charSet() back in
• dependency version bumps
• 0.10.X support in tests (add necessary resume() calls)
• client should log request/response pairs

2.3.5

• bunyan@0.20.0
• GH-346 server.toString() crashes (Alex Whitman)
• GH-193 support next('name_of_route')

2.3.4

• GH-343 default to 'identity' for accept-encoding
• GH-342 client support for PATCH
• Pick up spdy@1.4.6 (doesn't ship all the example garbage)

2.3.3

• Stop logging client_req in bunyan output
• GH-319 make DTrace optional
• GH-335 Content-Type'd routes not accepting array (Pedro Palazón)

2.3.2

• pick up bunyan 0.18.3
• server.address() returning null causes server.url to deref null

2.3.1

• GH-335 Content-Type'd routes not correct when only Accept-Extension varies, part deux (switch to negotiator, drop mimeparse).

2.3.0

• GH-335 Content-Type'd routes not correct when only Accept-Extension varies
• GH-332 Cache-Control max-age should show minutes (Ben Hutchison)
• GH-329 Wrong values in res.methods on some cases
• GH-327 server.versionedUse('1.2.3', function (req, res, next) {}) (Tim Kuijsten)
• GH-326 non-default origins not working, Chrome requires allow/origin and allow users to append to CORS array (John Fieber/Damon Oehlman)
• GH-323 /? broken
• GH-322 add req.route, which contains the original params for the route (Tim Kuijsten)
• GH-312 bodyParser() should return buffers when data is binary (Tim Kuijsten)
• GH-318 Allow use of 'requestBodyOnGet' option in bodyParser (@geebee)

2.2.1

• GH-283 broke versioned, typed routes. Fix.
• node-http-signature@0.9.11

2.2.0

• GH-316 drop clone, and just shallow copy (Trent Mick)
• GH-284 preflight requests not working without access-control-request-headers
• GH-283 versioned routes should use maximum match, not first (Colin O'Brien)
• dtrace probes for restify clients
• node-dtrace-provider@0.2.8
• backoff@2.0.0 and necessary changes

2.1.1

• revert to backoff@1.2.0

2.1.0

• GH-284 built-in CORS
• GH-290 next.ifError
• GH-291 fix overwriting options.type in createJSONClient (Trent Mick)
• GH-297 default document serving in static plugin (Adam Argo)
• GH-299 gzip plugin doesn't play nice with content-length (Ben Hale)
• GH-301 support private keys w/passphrase (Erik Kristensen)
• GH-302 responseTime cleanup
• Move to node-backoff and rework retry logic in HttpClient
• Support keep-alive by default in HttpClient

2.0.4

• GH-280 req.params cached by router
• RequestCaptureStream should support outputting to multiple streams
• Default uncaughtException handler should check if headers have been sent

2.0.2/2.0.3

• GH-278 missing events on route errors
• Undo RestError constructorOpt from 2.0.1

2.0.1

• GH-269 plugin to make curl happy
• RestError not honoring constructorOpt from cause
• GH-271 bump to dtrace 0.2.6 (fix build on Mountain Lion)

Legacy Releases

1.4.2

• logging typo (Pedro Candel)
• response beforeSend event (Paul Bouzakis)

1.4.1

• GH-130 Allow restify and express to coexist.
• GH-129 format HttpErrors as well as RestErrors (Domenic Denicola)
• GH-127 add absolute uri to request (Paul Bouzakis)
• GH-124 req.query is undefined if no query string was sent
• GH-123 Generated DTrace probe names should be valid
• GH-122 Response._writeHead can cause infinite loop (Trent Mick)
• GH-120 Allow server.patch (Paul Bouzakis)
• GH-119 defaultResponseHeaders not settable
• GH-113 document return next(false)

1.4.0

• GH-116 More friendly error objects (Domenic Denicola)
• GH-115 Client hangs on server "hard kills" (i.e., RST)
• GH-111 JSON parser only works on objects (not arrays)
• GH-110 emit expectContinue (Paul Bouzakis)
• Fix "undefined" log message in string_client.js
• GH-107
  • Go back to hacking up http.prototype for performance reasons
  • Default to keep-alive on for HTTP/1.1 requests
  • Misc fixes after refactoring.
• GH-109 routes not honoring regex flags.
• GH-108 server missing listening event.
• Audit logger optionally logs request/response bodies
• Require http-signature@0.9.9/ctype@0.5.0 (node 0.7 compatible)

1.3.0

• GH-100 Make DTrace an optional dependency, and stub it out if not found.
• res.link API not allowing sprintf style sets.
• Support for socketPath in client API (alternative to url).
• OPTIONS api not returning access-control-allow-methods header (Steve Mason).
• Allow null passwords in HTTP basic auth (Andrew Robinson).
• set req.files on multipart file uploads (Andrew Robinson).

1.2.0

• Don't rely on instanceof checks for Errors in response.
• Change route.run log level from trace to debug on next(err).
• Add res.link API (wrap up sending a Link: response header).
• GH-98 req.secure needs to return a boolean, not an object
• GH-97 Malformed URI results in server crash
• GH-94 leverage qs module for object notation in query string.

1.1.1

• dependency version bumps
• res.header accepts sprintf-style arguments
• GH-95 Make restify compatible with node-logging (Andrew Robinson)
• GH-93 Minimal port of express pre-conditions (Dominic Barnes)
• GH-92 Make X-Response-Time configurable (Shaun Berryman)
• GH-87 server.listen on port as string (Andrew Sliwinski)

1.1.0

• GH-86 Bunyan version bump.
• Conditional Request plugin tests and fixes for some errors (Mike Williams).
• GH-83 pluggable storage engine for throttling, and LRU for default engine.
• GH-77 server.on('uncaughtException', function (req, res, route, err) {});
• GH-79 Docs typo(s).

1.0.1

• Version bump bunyan to 0.6.4.

1.0.0

• Makefile restructure (use Joyent templates)
• GH-20 HttpClient connectTimeout.
• Allow parser plugins to allow "override" params
• Proper handling of Expect: 100
• multipart/form-data plugin
• Added a 'header' event on res.writeHead
• GH-72 Wrong server name in response header on 404/405/...
• RegExp mounts throw a TypeError
• Allow pre handlers to update request url
• try/catch around route running
• Bundled audit logger (via bunyan)
• strict adherence to RFC3986 for URL encoding
• range versioning changed to be an array of explicit versions
• Switch from log4js to bunyan
• Official version of ConditionalRequest plugin (Falco Nogatz)
• order formatters on response such that JSON/text are before custom ones
• RestErrors can use format strings
• date plugin has bad log check

1.0.0-rc2

• GH-66 Support for charSets in responses
• GH-65 Initial version of etag plugin (Falco Nogatz)
• GH-68 res.header() can serialize Date objects to RFC1123
• GH-67 Set some default response headers earlier (access-control-*)
• http-client should auto insert the date header
• GH-64 Support for a pre-routing chain
• JsonClient should "upcast" errors to RestErrors if it can
• GH-63 res.send(204) returning a body of 204
• GH-61 Make bodyParser merging into req.params optional
• Make Error objects backwards compatible with older restify (httpCode/restCode)
• GH-57, GH-62 range versioning on server (Diego Torres)
• GH-59 routes with just '/' are returning 404
• DTrace *-done actually firing content-length (was always 0)
• [Issue 56] Support streaming downloads
• Modify server.on('after') to emit the Route object, rather than the name.

1.0.0-rc1

(Started maintaining this log 21 January 2012. For earlier change information you'll have to dig into the commit history.)