5.0.0-alpha.5

This is the fifth Express 5.0 alpha release, based off 4.15.2 and includes
changes from 5.0.0-alpha.4.

4.15.2

• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix regression parsing keys starting with [

4.15.1

• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix issue when Date.parse does not return NaN on invalid date
  • Fix strict violation in broken environments
• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix issue when Date.parse does not return NaN on invalid date
  • deps: [email protected]

5.0.0-alpha.4

This is the fourth Express 5.0 alpha release, based off 4.15.0 and includes
changes from 5.0.0-alpha.3.

• remove:
  • Remove Express 3.x middleware error stubs
• deps: router@~1.3.0
  • Add next("router") to exit from router
  • Fix case where router.use skipped requests routes did not
  • Skip routing when req.url is not set
  • Use %o in path debug to tell types apart
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: [email protected]
  • perf: add fast match path for * route

4.15.0

• Add debug message when loading view engine
• Add next("router") to exit from router
• Fix case where router.use skipped requests routes did not
• Remove usage of res._headers private field
  • Improves compatibility with Node.js 8 nightly
• Skip routing when req.url is not set
• Use %o in path debug to tell types apart
• Use Object.create to setup request & response prototypes
• Use setprototypeof module to replace __proto__ setting
• Use statuses instead of http module for status messages
• deps: [email protected]
  • Allow colors in workers
  • Deprecated DEBUG_FD environment variable set to 3 or higher
  • Fix error when running under React Native
  • Use same color for same namespace
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: etag@~1.8.0
  • Use SHA1 instead of MD5 for ETag hashing
  • Works with FIPS 140-2 OpenSSL configuration
• deps: finalhandler@~1.0.0
  • Fix exception when err cannot be converted to a string
  • Fully URL-encode the pathname in the 404
  • Only include the pathname in the 404 message
  • Send complete HTML document
  • Set Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self' header
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix false detection of no-cache request directive
  • Fix incorrect result when If-None-Match has both * and ETags
  • Fix weak ETag matching to match spec
  • perf: delay reading header values until needed
  • perf: enable strict mode
  • perf: hoist regular expressions
  • perf: remove duplicate conditional
  • perf: remove unnecessary boolean coercions
  • perf: skip checking modified time if ETag check failed
  • perf: skip parsing If-None-Match when no ETag header
  • perf: use Date.parse instead of new Date
• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix array parsing from skipping empty values
  • Fix compacting nested arrays
• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix false detection of no-cache request directive
  • Fix incorrect result when If-None-Match has both * and ETags
  • Fix weak ETag matching to match spec
  • Remove usage of res._headers private field
  • Support If-Match and If-Unmodified-Since headers
  • Use res.getHeaderNames() when available
  • Use res.headersSent when available
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: etag@~1.8.0
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: http-errors@~1.6.1
• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix false detection of no-cache request directive
  • Fix incorrect result when If-None-Match has both * and ETags
  • Fix weak ETag matching to match spec
  • Remove usage of res._headers private field
  • Send complete HTML document in redirect response
  • Set default CSP header in redirect response
  • Support If-Match and If-Unmodified-Since headers
  • Use res.getHeaderNames() when available
  • Use res.headersSent when available
  • deps: [email protected]
• perf: add fast match path for * route
• perf: improve req.ips performance

5.0.0-alpha.3

This is the third Express 5.0 alpha release, based off 4.14.1 and includes
changes from 5.0.0-alpha.2.

• remove:
  • res.json(status, obj) signature - use res.status(status).json(obj)
  • res.jsonp(status, obj) signature - use res.status(status).jsonp(obj)
  • res.vary() (no arguments) -- provide a field name as an argument
• deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
• deps: router@~1.1.5
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: methods@~1.1.2
  • deps: parseurl@~1.3.1
  • deps: [email protected]

4.14.1

• deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • Fix exception when err.headers is not an object
  • deps: statuses@~1.3.1
  • perf: hoist regular expressions
  • perf: remove duplicate validation path
• deps: proxy-addr@~1.1.3
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • deps: http-errors@~1.5.1
  • deps: [email protected]
  • deps: statuses@~1.3.1
• deps: serve-static@~1.11.2
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: type-is@~1.6.14
  • deps: mime-types@~2.1.13

4.14.0

• Add acceptRanges option to res.sendFile/res.sendfile
• Add cacheControl option to res.sendFile/res.sendfile
• Add options argument to req.range
  • Includes the combine option
• Encode URL in res.location/res.redirect if not already encoded
• Fix some redirect handling in res.sendFile/res.sendfile
• Fix Windows absolute path check using forward slashes
• Improve error with invalid arguments to req.get()
• Improve performance for res.json/res.jsonp in most cases
• Improve Range header handling in res.sendFile/res.sendfile
• deps: accepts@~1.3.3
  • Fix including type extensions in parameters in Accept parsing
  • Fix parsing Accept parameters with quoted equals
  • Fix parsing Accept parameters with quoted semicolons
  • Many performance improvments
  • deps: mime-types@~2.1.11
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: content-type@~1.0.2
  • perf: enable strict mode
• deps: [email protected]
  • Add sameSite option
  • Fix cookie Max-Age to never be a floating point number
  • Improve error message when encode is not a function
  • Improve error message when expires is not a Date
  • Throw better error for invalid argument to parse
  • Throw on invalid values provided to serialize
  • perf: enable strict mode
  • perf: hoist regular expression
  • perf: use for loop in parse
  • perf: use string concatination for serialization
• deps: [email protected]
  • Change invalid or non-numeric status code to 500
  • Overwrite status message to match set status code
  • Prefer err.statusCode if err.status is invalid
  • Set response headers from err.headers object
  • Use statuses instead of http module for status messages
• deps: proxy-addr@~1.1.2
  • Fix accepting various invalid netmasks
  • Fix IPv6-mapped IPv4 validation edge cases
  • IPv4 netmasks must be contingous
  • IPv6 addresses cannot be used as a netmask
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: [email protected]
  • Add decoder option in parse function
• deps: range-parser@~1.2.0
  • Add combine option to combine overlapping ranges
  • Fix incorrectly returning -1 when there is at least one valid range
  • perf: remove internal function
• deps: [email protected]
  • Add acceptRanges option
  • Add cacheControl option
  • Attempt to combine multiple ranges into single range
  • Correctly inherit from Stream class
  • Fix Content-Range header in 416 responses when using start/end options
  • Fix Content-Range header missing from default 416 responses
  • Fix redirect error when path contains raw non-URL characters
  • Fix redirect when path starts with multiple forward slashes
  • Ignore non-byte Range headers
  • deps: http-errors@~1.5.0
  • deps: range-parser@~1.2.0
  • deps: statuses@~1.3.0
  • perf: remove argument reassignment
• deps: serve-static@~1.11.1
  • Add acceptRanges option
  • Add cacheControl option
  • Attempt to combine multiple ranges into single range
  • Fix redirect error when req.url contains raw non-URL characters
  • Ignore non-byte Range headers
  • Use status code 301 for redirects
  • deps: [email protected]
• deps: type-is@~1.6.13
  • Fix type error when given invalid type to match against
  • deps: mime-types@~2.1.11
• deps: vary@~1.1.0
  • Only accept valid field names in the field argument
• perf: use strict equality when possible

4.13.4

• deps: [email protected]
  • perf: enable strict mode
• deps: [email protected]
  • Throw on invalid values provided to serialize
• deps: depd@~1.1.0
  • Support web browser loading
  • perf: enable strict mode
• deps: escape-html@~1.0.3
  • perf: enable strict mode
  • perf: optimize string replacement
  • perf: use faster string coercion
• deps: [email protected]
  • deps: escape-html@~1.0.3
• deps: [email protected]
  • perf: enable strict mode
• deps: methods@~1.1.2
  • perf: enable strict mode
• deps: parseurl@~1.3.1
  • perf: enable strict mode
• deps: proxy-addr@~1.0.10
  • deps: [email protected]
  • perf: enable strict mode
• deps: range-parser@~1.0.3
  • perf: enable strict mode
• deps: [email protected]
  • deps: depd@~1.1.0
  • deps: destroy@~1.0.4
  • deps: escape-html@~1.0.3
  • deps: range-parser@~1.0.3
• deps: serve-static@~1.10.2
  • deps: escape-html@~1.0.3
  • deps: parseurl@~1.3.0
  • deps: [email protected]

4.13.3

• Fix infinite loop condition using mergeParams: true
• Fix inner numeric indices incorrectly altering parent req.params