2 - [New] `stringify`/`parse`: add `comma` as an `arrayFormat` option (#276, #219)
3 - [Fix] correctly parse nested arrays (#212)
4 - [Fix] `utils.merge`: avoid a crash with a null target and a truthy non-array source, also with an array source
5 - [Robustness] `stringify`: cache `Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty`
6 - [Refactor] `utils`: `isBuffer`: small tweak; add tests
7 - [Refactor] use cached `Array.isArray`
8 - [Refactor] `parse`/`stringify`: make a function to normalize the options
9 - [Refactor] `utils`: reduce observable [[Get]]s
10 - [Refactor] `stringify`/`utils`: cache `Array.isArray`
11 - [Tests] always use `String(x)` over `x.toString()`
12 - [Tests] fix Buffer tests to work in node < 4.5 and node < 5.10
13 - [Tests] temporarily allow coverage to fail
16 - [New] Add support for iso-8859-1, utf8 "sentinel" and numeric entities (#268)
17 - [New] move two-value combine to a `utils` function (#189)
18 - [Fix] `stringify`: fix a crash with `strictNullHandling` and a custom `filter`/`serializeDate` (#279)
19 - [Fix] when `parseArrays` is false, properly handle keys ending in `[]` (#260)
20 - [Fix] `stringify`: do not crash in an obscure combo of `interpretNumericEntities`, a bad custom `decoder`, & `iso-8859-1`
21 - [Fix] `utils`: `merge`: fix crash when `source` is a truthy primitive & no options are provided
22 - [refactor] `stringify`: Avoid arr = arr.concat(...), push to the existing instance (#269)
23 - [Refactor] `parse`: only need to reassign the var once
24 - [Refactor] `parse`/`stringify`: clean up `charset` options checking; fix defaults
25 - [Refactor] add missing defaults
26 - [Refactor] `parse`: one less `concat` call
27 - [Refactor] `utils`: `compactQueue`: make it explicitly side-effecting
28 - [Dev Deps] update `browserify`, `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `iconv-lite`, `safe-publish-latest`, `tape`
29 - [Tests] up to `node` `v10.10`, `v9.11`, `v8.12`, `v6.14`, `v4.9`; pin included builds to LTS
32 - [Fix] use `safer-buffer` instead of `Buffer` constructor
33 - [Refactor] utils: `module.exports` one thing, instead of mutating `exports` (#230)
34 - [Dev Deps] update `browserify`, `eslint`, `iconv-lite`, `safer-buffer`, `tape`, `browserify`
37 - [Fix] Fix parsing & compacting very deep objects (#224)
38 - [Refactor] name utils functions
39 - [Dev Deps] update `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `tape`
40 - [Tests] up to `node` `v8.4`; use `nvm install-latest-npm` so newer npm doesn’t break older node
41 - [Tests] Use precise dist for Node.js 0.6 runtime (#225)
42 - [Tests] make 0.6 required, now that it’s passing
43 - [Tests] on `node` `v8.2`; fix npm on node 0.6
46 - [New] add `utils.assign`
47 - [New] pass default encoder/decoder to custom encoder/decoder functions (#206)
48 - [New] `parse`/`stringify`: add `ignoreQueryPrefix`/`addQueryPrefix` options, respectively (#213)
49 - [Fix] Handle stringifying empty objects with addQueryPrefix (#217)
50 - [Fix] do not mutate `options` argument (#207)
51 - [Refactor] `parse`: cache index to reuse in else statement (#182)
52 - [Docs] add various badges to readme (#208)
53 - [Dev Deps] update `eslint`, `browserify`, `iconv-lite`, `tape`
54 - [Tests] up to `node` `v8.1`, `v7.10`, `v6.11`; npm v4.6 breaks on node < v1; npm v5+ breaks on node < v4
55 - [Tests] add `editorconfig-tools`
58 - [New] `qs.stringify`: add `encodeValuesOnly` option
59 - [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #201)
60 - [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
62 - [Dev Deps] update `eslint`
63 - [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds
64 - [eslint] reduce warnings
67 - [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200)
68 - [Dev Deps] update `eslint`
70 - [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
71 - [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds
74 - [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties (thanks, @snyk!)
75 - [Dev Deps] update `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `browserify`, `iconv-lite`, `qs-iconv`, `tape`
76 - [Tests] on all node minors; improve test matrix
77 - [Docs] document stringify option `allowDots` (#195)
78 - [Docs] add empty object and array values example (#195)
79 - [Docs] Fix minor inconsistency/typo (#192)
80 - [Docs] document stringify option `sort` (#191)
81 - [Refactor] `stringify`: throw faster with an invalid encoder
82 - [Refactor] remove unnecessary escapes (#184)
83 - Remove contributing.md, since `qs` is no longer part of `hapi` (#183)
86 - [New] Add support for RFC 1738 (#174, #173)
87 - [New] `stringify`: Add `serializeDate` option to customize Date serialization (#159)
88 - [Fix] ensure `utils.merge` handles merging two arrays
89 - [Refactor] only constructors should be capitalized
90 - [Refactor] capitalized var names are for constructors only
91 - [Refactor] avoid using a sparse array
92 - [Robustness] `formats`: cache `String#replace`
93 - [Dev Deps] update `browserify`, `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`; add `safe-publish-latest`
94 - [Tests] up to `node` `v6.8`, `v4.6`; improve test matrix
95 - [Tests] flesh out arrayLimit/arrayFormat tests (#107)
96 - [Tests] skip Object.create tests when null objects are not available
97 - [Tests] Turn on eslint for test files (#175)
100 - [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200)
102 - [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
103 - [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds
106 - [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties
109 - [Fix] ensure `key[]=x&key[]&key[]=y` results in 3, not 2, values
110 - [Refactor] Be explicit and use `Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call`
111 - [Tests] remove `parallelshell` since it does not reliably report failures
112 - [Tests] up to `node` `v6.3`, `v5.12`
113 - [Dev Deps] update `tape`, `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `qs-iconv`
115 ## [**6.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=36&state=closed)
116 - [New] pass Buffers to the encoder/decoder directly (#161)
117 - [New] add "encoder" and "decoder" options, for custom param encoding/decoding (#160)
118 - [Fix] fix compacting of nested sparse arrays (#150)
121 - [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200)
123 - [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
124 - [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds
127 - [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties
129 ## [**6.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=35&state=closed)
130 - [New] allowDots option for `stringify` (#151)
131 - [Fix] "sort" option should work at a depth of 3 or more (#151)
132 - [Fix] Restore `dist` directory; will be removed in v7 (#148)
135 - [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200)
137 - [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
138 - [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds
141 - [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties
142 - [Fix] Restore `dist` directory; will be removed in v7 (#148)
144 ## [**6.0.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=33&state=closed)
145 - Revert ES6 requirement and restore support for node down to v0.8.
147 ## [**6.0.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=32&state=closed)
148 - [**#127**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/pull/127) Fix engines definition in package.json
150 ## [**6.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=31&state=closed)
151 - [**#124**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/124) Use ES6 and drop support for node < v4
154 - [Fix] ensure `key[]=x&key[]&key[]=y` results in 3, not 2, values
156 ## [**5.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=30&state=closed)
157 - [**#64**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/64) Add option to sort object keys in the query string
159 ## [**5.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=29&state=closed)
160 - [**#117**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/117) make URI encoding stringified results optional
161 - [**#106**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/106) Add flag `skipNulls` to optionally skip null values in stringify
163 ## [**5.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=28&state=closed)
164 - [**#114**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/114) default allowDots to false
165 - [**#100**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/100) include dist to npm
167 ## [**4.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=26&state=closed)
168 - [**#98**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/98) make returning plain objects and allowing prototype overwriting properties optional
170 ## [**3.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=24&state=closed)
171 - [**#89**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/89) Add option to disable "Transform dot notation to bracket notation"
173 ## [**3.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=23&state=closed)
174 - [**#80**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/80) qs.parse silently drops properties
175 - [**#77**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/77) Perf boost
176 - [**#60**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/60) Add explicit option to disable array parsing
177 - [**#74**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/74) Bad parse when turning array into object
178 - [**#81**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/81) Add a `filter` option
179 - [**#68**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/68) Fixed issue with recursion and passing strings into objects.
180 - [**#66**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/66) Add mixed array and object dot notation support Closes: #47
181 - [**#76**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/76) RFC 3986
182 - [**#85**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/85) No equal sign
183 - [**#84**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/84) update license attribute
185 ## [**2.4.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=20&state=closed)
186 - [**#73**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/73) Property 'hasOwnProperty' of object #<Object> is not a function
188 ## [**2.4.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=19&state=closed)
189 - [**#70**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/70) Add arrayFormat option
191 ## [**2.3.3**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=18&state=closed)
192 - [**#59**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/59) make sure array indexes are >= 0, closes #57
193 - [**#58**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/58) make qs usable for browser loader
195 ## [**2.3.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=17&state=closed)
196 - [**#55**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/55) allow merging a string into an object
198 ## [**2.3.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=16&state=closed)
199 - [**#52**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/52) Return "undefined" and "false" instead of throwing "TypeError".
201 ## [**2.3.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=15&state=closed)
202 - [**#50**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/50) add option to omit array indices, closes #46
204 ## [**2.2.5**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=14&state=closed)
205 - [**#39**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/39) Is there an alternative to Buffer.isBuffer?
206 - [**#49**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/49) refactor utils.merge, fixes #45
207 - [**#41**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/41) avoid browserifying Buffer, for #39
209 ## [**2.2.4**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=13&state=closed)
210 - [**#38**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/38) how to handle object keys beginning with a number
212 ## [**2.2.3**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=12&state=closed)
213 - [**#37**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/37) parser discards first empty value in array
214 - [**#36**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/36) Update to lab 4.x
216 ## [**2.2.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=11&state=closed)
217 - [**#33**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/33) Error when plain object in a value
218 - [**#34**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/34) use Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call instead of obj.hasOwnProperty
219 - [**#24**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/24) Changelog? Semver?
221 ## [**2.2.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=10&state=closed)
222 - [**#32**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/32) account for circular references properly, closes #31
223 - [**#31**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/31) qs.parse stackoverflow on circular objects
225 ## [**2.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=9&state=closed)
226 - [**#26**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/26) Don't use Buffer global if it's not present
227 - [**#30**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/30) Bug when merging non-object values into arrays
228 - [**#29**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/29) Don't call Utils.clone at the top of Utils.merge
229 - [**#23**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/23) Ability to not limit parameters?
231 ## [**2.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=8&state=closed)
232 - [**#22**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/22) Enable using a RegExp as delimiter
234 ## [**2.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=7&state=closed)
235 - [**#18**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/18) Why is there arrayLimit?
236 - [**#20**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/20) Configurable parametersLimit
237 - [**#21**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/21) make all limits optional, for #18, for #20
239 ## [**1.2.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=6&state=closed)
240 - [**#19**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/19) Don't overwrite null values
242 ## [**1.2.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=5&state=closed)
243 - [**#16**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/16) ignore non-string delimiters
244 - [**#15**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/15) Close code block
246 ## [**1.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=4&state=closed)
247 - [**#12**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/12) Add optional delim argument
248 - [**#13**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/13) fix #11: flattened keys in array are now correctly parsed
250 ## [**1.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=3&state=closed)
251 - [**#7**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/7) Empty values of a POST array disappear after being submitted
252 - [**#9**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/9) Should not omit equals signs (=) when value is null
253 - [**#6**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/6) Minor grammar fix in README
255 ## [**1.0.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=2&state=closed)
256 - [**#5**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/5) array holes incorrectly copied into object on large index