CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Breaking Change

Fixed

Added

Changed

Removed

[4.1.0] - 2024-12-26

Fixed

• curly - use default content-type when there are no headers #410 by @liamdiprose

Added

• Added prebuilt binaries for Node.js 22, Electron 33, Electron 32, and Electron 31

Notes

Besides possible security patches, this will be the last minor release in the v4 series. For v5, I am currently planning to work on this:

• Migrate to N-API, which will allow us to support newer Node.js versions more easily.
• Drop support for Node.js < 22.
• Drop support for building with libcurl < 8.0.
• Drop x86 support.
• Support ES modules.

[4.0.0] - 2024-02-11

Breaking Change

• Mininum supported Node.js version is now Node.js 16.14.
• The prebuilt binaries are only available on:
  • Node.js 18, 20, and 21
  • Electron 27, 27, and 28
• NW.js binaries were removed, and may be re-introduced in the future.

3.0.0 - 2022-11-17

Breaking Change

• The supported engines of Node.js were bumped to: ^14.14 || >=16.
• The supported versions of Electron now are: v21, v20, v19, v18, and v17.
• The node-gyp package has been bumped, which means Python 3.0 is now required to build from source.
• Minimum c++ version your compiler needs to support is now c++17.
• The minimum macOS version is now Big Sur (11.6)
• The prebuilt binaries on glibc Linux are now built on Ubuntu 20.04.
• The prebuilt binaries on musl Linux (Alpine) are now built on Alpine 3.16.
• The prebuilt binaries on Windows are now built with Visual Studio 2019.
• There are no prebuilt binaries for NW.js anymore. This is because nw-gyp does not support Python 3 currently.
• Option types for CURLOPT_FTP_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT has been removed, since libcurl 7.20 it was the same as CURLOPT_SERVER_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT.

Added

• Add support for the following options:
  • PREREQFUNCTION
  • MAXLIFETIME_CONN
  • PROTOCOLS_STR
  • REDIR_PROTOCOLS_STR
• Add support for the following info options:
  • CAINFO
  • CAPATH

Changed

• Upgraded prebuild binaries to use libcurl 7.86.0. On Windows, OpenSSL 3.0.7 will be used.

2.3.4 - 2022-01-29

Added

• support curl_blob options #300 by @johnwchadwick
• added arm64 builds for macOS #312 by @johnwchadwick
• added most options that were missing up xto libcurl version 7.79.1, including HSTS support.
• added prebuilt binaries for Node.js v17.

Changed

• Upgraded prebuild binaries to use libcurl 7.79.1. On Windows, OpenSSL 3.0.0 will be used.
• The only Electron versions with prebuilt binaries are: 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, and 11.
• The only Nwjs versions with prebuilt binaries are: 0.58, 0.57, and 0.56.

2.3.3 - 2021-05-09

Fixed

• Fix support for Node.js v16

2.3.2 - 2021-03-24

Changed

• The prebuilt binaries are not build with c-ares anymore, for reasoning see issue #280. c-ares was included in the prebuilt binaries starting with 2.3.0.

2.3.1 - 2021-03-09

The yes, curly is still experimental release. 😅

If you are using curly in your project, and you want to share any feedback about it, please post them in our Discord. I would love to read and discuss it!

Fixed

• Fixed not building zstd lib statically. #274
• Fixed download streams not working with responses that did not include a body. #271

Added

• Added prebuilt binaries for: Node.js 15, Electron v11, Electron v12, Nwjs 0.49.2, Nwjs 0.51.2, and Nwjs 0.52.0.

Changed

• Building the addon from source now requires a C++ compiler with support for c++1z (c++17).

Removed

• Removed prebuilt binaries for: Node.js 10, Electron v5, Electron v6, Electron v7, Nwjs v0.43, and Nwjs v0.44.

2.3.0 - 2020-11-15

Probably the last release that curly is considered experimental.

Breaking Change

• curly (and curly.<method>) is now able to automatically parse the response body based on the content-type header of the response. #240
  Default parsers for application/json (calls JSON.parse) and text/* (converts the raw Buffer to a string with utf8 encoding) were added. This means that for responses without a matching content-type the raw Buffer will be returned. This is different from the previous behavior where a string would always be returned. The default parsers can be overwritten by setting curly.defaultResponseBodyParsers to an object with the format:

  {
    'content-type': (data: Buffer, headers: HeaderInfo[]) => any
  }
  

  Where content-type can be one of these:

  • the exact content-type.
  • a pattern using * to match specific parts of the content-type, like text/*.
  • a catch-all pattern: just *.

  You can also override the parsers using the following options:

  • curlyResponseBodyParsers object that will be merged with defaultResponseBodyParsers.
  • curlyResponseBodyParser a parser that will be used for all responses.

  It's also possible to set curlyResponseBodyParser to false and the data returned will always be the raw Buffer.

  Of course, it is still possible to use your own writeFunction (libcurl CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION option) to set your own write callback and not rely on this default handling of the response.

As curly is marked as experimental, this allows us to do a breaking change in a minor version bump. This release should make the curly API more stable and provide a better developer experience, however, the API remains experimental.

Fixed

• Some curly.<method> calls not working correctly, to be more specific, all calls that were not get, post and head.
• Errors thrown by the internal Curl instance used by curly not being re-thrown correctly.
• Progress callbacks were not allowing to use default libcurl progress meter (by returning CurlProgressFunc.Continue).

Added

• Calling curly.create(options) will now return a new curly object that will use the passed options as defaults. #247
• TypeScript: curly (and curly.<method>) now accepts a generic type parameter which will be the type of the data returned. By default, this is set to any.
• Added new options to the curly API:
  • curlyBaseUrl: string, if set, their value will always be added as the prefix for the URL.
  • curlyLowerCaseHeaders: boolean, if set to true, headers will be returned in lower case. Defaults to false. #240
• Added new methods and CurlFeature allowing the use of streams to upload and download data without having to set WRITEFUNCTION and/or READFUNCTION manually. #237
  • Curl.setUploadStream
  • Curl.setStreamProgress
  • Curl.setStreamResponseHighWaterMark
  • CurlFeature.StreamResponse
    New options were also added to the curly API:
  • curlyProgressCallback
  • curlyStreamResponse
  • curlyStreamResponseHighWaterMark
  • curlyStreamUpload
    These new features related to streams are only reliable when using a libcurl version >= 7.69.1.
• Support libcurl info CURLINFO_CERTINFO. Can be retrieved using getInfo("CERTINFO"). Thanks to @Sergey-Mityukov for most of the work on this.
• Support libcurl info CURLINFO_EFFECTIVE_METHOD. Requires libcurl >= 7.72.0.
• Support libcurl info CURLINFO_PROXY_ERROR. Use CurlPx for constants. Requires libcurl >= 7.73.0.
• Support libcurl option CURLOPT_SSL_EC_CURVES. Requires libcurl >= 7.73.0.
• Added prebuilt binaries for Electron v10.1
• The libcurl version being used by prebuilt binaries is now 7.73.0 and it's now built with c-ares.

Changed

• curly now has 100% code coverage.

Removed

• Removed prebuilt binaries for: Electron v3, Electron v4, Nwjs v0.42, and Nwjs v0.43

2.2.0 - 2020-07-14

Fixed

• Fix curly.get not working correctly (#230)
• Fix not resetting CURLOPT_TRAILERDATA when duplicating an Easy instance (7bf3a51)

Added

• Added initial support to the CURLMOPT_PUSHFUNCTION libcurl multi option. (#232) (b8d0fac)
• Added private member to the EasyNativeBinding typescript class, you can set this value on the Easy instances to anything, and Typescript should not complain.
• Adde prebuilt binaries for Electron v9

Changed

• Improved Typescript types / documentation for some libcurl options. (63a71b7)

2.1.3 - 2020-06-02

Fixed

• v2.1.2 had a caching issue on during the dist files generation, which caused it to not build some required files.

2.1.2 - 2020-06-01

Fixed

• Fix curly.post and curly.head using wrong libcurl options to set the HTTP Method.
• Fix postinstall script not working properly.
• Setting the HTTPPOST option to nullwould, wrongly, throw an Error.
• Setting any string option to null would, wrongly, throw an Error.

Added

• We now have API docs! 🥳 http://jcmais.github.io/node-libcurl/modules/_index_.html Thanks to typedoc
• Added back prebuilt binaries for:
  • Electron v3, v4 and v5
• Added isMonitoringSockets boolean readonly property to Easy instances, it is true when monitorSocketEvents has been called on that Easy instance.
• Added CurlVersion enum to be used with the rawFeatures property returned from Curl.getVersionInfo.

2.1.1 - 2020-04-28

Fixed

• Remove benchmark folder from the distributed npm package (reducing the package size)

2.1.0 - 2020-04-12

Fixed

• Fix retrieve-win-deps Windows build script not working correctly
• Fix context switches between addon callbacks not causing Node.js to drain microtasks - (#177)
• Fix some curl_off_t getinfo values corrupting the stack
• WRITEFUNCTION, HEADERFUNCTION and READFUNCTION callbacks now correctly rethrow JS errors thrown inside of them. The return value of both callbacks is now also checked to be an integer, any other type will cause an error. This is considered a fix because previously the return value was being cast to an integer, which means the method would already fail, as there are remote chances (aka impossible) casting something else to an integer would yield the length of the data passed by libcurl.

Added

• Added missing CURLOPT_SASL_AUTHZID option - libcurl 7.66.0
• Added missing CURLE_AUTH_ERROR error code added with libcurl 7.66.0
• Added missing CURLINFO_RETRY_AFTER info field - libcurl 7.66.0
• Added missing CURL_HTTP_VERSION_3 constant related http version to the CurlHttpVersion enum - libcurl 7.66.0
• Added missing CURLMOPT_MAX_CONCURRENT_STREAMS option - libcurl 7.67.0
• Added missing CurlProgressFunc enum to reflect the new CURL_PROGRESSFUNC_CONTINUE constant - libcurl 7.68.0
• Added missing CurlSslOpt enum member NoPartialChain - libcurl 7.68.0
• Added missing CURLE_HTTP3 error code - An HTTP/3 layer problem - libcurl 7.68.0
• Added missing CURLM_WAKEUP_FAILURE error code - wakeup is unavailable or failed - libcurl 7.68.0
• Added missing CURLM_BAD_FUNCTION_ARGUMENT error code - function called with a bad parameter - libcurl 7.69.0
• Added missing CURLE_QUIC_CONNECT_ERROR error code - QUIC connection error - libcurl 7.69.0
• Added missing CURLOPT_MAIL_RCPT_ALLLOWFAILS option - libcurl 7.69.0

Changed

• Prebuilt binaries are now compiled with libcurl 7.69.1 and, when possible, latest version of other related dependencies:
  • OpenSSL 1.1.1d
  • nghttp2 1.4.0
  • libssh2 1.9.0
• Added prebuilt binaries for:
  • Electron v8
  • NW.js v0.44, v0.43 and v0.42
• Dropped prebuilt binaries for:
  • Node.js 8
  • Electron v3, v4 and v5
  • NW.js v0.38 and v0.39
• Remove dynamic require (#204)
• The C++ implementation for the previously removed onData and onHeader Curl/Easy instance fields has been removed - If you were still using those internal fields your code is going to break. Use WRITEFUNCTION and HEADERFUNCTION options instead.

2.0.3 - 2019-12-11

Fixed

• Updated return type of DEBUGFUNCTION (#202)
• Fixed issues when building with newer versions of v8 (Node.js >= 13 and Electron >= 7) (#203)

Added

• Type for this added to event listeners callbacks
• Build on Node.js 13 and Electron 7

2.0.2 - 2019-09-20

Added

• Build on Electron v6

Changed

• Improved build scripts
• bump libssh2 to 1.9.0

2.0.1 - 2019-06-06

Fixed

• Fixed problem when building with libcurl <= 7.38

2.0.0 - 2019-06-02

Breaking Change

• Dropped support for Node.js 4 and 6
• Prebuilt binary is now statically built with brotli, libssh2, nghttp2, OpenSSL and zlib. brotli, OpenSSL, nghttp2 and zlib versions match their respective versions used by Node.js.
• The minimum libcurl version being tested is now 7.50.0, which itself is almost 3 years old.
  The addon will still try to be compatible with old versions up to 7.32.0, but there are no guarantees.
• Curl.reset now correctly resets their instance (#141)
• Previously Curl.code had all Curl codes into a single enum like object, that is, it included properties for each CURLMCode, CURLcode and CURLSHcode libcurl enums.
  Now they are separated, each on their own object:
  CURLMCode -> CurlMultiCode
CURLcode -> CurlCode
CURLSHCode -> CurlShareCode
• DEBUGFUNCTION now receives a Buffer as the data argument, instead of a string.
• Easy.send and Easy.recv now return an object, { code: CurlCode, bytesSent: number } and { code: CurlCode, bytesReceived: number } respectively.
• Curl class: removed _ prefix from their private members.
  Only a breaking change in case you were using internal methods.
• Curl class: methods onData and onHeader renamed to defaultWriteFunction and defaultHeaderFunction.
  Only a breaking change in case you were using internal methods.
• Curl class: deprecated instance fields onData and onHeader were removed.
  Use options WRITEFUNCTION and HEADERFUNCTION respectively.
• Curl.dupHandle, argument shouldCopyCallbacks was removed, it was the first one.
  This is not needed anymore because the previously set callbacks (onData and onHeader) can now only be set using their respective libcurl options, which is always copied when duplicating a handle.
• Curl.multi moved to Multi.option
• Curl.share moved to Share.option
• Following members were moved to their own export:
  Curl.auth -> CurlAuth
Curl.pause -> CurlPause
Curl.http -> CurlHttpversion
Curl.feature -> CurlFeature
Curl.lock -> CurlShareLock
Curl.header -> CurlHeader
Curl.info.debug -> CurlInfoDebug
Curl.netrc -> CurlNetrc
Curl.chunk -> CurlChunk
Curl.filetype -> CurlFileType
Curl.fnmatchfunc -> CurlFnMatchFunc
Curl.ftpauth -> CurlFtpAuth
Curl.ftpssl -> CurlFtpSsl
Curl.ftpmethod -> CurlFtpMethod
Curl.rtspreq -> CurlRtspRequest
Curl.ipresolve -> CurlIpResolve
Curl.proxy -> CurlProxy
Curl.pipe -> CurlPipe
Curl.usessl -> CurlUseSsl
Curl.sslversion -> CurlSslVersion
Curl.sslversion.max -> CurlSslVersionMax
Curl.ssh_auth -> CurlSshAuth
Curl.timecond -> CurlTimeCond
Easy.socket -> SocketState
  And their fields were changed from SNAKE_CASE to PascalCase.
  The change in casing was to follow Typescript's Enum naming convention.
• Curl.protocol also moved to their own export CurlProtocol, no changes were made to fields casing in this case.
• Passing non-integer option value to Multi.setOpt will now throw an error.
  Previously the value was converted to 1 if it was a truthy value, or 0 if otherwise.

Fixed

• Fix SigAbort caused by calling v8 AsFunction on null value at Easy::SetOpt
• Fix SegFault during gargage collection after process.exit (#165)
• Using curl_socket_t without libcurl version guard on Easy::GetInfo

Added

• Support Node.js 12
• Added missing options:
  • CURLOPT_DISALLOW_USERNAME_IN_URL
  • CURLOPT_DNS_SHUFFLE_ADDRESSES
  • CURLOPT_DOH_URL
  • CURLOPT_HAPPY_EYEBALLS_TIMEOUT_MS
  • CURLOPT_HAPROXYPROTOCOL
  • CURLOPT_HTTP09_ALLOWED
  • CURLOPT_REQUEST_TARGET
  • CURLOPT_FTP_FILEMETHOD (#148)
  • CURLOPT_MAXAGE_CONN
  • CURLOPT_PROXY_*
  • CURLOPT_RTSPHEADER
  • CURLOPT_RTSP_REQUEST
  • CURLOPT_SOCKS5_AUTH
  • CURLOPT_SSH_COMPRESSION
  • CURLOPT_TLS13_CIPHERS
  • CURLOPT_TIMEVALUE_LARGE
  • CURLOPT_TRAILERFUNCTION
  • CURLOPT_UPKEEP_INTERVAL_MS
• Add missing info fields:
  • CURLINFO_*_{DOWNLOAD,UPLOAD}_T
  • CURLINFO_*_TIME_T
  • CURLINFO_FILETIME_T
• Add Curl.getVersionInfo() which returns an object that represents the struct returned from curl_version_info().
  See their type definition for details: [./lib/types/CurlVersionInfoNativeBinding.ts](./lib/types/
• Add Curl.getVersionInfoString() which returns a string representation of the above function.
  It should be almost identical to the one returned from curl -V.
• Add Curl.isVersionGreaterOrEqualThan(x, y, z) to help test if the libcurl version the addon was built against is greater or equal than x.y.z.
• Add upkeep function to Easy and Curl classes. This is a binding for the curl_easy_upkeep() function.
• Errors thrown inside callbacks are correctly caught / passed forward (if using multi interface)
• All Curl instances now set their USERAGENT to node-libcurl/${packageVersion} during creation.
  You change the default user agent string by changing Curl.defaultUserAgent, and disable it by setting their value to null.
• CurlWriteFunc and CurlReadFunc enums with special return codes for their respective options, WRITEFUNCTION and READFUNCTION.
• Added experimental curly(url: string, options: {}) / curly.<http-verb>(url: string, options: {}) async api.
  This API can change between minor releases.

Changed

• Migrated project to Typescript and added type definitions
• Bumped libcurl version used on Windows to 7.64.1, which has nghttp2 support
• Added the Curl instance that emitted the event as the last param passed to events, can be useful if using anonymous functions as callback for the events. Example:

    // ...
    curl.on('end', (statusCode, data, headers, curlInstance) => {
       // ...
    })

• Fix erratic condition when setting option HEADERFUNCTION (#142)
• macOS libs should be linked against @rpath (#145)

Special Thanks to @koskokos2 for their contributions to this release.

1.3.3

Added

• Node.js 10 on CI and respective prebuilt binaries

Changed

• Removed deprecated NAN method calls

1.3.2 - 2018-05-24

Fixed

• Curl multi integer options being wrongly tested (#126)

1.3.1 - 2018-05-04

Added

• Changelog file (finally)

Changed

• Improved code style, started using prettier

1.2.0 - 2017-08-28