6.5.3

• [Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
• [Fix]` utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and a truthy non-array source
• [Fix] correctly parse nested arrays
• [Fix] stringify: fix a crash with strictNullHandling and a custom filter/serializeDate (#279)
• [Fix] utils: merge: fix crash when source is a truthy primitive & no options are provided
• [Fix] when parseArrays is false, properly handle keys ending in []
• [Fix] fix for an impossible situation: when the formatter is called with a non-string value
• [Fix] utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and an array source
• [Refactor] utils: reduce observable [[Get]]s
• [Refactor] use cached Array.isArray
• [Refactor] stringify: Avoid arr = arr.concat(...), push to the existing instance (#269)
• [Refactor] parse: only need to reassign the var once
• [Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
• [readme] remove travis badge; add github actions/codecov badges; update URLs
• [Docs] Clean up license text so it’s properly detected as BSD-3-Clause
• [Docs] Clarify the need for "arrayLimit" option
• [meta] fix README.md (#399)
• [meta] add FUNDING.yml
• [actions] backport actions from main
• [Tests] always use String(x) over x.toString()
• [Tests] remove nonexistent tape option
• [Dev Deps] backport from main

6.5.2

• [Fix] use safer-buffer instead of Buffer constructor
• [Refactor] utils: module.exports one thing, instead of mutating exports (#230)
• [Dev Deps] update browserify, eslint, iconv-lite, safer-buffer, tape, browserify

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

• [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

• [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

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

6.0.1

• #127 Fix engines definition in package.json

6.0.0

• #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

• #64 Add option to sort object keys in the query string

5.1.0

• #117 make URI encoding stringified results optional
• #106 Add flag skipNulls to optionally skip null values in stringify

5.0.0

• #114 default allowDots to false
• #100 include dist to npm

4.0.0

• #98 make returning plain objects and allowing prototype overwriting properties optional

3.1.0

• #89 Add option to disable "Transform dot notation to bracket notation"

3.0.0

• #80 qs.parse silently drops properties
• #77 Perf boost
• #60 Add explicit option to disable array parsing
• #74 Bad parse when turning array into object
• #81 Add a filter option
• #68 Fixed issue with recursion and passing strings into objects.
• #66 Add mixed array and object dot notation support Closes: #47
• #76 RFC 3986
• #85 No equal sign
• #84 update license attribute

2.4.1

• #73 Property 'hasOwnProperty' of object # is not a function

  2.4.0

  • #70 Add arrayFormat option

  2.3.3

  • #59 make sure array indexes are >= 0, closes #57
  • #58 make qs usable for browser loader

  2.3.2

  • #55 allow merging a string into an object

  2.3.1

  • #52 Return "undefined" and "false" instead of throwing "TypeError".

  2.3.0

  • #50 add option to omit array indices, closes #46

  2.2.5

  • #39 Is there an alternative to Buffer.isBuffer?
  • #49 refactor utils.merge, fixes #45
  • #41 avoid browserifying Buffer, for #39

  2.2.4

  • #38 how to handle object keys beginning with a number

  2.2.3

  • #37 parser discards first empty value in array
  • #36 Update to lab 4.x

  2.2.2

  • #33 Error when plain object in a value
  • #34 use Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call instead of obj.hasOwnProperty
  • #24 Changelog? Semver?

  2.2.1

  • #32 account for circular references properly, closes #31
  • #31 qs.parse stackoverflow on circular objects

  2.2.0

  • #26 Don't use Buffer global if it's not present
  • #30 Bug when merging non-object values into arrays
  • #29 Don't call Utils.clone at the top of Utils.merge
  • #23 Ability to not limit parameters?

  2.1.0

  • #22 Enable using a RegExp as delimiter

  2.0.0

  • #18 Why is there arrayLimit?
  • #20 Configurable parametersLimit
  • #21 make all limits optional, for #18, for #20

  1.2.2

  • #19 Don't overwrite null values

  1.2.1

  • #16 ignore non-string delimiters
  • #15 Close code block

  1.2.0

  • #12 Add optional delim argument
  • #13 fix #11: flattened keys in array are now correctly parsed

  1.1.0

  • #7 Empty values of a POST array disappear after being submitted
  • #9 Should not omit equals signs (=) when value is null
  • #6 Minor grammar fix in README

  1.0.2

  • #5 array holes incorrectly copied into object on large index