- [FIXED] Pinned Nano to version 8.1 to resolve issue with extending upstream TypeScript changes in Nano version 8.2.0.
- [FIXED] Expose BasePlugin.
- [FIXED] Prevent double encoding of credentials passed in URL user information
when using the
cookieauth
plugin. - [IMPROVED] Documented the characters that are required to be encoded in URL user information.
- [IMPROVED] Documented the legacy compatibility behaviour that always adds the
cookieauth
plugin when using the initialization callback functionality.
- [FIXED] Stopped disabling the IAM auth plugin after failed IAM authentications. Subsequent requests will re-request authorization, potentially failing again if the original authentication failure was not temporary.
- [FIXED] Ensure IAM API key can be correctly changed.
- [FIXED] Callback with an error when a user cannot be authenticated using IAM.
- [FIXED] Ensure authorization tokens are not unnecessarily requested.
- [IMPROVED] Do not apply cookie authentication by default in the case that no credentials are provided.
- [IMPROVED] Preemptively renew authorization tokens that are due to expire.
- [FIXED] Include all built-in plugin modules in webpack bundle.
- [NEW] Added option to set new IAM API key.
- [FIXED] Allow plugins to be loaded from outside the 'plugins/' directory.
- [FIXED] Retry bad IAM token requests.
- [FIXED] Remove unnecessary
npm-cli-login
dependency.
- [NEW] Added partitioned database support.
- [NEW] Added option for client to authenticate with IAM token server.
- [FIXED] Add
vcapServiceName
configuration option to TS declarations. - [FIXED] Case where
.resume()
was called on an undefined response. - [FIXED] Updated the default IAM token server URL.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Nano 7 accepted a callback to the
*AsStream
functions, but the correct behaviour when using therequest
object from*AsStream
functions is to use event handlers. Users of the*AsStream
functions should ensure they are using event handlers not callbacks before moving to this version. - [UPGRADED] Apache CouchDB Nano to a minimum of version 8 for
*AsStream
function fixes.
- [FIXED] Remove unnecessary
@types/nano
dependancy.
- [FIXED] Use named import for
request.CoreOptions
type.
- [FIXED] Expose
BasePlugin
type in Cloudant client. - [FIXED] Set
parseUrl = false
on underlying Nano instance. - [BREAKING CHANGE] Due to the Nano 7.x upgrade all return types are now a
Promise
(except for the...AsStream
functions). See api-migration.md for migration details. - [REMOVED] Remove nodejs-cloudant TypeScript type definitions for
db.search
. These definitions are now imported directly from Nano. - [REMOVED] Removed support for the deprecated Cloudant virtual hosts feature.
- [UPGRADED] Using nano==7.1.1 dependency.
- [FIXED] Don't override
plugins
array when instantiating a new client using VCAP.
- [FIXED] Case where
username
andpassword
options were not used if aurl
was supplied. - [FIXED] Case where
vcapServices
was supplied with a basic-authurl
.
- [FIXED] Removed addition of
statusCode
to response objects returned by promises. - [IMPROVED] Added support for IAM API key when initializing client with VCAP_SERVICES environment variable.
- [FIXED] Add missing
maxAttempt
parameter to TypeScript definition. - [FIXED] Include client initialization callback in TypeScript definition.
- [FIXED] Prevent client executing done callback multiple times.
- [FIXED] Removed test and lint data that bloated npm package size.
- [FIXED] Support Cloudant query when using promises request plugin.
- [NEW] Add TypeScript definitions.
- [NEW] Allow pipes to be defined inside request event handlers.
- [UPGRADED] Using nano==6.4.3 dependancy.
- [NOTE] Update engines in preparation for Node.js 4 “Argon” end-of-life.
- [FIXED] Updated
require
references to use newly scoped package@cloudant/cloudant
.
- [NEW] Added API for upcoming IBM Cloud Identity and Access Management support for Cloudant on IBM Cloud. Note: IAM API key support is not yet enabled in the service.
- [NEW] Support multiple plugins. See api-migration.md for migration details.
- [NEW] Allow use of a custom service name from the CloudFoundry VCAP_SERVICES environment variable.
- [FIXED] Fix
get_security
/set_security
asymmetry. - [FIXED] Support piping of request payload with plugins.
- [BREAKING CHANGE] Replace
retryAttempts
option withmaxAttempts
. This defines the maximum number of times the request will be attempted. - [BREAKING CHANGE] By default the
retry
plugin will retry requests on HTTP 429 status codes, a subset of 5xx server error status codes and also TCP/IP errors. See api-migration.md for migration details. - [BREAKING CHANGE] Changed
promise
plugin to throw newCloudantError
(notstring
). - [REMOVED] Remove global
retryTimeout
option (replaced by plugin specific configuration). - [REMOVED] Remove previously deprecated method
set_permissions
. - [IMPROVED] Updated documentation by replacing deprecated Cloudant links with the latest bluemix.net links.
- [UPGRADED] Upgrade package: [email protected].
- [NEW] Add 'error' & 'response' events to 429 retry plugin stream.
- [FIXED]
{silent: true}
to dotenv to prevent.env
warnings. - [UPGRADED] Upgrade package: [email protected].
- [UPGRADED] Upgrade package: debug@^3.1.0.
- [UPGRADED] Upgrade package: request@^2.81.0.
- [UPGRADED] Using cloudant-nano==6.5.0 dependancy.