protobuf v6.1.0 Release Notes
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💥 Breaking
⚡️ :hash: Removed as-function overload for Reader/Writer, profiler stub, optimized version of Reader#int32 📚 :hash: Refactored Prototype and inherits away, is now Class and Message for more intuitive documentation and type refs
🛠 Fixed
✅ :hash: Fixed failing test case on node < 6 🛠 :hash: Fixed serialization order of sfixed64, fixes #536 👀 :hash: Fixed serialization order of fixed64, fallback to parseInt with no long lib, see #534 🛠 :hash: Actually allow undefined as service method type, fixes #528 🛠 :hash: Do not skip optional delimiter after aggregate options, fixes #520 👀 :hash: Verify empty base64 encoded strings for bytes fields, see #535 :hash: wrong spell role should be rule 👀 :hash: decodeDelimited always forks if writer is specified, see #531 👀 :hash: Mimic spec-compliant behaviour in oneof getVirtual, see #523
🆕 New
👀 :hash: Initial base64 string support for bytes fields, see #535 👀 :hash: Initial type-checking verifier, see #526, added to bench out of competition 👀 :hash: Initial loadSync (node only), see #529 👀 :hash: Initial RPC service implementaion, see #529 👀 :hash: added 'defaults' option to Prototype#asJSON, see #521 💻 :hash: Use Uint8Array pool in browsers, just like node does with buffers 👀 :hash: Also validate map fields, see #526 (this really needs some tests)
CLI
👀 :hash: Added json-module target to pbjs, renamed static to static-module, see #522 ⚡️ :hash: updated internals and static target to use immutable objects on prototypes
📄 Docs
👀 :hash: Added a couple of alternative signatures, protobuf.load returns promise or undefined, aliased Reader/Writer-as-function signature with Reader/Writer.create for typed dialects, see #518 👀 :hash: Added variations for Root#load, see #527 :hash: Added benchmark and profile related information to README 👀 :hash: Added service example to README, see #529 ✅ :hash: README on tests ⚡️ :hash: Update README/dist to reflect recent changes 📚 :hash: Minimal documentation for micromodules 👀 :hash: Document all the callbacks, see #527 :hash: Documented streaming-rpc example a bit
Other
👀 :hash: Removed the need for triple-slash references in .d.ts by providing a minimal Long interface, see #527, see #530 :hash: Transition to micromodules 🔨 :hash: Refactored argument order of utf8 for plausibility :hash: Restructured reusable micromodules :hash: Can't use Uint8Array#set on node < 6 buffers ✅ :hash: Test case for #531 🚦 :hash: Safer signaling for synchronous load, see #529 🚦 :hash: Proper end of stream signaling to rpcImpl, see #529 👀 :hash: Moved event emitter to util, also accepts listener context, see #529 👀 :hash: Probably the worst form of hiding require programmatically, see #527 👀 :hash: Attempt to hide require('fs') from webpack, see #527 👀 :hash: Trying out jsdoc variations, see #527 :hash: by the way, why not include the json->proto functionality into "util"? ⚡️ :hash: Update proto.js :hash: Automatic profile generation and processing 🚚 :hash: Generalized buffer pool and moved it to util :hash: Make shields visible on npm, yey ↪ :hash: More shields, I love shields, and maybe a workaround for travis timing out when sauce takes forever :hash: Trying SauceLabs with higher concurrency