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

6.3.1

• [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)

6.2.2

• [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

<strong>6.2.0</strong>

• [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)

6.1.1

• [Fix] ensure that allowPrototypes: false does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties

<strong>6.1.0</strong>

• [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)

6.0.3

• [Fix] ensure that allowPrototypes: false does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties
• [Fix] Restore dist directory; will be removed in v7 (#148)

<strong>6.0.2</strong>

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

<strong>6.0.1</strong>

• <strong>#127</strong> Fix engines definition in package.json

<strong>6.0.0</strong>

• <strong>#124</strong> Use ES6 and drop support for node < v4

5.2.1

• [Fix] ensure key[]=x&key[]&key[]=y results in 3, not 2, values

<strong>5.2.0</strong>

• <strong>#64</strong> Add option to sort object keys in the query string

<strong>5.1.0</strong>

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

<strong>5.0.0</strong>

• <strong>#114</strong> default allowDots to false
• <strong>#100</strong> include dist to npm

<strong>4.0.0</strong>

• <strong>#98</strong> make returning plain objects and allowing prototype overwriting properties optional

<strong>3.1.0</strong>

• <strong>#89</strong> Add option to disable "Transform dot notation to bracket notation"

<strong>3.0.0</strong>

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

<strong>2.4.1</strong>

• <strong>#73</strong> Property 'hasOwnProperty' of object # is not a function

<strong>2.4.0</strong>

• <strong>#70</strong> Add arrayFormat option

<strong>2.3.3</strong>

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

<strong>2.3.2</strong>

• <strong>#55</strong> allow merging a string into an object

<strong>2.3.1</strong>

• <strong>#52</strong> Return "undefined" and "false" instead of throwing "TypeError".

<strong>2.3.0</strong>

• <strong>#50</strong> add option to omit array indices, closes #46

<strong>2.2.5</strong>

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

<strong>2.2.4</strong>

• <strong>#38</strong> how to handle object keys beginning with a number

<strong>2.2.3</strong>

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

<strong>2.2.2</strong>

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

<strong>2.2.1</strong>

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

<strong>2.2.0</strong>

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

<strong>2.1.0</strong>

• <strong>#22</strong> Enable using a RegExp as delimiter

<strong>2.0.0</strong>

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

<strong>1.2.2</strong>

• <strong>#19</strong> Don't overwrite null values

<strong>1.2.1</strong>

• <strong>#16</strong> ignore non-string delimiters
• <strong>#15</strong> Close code block

<strong>1.2.0</strong>

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

<strong>1.1.0</strong>

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

<strong>1.0.2</strong>

• <strong>#5</strong> array holes incorrectly copied into object on large index