1## **6.5.2** 2- [Fix] use `safer-buffer` instead of `Buffer` constructor 3- [Refactor] utils: `module.exports` one thing, instead of mutating `exports` (#230) 4- [Dev Deps] update `browserify`, `eslint`, `iconv-lite`, `safer-buffer`, `tape`, `browserify` 5 6## **6.5.1** 7- [Fix] Fix parsing & compacting very deep objects (#224) 8- [Refactor] name utils functions 9- [Dev Deps] update `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `tape` 10- [Tests] up to `node` `v8.4`; use `nvm install-latest-npm` so newer npm doesn’t break older node 11- [Tests] Use precise dist for Node.js 0.6 runtime (#225) 12- [Tests] make 0.6 required, now that it’s passing 13- [Tests] on `node` `v8.2`; fix npm on node 0.6 14 15## **6.5.0** 16- [New] add `utils.assign` 17- [New] pass default encoder/decoder to custom encoder/decoder functions (#206) 18- [New] `parse`/`stringify`: add `ignoreQueryPrefix`/`addQueryPrefix` options, respectively (#213) 19- [Fix] Handle stringifying empty objects with addQueryPrefix (#217) 20- [Fix] do not mutate `options` argument (#207) 21- [Refactor] `parse`: cache index to reuse in else statement (#182) 22- [Docs] add various badges to readme (#208) 23- [Dev Deps] update `eslint`, `browserify`, `iconv-lite`, `tape` 24- [Tests] up to `node` `v8.1`, `v7.10`, `v6.11`; npm v4.6 breaks on node < v1; npm v5+ breaks on node < v4 25- [Tests] add `editorconfig-tools` 26 27## **6.4.0** 28- [New] `qs.stringify`: add `encodeValuesOnly` option 29- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #201) 30- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200) 31- [Fix] chmod a-x 32- [Dev Deps] update `eslint` 33- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds 34- [eslint] reduce warnings 35 36## **6.3.2** 37- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200) 38- [Dev Deps] update `eslint` 39- [Fix] chmod a-x 40- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200) 41- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds 42 43## **6.3.1** 44- [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties (thanks, @snyk!) 45- [Dev Deps] update `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `browserify`, `iconv-lite`, `qs-iconv`, `tape` 46- [Tests] on all node minors; improve test matrix 47- [Docs] document stringify option `allowDots` (#195) 48- [Docs] add empty object and array values example (#195) 49- [Docs] Fix minor inconsistency/typo (#192) 50- [Docs] document stringify option `sort` (#191) 51- [Refactor] `stringify`: throw faster with an invalid encoder 52- [Refactor] remove unnecessary escapes (#184) 53- Remove contributing.md, since `qs` is no longer part of `hapi` (#183) 54 55## **6.3.0** 56- [New] Add support for RFC 1738 (#174, #173) 57- [New] `stringify`: Add `serializeDate` option to customize Date serialization (#159) 58- [Fix] ensure `utils.merge` handles merging two arrays 59- [Refactor] only constructors should be capitalized 60- [Refactor] capitalized var names are for constructors only 61- [Refactor] avoid using a sparse array 62- [Robustness] `formats`: cache `String#replace` 63- [Dev Deps] update `browserify`, `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`; add `safe-publish-latest` 64- [Tests] up to `node` `v6.8`, `v4.6`; improve test matrix 65- [Tests] flesh out arrayLimit/arrayFormat tests (#107) 66- [Tests] skip Object.create tests when null objects are not available 67- [Tests] Turn on eslint for test files (#175) 68 69## **6.2.3** 70- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200) 71- [Fix] chmod a-x 72- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200) 73- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds 74 75## **6.2.2** 76- [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties 77 78## **6.2.1** 79- [Fix] ensure `key[]=x&key[]&key[]=y` results in 3, not 2, values 80- [Refactor] Be explicit and use `Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call` 81- [Tests] remove `parallelshell` since it does not reliably report failures 82- [Tests] up to `node` `v6.3`, `v5.12` 83- [Dev Deps] update `tape`, `eslint`, `@ljharb/eslint-config`, `qs-iconv` 84 85## [**6.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=36&state=closed) 86- [New] pass Buffers to the encoder/decoder directly (#161) 87- [New] add "encoder" and "decoder" options, for custom param encoding/decoding (#160) 88- [Fix] fix compacting of nested sparse arrays (#150) 89 90## **6.1.2 91- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200) 92- [Fix] chmod a-x 93- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200) 94- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds 95 96## **6.1.1** 97- [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties 98 99## [**6.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=35&state=closed) 100- [New] allowDots option for `stringify` (#151) 101- [Fix] "sort" option should work at a depth of 3 or more (#151) 102- [Fix] Restore `dist` directory; will be removed in v7 (#148) 103 104## **6.0.4** 105- [Fix] follow `allowPrototypes` option during merge (#201, #200) 106- [Fix] chmod a-x 107- [Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200) 108- [Tests] up to `node` `v7.7`, `v6.10`,` v4.8`; disable osx builds since they block linux builds 109 110## **6.0.3** 111- [Fix] ensure that `allowPrototypes: false` does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties 112- [Fix] Restore `dist` directory; will be removed in v7 (#148) 113 114## [**6.0.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=33&state=closed) 115- Revert ES6 requirement and restore support for node down to v0.8. 116 117## [**6.0.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=32&state=closed) 118- [**#127**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/pull/127) Fix engines definition in package.json 119 120## [**6.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=31&state=closed) 121- [**#124**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/124) Use ES6 and drop support for node < v4 122 123## **5.2.1** 124- [Fix] ensure `key[]=x&key[]&key[]=y` results in 3, not 2, values 125 126## [**5.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=30&state=closed) 127- [**#64**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/64) Add option to sort object keys in the query string 128 129## [**5.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=29&state=closed) 130- [**#117**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/117) make URI encoding stringified results optional 131- [**#106**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/106) Add flag `skipNulls` to optionally skip null values in stringify 132 133## [**5.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=28&state=closed) 134- [**#114**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/114) default allowDots to false 135- [**#100**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/100) include dist to npm 136 137## [**4.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=26&state=closed) 138- [**#98**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/98) make returning plain objects and allowing prototype overwriting properties optional 139 140## [**3.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=24&state=closed) 141- [**#89**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/89) Add option to disable "Transform dot notation to bracket notation" 142 143## [**3.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=23&state=closed) 144- [**#80**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/80) qs.parse silently drops properties 145- [**#77**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/77) Perf boost 146- [**#60**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/60) Add explicit option to disable array parsing 147- [**#74**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/74) Bad parse when turning array into object 148- [**#81**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/81) Add a `filter` option 149- [**#68**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/68) Fixed issue with recursion and passing strings into objects. 150- [**#66**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/66) Add mixed array and object dot notation support Closes: #47 151- [**#76**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/76) RFC 3986 152- [**#85**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/85) No equal sign 153- [**#84**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/84) update license attribute 154 155## [**2.4.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=20&state=closed) 156- [**#73**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/73) Property 'hasOwnProperty' of object #<Object> is not a function 157 158## [**2.4.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=19&state=closed) 159- [**#70**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/70) Add arrayFormat option 160 161## [**2.3.3**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=18&state=closed) 162- [**#59**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/59) make sure array indexes are >= 0, closes #57 163- [**#58**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/58) make qs usable for browser loader 164 165## [**2.3.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=17&state=closed) 166- [**#55**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/55) allow merging a string into an object 167 168## [**2.3.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=16&state=closed) 169- [**#52**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/52) Return "undefined" and "false" instead of throwing "TypeError". 170 171## [**2.3.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=15&state=closed) 172- [**#50**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/50) add option to omit array indices, closes #46 173 174## [**2.2.5**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=14&state=closed) 175- [**#39**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/39) Is there an alternative to Buffer.isBuffer? 176- [**#49**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/49) refactor utils.merge, fixes #45 177- [**#41**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/41) avoid browserifying Buffer, for #39 178 179## [**2.2.4**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=13&state=closed) 180- [**#38**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/38) how to handle object keys beginning with a number 181 182## [**2.2.3**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=12&state=closed) 183- [**#37**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/37) parser discards first empty value in array 184- [**#36**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/36) Update to lab 4.x 185 186## [**2.2.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=11&state=closed) 187- [**#33**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/33) Error when plain object in a value 188- [**#34**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/34) use Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call instead of obj.hasOwnProperty 189- [**#24**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/24) Changelog? Semver? 190 191## [**2.2.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=10&state=closed) 192- [**#32**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/32) account for circular references properly, closes #31 193- [**#31**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/31) qs.parse stackoverflow on circular objects 194 195## [**2.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=9&state=closed) 196- [**#26**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/26) Don't use Buffer global if it's not present 197- [**#30**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/30) Bug when merging non-object values into arrays 198- [**#29**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/29) Don't call Utils.clone at the top of Utils.merge 199- [**#23**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/23) Ability to not limit parameters? 200 201## [**2.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=8&state=closed) 202- [**#22**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/22) Enable using a RegExp as delimiter 203 204## [**2.0.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=7&state=closed) 205- [**#18**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/18) Why is there arrayLimit? 206- [**#20**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/20) Configurable parametersLimit 207- [**#21**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/21) make all limits optional, for #18, for #20 208 209## [**1.2.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=6&state=closed) 210- [**#19**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/19) Don't overwrite null values 211 212## [**1.2.1**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=5&state=closed) 213- [**#16**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/16) ignore non-string delimiters 214- [**#15**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/15) Close code block 215 216## [**1.2.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=4&state=closed) 217- [**#12**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/12) Add optional delim argument 218- [**#13**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/13) fix #11: flattened keys in array are now correctly parsed 219 220## [**1.1.0**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=3&state=closed) 221- [**#7**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/7) Empty values of a POST array disappear after being submitted 222- [**#9**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/9) Should not omit equals signs (=) when value is null 223- [**#6**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/6) Minor grammar fix in README 224 225## [**1.0.2**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues?milestone=2&state=closed) 226- [**#5**](https://github.com/ljharb/qs/issues/5) array holes incorrectly copied into object on large index 227