## v.NEXT
* Allow query parameters in OAuth1 URLs.
## v0.9.0
Meteor 0.9.0 introduces the Meteor Package Server. Incorporating lessons from
our community's Meteorite tool, Meteor 0.9.0 allows users to develop and publish
Meteor packages to a central repository. The `meteor publish` command is used to
publish packages. Non-core packages can now be added with `meteor add`, and you
can specify version constraints on the packages you use. Binary packages can be
published for additional architectures with `meteor publish-for-arch`, which
allows cross-platform deploys and bundling. You can search for packages with
`meteor search` and display information on them with `meteor show`, or you can
use the Atmosphere web interface developed by Percolate Studio at
https://atmospherejs.com/
See https://docs.meteor.com/#writingpackages and
https://docs.meteor.com/#packagejs for more details.
Other packaging-related changes:
* `meteor list` now lists the packages your app is using, which was formerly the
behavior of `meteor list --using`. To search for packages you are not
currently using, use `meteor search`. The concept of an "internal" package
(which did not show up in `meteor list`) no longer exists.
* To prepare a bundle created with `meteor bundle` for execution on a
server, you now run `npm install` with no arguments instead of having
to specify a few specific npm modules and their versions
explicitly. See the README in the generated bundle for more details.
* All `under_score`-style `package.js` APIs (`Package.on_use`, `api.add_files`,
etc) have been replaced with `camelCase` names (`Package.onUse`,
`api.addFiles`, etc). The old names continue to work for now.
* There's a new `archMatching` option to `Plugin.registerSourceHandler`, which
should be used by any plugin whose output is only for the client or only for
the server (eg, CSS and HTML templating packages); this allows Meteor to avoid
restarting the server when files processed by these plugins change.
Other changes:
* When running your app with the local development server, changes that only
affect the client no longer require restarting the server. Changes that only
affect CSS no longer require the browser to refresh the page, both in local
development and in some production environments. #490
* When a call to `match` fails in a method or subscription, log the
failure on the server. (This matches the behavior described in our docs)
* The `appcache` package now defaults to functioning on all browsers
that support the AppCache API, rather than a whitelist of browsers.
The main effect of this change is that `appcache` is now enabled by
default on Firefox, because Firefox no longer makes a confusing
popup. You can still disable individual browsers with
`AppCache.config`. #2241
* The `forceApprovalPrompt` option can now be specified in `Accounts.ui.config`
in addition to `Meteor.loginWithGoogle`. #2149
* Don't leak websocket clients in server-to-server DDP in some cases (and fix
"Got open from inactive client"
error). https://github.com/faye/websocket-driver-node/pull/8
* Updated OAuth url for login with Meetup.
* Allow minimongo `changed` callbacks to mutate their `oldDocument`
argument. #2231
* Fix upsert called from client with no callback. #2413
* Avoid a few harmless exceptions in OplogObserveDriver.
* Refactor `observe-sequence` package.
* Fix `spiderable` race condition.
* Re-apply our fix of NPM bug https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3265 which got
accidentally reverted upstream.
* Workaround for a crash in recent Safari
versions. https://github.com/meteor/meteor/commit/e897539adb
* Upgraded dependencies:
- less: 1.7.4 (from 1.7.1)
- tar: 1.0.1 (from 0.1.19)
- fstream: 1.0.2 (from 0.1.25)
Patches by Github users Cangit, dandv, ImtiazMajeed, MaximDubrovin, mitar,
mquandalle, rcy, RichardLitt, thatneat, and twhy.
## v0.8.3
#### Blaze
* Refactor Blaze to simplify internals while preserving the public
API. `UI.Component` has been replaced with `Blaze.View.`
* Fix performance issues and memory leaks concerning event handlers.
* Add `UI.remove`, which removes a template after `UI.render`/`UI.insert`.
* Add `this.autorun` to the template instance, which is like `Deps.autorun`
but is automatically stopped when the template is destroyed.
* Create `` tags as SVG elements when they have `xlink:href`
attributes. (Previously, `` tags inside SVGs were never created as
SVG elements.) #2178
* Throw an error in `{{foo bar}}` if `foo` is missing or not a function.
* Cursors returned from template helpers for #each should implement
the `observeChanges` method and don't have to be Minimongo cursors
(allowing new custom data stores for Blaze like Miniredis).
* Remove warnings when {{#each}} iterates over a list of strings,
numbers, or other items that contains duplicates. #1980
#### Meteor Accounts
* Fix regression in 0.8.2 where an exception would be thrown if
`Meteor.loginWithPassword` didn't have a callback. Callbacks to
`Meteor.loginWithPassword` are now optional again. #2255
* Fix OAuth popup flow in mobile apps that don't support
`window.opener`. #2302
* Fix "Email already exists" error with MongoDB 2.6. #2238
#### mongo-livedata and minimongo
* Fix performance issue where a large batch of oplog updates could block
the node event loop for long periods. #2299.
* Fix oplog bug resulting in error message "Buffer inexplicably empty". #2274
* Fix regression from 0.8.2 that caused collections to appear empty in
reactive `findOne()` or `fetch` queries that run before a mutator
returns. #2275
#### Miscellaneous
* Stop including code by default that automatically refreshes the page
if JavaScript and CSS don't load correctly. While this code is useful
in some multi-server deployments, it can cause infinite refresh loops
if there are errors on the page. Add the `reload-safetybelt` package
to your app if you want to include this code.
* On the server, `Meteor.startup(c)` now calls `c` immediately if the
server has already started up, matching the client behavior. #2239
* Add support for server-side source maps when debugging with
`node-inspector`.
* Add `WebAppInternals.addStaticJs()` for adding static JavaScript code
to be served in the app, inline if allowed by `browser-policy`.
* Make the `tinytest/run` method return immediately, so that `wait`
method calls from client tests don't block on server tests completing.
* Log errors from method invocations on the client if there is no
callback provided.
* Upgraded dependencies:
- node: 0.10.29 (from 0.10.28)
- less: 1.7.1 (from 1.6.1)
Patches contributed by GitHub users Cangit, cmather, duckspeaker, zol.
## v0.8.2
#### Meteor Accounts
* Switch `accounts-password` to use bcrypt to store passwords on the
server. (Previous versions of Meteor used a protocol called SRP.)
Users will be transparently transitioned when they log in. This
transition is one-way, so you cannot downgrade a production app once
you upgrade to 0.8.2. If you are maintaining an authenticating DDP
client:
- Clients that use the plaintext password login handler (i.e. call
the `login` method with argument `{ password: }`) will continue to work, but users will not be
transitioned from SRP to bcrypt when logging in with this login
handler.
- Clients that use SRP will no longer work. These clients should
instead directly call the `login` method, as in
`Meteor.loginWithPassword`. The argument to the `login` method
can be either:
- `{ password: }`, or
- `{ password: { digest: , algorithm: "sha-256" } }`,
where the password hash is the hex-encoded SHA256 hash of the
plaintext password.
* Show the display name of the currently logged-in user after following
an email verification link or a password reset link in `accounts-ui`.
* Add a `userEmail` option to `Meteor.loginWithMeteorDeveloperAccount`
to pre-fill the user's email address in the OAuth popup.
* Ensure that the user object has updated token information before
it is passed to email template functions. #2210
* Export the function that serves the HTTP response at the end of an
OAuth flow as `OAuth._endOfLoginResponse`. This function can be
overridden to make the OAuth popup flow work in certain mobile
environments where `window.opener` is not supported.
* Remove support for OAuth redirect URLs with a `redirect` query
parameter. This OAuth flow was never documented and never fully
worked.
#### Blaze
* Blaze now tracks individual CSS rules in `style` attributes and won't
overwrite changes to them made by other JavaScript libraries.
* Add `{{> UI.dynamic}}` to make it easier to dynamically render a
template with a data context.
* Add `UI._templateInstance()` for accessing the current template
instance from within a block helper.
* Add `UI._parentData(n)` for accessing parent data contexts from
within a block helper.
* Add preliminary API for registering hooks to run when Blaze intends to
insert, move, or remove DOM elements. For example, you can use these
hooks to animate nodes as they are inserted, moved, or removed. To use
them, you can set the `_uihooks` property on a container DOM
element. `_uihooks` is an object that can have any subset of the
following three properties:
- `insertElement: function (node, next)`: called when Blaze intends
to insert the DOM element `node` before the element `next`
- `moveElement: function (node, next)`: called when Blaze intends to
move the DOM element `node` before the element `next`
- `removeElement: function (node)`: called when Blaze intends to
remove the DOM element `node`
Note that when you set one of these functions on a container
element, Blaze will not do the actual operation; it's your
responsibility to actually insert, move, or remove the node (by
calling `$(node).remove()`, for example).
* The `findAll` method on template instances now returns a vanilla
array, not a jQuery object. The `$` method continues to
return a jQuery object. #2039
* Fix a Blaze memory leak by cleaning up event handlers when a template
instance is destroyed. #1997
* Fix a bug where helpers used by {{#with}} were still re-running when
their reactive data sources changed after they had been removed from
the DOM.
* Stop not updating form controls if they're focused. If a field is
edited by one user while another user is focused on it, it will just
lose its value but maintain its focus. #1965
* Add `_nestInCurrentComputation` option to `UI.render`, fixing a bug in
{{#each}} when an item is added inside a computation that subsequently
gets invalidated. #2156
* Fix bug where "=" was not allowed in helper arguments. #2157
* Fix bug when a template tag immediately follows a Spacebars block
comment. #2175
#### Command-line tool
* Add --directory flag to `meteor bundle`. Setting this flag outputs a
directory rather than a tarball.
* Speed up updates of NPM modules by upgrading Node to include our fix for
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3265 instead of passing `--force` to
`npm install`.
* Always rebuild on changes to npm-shrinkwrap.json files. #1648
* Fix uninformative error message when deploying to long hostnames. #1208
* Increase a buffer size to avoid failing when running MongoDB due to a
large number of processes running on the machine, and fix the error
message when the failure does occur. #2158
* Clarify a `meteor mongo` error message when using the MONGO_URL
environment variable. #1256
#### Testing
* Run server tests from multiple clients serially instead of in
parallel. This allows testing features that modify global server
state. #2088
#### Security
* Add Content-Type headers on JavaScript and CSS resources.
* Add `X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff` header to
`browser-policy-content`'s default policy. If you are using
`browser-policy-content` and you don't want your app to send this
header, then call `BrowserPolicy.content.allowContentTypeSniffing()`.
* Use `Meteor.absoluteUrl()` to compute the redirect URL in the `force-ssl`
package (instead of the host header).
#### Miscellaneous
* Allow `check` to work on the server outside of a Fiber. #2136
* EJSON custom type conversion functions should not be permitted to yield. #2136
* The legacy polling observe driver handles errors communicating with MongoDB
better and no longer gets "stuck" in some circumstances.
* Automatically rewind cursors before calls to `fetch`, `forEach`, or `map`. On
the client, don't cache the return value of `cursor.count()` (consistently
with the server behavior). `cursor.rewind()` is now a no-op. #2114
* Remove an obsolete hack in reporting line numbers for LESS errors. #2216
* Avoid exceptions when accessing localStorage in certain Internet
Explorer configurations. #1291, #1688.
* Make `handle.ready()` reactively stop, where `handle` is a
subscription handle.
* Fix an error message from `audit-argument-checks` after login.
* Make the DDP server send an error if the client sends a connect
message with a missing or malformed `support` field. #2125
* Fix missing `jquery` dependency in the `amplify` package. #2113
* Ban inserting EJSON custom types as documents. #2095
* Fix incorrect URL rewrites in stylesheets. #2106
* Upgraded dependencies:
- node: 0.10.28 (from 0.10.26)
- uglify-js: 2.4.13 (from 2.4.7)
- sockjs server: 0.3.9 (from 0.3.8)
- websocket-driver: 0.3.4 (from 0.3.2)
- stylus: 0.46.3 (from 0.42.3)
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, babenzele, Cangit, dandv,
ducdigital, emgee3, felixrabe, FredericoC, jbruni, kentonv, mizzao,
mquandalle, subhog, tbjers, tmeasday.
## v.0.8.1.3
* Fix a security issue in the `spiderable` package. `spiderable` now
uses the ROOT_URL environment variable instead of the Host header to
determine which page to snapshot.
* Fix hardcoded Twitter URL in `oauth1` package. This fixes a regression
in 0.8.0.1 that broke Atmosphere packages that do OAuth1
logins. #2154.
* Add `credentialSecret` argument to `Google.retrieveCredential`, which
was forgotten in a previous release.
* Remove nonexistent `-a` and `-r` aliases for `--add` and `--remove` in
`meteor help authorized`. #2155
* Add missing `underscore` dependency in the `oauth-encryption` package. #2165
* Work around IE8 bug that caused some apps to fail to render when
minified. #2037.
## v.0.8.1.2
* Fix memory leak (introduced in 0.8.1) by making sure to unregister
sessions at the server when they are closed due to heartbeat timeout.
* Add `credentialSecret` argument to `Google.retrieveCredential`,
`Facebook.retrieveCredential`, etc., which is needed to use them as of
0.8.1. #2118
* Fix 0.8.1 regression that broke apps using a `ROOT_URL` with a path
prefix. #2109
## v0.8.1.1
* Fix 0.8.1 regression preventing clients from specifying `_id` on insert. #2097
* Fix handling of malformed URLs when merging CSS files. #2103, #2093
* Loosen the checks on the `options` argument to `Collection.find` to
allow undefined values.
## v0.8.1
#### Meteor Accounts
* Fix a security flaw in OAuth1 and OAuth2 implementations. If you are
using any OAuth accounts packages (such as `accounts-google` or
`accounts-twitter`), we recommend that you update immediately and log
out your users' current sessions with the following MongoDB command:
$ db.users.update({}, { $set: { 'services.resume.loginTokens': [] } }, { multi: true });
* OAuth redirect URLs are now required to be on the same origin as your app.
* Log out a user's other sessions when they change their password.
* Store pending OAuth login results in the database instead of
in-memory, so that an OAuth flow succeeds even if different requests
go to different server processes.
* When validateLoginAttempt callbacks return false, don't override a more
specific error message.
* Add `Random.secret()` for generating security-critical secrets like
login tokens.
* `Meteor.logoutOtherClients` now calls the user callback when other
login tokens have actually been removed from the database, not when
they have been marked for eventual removal. #1915
* Rename `Oauth` to `OAuth`. `Oauth` is now an alias for backwards
compatibility.
* Add `oauth-encryption` package for encrypting sensitive account
credentials in the database.
* A validate login hook can now override the exception thrown from
`beginPasswordExchange` like it can for other login methods.
* Remove an expensive observe over all users in the `accounts-base`
package.
#### Blaze
* Disallow `javascript:` URLs in URL attribute values by default, to
help prevent cross-site scripting bugs. Call
`UI._allowJavascriptUrls()` to allow them.
* Fix `UI.toHTML` on templates containing `{{#with}}`.
* Fix `{{#with}}` over a data context that is mutated. #2046
* Clean up autoruns when calling `UI.toHTML`.
* Properly clean up event listeners when removing templates.
* Add support for `{{!-- block comments --}}` in Spacebars. Block comments may
contain `}}`, so they are more useful than `{{! normal comments}}` for
commenting out sections of Spacebars templates.
* Don't dynamically insert `` tags in reactive tables
* When handling a custom jQuery event, additional arguments are
no longer lost -- they now come after the template instance
argument. #1988
#### DDP and MongoDB
* Extend latency compensation to support an arbitrary sequence of
inserts in methods. Previously, documents created inside a method
stub on the client would eventually be replaced by new documents
from the server, causing the screen to flicker. Calling `insert`
inside a method body now generates the same ID on the client (inside
the method stub) and on the server. A sequence of inserts also
generates the same sequence of IDs. Code that wants a random stream
that is consistent between method stub and real method execution can
get one with `DDP.randomStream`.
https://trello.com/c/moiiS2rP/57-pattern-for-creating-multiple-database-records-from-a-method
* The document passed to the `insert` callback of `allow` and `deny` now only
has a `_id` field if the client explicitly specified one; this allows you to
use `allow`/`deny` rules to prevent clients from specifying their own
`_id`. As an exception, `allow`/`deny` rules with a `transform` always have an
`_id`.
* DDP now has an implementation of bidirectional heartbeats which is consistent
across SockJS and websocket transports. This enables connection keepalive and
allows servers and clients to more consistently and efficiently detect
disconnection.
* The DDP protocol version number has been incremented to "pre2" (adding
randomSeed and heartbeats).
* The oplog observe driver handles errors communicating with MongoDB
better and knows to re-poll all queries after a MongoDB failover.
* Fix bugs involving mutating DDP method arguments.
#### meteor command-line tool
* Move boilerplate HTML from tools to webapp. Change internal
`Webapp.addHtmlAttributeHook` API.
* Add `meteor list-sites` command for listing the sites that you have
deployed to meteor.com with your Meteor developer account.
* Third-party template languages can request that their generated source loads
before other JavaScript files, just like *.html files, by passing the
isTemplate option to Plugin.registerSourceHandler.
* You can specify a particular interface for the dev mode runner to bind to with
`meteor -p host:port`.
* Don't include proprietary tar tags in bundle tarballs.
* Convert relative URLs to absolute URLs when merging CSS files.
#### Upgraded dependencies
* Node.js from 0.10.25 to 0.10.26.
* MongoDB driver from 1.3.19 to 1.4.1
* stylus: 0.42.3 (from 0.42.2)
* showdown: 0.3.1
* css-parse: an unreleased version (from 1.7.0)
* css-stringify: an unreleased version (from 1.4.1)
Patches contributed by GitHub users aldeed, apendua, arbesfeld, awwx, dandv,
davegonzalez, emgee3, justinsb, mquandalle, Neftedollar, Pent, sdarnell,
and timhaines.
## v0.8.0.1
* Fix security flaw in OAuth1 implementation. Clients can no longer
choose the callback_url for OAuth1 logins.
## v0.8.0
Meteor 0.8.0 introduces Blaze, a total rewrite of our live templating engine,
replacing Spark. Advantages of Blaze include:
* Better interoperability with jQuery plugins and other techniques which
directly manipulate the DOM
* More fine-grained updates: only the specific elements or attributes that
change are touched rather than the entire template
* A fully documented templating language
* No need for the confusing `{{#constant}}`, `{{#isolate}}`, and `preserve`
directives
* Uses standard jQuery delegation (`.on`) instead of our custom implementation
* Blaze supports live SVG templates that work just like HTML templates
See
[the Using Blaze wiki page](https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Using-Blaze)
for full details on upgrading your app to 0.8.0. This includes:
* The `Template.foo.rendered` callback is now only called once when the template
is rendered, rather than repeatedly as it is "re-rendered", because templates
now directly update changed data instead of fully re-rendering.
* The `accounts-ui` login buttons are now invoked as a `{{> loginButtons}}`
rather than as `{{loginButtons}}`.
* Previous versions of Meteor used a heavily modified version of the Handlebars
templating language. In 0.8.0, we've given it its own name: Spacebars!
Spacebars has an
[explicit specification](https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/spacebars/README.md)
instead of being defined as a series of changes to Handlebars. There are some
incompatibilities with our previous Handlebars fork, such as a
[different way of specifying dynamic element attributes](https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/spacebars/README.md#in-attribute-values)
and a
[new way of defining custom block helpers](https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/spacebars/README.md#custom-block-helpers).
* Your template files must consist of
[well-formed HTML](https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/spacebars/README.md#html-dialect). Invalid
HTML is now a compilation failure. (There is a current limitation in our HTML
parser such that it does not support
[omitting end tags](http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#syntax-tag-omission)
on elements such as `` and `
`.)
* `Template.foo` is no longer a function. It is instead a
"component". Components render to an intermediate representation of an HTML
tree, not a string, so there is no longer an easy way to render a component to
a static HTML string.
* `Meteor.render` and `Spark.render` have been removed. Use `UI.render` and
`UI.insert` instead.
* The `` tag now defines a template just like the `` tag, which
can have helpers and event handlers. Define them directly on the object
`UI.body`.
* Previous versions of Meteor shipped with a synthesized `tap` event,
implementing a zero-delay click event on mobile browsers. Unfortunately, this
event never worked very well. We're eliminating it. Instead, use one of the
excellent third party solutions.
* The `madewith` package (which supported adding a badge to your website
displaying its score from http://madewith.meteor.com/) has been removed, as it
is not compatible with the new version of that site.
* The internal `spark`, `liverange`, `universal-events`, and `domutils` packages
have been removed.
* The `Handlebars` namespace has been deprecated. `Handlebars.SafeString` is
now `Spacebars.SafeString`, and `Handlebars.registerHelper` is now
`UI.registerHelper`.
Patches contributed by GitHub users cmather and mart-jansink.
## v0.7.2
* Support oplog tailing on queries with the `limit` option. All queries
except those containing `$near` or `$where` selectors or the `skip`
option can now be used with the oplog driver.
* Add hooks to login process: `Accounts.onLogin`,
`Accounts.onLoginFailure`, and `Accounts.validateLoginAttempt`. These
functions allow for rate limiting login attempts, logging an audit
trail, account lockout flags, and more. See:
http://docs.meteor.com/#accounts_validateloginattempt #1815
* Change the `Accounts.registerLoginHandler` API for custom login
methods. Login handlers now require a name and no longer have to deal
with generating resume tokens. See
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/accounts-base/accounts_server.js
for details. OAuth based login handlers using the
`Oauth.registerService` packages are not affected.
* Add support for HTML email in `Accounts.emailTemplates`. #1785
* minimongo: Support `{a: {$elemMatch: {x: 1, $or: [{a: 1}, {b: 1}]}}}` #1875
* minimongo: Support `{a: {$regex: '', $options: 'i'}}` #1874
* minimongo: Fix sort implementation with multiple sort fields which each look
inside an array. eg, ensure that with sort key `{'a.x': 1, 'a.y': 1}`, the
document `{a: [{x: 0, y: 4}]}` sorts before
`{a: [{x: 0, y: 5}, {x: 1, y: 3}]}`, because the 3 should not be used as a
tie-breaker because it is not "next to" the tied 0s.
* minimongo: Fix sort implementation when selector and sort key share a field,
that field matches an array in the document, and only some values of the array
match the selector. eg, ensure that with sort key `{a: 1}` and selector
`{a: {$gt: 3}}`, the document `{a: [4, 6]}` sorts before `{a: [1, 5]}`,
because the 1 should not be used as a sort key because it does not match the
selector. (We only approximate the MongoDB behavior here by only supporting
relatively selectors.)
* Use `faye-websocket` (0.7.2) npm module instead of `websocket` (1.0.8) for
server-to-server DDP.
* Update Google OAuth package to use new `profile` and `email` scopes
instead of deprecated URL-based scopes. #1887
* Add `_throwFirstError` option to `Deps.flush`.
* Make `facts` package data available on the server as
`Facts._factsByPackage`.
* Fix issue where `LESS` compilation error could crash the `meteor run`
process. #1877
* Fix crash caused by empty HTTP host header in `meteor run` development
server. #1871
* Fix hot code reload in private browsing mode in Safari.
* Fix appcache size calculation to avoid erronious warnings. #1847
* Remove unused `Deps._makeNonReactive` wrapper function. Call
`Deps.nonreactive` directly instead.
* Avoid setting the `oplogReplay` on non-oplog collections. Doing so
caused mongod to crash.
* Add startup message to `test-in-console` to ease automation. #1884
* Upgraded dependencies
- amplify: 1.1.2 (from 1.1.0)
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, dandv, queso, rgould, timhaines, zol
## v0.7.1.2
* Fix bug in tool error handling that caused `meteor` to crash on Mac
OSX when no computer name is set.
* Work around a bug that caused MongoDB to fail an assertion when using
tailable cursors on non-oplog collections.
## v0.7.1.1
* Integrate with Meteor developer accounts, a new way of managing your
meteor.com deployed sites. When you use `meteor deploy`, you will be
prompted to create a developer account.
- Once you've created a developer account, you can log in and out
from the command line with `meteor login` and `meteor logout`.
- You can claim legacy sites with `meteor claim`. This command will
prompt you for your site password if you are claiming a
password-protected site; after claiming it, you will not need to
enter the site password again.
- You can add or remove authorized users, and view the list of
authorized users, for a site with `meteor authorized`.
- You can view your current username with `meteor whoami`.
- This release also includes the `accounts-meteor-developer` package
for building Meteor apps that allow users to log in with their own
developer accounts.
* Improve the oplog tailing implementation for getting real-time database
updates from MongoDB.
- Add support for all operators except `$where` and `$near`. Limit and
skip are not supported yet.
- Add optimizations to avoid needless data fetches from MongoDB.
- Fix an error ("Cannot call method 'has' of null") in an oplog
callback. #1767
* Add and improve support for minimongo operators.
- Support `$comment`.
- Support `obj` name in `$where`.
- `$regex` matches actual regexps properly.
- Improve support for `$nin`, `$ne`, `$not`.
- Support using `{ $in: [/foo/, /bar/] }`. #1707
- Support `{$exists: false}`.
- Improve type-checking for selectors.
- Support `{x: {$elemMatch: {$gt: 5}}}`.
- Match Mongo's behavior better when there are arrays in the document.
- Support `$near` with sort.
- Implement updates with `{ $set: { 'a.$.b': 5 } }`.
- Support `{$type: 4}` queries.
- Optimize `remove({})` when observers are paused.
- Make update-by-id constant time.
- Allow `{$set: {'x._id': 1}}`. #1794
* Upgraded dependencies
- node: 0.10.25 (from 0.10.22). The workaround for specific Node
versions from 0.7.0 is now removed; 0.10.25+ is supported.
- jquery: 1.11.0 (from 1.8.2). See
http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/ for upgrade instructions.
- jquery-waypoints: 2.0.4 (from 1.1.7). Contains
backwards-incompatible changes.
- source-map: 0.3.2 (from 0.3.30) #1782
- websocket-driver: 0.3.2 (from 0.3.1)
- http-proxy: 1.0.2 (from a pre-release fork of 1.0)
- semver: 2.2.1 (from 2.1.0)
- request: 2.33.0 (from 2.27.0)
- fstream: 0.1.25 (from 0.1.24)
- tar: 0.1.19 (from 0.1.18)
- eachline: a fork of 2.4.0 (from 2.3.3)
- source-map: 0.1.31 (from 0.1.30)
- source-map-support: 0.2.5 (from 0.2.3)
- mongo: 2.4.9 (from 2.4.8)
- openssl in mongo: 1.0.1f (from 1.0.1e)
- kexec: 0.2.0 (from 0.1.1)
- less: 1.6.1 (from 1.3.3)
- stylus: 0.42.2 (from 0.37.0)
- nib: 1.0.2 (from 1.0.0)
- coffeescript: 1.7.1 (from 1.6.3)
* CSS preprocessing and sourcemaps:
- Add sourcemap support for CSS stylesheet preprocessors. Use
sourcemaps for stylesheets compiled with LESS.
- Improve CSS minification to deal with `@import` statements correctly.
- Lint CSS files for invalid `@` directives.
- Change the recommended suffix for imported LESS files from
`.lessimport` to `.import.less`. Add `.import.styl` to allow
`stylus` imports. `.lessimport` continues to work but is deprecated.
* Add `clientAddress` and `httpHeaders` to `this.connection` in method
calls and publish functions.
* Hash login tokens before storing them in the database. Legacy unhashed
tokens are upgraded to hashed tokens in the database as they are used
in login requests.
* Change default accounts-ui styling and add more CSS classes.
* Refactor command-line tool. Add test harness and better tests. Run
`meteor self-test --help` for info on running the tools test suite.
* Speed up application re-build in development mode by re-using file
hash computation between file change watching code and application
build code..
* Fix issues with documents containing a key named `length` with a
numeric value. Underscore treated these as arrays instead of objects,
leading to exceptions when . Patch Underscore to not treat plain
objects (`x.constructor === Object`) with numeric `length` fields as
arrays. #594 #1737
* Deprecate `Accounts.loginServiceConfiguration` in favor of
`ServiceConfiguration.configurations`, exported by the
`service-configuration` package. `Accounts.loginServiceConfiguration`
is maintained for backwards-compatibility, but it is defined in a
`Meteor.startup` block and so cannot be used from top-level code.
* Cursors with a field specifier containing `{_id: 0}` can no longer be
used with `observeChanges` or `observe`. This includes the implicit
calls to these functions that are done when returning a cursor from a
publish function or using `{{#each}}`.
* Transform functions must return objects and may not change the `_id`
field, though they may leave it out.
* Remove broken IE7 support from the `localstorage` package. Meteor
accounts logins no longer persist in IE7.
* Fix the `localstorage` package when used with Safari in private
browsing mode. This fixes a problem with login token storage and
account login. #1291
* Types added with `EJSON.addType` now have default `clone` and `equals`
implementations. Users may still specify `clone` or `equals` functions
to override the default behavior. #1745
* Add `frame-src` to `browser-policy-content` and account for
cross-browser CSP disparities.
* Deprecate `Oauth.initiateLogin` in favor of `Oauth.showPopup`.
* Add `WebApp.rawConnectHandlers` for adding connect handlers that run
before any other Meteor handlers, except `connect.compress()`. Raw
connect handlers see the URL's full path (even if ROOT_URL contains a
non-empty path) and they run before static assets are served.
* Add `Accounts.connection` to allow using Meteor accounts packages with
a non-default DDP connection.
* Detect and reload if minified CSS files fail to load at startup. This
prevents the application from running unstyled if the page load occurs
while the server is switching versions.
* Allow Npm.depends to specify any http or https URL containing a full
40-hex-digit SHA. #1686
* Add `retry` package for connection retry with exponential backoff.
* Pass `update` and `remove` return values correctly when using
collections validated with `allow` and `deny` rules. #1759
* If you're using Deps on the server, computations and invalidation
functions are not allowed to yield. Throw an error instead of behaving
unpredictably.
* Fix namespacing in coffeescript files added to a package with the
`bare: true` option. #1668
* Fix races when calling login and/or logoutOtherClients from multiple
tabs. #1616
* Include oauth_verifier as a header rather than a parameter in
the `oauth1` package. #1825
* Fix `force-ssl` to allow local development with `meteor run` in IPv6
environments. #1751`
* Allow cursors on named local collections to be returned from a publish
function in an array. #1820
* Fix build failure caused by a directory in `programs/` without a
package.js file.
* Do a better job of handling shrinkwrap files when an npm module
depends on something that isn't a semver. #1684
* Fix failures updating npm dependencies when a node_modules directory
exists above the project directory. #1761
* Preserve permissions (eg, executable bit) on npm files. #1808
* SockJS tweak to support relative base URLs.
* Don't leak sockets on error in dev-mode proxy.
* Clone arguments to `added` and `changed` methods in publish
functions. This allows callers to reuse objects and prevents already
published data from changing after the fact. #1750
* Ensure springboarding to a different meteor tools version always uses
`exec` to run the old version. This simplifies process management for
wrapper scripts.
Patches contributed by GitHub users DenisGorbachev, EOT, OyoKooN, awwx,
dandv, icellan, jfhamlin, marcandre, michaelbishop, mitar, mizzao,
mquandalle, paulswartz, rdickert, rzymek, timhaines, and yeputons.
## v0.7.0.1
* Two fixes to `meteor run` Mongo startup bugs that could lead to hangs with the
message "Initializing mongo database... this may take a moment.". #1696
* Apply the Node patch to 0.10.24 as well (see the 0.7.0 section for details).
* Fix gratuitous IE7 incompatibility. #1690
## v0.7.0
This version of Meteor contains a patch for a bug in Node 0.10 which
most commonly affects websockets. The patch is against Node version
0.10.22 and 0.10.23. We strongly recommend using one of these precise
versions of Node in production so that the patch will be applied. If you
use a newer version of Node with this version of Meteor, Meteor will not
apply the patch and will instead disable websockets.
* Rework how Meteor gets realtime database updates from MongoDB. Meteor
now reads the MongoDB "oplog" -- a special collection that records all
the write operations as they are applied to your database. This means
changes to the database are instantly noticed and reflected in Meteor,
whether they originated from Meteor or from an external database
client. Oplog tailing is automatically enabled in development mode
with `meteor run`, and can be enabled in production with the
`MONGO_OPLOG_URL` environment variable. Currently the only supported
selectors are equality checks; `$`-operators, `limit` and `skip`
queries fall back to the original poll-and-diff algorithm. See
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Oplog-Observe-Driver
for details.
* Add `Meteor.onConnection` and add `this.connection` to method
invocations and publish functions. These can be used to store data
associated with individual clients between subscriptions and method
calls. See http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_onconnection for details. #1611
* Bundler failures cause non-zero exit code in `meteor run`. #1515
* Fix error when publish function callbacks are called during session shutdown.
* Rework hot code push. The new `autoupdate` package drives automatic
reloads on update using standard DDP messages instead of a hardcoded
message at DDP startup. Now the hot code push only triggers when
client code changes; server-only code changes will not cause the page
to reload.
* New `facts` package publishes internal statistics about Meteor.
* Add an explicit check that publish functions return a cursor, an array
of cursors, or a falsey value. This is a safety check to to prevent
users from accidentally returning Collection.findOne() or some other
value and expecting it to be published.
* Implement `$each`, `$sort`, and `$slice` options for minimongo's `$push`
modifier. #1492
* Introduce `--raw-logs` option to `meteor run` to disable log
coloring and timestamps.
* Add `WebAppInternals.setBundledJsCssPrefix()` to control where the
client loads bundled JavaScript and CSS files. This allows serving
files from a CDN to decrease page load times and reduce server load.
* Attempt to exit cleanly on `SIGHUP`. Stop accepting incoming
connections, kill DDP connections, and finish all outstanding requests
for static assets.
* In the HTTP server, only keep sockets with no active HTTP requests alive for 5
seconds.
* Fix handling of `fields` option in minimongo when only `_id` is present. #1651
* Fix issue where setting `process.env.MAIL_URL` in app code would not
alter where mail was sent. This was a regression in 0.6.6 from 0.6.5. #1649
* Use stderr instead of stdout (for easier automation in shell scripts) when
prompting for passwords and when downloading the dev bundle. #1600
* Ensure more downtime during file watching. #1506
* Fix `meteor run` with settings files containing non-ASCII characters. #1497
* Support `EJSON.clone` for `Meteor.Error`. As a result, they are properly
stringified in DDP even if thrown through a `Future`. #1482
* Fix passing `transform: null` option to `collection.allow()` to disable
transformation in validators. #1659
* Fix livedata error on `this.removed` during session shutdown. #1540 #1553
* Fix incompatibility with Phusion Passenger by removing an unused line. #1613
* Ensure install script creates /usr/local on machines where it does not
exist (eg. fresh install of OSX Mavericks).
* Set x-forwarded-* headers in `meteor run`.
* Clean up package dirs containing only ".build".
* Check for matching hostname before doing end-of-oauth redirect.
* Only count files that actually go in the cache towards the `appcache`
size check. #1653.
* Increase the maximum size spiderable will return for a page from 200kB
to 5MB.
* Upgraded dependencies:
* SockJS server from 0.3.7 to 0.3.8, including new faye-websocket module.
* Node from 0.10.21 to 0.10.22
* MongoDB from 2.4.6 to 2.4.8
* clean-css from 1.1.2 to 2.0.2
* uglify-js from a fork of 2.4.0 to 2.4.7
* handlebars npm module no longer available outside of handlebars package
Patches contributed by GitHub users AlexeyMK, awwx, dandv, DenisGorbachev,
emgee3, FooBarWidget, mitar, mcbain, rzymek, and sdarnell.
## v0.6.6.3
* Fix error when publish function callbacks are called during session
shutdown. #1540 #1553
* Improve `meteor run` CPU usage in projects with many
directories. #1506
## v0.6.6.2
* Upgrade Node from 0.10.20 to 0.10.21 (security update).
## v0.6.6.1
* Fix file watching on OSX. Work around Node issue #6251 by not using
fs.watch. #1483
## v0.6.6
#### Security
* Add `browser-policy` package for configuring and sending
Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options HTTP headers.
[See the docs](http://docs.meteor.com/#browserpolicy) for more.
* Use cryptographically strong pseudorandom number generators when available.
#### MongoDB
* Add upsert support. `Collection.update` now supports the `{upsert:
true}` option. Additionally, add a `Collection.upsert` method which
returns the newly inserted object id if applicable.
* `update` and `remove` now return the number of documents affected. #1046
* `$near` operator for `2d` and `2dsphere` indices.
* The `fields` option to the collection methods `find` and `findOne` now works
on the client as well. (Operators such as `$elemMatch` and `$` are not yet
supported in `fields` projections.) #1287
* Pass an index and the cursor itself to the callbacks in `cursor.forEach` and
`cursor.map`, just like the corresponding `Array` methods. #63
* Support `c.find(query, {limit: N}).count()` on the client. #654
* Improve behavior of `$ne`, `$nin`, and `$not` selectors with objects containing
arrays. #1451
* Fix various bugs if you had two documents with the same _id field in
String and ObjectID form.
#### Accounts
* [Behavior Change] Expire login tokens periodically. Defaults to 90
days. Use `Accounts.config({loginExpirationInDays: null})` to disable
token expiration.
* [Behavior Change] Write dates generated by Meteor Accounts to Mongo as
Date instead of number; existing data can be converted by passing it
through `new Date()`. #1228
* Log out and close connections for users if they are deleted from the
database.
* Add Meteor.logoutOtherClients() for logging out other connections
logged in as the current user.
* `restrictCreationByEmailDomain` option in `Accounts.config` to restrict new
users to emails of specific domain (eg. only users with @meteor.com emails) or
a custom validator. #1332
* Support OAuth1 services that require request token secrets as well as
authentication token secrets. #1253
* Warn if `Accounts.config` is only called on the client. #828
* Fix bug where callbacks to login functions could be called multiple
times when the client reconnects.
#### DDP
* Fix infinite loop if a client disconnects while a long yielding method is
running.
* Unfinished code to support DDP session resumption has been removed. Meteor
servers now stop processing messages from clients and reclaim memory
associated with them as soon as they are disconnected instead of a few minutes
later.
#### Tools
* The pre-0.6.5 `Package.register_extension` API has been removed. Use
`Package._transitional_registerBuildPlugin` instead, which was introduced in
0.6.5. (A bug prevented the 0.6.5 reimplementation of `register_extension`
from working properly anyway.)
* Support using an HTTP proxy in the `meteor` command line tool. This
allows the `update`, `deploy`, `logs`, and `mongo` commands to work
behind a proxy. Use the standard `http_proxy` environment variable to
specify your proxy endpoint. #429, #689, #1338
* Build Linux binaries on an older Linux machine. Meteor now supports
running on Linux machines with glibc 2.9 or newer (Ubuntu 10.04+, RHEL
and CentOS 6+, Fedora 10+, Debian 6+). Improve error message when running
on Linux with unsupported glibc, and include Mongo stderr if it fails
to start.
* Install NPM modules with `--force` to avoid corrupted local caches.
* Rebuild NPM modules in packages when upgrading to a version of Meteor that
uses a different version of Node.
* Disable the Mongo http interface. This lets you run meteor on two ports
differing by 1000 at the same time.
#### Misc
* [Known issue] Breaks support for pre-release OSX 10.9 'Mavericks'.
Will be addressed shortly. See issues:
https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6251
https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/6296
* `EJSON.stringify` now takes options:
- `canonical` causes objects keys to be stringified in sorted order
- `indent` allows formatting control over the EJSON stringification
* EJSON now supports `Infinity`, `-Infinity` and `NaN`.
* Check that the argument to `EJSON.parse` is a string. #1401
* Better error from functions that use `Meteor._wrapAsync` (eg collection write
methods and `HTTP` methods) and in DDP server message processing. #1387
* Support `appcache` on Chrome for iOS.
* Support literate CoffeeScript files with the extension `.coffee.md` (in
addition to the already-supported `.litcoffee` extension). #1407
* Make `madewith` package work again (broken in 0.6.5). #1448
* Better error when passing a string to `{{#each}}`. #722
* Add support for JSESSIONID cookies for sticky sessions. Set the
`USE_JSESSIONID` environment variable to enable placing a JSESSIONID
cookie on sockjs requests.
* Simplify the static analysis used to detect package-scope variables.
* Upgraded dependencies:
* Node from 0.8.24 to 0.10.20
* MongoDB from 2.4.4 to 2.4.6
* MongoDB driver from 1.3.17 to 1.3.19
* http-proxy from 0.10.1 to a pre-release of 1.0.0
* stylus from 0.30.1 to 0.37.0
* nib from 0.8.2 to 1.0.0
* optimist from 0.3.5 to 0.6.0
* semver from 1.1.0 to 2.1.0
* request from 2.12.0 to 2.27.0
* keypress from 0.1.0 to 0.2.1
* underscore from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2
* fstream from 0.1.21 to 0.1.24
* tar from 0.1.14 to 0.1.18
* source-map from 0.1.26 to 0.1.30
* source-map-support from a fork of 0.1.8 to 0.2.3
* escope from a fork of 0.0.15 to 1.0.0
* estraverse from 1.1.2-1 to 1.3.1
* simplesmtp from 0.1.25 to 0.3.10
* stream-buffers from 0.2.3 to 0.2.5
* websocket from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8
* cli-color from 0.2.2 to 0.2.3
* clean-css from 1.0.11 to 1.1.2
* UglifyJS2 from a fork of 2.3.6 to a different fork of 2.4.0
* connect from 2.7.10 to 2.9.0
* send from 0.1.0 to 0.1.4
* useragent from 2.0.1 to 2.0.7
* replaced byline with eachline 2.3.3
Patches contributed by GitHub users ansman, awwx, codeinthehole, jacott,
Maxhodges, meawoppl, mitar, mizzao, mquandalle, nathan-muir, RobertLowe, ryw,
sdarnell, and timhaines.
## v0.6.5.2
* Upgrade Node from 0.8.24 to 0.8.26 (security patch)
## v0.6.5.1
* Fix syntax errors on lines that end with a backslash. #1326
* Fix serving static files with special characters in their name. #1339
* Upgrade `esprima` JavaScript parser to fix bug parsing complex regexps.
* Export `Spiderable` from `spiderable` package to allow users to set
`Spiderable.userAgentRegExps` to control what user agents are treated
as spiders.
* Add EJSON to standard-app-packages. #1343
* Fix bug in d3 tab character parsing.
* Fix regression when using Mongo ObjectIDs in Spark templates.
## v0.6.5
* New package system with package compiler and linker:
* Each package now has it own namespace for variable
declarations. Global variables used in a package are limited to
package scope.
* Packages must explicitly declare which symbols they export with
`api.export` in `package.js`.
* Apps and packages only see the exported symbols from packages they
explicitly use. For example, if your app uses package A which in
turn depends on package B, only package A's symbols will be
available in the app.
* Package names can only contain alphanumeric characters, dashes, and
dots. Packages with spaces and underscores must be renamed.
* Remove hardcoded list of required packages. New default
`standard-app-packages` package adds dependencies on the core Meteor
stack. This package can be removed to make an app with only parts of
the Meteor stack. `standard-app-packages` will be automatically
added to a project when it is updated to Meteor 0.6.5.
* Custom app packages in the `packages` directory are no longer
automatically used. They must be explicitly added to the app with
`meteor add `. To help with the transition, all
packages in the `packages` directory will be automatically added to
the project when it is updated to Meteor 0.6.5.
* New "unipackage" on-disk format for built packages. Compiled packages are
cached and rebuilt only when their source or dependencies change.
* Add "unordered" and "weak" package dependency modes to allow
circular package dependencies and conditional code inclusion.
* New API (`_transitional_registerBuildPlugin`) for declaring
compilers, preprocessors, and file extension handlers. These new
build plugins are full compilation targets in their own right, and
have their own namespace, source files, NPM requirements, and package
dependencies. The old `register_extension` API is deprecated. Please
note that the `package.js` format and especially
`_transitional_registerBuildPlugin` are not frozen interfaces and
are subject to change in future releases.
* Add `api.imply`, which allows one package to "imply" another. If
package A implies package B, then anything that depends on package
A automatically depends on package B as well (and receives package
B's imports). This is useful for creating umbrella packages
(`standard-app-packages`) or sometimes for factoring common code
out of related packages (`accounts-base`).
* Move HTTP serving out of the server bootstrap and into the `webapp`
package. This allows building Meteor apps that are not web servers
(eg. command line tools, DDP clients, etc.). Connect middlewares can
now be registered on the new `WebApp.connectHandlers` instead of the
old `__meteor_bootstrap__.app`.
* The entire Meteor build process now has first-class source map
support. A source map is maintained for every source file as it
passes through the build pipeline. Currently, the source maps are
only served in development mode. Not all web browsers support source
maps yet and for those that do, you may have to turn on an option to
enable them. Source maps will always be used when reporting
exceptions on the server.
* Update the `coffeescript` package to generate source maps.
* Add new `Assets` API and `private` subdirectory for including and
accessing static assets on the server. http://docs.meteor.com/#assets
* Add `Meteor.disconnect`. Call this to disconnect from the
server and stop all live data updates. #1151
* Add `Match.Integer` to `check` for 32-bit signed integers.
* `Meteor.connect` has been renamed to `DDP.connect` and is now fully
supported on the server. Server-to-server DDP connections use
websockets, and can be used for both method calls and subscriptions.
* Rename `Meteor.default_connection` to `Meteor.connection` and
`Meteor.default_server` to `Meteor.server`.
* Rename `Meteor.http` to `HTTP`.
* `ROOT_URL` may now have a path part. This allows serving multiple
Meteor apps on the same domain.
* Support creating named unmanaged collections with
`new Meteor.Collection("name", {connection: null})`.
* New `Log` function in the `logging` package which prints with
timestamps, color, filenames and linenumbers.
* Include http response in errors from oauth providers. #1246
* The `observe` callback `movedTo` now has a fourth argument `before`.
* Move NPM control files for packages from `.npm` to
`.npm/package`. This is to allow build plugins such as `coffeescript`
to depend on NPM packages. Also, when removing the last NPM
dependency, clean up the `.npm` dir.
* Remove deprecated `Meteor.is_client` and `Meteor.is_server` variables.
* Implement "meteor bundle --debug" #748
* Add `forceApprovalPrompt` option to `Meteor.loginWithGoogle`. #1226
* Make server-side Mongo `insert`s, `update`s, and `remove`s run
asynchronously when a callback is passed.
* Improve memory usage when calling `findOne()` on the server.
* Delete login tokens from server when user logs out.
* Rename package compatibility mode option to `add_files` from `raw` to
`bare`.
* Fix Mongo selectors of the form: {$regex: /foo/}.
* Fix Spark memory leak. #1157
* Fix EPIPEs during dev mode hot code reload.
* Fix bug where we would never quiesce if we tried to revive subs that errored
out (5e7138d)
* Fix bug where `this.fieldname` in handlebars template might refer to a
helper instead of a property of the current data context. #1143
* Fix submit events on IE8. #1191
* Handle `Meteor.loginWithX` being called with a callback but no options. #1181
* Work around a Chrome bug where hitting reload could cause a tab to
lose the DDP connection and never recover. #1244
* Upgraded dependencies:
* Node from 0.8.18 to 0.8.24
* MongoDB from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4, now with SSL support
* CleanCSS from 0.8.3 to 1.0.11
* Underscore from 1.4.4 to 1.5.1
* Fibers from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1
* MongoDB Driver from 1.3.7 to 1.3.17
Patches contributed by GitHub users btipling, mizzao, timhaines and zol.
## v0.6.4.1
* Update mongodb driver to use version 0.2.1 of the bson module.
## v0.6.4
* Separate OAuth flow logic from Accounts into separate packages. The
`facebook`, `github`, `google`, `meetup`, `twitter`, and `weibo`
packages can be used to perform an OAuth exchange without creating an
account and logging in. #1024
* If you set the `DISABLE_WEBSOCKETS` environment variable, browsers will not
attempt to connect to your app using Websockets. Use this if you know your
server environment does not properly proxy Websockets to reduce connection
startup time.
* Make `Meteor.defer` work in an inactive tab in iOS. #1023
* Allow new `Random` instances to be constructed with specified seed. This
can be used to create repeatable test cases for code that picks random
values. #1033
* Fix CoffeeScript error reporting to include source file and line
number again. #1052
* Fix Mongo queries which nested JavaScript RegExp objects inside `$or`. #1089
* Upgraded dependencies:
* Underscore from 1.4.2 to 1.4.4 #776
* http-proxy from 0.8.5 to 0.10.1 #513
* connect from 1.9.2 to 2.7.10
* Node mongodb client from 1.2.13 to 1.3.7 #1060
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, johnston, and timhaines.
## v0.6.3
* Add new `check` package for ensuring that a value matches a required
type and structure. This is used to validate untrusted input from the
client. See http://docs.meteor.com/#match for details.
* Use Websockets by default on supported browsers. This reduces latency
and eliminates the constant network spinner on iOS devices.
* With `autopublish` on, publish many useful fields on `Meteor.users`.
* Files in the `client/compatibility/` subdirectory of a Meteor app do
not get wrapped in a new variable scope. This is useful for
third-party libraries which expect `var` statements at the outermost
level to be global.
* Add synthetic `tap` event for use on touch enabled devices. This is a
replacement for `click` that fires immediately.
* When using the `http` package synchronously on the server, errors
are thrown rather than passed in `result.error`
* The `manager` option to the `Meteor.Collection` constructor is now called
`connection`. The old name still works for now. #987
* The `localstorage-polyfill` smart package has been replaced by a
`localstorage` package, which defines a `Meteor._localStorage` API instead of
trying to replace the DOM `window.localStorage` facility. (Now, apps can use
the existence of `window.localStorage` to detect if the full localStorage API
is supported.) #979
* Upgrade MongoDB from 2.2.1 to 2.4.3.
* Upgrade CoffeeScript from 1.5.0 to 1.6.2. #972
* Faster reconnects when regaining connectivity. #696
* `Email.send` has a new `headers` option to set arbitrary headers. #963
* Cursor transform functions on the server no longer are required to return
objects with correct `_id` fields. #974
* Rework `observe()` callback ordering in minimongo to improve fiber
safety on the server. This makes subscriptions on server to server DDP
more usable.
* Use binary search in minimongo when updating ordered queries. #969
* Fix EJSON base64 decoding bug. #1001
* Support `appcache` on Chromium. #958
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, jagill, spang, and timhaines.
## v0.6.2.1
* When authenticating with GitHub, include a user agent string. This
unbreaks "Sign in with GitHub"
Patch contributed by GitHub user pmark.
## v0.6.2
* Better error reporting:
* Capture real stack traces for `Meteor.Error`.
* Report better errors with misconfigured OAuth services.
* Add per-package upgrade notices to `meteor update`.
* Experimental server-to-server DDP support: `Meteor.connect` on the
server will connect to a remote DDP endpoint via WebSockets. Method
calls should work fine, but subscriptions and minimongo on the server
are still a work in progress.
* Upgrade d3 from 2.x to 3.1.4. See
https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Upgrading-to-3.0 for compatibility notes.
* Allow CoffeeScript to set global variables when using `use strict`. #933
* Return the inserted documented ID from `LocalCollection.insert`. #908
* Add Weibo token expiration time to `services.weibo.expiresAt`.
* `Spiderable.userAgentRegExps` can now be modified to change what user agents
are treated as spiders by the `spiderable` package.
* Prevent observe callbacks from affecting the arguments to identical
observes. #855
* Fix meteor command line tool when run from a home directory with
spaces in its name. If you previously installed meteor release 0.6.0
or 0.6.1 you'll need to uninstall and reinstall meteor to support
users with spaces in their usernames (see
https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/master/README.md#uninstalling-meteor)
Patches contributed by GitHub users andreas-karlsson, awwx, jacott,
joshuaconner, and timhaines.
## v0.6.1
* Correct NPM behavior in packages in case there is a `node_modules` directory
somewhere above the app directory. #927
* Small bug fix in the low-level `routepolicy` package.
Patches contributed by GitHub users andreas-karlsson and awwx.
## v0.6.0
* Meteor has a brand new distribution system! In this new system, code-named
Engine, packages are downloaded individually and on demand. All of the
packages in each official Meteor release are prefetched and cached so you can
still use Meteor while offline. You can have multiple releases of Meteor
installed simultaneously; apps are pinned to specific Meteor releases.
All `meteor` commands accept a `--release` argument to specify which release
to use; `meteor update` changes what release the app is pinned to.
Inside an app, the name of the release is available at `Meteor.release`.
When running Meteor directly from a git checkout, the release is ignored.
* Variables declared with `var` at the outermost level of a JavaScript
source file are now private to that file. Remove the `var` to share
a value between files.
* Meteor now supports any x86 (32- or 64-bit) Linux system, not just those which
use Debian or RedHat package management.
* Apps may contain packages inside a top-level directory named `packages`.
* Packages may depend on [NPM modules](https://npmjs.org), using the new
`Npm.depends` directive in their `package.js` file. (Note: if the NPM module
has architecture-specific binary components, bundles built with `meteor
bundle` or `meteor deploy` will contain the components as built for the
developer's platform and may not run on other platforms.)
* Meteor's internal package tests (as well as tests you add to your app's
packages with the unsupported `Tinytest` framework) are now run with the new
command `meteor test-packages`.
* `{{#each}}` helper can now iterate over falsey values without throwing an
exception. #815, #801
* `{{#with}}` helper now only includes its block if its argument is not falsey,
and runs an `{{else}}` block if provided if the argument is falsey. #770, #866
* Twitter login now stores `profile_image_url` and `profile_image_url_https`
attributes in the `user.services.twitter` namespace. #788
* Allow packages to register file extensions with dots in the filename.
* When calling `this.changed` in a publish function, it is no longer an error to
clear a field which was never set. #850
* Deps API
* Add `dep.depend()`, deprecate `Deps.depend(dep)` and
`dep.addDependent()`.
* If first run of `Deps.autorun` throws an exception, stop it and don't
rerun. This prevents a Spark exception when template rendering fails
("Can't call 'firstNode' of undefined").
* If an exception is thrown during `Deps.flush` with no stack, the
message is logged instead. #822
* When connecting to MongoDB, use the JavaScript BSON parser unless specifically
requested in `MONGO_URL`; the native BSON parser sometimes segfaults. (Meteor
only started using the native parser in 0.5.8.)
* Calls to the `update` collection function in untrusted code may only use a
whitelisted list of modifier operators.
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, blackcoat, cmather, estark37,
mquandalle, Primigenus, raix, reustle, and timhaines.
## v0.5.9
* Fix regression in 0.5.8 that prevented users from editing their own
profile. #809
* Fix regression in 0.5.8 where `Meteor.loggingIn()` would not update
reactively. #811
## v0.5.8
* Calls to the `update` and `remove` collection functions in untrusted code may
no longer use arbitrary selectors. You must specify a single document ID when
invoking these functions from the client (other than in a method stub).
You may still use other selectors when calling `update` and `remove` on the
server and from client method stubs, so you can replace calls that are no
longer supported (eg, in event handlers) with custom method calls.
The corresponding `update` and `remove` callbacks passed to `allow` and `deny`
now take a single document instead of an array.
* Add new `appcache` package. Add this package to your project to speed
up page load and make hot code reload smoother using the HTML5
AppCache API. See http://docs.meteor.com/#appcache for details.
* Rewrite reactivity library. `Meteor.deps` is now `Deps` and has a new
API. `Meteor.autorun` and `Meteor.flush` are now called `Deps.autorun` and
`Deps.flush` (the old names still work for now). The other names under
`Meteor.deps` such as `Context` no longer exist. The new API is documented at
http://docs.meteor.com/#deps
* You can now provide a `transform` option to collections, which is a
function that documents coming out of that collection are passed
through. `find`, `findOne`, `allow`, and `deny` now take `transform` options,
which may override the Collection's `transform`. Specifying a `transform`
of `null` causes you to receive the documents unmodified.
* Publish functions may now return an array of cursors to publish. Currently,
the cursors must all be from different collections. #716
* User documents have id's when `onCreateUser` and `validateNewUser` hooks run.
* Encode and store custom EJSON types in MongoDB.
* Support literate CoffeeScript files with the extension `.litcoffee`. #766
* Add new login service provider for Meetup.com in `accounts-meetup` package.
* If you call `observe` or `observeChanges` on a cursor created with the
`reactive: false` option, it now only calls initial add callbacks and
does not continue watching the query. #771
* In an event handler, if the data context is falsey, default it to `{}`
rather than to the global object. #777
* Allow specifying multiple event handlers for the same selector. #753
* Revert caching header change from 0.5.5. This fixes image flicker on redraw.
* Stop making `Session` available on the server; it's not useful there. #751
* Force URLs in stack traces in browser consoles to be hyperlinks. #725
* Suppress spurious `changed` callbacks with empty `fields` from
`Cursor.observeChanges`.
* Fix logic bug in template branch matching. #724
* Make `spiderable` user-agent test case insensitive. #721
* Fix several bugs in EJSON type support:
* Fix `{$type: 5}` selectors for binary values on browsers that do
not support `Uint8Array`.
* Fix EJSON equality on falsey values.
* Fix for returning a scalar EJSON type from a method. #731
* Upgraded dependencies:
* mongodb driver to version 1.2.13 (from 0.1.11)
* mime module removed (it was unused)
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, cmather, graemian, jagill,
jmhredsox, kevinxucs, krizka, mitar, raix, and rasmuserik.
## v0.5.7
* The DDP wire protocol has been redesigned.
* The handshake message is now versioned. This breaks backwards
compatibility between sites with `Meteor.connect()`. Older meteor
apps can not talk to new apps and vice versa. This includes the
`madewith` package, apps using `madewith` must upgrade.
* New [EJSON](http://docs.meteor.com/#ejson) package allows you to use
Dates, Mongo ObjectIDs, and binary data in your collections and
Session variables. You can also add your own custom datatypes.
* Meteor now correctly represents empty documents in Collections.
* There is an informal specification in `packages/livedata/DDP.md`.
* Breaking API changes
* Changed the API for `observe`. Observing with `added`, `changed`
and `removed` callbacks is now unordered; for ordering information
use `addedAt`, `changedAt`, `removedAt`, and `movedTo`. Full
documentation is in the [`observe` docs](http://docs.meteor.com/#observe).
All callers of `observe` need to be updated.
* Changed the API for publish functions that do not return a cursor
(ie functions that call `this.set` and `this.unset`). See the
[`publish` docs](http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_publish) for the new
API.
* New Features
* Added new [`observeChanges`](http://docs.meteor.com/#observe_changes)
API for keeping track of the contents of a cursor more efficiently.
* There is a new reactive function on subscription handles: `ready()`
returns true when the subscription has received all of its initial
documents.
* Added `Session.setDefault(key, value)` so you can easily provide
initial values for session variables that will not be clobbered on
hot code push.
* You can specify that a collection should use MongoDB ObjectIDs as
its `_id` fields for inserts instead of strings. This allows you to
use Meteor with existing MongoDB databases that have ObjectID
`_id`s. If you do this, you must use `EJSON.equals()` for comparing
equality instead of `===`. See http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_collection.
* New [`random` package](http://docs.meteor.com/#random) provides
several functions for generating random values. The new
`Random.id()` function is used to provide shorter string IDs for
MongoDB documents. `Meteor.uuid()` is deprecated.
* `Meteor.status()` can return the status `failed` if DDP version
negotiation fails.
* Major Performance Enhancements
* Rewrote subscription duplication detection logic to use a more
efficient algorithm. This significantly reduces CPU usage on the
server during initial page load and when dealing with large amounts
of data.
* Reduced unnecessary MongoDB re-polling of live queries. Meteor no
longer polls for changes on queries that specify `_id` when
updates for a different specific `_id` are processed. This
drastically improves performance when dealing with many
subscriptions and updates to individual objects, such as those
generated by the `accounts-base` package on the `Meteor.users`
collection.
* Upgraded UglifyJS2 to version 2.2.5
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx and michaelglenadams.
## v0.5.6
* Fix 0.5.5 regression: Minimongo selectors matching subdocuments under arrays
did not work correctly.
* Some Bootstrap icons should have appeared white.
Patches contributed by GitHub user benjaminchelli.
## v0.5.5
* Deprecate `Meteor.autosubscribe`. `Meteor.subscribe` now works within
`Meteor.autorun`.
* Allow access to `Meteor.settings.public` on the client. If the JSON
file you gave to `meteor --settings` includes a field called `public`,
that field will be available on the client as well as the server.
* `@import` works in `less`. Use the `.lessimport` file extension to
make a less file that is ignored by preprocessor so as to avoid double
processing. #203
* Upgrade Fibers to version 1.0.0. The `Fiber` and `Future` symbols are
no longer exposed globally. To use fibers directly you can use:
`var Fiber = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('fibers');` and
`var Future = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('fibers/future');`
* Call version 1.1 of the Twitter API when authenticating with
OAuth. `accounts-twitter` users have until March 5th, 2013 to
upgrade before Twitter disables the old API. #527
* Treat Twitter ids as strings, not numbers, as recommended by
Twitter. #629
* You can now specify the `_id` field of a document passed to `insert`.
Meteor still auto-generates `_id` if it is not present.
* Expose an `invalidated` flag on `Meteor.deps.Context`.
* Populate user record with additional data from Facebook and Google. #664
* Add Facebook token expiration time to `services.facebook.expiresAt`. #576
* Allow piping a password to `meteor deploy` on `stdin`. #623
* Correctly type cast arguments to handlebars helper. #617
* Fix leaked global `userId` symbol.
* Terminate `phantomjs` properly on error when using the `spiderable`
package. #571
* Stop serving non-cachable files with caching headers. #631
* Fix race condition if server restarted between page load and initial
DDP connection. #653
* Resolve issue where login methods sometimes blocked future methods. #555
* Fix `Meteor.http` parsing of JSON responses on Firefox. #553
* Minimongo no longer uses `eval`. #480
* Serve 404 for `/app.manifest`. This allows experimenting with the
upcoming `appcache` smart package. #628
* Upgraded many dependencies, including:
* node.js to version 0.8.18
* jquery-layout to version 1.3.0RC
* Twitter Bootstrap to version 2.3.0
* Less to version 1.3.3
* Uglify to version 2.2.3
* useragent to version 2.0.1
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, bminer, bramp, crunchie84,
danawoodman, dbimmler, Ed-von-Schleck, geoffd123, jperl, kevee,
milesmatthias, Primigenus, raix, timhaines, and xenolf.
## v0.5.4
* Fix 0.5.3 regression: `meteor run` could fail on OSX 10.8 if environment
variables such as `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` are set.
## v0.5.3
* Add `--settings` argument to `meteor deploy` and `meteor run`. This
allows you to specify deployment-specific information made available
to server code in the variable `Meteor.settings`.
* Support unlimited open tabs in a single browser. Work around the
browser per-hostname connection limit by using randomized hostnames
for deployed apps. #131
* minimongo improvements:
* Allow observing cursors with `skip` or `limit`. #528
* Allow sorting on `dotted.sub.keys`. #533
* Allow querying specific array elements (`foo.1.bar`).
* `$and`, `$or`, and `$nor` no longer accept empty arrays (for consistency
with Mongo)
* Re-rendering a template with Spark no longer reverts changes made by
users to a `preserve`d form element. Instead, the newly rendered value
is only applied if it is different from the previously rendered value.
Additionally, elements with type other than TEXT can now have
reactive values (eg, the labels on submit buttons can now be
reactive). #510 #514 #523 #537 #558
* Support JavaScript RegExp objects in selectors in Collection write
methods on the client, eg `myCollection.remove({foo: /bar/})`. #346
* `meteor` command-line improvements:
* Improve error message when mongod fails to start.
* The `NODE_OPTIONS` environment variable can be used to pass command-line
flags to node (eg, `--debug` or `--debug-brk` to enable the debugger).
* Die with error if an app name is mistakenly passed to `meteor reset`.
* Add support for "offline" access tokens with Google login. #464 #525
* Don't remove `serviceData` fields from previous logins when logging in
with an external service.
* Improve `OAuth1Binding` to allow making authenticated API calls to
OAuth1 providers (eg Twitter). #539
* New login providers automatically work with `{{loginButtons}}` without
needing to edit the `accounts-ui-unstyled` package. #572
* Use `Content-Type: application/json` by default when sending JSON data
with `Meteor.http`.
* Improvements to `jsparse`: hex literals, keywords as property names, ES5 line
continuations, trailing commas in object literals, line numbers in error
messages, decimal literals starting with `.`, regex character classes with
slashes.
* Spark improvements:
* Improve rendering of