CHANGELOG.md

15.0.1

Dependencies

• Upgrade Execa to 9.0.0

15.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 18.18.0

14.2.1

Dependencies

• Upgrade Execa to 8.0.0

14.2.0

Features

• The version can now be specified as a file path to a .nvmrc, package.json (engines.node field) or similar files.

const { path, version } = await getNode('/path/to/.nvmrc')

14.1.0

Features

• Add a signal option to cancel

14.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 16.17.0

13.6.0

Features

• Upgrade Execa

13.5.0

Features

• Improve tree-shaking support

13.4.0

Features

• Reduce npm package size by 53%

13.3.0

Features

• Reduce npm package size

13.2.0

Features

• Reduce npm package size

13.1.0

Features

• Improve TypeScript types

13.0.1

Dependencies

• Upgrade node-version-alias

13.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 14.18.0

Features

• The cwd option can now be a file: URL

12.1.0

Features

• Add TypeScript types.

12.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 12.20.0
• This package is now an ES module. It can only be loaded with an import or import() statement, not require(). See this post for more information.

11.0.2

Bug fixes

• Fix issue with SIGINT handlers

11.0.1

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when downloading several Node.js binaries in parallel

11.0.0

Breaking changes

• Rename the alias here to local

Features

• Add the alias global to target the global Node version, regardless of the current directory

10.0.0

Breaking changes

• Rename the alias now to here

9.0.0

Breaking changes

• Aliases c and current renamed to now
• The alias now now takes into account package.json engines.node field and additional files used by other Node.js version managers.
• Alias l removed: please use latest instead

Features

• Added alias lts to target the latest LTS version

8.0.1

Bug fixes

• Fix aliases shortcuts l and c

8.0.0

Breaking changes

• Rename * alias to latest or l
• Rename . alias to current or c
• Remove _ alias

7.3.1

Dependencies

• Fix removing core-js

7.3.0

Features

• Add fetch option to control caching

Bug fixes

• Checksum checks were not working when the mirror option was used

Dependencies

• Remove core-js

7.2.2

Bug fixes

• Fix cwd option

7.2.1

Bug fixes

• Fix _ and . aliases not working

7.2.0

Features

• Can use the _ alias to refer to the current process's Node.js version
• Can use the . alias to refer to the current project's Node.js version using its .nvmrc, .node-version or .naverc. The current directory can be changed using the cwd option.

7.1.2

Bug fixes

• Fix terminal color changing on Windows

7.1.1

Bug fixes

• Fix arch option

7.1.0

Features

• Add arch option to specify the CPU architecture.

7.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 10.17.0

6.6.0

Features

• Node.js binary download is now 50% faster on Windows

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when Node.js binary URL is invalid

6.5.0

Features

• Node.js binary download is now twice faster on Windows

Bug fixes

• Fix ARM, PowerPC, S390 support

6.4.0

Features

• Improve the internal directory structure used to cache the Node.js binary
• Cleanup temporary files when Node.js download fails

6.3.0

Features

• Improve the appearance of the progress bar

6.2.0

Features

• Ensure Node.js binaries are not corrupted by checking their checksums
• Use cache when offline (no network connection)

6.1.0

Features

• Make Node.js binary download twice faster on Linux and MacOS
• Improve error messages

Bug fixes

• Fix downloading Node.js 0.12 and below on Windows

6.0.1

Dependencies

• Reduce the number of dependencies

6.0.0

Breaking changes

• Separate the CLI into its own repository and npm package get-node-cli to reduce the number of dependencies.

5.5.0

Dependencies

• Upgrade fetch-node-website to 4.0.0
• Upgrade normalize-node-version to 5.1.0

5.4.1

Bug fixes

• Fix progress bar jitter.

5.4.0

Features

• Improve the appearance of the progress bar with the progress option.

5.3.0

Features

• The progress option now displays a progress bar instead of a spinner.

5.2.0

Features

• Show percentage instead of number of megabytes in spinner

5.1.0

Features

• Improve speed

5.0.0

Breaking changes

• Change the progress option default value from true to false when called programmatically. The --progress CLI option still defaults to true.

4.0.3

Internal

• Internal changes

4.0.2

Bugs

• Improve error messages

4.0.1

Bugs

• Fix CTRL-C not working

4.0.0

Breaking changes

• The output directory is now specified as an --output flag instead of a positional argument on the CLI. This means get-node VERSION OUTPUT should now be get-node --output=OUTPUT VERSION.

Features

• Add --help and --version CLI flags
• Add --progress CLI flag
• Add --mirror option
• Improve CLI spinner

Bugs

• Fix error messages not printed correctly (50128cd)

3.1.0

Features

• Improve progress messages on console
• Add alternative names for NODE_MIRROR: NVM_NODEJS_ORG_MIRROR, N_NODE_MIRROR and NODIST_NODE_MIRROR

3.0.1

Bugs

• Fix cache invalidation bug

3.0.0

Breaking changes

• The output directory now defaults to a global cache directory instead of the current directory.

Features

• The Node.js/programmatic API is now documented and exposed

2.0.1

Internal

• Internal changes

2.0.0

Features

• Retry downloading the Node.js binaries on network errors

1.1.0

Features

• A spinner is now shown when a new Node.js version is downloading