🚀 v1.13.x Changelog

[Fenny]

Special thanks to @kiyonlin, @ReneWerner87, @thomasvvugt for their input behind the scenes!
And I want to thank all the contributors for their awesome work, this community is amazing! ❤️

⚠ Deprecated

• Both app & group route registers will finally return the long-promised Router interface to enable chaining and passing groups to separate functions. -- 🔗 Allow route method chaining #641 @ReneWerner87 @kiyonlin @Fenny @thomasvvugt @koddr

// Old signature
func (app *App) Get(path string, handlers ...Handler) *Route {}

// New signature, see https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/gofiber/fiber?tab=doc#Router
func (app *App) Get(path string, handlers ...Handler) Router {}

• app.Routes() will no longer be supported, to access routes from the stack, please use app.Stack()
• Name is removed from the Route struct, did had no more purpose after we decided to compress our router stack in 🚀 compress same route's handler and sort routes when registering #651

🔥 New

• ctx.QueryParser() -- 🚀 feat: created method QueryParser in context; separated from BodyParser #585 🚀 New Function: QueryParser; separated from BodyParser #572 @renanbastos93
  QueryParser is a method to parse query parameters into a struct.
• Add access to original router stack using app.Stack() 🗑️ Deprecate app.Routes(), introduce app.Stack() #660 @Fenny @ReneWerner87
• Add TimeFormat to middleware.Logger 🔥 Add logger middleware time zone support #652 ⏲ Optimize time zone support #654 @kallydev @Fenny

🧹 Updates

• Bump fasthttp to v1.15.1 -- 📦 Bump fasthttp v1.15.1 #620 @Fenny
• app.Listen will automatically listen on tcp4 or tcp6 depending on the address input -- 🔌 Detect TCP protcol based on Addr #633 @Fenny
• StartupMessage renamed Cores to Threads -- 📀 Cores should be Threads #632 @Fenny
• Separate OS logic for prefork utils -- 🌼 watch master process #628 @kiyonlin
• Fix data race in ctx.SendFile() -- 👷 fix data race in sendFile test #622 @kiyonlin
• Update Chinese readme -- 🇨🇳 improve README_zh-CN.md #605
• Change some core values to constants -- 🚀 refactor: change status code number to a constant #603 @renanbastos93
• -prefork flag is removed -- use prefork child env #580 @kiyonlin
• Update 404 statuscode in Router to constant -- 🚀 refactor: change status code number to a constant #603 @renanbastos93
• Colors for method, status are supported by default in middleware.Logger() -- 🚀 Logger coloration #565 🐛 Fix reset color in Logger #607 Fix: #565 🖌 Add coloration in logger middleware #586 @YuilTripathee @Fenny
• Allow route method chaining -- 🔗 Allow route method chaining #641 @ReneWerner87
• Update supporter list -- 👑 Update supporters #645 @Fenny
• Add Pull Request template 🏷️ Add PR template #656 @Fenny
• Sync method metadata in routes with actual HTTP method 💉 Sync route method metadata #661 @ReneWerner87 @Fenny

🚀 Improvements

• Improve code comments -- 📚 Docs improvements #593 🐛 GoDoc improvement #592 @kinbiko
• Improve test coverage to 97.5% -- @kiyonlin
• Improve ctx.BodyParser() performance -- 🚀 improve ctx.BodyParser performance #616 @kiyonlin
• Improve ctx.IPs() -- 🚀 improve ctx.Ips performance #612 @kiyonlin
• Improve ctx.Links() & ctx.Render() -- Improve ctx links #626 @ReneWerner87
• Improve ctx.QueryParser() & ctx.Render() -- 🚀 improve ctx.QueryParser performance #610 @kiyonlin
• Improve ctx.Attachment() -- 🚀 Better performance for ctx.Attachment #591 @kiyonlin
• Improve ctx.JSON() -- Improve json #581 🚀 Improve JSON response #583 @Fenny @kiyonlin
• Compress router stack 🚀 compress same route's handler and sort routes when registering #651 @ReneWerner87 @kiyonlin
• Improve ctx.Is ⚡ Improve ctx.Is performance #657 @ReneWerner87
• Improve ctx.BodyParser ⚡ Improve ctx.BodyParser speed -> remove toLower #659 @ReneWerner87

🩹 Fixes

• Escape filename -- 🐛 Escape fname #579 @Fenny
• Change PPID -> PID for master process -- Ppid2pid #582 @kiyonlin
• Kill child procs when master gets killed -- 👶 Remove child procs on PID kill + IPv6 #601 @Fenny
• Fix duplicates in ctx.Append() -- 🐞 prevent duplicates in ctx.Append for similar wording of the value #606 @ReneWerner87
• Buffer collision using ctx.Render() -- 🐛 Logger outputs log line to html #625 👷 fixed ctx.Render bug #630 @kiyonlin
• Reset match flag in router-- 🔔 fix ctx matched bug #629 @kiyonlin
• Fix typo -- ✏️ Fix typo for goreport #609 @songjiayang
• Golint naming fixes -- Update for golint #588 @songjiayang
• Fix BodyParser not passing content-types with invalid charsets 🧉 Allow missing space in Content-Type's using BodyParser #655 🐛 BodyParser doesn't detect chartset content-types without spaces #650 @ReneWerner87 @Fenny
• Fix Logger colors for Windows -- 🐛 1.13.0 breaks logger for Windows #639 🎨 Fix colors for Windows #642 @Fenny