RELEASES.md

Version 2.0.1

• Improved accuracy of Node download progress bar on Windows (#1833)
• You should no longer run into errors about needing the VC++ Runtime on Windows (#1844)
• The data provided when installing a new Node version is now more relevant and accurate (#1846, #1848)
• Increased performance to make Volta even more responsive in typical use (#1849)
• volta run will now correctly handle flags in more situations (#1857)

Version 2.0.0

• 🚨 (BREAKING) 🚨 We upgraded the version of Rust used to build Volta, which drops support for older versions of glibc & Linux kernel. See the Rust announcement from August 2022 for details about the supported versions. Notably, this means that we no longer support CentOS 6 (#1611)
• 🚨 (BREAKING) 🚨 Due to costs and changes in the code signing process, we have dropped the code signing for the Windows installer. We now recommend using winget to install Volta on Windows (#1650)
• 🎉 (NEW) 🎉 We now ship a pre-built binary for ARM Linux & ARM Windows (#1696, #1801)
• Volta no longer requires Developer Mode to be enabled on Windows (#1755)
• volta uninstall now provides better help & error messages to describe its use and limitations (#1628, #1786)
• Volta will now use a universal binary on Mac, rather than separate Intel- & ARM-specific builds (#1635)
• Switched to installing profile scripts into .zshenv by default, rather than .zshrc (#1657)
• Added a default shim for the yarnpkg command, which is an alias of yarn (#1670)
• Added a new --very-verbose flag to enable even more logging (note: we haven't yet implemented much additional logging) (#1815)
• Simplified the fetching process to remove an extra network request and resolve hangs (#1812)
• Several dependency upgrades and clean-up refactors from @tottoto

Version 1.1.1

• Experimental support for pnpm (requires VOLTA_FEATURE_PNPM environment variable) (#1273)
• Fix to correctly import native root certificates (#1375)
• Better detection of executables provided by yarn (#1388, #1393)

Version 1.1.0

• Added support for pinning / installing Yarn 3+ (#1305)
• Improved portability and installer effectiveness by removing dependency on OpenSSL (#1214)

Version 1.0.8

• Fix for malformed bin entries when installing global packages (#997)
• Dependency updates

Version 1.0.7

• Added build for Linux distros with OpenSSL 3.0 (#1211)

Version 1.0.6

• Fixed panic when stdout is closed (#1058)
• Disabled global package interception when --prefix is provided (#1171)
• Numerous dependency updates

Version 1.0.5

• Added error when attempting to install Node using nvm syntax (#1020)
• Avoid modifying shell config if the environment is already correct (#990)
• Prevent trying to read OS-generated files as package configs (#981)

Version 1.0.4

• Fetch native Apple silicon versions of Node when available (#974)

Version 1.0.3

• Fix pinning of npm@bundled when there is a custom default npm version (#957)
• Use correct binary name for scoped packages with a string bin entry in package.json (#969)

Version 1.0.2

• Fix issues where volta list wasn't showing the correct information in all cases (#778, #926)
• Make detection of tool name case-insensitive on Windows (#941)
• Fix problem with npm link in a scoped package under npm 7 (#945)

Version 1.0.1

• Create Native build for Apple Silicon machines (#915, #917)

Version 1.0.0

• Support for npm link (#888, #889, #891)
• Support for npm update -g and yarn global upgrade (#895)
• Improvements in the handling of npm and yarn commands (#886, #887)

Version 0.9.3

• Various fixes to event plugin logic (#892, #894, #897)

Version 0.9.2

• Correctly detect Volta binary installation directory (#864)

Version 0.9.1

• Fix an issue with installing globals using npm 7 (#858)

Version 0.9.0

• Support Proxies through environment variables (#809, #851)
• Avoid unnecessary exists calls for files (#834)
• Rework package installs to allow for directly calling package manager (#848, #849)
• Breaking Change: Remove support for packages hooks (#817)

Version 0.8.7

• Support fetching older versions of Yarn (#771)
• Correctly detect zsh environment with ZDOTDIR variable (#799)
• Prevent race conditions when installing tools (#684, #796)

Version 0.8.6

• Improve parsing of engines when installing a package (#791, #792)

Version 0.8.5

• Improve the stability of installing tools on systems with virus scanning software (#784)
• Make volta uninstall work correctly when the original install had an issue (#787)

Version 0.8.4

• Add {{filename}} and {{ext}} (extension) replacements for template hooks (#774)
• Show better error when running volta install yarn without a Node version available (#763)

Version 0.8.3

• Fix bug preventing custom npm versions from launching on Windows (#777)
• Fix for completions in zsh for volta list (#772)

Version 0.8.2

• Add support for workspaces through the extends key in package.json (#755)
• Improve volta setup to make profile scripts more shareable across machines (#756)

Version 0.8.1

• Fix panic when running volta completions zsh (#746)
• Improve startup latency by reducing binary size (#732, #733, #734, #735)

Version 0.8.0

• Support for pinning / installing custom versions of npm (#691)
• New command: volta run which will let you run one-off commands using custom versions of Node / Yarn / npm (#713)
• Added default pretty formatter for volta list (#697)
• Improved setup of Volta environment to make it work in more scenarios (#666, #725)
• Bug fixes and performance improvements (#683, #701, #703, #704, #707, #717)

Version 0.7.2

• Added npm.cmd, npx.cmd, and yarn.cmd on Windows to support tools that look for CMD files specifically (#663)
• Updated volta setup to also ensure that the shim symlinks are set up correctly (#662)

Version 0.7.1

• Added warning when attempting to volta uninstall a package you don't have installed (#638)
• Added informational message about pinned project version when running volta install (#646)
• volta completions will attempt to create the output directory if it doesn't exist (#647)
• volta install will correctly handle script files that have CRLF as the line ending (#644)

Version 0.7.0

• Removed deprecated commands volta activate, volta deactivate, and volta current (#620, #559)
• Simplified installer behavior and added data directory migration support (#619)
• Removed reliance on UNC paths when executing node scripts (#637)

Version 0.6.8

• You can now use tagged versions when installing a tool with volta install (#604)
• volta install <tool> will now prefer LTS Node when pinning a version (#604)

Version 0.6.7

• volta pin will no longer remove a closing newline from package.json (#603)
• New environment variable VOLTA_BYPASS will allow you to temporarily disable Volta shims (#603)

Version 0.6.6

• Node and Yarn can now both be pinned in the same command volta pin node yarn (#593)
• Windows installer will now work on minimal Windows installs (e.g. Windows Sandbox) (#592)

Version 0.6.5

• volta list Now always outputs to stdout, regardless of how it is called (#581)
• DEPRECATION: volta activate and volta deactivate are deprecated and will be removed in a future version (#571)

Version 0.6.4

• volta install now works for installing packages from a private, authenticated registry (#554)
• volta install now has better diagnostic messages when things go wrong (#548)

Version 0.6.3

• volta install will no longer error when installing a scoped binary package (#537)

Version 0.6.2

• Added volta list command for inspecting the available tools and versions (#461)

Version 0.6.1

• Windows users will see a spinner instead of a � when Volta is loading data (#511)
• Interrupting a tool with Ctrl+C will correctly wait for the tool to exit (#513)

Version 0.6.0

• Allow installing 3rd-party binaries from private registries (#469)

Version 0.5.7

• Prevent corrupting local cache by downloading tools to temp directory (#498)

Version 0.5.6

• Improve expected behavior with Yarn in projects (#470)
• Suppress an erroneous "toolchain" key warning message (#486)

Version 0.5.5

• Proper support for relative paths in Bin hooks (#468)
• Diagnostic messages for shims with VOLTA_LOGLEVEL=debug (#466)
• Preserve user order for multiple tool installs (#479)

Version 0.5.4

• Show additional diagnostic messages when run with --verbose (#455)

Version 0.5.3

• Prevent unnecessary warning output when not running interactively (#451)
• Fix a bug in load script for fish shell on Linux (#456)
• Improve wrapping behavior for warning messages (#453)

Version 0.5.2

• Improve error messages when running a project-local binary fails (#426)
• Fix execution of user binaries on Windows (#445)

Version 0.5.1

• Add per-project hooks configuration in <PROJECT_ROOT>/.volta/hooks.json (#411)
• Support backwards compatibility with toolchain key in package.json (#434)

Version 0.5.0

• Rename to Volta: The JavaScript Launcher ⚡️
• Change package.json key to volta from toolchain (#413)
• Update volta completions behavior to be more usable (#416)
• Improve volta which to correctly find user tools (#419)
• Remove unneeded lookups of package.json files (#420)
• Cleanup of error messages and extraneous output (#421, #422)

Version 0.4.1

• Allow tool executions to pass through to the system if no Notion platform exists (#372)
• Improve installer support for varied Linux distros

Version 0.4.0

• Update notion install to use tool@version formatting for specifying a tool (#383, #403)
• Further error message improvements (#344, #395, #399, #400)
• Clean up bugs around installing and running packages (#368, #390, #394, #396)
• Include success messages when running notion install and notion pin (#397)

Version 0.3.0

• Support lts pseudo-version for Node (#331)
• Error message improvements
• Add notion install and notion uninstall for package binaries
• Remove autoshimming

Version 0.2.2

• Add notion which command (#293)
• Show progress when fetching Notion installer (#279)
• Improved styling for usage information (#283)
• Support for fish shell (#266, #290)
• Consolidate binaries, for a ~2/3 size reduction of Notion installer (#274)

Version 0.2.1

• Move preventing globals behind a feature flag (#273)

Version 0.2.0

• Add support for OpenSSL 1.1.1 (#267)
• Fix: ensure temp files are on the same volume (#257)
• Intercept global package installations (#248)
• Fix: make npx compatible with prelrease versions of npm (#239)
• Fix: make notion deactivate work infallibly, without loading any files (#237)
• Fix: make "npm" key optional in package.json (#233)
• Fix: publish latest Notion version via self-hosted endpoint (#230)
• Fix: eliminate excessive fetching and scanning for exact versions (#227)
• Rename notion use to notion pin (#226)
• Base filesystem isolation on NOTION_HOME env var (#224)
• Fix: robust progress bar logic (#221)
• Use JSON for internal state files (#220)
• Support for npm and npx (#205)
• Changes to directory layout (#181)

Version 0.1.5

• Autoshimming! (#163)
• notion deactivate also unsets NOTION_HOME (#195)
• Implemented notion activate (#201)
• Fix for Yarn over-fetching bug (#203)

Version 0.1.4

• Fix for package.json parsing bug (#156)

Version 0.1.3

• Fix for Yarn path bug (#153)

Version 0.1.2

• Correct logic for computing latest version of Node (#144)
• Don't crash if cache dir was deleted (#138)
• Improved tests (#135)

Version 0.1.1

• Support for specifying latest as a version specifier (#133)
• Suppress scary-looking symlink warnings on reinstall (#132)
• Clearer error message for not-yet-implemented notion install somebin (#131)
• Support optional v prefix to version specifiers (#130)

Version 0.1.0

First pre-release, supporting:

• macOS and Linux (bash-only)
• notion install (Node and Yarn only, no package binaries)
• notion use
• Proof-of-concept plugin API