CHANGELOG

6.0.0 (2025-02-28)

• Drop support for NodeJS <= 16

• Remove node-pre-gyp in favor of prebuildify, prebuilt binaries are now shipped with the package

• Update node-addon-api to 8.3.0

• Update JS code to newer ES syntax

5.1.0 (2022-10-06)

• Update node-pre-gyp to 1.0.11

5.1.0 (2022-10-06)

• Update node-pre-gyp to 1.0.10

• Replace nodeunit with jest as the testing library

5.0.1 (2021-02-22)

• Update node-pre-gyp to 1.0.0

5.0.0 (2020-06-02)

• Fix the bcrypt "wrap-around" bug. It affects passwords with lengths >= 255. It is uncommon but it's a bug nevertheless. Previous attempts to fix the bug was unsuccessful.

• Experimental support for z/OS

• Fix a bug related to NUL in password input

• Update node-pre-gyp to 0.15.0

4.0.1 (2020-02-27)

• Fix compilation errors in Alpine linux

4.0.0 (2020-02-17)

• Switch to NAPI bcrypt

• Drop support for NodeJS 8

3.0.8 (2019-12-31)

• Update node-pre-gyp to 0.14

• Pre-built binaries for NodeJS 13

3.0.7 (2019-10-18)

• Update nan to 2.14.0

• Update node-pre-gyp to 0.13

3.0.6 (2019-04-11)

• Update nan to 2.13.2

3.0.5 (2019-03-19)

• Update nan to 2.13.1

• NodeJS 12 compatibility

• Remove node-pre-gyp from bundled dependencies

3.0.4-napi (2019-03-08)

• Sync N-API bcrypt with NAN bcrypt

3.0.4 (2019-02-07)

• Fix GCC, NAN and V8 deprecation warnings

3.0.3 (2018-12-19)

• Update nan to 2.12.1

3.0.2 (2018-10-18)

• Update nan to 2.11.1

3.0.1 (2018-09-20)

• Update nan to 2.11.0

3.0.0 (2018-07-06)

• Drop support for NodeJS <= 4

2.0.1 (2018-04-20)

• Update node-pre-gyp to allow downloading prebuilt modules

2.0.0 (2018-04-07)

• Make 2b the default bcrypt version

1.1.0-napi (2018-01-21)

• Initial support for N-API

1.0.3 (2016-08-23)

• update to nan v2.6.2 for NodeJS 8 support

• Fix: use npm scripts instead of node-gyp directly.

1.0.2 (2016-12-31)

• Fix compare promise rejection with invalid arguments

1.0.1 (2016-12-07)

• Fix destructuring imports with promises

1.0.0 (2016-12-04)

• add Promise support (commit 2488473)

0.8.7 (2016-06-09)

• update nan to 2.3.5 for improved node v6 support

0.8.6 (2016-04-20)

• update nan for node v6 support

0.8.5 (2015-08-12)

• update to nan v2 (adds support for iojs 3)

0.8.4 (2015-07-24)

• fix deprecation warning for the Encode API

0.8.3 (2015-05-06)

• update nan to 1.8.4 for iojs 2.x support

0.8.2 (2015-03-28)

• always use callback for generating random bytes to avoid blocking

0.8.1 (2015-01-18)

• update NaN to 1.5.0 for iojs support

0.8.0 (2014-08-03)

• migrate to NAN for bindings

v0.5.0

• Fix for issue around empty string params throwing Errors.

• Method deprecation.

• Upgrade from libeio/ev to libuv. (shtylman) ** --- NOTE --- Breaks 0.4.x compatability

• EV_MULTIPLICITY compile flag.

v0.4.1

• Thread safety fix around OpenSSL (GH-32). (bnoordhuis - through node)

• C++ code changes using delete and new instead of malloc and free. (shtylman)

• Compile options for speed, zoom. (shtylman)

• Move much of the type and variable checking to the JS. (shtylman)

v0.4.0

• Added getRounds function that will tell you the number of rounds within a hash/salt

v0.3.2

• Fix api issue with async salt gen first param

v0.3.1

• Compile under node 0.5.x

v0.3.0

• Internal Refactoring

• Remove pthread dependencies and locking

• Fix compiler warnings and a memory bug

v0.2.4

• Use threadsafe functions instead of pthread mutexes

• salt validation to make sure the salt is of the correct size and format

v0.2.3

• cygwin support

v0.2.2

• Remove dependency on libbsd, use libssl instead

v0.2.0

• Added async functionality

• API changes

  • hashpw -> encrypt

  • all old sync methods now end with _sync

• Removed libbsd(arc4random) dependency...now uses openssl which is more widely spread

v0.1.2

• Security fix. Wasn't reading rounds in properly and was always only using 4 rounds