History.md

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v0.4.2

• Fix connection failure on iOS6. SockJS 0.3.3 includes this fix.

• The new preserve-inputs package, included by default in new Meteor apps, restores the pre-v0.4.0 behavior of "preserving" all form input elements by ID and name during re-rendering; users who want more precise control over preservation can still use the APIs added in v0.4.0.

• A few changes to the Meteor.absoluteUrl function:

  • Added a replaceLocalhost option.
  • The ROOT_URL environment variable is respected by meteor run.
  • It is now included in all apps via the meteor package. Apps that explicitly added the now-deprecated absolute-url smart package will log a deprecation warning.

• Upgrade Node from 0.8.8 to 0.8.11.

• If a Handlebars helper function foo returns null, you can now run do {{foo.bar}} without error, just like when foo is a non-existent property.

• If you pass a non-scalar object to Session.set, an error will now be thrown (matching the behavior of Session.equals). #215

• HTML pages are now served with a charset=utf-8 Content-Type header. #264

• The contents of <select> tags can now be reactive even in IE 7 and 8.

• The meteor tool no longer gets confused if a parent directory of your project is named public. #352

• Fix a race condition in the spiderable package which could include garbage in the spidered page.

• The REPL run by admin/node.sh no longer crashes Emacs M-x shell on exit.

• Refactor internal reload API.

• New internal jsparse smart package. Not yet exposed publicly.

Patch contributed by GitHub user yanivoliver.

v0.4.1

• New email smart package, with Email.send API.

• Upgrade Node from 0.6.17 to 0.8.8, as well as many Node modules in the dev bundle; those that are user-exposed are:

  • coffee-script: 1.3.3 (from 1.3.1)
  • stylus: 0.29.0 (from 0.28.1)
  • nib: 0.8.2 (from 0.7.0)

• All publicly documented APIs now use camelCase rather than under_scores. The old spellings continue to work for now. New names are:

  • Meteor.isClient/isServer
  • this.isSimulation inside a method invocation
  • Meteor.deps.Context.onInvalidate
  • Meteor.status().retryCount/retryTime

• Spark improvements

  • Optimize selector matching for event maps.
  • Fix Spark._currentRenderer behavior in timer callbacks.
  • Fix bug caused by interaction between Template.foo.preserve and {{#constant}}. #323
  • Allow {{#each}} over a collection of objects without _id. #281
  • Spark now supports Firefox 3.6.
  • Added a script to build a standalone spark.js that does not depend on Meteor (it depends on jQuery or Sizzle if you need IE7 support, and otherwise is fully standalone).

• Database writes from within Meteor.setTimeout/setInterval/defer will be batched with other writes from the current method invocation if they start before the method completes.

• Make Meteor.Cursor.forEach fully synchronous even if the user's callback yields. #321.

• Recover from exceptions thrown in Meteor.publish handlers.

• Upgrade bootstrap to version 2.1.1. #336, #337, #288, #293

• Change the implementation of the meteor deploy password prompt to not crash Emacs M-x shell.

• Optimize LocalCollection.remove(id) to be O(1) rather than O(n).

• Optimize client-side database performance when receiving updated data from the server outside of method calls.

• Better error reporting when a package in .meteor/packages does not exist.

• Better error reporting for coffeescript. #331

• Better error handling in Handlebars.Exception.

Patches contributed by GitHub users fivethirty, tmeasday, and xenolf.

v0.4.0

• Merge Spark, a new live page update engine

  • Breaking API changes
    • Input elements no longer preserved based on id and name attributes. Use preserve instead.
    • All Meteor.ui functions removed. Use Meteor.render, Meteor.renderList, and Spark functions instead.
    • New template functions (eg. created, rendered, etc) may collide with existing helpers. Use Template.foo.helpers() to avoid conflicts.
    • New syntax for declaring event maps. Use Template.foo.events({...}). For backwards compatibility, both syntaxes are allowed for now.
  • New Template features
    • Allow embedding non-Meteor widgets (eg. Google Maps) using {{#constant}}
    • Callbacks when templates are rendered. See http://docs.meteor.com/#template_rendered
    • Explicit control of which nodes are preserved during re-rendering. See http://docs.meteor.com/#template_preserve
    • Easily find nodes within a template in event handlers and callbacks. See http://docs.meteor.com/#template_find
    • Allow parts of a template to be independently reactive with the {{#isolate}} block helper.

• Use PACKAGE_DIRS environment variable to override package location. #227

• Add absolute-url package to construct URLs pointing to the application.

• Allow modifying documents returned by observe callbacks. #209

• Fix periodic crash after client disconnect. #212

• Fix minimingo crash on dotted queries with undefined keys. #126

v0.3.9

• Add spiderable package to allow web crawlers to index Meteor apps.

• meteor deploy uses SSL to protect application deployment.

• Fix stopImmediatePropagation(). #205

v0.3.8

• HTTPS support

  • Add force-ssl package to require site to load over HTTPS.
  • Use HTTPS for install script and meteor update.
  • Allow runtime configuration of default DDP endpoint.

• Handlebars improvements

  • Implement dotted path traversal for helpers and methods.
  • Allow functions in helper arguments.
  • Change helper nesting rules to allow functions as arguments.
  • Fix {{this.foo}} to never invoke helper foo.
  • Make event handler this reflect the node that matched the selector instead of the event target node.
  • Fix keyword arguments to helpers.

• Add nib support to stylus package. #175

• Upgrade bootstrap to version 2.0.4. #173

• Print changelog after meteor update.

• Fix mouseenter and mouseleave events. #224

• Fix issue with spurious heartbeat failures on busy connections.

• Fix exception in minimongo when matching non-arrays using $all. #183

• Fix serving an empty file when no cacheable assets exist. #179

v0.3.7

• Better parsing of .html template files

  • Allow HTML comments (<!-- -->) at top level
  • Allow whitespace anywhere in open/close tag
  • Provide names and line numbers on error
  • More helpful error messages

• Form control improvements

  • Fix reactive radio buttons in Internet Explorer.
  • Fix reactive textareas to update consistently across browsers, matching text field behavior.

• http package bug fixes:

  • Send correct Content-Type when POSTing params from the server. #172
  • Correctly detect JSON response Content-Type when a charset is present.

• Support Handlebars.SafeString. #160

• Fix intermittent "Cursor is closed" mongo error.

• Fix "Cannot read property 'nextSibling' of null" error in certain nested templates. #142

• Add heartbeat timer on the client to notice when the server silently goes away.

v0.3.6

• Rewrite event handling. this in event handlers now refers to the data context of the element that generated the event, not the top-level data context of the template where the event is declared.

• Add /websocket endpoint for raw websockets. Pass websockets through development mode proxy.

• Simplified API for Meteor.connect, which now receives a URL to a Meteor app rather than to a sockjs endpoint.

• Fix livedata to support subscriptions with overlapping documents.

• Update node.js to 0.6.17 to fix potential security issue.

v0.3.5

• Fix 0.3.4 regression: Call event map handlers on bubbled events. #107

v0.3.4

• Add Twitter bootstrap package. #84

• Add packages for sass and stylus CSS pre-processors. #40, #50

• Bind events correctly on top level elements in a template.

• Fix dotted path selectors in minimongo. #88

• Make backbone package also run on the server.

• Add bare option to coffee-script compilation so variables can be shared between multiple coffee-script file. #85

• Upgrade many dependency versions. User visible highlights:

• node.js 0.6.15

• coffee-script 1.3.1

• less 1.3.0

• sockjs 0.3.1

• underscore 1.3.3

• backbone 0.9.2

• Several documentation fixes and test coverage improvements.

v0.3.3

• Add http package for making HTTP requests to remote servers.

• Add madewith package to put a live-updating Made with Meteor badge on apps.

• Reduce size of mongo database on disk (--smallfiles).

• Prevent unnecessary hot-code pushes on deployed apps during server migration.

• Fix issue with spaces in directory names. #39

• Workaround browser caching issues in development mode by using query parameters on all JavaScript and CSS requests.

• Many documentation and test fixups.

v0.3.2

• Initial public launch