History.md

v.NEXT

• The appcache package now defaults to functioning on all browsers that support the AppCache API, rather than a whitelist of browsers. You can still disable individual browsers with AppCache.config. The main effect of this change is that appcache is now enabled by default on Firefox, because Firefox no longer makes a confusing popup. #2241

• When a call to match fails in a method or subscription, log the failure on the server. (This matches the behavior described in our docs)

• Upgraded dependencies:

  • less: 1.7.4 (from 1.7.1)
  • tar: 1.0.1 (from 0.1.19)
  • fstream: 1.0.2 (from 0.1.25)

v0.8.3

Blaze

• Refactor Blaze to simplify internals while preserving the public API. UI.Component has been replaced with Blaze.View.

• Fix performance issues and memory leaks concerning event handlers.

• Add UI.remove, which removes a template after UI.render/UI.insert.

• Add this.autorun to the template instance, which is like Deps.autorun but is automatically stopped when the template is destroyed.

• Create <a> tags as SVG elements when they have xlink:href attributes. (Previously, <a> tags inside SVGs were never created as SVG elements.) #2178

• Throw an error in {{foo bar}} if foo is missing or not a function.

• Cursors returned from template helpers for #each should implement the observeChanges method and don't have to be Minimongo cursors (allowing new custom data stores for Blaze like Miniredis).

• Remove warnings when {{#each}} iterates over a list of strings, numbers, or other items that contains duplicates. #1980

Meteor Accounts

• Fix regression in 0.8.2 where an exception would be thrown if Meteor.loginWithPassword didn't have a callback. Callbacks to Meteor.loginWithPassword are now optional again. #2255

• Fix OAuth popup flow in mobile apps that don't support window.opener. #2302

• Fix "Email already exists" error with MongoDB 2.6. #2238

mongo-livedata and minimongo

• Fix performance issue where a large batch of oplog updates could block the node event loop for long periods. #2299.

• Fix oplog bug resulting in error message "Buffer inexplicably empty". #2274

• Fix regression from 0.8.2 that caused collections to appear empty in reactive findOne() or fetch queries that run before a mutator returns. #2275

Miscellaneous

• Stop including code by default that automatically refreshes the page if JavaScript and CSS don't load correctly. While this code is useful in some multi-server deployments, it can cause infinite refresh loops if there are errors on the page. Add the reload-safetybelt package to your app if you want to include this code.

• On the server, Meteor.startup(c) now calls c immediately if the server has already started up, matching the client behavior. #2239

• Add support for server-side source maps when debugging with node-inspector.

• Add WebAppInternals.addStaticJs() for adding static JavaScript code to be served in the app, inline if allowed by browser-policy.

• Make the tinytest/run method return immediately, so that wait method calls from client tests don't block on server tests completing.

• Log errors from method invocations on the client if there is no callback provided.

• Upgraded dependencies:

  • node: 0.10.29 (from 0.10.28)
  • less: 1.7.1 (from 1.6.1)

Patches contributed by GitHub users Cangit, cmather, duckspeaker, zol.

v0.8.2

Meteor Accounts

• Switch accounts-password to use bcrypt to store passwords on the server. (Previous versions of Meteor used a protocol called SRP.) Users will be transparently transitioned when they log in. This transition is one-way, so you cannot downgrade a production app once you upgrade to 0.8.2. If you are maintaining an authenticating DDP client:

  • Clients that use the plaintext password login handler (i.e. call the login method with argument { password: <plaintext password> }) will continue to work, but users will not be transitioned from SRP to bcrypt when logging in with this login handler.
  • Clients that use SRP will no longer work. These clients should instead directly call the login method, as in Meteor.loginWithPassword. The argument to the login method can be either:
    • { password: <plaintext password> }, or
    • { password: { digest: <password hash>, algorithm: "sha-256" } }, where the password hash is the hex-encoded SHA256 hash of the plaintext password.

• Show the display name of the currently logged-in user after following an email verification link or a password reset link in accounts-ui.

• Add a userEmail option to Meteor.loginWithMeteorDeveloperAccount to pre-fill the user's email address in the OAuth popup.

• Ensure that the user object has updated token information before it is passed to email template functions. #2210

• Export the function that serves the HTTP response at the end of an OAuth flow as OAuth._endOfLoginResponse. This function can be overridden to make the OAuth popup flow work in certain mobile environments where window.opener is not supported.

• Remove support for OAuth redirect URLs with a redirect query parameter. This OAuth flow was never documented and never fully worked.

Blaze

• Blaze now tracks individual CSS rules in style attributes and won't overwrite changes to them made by other JavaScript libraries.

• Add {{> UI.dynamic}} to make it easier to dynamically render a template with a data context.

• Add UI._templateInstance() for accessing the current template instance from within a block helper.

• Add UI._parentData(n) for accessing parent data contexts from within a block helper.

• Add preliminary API for registering hooks to run when Blaze intends to insert, move, or remove DOM elements. For example, you can use these hooks to animate nodes as they are inserted, moved, or removed. To use them, you can set the _uihooks property on a container DOM element. _uihooks is an object that can have any subset of the following three properties:

  • insertElement: function (node, next): called when Blaze intends to insert the DOM element node before the element next
  • moveElement: function (node, next): called when Blaze intends to move the DOM element node before the element next
  • removeElement: function (node): called when Blaze intends to remove the DOM element node

  Note that when you set one of these functions on a container element, Blaze will not do the actual operation; it's your responsibility to actually insert, move, or remove the node (by calling $(node).remove(), for example).

• The findAll method on template instances now returns a vanilla array, not a jQuery object. The $ method continues to return a jQuery object. #2039

• Fix a Blaze memory leak by cleaning up event handlers when a template instance is destroyed. #1997

• Fix a bug where helpers used by {{#with}} were still re-running when their reactive data sources changed after they had been removed from the DOM.

• Stop not updating form controls if they're focused. If a field is edited by one user while another user is focused on it, it will just lose its value but maintain its focus. #1965

• Add _nestInCurrentComputation option to UI.render, fixing a bug in {{#each}} when an item is added inside a computation that subsequently gets invalidated. #2156

• Fix bug where "=" was not allowed in helper arguments. #2157

• Fix bug when a template tag immediately follows a Spacebars block comment. #2175

Command-line tool

• Add --directory flag to meteor bundle. Setting this flag outputs a directory rather than a tarball.

• Speed up updates of NPM modules by upgrading Node to include our fix for npm/npm#3265 instead of passing --force to npm install.

• Always rebuild on changes to npm-shrinkwrap.json files. #1648

• Fix uninformative error message when deploying to long hostnames. #1208

• Increase a buffer size to avoid failing when running MongoDB due to a large number of processes running on the machine, and fix the error message when the failure does occur. #2158

• Clarify a meteor mongo error message when using the MONGO_URL environment variable. #1256

Testing

• Run server tests from multiple clients serially instead of in parallel. This allows testing features that modify global server state. #2088

Security

• Add Content-Type headers on JavaScript and CSS resources.

• Add X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff header to browser-policy-content's default policy. If you are using browser-policy-content and you don't want your app to send this header, then call BrowserPolicy.content.allowContentTypeSniffing().

• Use Meteor.absoluteUrl() to compute the redirect URL in the force-ssl package (instead of the host header).

Miscellaneous

• Allow check to work on the server outside of a Fiber. #2136

• EJSON custom type conversion functions should not be permitted to yield. #2136

• The legacy polling observe driver handles errors communicating with MongoDB better and no longer gets "stuck" in some circumstances.

• Automatically rewind cursors before calls to fetch, forEach, or map. On the client, don't cache the return value of cursor.count() (consistently with the server behavior). cursor.rewind() is now a no-op. #2114

• Remove an obsolete hack in reporting line numbers for LESS errors. #2216

• Avoid exceptions when accessing localStorage in certain Internet Explorer configurations. #1291, #1688.

• Make handle.ready() reactively stop, where handle is a subscription handle.

• Fix an error message from audit-argument-checks after login.

• Make the DDP server send an error if the client sends a connect message with a missing or malformed support field. #2125

• Fix missing jquery dependency in the amplify package. #2113

• Ban inserting EJSON custom types as documents. #2095

• Fix incorrect URL rewrites in stylesheets. #2106

• Upgraded dependencies:

  • node: 0.10.28 (from 0.10.26)
  • uglify-js: 2.4.13 (from 2.4.7)
  • sockjs server: 0.3.9 (from 0.3.8)
  • websocket-driver: 0.3.4 (from 0.3.2)
  • stylus: 0.46.3 (from 0.42.3)

Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, babenzele, Cangit, dandv, ducdigital, emgee3, felixrabe, FredericoC, jbruni, kentonv, mizzao, mquandalle, subhog, tbjers, tmeasday.

v.0.8.1.3

• Fix a security issue in the spiderable package. spiderable now uses the ROOT_URL environment variable instead of the Host header to determine which page to snapshot.

• Fix hardcoded Twitter URL in oauth1 package. This fixes a regression in 0.8.0.1 that broke Atmosphere packages that do OAuth1 logins. #2154.

• Add credentialSecret argument to Google.retrieveCredential, which was forgotten in a previous release.

• Remove nonexistent -a and -r aliases for --add and --remove in meteor help authorized. #2155

• Add missing underscore dependency in the oauth-encryption package. #2165

• Work around IE8 bug that caused some apps to fail to render when minified. #2037.

v.0.8.1.2

• Fix memory leak (introduced in 0.8.1) by making sure to unregister sessions at the server when they are closed due to heartbeat timeout.

• Add credentialSecret argument to Google.retrieveCredential, Facebook.retrieveCredential, etc., which is needed to use them as of 0.8.1. #2118

• Fix 0.8.1 regression that broke apps using a ROOT_URL with a path prefix. #2109

v0.8.1.1

• Fix 0.8.1 regression preventing clients from specifying _id on insert. #2097

• Fix handling of malformed URLs when merging CSS files. #2103, #2093

• Loosen the checks on the options argument to Collection.find to allow undefined values.

v0.8.1

Meteor Accounts

• Fix a security flaw in OAuth1 and OAuth2 implementations. If you are using any OAuth accounts packages (such as accounts-google or accounts-twitter), we recommend that you update immediately and log out your users' current sessions with the following MongoDB command:

  $ db.users.update({}, { $set: { 'services.resume.loginTokens': [] } }, { multi: true });

• OAuth redirect URLs are now required to be on the same origin as your app.

• Log out a user's other sessions when they change their password.

• Store pending OAuth login results in the database instead of in-memory, so that an OAuth flow succeeds even if different requests go to different server processes.

• When validateLoginAttempt callbacks return false, don't override a more specific error message.

• Add Random.secret() for generating security-critical secrets like login tokens.

• Meteor.logoutOtherClients now calls the user callback when other login tokens have actually been removed from the database, not when they have been marked for eventual removal. #1915

• Rename Oauth to OAuth. Oauth is now an alias for backwards compatibility.

• Add oauth-encryption package for encrypting sensitive account credentials in the database.

• A validate login hook can now override the exception thrown from beginPasswordExchange like it can for other login methods.

• Remove an expensive observe over all users in the accounts-base package.

Blaze

• Disallow javascript: URLs in URL attribute values by default, to help prevent cross-site scripting bugs. Call UI._allowJavascriptUrls() to allow them.

• Fix UI.toHTML on templates containing {{#with}}.

• Fix {{#with}} over a data context that is mutated. #2046

• Clean up autoruns when calling UI.toHTML.

• Properly clean up event listeners when removing templates.

• Add support for {{!-- block comments --}} in Spacebars. Block comments may contain }}, so they are more useful than {{! normal comments}} for commenting out sections of Spacebars templates.

• Don't dynamically insert <tbody> tags in reactive tables

• When handling a custom jQuery event, additional arguments are no longer lost -- they now come after the template instance argument. #1988

DDP and MongoDB

• Extend latency compensation to support an arbitrary sequence of inserts in methods. Previously, documents created inside a method stub on the client would eventually be replaced by new documents from the server, causing the screen to flicker. Calling insert inside a method body now generates the same ID on the client (inside the method stub) and on the server. A sequence of inserts also generates the same sequence of IDs. Code that wants a random stream that is consistent between method stub and real method execution can get one with DDP.randomStream. https://trello.com/c/moiiS2rP/57-pattern-for-creating-multiple-database-records-from-a-method

• The document passed to the insert callback of allow and deny now only has a _id field if the client explicitly specified one; this allows you to use allow/deny rules to prevent clients from specifying their own _id. As an exception, allow/deny rules with a transform always have an _id.

• DDP now has an implementation of bidirectional heartbeats which is consistent across SockJS and websocket transports. This enables connection keepalive and allows servers and clients to more consistently and efficiently detect disconnection.

• The DDP protocol version number has been incremented to "pre2" (adding randomSeed and heartbeats).

• The oplog observe driver handles errors communicating with MongoDB better and knows to re-poll all queries after a MongoDB failover.

• Fix bugs involving mutating DDP method arguments.

meteor command-line tool

• Move boilerplate HTML from tools to webapp. Change internal Webapp.addHtmlAttributeHook API.

• Add meteor list-sites command for listing the sites that you have deployed to meteor.com with your Meteor developer account.

• Third-party template languages can request that their generated source loads before other JavaScript files, just like *.html files, by passing the isTemplate option to Plugin.registerSourceHandler.

• You can specify a particular interface for the dev mode runner to bind to with meteor -p host:port.

• Don't include proprietary tar tags in bundle tarballs.

• Convert relative URLs to absolute URLs when merging CSS files.

Upgraded dependencies

• Node.js from 0.10.25 to 0.10.26.
• MongoDB driver from 1.3.19 to 1.4.1
• stylus: 0.42.3 (from 0.42.2)
• showdown: 0.3.1
• css-parse: an unreleased version (from 1.7.0)
• css-stringify: an unreleased version (from 1.4.1)

Patches contributed by GitHub users aldeed, apendua, arbesfeld, awwx, dandv, davegonzalez, emgee3, justinsb, mquandalle, Neftedollar, Pent, sdarnell, and timhaines.

v0.8.0.1

• Fix security flaw in OAuth1 implementation. Clients can no longer choose the callback_url for OAuth1 logins.

v0.8.0

Meteor 0.8.0 introduces Blaze, a total rewrite of our live templating engine, replacing Spark. Advantages of Blaze include:

• Better interoperability with jQuery plugins and other techniques which directly manipulate the DOM
• More fine-grained updates: only the specific elements or attributes that change are touched rather than the entire template
• A fully documented templating language
• No need for the confusing {{#constant}}, {{#isolate}}, and preserve directives
• Uses standard jQuery delegation (.on) instead of our custom implementation
• Blaze supports live SVG templates that work just like HTML templates

See the Using Blaze wiki page for full details on upgrading your app to 0.8.0. This includes:

• The Template.foo.rendered callback is now only called once when the template is rendered, rather than repeatedly as it is "re-rendered", because templates now directly update changed data instead of fully re-rendering.

• The accounts-ui login buttons are now invoked as a {{> loginButtons}} rather than as {{loginButtons}}.

• Previous versions of Meteor used a heavily modified version of the Handlebars templating language. In 0.8.0, we've given it its own name: Spacebars! Spacebars has an explicit specification instead of being defined as a series of changes to Handlebars. There are some incompatibilities with our previous Handlebars fork, such as a different way of specifying dynamic element attributes and a new way of defining custom block helpers.

• Your template files must consist of well-formed HTML. Invalid HTML is now a compilation failure. (There is a current limitation in our HTML parser such that it does not support omitting end tags on elements such as <P> and <LI>.)

• Template.foo is no longer a function. It is instead a "component". Components render to an intermediate representation of an HTML tree, not a string, so there is no longer an easy way to render a component to a static HTML string.

• Meteor.render and Spark.render have been removed. Use UI.render and UI.insert instead.

• The <body> tag now defines a template just like the <template> tag, which can have helpers and event handlers. Define them directly on the object UI.body.

• Previous versions of Meteor shipped with a synthesized tap event, implementing a zero-delay click event on mobile browsers. Unfortunately, this event never worked very well. We're eliminating it. Instead, use one of the excellent third party solutions.

• The madewith package (which supported adding a badge to your website displaying its score from http://madewith.meteor.com/) has been removed, as it is not compatible with the new version of that site.

• The internal spark, liverange, universal-events, and domutils packages have been removed.

• The Handlebars namespace has been deprecated. Handlebars.SafeString is now Spacebars.SafeString, and Handlebars.registerHelper is now UI.registerHelper.

Patches contributed by GitHub users cmather and mart-jansink.

v0.7.2

• Support oplog tailing on queries with the limit option. All queries except those containing $near or $where selectors or the skip option can now be used with the oplog driver.

• Add hooks to login process: Accounts.onLogin, Accounts.onLoginFailure, and Accounts.validateLoginAttempt. These functions allow for rate limiting login attempts, logging an audit trail, account lockout flags, and more. See: http://docs.meteor.com/#accounts_validateloginattempt #1815

• Change the Accounts.registerLoginHandler API for custom login methods. Login handlers now require a name and no longer have to deal with generating resume tokens. See https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/accounts-base/accounts_server.js for details. OAuth based login handlers using the Oauth.registerService packages are not affected.

• Add support for HTML email in Accounts.emailTemplates. #1785

• minimongo: Support {a: {$elemMatch: {x: 1, $or: [{a: 1}, {b: 1}]}}} #1875

• minimongo: Support {a: {$regex: '', $options: 'i'}} #1874

• minimongo: Fix sort implementation with multiple sort fields which each look inside an array. eg, ensure that with sort key {'a.x': 1, 'a.y': 1}, the document {a: [{x: 0, y: 4}]} sorts before {a: [{x: 0, y: 5}, {x: 1, y: 3}]}, because the 3 should not be used as a tie-breaker because it is not "next to" the tied 0s.

• minimongo: Fix sort implementation when selector and sort key share a field, that field matches an array in the document, and only some values of the array match the selector. eg, ensure that with sort key {a: 1} and selector {a: {$gt: 3}}, the document {a: [4, 6]} sorts before {a: [1, 5]}, because the 1 should not be used as a sort key because it does not match the selector. (We only approximate the MongoDB behavior here by only supporting relatively selectors.)

• Use faye-websocket (0.7.2) npm module instead of websocket (1.0.8) for server-to-server DDP.

• Update Google OAuth package to use new profile and email scopes instead of deprecated URL-based scopes. #1887

• Add _throwFirstError option to Deps.flush.

• Make facts package data available on the server as Facts._factsByPackage.

• Fix issue where LESS compilation error could crash the meteor run process. #1877

• Fix crash caused by empty HTTP host header in meteor run development server. #1871

• Fix hot code reload in private browsing mode in Safari.

• Fix appcache size calculation to avoid erronious warnings. #1847

• Remove unused Deps._makeNonReactive wrapper function. Call Deps.nonreactive directly instead.

• Avoid setting the oplogReplay on non-oplog collections. Doing so caused mongod to crash.

• Add startup message to test-in-console to ease automation. #1884

• Upgraded dependencies

  • amplify: 1.1.2 (from 1.1.0)

Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, dandv, queso, rgould, timhaines, zol

v0.7.1.2

• Fix bug in tool error handling that caused meteor to crash on Mac OSX when no computer name is set.

• Work around a bug that caused MongoDB to fail an assertion when using tailable cursors on non-oplog collections.

v0.7.1.1

• Integrate with Meteor developer accounts, a new way of managing your meteor.com deployed sites. When you use meteor deploy, you will be prompted to create a developer account.

  • Once you've created a developer account, you can log in and out from the command line with meteor login and meteor logout.
  • You can claim legacy sites with meteor claim. This command will prompt you for your site password if you are claiming a password-protected site; after claiming it, you will not need to enter the site password again.
  • You can add or remove authorized users, and view the list of authorized users, for a site with meteor authorized.
  • You can view your current username with meteor whoami.
  • This release also includes the accounts-meteor-developer package for building Meteor apps that allow users to log in with their own developer accounts.

• Improve the oplog tailing implementation for getting real-time database updates from MongoDB.

  • Add support for all operators except $where and $near. Limit and skip are not supported yet.
  • Add optimizations to avoid needless data fetches from MongoDB.
  • Fix an error ("Cannot call method 'has' of null") in an oplog callback. #1767

• Add and improve support for minimongo operators.

  • Support $comment.
  • Support obj name in $where.
  • $regex matches actual regexps properly.
  • Improve support for $nin, $ne, $not.
  • Support using { $in: [/foo/, /bar/] }. #1707
  • Support {$exists: false}.
  • Improve type-checking for selectors.
  • Support {x: {$elemMatch: {$gt: 5}}}.
  • Match Mongo's behavior better when there are arrays in the document.
  • Support $near with sort.
  • Implement updates with { $set: { 'a.$.b': 5 } }.
  • Support {$type: 4} queries.
  • Optimize remove({}) when observers are paused.
  • Make update-by-id constant time.
  • Allow {$set: {'x._id': 1}}. #1794

• Upgraded dependencies

  • node: 0.10.25 (from 0.10.22). The workaround for specific Node versions from 0.7.0 is now removed; 0.10.25+ is supported.
  • jquery: 1.11.0 (from 1.8.2). See http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/ for upgrade instructions.
  • jquery-waypoints: 2.0.4 (from 1.1.7). Contains backwards-incompatible changes.
  • source-map: 0.3.2 (from 0.3.30) #1782
  • websocket-driver: 0.3.2 (from 0.3.1)
  • http-proxy: 1.0.2 (from a pre-release fork of 1.0)
  • semver: 2.2.1 (from 2.1.0)
  • request: 2.33.0 (from 2.27.0)
  • fstream: 0.1.25 (from 0.1.24)
  • tar: 0.1.19 (from 0.1.18)
  • eachline: a fork of 2.4.0 (from 2.3.3)
  • source-map: 0.1.31 (from 0.1.30)
  • source-map-support: 0.2.5 (from 0.2.3)
  • mongo: 2.4.9 (from 2.4.8)
  • openssl in mongo: 1.0.1f (from 1.0.1e)
  • kexec: 0.2.0 (from 0.1.1)
  • less: 1.6.1 (from 1.3.3)
  • stylus: 0.42.2 (from 0.37.0)
  • nib: 1.0.2 (from 1.0.0)
  • coffeescript: 1.7.1 (from 1.6.3)

• CSS preprocessing and sourcemaps:

  • Add sourcemap support for CSS stylesheet preprocessors. Use sourcemaps for stylesheets compiled with LESS.
  • Improve CSS minification to deal with @import statements correctly.
  • Lint CSS files for invalid @ directives.
  • Change the recommended suffix for imported LESS files from .lessimport to .import.less. Add .import.styl to allow stylus imports. .lessimport continues to work but is deprecated.

• Add clientAddress and httpHeaders to this.connection in method calls and publish functions.

• Hash login tokens before storing them in the database. Legacy unhashed tokens are upgraded to hashed tokens in the database as they are used in login requests.

• Change default accounts-ui styling and add more CSS classes.

• Refactor command-line tool. Add test harness and better tests. Run meteor self-test --help for info on running the tools test suite.

• Speed up application re-build in development mode by re-using file hash computation between file change watching code and application build code..

• Fix issues with documents containing a key named length with a numeric value. Underscore treated these as arrays instead of objects, leading to exceptions when . Patch Underscore to not treat plain objects (x.constructor === Object) with numeric length fields as arrays. #594 #1737

• Deprecate Accounts.loginServiceConfiguration in favor of ServiceConfiguration.configurations, exported by the service-configuration package. Accounts.loginServiceConfiguration is maintained for backwards-compatibility, but it is defined in a Meteor.startup block and so cannot be used from top-level code.

• Cursors with a field specifier containing {_id: 0} can no longer be used with observeChanges or observe. This includes the implicit calls to these functions that are done when returning a cursor from a publish function or using {{#each}}.

• Transform functions must return objects and may not change the _id field, though they may leave it out.

• Remove broken IE7 support from the localstorage package. Meteor accounts logins no longer persist in IE7.

• Fix the localstorage package when used with Safari in private browsing mode. This fixes a problem with login token storage and account login. #1291

• Types added with EJSON.addType now have default clone and equals implementations. Users may still specify clone or equals functions to override the default behavior. #1745

• Add frame-src to browser-policy-content and account for cross-browser CSP disparities.

• Deprecate Oauth.initiateLogin in favor of Oauth.showPopup.

• Add WebApp.rawConnectHandlers for adding connect handlers that run before any other Meteor handlers, except connect.compress(). Raw connect handlers see the URL's full path (even if ROOT_URL contains a non-empty path) and they run before static assets are served.

• Add Accounts.connection to allow using Meteor accounts packages with a non-default DDP connection.

• Detect and reload if minified CSS files fail to load at startup. This prevents the application from running unstyled if the page load occurs while the server is switching versions.

• Allow Npm.depends to specify any http or https URL containing a full 40-hex-digit SHA. #1686

• Add retry package for connection retry with exponential backoff.

• Pass update and remove return values correctly when using collections validated with allow and deny rules. #1759

• If you're using Deps on the server, computations and invalidation functions are not allowed to yield. Throw an error instead of behaving unpredictably.

• Fix namespacing in coffeescript files added to a package with the bare: true option. #1668

• Fix races when calling login and/or logoutOtherClients from multiple tabs. #1616

• Include oauth_verifier as a header rather than a parameter in the oauth1 package. #1825

• Fix force-ssl to allow local development with meteor run in IPv6 environments. #1751`

• Allow cursors on named local collections to be returned from a publish function in an array. #1820

• Fix build failure caused by a directory in programs/ without a package.js file.

• Do a better job of handling shrinkwrap files when an npm module depends on something that isn't a semver. #1684

• Fix failures updating npm dependencies when a node_modules directory exists above the project directory. #1761

• Preserve permissions (eg, executable bit) on npm files. #1808

• SockJS tweak to support relative base URLs.

• Don't leak sockets on error in dev-mode proxy.

• Clone arguments to added and changed methods in publish functions. This allows callers to reuse objects and prevents already published data from changing after the fact. #1750

• Ensure springboarding to a different meteor tools version always uses exec to run the old version. This simplifies process management for wrapper scripts.

Patches contributed by GitHub users DenisGorbachev, EOT, OyoKooN, awwx, dandv, icellan, jfhamlin, marcandre, michaelbishop, mitar, mizzao, mquandalle, paulswartz, rdickert, rzymek, timhaines, and yeputons.

v0.7.0.1

• Two fixes to meteor run Mongo startup bugs that could lead to hangs with the message "Initializing mongo database... this may take a moment.". #1696

• Apply the Node patch to 0.10.24 as well (see the 0.7.0 section for details).

• Fix gratuitous IE7 incompatibility. #1690

v0.7.0

This version of Meteor contains a patch for a bug in Node 0.10 which most commonly affects websockets. The patch is against Node version 0.10.22 and 0.10.23. We strongly recommend using one of these precise versions of Node in production so that the patch will be applied. If you use a newer version of Node with this version of Meteor, Meteor will not apply the patch and will instead disable websockets.

• Rework how Meteor gets realtime database updates from MongoDB. Meteor now reads the MongoDB "oplog" -- a special collection that records all the write operations as they are applied to your database. This means changes to the database are instantly noticed and reflected in Meteor, whether they originated from Meteor or from an external database client. Oplog tailing is automatically enabled in development mode with meteor run, and can be enabled in production with the MONGO_OPLOG_URL environment variable. Currently the only supported selectors are equality checks; $-operators, limit and skip queries fall back to the original poll-and-diff algorithm. See https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Oplog-Observe-Driver for details.

• Add Meteor.onConnection and add this.connection to method invocations and publish functions. These can be used to store data associated with individual clients between subscriptions and method calls. See http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_onconnection for details. #1611

• Bundler failures cause non-zero exit code in meteor run. #1515

• Fix error when publish function callbacks are called during session shutdown.

• Rework hot code push. The new autoupdate package drives automatic reloads on update using standard DDP messages instead of a hardcoded message at DDP startup. Now the hot code push only triggers when client code changes; server-only code changes will not cause the page to reload.

• New facts package publishes internal statistics about Meteor.

• Add an explicit check that publish functions return a cursor, an array of cursors, or a falsey value. This is a safety check to to prevent users from accidentally returning Collection.findOne() or some other value and expecting it to be published.

• Implement $each, $sort, and $slice options for minimongo's $push modifier. #1492

• Introduce --raw-logs option to meteor run to disable log coloring and timestamps.

• Add WebAppInternals.setBundledJsCssPrefix() to control where the client loads bundled JavaScript and CSS files. This allows serving files from a CDN to decrease page load times and reduce server load.

• Attempt to exit cleanly on SIGHUP. Stop accepting incoming connections, kill DDP connections, and finish all outstanding requests for static assets.

• In the HTTP server, only keep sockets with no active HTTP requests alive for 5 seconds.

• Fix handling of fields option in minimongo when only _id is present. #1651

• Fix issue where setting process.env.MAIL_URL in app code would not alter where mail was sent. This was a regression in 0.6.6 from 0.6.5. #1649

• Use stderr instead of stdout (for easier automation in shell scripts) when prompting for passwords and when downloading the dev bundle. #1600

• Ensure more downtime during file watching. #1506

• Fix meteor run with settings files containing non-ASCII characters. #1497

• Support EJSON.clone for Meteor.Error. As a result, they are properly stringified in DDP even if thrown through a Future. #1482

• Fix passing transform: null option to collection.allow() to disable transformation in validators. #1659

• Fix livedata error on this.removed during session shutdown. #1540 #1553

• Fix incompatibility with Phusion Passenger by removing an unused line. #1613

• Ensure install script creates /usr/local on machines where it does not exist (eg. fresh install of OSX Mavericks).

• Set x-forwarded-* headers in meteor run.

• Clean up package dirs containing only ".build".

• Check for matching hostname before doing end-of-oauth redirect.

• Only count files that actually go in the cache towards the appcache size check. #1653.

• Increase the maximum size spiderable will return for a page from 200kB to 5MB.

• Upgraded dependencies:

  • SockJS server from 0.3.7 to 0.3.8, including new faye-websocket module.
  • Node from 0.10.21 to 0.10.22
  • MongoDB from 2.4.6 to 2.4.8
  • clean-css from 1.1.2 to 2.0.2
  • uglify-js from a fork of 2.4.0 to 2.4.7
  • handlebars npm module no longer available outside of handlebars package

Patches contributed by GitHub users AlexeyMK, awwx, dandv, DenisGorbachev, emgee3, FooBarWidget, mitar, mcbain, rzymek, and sdarnell.

v0.6.6.3

• Fix error when publish function callbacks are called during session shutdown. #1540 #1553

• Improve meteor run CPU usage in projects with many directories. #1506

v0.6.6.2

• Upgrade Node from 0.10.20 to 0.10.21 (security update).

v0.6.6.1

• Fix file watching on OSX. Work around Node issue #6251 by not using fs.watch. #1483

v0.6.6

Security

• Add browser-policy package for configuring and sending Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options HTTP headers. See the docs for more.

• Use cryptographically strong pseudorandom number generators when available.

MongoDB

• Add upsert support. Collection.update now supports the {upsert: true} option. Additionally, add a Collection.upsert method which returns the newly inserted object id if applicable.

• update and remove now return the number of documents affected. #1046

• $near operator for 2d and 2dsphere indices.

• The fields option to the collection methods find and findOne now works on the client as well. (Operators such as $elemMatch and $ are not yet supported in fields projections.) #1287

• Pass an index and the cursor itself to the callbacks in cursor.forEach and cursor.map, just like the corresponding Array methods. #63

• Support c.find(query, {limit: N}).count() on the client. #654

• Improve behavior of $ne, $nin, and $not selectors with objects containing arrays. #1451

• Fix various bugs if you had two documents with the same _id field in String and ObjectID form.

Accounts

• [Behavior Change] Expire login tokens periodically. Defaults to 90 days. Use Accounts.config({loginExpirationInDays: null}) to disable token expiration.

• [Behavior Change] Write dates generated by Meteor Accounts to Mongo as Date instead of number; existing data can be converted by passing it through new Date(). #1228

• Log out and close connections for users if they are deleted from the database.

• Add Meteor.logoutOtherClients() for logging out other connections logged in as the current user.

• restrictCreationByEmailDomain option in Accounts.config to restrict new users to emails of specific domain (eg. only users with @meteor.com emails) or a custom validator. #1332

• Support OAuth1 services that require request token secrets as well as authentication token secrets. #1253

• Warn if Accounts.config is only called on the client. #828

• Fix bug where callbacks to login functions could be called multiple times when the client reconnects.

DDP

• Fix infinite loop if a client disconnects while a long yielding method is running.

• Unfinished code to support DDP session resumption has been removed. Meteor servers now stop processing messages from clients and reclaim memory associated with them as soon as they are disconnected instead of a few minutes later.

Tools

• The pre-0.6.5 Package.register_extension API has been removed. Use Package._transitional_registerBuildPlugin instead, which was introduced in 0.6.5. (A bug prevented the 0.6.5 reimplementation of register_extension from working properly anyway.)

• Support using an HTTP proxy in the meteor command line tool. This allows the update, deploy, logs, and mongo commands to work behind a proxy. Use the standard http_proxy environment variable to specify your proxy endpoint. #429, #689, #1338

• Build Linux binaries on an older Linux machine. Meteor now supports running on Linux machines with glibc 2.9 or newer (Ubuntu 10.04+, RHEL and CentOS 6+, Fedora 10+, Debian 6+). Improve error message when running on Linux with unsupported glibc, and include Mongo stderr if it fails to start.

• Install NPM modules with --force to avoid corrupted local caches.

• Rebuild NPM modules in packages when upgrading to a version of Meteor that uses a different version of Node.

• Disable the Mongo http interface. This lets you run meteor on two ports differing by 1000 at the same time.

Misc

• [Known issue] Breaks support for pre-release OSX 10.9 'Mavericks'. Will be addressed shortly. See issues: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#6251 nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#6296

• EJSON.stringify now takes options:

  • canonical causes objects keys to be stringified in sorted order
  • indent allows formatting control over the EJSON stringification

• EJSON now supports Infinity, -Infinity and NaN.

• Check that the argument to EJSON.parse is a string. #1401

• Better error from functions that use Meteor._wrapAsync (eg collection write methods and HTTP methods) and in DDP server message processing. #1387

• Support appcache on Chrome for iOS.

• Support literate CoffeeScript files with the extension .coffee.md (in addition to the already-supported .litcoffee extension). #1407

• Make madewith package work again (broken in 0.6.5). #1448

• Better error when passing a string to {{#each}}. #722

• Add support for JSESSIONID cookies for sticky sessions. Set the USE_JSESSIONID environment variable to enable placing a JSESSIONID cookie on sockjs requests.

• Simplify the static analysis used to detect package-scope variables.

• Upgraded dependencies:

  • Node from 0.8.24 to 0.10.20
  • MongoDB from 2.4.4 to 2.4.6
  • MongoDB driver from 1.3.17 to 1.3.19
  • http-proxy from 0.10.1 to a pre-release of 1.0.0
  • stylus from 0.30.1 to 0.37.0
  • nib from 0.8.2 to 1.0.0
  • optimist from 0.3.5 to 0.6.0
  • semver from 1.1.0 to 2.1.0
  • request from 2.12.0 to 2.27.0
  • keypress from 0.1.0 to 0.2.1
  • underscore from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2
  • fstream from 0.1.21 to 0.1.24
  • tar from 0.1.14 to 0.1.18
  • source-map from 0.1.26 to 0.1.30
  • source-map-support from a fork of 0.1.8 to 0.2.3
  • escope from a fork of 0.0.15 to 1.0.0
  • estraverse from 1.1.2-1 to 1.3.1
  • simplesmtp from 0.1.25 to 0.3.10
  • stream-buffers from 0.2.3 to 0.2.5
  • websocket from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8
  • cli-color from 0.2.2 to 0.2.3
  • clean-css from 1.0.11 to 1.1.2
  • UglifyJS2 from a fork of 2.3.6 to a different fork of 2.4.0
  • connect from 2.7.10 to 2.9.0
  • send from 0.1.0 to 0.1.4
  • useragent from 2.0.1 to 2.0.7
  • replaced byline with eachline 2.3.3

Patches contributed by GitHub users ansman, awwx, codeinthehole, jacott, Maxhodges, meawoppl, mitar, mizzao, mquandalle, nathan-muir, RobertLowe, ryw, sdarnell, and timhaines.

v0.6.5.2

• Upgrade Node from 0.8.24 to 0.8.26 (security patch)

v0.6.5.1

• Fix syntax errors on lines that end with a backslash. #1326

• Fix serving static files with special characters in their name. #1339

• Upgrade esprima JavaScript parser to fix bug parsing complex regexps.

• Export Spiderable from spiderable package to allow users to set Spiderable.userAgentRegExps to control what user agents are treated as spiders.

• Add EJSON to standard-app-packages. #1343

• Fix bug in d3 tab character parsing.

• Fix regression when using Mongo ObjectIDs in Spark templates.

v0.6.5

• New package system with package compiler and linker:

  • Each package now has it own namespace for variable declarations. Global variables used in a package are limited to package scope.

  • Packages must explicitly declare which symbols they export with api.export in package.js.

  • Apps and packages only see the exported symbols from packages they explicitly use. For example, if your app uses package A which in turn depends on package B, only package A's symbols will be available in the app.

  • Package names can only contain alphanumeric characters, dashes, and dots. Packages with spaces and underscores must be renamed.

  • Remove hardcoded list of required packages. New default standard-app-packages package adds dependencies on the core Meteor stack. This package can be removed to make an app with only parts of the Meteor stack. standard-app-packages will be automatically added to a project when it is updated to Meteor 0.6.5.

  • Custom app packages in the packages directory are no longer automatically used. They must be explicitly added to the app with meteor add <packagename>. To help with the transition, all packages in the packages directory will be automatically added to the project when it is updated to Meteor 0.6.5.

  • New "unipackage" on-disk format for built packages. Compiled packages are cached and rebuilt only when their source or dependencies change.

  • Add "unordered" and "weak" package dependency modes to allow circular package dependencies and conditional code inclusion.

  • New API (_transitional_registerBuildPlugin) for declaring compilers, preprocessors, and file extension handlers. These new build plugins are full compilation targets in their own right, and have their own namespace, source files, NPM requirements, and package dependencies. The old register_extension API is deprecated. Please note that the package.js format and especially _transitional_registerBuildPlugin are not frozen interfaces and are subject to change in future releases.

  • Add api.imply, which allows one package to "imply" another. If package A implies package B, then anything that depends on package A automatically depends on package B as well (and receives package B's imports). This is useful for creating umbrella packages (standard-app-packages) or sometimes for factoring common code out of related packages (accounts-base).

• Move HTTP serving out of the server bootstrap and into the webapp package. This allows building Meteor apps that are not web servers (eg. command line tools, DDP clients, etc.). Connect middlewares can now be registered on the new WebApp.connectHandlers instead of the old __meteor_bootstrap__.app.

• The entire Meteor build process now has first-class source map support. A source map is maintained for every source file as it passes through the build pipeline. Currently, the source maps are only served in development mode. Not all web browsers support source maps yet and for those that do, you may have to turn on an option to enable them. Source maps will always be used when reporting exceptions on the server.

• Update the coffeescript package to generate source maps.

• Add new Assets API and private subdirectory for including and accessing static assets on the server. http://docs.meteor.com/#assets

• Add Meteor.disconnect. Call this to disconnect from the server and stop all live data updates. #1151

• Add Match.Integer to check for 32-bit signed integers.

• Meteor.connect has been renamed to DDP.connect and is now fully supported on the server. Server-to-server DDP connections use websockets, and can be used for both method calls and subscriptions.

• Rename Meteor.default_connection to Meteor.connection and Meteor.default_server to Meteor.server.

• Rename Meteor.http to HTTP.

• ROOT_URL may now have a path part. This allows serving multiple Meteor apps on the same domain.

• Support creating named unmanaged collections with new Meteor.Collection("name", {connection: null}).

• New Log function in the logging package which prints with timestamps, color, filenames and linenumbers.

• Include http response in errors from oauth providers. #1246

• The observe callback movedTo now has a fourth argument before.

• Move NPM control files for packages from .npm to .npm/package. This is to allow build plugins such as coffeescript to depend on NPM packages. Also, when removing the last NPM dependency, clean up the .npm dir.

• Remove deprecated Meteor.is_client and Meteor.is_server variables.

• Implement "meteor bundle --debug" #748

• Add forceApprovalPrompt option to Meteor.loginWithGoogle. #1226

• Make server-side Mongo inserts, updates, and removes run asynchronously when a callback is passed.

• Improve memory usage when calling findOne() on the server.

• Delete login tokens from server when user logs out.

• Rename package compatibility mode option to add_files from raw to bare.

• Fix Mongo selectors of the form: {$regex: /foo/}.

• Fix Spark memory leak. #1157

• Fix EPIPEs during dev mode hot code reload.

• Fix bug where we would never quiesce if we tried to revive subs that errored out (5e7138d)

• Fix bug where this.fieldname in handlebars template might refer to a helper instead of a property of the current data context. #1143

• Fix submit events on IE8. #1191

• Handle Meteor.loginWithX being called with a callback but no options. #1181

• Work around a Chrome bug where hitting reload could cause a tab to lose the DDP connection and never recover. #1244

• Upgraded dependencies:

  • Node from 0.8.18 to 0.8.24
  • MongoDB from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4, now with SSL support
  • CleanCSS from 0.8.3 to 1.0.11
  • Underscore from 1.4.4 to 1.5.1
  • Fibers from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1
  • MongoDB Driver from 1.3.7 to 1.3.17

Patches contributed by GitHub users btipling, mizzao, timhaines and zol.

v0.6.4.1

• Update mongodb driver to use version 0.2.1 of the bson module.

v0.6.4

• Separate OAuth flow logic from Accounts into separate packages. The facebook, github, google, meetup, twitter, and weibo packages can be used to perform an OAuth exchange without creating an account and logging in. #1024

• If you set the DISABLE_WEBSOCKETS environment variable, browsers will not attempt to connect to your app using Websockets. Use this if you know your server environment does not properly proxy Websockets to reduce connection startup time.

• Make Meteor.defer work in an inactive tab in iOS. #1023

• Allow new Random instances to be constructed with specified seed. This can be used to create repeatable test cases for code that picks random values. #1033

• Fix CoffeeScript error reporting to include source file and line number again. #1052

• Fix Mongo queries which nested JavaScript RegExp objects inside $or. #1089

• Upgraded dependencies:

  • Underscore from 1.4.2 to 1.4.4 #776
  • http-proxy from 0.8.5 to 0.10.1 #513
  • connect from 1.9.2 to 2.7.10
  • Node mongodb client from 1.2.13 to 1.3.7 #1060

Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, johnston, and timhaines.

v0.6.3

• Add new check package for ensuring that a value matches a required type and structure. This is used to validate untrusted input from the client. See http://docs.meteor.com/#match for details.

• Use Websockets by default on supported browsers. This reduces latency and eliminates the constant network spinner on iOS devices.

• With autopublish on, publish many useful fields on Meteor.users.

• Files in the client/compatibility/ subdirectory of a Meteor app do not get wrapped in a new variable scope. This is useful for third-party libraries which expect var statements at the outermost level to be global.

• Add synthetic tap event for use on touch enabled devices. This is a replacement for click that fires immediately.

• When using the http package synchronously on the server, errors are thrown rather than passed in result.error

• The manager option to the Meteor.Collection constructor is now called connection. The old name still works for now. #987

• The localstorage-polyfill smart package has been replaced by a localstorage package, which defines a Meteor._localStorage API instead of trying to replace the DOM window.localStorage facility. (Now, apps can use the existence of window.localStorage to detect if the full localStorage API is supported.) #979

• Upgrade MongoDB from 2.2.1 to 2.4.3.

• Upgrade CoffeeScript from 1.5.0 to 1.6.2. #972

• Faster reconnects when regaining connectivity. #696

• Email.send has a new headers option to set arbitrary headers. #963

• Cursor transform functions on the server no longer are required to return objects with correct _id fields. #974

• Rework observe() callback ordering in minimongo to improve fiber safety on the server. This makes subscriptions on server to server DDP more usable.

• Use binary search in minimongo when updating ordered queries. #969

• Fix EJSON base64 decoding bug. #1001

• Support appcache on Chromium. #958

Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, jagill, spang, and timhaines.

v0.6.2.1

• When authenticating with GitHub, include a user agent string. This unbreaks "Sign in with GitHub"

Patch contributed by GitHub user pmark.

v0.6.2

• Better error reporting:

  • Capture real stack traces for Meteor.Error.
  • Report better errors with misconfigured OAuth services.

• Add per-package upgrade notices to meteor update.

• Experimental server-to-server DDP support: Meteor.connect on the server will connect to a remote DDP endpoint via WebSockets. Method calls should work fine, but subscriptions and minimongo on the server are still a work in progress.

• Upgrade d3 from 2.x to 3.1.4. See https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Upgrading-to-3.0 for compatibility notes.

• Allow CoffeeScript to set global variables when using use strict. #933

• Return the inserted documented ID from LocalCollection.insert. #908

• Add Weibo token expiration time to services.weibo.expiresAt.

• Spiderable.userAgentRegExps can now be modified to change what user agents are treated as spiders by the spiderable package.

• Prevent observe callbacks from affecting the arguments to identical observes. #855

• Fix meteor command line tool when run from a home directory with spaces in its name. If you previously installed meteor release 0.6.0 or 0.6.1 you'll need to uninstall and reinstall meteor to support users with spaces in their usernames (see https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/master/README.md#uninstalling-meteor)

Patches contributed by GitHub users andreas-karlsson, awwx, jacott, joshuaconner, and timhaines.

v0.6.1

• Correct NPM behavior in packages in case there is a node_modules directory somewhere above the app directory. #927

• Small bug fix in the low-level routepolicy package.

Patches contributed by GitHub users andreas-karlsson and awwx.

v0.6.0

• Meteor has a brand new distribution system! In this new system, code-named Engine, packages are downloaded individually and on demand. All of the packages in each official Meteor release are prefetched and cached so you can still use Meteor while offline. You can have multiple releases of Meteor installed simultaneously; apps are pinned to specific Meteor releases. All meteor commands accept a --release argument to specify which release to use; meteor update changes what release the app is pinned to. Inside an app, the name of the release is available at Meteor.release. When running Meteor directly from a git checkout, the release is ignored.

• Variables declared with var at the outermost level of a JavaScript source file are now private to that file. Remove the var to share a value between files.

• Meteor now supports any x86 (32- or 64-bit) Linux system, not just those which use Debian or RedHat package management.

• Apps may contain packages inside a top-level directory named packages.

• Packages may depend on NPM modules, using the new Npm.depends directive in their package.js file. (Note: if the NPM module has architecture-specific binary components, bundles built with meteor bundle or meteor deploy will contain the components as built for the developer's platform and may not run on other platforms.)

• Meteor's internal package tests (as well as tests you add to your app's packages with the unsupported Tinytest framework) are now run with the new command meteor test-packages.

• {{#each}} helper can now iterate over falsey values without throwing an exception. #815, #801

• {{#with}} helper now only includes its block if its argument is not falsey, and runs an {{else}} block if provided if the argument is falsey. #770, #866

• Twitter login now stores profile_image_url and profile_image_url_https attributes in the user.services.twitter namespace. #788

• Allow packages to register file extensions with dots in the filename.

• When calling this.changed in a publish function, it is no longer an error to clear a field which was never set. #850

• Deps API

  • Add dep.depend(), deprecate Deps.depend(dep) and dep.addDependent().
  • If first run of Deps.autorun throws an exception, stop it and don't rerun. This prevents a Spark exception when template rendering fails ("Can't call 'firstNode' of undefined").
  • If an exception is thrown during Deps.flush with no stack, the message is logged instead. #822

• When connecting to MongoDB, use the JavaScript BSON parser unless specifically requested in MONGO_URL; the native BSON parser sometimes segfaults. (Meteor only started using the native parser in 0.5.8.)

• Calls to the update collection function in untrusted code may only use a whitelisted list of modifier operators.

Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, blackcoat, cmather, estark37, mquandalle, Primigenus, raix, reustle, and timhaines.

v0.5.9

• Fix regression in 0.5.8 that prevented users from editing their own profile. #809

• Fix regression in 0.5.8 where Meteor.loggingIn() would not update reactively. #811

v0.5.8

• Calls to the update and remove collection functions in untrusted code may no longer use arbitrary selectors. You must specify a single document ID when invoking these functions from the client (other than in a method stub).

  You may still use other selectors when calling update and remove on the server and from client method stubs, so you can replace calls that are no longer supported (eg, in event handlers) with custom method calls.

  The corresponding update and remove callbacks passed to allow and deny now take a single document instead of an array.

• Add new appcache package. Add this package to your project to speed up page load and make hot code reload smoother using the HTML5 AppCache API. See http://docs.meteor.com/#appcache for details.

• Rewrite reactivity library. Meteor.deps is now Deps and has a new API. Meteor.autorun and Meteor.flush are now called Deps.autorun and Deps.flush (the old names still work for now). The other names under Meteor.deps such as Context no longer exist. The new API is documented at http://docs.meteor.com/#deps

• You can now provide a transform option to collections, which is a function that documents coming out of that collection are passed through. find, findOne, allow, and deny now take transform options, which may override the Collection's transform. Specifying a transform of null causes you to receive the documents unmodified.

• Publish functions may now return an array of cursors to publish. Currently, the cursors must all be from different collections. #716

• User documents have id's when onCreateUser and validateNewUser hooks run.

• Encode and store custom EJSON types in MongoDB.

• Support literate CoffeeScript files with the extension .litcoffee. #766

• Add new login service provider for Meetup.com in accounts-meetup package.

• If you call observe or observeChanges on a cursor created with the reactive: false option, it now only calls initial add callbacks and does not continue watching the query. #771

• In an event handler, if the data context is falsey, default it to {} rather than to the global object. #777

• Allow specifying multiple event handlers for the same selector. #753

• Revert caching header change from 0.5.5. This fixes image flicker on redraw.

• Stop making Session available on the server; it's not useful there. #751

• Force URLs in stack traces in browser consoles to be hyperlinks. #725

• Suppress spurious changed callbacks with empty fields from Cursor.observeChanges.

• Fix logic bug in template branch matching. #724

• Make spiderable user-agent test case insensitive. #721

• Fix several bugs in EJSON type support:

  • Fix {$type: 5} selectors for binary values on browsers that do not support Uint8Array.
  • Fix EJSON equality on falsey values.
  • Fix for returning a scalar EJSON type from a method. #731

• Upgraded dependencies:

  • mongodb driver to version 1.2.13 (from 0.1.11)
  • mime module removed (it was unused)

Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, cmather, graemian, jagill, jmhredsox, kevinxucs, krizka, mitar, raix, and rasmuserik.

v0.5.7

• The DDP wire protocol has been redesigned.

  • The handshake message is now versioned. This breaks backwards compatibility between sites with Meteor.connect(). Older meteor apps can not talk to new apps and vice versa. This includes the madewith package, apps using madewith must upgrade.

  • New EJSON package allows you to use Dates, Mongo ObjectIDs, and binary data in your collections and Session variables. You can also add your own custom datatypes.

  • Meteor now correctly represents empty documents in Collections.

  • There is an informal specification in packages/livedata/DDP.md.

• Breaking API changes

  • Changed the API for observe. Observing with added, changed and removed callbacks is now unordered; for ordering information use addedAt, changedAt, removedAt, and movedTo. Full documentation is in the observe docs. All callers of observe need to be updated.

  • Changed the API for publish functions that do not return a cursor (ie functions that call this.set and this.unset). See the publish docs for the new API.

• New Features

  • Added new observeChanges API for keeping track of the contents of a cursor more efficiently.

  • There is a new reactive function on subscription handles: ready() returns true when the subscription has received all of its initial documents.

  • Added Session.setDefault(key, value) so you can easily provide initial values for session variables that will not be clobbered on hot code push.

  • You can specify that a collection should use MongoDB ObjectIDs as its _id fields for inserts instead of strings. This allows you to use Meteor with existing MongoDB databases that have ObjectID _ids. If you do this, you must use EJSON.equals() for comparing equality instead of ===. See http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_collection.

  • New random package provides several functions for generating random values. The new Random.id() function is used to provide shorter string IDs for MongoDB documents. Meteor.uuid() is deprecated.

  • Meteor.status() can return the status failed if DDP version negotiation fails.

• Major Performance Enhancements

  • Rewrote subscription duplication detection logic to use a more efficient algorithm. This significantly reduces CPU usage on the server during initial page load and when dealing with large amounts of data.

  • Reduced unnecessary MongoDB re-polling of live queries. Meteor no longer polls for changes on queries that specify _id when updates for a different specific _id are processed. This drastically improves performance when dealing with many subscriptions and updates to individual objects, such as those generated by the accounts-base package on the Meteor.users collection.

• Upgraded UglifyJS2 to version 2.2.5

Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx and michaelglenadams.

v0.5.6

• Fix 0.5.5 regression: Minimongo selectors matching subdocuments under arrays did not work correctly.

• Some Bootstrap icons should have appeared white.

Patches contributed by GitHub user benjaminchelli.

v0.5.5

• Deprecate Meteor.autosubscribe. Meteor.subscribe now works within Meteor.autorun.

• Allow access to Meteor.settings.public on the client. If the JSON file you gave to meteor --settings includes a field called public, that field will be available on the client as well as the server.

• @import works in less. Use the .lessimport file extension to make a less file that is ignored by preprocessor so as to avoid double processing. #203

• Upgrade Fibers to version 1.0.0. The Fiber and Future symbols are no longer exposed globally. To use fibers directly you can use: var Fiber = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('fibers'); and var Future = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('fibers/future');

• Call version 1.1 of the Twitter API when authenticating with OAuth. accounts-twitter users have until March 5th, 2013 to upgrade before Twitter disables the old API. #527

• Treat Twitter ids as strings, not numbers, as recommended by Twitter. #629

• You can now specify the _id field of a document passed to insert. Meteor still auto-generates _id if it is not present.

• Expose an invalidated flag on Meteor.deps.Context.

• Populate user record with additional data from Facebook and Google. #664

• Add Facebook token expiration time to services.facebook.expiresAt. #576

• Allow piping a password to meteor deploy on stdin. #623

• Correctly type cast arguments to handlebars helper. #617

• Fix leaked global userId symbol.

• Terminate phantomjs properly on error when using the spiderable package. #571

• Stop serving non-cachable files with caching headers. #631

• Fix race condition if server restarted between page load and initial DDP connection. #653

• Resolve issue where login methods sometimes blocked future methods. #555

• Fix Meteor.http parsing of JSON responses on Firefox. #553

• Minimongo no longer uses eval. #480

• Serve 404 for /app.manifest. This allows experimenting with the upcoming appcache smart package. #628

• Upgraded many dependencies, including:

  • node.js to version 0.8.18
  • jquery-layout to version 1.3.0RC
  • Twitter Bootstrap to version 2.3.0
  • Less to version 1.3.3
  • Uglify to version 2.2.3
  • useragent to version 2.0.1

Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, bminer, bramp, crunchie84, danawoodman, dbimmler, Ed-von-Schleck, geoffd123, jperl, kevee, milesmatthias, Primigenus, raix, timhaines, and xenolf.

v0.5.4

• Fix 0.5.3 regression: meteor run could fail on OSX 10.8 if environment variables such as DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH are set.

v0.5.3

• Add --settings argument to meteor deploy and meteor run. This allows you to specify deployment-specific information made available to server code in the variable Meteor.settings.

• Support unlimited open tabs in a single browser. Work around the browser per-hostname connection limit by using randomized hostnames for deployed apps. #131

• minimongo improvements:

  • Allow observing cursors with skip or limit. #528
  • Allow sorting on dotted.sub.keys. #533
  • Allow querying specific array elements (foo.1.bar).
  • $and, $or, and $nor no longer accept empty arrays (for consistency with Mongo)

• Re-rendering a template with Spark no longer reverts changes made by users to a preserved form element. Instead, the newly rendered value is only applied if it is different from the previously rendered value. Additionally, elements with type other than TEXT can now have reactive values (eg, the labels on submit buttons can now be reactive). #510 #514 #523 #537 #558

• Support JavaScript RegExp objects in selectors in Collection write methods on the client, eg myCollection.remove({foo: /bar/}). #346

• meteor command-line improvements:

  • Improve error message when mongod fails to start.
  • The NODE_OPTIONS environment variable can be used to pass command-line flags to node (eg, --debug or --debug-brk to enable the debugger).
  • Die with error if an app name is mistakenly passed to meteor reset.

• Add support for "offline" access tokens with Google login. #464 #525

• Don't remove serviceData fields from previous logins when logging in with an external service.

• Improve OAuth1Binding to allow making authenticated API calls to OAuth1 providers (eg Twitter). #539

• New login providers automatically work with {{loginButtons}} without needing to edit the accounts-ui-unstyled package. #572

• Use Content-Type: application/json by default when sending JSON data with Meteor.http.

• Improvements to jsparse: hex literals, keywords as property names, ES5 line continuations, trailing commas in object literals, line numbers in error messages, decimal literals starting with ., regex character classes with slashes.

• Spark improvements:

  • Improve rendering of elements on IE. #496 Don't lose nested data contexts in IE9/10 after two seconds. #458 Don't print a stack trace if DOM nodes are manually removed from the document without calling Spark.finalize. #392 Always use the autoReconnect flag when connecting to Mongo. #425 Fix server-side observe with no added callback. #589 Fix re-sending method calls on reconnect. #538 Remove deprecated /sockjs URL support from Meteor.connect. Avoid losing a few bits of randomness in UUID v4 creation. #519 Update clean-css package from 0.8.2 to 0.8.3, fixing minification of 0% values in hsl colors. #515 Patches contributed by GitHub users Ed-von-Schleck, egtann, jwulf, lvbreda, martin-naumann, meawoppl, nwmartin, timhaines, and zealoushacker. v0.5.2 Fix 0.5.1 regression: Cursor observe works during server startup. #507 v0.5.1 Speed up server-side subscription handling by avoiding redundant work when the same Mongo query is observed multiple times concurrently (eg, by multiple users subscribing to the same subscription), and by using a simpler "unordered" algorithm. Meteor now waits to invoke method callbacks until all the data written by the method is available in the local cache. This way, method callbacks can see the full effects of their writes. This includes the callbacks passed to Meteor.call and Meteor.apply, as well as to the Meteor.Collection insert/update/remove methods. If you want to process the method's result as soon as it arrives from the server, even if the method's writes are not available yet, you can now specify an onResultReceived callback to Meteor.apply. Rework latency compensation to show server data changes sooner. Previously, as long as any method calls were in progress, Meteor would buffer all data changes sent from the server until all methods finished. Meteor now only buffers writes to documents written by client stubs, and applies the writes as soon as all methods that wrote that document have finished. Meteor.userLoaded() and {{currentUserLoaded}} have been removed. Previously, during the login process on the client, Meteor.userId() could be set but the document at Meteor.user() could be incomplete. Meteor provided the function Meteor.userLoaded() to differentiate between these states. Now, this in-between state does not occur: when a user logs in, Meteor.userId() only is set once Meteor.user() is fully loaded. New reactive function Meteor.loggingIn() and template helper {{loggingIn}}; they are true whenever some login method is in progress. accounts-ui now uses this to show an animation during login. The sass CSS preprocessor package has been removed. It was based on an unmaintained NPM module which did not implement recent versions of the Sass language and had no error handling. Consider using the less or stylus packages instead. #143 Meteor.setPassword is now called Accounts.setPassword, matching the documentation and original intention. #454 Passing the wait option to Meteor.apply now waits for all in-progress method calls to finish before sending the method, instead of only guaranteeing that its callback occurs after the callbacks of in-progress methods. New function Accounts.callLoginMethod which should be used to call custom login handlers (such as those registered with Accounts.registerLoginHandler). The callbacks for Meteor.loginWithToken and Accounts.createUser now match the other login callbacks: they are called with error on error or with no arguments on success. Fix bug where method calls could be dropped during a brief disconnection. #339 Prevent running the meteor command-line tool and server on unsupported Node versions. Fix Minimongo query bug with nested objects. #455 In accounts-ui, stop page layout from changing during login. Use path.join instead of / in paths (helpful for the unofficial Windows port) #303 The spiderable package serves pages to facebookexternalhit #411 Fix error on Firefox with DOM Storage disabled. Avoid invalidating listeners if setUserId is called with current value. Upgrade many dependencies, including: MongoDB 2.2.1 (from 2.2.0) underscore 1.4.2 (from 1.3.3) bootstrap 2.2.1 (from 2.1.1) jQuery 1.8.2 (from 1.7.2) less 1.3.1 (from 1.3.0) stylus 0.30.1 (from 0.29.0) coffee-script 1.4.0 (from 1.3.3) Patches contributed by GitHub users ayal, dandv, possibilities, TomWij, tmeasday, and workmad3. v0.5.0 This release introduces Meteor Accounts, a full-featured auth system that supports fine-grained user-based control over database reads and writes federated login with any OAuth provider (with built-in support for Facebook, GitHub, Google, Twitter, and Weibo) secure password login email validation and password recovery an optional set of UI widgets implementing standard login/signup/password change/logout flows When you upgrade to Meteor 0.5.0, existing apps will lose the ability to write to the database from the client. To restore this, either: configure each of your collections with collection.allow and collection.deny calls to specify which users can perform which write operations, or add the insecure smart package (which is included in new apps by default) to restore the old behavior where anyone can write to any collection which has not been configured with allow or deny For more information on Meteor Accounts, see http://docs.meteor.com/#dataandsecurity and http://docs.meteor.com/#accounts_api The new function Meteor.autorun allows you run any code in a reactive context. See http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_autorun Arrays and objects can now be stored in the Session; mutating the value you retrieve with Session.get does not affect the value in the session. On the client, Meteor.apply takes a new wait option, which ensures that no further method calls are sent to the server until this method is finished; it is used for login and logout methods in order to keep the user ID well-defined. You can also specifiy an onReconnect handler which is run when re-establishing a connection; Meteor Accounts uses this to log back in on reconnect. Meteor now provides a compatible replacement for the DOM localStorage facility that works in IE7, in the localstorage-polyfill smart package. Meteor now packages the D3 library for manipulating documents based on data in a smart package called d3. Meteor.Collection now takes its optional manager argument (used to associate a collection with a server you've connected to with Meteor.connect) as a named option. (The old call syntax continues to work for now.) Fix a bug where trying to immediately resubscribe to a record set after unsubscribing could fail silently. Better error handling for failed Mongo writes from inside methods; previously, errors here could cause clients to stop processing data from the server. Patches contributed by GitHub users bradens, dandv, dybskiy, possibilities, zhangcheng, and 75lb. 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