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Unreleased

8.5.1 - 2017-01-22

Fixed

  • Show CLI option when showing option deprecation message (#560)

8.5.0 - 2017-01-10

Added

  • electronVersion (--electron-version via CLI) option (#547)

Deprecated

  • version is deprecated in favor of electronVersion (--electron-version via CLI) (#547)

8.4.0 - 2016-12-08

Added

  • quiet option (#541)

Fixed

  • Better type checking when validating arch/platform (#534)

8.3.0 - 2016-11-16

Changed

  • Upgrade to electron-osx-sign 0.4.x (#384)

Fixed

  • Clarify symlink error message for Windows

8.2.0 - 2016-10-29

Added

  • Allow extend-info to specify an object instead of a filename (#510)

Fixed

  • Retrieving metadata from package.json by upgrading get-package-info (#505)
  • Typo when using extend-info (#510)

8.1.0 - 2016-09-30

Added

  • .o and .obj files are ignored by default (#491)
  • Electron downloads are now checked against their published checksums (#493)
  • Documentation for download.quiet option to enable/disable progress bar (#494)
  • The build-version property, when unspecified, now defaults to the app-version property value on Windows (#501)

8.0.0 - 2016-09-03

Added

  • win32metadata option (#331, #463)
  • linux platform, armv7l arch support (#106, #474)

Changed

  • all now includes the linux platform, armv7l arch combination
  • Default the platform option to the host platform (#464)
  • Default the arch option to the host arch (#36, #464)
  • Default the prune option to true (#235, #472)

Fixed

  • Allow scoped package names as Electron app names - invalid characters are replaced with hyphens (#308, #455)

Deprecated

  • version-string is deprecated in favor of win32metadata (#331, #463)

Removed

  • asar-unpack is removed in favor of asar.unpack
  • asar-unpack-dir is removed in favor of asar.unpackDir
  • cache is removed in favor of download.cache
  • strict-ssl is removed in favor of download.strictSSL

7.7.0 - 2016-08-20

Added

  • The package.json version property is the default app version if --app-version is unspecified (#449)

Changed

  • [darwin/mas] Explicitly disallow osx-sign.binaries (#459)

7.6.0 - 2016-08-14

Added

  • [API] hook for afterCopy (#448)
  • [darwin/mas] Documentation for protocol and protocol-name options (#121, #450)

Changed

  • [CLI] Minimum Node version is enforced (#454)

Fixed

  • [CLI] ensure --out has either a string or null value (#442)
  • Use get-package-info (again) to support finding prebuilt in parent directories (#445)

7.5.1 - 2016-08-06

Fixed

  • Resolve to absolute path when inferring app name/Electron version (#440)

7.5.0 - 2016-08-04

Added

  • Support the new electron package name (#435)

7.4.0 - 2016-07-31

Added

  • Basic debugging messages via the debug module - see CONTRIBUTING.md for usage (#433)

Changed

  • Clearer error message when inferring the app name and/or Electron version fails

Fixed

  • (Test) apps named "Electron" can be packaged successfully (#415)

7.3.0 - 2016-07-10

Added

  • asar options can be specified as an Object (via the API) or with dot notation (via the CLI) - see the respective docs for details (#353, #417)

Deprecated

  • asar-unpack is deprecated in favor of asar.unpack (#417)
  • asar-unpack-dir is deprecated in favor of asar.unpackDir (#417)

7.2.0 - 2016-07-03

Added

  • derefSymlinks option (#410)

Fixed

  • Clarified message when wine is not found (#357)

7.1.0 - 2016-06-22

Added

  • Add afterExtract hook (#354, #403)

7.0.4 - 2016-06-14

Fixed

  • Clarified app name/Electron version error message (#390)

7.0.3 - 2016-05-31

Changed

  • [contributors] Code contributions need to be validated in "strict" mode (#342, #351)

Fixed

  • CLI output truncated when using Node 6 (and possibly earlier) (#381)

7.0.2 - 2016-05-18

Fixed

  • The default .git ignore only ignores that directory (#344)
  • Specifying the download.strictSSL CLI parameter no longer triggers a deprecation warning for strict-ssl (#349)

7.0.1 - 2016-04-21

Fixed

  • Not specifying strict-ssl CLI parameter no longer triggers a deprecation warning (#335)

7.0.0 - 2016-04-17

Added

  • Add download parameter (#320)

Changed

  • Dropped support for running on Node < 4.0. (#319)

Fixed

  • strict-ssl (and by extension, download.strictSSL) defaults to true, as documented (#320)

Deprecated

  • cache is deprecated in favor of download.cache (#320)
  • strict-ssl is deprecated in favor of download.strictSSL (#320)

Removed

  • [win32] version-string.FileVersion and version-string.ProductVersion are replaced by favor of app-version and build-version, respectively (#327)
  • [win32] version-string.LegalCopyright is replaced by app-copyright (#327)

6.0.2 - 2016-04-09

Changed

  • [win32] rcedit dependency updated to 0.5.x. The DLL mentioned in the 6.0.1 release notes is no longer required.

6.0.1 - 2016-04-08

Changed

  • [win32] rcedit dependency updated to 0.4.x. A new DLL is required to run the new version of rcedit, please see the documentation for details
  • API documentation moved from readme.md to docs/api.md (#296)

Fixed

  • [darwin/mas] The OSX icon is properly replaced when Electron ≥ 0.37.4 is used (#301)
  • default_app.asar is deleted during packaging (necessary when Electron ≥ 0.37.4 is used). The default_app folder is still deleted for older Electron versions (#298, #311)

6.0.0 - 2016-03-28

Added

  • Add support for a new target platform, Mac App Store (mas), including signing OS X apps (#223, #278)
  • Add app-copyright parameter (#223)
  • Add tmpdir parameter to specify a custom temp directory (#230); set to false to disable using a temporary directory at all (#251, #276)
  • Add NEWS.md, a human-readable list of changes in each version (since 5.2.0) (#263)

Changed

  • The GitHub repository has been moved into an organization, electron-userland
  • Allow the ignore parameter to take a function (#247)
  • [contributors] Update Standard (JavaScript coding standard) package to 5.4.x
  • [contributors] Add code coverage support via Coveralls (#257)
  • Better docs around contributing to the project (#258)
  • Ignore the directory specified by the out parameter by default (#255)
  • [darwin/mas] Add support for merging arbitrary plist files and adding arbitrary resource files (#253)
  • Split out the code to sign OS X apps into a separate Node module, electron-osx-sign (#223)
  • [darwin/mas] BREAKING: The sign parameter is now osx-sign (for better cross-platform compatibility) and optionally takes several of the same sub-parameters as electron-osx-sign (#286)

Deprecated

  • [win32] version-string.LegalCopyright is deprecated in favor of app-copyright (#268)

Fixed

  • [darwin/mas] Ensure CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString are strings (#250)

  • [darwin/mas] Correctly set the helper bundle ID in all relevant plist files (#223)

  • [darwin/mas] OSX-specific binaries are correctly renamed to the application name (#244, #293)

    If you are upgrading from ≤ 5.2.1 and building for a darwin target, you may experience problems. See #323 for details.

5.2.1 - 2016-01-17

Changed

  • [win32] Add support for Windows for the app-version and build-version parameters (#229)
  • If appname and/or version are omitted from the parameters, infer from package.json (#94)

Deprecated

  • [win32] version-string.FileVersion and version-string.ProductVersion are deprecated in favor of app-version and build-version, respectively (#229)

Fixed

  • Remove default_app from built packages (#206)
  • Add documentation for optional arguments (#226)
  • [darwin] Don't declare helper app as a protocol handler (#220)

5.2.0 - 2015-12-16

Added

  • Add asar-unpack-dir parameter (#174)
  • [darwin] Add app-category-type parameter (#202)
  • Add strict-ssl parameter (#209)

Changed

  • Ignore node_modules/.bin by default (#189)

For versions prior to 5.2.0, please see git log.