feat: jsonld parsing without re-serialization

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
       matrix:
         # Available OS's: https://help.github.com/en/actions/reference/virtual-environments-for-github-hosted-runners
         os: [ubuntu-latest, windows-latest, macos-latest]
-        node-version: [20.x, 18.x, 16.x]
+        node-version: [20.x, 18.x]
     steps:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Use Node.js ${{ matrix.node-version }}

.github/workflows/e2e-node.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: true
       matrix:
         os: [ubuntu-latest]
-        node-version: ["16.x", "18.x", "20.x"]
+        node-version: ["18.x", "20.x"]
         environment-name: ["ESS PodSpaces", "ESS Dev-2-1"]
         experimental: [false]
         include:

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ The following changes have been implemented but not released yet:
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Breaking Changes
+
+- Parsing Verifiable Credentials. This allows the Verifiable Credential to be read using the RDF/JS DatasetCore API. This is a breaking change because the `VerifiableCredential` type now is also of type `DatasetCore`. Importantly, this dataset is not preserved when converting to verifiableCredentials a string and back doing `JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(verifiableCredential))`. We reccomend that developers set `returnLegacyJsonld` to `false` in functions such as `getVerifiableCredential` in order to avoid returning deprecated object properties. Instead developers should make use of the exported `getter` functions to get these attributes.
+- Use the global `fetch` function instead of `@inrupt/universal-fetch`. This means this library now only works
+  with Node 18 and higher.
+
 ## [0.7.4](https://github.com/inrupt/solid-client-vc-js/releases/tag/v0.7.4) - 2023-11-17
 
 ### Internal Changes

README.md

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ module](https://www.npmjs.com/package/buffer).
 ### Node.js Support
 
 Our JavaScript Client Libraries track Node.js [LTS
-releases](https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/), and support 16.x, 18.x and 20.x.
+releases](https://nodejs.org/en/about/releases/), and support 18.x and 20.x.
 
 ## Changelog