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Unreleased

12.0.1 - 2018-04-10

Fixed

  • Upgraded galactus to ^0.2.1 to fix a bug with relative paths

12.0.0 - 2018-04-03

Changed

  • prune exclusively utilizes the galactus module for pruning devDependencies, instead of depending on package managers (#819)
  • electron-packager is no longer ignored by default (#819)
  • A warning is emitted when an Electron module is a production dependency (#819)

Removed

  • packageManager option (#819)

11.2.0 - 2018-03-24

Added

  • Utility function to execute hooks serially (#814)

11.1.0 - 2018-03-04

Added

  • Support for MAS Login Helper (Electron 2.0.0-beta.1 and above) (#807)

11.0.1 - 2018-02-12

Fixed

  • rcedit module updated to 1.0.0, which fixes some bugs (#804)
  • --help prints usage to stdout (#805)

11.0.0 - 2018-02-06

Added

  • linux platform, mips64el arch builds (Electron 1.8.2-beta.5 and above) (#800)

Changed

  • all or platform=linux, arch=all now include arch=mips64el if the Electron version specified is 1.8.2-beta.5 or above (#800)

10.1.2 - 2018-01-26

Fixed

  • overwrite: true when no platform/arch is specified (#794)

10.1.1 - 2018-01-02

Fixed

  • ARM detection with prebuilt armv7l Node.js (#783)
  • Don't create yarn.lock when pruning with Yarn (#784)

10.1.0 - 2017-11-19

Added

  • Option to set the executable name separate from the app name (#758)

Fixed

  • mz dependency (#759)

10.0.0 - 2017-11-19

Changed

  • Switch from minimist to yargs-parser (#732)
  • Electron Packager only officially supports Node versions that are supported by the NodeJS team (#747)
  • Refactor to use Promises internally. This has the side effect of somewhat parallelizing building two or more targets at once and/or two or more functions for a given hook, via Promise.all (#753)

9.1.0 - 2017-09-15

Added

  • hostArch() and allOfficialArchsForPlatformAndVersion() (#727)

Changed

  • CLI arguments with nonstandard argument values emit warnings (#722)

Deprecated

  • In the CLI, --tmpdir=false has been deprecated in favor of --no-tmpdir (#722)

9.0.1 - 2017-09-02

Fixed

  • Inferring win32metadata.CompanyName from author in package.json when it's an Object (#718)

9.0.0 - 2017-08-23

Added

  • API hook for afterPrune (#677)
  • Package manager-agnostic pruning support (set packageManager to false) (#690)
  • linux platform, arm64 arch builds (Electron 1.8.0 and above) (#711)

Changed

  • Promise support for packager - function returns a Promise instead of the return value of the callback (#658)
  • win32metadata.CompanyName defaults to author name from nearest package.json (#667)
  • win32metadata.FileDescription defaults to productName or name from nearest package.json (#667)
  • win32metadata.OriginalFilename defaults to renamed .exe (#667)
  • win32metadata.ProductName defaults to productName or name from nearest package.json (#667)
  • win32metadata.InternalName defaults to productName or name from nearest package.json (#667)
  • Warn when downloading from the official Electron releases and the arch/platform combination specified is invalid (#562)
  • Do not error out immediately if a download.mirror is specified and an unofficial arch/platform is specified (#670)
  • Allow spaces when specifying archs/platforms as a string, rather than an array (#487)
  • The extraResource option works on all target platforms (#637)
  • all or platform=linux, arch=all now include arch=arm64 if the Electron version specified is 1.8.0 or above (#711)

Fixed

  • common.warning for codesigning (#694)

Removed

  • version is removed in favor of electronVersion (CLI: --electron-version) (#665)
  • version-string is removed in favor of win32metadata (#668)
  • Options set via the JavaScript API formatted in kebab-case (i.e., with hyphens) are removed in favor of their camelCase variants, per JavaScript naming standards (#669)

8.7.2 - 2017-06-25

Fixed

  • Stop yarn creating .bin folders when pruning (#678)

8.7.1 - 2017-06-05

Fixed

  • Usage docs for win32metadata.application-manifest and win32metadata.requested-execution-level

8.7.0 - 2017-05-01

Added

  • packageManager (--package-manager via CLI) option (#618)
  • win32metadata.application-manifest option (#610)
  • win32metadata.requested-execution-level option (#610)

Fixed

  • Support for extract-zip >= 1.6.1

8.6.0 - 2017-03-14

Added

  • Limited support for electron-prebuilt-compile (#608)

Changed

  • Options formatted in kebab-case (i.e., with hyphens) are available in camelCase, per JavaScript naming standards (#580)
  • rcedit upgraded to 0.8.0

Deprecated

  • Options formatted in kebab-case (i.e., with hyphens) are deprecated in favor of their camelCase variants, per JavaScript naming standards (#580)

8.5.2 - 2017-02-19

Fixed

  • Prepend all warning messages with "WARNING:" (#593)
  • Ignore the generated temporary directory on Linux (#596)
  • Prevent app names from ending in " Helper" (#600)

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

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.