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needle

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The leanest and most handsome HTTP client in the Nodelands.

Last release 6 months ago
12 Mar 2026
Release timing varies
gaps range from 4 weeks to 2.3 years
Some releases are documented
notes for 34 of the last 60 stable releases
1 version withdrawn
withdrawn after publishing
15 years old
115 releases · first in 2011

Release timeline

115 releases since 2011

20112013201520172019

Releases

0.7.81 Aug 2014
Nothing published for this version
0.7.731 Jul 2014
Nothing published for this version
0.7.630 Jul 2014
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0.7.530 Jul 2014
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0.7.4

0.7.010 Apr 2014Breaking

While great care was taken not to introduce any breaking changes, there are probably a few edge cases in which Needle's behaviour has changed, specifi…

Api changes between v0.6 and v0.7

In version 0.7 a lot of work was done on the Needle internals to make streams a first class citizen. Needle can now be used as a streams2-compatible stream and you gain a lot of performance improvements come with it.

While great care was taken not to introduce any breaking changes, there are probably a few edge cases in which Needle's behaviour has changed, specifically:

Needle now emits a strict streams2-compatible stream. This means that if your code relied on the Needle stream to always be in flowing mode, your code will likely need an update. For more information about this new Stream behavior, please refer to the Node.JS blog.
In the v0.6 release, Needle's stream didn't parse, uncompress or did anything to the body content: everything chunk of data that was emitted on the stream was the raw body. In the 0.7 release every chunk of data will be a fully processed chunk, including uncompression, character recoding and parsing (in case of XML/JSON).

If you use the regular callback interface of Needle, this will be a backwards-compatible upgrade.

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