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safer-buffer

2.1.2670M downloads/moChALkeR/safer-buffer ↗New releases in your daily digest, changelog included.

Modern Buffer API polyfill without footguns

Last release 8 years ago
no release in 18 months
Too new to tell
only 2 release windows
Rarely documented
notes for 1 of 6 stable releases
Nothing withdrawn
no release was ever pulled
9 years old
6 releases · first in 2018

Release timeline

6 releases since 2018

2018202020222024

Releases

2.1.28 Apr 2018
This project publishes no release notes. Between v2.1.1 and v2.1.2 there were 3 commits, 2 of them substantive:
This project publishes no release notes. Between v2.1.1 and v2.1.2 there were 3 commits, 2 of them substantive:

travis: add browserify tests to the tests matrix

safer: do not set undefined kStringMaxLength
2.1.18 Apr 2018
Fixes browserify support.
Fixes browserify support.
Open source →
Additional notes
This project publishes no release notes. Between v2.1.0 and v2.1.1 there were 10 commits, 9 of them substantive:

.travis.yml: add Node.js 0.8 to the test matrix

travis: add Node.js 0.8.6 to the test matrix

doc: mention supported Node.js versions range

doc: mention buffer-alloc and buffer-from in Porting

doc: remind to drop polyfill usage in Porting

doc: give buffer-* ponyfills slightly higher priority in Porting

doc: use https:// for links to npmjs.com

doc: enhance Buffer() grep regexp in Porting

safer: wrap process.binding call in try-catch

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▸▾2.1.021 Mar 2018

This project publishes no release notes. Between v2.0.2 and v2.1.0 there were 7 commits, 6 of them substantive:

This project publishes no release notes. Between v2.0.2 and v2.1.0 there were 7 commits, 6 of them substantive:

doc: add FAQ section to Porting-Buffer.md
doc: fix a mistype in Porting-Buffer.md
doc: add alternative approach to Readme.md
doc: fix ordering in Readme.md
doc: add a note about the jscodeshift codemod
expose Buffer.prototype

▸▾2.0.220 Mar 2018

This project publishes no release notes. Between v2.0.1 and v2.0.2 there were 11 commits, 10 of them substantive:

This project publishes no release notes. Between v2.0.1 and v2.0.2 there were 11 commits, 10 of them substantive:

doc: improve Readme.md
doc: further improve Readme.md
doc: land Porting-Buffer.md guide
doc: further Readme.md improvements
doc: more Readme.md improvements
Use proper upper limit for 'size'
doc: improvements to Porting-Buffer.md
doc: Porting-Buffer.md fixes
doc: more notes on how to find problematic code
Include Porting-Buffer.md in package

▸▾2.0.119 Mar 2018

This project publishes no release notes. Between v2.0.0 and v2.0.1 there were 13 commits, 12 of them substantive:

This project publishes no release notes. Between v2.0.0 and v2.0.1 there were 13 commits, 12 of them substantive:

test: fix .fill() calls for SlowBuffer
Implement size >= 0 check
test: fix mistakes in two tests
safer: implement stricter type checks in .from()
test: we do not polyfill kStringMaxLength if it's unavailable
test: fix allocUnsafeSlow constructor test
tests: we don't polyfill multi-byte filler support for .fill()
tests: add .travis.yml
test: skip testing native allocUnsafe(negative) throws
Implement size <= Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER checks
test: Update travis tests matrix
doc: Add Readme.md

▸▾2.0.019 Mar 2018

Nothing published for this version

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