What's Changed

• chore: add stack-protector-strong flag by @rzhao271 in #236
• fix windows ia32 build by @bpasero in #237
• v2.5.6 by @bpasero in #238

Full Changelog: v2.5.5...v2.5.6

Contributors

• @bpasero
• @rzhao271

What's Changed

• patch: fix SEGV due to Static Initialization Order Fiasco bug by @alichtman in #208
• Resolve several BinSkim issues by @rzhao271 in #202
• upgrade detect-libc for better compatibility by @nicksrandall in #200
• Don't show error messages when checking if watchman is available by @aptinio in #198
• Add Meteor to list of users by @harryadel in #214
• Fix CI by @tmm1 in #213
• Fix more SIOF / SDOF issues by @alichtman in #216
• Resolve more BinSkim issues by @rzhao271 in #219
• Remove D_FORTIFY_SOURCE flag by @bpasero in #223
• Fix use of delete operators by @matttyson in #145
• Some minor fixes found doing code review by @bpasero in #222
• Reduce dependencies by switching to picomatch by @benmccann in #210
• Fix glob tests on windows by going back to picomatch@2.3.1 by @bpasero in #224
• v2.5.2 by @bpasero in #225
• eng - update actions versions by @bpasero in #226
• v2.5.3 by @bpasero in #227
• Test on current versions of Node.js by @cclauss in #221
• eng - try to fix release script to publish new NPM version by @bpasero in #228
• v2.5.4 by @bpasero in #229

New Contributors

• @alichtman made their first contribution in #208
• @rzhao271 made their first contribution in #202
• @nicksrandall made their first contribution in #200
• @aptinio made their first contribution in #198
• @harryadel made their first contribution in #214
• @matttyson made their first contribution in #145
• @benmccann made their first contribution in #210
• @cclauss made their first contribution in #221

Full Changelog: v2.5.1...v2.5.4

Contributors

• @tmm1
• @aptinio
• @benmccann
• @matttyson
• @bpasero
• @nicksrandall
• @cclauss
• @harryadel
• @rzhao271
• @alichtman

• Handle large changes from FS Events better in getEventsSince - #196
• Fix use after free in kqueue backend
• fix: catch std:regex error - #195

Added

• Support 32-bit arm musl platform
• Support npm --build-from-source flag to optionally build from source instead of using prebuilt packages. Can be used in conjunction with --no-optional to prevent installing platform-specific dependencies.

Fixed

• Fix use after free errors (#177)
• Fix deadlock between Watcher and Debounce threads (#189)
• Avoid open() calls on stat() failures on macOS to prevent security dialogs (#186)

Adds support for CommonJS (along with existing support for ESM) in @parcel/watcher-wasm.

Features

• Add a kqueue backend to support FreeBSD, or as an alternative to FSEvents on macOS
• Add a WASM backend, for use in environments where native modules cannot run (e.g. on the web in environments like Stackblitz, or unsupported processor architectures/operating systems). Use the @parcel/watcher-wasm package instead of @parcel/watcher in these cases. Note that this is much less efficient than using native OS-specific APIs, so keep using the native packages where possible.
• Migrate to napi thread safe functions, which allows using @parcel/watcher from multiple Node.js worker threads
• Add a 32-bit windows build, useful if users accidentally installed a 32-bit version of Node

This release migrates to a new method of distribution. Rather than including binaries for all operating systems and architectures inside the @parcel/watcher package, there are now individual packages per platform (e.g. @parcel/watcher-darwin-x64). Each of these is an optional dependency of the main watcher package. This way, npm and other package managers will install only the binary for the platform you are running on. This reduces bandwidth and disk space.

This also enabled us to add pre-compiled binaries for more platforms, meaning you don't need to have a C++ compiler to install the watcher. This should help with some minimal Docker environments especially. The architectures with prebuilds available now include:

• darwin-x64
• darwin-arm64
• win32-x64
• win32-arm64
• linux-x64-glibc
• linux-x64-musl
• linux-arm64-glibc
• linux-arm64-musl
• linux-arm-glibc (32-bit arm v7)
• android-arm64

• Support simple glob patterns for ignore rules – #106
• fix: Prevent directory locking on Windows – #121

Ignore duplicate events from FSEvents for the same mtime

• Update debounce to emit the first update immediately, and always emit at least one event every 500ms – #113
• Improve support for mounted file systems on macOS – #108
• Fix segmentation fault on Linux by storing inotify subscription paths – #103