-
coll.insert()
now uses a faster (but cryptographically insecure) algorithm to generate document IDs when called outside of a method and an_id
field is not explicitly passed. With this change, there are no longer two algorithms used to generate document IDs.Random.id()
can still be used to generate cryptographically secure document IDs. #5161 -
The
ecmascript-collections
package has been renamed toecmascript-runtime
and now includes a more complete selection of ES2015 polyfills and shims fromcore-js
. The complete list can be found here. -
Check type of
onException
argument tobindEnvironment
. #5271 -
WebApp's
PORT
environment variable can now be a named pipe to better support deployment on IIS on Windows. 4413 -
Template.dynamic
can be now used as a block helper:{{#Template.dynamic}} ... {{/Template.dynamic}}
#4756 -
Collection#allow/deny
now throw errors when passed falsy values. #5442 -
source-map
has been updated to a newer patch version, which fixes major bugs in particular around loading bundles generated by Webpack. #5411 -
check
now returns instead of throwing errors internally, which should make it much faster.check
is used in many core Meteor packages, so this should result in small performance improvements across the framework. #4584 -
The
userEmail
option toMeteor.loginWithMeteorDeveloperAccount
has been renamed tologinHint
, and now supports Google accounts as well. The old option still works for backwards compatibility. #2422 #5313 -
The old
addFiles
API for adding package assets no longer throws an error, making it easier to share packages between pre- and post-1.2 versions of Meteor. #5458 -
Normally, you can't deploy to free meteor.com hosting or Galaxy from a non-Linux machine if you have local non-published packages with binary dependencies, nor can you run
meteor build --architecture SomeOtherArch
. As a temporary workaround, if you set theMETEOR_DEP_BINARY_WORKAROUND
variable, you will be able to deploy to Galaxy (but not free meteor.com hosting), and tarballs built withmeteor build
will contain aprograms/server/setup.sh
shell script which should be run on the server to install those packages.
-
Update Crosswalk plugin for Cordova to 1.3.1. #5267
-
Fix
meteor add
for a Cordova plugin using a Git URL with SHA. -
Upgraded the
promise
package to usemeteor-promise@0.5.0
, which uses the globalPromise
constructor in browsers that define it natively. -
Fix error in assigning attributes to
<body>
tag when using Blaze templates orstatic-html
. #5232
- Fix incorrect publishing of packages with exports but no source. #5228
There are quite a lot of changes in Meteor 1.2. See the Wiki for a shorter list of breaking changes you should be aware of when upgrading.
-
meteor-platform
has been deprecated in favor of the smallermeteor-base
, with apps listing their other dependencies explicitly. The v1.2 upgrader will rewritemeteor-platform
in existing apps.meteor-base
puts fewer symbols in the global namepsace, so it's no longer true that all apps have symbols likeRandom
andEJSON
in the global namespace. -
New packages:
ecmascript
,es5-shim
,ecmascript-collections
,promise
,static-html
,jshint
,babel-compiler
-
No longer include the
json
package by default, which contains code forJSON.parse
andJSON.stringify
. (The last browser to not support JSON natively was Internet Explorer 7.) -
autoupdate
has been renamedhot-code-push
-
Login attempts are now rate-limited by default. This can be turned off using
Accounts.removeDefaultRateLimit()
. -
loginWithPassword
now matches username or email in a case insensitive manner. If there are multiple users with a username or email only differing in case, a case sensitive match is required. #550 -
loginWithGithub
now requestsuser:email
scope by default, and attempts to fetch the user's emails. If no public email has been set, we use the primary email instead. We also store the complete list of emails. #4545 -
When an account's email address is verified, deactivate other verification tokens. #4626
-
Fix bug where blank page is shown when an expired login token is present. #4825
-
Fix
OAuth1Binding.prototype.call
when making requests to Twitter with a large parameter set. -
Directions for setting up Google OAuth in accounts-ui have been updated to match Google's new requirements.
-
Add
Accounts.oauth.unregisterService
method, and ensure that users can only log in with currently registered services. #4014 -
The
accounts-base
now defines reusableAccountsClient
andAccountsServer
constructors, so that users can create multiple independent instances of theAccounts
namespace. #4233 -
Create an index for
Meteor.users
onservices.email.verificationTokens.token
(instead ofemails.validationTokens.token
, which never was used for anything). #4482 -
Remove an IE7-specific workaround from accounts-ui. #4485
- Improved server performance by reducing overhead of processing oplog after database writes. Improvements are most noticeable in case when a method is doing a lot of writes on collections with plenty of active observers. #4694
-
The included Cordova tools have been updated to the latest version 5.2.0. This includes Cordova Android 4.1 and Cordova iOS 3.9. These updates may require you to make changes to your app. For details, see the [Cordova release notes] (https://cordova.apache.org/#news) for for the different versions.
-
Thanks to Cordova Android's support for pluggable web views, it is now possible to install the [Crosswalk plugin] (https://crosswalk-project.org/documentation/cordova/cordova_4.html), which offers a hugely improved web view on older Android versions. You can add the plugin to your app with
meteor add crosswalk
. -
The bundled Android tools have been removed and a system-wide install of the Android SDK is now required. This should make it easier to keep the development toolchain up to date and helps avoid some difficult to diagnose failures. If you don't have your own Android tools installed already, you can find more information about installing the Android SDK for [Mac] (https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Mobile-Dev-Install:-Android-on-Mac) or [Linux] (https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Mobile-Dev-Install:-Android-on-Linux).
-
As part of moving to npm, many Cordova plugins have been renamed. Meteor should perform conversions automatically, but you may want to be aware of this to avoid surprises. See [here] (https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2015/04/21/plugins-release-and-move-to-npm.html) for more information.
-
Installing plugins from the local filesystem is now supported using
file://
URLs, which should make developing your own plugins more convenient. It is also needed as a temporary workaround for using the Facebook plugin. Relative references are interpreted relative to the Meteor project directory. (As an example,meteor add cordova:phonegap-facebook-plugin@file://../phonegap-facebook-plugin
would attempt to install the plugin from the same directory you Meteor project directory is located in.) -
Meteor no longer supports installing Cordova plugins from tarball URLs, but does support Git URLs with a SHA reference (like
https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-file#c452f1a67f41cb1165c92555f0e721fbb07329cc
). Existing GitHub tarball URLs are converted automatically. -
Allow specifying a
buildNumber
inApp.info
, which is used to set theandroid-versionCode
andios-CFBundleVersion
in theconfig.xml
of the Cordova project. The build number is used to differentiate between different versions of the app, and should be incremented before distributing a built app to stores or testing services. #4048 -
Other changes include performance enhancements when building and running, and improved requirements checking and error reporting.
-
Known issue: we do not currently show logging output when running on the iOS Simulator. As a workaround, you can
meteor run ios-device
to open the project in Xcode and watch the output there.
-
New syntax: Handlebars sub-expressions are now supported -- as in,
{{helper (anotherHelper arg1 arg2)}}
-- as well as new block helper forms#each .. in ..
and#let x=y
. See https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/devel/packages/spacebars -
Add a special case for the new
react-template-helper
package -- don't let templates use {{> React}} with siblings sinceReact.render
assumes it's being rendered into an empty container element. (This lets us throw the error when compiling templates rather than when the app runs.) -
Improve parsing of
<script>
and<style>
tags. #3797 -
Fix a bug in
observe-sequence
. The bug was causing unnecessary rerenderings in an instance of#each
block helper followed by false "duplicate ids" warnings. #4049 -
TemplateInstance#subscribe
now has a newconnection
option, which specifies which connection should be used when making the subscription. The default isMeteor.connection
, which is the connection used when callingMeteor.subscribe
. -
Fix external
<script>
tags in body or templates. #4415 -
Fix memory leak. #4289
-
Avoid recursion when materializing DOM elements, to avoid stack overflow errors in certain browsers. #3028
-
Blaze and Meteor's built-in templating are now removable using
meteor remove blaze-html-templates
. You can add back support for statichead
andbody
tags in.html
files by using thestatic-html
package.
-
Websockets now support the
permessage-deflate
extension, which compresses data on the wire. It is enabled by default on the server. To disable it, set$SERVER_WEBSOCKET_COMPRESSION
to0
. To configure compression options, set$SERVER_WEBSOCKET_COMPRESSION
to a JSON object that will be used as an argument todeflate.configure
. Compression is supported on the client side by Meteor's Node DDP client and by browsers including Chrome, Safari, and Firefox 37. -
The
ddp
package has been split intoddp-client
andddp-server
packages; usingddp
is equivalent to using both. This allows you to use the Node DDP client without adding the DDP server to your app. #4191 #3452 -
On the client,
Meteor.call
now takes athrowStubExceptions
option; if set, exceptions thrown by method stubs will be thrown instead of logged, and the method will not be invoked on the server. #4202 -
sub.ready()
should return true inside that subscription'sonReady
callback. #4614 -
Fix method calls causing broken state when socket is reconnecting. #5104
-
Build plugins will no longer process files whose names match the extension exactly (with no extra dot). If your build plugin needs to match filenames exactly, you should use the new build plugin API in this release which supplies a special
filenames
option. #3985 -
Adding the same file twice in the same package is now an error. Previously, this could either lead to the file being included multiple times, or to a build time crash.
-
You may now specify the
bare
option for JavaScript files on the server. Previous versions only allowed this on the client. #3681 -
Ignore
node_modules
directories in apps instead of processing them as Meteor source code. #4457 #4452 -
Backwards-incompatible change for package authors: Static assets in package.js files must now be explicitly declared by using
addAssets
instead ofaddFiles
. Previously, any file that didn't have a source handler was automatically registered as a server-side asset. TheisAsset
option toaddFiles
is also deprecated in favor ofaddAssets
. -
Built files are now always annotated with line number comments, to improve the debugging experience in browsers that don't support source maps.
-
There is a completely new API for defining build plugins that cache their output. There are now special APIs for defining linters and minifiers in addition to compilers. The core Meteor packages for
less
,coffee
,stylus
andhtml
files have been updated to use this new API. Read more on the Wiki page.
-
LESS and Stylus now support cross-package imports.
-
CSS concatenation and minification is delegated to the
standard-minifiers
package, which is present by default (and added to existing apps by the v1.2 upgrader). -
CSS output is now split into multiple stylesheets to avoid hitting limits on rules per stylesheet in certain versions of Internet Explorer. #1876
-
The oplog observe driver now properly updates queries when you drop a database. #3847
-
MongoID logic has been moved out of
minimongo
into a new package calledmongo-id
. -
Fix Mongo upserts with dotted keys in selector. #4522
-
You can now create three new example apps with the command line tool. These are the apps from the official tutorials at http://meteor.com/tutorials, which demonstrate building the same app with Blaze, Angular, and React. Try these apps with:
meteor create --example simple-todos meteor create --example simple-todos-react meteor create --example simple-todos-angular
-
meteor shell
no longer crashes when piped from another command. -
Avoid a race condition in
meteor --test
and work with newer versions of the Velocity package. #3957 -
Improve error handling when publishing packages. #3977
-
Improve messaging around publishing binary packages. #3961
-
Preserve the value of
_
inmeteor shell
. #4010 -
meteor mongo
now works on OS X when certain non-ASCII characters are in the pathname, as long as thepgrep
utility is installed (it ships standard with OS X 10.8 and newer). #3999 -
meteor run
no longer ignores (and often reverts) external changes to.meteor/versions
which occur while the process is running. #3582 -
Fix crash when downloading two builds of the same package version simultaneously. #4163
-
Improve messages printed by
meteor update
, displaying list of packages that are not at the latest version available. -
When determining file load order, split file paths on path separator before comparing path components alphabetically. #4300
-
Fix inability to run
mongod
due to lack of locale configuration on some platforms, and improve error message if the failure still occurs. #4019 -
New
meteor lint
command.
-
The
$push
query modifier now supports a$position
argument. #4312 -
c.update(selector, replacementDoc)
no longer shares mutable state between replacementDoc and Minimongo internals. #4377
Email.send
now has a new option,attachments
, in the same style asmailcomposer
. Details here.
-
New
Tracker.Computation#onStop
method. #3915 -
ReactiveDict
has two new methods,clear
andall
.clear
resets the dictionary as if no items had been added, meaning all calls toget
will returnundefined
.all
converts the dictionary into a regular JavaScript object with a snapshot of the keys and values. Inside an autorun,all
registers a dependency on any changes to the dictionary. #3135
-
New
beforeSend
option toHTTP.call
on the client allows you to directly access theXMLHttpRequest
object and abort the call. #4419 #3243 #3266 -
Parse
application/javascript
andapplication/x-javascript
HTTP replies as JSON too. #4595 -
Match.test
from thecheck
package now properly compares boolean literals, just like it does with Numbers and Strings. This applies to thecheck
function as well. -
Provide direct access to the
mailcomposer
npm module used by theemail
package onEmailInternals.NpmModules
. Allow specifying aMailComposer
object toEmail.send
instead of individual options. #4209 -
Expose
Spiderable.requestTimeoutMs
fromspiderable
package to allow apps to set the timeout for running phantomjs. -
The
spiderable
package now reports the URL it's trying to fetch on failure.
-
Upgraded dependencies:
- Node: 0.10.40 (from 0.10.36)
- uglify-js: 2.4.20 (from 2.4.17)
- http-proxy: 1.11.1 (from 1.6.0)
-
Meteor.loginWithGoogle
now supportsprompt
. Choose a prompt to always be displayed on Google login. -
Upgraded
coffeescript
package to depend on NPM packages coffeescript@1.9.2 and source-map@0.4.2. #4302 -
Upgraded
fastclick
to 1.0.6 to fix an issue in iOS Safari. #4393 -
Fix
Error: Can't render headers after they are sent to the client
. #4253 #4750 -
Meteor.settings.public
is always available on client and server, and modifications made on the server (for example, during app initialization) affect the value seen by connecting clients. #4704
-
Increase the buffer size for
netstat
when looking for running Mongo servers. #4125 -
The Windows installer now always fetches the latest available version of Meteor at runtime, so that it doesn't need to be recompiled for every release.
-
Fix crash in
meteor mongo
on Windows. #4711
- When using Facebook API version 2.4, properly fetch
email
and other fields. Facebook recently forced all new apps to use version 2.4 of their API. #4743
- Revert a change in 1.1.0.1 that caused
meteor mongo
to fail on some Linux systems. #4115, #4124, #4134
- Fix a regression in 1.1 in Blaze Templates: an error happening when View is
invalidated immediately, causing a client-side crash (accessing
destroyMembers
ofundefined
). #4097
-
The Meteor command line tool now officially supports Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2012. It can run from PowerShell or Command Prompt.
-
There is a native Windows installer that will be available for download from https://www.meteor.com/install starting with this release.
-
In this release, Meteor on Windows supports all features available on Linux and Mac except building mobile apps with PhoneGap/Cordova.
-
The
meteor admin get-machine
command now supports an additional architecture,os.windows.x86_32
, which can be used to build binary packages for Windows.
-
The code that selects compatible package versions for
meteor update
and resolves conflicts onmeteor add
has been rewritten from the ground up. The core solver algorithm is now based on MiniSat, an open-source SAT solver, improving performance and maintainability. -
Refresh the catalog instead of downgrading packages when the versions in
.meteor/versions
aren't in the cache. #3653 -
Don't downgrade packages listed in
.meteor/packages
, or upgrade to a new major version, unless the new flag--allow-incompatible-update
is passed as an override. -
Error messages are more detailed when constraints are unsatisfiable.
-
Prefer "patched" versions of new indirect dependencies, and take patches to them on
meteor update
(for example,1.0.1
or1.0.0_1
over1.0.0
). -
Version Solver is instrumented for profiling (
METEOR_PROFILE=1
in the environment). -
Setting the
METEOR_PRINT_CONSTRAINT_SOLVER_INPUT
environment variable prints information useful for diagnosing constraint solver bugs.
-
Schedule the flush cycle using a better technique than
setTimeout
when available. #3889 -
Yield to the event loop during the flush cycle, unless we're executing a synchronous
Tracker.flush()
. #3901 -
Fix error reporting not being source-mapped properly. #3655
-
Introduce a new option for
Tracker.autorun
-onError
. This callback can be used to handle errors caught in the reactive computations. #3822
- Fix stack overflow from nested templates and helpers by avoiding recursion during rendering. #3028
- Don't fail if
npm
prints more than 200K. #3887
-
Upgraded dependencies:
- uglify-js: 2.4.17 (from 2.4.13)
Patches contributed by GitHub users hwillson, mitar, murillo128, Primigenus, rjakobsson, and tmeasday.
-
This version of Meteor now uses version 2.2 of the Facebook API for authentication, instead of 1.0. If you use additional Facebook API methods beyond login, you may need to request new permissions.
Facebook will automatically switch all apps to API version 2.0 on April 30th, 2015. Please make sure to update your application's permissions and API calls by that date.
For more details, see https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Facebook-Graph-API-Upgrade
- Fix regression in 1.0.4 where using Cordova for the first time in a project with hyphens in its directory name would fail. #3950
- Fix regression in 1.0.4 where
meteor publish-for-arch
only worked for packages without colons in their name. #3951
-
Meteor is now tested against MongoDB 2.6 by default (and the bundled version used by
meteor run
has been upgraded). It should still work fine with MongoDB 2.4. Previous versions of Meteor mostly worked with MongoDB 2.6, with a few caveats:- Some upsert invocations did not work with MongoDB in previous versions of Meteor.
- Previous versions of Meteor required setting up a special "user-defined
role" with access to the
system.replset
table to use the oplog observe driver with MongoDB 2.6. These extra permissions are not required with this version of Meteor.
The MongoDB command needed to set up user permissions for the oplog observe driver is slightly different in MongoDB 2.6; see https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Oplog-Observe-Driver for details.
We have also tested Meteor against the recently-released MongoDB 3.0.0. While we are not shipping MongoDB 3.0 with Meteor in this release (preferring to wait until its deployment is more widespread), we believe that Meteor 1.0.4 apps will work fine when used with MongoDB 3.0.0 servers.
-
Fix 0.8.1 regression where failure to connect to Mongo at startup would log a message but otherwise be ignored. Now it crashes the process, as it did before 0.8.1. #3038
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Use correct transform for allow/deny rules in
update
when different rules have different transforms. #3108 -
Provide direct access to the collection and database objects from the npm Mongo driver via new
rawCollection
andrawDatabase
methods onMongo.Collection
. #3640 -
Observing or publishing an invalid query now throws an error instead of effectively hanging the server. #2534
-
If the oplog observe driver gets too far behind in processing the oplog, skip entries and re-poll queries instead of trying to keep up. #2668
-
Optimize common cases faced by the "crossbar" data structure (used by oplog tailing and DDP method write tracking). #3697
-
The oplog observe driver recovers from failed attempts to apply the modifier from the oplog (eg, because of empty field names).
-
When acting as an insert,
c.upsert({_id: 'x'}, {foo: 1})
now uses the_id
of'x'
rather than a random_id
in the Minimongo implementation ofupsert
, just like it does forc.upsert({_id: 'x'}, {$set: {foo: 1}})
. (The previous behavior matched a bug in the MongoDB 2.4 implementation of upsert that is fixed in MongoDB 2.6.) #2278 -
Avoid unnecessary work while paused in minimongo.
-
Fix bugs related to observing queries with field filters:
changed
callbacks should not trigger unless a field in the filter has changed, andchanged
callbacks need to trigger when a parent of an included field is unset. #2254 #3571 -
Disallow setting fields with empty names in minimongo, to match MongoDB 2.6 semantics.
-
Subscription handles returned from
Meteor.subscribe
andTemplateInstance#subscribe
now have asubscriptionId
property to identify which subscription the handle is for. -
The
onError
callback toMeteor.subscribe
has been replaced with a more generalonStop
callback that has an error as an optional first argument. TheonStop
callback is called when the subscription is terminated for any reason.onError
is still supported for backwards compatibility. #1461 -
The return value from a server-side
Meteor.call
orMeteor.apply
is now a clone of what the function returned rather than sharing mutable state. #3201 -
Make it easier to use the Node DDP client implementation without running a web server too. #3452
-
Template instances now have a
subscribe
method that functions exactly likeMeteor.subscribe
, but stops the subscription when the template is destroyed. There is a new method on Template instances calledsubscriptionsReady()
which is a reactive function that returns true when all of the subscriptions made withTemplateInstance#subscribe
are ready. There is also a built-in helper that returns the same thing and can be accessed withTemplate.subscriptionsReady
inside any template. -
Add
onRendered
,onCreated
, andonDestroyed
methods toTemplate
. Assignments toTemplate.foo.rendered
and so forth are deprecated but are still supported for backwards compatibility. -
Fix bug where, when a helper or event handler was called from inside a custom block helper,
Template.instance()
returned theTemplate.contentBlock
template instead of the actual user-defined template, making it difficult to useTemplate.instance()
for local template state. -
Template.instance()
now works insideTemplate.body
. #3631 -
Allow specifying attributes on
<body>
tags in templates. -
Improve performance of rendering large arrays. #3596
-
In
package.js
files,Npm.require
can only require built-in Node modules (and dev bundle modules, though you shouldn't depend on that), not the modules from its ownNpm.depends
. Previously, such code would work but only on the second time apackage.js
was executed. -
Ignore vim swap files in the
public
andprivate
directories. #3322 -
Fix regression in 1.0.2 where packages might not be rebuilt when the compiler version changes.
-
The
accounts-password
Accounts.emailTemplates
can now specify arbitrary emailheaders
. Thefrom
address can now be set separately on the individual templates, and is a function there rather than a static string. #2858 #2854 -
Add login hooks on the client:
Accounts.onLogin
andAccounts.onLoginFailure
. #3572 -
Add a unique index to the collection that stores OAuth login configuration to ensure that only one configuration exists per service. #3514
-
On the server, a new option
Accounts.setPassword(user, password, { logout: false })
overrides the default behavior of logging out all logged-in connections for the user. #3846
-
spiderable
now supports escaped#!
fragments. #2938 -
Disable
appcache
on Firefox by default. #3248 -
Don't overly escape
Meteor.settings.public
and other parts of__meteor_runtime_config__
. #3730 -
Reload the client program on
SIGHUP
or Node-specific IPC messages, notSIGUSR2
.
-
Enable tab-completion of global variables in
meteor shell
. #3227 -
meteor login --email
no longer takes an ignored argument. #3532 -
Fix regression in 1.0.2 where
meteor run --settings s
would ignore errors reading or parsing the settings file. #3757 -
Fix crash in
meteor publish
in some cases when the package is inside an app. #3676 -
Fix crashes in
meteor search --show-all
andmeteor search --maintainer
. #3636 -
Kill PhantomJS processes after
meteor --test
, and only run the app once. #3205 #3793 -
Give a better error when Mongo fails to start up due to a full disk. #2378
-
After killing existing
mongod
servers, also clear themongod.lock
file. -
Stricter validation for package names: they cannot begin with a hyphen, end with a dot, contain two consecutive dots, or start or end with a colon. (No packages on Atmosphere fail this validation.) Additionally,
meteor create --package
applies the same validation asmeteor publish
and disallows packages with multiple colons. (Packages with multiple colons likelocal-test:iron:router
are used internally bymeteor test-packages
so that is not a strict validation rule.) -
meteor create --package
now no longer creates a directory with the full name of the package, since Windows file systems cannot have colon characters in file paths. Instead, the command now creates a directory named the same as the second part of the package name after the colon (without the username prefix).
-
Upgrade the Cordova CLI dependency from 3.5.1 to 4.2.0. See the release notes for the 4.x series of the Cordova CLI on Apache Cordova.
-
Related to the recently discovered attack vectors in Android Cordova apps, Meteor Cordova apps no longer allow access to all domains by default. If your app access external resources over XHR, you need to add them to the whitelist of allowed domains with the newly added
App.accessRule
method in yourmobile-config.js
file. -
Upgrade Cordova Plugins dependencies in Meteor Core packages:
org.apache.cordova.file
: from 1.3.0 to 1.3.3org.apache.cordova.file-transfer
: from 0.4.4 to 0.5.0org.apache.cordova.splashscreen
: from 0.3.3 to 1.0.0org.apache.cordova.console
: from 0.2.10 to 0.2.13org.apache.cordova.device
: from 0.2.11 to 0.3.0org.apache.cordova.statusbar
: from 0.1.7 to 0.1.10org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser
: from 0.5.1 to 0.6.0org.apache.cordova.inappbrowser
: from 0.5.1 to 0.6.0
-
Use the newer
ios-sim
binary, compiled with Xcode 6 on OS X Mavericks.
- Use
Session.set({k1: v1, k2: v2})
to set multiple values at once.
- Provide direct access to all options supported by the
request
npm module via the new server-onlynpmRequestOptions
option toHTTP.call
. #1703
-
Many internal refactorings towards supporting Meteor on Windows are in this release.
-
Remove some packages used internally to support legacy MDG systems (
application-configuration
,ctl
,ctl-helper
,follower-livedata
,dev-bundle-fetcher
, andstar-translate
). -
Provide direct access to some npm modules used by core packages on the
NpmModules
field ofWebAppInternals
,MongoInternals
, andHTTPInternals
. -
Upgraded dependencies:
- node: 0.10.36 (from 0.10.33)
- Fibers: 1.0.5 (from 1.0.1)
- MongoDB: 2.6.7 (from 2.4.12)
- openssl in mongo: 1.0.2 (from 1.0.1j)
- MongoDB driver: 1.4.32 (from 1.4.1)
- bson: 0.2.18 (from 0.2.7)
- request: 2.53.0 (from 2.47.0)
Patches contributed by GitHub users 0a-, awatson1978, awwx, bwhitty, christianbundy, d4nyll, dandv, DanielDent, DenisGorbachev, fay-jai, gsuess, hwillson, jakozaur, meonkeys, mitar, netanelgilad, queso, rbabayoff, RobertLowe, romanzolotarev, Siilwyn, and tmeasday.
- Fix regression in 1.0.3 where the
meteor
tool could crash when downloading the second build of a given package version; for example, when runningmeteor deploy
on an OSX or 32-bit Linux system for an app containing a binary package. #3761
-
Rewrite
meteor show
andmeteor search
to show package information for local packages and to show if the package is installed for non-local packages. Introduce the--show-all
flag, and deprecate the--show-unmigrated
and--show-old flags
. Introduce the--ejson
flag to output an EJSON object. -
Support README.md files in
meteor publish
. Take in the documentation file inpackage.js
(set toREADME.md
by default) and upload it to the server at publication time. Excerpt the first non-header Markdown section for use inmeteor show
. -
Support updates of package version metadata after that version has been published by running
meteor publish --update
from the package directory. -
Add
meteor test-packages --velocity
(similar tometeor run --test
). #3330 -
Fix
meteor update <packageName>
to update even if it's an indirect dependency of your app. #3282 -
Fix stack trace when a browser tries to use the server like a proxy. #1212
-
Fix inaccurate session statistics and possible multiple invocation of Connection.onClose callbacks.
-
Switch CLI tool filesystem calls from synchronous to yielding (pro: more concurrency, more responsive to signals; con: could introduce concurrency bugs)
-
Don't try to refresh client app in the runner unless the app actually has the autoupdate package. #3365
-
Fix custom release banner logic. #3353
-
Apply HTTP followRedirects option to non-GET requests. #2808
-
Clean up temporary directories used by package downloads sooner. #3324
-
If the tool knows about the requested release but doesn't know about the build of its tool for the platform, refresh the catalog rather than failing immediately. #3317
-
Fix
meteor --get-ready
to not add packages to your app. -
Fix some corner cases in cleaning up app processes in the runner. Drop undocumented
--keepalive
support. #3315 -
Fix CSS autoupdate when
$ROOT_URL
has a non-trivial path. #3111 -
Save Google OAuth idToken to the User service info object.
-
Add git info to
meteor --version
. -
Correctly catch a case of illegal
Tracker.flush
duringTracker.autorun
. #3037 -
Upgraded dependencies:
- jquery: 1.11.2 (from 1.11.0)
Patches by GitHub users DanielDent, DanielDornhardt, PooMaster, Primigenus, Tarang, TomFreudenberg, adnissen, dandv, fay-jai, knownasilya, mquandalle, ogourment, restebanez, rissem, smallhelm and tmeasday.
-
Fix crash in file change watcher. #3336
-
Allow
meteor test-packages packages/*
even if not all package directories have tests. #3334 -
Fix typo in
meteor shell
output. #3326
-
A new command called
meteor shell
attaches an interactive terminal to an already-running server process, enabling inspection and execution of server-side data and code, with dynamic tab completion of variable names and properties. To seemeteor shell
in action, typemeteor run
in an app directory, then (in another terminal) typemeteor shell
in the same app directory. You do not have to wait for the app to start before typingmeteor shell
, as it will automatically connect when the server is ready. Note thatmeteor shell
currently works for local development only, and is not yet supported for apps running on remote hosts. -
We've done a major internal overhaul of the
meteor
command-line tool with an eye to correctness, maintainability, and performance. Some details include:- Refresh the package catalog for build commands only when an error occurs that could be fixed by a refresh, not for every build command.
- Never run the constraint solver to select package versions more than once per build.
- Built packages ("isopacks") are now cached inside individual app directories instead of inside their source directories.
meteor run
starts Mongo in parallel with building the application.- The constraint solver no longer leaves a
versions.json
file in your packages source directories; when publishing a package that is not inside an app, it will leave a.versions
file (with the same format as.meteor/versions
) which you should check into source control. - The constraint solver's model has been simplified so that plugins must use the same version of packages as their surrounding package when built from local source.
-
Using
meteor debug
no longer requires manually continuing the debugger when your app restarts, and it no longer overwrites the symbol_
inside your app. -
Output from the command-line tool is now word-wrapped to the width of your terminal.
-
Remove support for the undocumented earliestCompatibleVersion feature of the package system.
-
Reduce CPU usage and disk I/O bandwidth by using kernel file-system change notification events where possible. On file systems that do not support these events (NFS, Vagrant Virtualbox shared folders, etc), file changes will only be detected every 5 seconds; to detect changes more often in these cases (but use more CPU), set the
METEOR_WATCH_FORCE_POLLING
environment variable. #2135 -
Reduce CPU usage by fixing a check for a parent process in
meteor run
that was happening constantly instead of every few seconds. #3252 -
Fix crash when two plugins defined source handlers for the same extension. #3015 #3180
-
Fix bug (introduced in 0.9.3) where the warning about using experimental versions of packages was printed too often.
-
Fix bug (introduced in 1.0) where
meteor update --patch
crashed. -
Fix bug (introduced in 0.9.4) where banners about new releases could be printed too many times.
-
Fix crash when a package version contained a dot-separated pre-release part with both digits and non-digits. #3147
-
Corporate HTTP proxy support is now implemented using our websocket library's new built-in implementation instead of a custom implementation. #2515
-
Add default behavior for
Template.parentData
with no arguments. This selects the first parent. #2861 -
Fix
Blaze.remove
on a template's view to correctly remove the DOM elements when the template was inserted usingBlaze.renderWithData
. #3130 -
Allow curly braces to be escaped in Spacebars. Use the special sequences
{{|
and{{{|
to insert a literal{{
or{{{
.
-
Allow integration with OAuth1 servers that require additional query parameters to be passed with the access token. #2894
-
Expire a user's password reset and login tokens in all circumstances when their password is changed.
-
Some packages are no longer released as part of the core release process: amplify, backbone, bootstrap, d3, jquery-history, and jquery-layout. This means that new versions of these packages can be published outside of the full Meteor release cycle.
-
Require plain objects as the update parameter when doing replacements in server-side collections.
-
Fix audit-argument-checks spurious failure when an argument is NaN. #2914
- node: 0.10.33 (from 0.10.29)
- source-map-support: 0.2.8 (from 0.2.5)
- semver: 4.1.0 (from 2.2.1)
- request: 2.47.0 (from 2.33.0)
- tar: 1.0.2 (from 1.0.1)
- source-map: 0.1.40 (from 0.1.32)
- sqlite3: 3.0.2 (from 3.0.0)
- phantomjs npm module: 1.9.12 (from 1.8.1-1)
- http-proxy: 1.6.0 (from a fork of 1.0.2)
- esprima: 1.2.2 (from an unreleased 1.1-era commit)
- escope: 1.0.1 (from 1.0.0)
- openssl in mongo: 1.0.1j (from 1.0.1g)
- faye-websocket: 0.8.1 (from using websocket-driver instead)
- MongoDB: 2.4.12 (from 2.4.9)
Patches by GitHub users andylash, anstarovoyt, benweissmann, chrisbridgett, colllin, dandv, ecwyne, graemian, JamesLefrere, kevinchiu, LyuGGang, matteodem, mitar, mquandalle, musically-ut, ograycode, pcjpcj2, physiocoder, rgoomar, timhaines, trusktr, Urigo, and zol.
- Fix a security issue in allow/deny rules that could result in data loss. If your app uses allow/deny rules, or uses packages that use allow/deny rules, we recommend that you update immediately.
-
Add the
meteor admin get-machine
command to make it easier to publish packages with binary dependencies for all architectures.meteor publish
no longer publishes builds automatically if your package has binary NPM dependencies. -
New
localmarket
example, highlighting Meteor's support for mobile app development. -
Restyle the
leaderboard
example, and optimize it for both desktop and mobile.
-
Reduce unnecessary syncs with the package server, which speeds up startup times for many commands.
-
Speed up
meteor deploy
by not bundling unnecessary files and programs. -
To make Meteor easier to use on slow or unreliable network connections, increase timeouts for DDP connections that the Meteor tool uses to communicate with the package server. #2777, #2789.
-
Implemented reasonable default behavior for launch screens on mobile apps.
-
Don't build for Android when only the iOS build is required, and vice versa.
-
Fix bug that could cause mobile apps to stop being able to receive hot code push updates.
-
Fix bug where Cordova clients connected to http://example.com instead of https://example.com when https:// was specified in the --mobile-server option. #2880
-
Fix stack traces when attempting to build or run iOS apps on Linux.
-
Print a warning when building an app with mobile platforms and outputting the build into the source tree. Outputting a build into the source tree can cause subsequent builds to fail because they will treat the build output as source files.
-
Exit from
meteor run
when new Cordova plugins or platforms are added, since we don't support hot code push for new plugins or platforms. -
Fix quoting of arguments to Cordova plugins.
-
The
accounts-twitter
package now works in Cordova apps in local development. For workarounds for other login providers in local development mode, see https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/OAuth-for-mobile-Meteor-clients.
-
meteor publish-for-arch
can publish packages built with different Meteor releases. -
Fix default
api.versionsFrom
field in packages created withmeteor create --package
. -
Fix bug where changes in an app's .meteor/versions file would not cause the app to be rebuilt.
-
Use TLSv1 in the
spiderable
package, for compatibility with servers that have disabled SSLv3 in response to the POODLE bug. -
Work around the
meteor run
proxy occasionally running out of sockets. -
Fix bug with regular expressions in minimongo. #2817
-
Add READMEs for several core packages.
-
Include protocols in URLs printed by
meteor deploy
. -
Improve error message for limited ordered observe. #1643
-
Fix missing dependency on
random
in theautoupdate
package. #2892 -
Fix bug where all CSS would be removed from connected clients if a CSS-only change is made between local development server restarts or when deploying with
meteor deploy
. -
Increase height of the Google OAuth popup to the Google-recommended value.
-
Fix the layout of the OAuth configuration dialog when used with Bootstrap.
-
Allow build plugins to override the 'bare' option on added source files. #2834
Patches by GitHub users DenisGorbachev, ecwyne, mitar, mquandalle, Primigenus, svda, yauh, and zol.
- Fix a security issue in allow/deny rules that could result in data loss. If your app uses allow/deny rules, or uses packages that use allow/deny rules, we recommend that you update immediately. Backport from 1.0.1.
-
The new
meteor debug
command and--debug-port
command line option tometeor run
allow you to easily use node-inspector to debug your server-side code. Add adebugger
statement to your code to create a breakpoint. -
Add new a
meteor run --test
command that runs Velocity tests in your app . -
Add new callbacks
Accounts.onResetPasswordLink
,Accounts.onEnrollmentLink
, andAccounts.onEmailVerificationLink
that make it easier to build custom user interfaces on top of the accounts system. These callbacks should be registered beforeMeteor.startup
fires, and will be called if the URL matches a link in an email sent byAccounts.resetPassword
, etc. See https://docs.meteor.com/#Accounts-onResetPasswordLink. -
A new configuration file for mobile apps,
<APP>/mobile-config.js
. This allows you to set app metadata, icons, splash screens, preferences, and PhoneGap/Cordova plugin settings without needing acordova_build_override
directory. See https://docs.meteor.com/#mobileconfigjs.
-
Rename
{{> UI.dynamic}}
to{{> Template.dynamic}}
, and likewise withUI.contentBlock
andUI.elseBlock
. The UI namespace is no longer used anywhere except for backwards compatibility. -
Deprecate the
Template.someTemplate.myHelper = ...
syntax in favor ofTemplate.someTemplate.helpers(...)
. Using the older syntax still works, but prints a deprecation warning to the console. -
Package.registerBuildPlugin
its associated functions have been added to the public API, cleaned up, and documented. The new function is identical to the earlier _transitional_registerBuildPlugin except for minor backwards-compatible API changes. See https://docs.meteor.com/#Package-registerBuildPlugin -
Rename the
showdown
package tomarkdown
. -
Deprecate the
amplify
,backbone
,bootstrap
, andd3
integration packages in favor of community alternatives. These packages will no longer be maintained by MDG.
-
Improved output from
meteor build
to make it easier to publish mobile apps to the App Store and Play Store. See the wiki pages for instructions on how to publish your iOS and Android apps. -
Packages can now be marked as debug-mode only by adding
debugOnly: true
toPackage.describe
. Debug-only packages are not included in the app when it is bundled for production (meteor build
ormeteor run --production
). This allows package authors to build packages specifically for testing and debugging without increasing the size of the resulting app bundle or causing apps to ship with debug functionality built in. -
Rework the process for installing mobile development SDKs. There is now a
meteor install-sdk
command that automatically install what software it can and points to documentation for the parts that require manual installation. -
The
.meteor/cordova-platforms
file has been renamed to.meteor/platforms
and now includes the defaultserver
andbrowser
platforms. The default platforms can't currently be removed from a project, though this will be possible in the future. The old file will be automatically migrated to the new one when the app is run with Meteor 0.9.4 or above. -
The
unipackage.json
file inside downloaded packages has been renamed toisopack.json
and has an improved forwards-compatible format. To maintain backwards compatibility with previous releases, packages will be built with both files. -
The local package metadata cache now uses SQLite, which is much faster than the previous implementation. This improves
meteor
command line tool startup time. -
The constraint solver used by the client to find compatible versions of packages is now much faster.
-
The
--port
option tometeor run
now requires a numeric port (e.g.meteor run --port example.com
is no longer valid). -
The
--mobile-port
optionmeteor run
has been reworked. The option is now--mobile-server
inmeteor run
and--server
inmeteor build
.--server
is required formeteor build
in apps with mobile platforms installed.--mobile-server
defaults to an automatically detected IP address on port 3000, and--server
requires a hostname but defaults to port 80 if a port is not specified. -
Operations that take longer than a few seconds (e.g. downloading packages, installing the Android SDK, etc) now show a progress bar.
-
Complete support for using an HTTP proxy in the
meteor
command line tool. Now all DDP connections can work through a proxy. Use the standardhttp_proxy
environment variable to specify your proxy endpoint. #2515
-
Fix behavior of ROOT_URL with path ending in
/
. -
Fix source maps when using a ROOT_URL with a path. #2627
-
Change the mechanism that the Meteor tool uses to clean up app server processes. The new mechanism is more resilient to slow app bundles and other CPU-intensive tasks. #2536, #2588.
Patches by GitHub users cryptoquick, Gaelan, jperl, meonkeys, mitar, mquandalle, prapicault, pscanf, richguan, rick-golden-healthagen, rissem, rosh93, rzymek, and timoabend
-
Don't crash when failing to contact the package server. #2713
-
Allow more than one dash in package versions. #2715
-
Packages now support relying on multiple major versions of their dependencies (eg
blaze@1.0.0 || 2.0.0
). Additionally, you can now callapi.versionsFrom(<release>)
multiple times, or with an array (egapi.versionsFrom([<release1>, <release2>])
. Meteor will interpret this to mean that the package will work with packages from all the listed releases. -
Support for "wrapped package" version numbers. There is now a
_
field in version numbers. The_
field must be an integer, and versions with the_
are sorted after versions without. This allows using the upstream version number as the Meteor package version number and being able to publish multiple version of the Meteor package (e.g.jquery@1.11.1_2
).
Note: packages using the ||
operator or the _
symbol in their
versions or dependencies will be invisible to pre-0.9.3 users. Meteor
versions 0.9.2 and before do not understand the new version formats and
will not be able to use versions of packages that use the new features.
-
More detailed constraint solver output. Meteor now tells you which constraints prevent upgrading or adding new packages. This will make it much easier to update your app to new versions.
-
Better handling of pre-release versions (e.g. versions with
-
). Pre-release packages will now be included in an app if and only if there is no way to meet the app's constraints without using a pre-release package. -
Add
meteor admin set-unmigrated
to allow maintainers to hide pre-0.9.0 packages inmeteor search
andmeteor show
. This will not stop users from continuing to use the package, but it helps prevent new users from finding old non-functional packages. -
Progress bars for time-intensive operations, like downloading large packages.
-
Offically support
Meteor.wrapAsync
(renamed fromMeteor._wrapAsync
). Additionally,Meteor.wrapAsync
now lets you pass an object to bind asthis
in the wrapped call. See https://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_wrapasync. -
The
reactive-dict
package now allows an optional name argument to enable data persistence during hot code push.
Patches by GitHub users evliu, meonkeys, mitar, mizzao, mquandalle, prapicault, waitingkuo, wulfmeister.
- Fix regression in 0.9.2 that prevented some users from accessing the Meteor development server in their browser. Specifically, 0.9.2 unintentionally changed the development mode server's default bind host to localhost instead of 0.0.0.0. #2596
- Fix versions of packages that were published with
-cordova
versions in 0.9.2 (appcache, fastclick, htmljs, logging, mobile-status-bar, routepolicy, webapp-hashing).
This release contains our first support for building mobile apps in Meteor, for both iOS and Android. This support comes via an integration with Apache's Cordova/PhoneGap project.
-
You can use Cordova/PhoneGap packages in your application or inside a Meteor package to access a device's native functions directly from JavaScript code.
-
The
meteor add-platform
andmeteor run
commands now let you launch the app in the iOS or Android simulator or run it on an attached hardware device. -
This release extends hot code push to support live updates into installed native apps.
-
The
meteor bundle
command has been renamed tometeor build
and now outputs build projects for the mobile version of the targeted app. -
See https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Meteor-Cordova-Phonegap-integration for more information about how to get started building mobile apps with Meteor.
-
Better mobile support for OAuth login: you can now use a redirect-based flow inside UIWebViews, and the existing popup-based flow has been adapted to work in Cordova/PhoneGap apps.
-
Fix sorting on non-trivial keys in Minimongo. #2439
-
Bug fixes and performance improvements for the package system's constraint solver.
-
Improved error reporting for misbehaving oplog observe driver. #2033 #2244
-
Drop deprecated source map linking format used for older versions of Firefox. #2385
-
Allow Meteor tool to run from a symlink. #2462
-
Assets added via a plugin are no longer considered source files. #2488
-
Remove support for long deprecated
SERVER_ID
environment variable. UseAUTOUPDATE_VERSION
instead. -
Fix bug in reload-safetybelt package that resulted in reload loops in Chrome with cookies disabled.
-
Change the paths for static assets served from packages. The
:
character is replaced with the_
character in package names so as to allow serving on mobile devices and ease operation on Windows. For example, assets from theabc:bootstrap
package are now served at/packages/abc_bootstrap
instead of/packages/abc:bootstrap
. -
Also change the paths within a bundled Meteor app to allow for different client architectures (eg mobile). For example,
bundle/programs/client
is nowbundle/programs/web.browser
.
Patches by GitHub users awwx, mizzao, and mquandalle.
-
Fix backwards compatibility for packages that had weak dependencies on packages renamed in 0.9.1 (
ui
,deps
,livedata
). #2521 -
Fix error when using the
reactive-dict
package without themongo
package.
Meteor 0.9.1 ships with organizations support in Meteor developer accounts. Organizations are teams of users that make it easy to collaborate on apps and packages.
Create an organization at
https://www.meteor.com/account-settings/organizations. Run the meteor authorized
command in your terminal to give an organization
permissions to your apps. To add an organization as a maintainer of
your packages, use the meteor admin maintainers
command. You can
also publish packages with an organization's name in the package name
prefix instead of your own username.
- Templates can no longer be named "body" or "instance".
-
New public and documented APIs:
Blaze.toHTMLWithData()
Template.currentData()
Blaze.getView()
Template.parentData()
(previouslyUI._parentData()
)Template.instance()
(previouslyUI._templateInstance()
)Template.body
(previouslyUI.body
)new Template
(previouslyTemplate.__create__
)Blaze.getData()
(previouslyUI.getElementData
, orBlaze.getCurrentData
with no arguments)
-
Deprecate the
ui
package. Instead, use theblaze
package. TheUI
andBlaze
symbols are now the same. -
Deprecate
UI.insert
.UI.render
andUI.renderWithData
now render a template and place it in the DOM. -
Add an underscore to some undocumented Blaze APIs to make them internal. Notably:
Blaze._materializeView
,Blaze._createView
,Blaze._toText
,Blaze._destroyView
,Blaze._destroyNode
,Blaze._withCurrentView
,Blaze._DOMBackend
,Blaze._TemplateWith
-
Document Views. Views are the machinery powering DOM updates in Blaze.
-
Expose
view
property on template instances.
- Package renames
livedata
->ddp
mongo-livedata
->mongo
standard-app-packages
->meteor-platform
- Symbol renames
Meteor.Collection
->Mongo.Collection
Meteor.Collection.Cursor
->Mongo.Cursor
Meteor.Collection.ObjectID
->Mongo.ObjectID
Deps
->Tracker
-
Add
reactive-var
package. Lets you define a single reactive variable, like a single key inSession
. -
Don't throw an exception in Chrome when cookies and local storage are blocked.
-
Bump DDP version to "1". Clients connecting with version "pre1" or "pre2" should still work.
-
Allow query parameters in OAuth1 URLs. #2404
-
Fix
meteor list
if not all packages on server. Fixes #2468
Patch by GitHub user mitar.
-
Fix issues preventing hot code reload from automatically reloading webapps in two cases: when the old app was a pre-0.9.0 app, and when the app used appcache. (In both cases, an explicit reload still worked.)
-
Fix publishing packages containing a plugin with platform-specific code but no platform-specific code in the main package.
-
Fix
meteor add package@version
when the package was already added with a different version constraint. -
Improve treatment of pre-release packages (packages with a dash in their version). Guarantee that they will not be chosen by the constraint solver unless explicitly requested.
meteor list
won't suggest that you update to them. -
Fix slow spiderable executions.
-
Fix dev-mode client-only restart when client files changed very soon after server restart.
-
Fix stack trace on
meteor add
constraint solver failure. -
Fix "access-denied" stack trace when publishing packages.
Meteor 0.9.0 introduces the Meteor Package Server. Incorporating lessons from
our community's Meteorite tool, Meteor 0.9.0 allows users to develop and publish
Meteor packages to a central repository. The meteor publish
command is used to
publish packages. Non-core packages can now be added with meteor add
, and you
can specify version constraints on the packages you use. Binary packages can be
published for additional architectures with meteor publish-for-arch
, which
allows cross-platform deploys and bundling. You can search for packages with
meteor search
and display information on them with meteor show
, or you can
use the Atmosphere web interface developed by Percolate Studio at
https://atmospherejs.com/
See https://docs.meteor.com/#writingpackages and https://docs.meteor.com/#packagejs for more details.
Other packaging-related changes:
-
meteor list
now lists the packages your app is using, which was formerly the behavior ofmeteor list --using
. To search for packages you are not currently using, usemeteor search
. The concept of an "internal" package (which did not show up inmeteor list
) no longer exists. -
To prepare a bundle created with
meteor bundle
for execution on a server, you now runnpm install
with no arguments instead of having to specify a few specific npm modules and their versions explicitly. See the README in the generated bundle for more details. -
All
under_score
-stylepackage.js
APIs (Package.on_use
,api.add_files
, etc) have been replaced withcamelCase
names (Package.onUse
,api.addFiles
, etc). The old names continue to work for now. -
There's a new
archMatching
option toPlugin.registerSourceHandler
, which should be used by any plugin whose output is only for the client or only for the server (eg, CSS and HTML templating packages); this allows Meteor to avoid restarting the server when files processed by these plugins change.
Other changes:
-
When running your app with the local development server, changes that only affect the client no longer require restarting the server. Changes that only affect CSS no longer require the browser to refresh the page, both in local development and in some production environments. #490
-
When a call to
match
fails in a method or subscription, log the failure on the server. (This matches the behavior described in our docs) -
The
appcache
package now defaults to functioning on all browsers that support the AppCache API, rather than a whitelist of browsers. The main effect of this change is thatappcache
is now enabled by default on Firefox, because Firefox no longer makes a confusing popup. You can still disable individual browsers withAppCache.config
. #2241 -
The
forceApprovalPrompt
option can now be specified inAccounts.ui.config
in addition toMeteor.loginWithGoogle
. #2149 -
Don't leak websocket clients in server-to-server DDP in some cases (and fix "Got open from inactive client" error). faye/websocket-driver-node#8
-
Updated OAuth url for login with Meetup.
-
Allow minimongo
changed
callbacks to mutate theiroldDocument
argument. #2231 -
Fix upsert called from client with no callback. #2413
-
Avoid a few harmless exceptions in OplogObserveDriver.
-
Refactor
observe-sequence
package. -
Fix
spiderable
race condition. -
Re-apply our fix of NPM bug npm/npm#3265 which got accidentally reverted upstream.
-
Workaround for a crash in recent Safari versions. https://github.com/meteor/meteor/commit/e897539adb
-
Upgraded dependencies:
- less: 1.7.4 (from 1.7.1)
- tar: 1.0.1 (from 0.1.19)
- fstream: 1.0.2 (from 0.1.25)
Patches by GitHub users Cangit, dandv, ImtiazMajeed, MaximDubrovin, mitar, mquandalle, rcy, RichardLitt, thatneat, and twhy.
- Fix a security issue in allow/deny rules that could result in data loss. If your app uses allow/deny rules, or uses packages that use allow/deny rules, we recommend that you update immediately. Backport from 1.0.1.
-
Refactor Blaze to simplify internals while preserving the public API.
UI.Component
has been replaced withBlaze.View.
-
Fix performance issues and memory leaks concerning event handlers.
-
Add
UI.remove
, which removes a template afterUI.render
/UI.insert
. -
Add
this.autorun
to the template instance, which is likeDeps.autorun
but is automatically stopped when the template is destroyed. -
Create
<a>
tags as SVG elements when they havexlink:href
attributes. (Previously,<a>
tags inside SVGs were never created as SVG elements.) #2178 -
Throw an error in
{{foo bar}}
iffoo
is missing or not a function. -
Cursors returned from template helpers for #each should implement the
observeChanges
method and don't have to be Minimongo cursors (allowing new custom data stores for Blaze like Miniredis). -
Remove warnings when {{#each}} iterates over a list of strings, numbers, or other items that contains duplicates. #1980
-
Fix regression in 0.8.2 where an exception would be thrown if
Meteor.loginWithPassword
didn't have a callback. Callbacks toMeteor.loginWithPassword
are now optional again. #2255 -
Fix OAuth popup flow in mobile apps that don't support
window.opener
. #2302 -
Fix "Email already exists" error with MongoDB 2.6. #2238
-
Fix performance issue where a large batch of oplog updates could block the node event loop for long periods. #2299.
-
Fix oplog bug resulting in error message "Buffer inexplicably empty". #2274
-
Fix regression from 0.8.2 that caused collections to appear empty in reactive
findOne()
orfetch
queries that run before a mutator returns. #2275
-
Stop including code by default that automatically refreshes the page if JavaScript and CSS don't load correctly. While this code is useful in some multi-server deployments, it can cause infinite refresh loops if there are errors on the page. Add the
reload-safetybelt
package to your app if you want to include this code. -
On the server,
Meteor.startup(c)
now callsc
immediately if the server has already started up, matching the client behavior. #2239 -
Add support for server-side source maps when debugging with
node-inspector
. -
Add
WebAppInternals.addStaticJs()
for adding static JavaScript code to be served in the app, inline if allowed bybrowser-policy
. -
Make the
tinytest/run
method return immediately, so thatwait
method calls from client tests don't block on server tests completing. -
Log errors from method invocations on the client if there is no callback provided.
-
Upgraded dependencies:
- node: 0.10.29 (from 0.10.28)
- less: 1.7.1 (from 1.6.1)
Patches contributed by GitHub users Cangit, cmather, duckspeaker, zol.
-
Switch
accounts-password
to use bcrypt to store passwords on the server. (Previous versions of Meteor used a protocol called SRP.) Users will be transparently transitioned when they log in. This transition is one-way, so you cannot downgrade a production app once you upgrade to 0.8.2. If you are maintaining an authenticating DDP client:- Clients that use the plaintext password login handler (i.e. call
the
login
method with argument{ password: <plaintext password> }
) will continue to work, but users will not be transitioned from SRP to bcrypt when logging in with this login handler. - Clients that use SRP will no longer work. These clients should
instead directly call the
login
method, as inMeteor.loginWithPassword
. The argument to thelogin
method can be either:{ password: <plaintext password> }
, or{ password: { digest: <password hash>, algorithm: "sha-256" } }
, where the password hash is the hex-encoded SHA256 hash of the plaintext password.
- Clients that use the plaintext password login handler (i.e. call
the
-
Show the display name of the currently logged-in user after following an email verification link or a password reset link in
accounts-ui
. -
Add a
userEmail
option toMeteor.loginWithMeteorDeveloperAccount
to pre-fill the user's email address in the OAuth popup. -
Ensure that the user object has updated token information before it is passed to email template functions. #2210
-
Export the function that serves the HTTP response at the end of an OAuth flow as
OAuth._endOfLoginResponse
. This function can be overridden to make the OAuth popup flow work in certain mobile environments wherewindow.opener
is not supported. -
Remove support for OAuth redirect URLs with a
redirect
query parameter. This OAuth flow was never documented and never fully worked.
-
Blaze now tracks individual CSS rules in
style
attributes and won't overwrite changes to them made by other JavaScript libraries. -
Add
{{> UI.dynamic}}
to make it easier to dynamically render a template with a data context. -
Add
UI._templateInstance()
for accessing the current template instance from within a block helper. -
Add
UI._parentData(n)
for accessing parent data contexts from within a block helper. -
Add preliminary API for registering hooks to run when Blaze intends to insert, move, or remove DOM elements. For example, you can use these hooks to animate nodes as they are inserted, moved, or removed. To use them, you can set the
_uihooks
property on a container DOM element._uihooks
is an object that can have any subset of the following three properties:insertElement: function (node, next)
: called when Blaze intends to insert the DOM elementnode
before the elementnext
moveElement: function (node, next)
: called when Blaze intends to move the DOM elementnode
before the elementnext
removeElement: function (node)
: called when Blaze intends to remove the DOM elementnode
Note that when you set one of these functions on a container element, Blaze will not do the actual operation; it's your responsibility to actually insert, move, or remove the node (by calling
$(node).remove()
, for example). -
The
findAll
method on template instances now returns a vanilla array, not a jQuery object. The$
method continues to return a jQuery object. #2039 -
Fix a Blaze memory leak by cleaning up event handlers when a template instance is destroyed. #1997
-
Fix a bug where helpers used by {{#with}} were still re-running when their reactive data sources changed after they had been removed from the DOM.
-
Stop not updating form controls if they're focused. If a field is edited by one user while another user is focused on it, it will just lose its value but maintain its focus. #1965
-
Add
_nestInCurrentComputation
option toUI.render
, fixing a bug in {{#each}} when an item is added inside a computation that subsequently gets invalidated. #2156 -
Fix bug where "=" was not allowed in helper arguments. #2157
-
Fix bug when a template tag immediately follows a Spacebars block comment. #2175
-
Add --directory flag to
meteor bundle
. Setting this flag outputs a directory rather than a tarball. -
Speed up updates of NPM modules by upgrading Node to include our fix for npm/npm#3265 instead of passing
--force
tonpm install
. -
Always rebuild on changes to npm-shrinkwrap.json files. #1648
-
Fix uninformative error message when deploying to long hostnames. #1208
-
Increase a buffer size to avoid failing when running MongoDB due to a large number of processes running on the machine, and fix the error message when the failure does occur. #2158
-
Clarify a
meteor mongo
error message when using the MONGO_URL environment variable. #1256
- Run server tests from multiple clients serially instead of in parallel. This allows testing features that modify global server state. #2088
-
Add Content-Type headers on JavaScript and CSS resources.
-
Add
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
header tobrowser-policy-content
's default policy. If you are usingbrowser-policy-content
and you don't want your app to send this header, then callBrowserPolicy.content.allowContentTypeSniffing()
. -
Use
Meteor.absoluteUrl()
to compute the redirect URL in theforce-ssl
package (instead of the host header).
-
Allow
check
to work on the server outside of a Fiber. #2136 -
EJSON custom type conversion functions should not be permitted to yield. #2136
-
The legacy polling observe driver handles errors communicating with MongoDB better and no longer gets "stuck" in some circumstances.
-
Automatically rewind cursors before calls to
fetch
,forEach
, ormap
. On the client, don't cache the return value ofcursor.count()
(consistently with the server behavior).cursor.rewind()
is now a no-op. #2114 -
Remove an obsolete hack in reporting line numbers for LESS errors. #2216
-
Avoid exceptions when accessing localStorage in certain Internet Explorer configurations. #1291, #1688.
-
Make
handle.ready()
reactively stop, wherehandle
is a subscription handle. -
Fix an error message from
audit-argument-checks
after login. -
Make the DDP server send an error if the client sends a connect message with a missing or malformed
support
field. #2125 -
Fix missing
jquery
dependency in theamplify
package. #2113 -
Ban inserting EJSON custom types as documents. #2095
-
Fix incorrect URL rewrites in stylesheets. #2106
-
Upgraded dependencies:
- node: 0.10.28 (from 0.10.26)
- uglify-js: 2.4.13 (from 2.4.7)
- sockjs server: 0.3.9 (from 0.3.8)
- websocket-driver: 0.3.4 (from 0.3.2)
- stylus: 0.46.3 (from 0.42.3)
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, babenzele, Cangit, dandv, ducdigital, emgee3, felixrabe, FredericoC, jbruni, kentonv, mizzao, mquandalle, subhog, tbjers, tmeasday.
-
Fix a security issue in the
spiderable
package.spiderable
now uses the ROOT_URL environment variable instead of the Host header to determine which page to snapshot. -
Fix hardcoded Twitter URL in
oauth1
package. This fixes a regression in 0.8.0.1 that broke Atmosphere packages that do OAuth1 logins. #2154. -
Add
credentialSecret
argument toGoogle.retrieveCredential
, which was forgotten in a previous release. -
Remove nonexistent
-a
and-r
aliases for--add
and--remove
inmeteor help authorized
. #2155 -
Add missing
underscore
dependency in theoauth-encryption
package. #2165 -
Work around IE8 bug that caused some apps to fail to render when minified. #2037.
-
Fix memory leak (introduced in 0.8.1) by making sure to unregister sessions at the server when they are closed due to heartbeat timeout.
-
Add
credentialSecret
argument toGoogle.retrieveCredential
,Facebook.retrieveCredential
, etc., which is needed to use them as of 0.8.1. #2118 -
Fix 0.8.1 regression that broke apps using a
ROOT_URL
with a path prefix. #2109
-
Fix 0.8.1 regression preventing clients from specifying
_id
on insert. #2097 -
Fix handling of malformed URLs when merging CSS files. #2103, #2093
-
Loosen the checks on the
options
argument toCollection.find
to allow undefined values.
-
Fix a security flaw in OAuth1 and OAuth2 implementations. If you are using any OAuth accounts packages (such as
accounts-google
oraccounts-twitter
), we recommend that you update immediately and log out your users' current sessions with the following MongoDB command:$ db.users.update({}, { $set: { 'services.resume.loginTokens': [] } }, { multi: true });
-
OAuth redirect URLs are now required to be on the same origin as your app.
-
Log out a user's other sessions when they change their password.
-
Store pending OAuth login results in the database instead of in-memory, so that an OAuth flow succeeds even if different requests go to different server processes.
-
When validateLoginAttempt callbacks return false, don't override a more specific error message.
-
Add
Random.secret()
for generating security-critical secrets like login tokens. -
Meteor.logoutOtherClients
now calls the user callback when other login tokens have actually been removed from the database, not when they have been marked for eventual removal. #1915 -
Rename
Oauth
toOAuth
.Oauth
is now an alias for backwards compatibility. -
Add
oauth-encryption
package for encrypting sensitive account credentials in the database. -
A validate login hook can now override the exception thrown from
beginPasswordExchange
like it can for other login methods. -
Remove an expensive observe over all users in the
accounts-base
package.
-
Disallow
javascript:
URLs in URL attribute values by default, to help prevent cross-site scripting bugs. CallUI._allowJavascriptUrls()
to allow them. -
Fix
UI.toHTML
on templates containing{{#with}}
. -
Fix
{{#with}}
over a data context that is mutated. #2046 -
Clean up autoruns when calling
UI.toHTML
. -
Properly clean up event listeners when removing templates.
-
Add support for
{{!-- block comments --}}
in Spacebars. Block comments may contain}}
, so they are more useful than{{! normal comments}}
for commenting out sections of Spacebars templates. -
Don't dynamically insert
<tbody>
tags in reactive tables -
When handling a custom jQuery event, additional arguments are no longer lost -- they now come after the template instance argument. #1988
-
Extend latency compensation to support an arbitrary sequence of inserts in methods. Previously, documents created inside a method stub on the client would eventually be replaced by new documents from the server, causing the screen to flicker. Calling
insert
inside a method body now generates the same ID on the client (inside the method stub) and on the server. A sequence of inserts also generates the same sequence of IDs. Code that wants a random stream that is consistent between method stub and real method execution can get one withDDP.randomStream
. https://trello.com/c/moiiS2rP/57-pattern-for-creating-multiple-database-records-from-a-method -
The document passed to the
insert
callback ofallow
anddeny
now only has a_id
field if the client explicitly specified one; this allows you to useallow
/deny
rules to prevent clients from specifying their own_id
. As an exception,allow
/deny
rules with atransform
always have an_id
. -
DDP now has an implementation of bidirectional heartbeats which is consistent across SockJS and websocket transports. This enables connection keepalive and allows servers and clients to more consistently and efficiently detect disconnection.
-
The DDP protocol version number has been incremented to "pre2" (adding randomSeed and heartbeats).
-
The oplog observe driver handles errors communicating with MongoDB better and knows to re-poll all queries after a MongoDB failover.
-
Fix bugs involving mutating DDP method arguments.
-
Move boilerplate HTML from tools to webapp. Change internal
Webapp.addHtmlAttributeHook
API. -
Add
meteor list-sites
command for listing the sites that you have deployed to meteor.com with your Meteor developer account. -
Third-party template languages can request that their generated source loads before other JavaScript files, just like *.html files, by passing the isTemplate option to Plugin.registerSourceHandler.
-
You can specify a particular interface for the dev mode runner to bind to with
meteor -p host:port
. -
Don't include proprietary tar tags in bundle tarballs.
-
Convert relative URLs to absolute URLs when merging CSS files.
- Node.js from 0.10.25 to 0.10.26.
- MongoDB driver from 1.3.19 to 1.4.1
- stylus: 0.42.3 (from 0.42.2)
- showdown: 0.3.1
- css-parse: an unreleased version (from 1.7.0)
- css-stringify: an unreleased version (from 1.4.1)
Patches contributed by GitHub users aldeed, apendua, arbesfeld, awwx, dandv, davegonzalez, emgee3, justinsb, mquandalle, Neftedollar, Pent, sdarnell, and timhaines.
- Fix security flaw in OAuth1 implementation. Clients can no longer choose the callback_url for OAuth1 logins.
Meteor 0.8.0 introduces Blaze, a total rewrite of our live templating engine, replacing Spark. Advantages of Blaze include:
- Better interoperability with jQuery plugins and other techniques which directly manipulate the DOM
- More fine-grained updates: only the specific elements or attributes that change are touched rather than the entire template
- A fully documented templating language
- No need for the confusing
{{#constant}}
,{{#isolate}}
, andpreserve
directives - Uses standard jQuery delegation (
.on
) instead of our custom implementation - Blaze supports live SVG templates that work just like HTML templates
See the Using Blaze wiki page for full details on upgrading your app to 0.8.0. This includes:
-
The
Template.foo.rendered
callback is now only called once when the template is rendered, rather than repeatedly as it is "re-rendered", because templates now directly update changed data instead of fully re-rendering. -
The
accounts-ui
login buttons are now invoked as a{{> loginButtons}}
rather than as{{loginButtons}}
. -
Previous versions of Meteor used a heavily modified version of the Handlebars templating language. In 0.8.0, we've given it its own name: Spacebars! Spacebars has an explicit specification instead of being defined as a series of changes to Handlebars. There are some incompatibilities with our previous Handlebars fork, such as a different way of specifying dynamic element attributes and a new way of defining custom block helpers.
-
Your template files must consist of well-formed HTML. Invalid HTML is now a compilation failure. (There is a current limitation in our HTML parser such that it does not support omitting end tags on elements such as
<P>
and<LI>
.) -
Template.foo
is no longer a function. It is instead a "component". Components render to an intermediate representation of an HTML tree, not a string, so there is no longer an easy way to render a component to a static HTML string. -
Meteor.render
andSpark.render
have been removed. UseUI.render
andUI.insert
instead. -
The
<body>
tag now defines a template just like the<template>
tag, which can have helpers and event handlers. Define them directly on the objectUI.body
. -
Previous versions of Meteor shipped with a synthesized
tap
event, implementing a zero-delay click event on mobile browsers. Unfortunately, this event never worked very well. We're eliminating it. Instead, use one of the excellent third party solutions. -
The
madewith
package (which supported adding a badge to your website displaying its score from http://madewith.meteor.com/) has been removed, as it is not compatible with the new version of that site. -
The internal
spark
,liverange
,universal-events
, anddomutils
packages have been removed. -
The
Handlebars
namespace has been deprecated.Handlebars.SafeString
is nowSpacebars.SafeString
, andHandlebars.registerHelper
is nowUI.registerHelper
.
Patches contributed by GitHub users cmather and mart-jansink.
- Fix a security issue in allow/deny rules that could result in data loss. If your app uses allow/deny rules, or uses packages that use allow/deny rules, we recommend that you update immediately. Backport from 1.0.1.
- Fix a security flaw in OAuth1 and OAuth2 implementations. Backport from 0.8.1; see its entry for recommended actions to take.
- Fix security flaw in OAuth1 implementation. Clients can no longer choose the callback_url for OAuth1 logins. Backport from 0.8.0.1.
-
Support oplog tailing on queries with the
limit
option. All queries except those containing$near
or$where
selectors or theskip
option can now be used with the oplog driver. -
Add hooks to login process:
Accounts.onLogin
,Accounts.onLoginFailure
, andAccounts.validateLoginAttempt
. These functions allow for rate limiting login attempts, logging an audit trail, account lockout flags, and more. See: http://docs.meteor.com/#accounts_validateloginattempt #1815 -
Change the
Accounts.registerLoginHandler
API for custom login methods. Login handlers now require a name and no longer have to deal with generating resume tokens. See https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/devel/packages/accounts-base/accounts_server.js for details. OAuth based login handlers using theOauth.registerService
packages are not affected. -
Add support for HTML email in
Accounts.emailTemplates
. #1785 -
minimongo: Support
{a: {$elemMatch: {x: 1, $or: [{a: 1}, {b: 1}]}}}
#1875 -
minimongo: Support
{a: {$regex: '', $options: 'i'}}
#1874 -
minimongo: Fix sort implementation with multiple sort fields which each look inside an array. eg, ensure that with sort key
{'a.x': 1, 'a.y': 1}
, the document{a: [{x: 0, y: 4}]}
sorts before{a: [{x: 0, y: 5}, {x: 1, y: 3}]}
, because the 3 should not be used as a tie-breaker because it is not "next to" the tied 0s. -
minimongo: Fix sort implementation when selector and sort key share a field, that field matches an array in the document, and only some values of the array match the selector. eg, ensure that with sort key
{a: 1}
and selector{a: {$gt: 3}}
, the document{a: [4, 6]}
sorts before{a: [1, 5]}
, because the 1 should not be used as a sort key because it does not match the selector. (We only approximate the MongoDB behavior here by only supporting relatively selectors.) -
Use
faye-websocket
(0.7.2) npm module instead ofwebsocket
(1.0.8) for server-to-server DDP. -
Update Google OAuth package to use new
profile
andemail
scopes instead of deprecated URL-based scopes. #1887 -
Add
_throwFirstError
option toDeps.flush
. -
Make
facts
package data available on the server asFacts._factsByPackage
. -
Fix issue where
LESS
compilation error could crash themeteor run
process. #1877 -
Fix crash caused by empty HTTP host header in
meteor run
development server. #1871 -
Fix hot code reload in private browsing mode in Safari.
-
Fix appcache size calculation to avoid erronious warnings. #1847
-
Remove unused
Deps._makeNonReactive
wrapper function. CallDeps.nonreactive
directly instead. -
Avoid setting the
oplogReplay
on non-oplog collections. Doing so caused mongod to crash. -
Add startup message to
test-in-console
to ease automation. #1884 -
Upgraded dependencies
- amplify: 1.1.2 (from 1.1.0)
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, dandv, queso, rgould, timhaines, zol
-
Fix bug in tool error handling that caused
meteor
to crash on Mac OSX when no computer name is set. -
Work around a bug that caused MongoDB to fail an assertion when using tailable cursors on non-oplog collections.
-
Integrate with Meteor developer accounts, a new way of managing your meteor.com deployed sites. When you use
meteor deploy
, you will be prompted to create a developer account.- Once you've created a developer account, you can log in and out
from the command line with
meteor login
andmeteor logout
. - You can claim legacy sites with
meteor claim
. This command will prompt you for your site password if you are claiming a password-protected site; after claiming it, you will not need to enter the site password again. - You can add or remove authorized users, and view the list of
authorized users, for a site with
meteor authorized
. - You can view your current username with
meteor whoami
. - This release also includes the
accounts-meteor-developer
package for building Meteor apps that allow users to log in with their own developer accounts.
- Once you've created a developer account, you can log in and out
from the command line with
-
Improve the oplog tailing implementation for getting real-time database updates from MongoDB.
- Add support for all operators except
$where
and$near
. Limit and skip are not supported yet. - Add optimizations to avoid needless data fetches from MongoDB.
- Fix an error ("Cannot call method 'has' of null") in an oplog callback. #1767
- Add support for all operators except
-
Add and improve support for minimongo operators.
- Support
$comment
. - Support
obj
name in$where
. $regex
matches actual regexps properly.- Improve support for
$nin
,$ne
,$not
. - Support using
{ $in: [/foo/, /bar/] }
. #1707 - Support
{$exists: false}
. - Improve type-checking for selectors.
- Support
{x: {$elemMatch: {$gt: 5}}}
. - Match Mongo's behavior better when there are arrays in the document.
- Support
$near
with sort. - Implement updates with
{ $set: { 'a.$.b': 5 } }
. - Support
{$type: 4}
queries. - Optimize
remove({})
when observers are paused. - Make update-by-id constant time.
- Allow
{$set: {'x._id': 1}}
. #1794
- Support
-
Upgraded dependencies
- node: 0.10.25 (from 0.10.22). The workaround for specific Node versions from 0.7.0 is now removed; 0.10.25+ is supported.
- jquery: 1.11.0 (from 1.8.2). See http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/ for upgrade instructions.
- jquery-waypoints: 2.0.4 (from 1.1.7). Contains backwards-incompatible changes.
- source-map: 0.3.2 (from 0.3.30) #1782
- websocket-driver: 0.3.2 (from 0.3.1)
- http-proxy: 1.0.2 (from a pre-release fork of 1.0)
- semver: 2.2.1 (from 2.1.0)
- request: 2.33.0 (from 2.27.0)
- fstream: 0.1.25 (from 0.1.24)
- tar: 0.1.19 (from 0.1.18)
- eachline: a fork of 2.4.0 (from 2.3.3)
- source-map: 0.1.31 (from 0.1.30)
- source-map-support: 0.2.5 (from 0.2.3)
- mongo: 2.4.9 (from 2.4.8)
- openssl in mongo: 1.0.1f (from 1.0.1e)
- kexec: 0.2.0 (from 0.1.1)
- less: 1.6.1 (from 1.3.3)
- stylus: 0.42.2 (from 0.37.0)
- nib: 1.0.2 (from 1.0.0)
- coffeescript: 1.7.1 (from 1.6.3)
-
CSS preprocessing and sourcemaps:
- Add sourcemap support for CSS stylesheet preprocessors. Use sourcemaps for stylesheets compiled with LESS.
- Improve CSS minification to deal with
@import
statements correctly. - Lint CSS files for invalid
@
directives. - Change the recommended suffix for imported LESS files from
.lessimport
to.import.less
. Add.import.styl
to allowstylus
imports..lessimport
continues to work but is deprecated.
-
Add
clientAddress
andhttpHeaders
tothis.connection
in method calls and publish functions. -
Hash login tokens before storing them in the database. Legacy unhashed tokens are upgraded to hashed tokens in the database as they are used in login requests.
-
Change default accounts-ui styling and add more CSS classes.
-
Refactor command-line tool. Add test harness and better tests. Run
meteor self-test --help
for info on running the tools test suite. -
Speed up application re-build in development mode by re-using file hash computation between file change watching code and application build code..
-
Fix issues with documents containing a key named
length
with a numeric value. Underscore treated these as arrays instead of objects, leading to exceptions when . Patch Underscore to not treat plain objects (x.constructor === Object
) with numericlength
fields as arrays. #594 #1737 -
Deprecate
Accounts.loginServiceConfiguration
in favor ofServiceConfiguration.configurations
, exported by theservice-configuration
package.Accounts.loginServiceConfiguration
is maintained for backwards-compatibility, but it is defined in aMeteor.startup
block and so cannot be used from top-level code. -
Cursors with a field specifier containing
{_id: 0}
can no longer be used withobserveChanges
orobserve
. This includes the implicit calls to these functions that are done when returning a cursor from a publish function or using{{#each}}
. -
Transform functions must return objects and may not change the
_id
field, though they may leave it out. -
Remove broken IE7 support from the
localstorage
package. Meteor accounts logins no longer persist in IE7. -
Fix the
localstorage
package when used with Safari in private browsing mode. This fixes a problem with login token storage and account login. #1291 -
Types added with
EJSON.addType
now have defaultclone
andequals
implementations. Users may still specifyclone
orequals
functions to override the default behavior. #1745 -
Add
frame-src
tobrowser-policy-content
and account for cross-browser CSP disparities. -
Deprecate
Oauth.initiateLogin
in favor ofOauth.showPopup
. -
Add
WebApp.rawConnectHandlers
for adding connect handlers that run before any other Meteor handlers, exceptconnect.compress()
. Raw connect handlers see the URL's full path (even if ROOT_URL contains a non-empty path) and they run before static assets are served. -
Add
Accounts.connection
to allow using Meteor accounts packages with a non-default DDP connection. -
Detect and reload if minified CSS files fail to load at startup. This prevents the application from running unstyled if the page load occurs while the server is switching versions.
-
Allow Npm.depends to specify any http or https URL containing a full 40-hex-digit SHA. #1686
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Add
retry
package for connection retry with exponential backoff. -
Pass
update
andremove
return values correctly when using collections validated withallow
anddeny
rules. #1759 -
If you're using Deps on the server, computations and invalidation functions are not allowed to yield. Throw an error instead of behaving unpredictably.
-
Fix namespacing in coffeescript files added to a package with the
bare: true
option. #1668 -
Fix races when calling login and/or logoutOtherClients from multiple tabs. #1616
-
Include oauth_verifier as a header rather than a parameter in the
oauth1
package. #1825 -
Fix
force-ssl
to allow local development withmeteor run
in IPv6 environments. #1751` -
Allow cursors on named local collections to be returned from a publish function in an array. #1820
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Fix build failure caused by a directory in
programs/
without a package.js file. -
Do a better job of handling shrinkwrap files when an npm module depends on something that isn't a semver. #1684
-
Fix failures updating npm dependencies when a node_modules directory exists above the project directory. #1761
-
Preserve permissions (eg, executable bit) on npm files. #1808
-
SockJS tweak to support relative base URLs.
-
Don't leak sockets on error in dev-mode proxy.
-
Clone arguments to
added
andchanged
methods in publish functions. This allows callers to reuse objects and prevents already published data from changing after the fact. #1750 -
Ensure springboarding to a different meteor tools version always uses
exec
to run the old version. This simplifies process management for wrapper scripts.
Patches contributed by GitHub users DenisGorbachev, EOT, OyoKooN, awwx, dandv, icellan, jfhamlin, marcandre, michaelbishop, mitar, mizzao, mquandalle, paulswartz, rdickert, rzymek, timhaines, and yeputons.
-
Two fixes to
meteor run
Mongo startup bugs that could lead to hangs with the message "Initializing mongo database... this may take a moment.". #1696 -
Apply the Node patch to 0.10.24 as well (see the 0.7.0 section for details).
-
Fix gratuitous IE7 incompatibility. #1690
This version of Meteor contains a patch for a bug in Node 0.10 which most commonly affects websockets. The patch is against Node version 0.10.22 and 0.10.23. We strongly recommend using one of these precise versions of Node in production so that the patch will be applied. If you use a newer version of Node with this version of Meteor, Meteor will not apply the patch and will instead disable websockets.
-
Rework how Meteor gets realtime database updates from MongoDB. Meteor now reads the MongoDB "oplog" -- a special collection that records all the write operations as they are applied to your database. This means changes to the database are instantly noticed and reflected in Meteor, whether they originated from Meteor or from an external database client. Oplog tailing is automatically enabled in development mode with
meteor run
, and can be enabled in production with theMONGO_OPLOG_URL
environment variable. Currently the only supported selectors are equality checks;$
-operators,limit
andskip
queries fall back to the original poll-and-diff algorithm. See https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Oplog-Observe-Driver for details. -
Add
Meteor.onConnection
and addthis.connection
to method invocations and publish functions. These can be used to store data associated with individual clients between subscriptions and method calls. See http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_onconnection for details. #1611 -
Bundler failures cause non-zero exit code in
meteor run
. #1515 -
Fix error when publish function callbacks are called during session shutdown.
-
Rework hot code push. The new
autoupdate
package drives automatic reloads on update using standard DDP messages instead of a hardcoded message at DDP startup. Now the hot code push only triggers when client code changes; server-only code changes will not cause the page to reload. -
New
facts
package publishes internal statistics about Meteor. -
Add an explicit check that publish functions return a cursor, an array of cursors, or a falsey value. This is a safety check to to prevent users from accidentally returning Collection.findOne() or some other value and expecting it to be published.
-
Implement
$each
,$sort
, and$slice
options for minimongo's$push
modifier. #1492 -
Introduce
--raw-logs
option tometeor run
to disable log coloring and timestamps. -
Add
WebAppInternals.setBundledJsCssPrefix()
to control where the client loads bundled JavaScript and CSS files. This allows serving files from a CDN to decrease page load times and reduce server load. -
Attempt to exit cleanly on
SIGHUP
. Stop accepting incoming connections, kill DDP connections, and finish all outstanding requests for static assets. -
In the HTTP server, only keep sockets with no active HTTP requests alive for 5 seconds.
-
Fix handling of
fields
option in minimongo when only_id
is present. #1651 -
Fix issue where setting
process.env.MAIL_URL
in app code would not alter where mail was sent. This was a regression in 0.6.6 from 0.6.5. #1649 -
Use stderr instead of stdout (for easier automation in shell scripts) when prompting for passwords and when downloading the dev bundle. #1600
-
Ensure more downtime during file watching. #1506
-
Fix
meteor run
with settings files containing non-ASCII characters. #1497 -
Support
EJSON.clone
forMeteor.Error
. As a result, they are properly stringified in DDP even if thrown through aFuture
. #1482 -
Fix passing
transform: null
option tocollection.allow()
to disable transformation in validators. #1659 -
Fix livedata error on
this.removed
during session shutdown. #1540 #1553 -
Fix incompatibility with Phusion Passenger by removing an unused line. #1613
-
Ensure install script creates /usr/local on machines where it does not exist (eg. fresh install of OSX Mavericks).
-
Set x-forwarded-* headers in
meteor run
. -
Clean up package dirs containing only ".build".
-
Check for matching hostname before doing end-of-oauth redirect.
-
Only count files that actually go in the cache towards the
appcache
size check. #1653. -
Increase the maximum size spiderable will return for a page from 200kB to 5MB.
-
Upgraded dependencies:
- SockJS server from 0.3.7 to 0.3.8, including new faye-websocket module.
- Node from 0.10.21 to 0.10.22
- MongoDB from 2.4.6 to 2.4.8
- clean-css from 1.1.2 to 2.0.2
- uglify-js from a fork of 2.4.0 to 2.4.7
- handlebars npm module no longer available outside of handlebars package
Patches contributed by GitHub users AlexeyMK, awwx, dandv, DenisGorbachev, emgee3, FooBarWidget, mitar, mcbain, rzymek, and sdarnell.
-
Fix error when publish function callbacks are called during session shutdown. #1540 #1553
-
Improve
meteor run
CPU usage in projects with many directories. #1506
- Upgrade Node from 0.10.20 to 0.10.21 (security update).
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Add
browser-policy
package for configuring and sending Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options HTTP headers. See the docs for more. -
Use cryptographically strong pseudorandom number generators when available.
-
Add upsert support.
Collection.update
now supports the{upsert: true}
option. Additionally, add aCollection.upsert
method which returns the newly inserted object id if applicable. -
update
andremove
now return the number of documents affected. #1046 -
$near
operator for2d
and2dsphere
indices. -
The
fields
option to the collection methodsfind
andfindOne
now works on the client as well. (Operators such as$elemMatch
and$
are not yet supported infields
projections.) #1287 -
Pass an index and the cursor itself to the callbacks in
cursor.forEach
andcursor.map
, just like the correspondingArray
methods. #63 -
Support
c.find(query, {limit: N}).count()
on the client. #654 -
Improve behavior of
$ne
,$nin
, and$not
selectors with objects containing arrays. #1451 -
Fix various bugs if you had two documents with the same _id field in String and ObjectID form.
-
[Behavior Change] Expire login tokens periodically. Defaults to 90 days. Use
Accounts.config({loginExpirationInDays: null})
to disable token expiration. -
[Behavior Change] Write dates generated by Meteor Accounts to Mongo as Date instead of number; existing data can be converted by passing it through
new Date()
. #1228 -
Log out and close connections for users if they are deleted from the database.
-
Add Meteor.logoutOtherClients() for logging out other connections logged in as the current user.
-
restrictCreationByEmailDomain
option inAccounts.config
to restrict new users to emails of specific domain (eg. only users with @meteor.com emails) or a custom validator. #1332 -
Support OAuth1 services that require request token secrets as well as authentication token secrets. #1253
-
Warn if
Accounts.config
is only called on the client. #828 -
Fix bug where callbacks to login functions could be called multiple times when the client reconnects.
-
Fix infinite loop if a client disconnects while a long yielding method is running.
-
Unfinished code to support DDP session resumption has been removed. Meteor servers now stop processing messages from clients and reclaim memory associated with them as soon as they are disconnected instead of a few minutes later.
-
The pre-0.6.5
Package.register_extension
API has been removed. UsePackage._transitional_registerBuildPlugin
instead, which was introduced in 0.6.5. (A bug prevented the 0.6.5 reimplementation ofregister_extension
from working properly anyway.) -
Support using an HTTP proxy in the
meteor
command line tool. This allows theupdate
,deploy
,logs
, andmongo
commands to work behind a proxy. Use the standardhttp_proxy
environment variable to specify your proxy endpoint. #429, #689, #1338 -
Build Linux binaries on an older Linux machine. Meteor now supports running on Linux machines with glibc 2.9 or newer (Ubuntu 10.04+, RHEL and CentOS 6+, Fedora 10+, Debian 6+). Improve error message when running on Linux with unsupported glibc, and include Mongo stderr if it fails to start.
-
Install NPM modules with
--force
to avoid corrupted local caches. -
Rebuild NPM modules in packages when upgrading to a version of Meteor that uses a different version of Node.
-
Disable the Mongo http interface. This lets you run meteor on two ports differing by 1000 at the same time.
-
[Known issue] Breaks support for pre-release OSX 10.9 'Mavericks'. Will be addressed shortly. See issues: nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#6251 nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#6296
-
EJSON.stringify
now takes options:canonical
causes objects keys to be stringified in sorted orderindent
allows formatting control over the EJSON stringification
-
EJSON now supports
Infinity
,-Infinity
andNaN
. -
Check that the argument to
EJSON.parse
is a string. #1401 -
Better error from functions that use
Meteor._wrapAsync
(eg collection write methods andHTTP
methods) and in DDP server message processing. #1387 -
Support
appcache
on Chrome for iOS. -
Support literate CoffeeScript files with the extension
.coffee.md
(in addition to the already-supported.litcoffee
extension). #1407 -
Make
madewith
package work again (broken in 0.6.5). #1448 -
Better error when passing a string to
{{#each}}
. #722 -
Add support for JSESSIONID cookies for sticky sessions. Set the
USE_JSESSIONID
environment variable to enable placing a JSESSIONID cookie on sockjs requests. -
Simplify the static analysis used to detect package-scope variables.
-
Upgraded dependencies:
- Node from 0.8.24 to 0.10.20
- MongoDB from 2.4.4 to 2.4.6
- MongoDB driver from 1.3.17 to 1.3.19
- http-proxy from 0.10.1 to a pre-release of 1.0.0
- stylus from 0.30.1 to 0.37.0
- nib from 0.8.2 to 1.0.0
- optimist from 0.3.5 to 0.6.0
- semver from 1.1.0 to 2.1.0
- request from 2.12.0 to 2.27.0
- keypress from 0.1.0 to 0.2.1
- underscore from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2
- fstream from 0.1.21 to 0.1.24
- tar from 0.1.14 to 0.1.18
- source-map from 0.1.26 to 0.1.30
- source-map-support from a fork of 0.1.8 to 0.2.3
- escope from a fork of 0.0.15 to 1.0.0
- estraverse from 1.1.2-1 to 1.3.1
- simplesmtp from 0.1.25 to 0.3.10
- stream-buffers from 0.2.3 to 0.2.5
- websocket from 1.0.7 to 1.0.8
- cli-color from 0.2.2 to 0.2.3
- clean-css from 1.0.11 to 1.1.2
- UglifyJS2 from a fork of 2.3.6 to a different fork of 2.4.0
- connect from 2.7.10 to 2.9.0
- send from 0.1.0 to 0.1.4
- useragent from 2.0.1 to 2.0.7
- replaced byline with eachline 2.3.3
Patches contributed by GitHub users ansman, awwx, codeinthehole, jacott, Maxhodges, meawoppl, mitar, mizzao, mquandalle, nathan-muir, RobertLowe, ryw, sdarnell, and timhaines.
- Fix a security issue in allow/deny rules that could result in data loss. If your app uses allow/deny rules, or uses packages that use allow/deny rules, we recommend that you update immediately. Backport from 1.0.1.
- Upgrade Node from 0.8.24 to 0.8.26 (security patch)
-
Fix syntax errors on lines that end with a backslash. #1326
-
Fix serving static files with special characters in their name. #1339
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Upgrade
esprima
JavaScript parser to fix bug parsing complex regexps. -
Export
Spiderable
fromspiderable
package to allow users to setSpiderable.userAgentRegExps
to control what user agents are treated as spiders. -
Add EJSON to standard-app-packages. #1343
-
Fix bug in d3 tab character parsing.
-
Fix regression when using Mongo ObjectIDs in Spark templates.
-
New package system with package compiler and linker:
-
Each package now has it own namespace for variable declarations. Global variables used in a package are limited to package scope.
-
Packages must explicitly declare which symbols they export with
api.export
inpackage.js
. -
Apps and packages only see the exported symbols from packages they explicitly use. For example, if your app uses package A which in turn depends on package B, only package A's symbols will be available in the app.
-
Package names can only contain alphanumeric characters, dashes, and dots. Packages with spaces and underscores must be renamed.
-
Remove hardcoded list of required packages. New default
standard-app-packages
package adds dependencies on the core Meteor stack. This package can be removed to make an app with only parts of the Meteor stack.standard-app-packages
will be automatically added to a project when it is updated to Meteor 0.6.5. -
Custom app packages in the
packages
directory are no longer automatically used. They must be explicitly added to the app withmeteor add <packagename>
. To help with the transition, all packages in thepackages
directory will be automatically added to the project when it is updated to Meteor 0.6.5. -
New "unipackage" on-disk format for built packages. Compiled packages are cached and rebuilt only when their source or dependencies change.
-
Add "unordered" and "weak" package dependency modes to allow circular package dependencies and conditional code inclusion.
-
New API (
_transitional_registerBuildPlugin
) for declaring compilers, preprocessors, and file extension handlers. These new build plugins are full compilation targets in their own right, and have their own namespace, source files, NPM requirements, and package dependencies. The oldregister_extension
API is deprecated. Please note that thepackage.js
format and especially_transitional_registerBuildPlugin
are not frozen interfaces and are subject to change in future releases. -
Add
api.imply
, which allows one package to "imply" another. If package A implies package B, then anything that depends on package A automatically depends on package B as well (and receives package B's imports). This is useful for creating umbrella packages (standard-app-packages
) or sometimes for factoring common code out of related packages (accounts-base
).
-
-
Move HTTP serving out of the server bootstrap and into the
webapp
package. This allows building Meteor apps that are not web servers (eg. command line tools, DDP clients, etc.). Connect middlewares can now be registered on the newWebApp.connectHandlers
instead of the old__meteor_bootstrap__.app
. -
The entire Meteor build process now has first-class source map support. A source map is maintained for every source file as it passes through the build pipeline. Currently, the source maps are only served in development mode. Not all web browsers support source maps yet and for those that do, you may have to turn on an option to enable them. Source maps will always be used when reporting exceptions on the server.
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Update the
coffeescript
package to generate source maps. -
Add new
Assets
API andprivate
subdirectory for including and accessing static assets on the server. http://docs.meteor.com/#assets -
Add
Meteor.disconnect
. Call this to disconnect from the server and stop all live data updates. #1151 -
Add
Match.Integer
tocheck
for 32-bit signed integers. -
Meteor.connect
has been renamed toDDP.connect
and is now fully supported on the server. Server-to-server DDP connections use websockets, and can be used for both method calls and subscriptions. -
Rename
Meteor.default_connection
toMeteor.connection
andMeteor.default_server
toMeteor.server
. -
Rename
Meteor.http
toHTTP
. -
ROOT_URL
may now have a path part. This allows serving multiple Meteor apps on the same domain. -
Support creating named unmanaged collections with
new Meteor.Collection("name", {connection: null})
. -
New
Log
function in thelogging
package which prints with timestamps, color, filenames and linenumbers. -
Include http response in errors from oauth providers. #1246
-
The
observe
callbackmovedTo
now has a fourth argumentbefore
. -
Move NPM control files for packages from
.npm
to.npm/package
. This is to allow build plugins such ascoffeescript
to depend on NPM packages. Also, when removing the last NPM dependency, clean up the.npm
dir. -
Remove deprecated
Meteor.is_client
andMeteor.is_server
variables. -
Implement "meteor bundle --debug" #748
-
Add
forceApprovalPrompt
option toMeteor.loginWithGoogle
. #1226 -
Make server-side Mongo
insert
s,update
s, andremove
s run asynchronously when a callback is passed. -
Improve memory usage when calling
findOne()
on the server. -
Delete login tokens from server when user logs out.
-
Rename package compatibility mode option to
add_files
fromraw
tobare
. -
Fix Mongo selectors of the form: {$regex: /foo/}.
-
Fix Spark memory leak. #1157
-
Fix EPIPEs during dev mode hot code reload.
-
Fix bug where we would never quiesce if we tried to revive subs that errored out (5e7138d)
-
Fix bug where
this.fieldname
in handlebars template might refer to a helper instead of a property of the current data context. #1143 -
Fix submit events on IE8. #1191
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Handle
Meteor.loginWithX
being called with a callback but no options. #1181 -
Work around a Chrome bug where hitting reload could cause a tab to lose the DDP connection and never recover. #1244
-
Upgraded dependencies:
- Node from 0.8.18 to 0.8.24
- MongoDB from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4, now with SSL support
- CleanCSS from 0.8.3 to 1.0.11
- Underscore from 1.4.4 to 1.5.1
- Fibers from 1.0.0 to 1.0.1
- MongoDB Driver from 1.3.7 to 1.3.17
Patches contributed by GitHub users btipling, mizzao, timhaines and zol.
- Update mongodb driver to use version 0.2.1 of the bson module.
-
Separate OAuth flow logic from Accounts into separate packages. The
facebook
,github
,google
,meetup
,twitter
, andweibo
packages can be used to perform an OAuth exchange without creating an account and logging in. #1024 -
If you set the
DISABLE_WEBSOCKETS
environment variable, browsers will not attempt to connect to your app using Websockets. Use this if you know your server environment does not properly proxy Websockets to reduce connection startup time. -
Make
Meteor.defer
work in an inactive tab in iOS. #1023 -
Allow new
Random
instances to be constructed with specified seed. This can be used to create repeatable test cases for code that picks random values. #1033 -
Fix CoffeeScript error reporting to include source file and line number again. #1052
-
Fix Mongo queries which nested JavaScript RegExp objects inside
$or
. #1089 -
Upgraded dependencies:
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, johnston, and timhaines.
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Add new
check
package for ensuring that a value matches a required type and structure. This is used to validate untrusted input from the client. See http://docs.meteor.com/#match for details. -
Use Websockets by default on supported browsers. This reduces latency and eliminates the constant network spinner on iOS devices.
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With
autopublish
on, publish many useful fields onMeteor.users
. -
Files in the
client/compatibility/
subdirectory of a Meteor app do not get wrapped in a new variable scope. This is useful for third-party libraries which expectvar
statements at the outermost level to be global. -
Add synthetic
tap
event for use on touch enabled devices. This is a replacement forclick
that fires immediately. -
When using the
http
package synchronously on the server, errors are thrown rather than passed inresult.error
-
The
manager
option to theMeteor.Collection
constructor is now calledconnection
. The old name still works for now. #987 -
The
localstorage-polyfill
smart package has been replaced by alocalstorage
package, which defines aMeteor._localStorage
API instead of trying to replace the DOMwindow.localStorage
facility. (Now, apps can use the existence ofwindow.localStorage
to detect if the full localStorage API is supported.) #979 -
Upgrade MongoDB from 2.2.1 to 2.4.3.
-
Upgrade CoffeeScript from 1.5.0 to 1.6.2. #972
-
Faster reconnects when regaining connectivity. #696
-
Email.send
has a newheaders
option to set arbitrary headers. #963 -
Cursor transform functions on the server no longer are required to return objects with correct
_id
fields. #974 -
Rework
observe()
callback ordering in minimongo to improve fiber safety on the server. This makes subscriptions on server to server DDP more usable. -
Use binary search in minimongo when updating ordered queries. #969
-
Fix EJSON base64 decoding bug. #1001
-
Support
appcache
on Chromium. #958
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, jagill, spang, and timhaines.
- When authenticating with GitHub, include a user agent string. This unbreaks "Sign in with GitHub"
Patch contributed by GitHub user pmark.
-
Better error reporting:
- Capture real stack traces for
Meteor.Error
. - Report better errors with misconfigured OAuth services.
- Capture real stack traces for
-
Add per-package upgrade notices to
meteor update
. -
Experimental server-to-server DDP support:
Meteor.connect
on the server will connect to a remote DDP endpoint via WebSockets. Method calls should work fine, but subscriptions and minimongo on the server are still a work in progress. -
Upgrade d3 from 2.x to 3.1.4. See https://github.com/mbostock/d3/wiki/Upgrading-to-3.0 for compatibility notes.
-
Allow CoffeeScript to set global variables when using
use strict
. #933 -
Return the inserted documented ID from
LocalCollection.insert
. #908 -
Add Weibo token expiration time to
services.weibo.expiresAt
. -
Spiderable.userAgentRegExps
can now be modified to change what user agents are treated as spiders by thespiderable
package. -
Prevent observe callbacks from affecting the arguments to identical observes. #855
-
Fix meteor command line tool when run from a home directory with spaces in its name. If you previously installed meteor release 0.6.0 or 0.6.1 you'll need to uninstall and reinstall meteor to support users with spaces in their usernames (see https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/master/README.md#uninstalling-meteor)
Patches contributed by GitHub users andreas-karlsson, awwx, jacott, joshuaconner, and timhaines.
-
Correct NPM behavior in packages in case there is a
node_modules
directory somewhere above the app directory. #927 -
Small bug fix in the low-level
routepolicy
package.
Patches contributed by GitHub users andreas-karlsson and awwx.
-
Meteor has a brand new distribution system! In this new system, code-named Engine, packages are downloaded individually and on demand. All of the packages in each official Meteor release are prefetched and cached so you can still use Meteor while offline. You can have multiple releases of Meteor installed simultaneously; apps are pinned to specific Meteor releases. All
meteor
commands accept a--release
argument to specify which release to use;meteor update
changes what release the app is pinned to. Inside an app, the name of the release is available atMeteor.release
. When running Meteor directly from a git checkout, the release is ignored. -
Variables declared with
var
at the outermost level of a JavaScript source file are now private to that file. Remove thevar
to share a value between files. -
Meteor now supports any x86 (32- or 64-bit) Linux system, not just those which use Debian or RedHat package management.
-
Apps may contain packages inside a top-level directory named
packages
. -
Packages may depend on NPM modules, using the new
Npm.depends
directive in theirpackage.js
file. (Note: if the NPM module has architecture-specific binary components, bundles built withmeteor bundle
ormeteor deploy
will contain the components as built for the developer's platform and may not run on other platforms.) -
Meteor's internal package tests (as well as tests you add to your app's packages with the unsupported
Tinytest
framework) are now run with the new commandmeteor test-packages
. -
{{#each}}
helper can now iterate over falsey values without throwing an exception. #815, #801 -
{{#with}}
helper now only includes its block if its argument is not falsey, and runs an{{else}}
block if provided if the argument is falsey. #770, #866 -
Twitter login now stores
profile_image_url
andprofile_image_url_https
attributes in theuser.services.twitter
namespace. #788 -
Allow packages to register file extensions with dots in the filename.
-
When calling
this.changed
in a publish function, it is no longer an error to clear a field which was never set. #850 -
Deps API
- Add
dep.depend()
, deprecateDeps.depend(dep)
anddep.addDependent()
. - If first run of
Deps.autorun
throws an exception, stop it and don't rerun. This prevents a Spark exception when template rendering fails ("Can't call 'firstNode' of undefined"). - If an exception is thrown during
Deps.flush
with no stack, the message is logged instead. #822
- Add
-
When connecting to MongoDB, use the JavaScript BSON parser unless specifically requested in
MONGO_URL
; the native BSON parser sometimes segfaults. (Meteor only started using the native parser in 0.5.8.) -
Calls to the
update
collection function in untrusted code may only use a whitelisted list of modifier operators.
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, blackcoat, cmather, estark37, mquandalle, Primigenus, raix, reustle, and timhaines.
-
Fix regression in 0.5.8 that prevented users from editing their own profile. #809
-
Fix regression in 0.5.8 where
Meteor.loggingIn()
would not update reactively. #811
-
Calls to the
update
andremove
collection functions in untrusted code may no longer use arbitrary selectors. You must specify a single document ID when invoking these functions from the client (other than in a method stub).You may still use other selectors when calling
update
andremove
on the server and from client method stubs, so you can replace calls that are no longer supported (eg, in event handlers) with custom method calls.The corresponding
update
andremove
callbacks passed toallow
anddeny
now take a single document instead of an array. -
Add new
appcache
package. Add this package to your project to speed up page load and make hot code reload smoother using the HTML5 AppCache API. See http://docs.meteor.com/#appcache for details. -
Rewrite reactivity library.
Meteor.deps
is nowDeps
and has a new API.Meteor.autorun
andMeteor.flush
are now calledDeps.autorun
andDeps.flush
(the old names still work for now). The other names underMeteor.deps
such asContext
no longer exist. The new API is documented at http://docs.meteor.com/#deps -
You can now provide a
transform
option to collections, which is a function that documents coming out of that collection are passed through.find
,findOne
,allow
, anddeny
now taketransform
options, which may override the Collection'stransform
. Specifying atransform
ofnull
causes you to receive the documents unmodified. -
Publish functions may now return an array of cursors to publish. Currently, the cursors must all be from different collections. #716
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User documents have id's when
onCreateUser
andvalidateNewUser
hooks run. -
Encode and store custom EJSON types in MongoDB.
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Support literate CoffeeScript files with the extension
.litcoffee
. #766 -
Add new login service provider for Meetup.com in
accounts-meetup
package. -
If you call
observe
orobserveChanges
on a cursor created with thereactive: false
option, it now only calls initial add callbacks and does not continue watching the query. #771 -
In an event handler, if the data context is falsey, default it to
{}
rather than to the global object. #777 -
Allow specifying multiple event handlers for the same selector. #753
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Revert caching header change from 0.5.5. This fixes image flicker on redraw.
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Stop making
Session
available on the server; it's not useful there. #751 -
Force URLs in stack traces in browser consoles to be hyperlinks. #725
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Suppress spurious
changed
callbacks with emptyfields
fromCursor.observeChanges
. -
Fix logic bug in template branch matching. #724
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Make
spiderable
user-agent test case insensitive. #721 -
Fix several bugs in EJSON type support:
- Fix
{$type: 5}
selectors for binary values on browsers that do not supportUint8Array
. - Fix EJSON equality on falsey values.
- Fix for returning a scalar EJSON type from a method. #731
- Fix
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Upgraded dependencies:
- mongodb driver to version 1.2.13 (from 0.1.11)
- mime module removed (it was unused)
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, cmather, graemian, jagill, jmhredsox, kevinxucs, krizka, mitar, raix, and rasmuserik.
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The DDP wire protocol has been redesigned.
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The handshake message is now versioned. This breaks backwards compatibility between sites with
Meteor.connect()
. Older meteor apps can not talk to new apps and vice versa. This includes themadewith
package, apps usingmadewith
must upgrade. -
New EJSON package allows you to use Dates, Mongo ObjectIDs, and binary data in your collections and Session variables. You can also add your own custom datatypes.
-
Meteor now correctly represents empty documents in Collections.
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There is an informal specification in
packages/livedata/DDP.md
.
-
-
Breaking API changes
-
Changed the API for
observe
. Observing withadded
,changed
andremoved
callbacks is now unordered; for ordering information useaddedAt
,changedAt
,removedAt
, andmovedTo
. Full documentation is in theobserve
docs. All callers ofobserve
need to be updated. -
Changed the API for publish functions that do not return a cursor (ie functions that call
this.set
andthis.unset
). See thepublish
docs for the new API.
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New Features
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Added new
observeChanges
API for keeping track of the contents of a cursor more efficiently. -
There is a new reactive function on subscription handles:
ready()
returns true when the subscription has received all of its initial documents. -
Added
Session.setDefault(key, value)
so you can easily provide initial values for session variables that will not be clobbered on hot code push. -
You can specify that a collection should use MongoDB ObjectIDs as its
_id
fields for inserts instead of strings. This allows you to use Meteor with existing MongoDB databases that have ObjectID_id
s. If you do this, you must useEJSON.equals()
for comparing equality instead of===
. See http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_collection. -
New
random
package provides several functions for generating random values. The newRandom.id()
function is used to provide shorter string IDs for MongoDB documents.Meteor.uuid()
is deprecated. -
Meteor.status()
can return the statusfailed
if DDP version negotiation fails.
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Major Performance Enhancements
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Rewrote subscription duplication detection logic to use a more efficient algorithm. This significantly reduces CPU usage on the server during initial page load and when dealing with large amounts of data.
-
Reduced unnecessary MongoDB re-polling of live queries. Meteor no longer polls for changes on queries that specify
_id
when updates for a different specific_id
are processed. This drastically improves performance when dealing with many subscriptions and updates to individual objects, such as those generated by theaccounts-base
package on theMeteor.users
collection.
-
-
Upgraded UglifyJS2 to version 2.2.5
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx and michaelglenadams.
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Fix 0.5.5 regression: Minimongo selectors matching subdocuments under arrays did not work correctly.
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Some Bootstrap icons should have appeared white.
Patches contributed by GitHub user benjaminchelli.
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Deprecate
Meteor.autosubscribe
.Meteor.subscribe
now works withinMeteor.autorun
. -
Allow access to
Meteor.settings.public
on the client. If the JSON file you gave tometeor --settings
includes a field calledpublic
, that field will be available on the client as well as the server. -
@import
works inless
. Use the.lessimport
file extension to make a less file that is ignored by preprocessor so as to avoid double processing. #203 -
Upgrade Fibers to version 1.0.0. The
Fiber
andFuture
symbols are no longer exposed globally. To use fibers directly you can use:var Fiber = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('fibers');
andvar Future = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('fibers/future');
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Call version 1.1 of the Twitter API when authenticating with OAuth.
accounts-twitter
users have until March 5th, 2013 to upgrade before Twitter disables the old API. #527 -
Treat Twitter ids as strings, not numbers, as recommended by Twitter. #629
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_id
field of a document passed toinsert
. Meteor still auto-generates_id
if it is not present. -
Expose an
invalidated
flag onMeteor.deps.Context
. -
Populate user record with additional data from Facebook and Google. #664
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Add Facebook token expiration time to
services.facebook.expiresAt
. #576 -
Allow piping a password to
meteor deploy
onstdin
. #623 -
Correctly type cast arguments to handlebars helper. #617
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Fix leaked global
userId
symbol. -
Terminate
phantomjs
properly on error when using thespiderable
package. #571 -
Stop serving non-cachable files with caching headers. #631
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Fix race condition if server restarted between page load and initial DDP connection. #653
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Resolve issue where login methods sometimes blocked future methods. #555
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Fix
Meteor.http
parsing of JSON responses on Firefox. #553 -
Minimongo no longer uses
eval
. #480 -
Serve 404 for
/app.manifest
. This allows experimenting with the upcomingappcache
smart package. #628 -
Upgraded many dependencies, including:
- node.js to version 0.8.18
- jquery-layout to version 1.3.0RC
- Twitter Bootstrap to version 2.3.0
- Less to version 1.3.3
- Uglify to version 2.2.3
- useragent to version 2.0.1
Patches contributed by GitHub users awwx, bminer, bramp, crunchie84, danawoodman, dbimmler, Ed-von-Schleck, geoffd123, jperl, kevee, milesmatthias, Primigenus, raix, timhaines, and xenolf.
- Fix 0.5.3 regression:
meteor run
could fail on OSX 10.8 if environment variables such asDYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
are set.
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Add
--settings
argument tometeor deploy
andmeteor run
. This allows you to specify deployment-specific information made available to server code in the variableMeteor.settings
. -
Support unlimited open tabs in a single browser. Work around the browser per-hostname connection limit by using randomized hostnames for deployed apps. #131
-
minimongo improvements:
-
Re-rendering a template with Spark no longer reverts changes made by users to a
preserve
d form element. Instead, the newly rendered value is only applied if it is different from the previously rendered value. Additionally, elements with type other than TEXT can now have reactive values (eg, the labels on submit buttons can now be reactive). #510 #514 #523 #537 #558 -
Support JavaScript RegExp objects in selectors in Collection write methods on the client, eg
myCollection.remove({foo: /bar/})
. #346 -
meteor
command-line improvements:- Improve error message when mongod fails to start.
- The
NODE_OPTIONS
environment variable can be used to pass command-line flags to node (eg,--debug
or--debug-brk
to enable the debugger). - Die with error if an app name is mistakenly passed to
meteor reset
.
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Add support for "offline" access tokens with Google login. #464 #525
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Don't remove
serviceData
fields from previous logins when logging in with an external service. -
Improve
OAuth1Binding
to allow making authenticated API calls to OAuth1 providers (eg Twitter). #539 -
New login providers automatically work with
{{loginButtons}}
without needing to edit theaccounts-ui-unstyled
package. #572 -
Use
Content-Type: application/json
by default when sending JSON data withMeteor.http
. -
Improvements to
jsparse
: hex literals, keywords as property names, ES5 line continuations, trailing commas in object literals, line numbers in error messages, decimal literals starting with.
, regex character classes with slashes. -
Spark improvements:
- Improve rendering of elements on IE. #496 Don't lose nested data contexts in IE9/10 after two seconds. #458 Don't print a stack trace if DOM nodes are manually removed from the document without calling Spark.finalize. #392 Always use the autoReconnect flag when connecting to Mongo. #425 Fix server-side observe with no added callback. #589 Fix re-sending method calls on reconnect. #538 Remove deprecated /sockjs URL support from Meteor.connect. Avoid losing a few bits of randomness in UUID v4 creation. #519 Update clean-css package from 0.8.2 to 0.8.3, fixing minification of 0% values in hsl colors. #515 Patches contributed by GitHub users Ed-von-Schleck, egtann, jwulf, lvbreda, martin-naumann, meawoppl, nwmartin, timhaines, and zealoushacker. v0.5.2, 2012-Nov-27 Fix 0.5.1 regression: Cursor observe works during server startup. #507 v0.5.1, 2012-Nov-20 Speed up server-side subscription handling by avoiding redundant work when the same Mongo query is observed multiple times concurrently (eg, by multiple users subscribing to the same subscription), and by using a simpler "unordered" algorithm. Meteor now waits to invoke method callbacks until all the data written by the method is available in the local cache. This way, method callbacks can see the full effects of their writes. This includes the callbacks passed to Meteor.call and Meteor.apply, as well as to the Meteor.Collection insert/update/remove methods. If you want to process the method's result as soon as it arrives from the server, even if the method's writes are not available yet, you can now specify an onResultReceived callback to Meteor.apply. Rework latency compensation to show server data changes sooner. Previously, as long as any method calls were in progress, Meteor would buffer all data changes sent from the server until all methods finished. Meteor now only buffers writes to documents written by client stubs, and applies the writes as soon as all methods that wrote that document have finished. Meteor.userLoaded() and {{currentUserLoaded}} have been removed. Previously, during the login process on the client, Meteor.userId() could be set but the document at Meteor.user() could be incomplete. Meteor provided the function Meteor.userLoaded() to differentiate between these states. Now, this in-between state does not occur: when a user logs in, Meteor.userId() only is set once Meteor.user() is fully loaded. New reactive function Meteor.loggingIn() and template helper {{loggingIn}}; they are true whenever some login method is in progress. accounts-ui now uses this to show an animation during login. The sass CSS preprocessor package has been removed. It was based on an unmaintained NPM module which did not implement recent versions of the Sass language and had no error handling. Consider using the less or stylus packages instead. #143 Meteor.setPassword is now called Accounts.setPassword, matching the documentation and original intention. #454 Passing the wait option to Meteor.apply now waits for all in-progress method calls to finish before sending the method, instead of only guaranteeing that its callback occurs after the callbacks of in-progress methods. New function Accounts.callLoginMethod which should be used to call custom login handlers (such as those registered with Accounts.registerLoginHandler). The callbacks for Meteor.loginWithToken and Accounts.createUser now match the other login callbacks: they are called with error on error or with no arguments on success. Fix bug where method calls could be dropped during a brief disconnection. #339 Prevent running the meteor command-line tool and server on unsupported Node versions. Fix Minimongo query bug with nested objects. #455 In accounts-ui, stop page layout from changing during login. Use path.join instead of / in paths (helpful for the unofficial Windows port) #303 The spiderable package serves pages to facebookexternalhit #411 Fix error on Firefox with DOM Storage disabled. Avoid invalidating listeners if setUserId is called with current value. Upgrade many dependencies, including: MongoDB 2.2.1 (from 2.2.0) underscore 1.4.2 (from 1.3.3) bootstrap 2.2.1 (from 2.1.1) jQuery 1.8.2 (from 1.7.2) less 1.3.1 (from 1.3.0) stylus 0.30.1 (from 0.29.0) coffee-script 1.4.0 (from 1.3.3) Patches contributed by GitHub users ayal, dandv, possibilities, TomWij, tmeasday, and workmad3. v0.5.0, 2012-Oct-17 This release introduces Meteor Accounts, a full-featured auth system that supports fine-grained user-based control over database reads and writes federated login with any OAuth provider (with built-in support for Facebook, GitHub, Google, Twitter, and Weibo) secure password login email validation and password recovery an optional set of UI widgets implementing standard login/signup/password change/logout flows When you upgrade to Meteor 0.5.0, existing apps will lose the ability to write to the database from the client. To restore this, either: configure each of your collections with collection.allow and collection.deny calls to specify which users can perform which write operations, or add the insecure smart package (which is included in new apps by default) to restore the old behavior where anyone can write to any collection which has not been configured with allow or deny For more information on Meteor Accounts, see http://docs.meteor.com/#dataandsecurity and http://docs.meteor.com/#accounts_api The new function Meteor.autorun allows you run any code in a reactive context. See http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_autorun Arrays and objects can now be stored in the Session; mutating the value you retrieve with Session.get does not affect the value in the session. On the client, Meteor.apply takes a new wait option, which ensures that no further method calls are sent to the server until this method is finished; it is used for login and logout methods in order to keep the user ID well-defined. You can also specifiy an onReconnect handler which is run when re-establishing a connection; Meteor Accounts uses this to log back in on reconnect. Meteor now provides a compatible replacement for the DOM localStorage facility that works in IE7, in the localstorage-polyfill smart package. Meteor now packages the D3 library for manipulating documents based on data in a smart package called d3. Meteor.Collection now takes its optional manager argument (used to associate a collection with a server you've connected to with Meteor.connect) as a named option. (The old call syntax continues to work for now.) Fix a bug where trying to immediately resubscribe to a record set after unsubscribing could fail silently. Better error handling for failed Mongo writes from inside methods; previously, errors here could cause clients to stop processing data from the server. Patches contributed by GitHub users bradens, dandv, dybskiy, possibilities, zhangcheng, and 75lb. v0.4.2, 2012-Oct-02 Fix connection failure on iOS6. SockJS 0.3.3 includes this fix. The new preserve-inputs package, included by default in new Meteor apps, restores the pre-v0.4.0 behavior of "preserving" all form input elements by ID and name during re-rendering; users who want more precise control over preservation can still use the APIs added in v0.4.0. A few changes to the Meteor.absoluteUrl function: Added a replaceLocalhost option. The ROOT_URL environment variable is respected by meteor run. It is now included in all apps via the meteor package. Apps that explicitly added the now-deprecated absolute-url smart package will log a deprecation warning. Upgrade Node from 0.8.8 to 0.8.11. If a Handlebars helper function foo returns null, you can now run do {{foo.bar}} without error, just like when foo is a non-existent property. If you pass a non-scalar object to Session.set, an error will now be thrown (matching the behavior of Session.equals). #215 HTML pages are now served with a charset=utf-8 Content-Type header. #264 The contents of <select> tags can now be reactive even in IE 7 and 8. The meteor tool no longer gets confused if a parent directory of your project is named public. #352 Fix a race condition in the spiderable package which could include garbage in the spidered page. The REPL run by admin/node.sh no longer crashes Emacs M-x shell on exit. Refactor internal reload API. New internal jsparse smart package. Not yet exposed publicly. Patch contributed by GitHub user yanivoliver. v0.4.1, 2012-Sep-24 New email smart package, with Email.send API. Upgrade Node from 0.6.17 to 0.8.8, as well as many Node modules in the dev bundle; those that are user-exposed are: coffee-script: 1.3.3 (from 1.3.1) stylus: 0.29.0 (from 0.28.1) nib: 0.8.2 (from 0.7.0) All publicly documented APIs now use camelCase rather than under_scores. The old spellings continue to work for now. New names are: Meteor.isClient/isServer this.isSimulation inside a method invocation Meteor.deps.Context.onInvalidate Meteor.status().retryCount/retryTime Spark improvements Optimize selector matching for event maps. Fix Spark._currentRenderer behavior in timer callbacks. Fix bug caused by interaction between Template.foo.preserve and {{#constant}}. #323 Allow {{#each}} over a collection of objects without _id. #281 Spark now supports Firefox 3.6. Added a script to build a standalone spark.js that does not depend on Meteor (it depends on jQuery or Sizzle if you need IE7 support, and otherwise is fully standalone). Database writes from within Meteor.setTimeout/setInterval/defer will be batched with other writes from the current method invocation if they start before the method completes. Make Meteor.Cursor.forEach fully synchronous even if the user's callback yields. #321. Recover from exceptions thrown in Meteor.publish handlers. Upgrade bootstrap to version 2.1.1. #336, #337, #288, #293 Change the implementation of the meteor deploy password prompt to not crash Emacs M-x shell. Optimize LocalCollection.remove(id) to be O(1) rather than O(n). Optimize client-side database performance when receiving updated data from the server outside of method calls. Better error reporting when a package in .meteor/packages does not exist. Better error reporting for coffeescript. #331 Better error handling in Handlebars.Exception. Patches contributed by GitHub users fivethirty, tmeasday, and xenolf. v0.4.0, 2012-Aug-30 Merge Spark, a new live page update engine Breaking API changes Input elements no longer preserved based on id and name attributes. Use preserve instead. All Meteor.ui functions removed. Use Meteor.render, Meteor.renderList, and Spark functions instead. New template functions (eg. created, rendered, etc) may collide with existing helpers. Use Template.foo.helpers() to avoid conflicts. New syntax for declaring event maps. Use Template.foo.events({...}). For backwards compatibility, both syntaxes are allowed for now. New Template features Allow embedding non-Meteor widgets (eg. Google Maps) using {{#constant}} Callbacks when templates are rendered. See http://docs.meteor.com/#template_rendered Explicit control of which nodes are preserved during re-rendering. See http://docs.meteor.com/#template_preserve Easily find nodes within a template in event handlers and callbacks. See http://docs.meteor.com/#template_find Allow parts of a template to be independently reactive with the {{#isolate}} block helper. Use PACKAGE_DIRS environment variable to override package location. #227 Add absolute-url package to construct URLs pointing to the application. Allow modifying documents returned by observe callbacks. #209 Fix periodic crash after client disconnect. #212 Fix minimingo crash on dotted queries with undefined keys. #126 v0.3.9, 2012-Aug-07 Add spiderable package to allow web crawlers to index Meteor apps. meteor deploy uses SSL to protect application deployment. Fix stopImmediatePropagation(). #205 v0.3.8, 2012-Jul-12 HTTPS support Add force-ssl package to require site to load over HTTPS. Use HTTPS for install script and meteor update. Allow runtime configuration of default DDP endpoint. Handlebars improvements Implement dotted path traversal for helpers and methods. Allow functions in helper arguments. Change helper nesting rules to allow functions as arguments. Fix {{this.foo}} to never invoke helper foo. Make event handler this reflect the node that matched the selector instead of the event target node. Fix keyword arguments to helpers. Add nib support to stylus package. #175 Upgrade bootstrap to version 2.0.4. #173 Print changelog after meteor update. Fix mouseenter and mouseleave events. #224 Fix issue with spurious heartbeat failures on busy connections. Fix exception in minimongo when matching non-arrays using $all. #183 Fix serving an empty file when no cacheable assets exist. #179 v0.3.7, 2012-Jun-06 Better parsing of .html template files Allow HTML comments (<!-- -->) at top level Allow whitespace anywhere in open/close tag Provide names and line numbers on error More helpful error messages Form control improvements Fix reactive radio buttons in Internet Explorer. Fix reactive textareas to update consistently across browsers, matching text field behavior. http package bug fixes: Send correct Content-Type when POSTing params from the server. #172 Correctly detect JSON response Content-Type when a charset is present. Support Handlebars.SafeString. #160 Fix intermittent "Cursor is closed" mongo error. Fix "Cannot read property 'nextSibling' of null" error in certain nested templates. #142 Add heartbeat timer on the client to notice when the server silently goes away. v0.3.6, 2012-May-16 Rewrite event handling. this in event handlers now refers to the data context of the element that generated the event, not the top-level data context of the template where the event is declared. Add /websocket endpoint for raw websockets. Pass websockets through development mode proxy. Simplified API for Meteor.connect, which now receives a URL to a Meteor app rather than to a sockjs endpoint. Fix livedata to support subscriptions with overlapping documents. Update node.js to 0.6.17 to fix potential security issue. v0.3.5, 2012-Apr-28 Fix 0.3.4 regression: Call event map handlers on bubbled events. #107 v0.3.4, 2012-Apr-27 Add Twitter bootstrap package. #84 Add packages for sass and stylus CSS pre-processors. #40, #50 Bind events correctly on top level elements in a template. Fix dotted path selectors in minimongo. #88 Make backbone package also run on the server. Add bare option to coffee-script compilation so variables can be shared between multiple coffee-script file. #85 Upgrade many dependency versions. User visible highlights: node.js 0.6.15 coffee-script 1.3.1 less 1.3.0 sockjs 0.3.1 underscore 1.3.3 backbone 0.9.2 Several documentation fixes and test coverage improvements. v0.3.3, 2012-Apr-20 Add http package for making HTTP requests to remote servers. Add madewith package to put a live-updating Made with Meteor badge on apps. Reduce size of mongo database on disk (--smallfiles). Prevent unnecessary hot-code pushes on deployed apps during server migration. Fix issue with spaces in directory names. #39 Workaround browser caching issues in development mode by using query parameters on all JavaScript and CSS requests. Many documentation and test fixups. v0.3.2, 2012-Apr-10 Initial public launch