4.0.1

• Various fixes and improvements of typescript types

New Contributors

• @benmccann made their first contribution in #1349
• @talentlessguy made their first contribution in #1356

Full Changelog: 4.0.0...4.0.1

4.0.0

• Remove glob support
• Remove bundled fsevents
• Decrease dependency count from 13 to 1
• Rewrite in typescript. Makes emitted types more precise
• The package became hybrid common.js / ESM
• Bump minimum node.js requirement to v14+

Special thanks to @43081j for improvements and help.

Full Changelog: 3.6.0...4.0.0

3.6.0

What's Changed

• fix readyCount logic by @JLHwung in #1288
• handle MustScanSubDirs by @MarcCelani-at in #1197
• update fs.FSWatcher types to satisfy nodejs versions >= 16; fixes #1299 by @ben-polinsky in #1300

New Contributors

• @Mutahhar made their first contribution in #1226
• @zqianem made their first contribution in #1242
• @JLHwung made their first contribution in #1288
• @MarcCelani-at made their first contribution in #1197
• @ben-polinsky made their first contribution in #1300

Full Changelog: 3.5.3...3.6.0

3.5.3

What's Changed

• types: use correct type def for ignored option by @iheyunfei in #1140
• Update chokidar-cli link in README.md by @mcecode in #1142
• handle promise rejection when a symlink's target does not exist. Fixe… by @nicks in #1010
• fix: improve add and unwatch TypeScript definitions by @alan-agius4 in #1157
• Enable dtslinting by @alan-agius4 in #1158
• style: delete yarn.lock by @alan-agius4 in #1159

New Contributors

• @iheyunfei made their first contribution in #1140
• @mcecode made their first contribution in #1142
• @nicks made their first contribution in #1010
• @alan-agius4 made their first contribution in #1157

Full Changelog: 3.5.2...3.5.3

3.5.2

"Update" glob-parent dependency from ~5.1.0 to ~5.1.2 to silence "vulnerability" warnings

3.5.1

• Symlink fixes

3.5.0

• Support for ARM Macs with Apple Silicon.
• Fixed missing removal of symlinks when the target path was deleted (#1042)

3.4.2

Fixes an ability to watch network drives on windows.

3.4.0

• Support for directory-based symlinks.
• Fix a case on macos when replacing a file with a dir of the same name emitted invalid events.
• Fix error swallowing inside .on() event handlers
• Known issue: followSymlinks: false on macos still follows symlinked directories

3.3.0

FSWatcher#close() method became async. This ensures IO operations are finished properly and fixes a few segfaulty crashes.