History.md

vNEXT

v0.4.0

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Fix 0.3.4 regression: Call event map handlers on bubbled events. #107

v0.3.4

• 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

• 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

• Initial public launch