Chokidar 1.0.5 (20 July 2015)

• Fix regression with regexes/fns using in ignored

Chokidar 1.0.4 (15 July 2015)

• Fix bug with ignored files/globs while cwd option is set

Chokidar 1.0.3 (4 June 2015)

• Fix race issue with alwaysStat option and removed files

Chokidar 1.0.2 (30 May 2015)

• Fix bug with absolute paths and ENAMETOOLONG error

Chokidar 1.0.1 (8 April 2015)

• Fix bug with .close() method in fs.watch mode with persistent: false option

Chokidar 1.0.0 (7 April 2015)

• Glob support! Use globs in watch, add, and unwatch methods
• Comprehensive symlink support
• New unwatch method to turn off watching of previously watched paths
• More flexible ignored option allowing regex, function, glob, or array courtesy of anymatch
• New cwd option to set base dir from which relative paths are derived
• New depth option for limiting recursion
• New alwaysStat option to ensure fs.Stats gets passed with every add/change event
• New ready event emitted when initial fs tree scan is done and watcher is ready for changes
• New raw event exposing data and events from the lower-level watch modules
• New followSymlinks option to impact whether symlinks’ targets or the symlink files themselves are watched
• New atomic option for normalizing artifacts from text editors that use atomic write methods
• Ensured watcher’s stability with lots of bugfixes.

Chokidar 0.12.6 (6 January 2015)

• Fix bug which breaks persistent: false mode when change events occur

Chokidar 0.12.5 (17 December 2014)

• Fix bug with matching parent path detection for fsevents instance sharing
• Fix bug with ignored watch path in nodefs modes

Chokidar 0.12.4 (14 December 2014)

• Fix bug in fs.watch mode that caused watcher to leak into cwd
• Fix bug preventing ready event when there are symlinks to ignored paths

Chokidar 0.12.3 (13 December 2014)

• Fix handling of special files such as named pipes and sockets

Chokidar 0.12.2 (12 December 2014)

• Fix recursive symlink handling and some other path resolution problems

Chokidar 0.12.1 (10 December 2014)

• Fix a case where file symlinks were not followed properly

Chokidar 0.12.0 (8 December 2014)

• Symlink support
  • Add followSymlinks option, which defaults to true
• Change default watch mode on Linux to non-polling fs.watch
• Add atomic option to normalize events from editors using atomic writes
  • Particularly Vim and Sublime
• Add raw event which exposes data from the underlying watch method

Chokidar 0.11.1 (19 November 2014)

• Fix a bug where an error is thrown when fs.watch instantiation fails

Chokidar 0.11.0 (16 November 2014)

• Add a ready event, which is emitted after initial file scan completes
• Fix issue with options keys passed in defined as undefined
• Rename some internal FSWatcher properties to indicate they’re private

Chokidar 0.10.9 (15 November 2014)

• Fix some leftover issues from adding watcher reuse

Chokidar 0.10.8 (14 November 2014)

• Remove accidentally committed/published console.log statement.
• Sry ‘bout that :crying_cat_face:

Chokidar 0.10.7 (14 November 2014)

• Apply watcher reuse methodology to fs.watch and fs.watchFile as well

Chokidar 0.10.6 (12 November 2014)

• More efficient creation/reuse of FSEvents instances to avoid system limits
• Reduce simultaneous FSEvents instances allowed in a process
• Handle errors thrown by fs.watch upon invocation

Chokidar 0.10.5 (6 November 2014)

• Limit number of simultaneous FSEvents instances (fall back to other methods)
• Prevent some cases of EMFILE errors during initialization
• Fix ignored files emitting events in some fsevents-mode circumstances

Chokidar 0.10.4 (5 November 2014)

• Bump fsevents dependency to ~0.3.1
  • Should resolve build warnings and npm rebuild on non-Macs

Chokidar 0.10.3 (28 October 2014)

• Fix removed dir emitting as unlink instead of unlinkDir
• Fix issues with file changing to dir or vice versa (gh-165)
• Fix handling of ignored option in fsevents mode

Chokidar 0.10.2 (23 October 2014)

• Improve individual file watching
• Fix fsevents keeping process alive when persistent: false

Chokidar 0.10.1 (19 October 2014)

• Improve handling of text editor atomic writes

Chokidar 0.10.0 (18 October 2014)

• Many stability and consistency improvements
• Resolve many cases of duplicate or wrong events
• Correct for fsevents inconsistencies
• Standardize handling of errors and relative paths
• Fix issues with watching ./

Chokidar 0.9.0 (25 September 2014)

• Updated fsevents to 0.3
• Update per-system defaults
• Fix issues with closing chokidar instance
• Fix duplicate change events on win32

Chokidar 0.8.2 (26 March 2014)

• Fixed npm issues related to fsevents dep.
• Updated fsevents to 0.2.

Chokidar 0.8.1 (16 December 2013)

• Optional deps are now truly optional on windows and linux.
• Rewritten in JS, again.
• Fixed some FSEvents-related bugs.

Chokidar 0.8.0 (29 November 2013)

• Added ultra-fast low-CPU OS X file watching with FSEvents. It is enabled by default.
• Added addDir and unlinkDir events.
• Polling is now disabled by default on all platforms.

Chokidar 0.7.1 (18 November 2013)

• Watcher#close now also removes all event listeners.

Chokidar 0.7.0 (22 October 2013)

• When options.ignored is two-argument function, it will also be called after stating the FS, with stats argument.
• unlink is no longer emitted on directories.

Chokidar 0.6.3 (12 August 2013)

• Added usePolling option (default: true). When false, chokidar will use fs.watch as backend. fs.watch is much faster, but not like super reliable.

Chokidar 0.6.2 (19 March 2013)

• Fixed watching initially empty directories with ignoreInitial option.

Chokidar 0.6.1 (19 March 2013)

• Added node.js 0.10 support.

Chokidar 0.6.0 (10 March 2013)

• File attributes (stat()) are now passed to add and change events as second arguments.
• Changed default polling interval for binary files to 300ms.

Chokidar 0.5.3 (13 January 2013)

• Removed emitting of change events before unlink.

Chokidar 0.5.2 (13 January 2013)

• Removed postinstall script to prevent various npm bugs.

Chokidar 0.5.1 (6 January 2013)

• When starting to watch non-existing paths, chokidar will no longer throw ENOENT error.
• Fixed bug with absolute path.

Chokidar 0.5.0 (9 December 2012)

• Added a bunch of new options:
  • ignoreInitial that allows to ignore initial add events.
  • ignorePermissionErrors that allows to ignore ENOENT etc perm errors.
  • interval and binaryInterval that allow to change default fs polling intervals.

Chokidar 0.4.0 (26 July 2012)

• Added all event that receives two args (event name and path) that combines add, change and unlink events.
• Switched to fs.watchFile on node.js 0.8 on windows.
• Files are now correctly unwatched after unlink.

Chokidar 0.3.0 (24 June 2012)

• unlink event are no longer emitted for directories, for consistency with add.

Chokidar 0.2.6 (8 June 2012)

• Prevented creating of duplicate ‘add’ events.

Chokidar 0.2.5 (8 June 2012)

• Fixed a bug when new files in new directories hadn’t been added.

Chokidar 0.2.4 (7 June 2012)

• Fixed a bug when unlinked files emitted events after unlink.

Chokidar 0.2.3 (12 May 2012)

• Fixed watching of files on windows.

Chokidar 0.2.2 (4 May 2012)

• Fixed watcher signature.

Chokidar 0.2.1 (4 May 2012)

• Fixed invalid API bug when using watch().

Chokidar 0.2.0 (4 May 2012)

• Rewritten in js.

Chokidar 0.1.1 (26 April 2012)

• Changed api to chokidar.watch().
• Fixed compilation on windows.

Chokidar 0.1.0 (20 April 2012)

• Initial release.