CHANGELOG.md

10.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 18.18.0

9.2.1

Dependencies

• Upgrade Execa to 8.0.0

9.2.0

Features

• The Node.js version can now be specified as a file path to a .nvmrc, package.json (engines.node field) or similar files.

const { childProcess, version } = await nvexeca('/path/to/.nvmrc', 'node', [
  '--version',
])

9.1.1

Bug fixes

• Ensure the signal option also cancels the command

9.1.0

Features

• Make the signal option also cancel downloading the Node.js binary

9.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 16.17.0

8.5.0

Features

• Upgrade Execa

8.4.0

Features

• Improve tree-shaking support

8.3.0

Features

• Reduce npm package size by 47%

8.2.0

Features

• Reduce npm package size

8.1.0

Features

• Add TypeScript types

8.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 14.18.0

Features

• The cwd option can now be a file: URL

7.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 12.20.0
• This package is now an ES module. It can only be loaded with an import or import() statement, not require(). See this post for more information.

Bug fixes

• Fix support for the latest version of npm

6.0.1

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when downloading several Node.js binaries in parallel

6.0.0

Breaking changes

• Rename the alias here to local

Features

• Add the alias global to target the global Node version, regardless of the current directory

5.0.0

Breaking changes

• Rename the alias now to here

4.0.0

Breaking changes

• Aliases c and current renamed to now
• The alias now now takes into account package.json engines.node field and additional files used by other Node.js version managers.
• Alias l removed: please use latest instead

Features

• Added alias lts to target the latest LTS version

3.0.1

Bug fixes

• Fix aliases shortcuts l and c

3.0.0

Breaking changes

• Rename * alias to latest or l
• Rename . alias to current or c
• Remove _ alias

2.3.0

Features

• Add fetch option to control caching

Bug fixes

• Checksum checks were not working when the mirror option was used

2.2.0

Features

• Can use the _ alias to refer to the current process's Node.js version
• Can use the . alias to refer to the current project's Node.js version using its .nvmrc, .node-version or .naverc. The current directory can be changed using the cwd option.

2.1.3

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when using multiple drives on Windows

2.1.2

Bug fixes

• Fix terminal color changing on Windows

2.1.1

Bug fixes

• Fix arch option

2.1.0

Features

• Add arch option to specify the CPU architecture.

2.0.0

Breaking changes

• Minimal supported Node.js version is now 10.17.0

1.7.0

Features

• Node.js binary download is now 50% faster on Windows

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when Node.js binary URL is invalid

1.6.0

Features

• Node.js binary download is now twice faster on Windows

Bug fixes

• Fix ARM, PowerPC, S390 support

1.5.5

Bug fixes

• Fix running npm or npx binaries on Windows

1.5.4

Bug fixes

• Fix global binaries not working on Windows

1.5.3

Bug fixes

• Fix executing binaries by specifying their file paths on Windows

1.5.2

Bug fixes

• Fix executing yarn.

1.5.1

Bug fixes

• Executing npm, yarn and pnpm was not working properly, for example when doing global installs (npm i -g ...).

1.5.0

Features

• Improve the internal directory structure used to cache the Node.js binary
• Cleanup temporary files when Node.js download fails

1.4.0

Features

• Improve the appearance of the progress bar

1.3.0

Features

• Ensure Node.js binaries are not corrupted by checking their checksums
• Use cache when offline (no network connection)

1.2.0

Features

• Make Node.js binary download twice faster on Linux and MacOS
• Improve error messages

1.1.2

Dependencies

• Reduce the number of dependencies

1.1.1

Dependencies

• Reduce the number of dependencies

1.1.0

Features

• Upgrade get-node to 5.5.0