Node gRPC v1.12.1

Node changes:

• Fix build on FreeBSD (#255)
• Update dependency on lodash (#331 contributed by @wyardley)
• Update dependency on Protobuf.js to fix reported ReDoS security vulnerability (#342)

Core changes:

• Experimental support for configurable retries (use at your own risk) (grpc/grpc#10684)
• Use socklen_t instead of size_t for address length (fixes use case for some big endian systems) (grpc/grpc#14464)
• Avoid crashes on environments with hot-plugged CPUs (grpc/grpc#14712)
• Fix: Check retry timer before starting resolving (grpc/grpc#15156)
• Performance: Avoid low severity log message construction (grpc/grpc#14945)

Node gRPC v1.11.2

• Fix syntax errors in TypeScript type definitions file (#307 contributed by @JustinBeckwith)

Node gRPC v1.11.1

• Fixed an issue where building from source would sometimes fail (#304)
• Added NodeJS 10 pre-built binaries (#302)
• Added Electron 2 pre-built binaries (#291)
• Added TypeScript type definitions for APIs added in v1.11.x (#306)

Node gRPC v1.11.0 plus new packages

@grpc/proto-loader v0.1.0

This is a new library for loading .proto files for use with gRPC using the latest version of Protobuf.js. The output of this package is intended to be loaded using the new loadPackageDefinition function in the grpc library.

@grpc/grpc-js v0.1.0

This is the first alpha release of the new pure JavaScript implementation of gRPC. It implements the same API as the existing grpc library. Currently only the client is implemented, with the following functionality:

• loadPackageDefinition
• Unary and streaming calls
• Cancellation
• Deadlines
• Metadata
• Basic automatic reconnection logic
• Channel and call credentials

grpc v1.11.0

Node changes:

• Add client interceptors API (#59 contributed by @drobertduke)
• Add loadPackageDefintion function (#196)
• Publish ARM64 binaries (#200)
• Improve function type test in a client method (#204 contributed by @arcana261)
• Add details to UNIMPLEMENTED response status (#207 contributed by @theogravity)
• Add error handling for missing files when calling grpc.load (#228 contributed by @cblair)
• Fix error message in grpc.loadObject when failing to detect Protobuf.js version (#253 contributed by @kellycampbell)
• Remove -zdefs flag from binding.gyp to enable building on FreeBSD (#266)

Node gRPC v1.10.1

Node changes:

• Update dependency on node-pre-gyp to version 0.7.0 (#245)

C core changes:

• Decrease number of pings sent by clients (grpc/grpc#14804)
• Fix memory leak caused by flow control bug (grpc/grpc#14828)

Node gRPC v1.10.0

C Core Changes

• Fix memory leaks in max_age_filter (grpc/grpc#14501) and http_proxy (grpc/grpc#14137)
• Added re-resolution into grpclb policy (grpc/grpc#14438)
• Update BoringSSL submodule (grpc/grpc#13948)
• Make RR re-resolve when any of its subchannels fail (grpc/grpc#14170)
• DNS resolver caches results, allowing it to be hit arbitrarily often. Resolution frequency is controlled via channel arg "grpc.dns_min_time_between_resolutions_ms". (grpc/grpc#14228)

Node gRPC v1.9.1

• Fix usage of Protobuf.js Message type in TypeScript type definitions file (#177)
• Fix handling of undefined values for optional call arguments (#179)

Node gRPC v1.9.0

• Further improve the error output when failing to load an installed precompiled binary (#175)
• Fix type definition documentation for KeyCertPair (#171)
• Fix server segfault on invalid HTTP/2 (grpc/grpc#14199)
• LB policies request re-resolution without shutting down (grpc/grpc#12829)
• On server, include receiving HTTP/2 settings in handshake timeout (grpc/grpc#13336)
• Fix max connection idleness crash (grpc/grpc#14122)
• Report metadata plugin auth errors with an UNAVAILABLE status instead of UNAUTHENTICATED (grpc/grpc#13363).

Node gRPC v1.8.4

• Add error code name and number to status Error objects for easier debugging. The status details string is now available in the Error object's details field. (#126)
• Made a build process change that may fix some installation errors
• Add more informative error for a missing callback to the Server#tryShutdown method (#143)
• Removed extraneous files from published package
• Mark some network errors with an UNAVAILABLE status (grpc/grpc#13917)
• Fix HTTP/2 PING issues (grpc/grpc#13950)

Node gRPC v1.8.0

• Publish precompiled binaries for Alpine Linux
• Improve the error output when failing to load an installed precompiled binary (#106).