v8.1.0

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Features

• crawl sites from sitemaps (#​895) (c710480)
• include anchor display text in results (#​893) (ba48300)

Bug Fixes

• handle multiple absolute local paths (#​890) (0493cf3)
• honor configured CLI user agent (#​892) (8ffe22e)
• parse link rel as token set (#​891) (16ba254)
• parse quoted meta refresh targets (#​889) (d5718e9)
• preserve local crawl origin through redirects (#​885) (c742c2e)
• recognize top document fragments (#​888) (95218f5)
• report redirect destinations in error mode (#​887) (075a92b)

v8.0.4

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Bug Fixes

• rewrite redirect targets and preserve recursive crawling (#​878) (7d99a3b)

v8.0.3

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Bug Fixes

• deps: update dependency chalk to v6 (#​867) (c3c1265)

v8.0.2

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Bug Fixes

• allow skipping client-side fragment validation (1b28af6), closes #​858

v8.0.1

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Bug Fixes

• honor no_proxy environment variables (#​852) (cec93d5)

v8.0.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• require nodejs 22 and up (#​824)

Features

• Parse MDX files (#​794) (3518692)

Bug Fixes

• apply skip rules across redirects (#​846) (3b52ab2)
• deps: update dependency htmlparser2 to v12 (#​792) (5ce7509)
• deps: update dependency marked to v18 (#​804) (4a96dde)
• deps: update dependency undici to v8 (#​831) (5fba1cb)
• enforce crawl concurrency limit (#​847) (ca9a093)
• harden local static server error handling (#​807) (3b8609d)
• match skip rules against URL fragments (#​848) (bde7c17)

Build System

• require nodejs 22 and up (#​824) (c305a68)

v7.6.1

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Bug Fixes

• docker version tagging (#​781) (1db51fb)

v7.6.0

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Features

• build and publish docker images on release (#​773) (0588ab2)

Bug Fixes

• add @​types/node to devDependencies (#​777) (ec620ab)
• docker image follow-up improvements (#​780) (29ccd7f)
• respect http_proxy and https_proxy environment variables (#​778) (6a38f9b)
• validate same-page fragment links (#​770) (#​771) (c2a4476)

v7.5.3

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Bug Fixes

• include build/package.json in npm package (#​764) (1f83f3b)

v7.5.2

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Bug Fixes

• exclude local static server from requireHttps enforcement (#​762) (0805320)
• make --version flag work in compiled binaries (#​760) (455fd37)

v7.5.1

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Bug Fixes

• deps: update dependency glob to v11 [security] (#​748) (b9f6660)
• deps: update dependency glob to v13 (#​751) (de4f2df)
• deps: update dependency marked to v17 (#​744) (57306c5)
• handle unhandled promise rejections in retry behavior (#​754) (#​757) (e16ce35)
• only report duplicate results for broken links (#​750) (#​755) (6941006)
• prevent port exhaustion by reusing HTTP agents (#​753) (#​756) (a8f7605)

v7.5.0

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Features

• add support for scanning JSON-LD (#​742) (6e82632)

v7.4.2

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Bug Fixes

• ensure --allow-insecure-certs works on native builds (#​740) (c4d02ca)

v7.4.1

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Bug Fixes

• add GitHub-style heading IDs for markdown fragment validation (#​735) (9516653)

v7.4.0

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Features

• add configurable status code handling (#​627, #​718) (#​733) (b5ef84c)

Bug Fixes

• normalize base URLs for correct relative link resolution (#​374) (#​732) (1b8c330)
• replace emojis with Unicode symbols for Windows compatibility (#​730) (321ff07)

v7.3.0

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Features

• add clean URLs support for extensionless links (#​727) (7a622c6)
• add CSS URL extraction support (#​722) (565c71d)
• add fragment identifier validation (#​79) (#​723) (1ac4526)
• add support for meta refresh redirects (#​719) (86d7271)

Bug Fixes

• remove default browser User-Agent to prevent redirect loops (#​721) (811a833)
• skip fragment validation for non-2xx responses and soft 404s (#​726) (7cd2b49)

v7.2.0

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Features

• add --allow-insecure-certs flag for local development (#​716) (6aa769c)
• add --require-https flag for HTTPS enforcement (#​715) (439451f)
• add support for custom HTTP headers (#​711) (14f4ebf)
• handle 429s without retry-after header as error (#​674) (9280037)
• introduce flag for managing redirects (#​712) (27824d4)
• support non-standard retry-after header formats (#​713) (8f9ca39)

Bug Fixes

• address LinkedIn and Cloudflare bot protection as skipped (#​709) (bc08e2b)
• preserve query parameters in directory redirects (#​714) (689c20f)

v7.1.3

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release

• cut 7.0 release (#​687) (c39b0f0)

Features

• accept globs for paths (#​199) (b47f4b6)
• add --server-root flag (#​191) (bae9d38)
• add filter function as an option to linkinator.check() (#​120) (8240159)
• add a --format flag to allow output in json or csv (#​54) (fdb2311)
• add basic support for markdown (#​188) (524f600)
• add option for setting user agent (#​612) (929caa7)
• add retry-errors option (#​354) (2ca5a36)
• add srcset attribute support (#​51) (3569d51)
• add support for config files (#​74) (2c118b3)
• add support for multiple paths (#​194) (e70dff6)
• add support for url rewrites (#​317) (2f1b5b1)
• add support for xhtml (#​93) (08084de)
• add timeout config option (#​168) (2f3a6d3)
• add verbosity flag to CLI (#​214) (d20cff5)
• allow --skip to be defined multiple times (#​399) (5ca5a46)
• auto-enable markdown parsing when in path (#​200) (c40be4b)
• cli: add silent flag (#​58) (10d6fb1)
• Config: Support for Javascript based config files (#​516) (1013780)
• convert to es modules, drop node 10 (#​359) (efee299)
• create new release with notes (#​508) (2cab633)
• distribute bundled binaries (#​204) (8d8472a)
• drop support for node 18 (#​670) (25711d9)
• enable concurrent requests (#​101) (9c3d184)
• exponential backoff (#​355) (3f24ea6)
• expose error details when verbosity=DEBUG (#​215) (cf29469)
• handle cloudflare bot protection (#​686) (e59fcd8)
• introduce retry-after detection (#​221) (cebea21)
• re-enable binary releases (#​697) (f083dd9)
• release 7.0 (#​689) (45121ca)
• release 7.0 (#​690) (839f3b8)
• release 7.0 actually (#​688) (223b5f2)
• require node.js 16 and up (#​550) (4310692)
• require node.js 16 and up (#​551) (4d682bf)
• scan all href, src, or other valid url attrs (#​25) (ddf1fa4)
• scan opengraph and twittercard style meta links (#​217) (a8c0a43)
• Send requests with human User-Agent header to reduce false positives. (#​134) (9a32354)
• support directory listings (#​225) (39cf9d2)

Bug Fixes

• add caching to avoid cycles (4d130d2)
• add cleanup setInterval() (#​358) (39a8da2)
• add declaration true to compilerOptions to generate d.ts files (#​576) (b806665)
• add try/catch for malformed links (#​50) (477d749)
• address srcset parsing with multiple spaces (#​512) (fefb5b6)
• allow server root with trailing slash (#​370) (8adf6b0)
• allow skip to be defined as an array (#​222) (c752724)
• allow system to generate random port when desired (#​319) (#​328) (7b9d493)
• always send custom User-Agent (#​210) (7c84936)
• bug where it would fail urls that were valid (#​159) (2f5599b)
• bump dependencies (#​94) (f651772)
• calc relative paths based on current url (#​42) (56a74e8)
• cli: load linkinator.config.json by default (#​611) (0aea0f1)
• configure OIDC publishing, attempt 2 (#​702) (7b6f64e)
• decode path parts in local web server (#​369) (4696a0c)
• deps: revert back to marked 13 (#​665) (ddb7f92)
• deps: update dependency chalk to v3 (#​100) (407684f)
• deps: update dependency chalk to v4 (#​162) (9c26c5a)
• deps: update dependency chalk to v5 (#​362) (4b17a8d)
• deps: update dependency ecstatic to v4 (#​52) (35362db)
• deps: update dependency gaxios to v2 (#​56) (343fe12)
• deps: update dependency gaxios to v3 (#​157) (d27cbfb)
• deps: update dependency gaxios to v4 (#​185) (c915959)
• deps: update dependency gaxios to v5 (#​391) (48af50e)
• deps: update dependency htmlparser2 to v9 (#​547) (1a58441)
• deps: update dependency jsonexport to v3 (#​170) (f7c6b3a)
• deps: update dependency marked to v10 (#​578) (9abb602)
• deps: update dependency marked to v13 (#​606) (5d4e747)
• deps: update dependency marked to v16 (#​660) (cb2dadb)
• deps: update dependency marked to v2 [security] (#​271) (f9c13e9)
• deps: update dependency meow to v13 (#​584) (c50b02f)
• deps: update dependency meow to v6 (#​125) (3bd911c)
• deps: update dependency meow to v7 (#​169) (a6ed6f0)
• deps: update dependency meow to v8 (#​186) (e23c0dd)
• deps: update dependency meow to v9 (#​232) (6374c60)
• deps: update dependency mime to v3 (#​351) (e51c8a8)
• deps: update dependency update-notifier to v3 (#​65) (4c44706)
• deps: update dependency update-notifier to v4 (#​126) (6f1ecdb)
• deps: update dependency update-notifier to v5 (#​181) (e5b1aca)
• deps: update to the latest version of cheerio (#​316) (999fca3)
• deps: upgrade marked to v7 (#​564) (07013cc)
• deps: upgrade node-glob to v8 (#​397) (d334dc6)
• deps: upgrade to cheerio 1.0.0-rc.5 (#​229) (936af89)
• deps: upgrade to glob 9.x (#​542) (18780cb)
• deps: upgrade to htmlparser10 (#​661) (8f366fd)
• deps: upgrade to htmlparser2 v8.0.1 (#​396) (ba3b9a8)
• deps: upgrade to marked 16 (#​671) (2dd258b)
• deps: upgrade to marked v12 (#​603) (862d89e)
• deps: upgrade to meow 12.x (#​549) (03417c4)
• deps: upgrade to meow 14 (#​683) (291cbc0)
• deps: upgrade to the latest meow (#​530) (e3d929b)
• do not crash on unresolved domain (#​22) (629b83c)
• do not follow data URIs (#​98) (f8eefcb)
• do not follow irc links (#​97) (e55edb1)
• do not include skipped links in the final link count (#​277) (ea89b42)
• docs: fix spelling errors (#​109) (1d10a00)
• drop CSV quotes when not needed (#​692) (0109d35)
• ensure cli process exits (#​698) (6b365ea)
• ensure verbosity flag is enabled for config (#​266) (668aad6)
• export getConfig from index (#​371) (0bc0355)
• export getConfig from index (#​626) (ba65cf0)
• follow verbosity rules for JSON and CSV (#​216) (9eb5590)
• get the tests passing (#​17) (e2faf3f)
• handle base correctly (#​114) (9813a61)
• handle querystring parameters in path (#​276) (245b3bd)
• handle trailing slash on redirects (#​699) (5f62d75)
• hide links with no results in silent mode (#​102) (164a074)
• ignore all non-http[s] links (#​111) (2f28114)
• ignore prefetch and connect for link (#​145) (154eb2b)
• improve the output style (a3ee71d)
• JSON stringify failure details for CSV (#​613) (13ab5b0)
• map paths in results back to filesystem (#​231) (5f7bb18)
• migrate from gaxios to undici (#​684) (8df9423)
• migrate to release-please (#​704) (5460ddc)
• only crawl exact host matches (#​99) (846f545)
• perf: links are queued just once (#​154) (5f89458)
• perf: reduce total memory consumption (#​153) (aa139da)
• perf: refactor to use htmlparser2 (#​335) (ce88410)
• perf: use request streams to reduce memory usage (#​336) (6e33b39)
• print the stats even after a fail (#​38) (a4136aa)
• properly calculate relative paths (#​40) (aa2e9c9)
• properly parse srcset attribute (#​510) (9a8a83c)
• remove express dependency (#​198) (429b325)
• remove file import prefix to please ncc (#​526) (ca3f275)
• remove update-notifier (#​519) (90fa80e)
• repair windows support, add CI (#​64) (2f4e462)
• report links in all parent contexts (#​696) (b4b1088)
• resolve conflict with -s short flag (#​72) (1784b38)
• resolve glob paths based on server root (#​218) (fee112b)
• respect recursive rules (#​26) (877a32b)
• retry on href not host (#​357) (54a1994)
• send a HEAD instead of GET at first (#​29) (7dc7139)
• skip mailto links (#​23) (25e1882)
• skip scanning non-html files (#​31) (28c52b1)
• special handling of srcset attribute (#​342) (ea23759)
• stream CSV results (#​507) (a376199)
• stringify js for json (#​118) (d653f2c)
• support commas and spaces in linksToSkip (#​226) (a7d8625)
• throw error when glob returns no results (#​207) (217074e)
• upgrade to mime v4 (#​586) (4009fa9)
• use custom HTTP server (#​265) (9b0b206)
• use GET instead of HEAD for now (a59e7aa)
• use OIDC for releases (#​700) (5f9c5b9)
• use OIDC for releases, attempt 3 (#​703) (fe9a8dd)
• use recursive scanning (850d5b0)

Build System

• drop support for node 16 (#​575) (351a7c9)
• drop support for node.js 8.x (#​142) (85642bd)
• drop support for nodejs 12.x (#​506) (5ef0e1e)

v7.1.2

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Bug Fixes

• handle trailing slash on redirects (#​699) (5f62d75)

v7.1.1

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Bug Fixes

• ensure cli process exits (#​698) (6b365ea)

v7.1.0

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Features

• re-enable binary releases (#​697) (f083dd9)

v7.0.2

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Bug Fixes

• report links in all parent contexts (#​696) (b4b1088)

v7.0.1

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Bug Fixes

• drop CSV quotes when not needed (#​692) (0109d35)

v7.0.0

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• feat!: release 7.0 (#​690) (839f3b8)

BREAKING CHANGES

• this drops support for node.js 18, and makes a significant change to the underlying HTTP transport.