5.3.0

• MINOR export Options interface (#105)

An upgrade is safe for all dependents

It allows typing external methods which expect Options as a param, by importing the Options interface.

import {Options} from 'ignore'

• PATCH fixes normal single asterisk and normal consecutive asterisks defined in gitignore spec (#57)
• PATCH invalid trailing backslash will not throw unexpectedly

An upgrade is recommended for all dependents

The following rules could be not properly parsed with previous ignore versions

**foo
*bar
qu*ux
abc\   # `ignore` would throw if no whitespace after `\`

• PATCH support readonly arrays of typescript. (#70)
• MINOR bring backward compatibility with relative paths. (#75)

An upgrade is recommended for all dependents.

ignore().ignores('../foo/bar.js') // will throw

And the code below will not throw, however it is not recommended

ignore({
  allowRelativePaths: true
}).ignores('../foo/bar.js')

Recommend:

ignore().ignores('foo/bar.js')

• PATCH fixes ignorecase when internal cache is hit. (#74)

An upgrade is recommended for all dependents.

• PATCH fixes escaping for square brackets (#59)

An upgrade is recommended for all dependents.

• PATCH apply the changes of gitignore rules 2.22.1 and fix #56

An upgrade is recommended for all dependents.

• PATCH fixes isPathValid on Windows (#54)

On Windows, if path is an absolute path, ig.ignores(path), ig.test(path) and related methods will now throw an error as expected.

• FEATURE: Typescript: export interface Ignore (#53)

• PATCH: fixes isPathValid in windows (#47)

• PATCH: fixes for windows.
• PATCH: improves tests for typescript and windows.

• SEMVER-MAJOR: #20: it will throw if an invalid pathname passes into .ignores(pathname), see Upgrade 4.x -> 5.x.
• FEATURE: #31: adds a new method .test(pathname).
• BENCHMARK: improves performance by 26%.

• PATCH: Object.prototype methods will not ruin the result any more.