Changes

• Changed API to take an options object
  • Old API is also accepted without warning (it may be deprecated in the next major)
• emit remove event when files or directories are not found during initial scan
  • It's assumed that they are removed between reading and watching start

Features

• add watching of missing items

Bugfixes

• removals and changes in the aggregated event no longer both contain a file

Breaking Changes

• increase minimum node.js version to 10

Bugfixes

• use options identify instead of stringified options

Performance

• avoid calling process.nextTick when unneeded on watcher creation
• cache time entry map in Watcher
• close watchers faster
• avoid an unneeded filter call

Features

• allow all Iterables instead of only Array

Features

• add followSymlinks option

Bugfixes

• Normalize readdir result to NFC
• Skip watching the root of the filesystem as file even when requested

Dependencies

• move dependency to devDependency

Features

• add ignored option

Bugfixes

• Polling no longer uses fs.watchFile but polls the directory directly

Contributing

• added prettier

Bugfixes

• fix a bug where scanning got stuck

• set polling interval for binary files too
• update chokidar to v2
• OSX: not existing directories can be watched
• adding files now also causes change events

Bugfixes:

• don't adjust fs accuracy on inital scan

Bugfixes:

• track removal times

Bugfixes:

• readd mtimes property

Bugfixes:

• Fixed watch for directories containing special glob characters
• Handle directory added event correctly

• Fix watch callback being called twice during initial build.
• Fix remove event not being emitted.
• Update async dependency.
• Tests for macOS finally work again.