v0.27.0

Better node 4+ support!

• Separate code paths for "merged" node
• Clearer error messages
• Sort nvm ls-remote output so the order is: "pre-merged", "iojs", "post-merged".

Installing from source?

io.js and node v4.0+ still do not yet support installing from source. This isn't because it's hard to implement, it's because the tests for it time out on travis-ci. I don't want to add critical functionality without tests. I'm still trying to get this implemented and tested.

Release candidates?

io.js and node v4.0+ release candidate support is coming. It will not be enabled by default: you'll have to export an explicit environment variable to turn it on. However, this will allow node core developers, and module developers, to test upcoming releases easily on travis-ci and locally. Keep an eye out for it!

Having an npm prefix now errors out properly!

Essentially, the "prefix" option in npm breaks nvm, because global modules won't be stored within $NVM_DIR. nvm will now refuse to function if you have this set, eliminating much confusion!

• Ensure that if npm config get prefix is set to something outside nvm, that nvm use refuses to work (#606)

Other Enhancements

• Allow --silent option to nvm use to be in any position
• Print the npm version when using nvm exec or nvm run.
• Add support for --silent to nvm run and nvm exec (#842)

Fixes

• Use NVM_VERSION instead of VERSION when sourcing to be a bit less intrusive (#820)
• When no io.js versions are installed, show N/A, not io.js-, as the resolved default alias (#822)
• Fix install script to not lie and claim to be auto-sourcing nvm.sh (#826, #827)
• Use a tighter grep to avoid dnvm.sh conflicts (#838)

Documentation

• Add nvm help documentation for nvm exec

v0.26.1

Road to Post-Merger Node Support

• Ensure after node v4.0 is released, stable will simply refer to the latest node.
• Still TODO: use io.js installation code path for node versions > v1.0

Fixes

• Prefixing more commands with command to bypass aliases (#804, #805)
• Fixing an overzealous command-ification (#808)

v0.26.0

Breaking Changes

• Remove $NVM_IOJS_ORG_VERSION_LISTING env var.
  • you probably weren't using this for anything anyways. Now the version listing is just $NVM_IOJS_ORG_MIRROR/index.tab
• nvm reinstall-packages should install the same version it had before.
  • Previously, reinstall-packages would just reinstall the same packages, but at the latest version. Now, it attempts to preserve the version number you had it at before.

Installation

• Source the nvm.sh file automatically upon install (#775)
• Better profile detection: detect shell type from $SHELL variable instead of .$SHELLrc files (#765)

Fixes

• Fix "reinstall" output wording (#778)
• Fix nvm debug output in zsh
• Redirect stderr output from npm ls -g to /dev/null (#756)

New things

• Automatically add --without-snapshot build parameter when installing from source on ARM (#766)
• Add --silent option to nvm use to suppress output (#780)
• Add nvm version-remote

Performance

• Speed up nvm_print_npm_version
• Refactor a nvm use case statement out into an nvm_match_version function
• Make nvm_ensure_version_installed slightly more efficient

Refactoring

• Factor out global installs/links into nvm_npm_global_modules function
• Some refactoring to clear up the path to io.js release candidate support (related to #779)

Dev Dependencies

• Update semver

Documentation

• Updated usage instructions to include --reinstall-packages-from syntax and example (#795)
• document nvm version and nvm version-remote in nvm --help output
• Add usage string for --reinstall-packages-from (#797)
• Add explanatory note to --help output for <version>
• Clean up grammar in readme (#799)
• Replace links to nvm-fish and nvm-fish-wrapper with a link to bass (#802)

v0.25.4

Fixes

• Use the original ls instead of aliases in bash_completion (#755)

v0.25.3

Fixes

• Make sure sourcing nvm.sh on shells that don't support source options doesn't exit nonzero (#721)

v0.24.2

Fixes

• Make sure sourcing nvm.sh on shells that don't support source options doesn't exit nonzero (#721)

v0.25.2

Fixes

• Fix curl installation instructions
• Make sure that nvm reinstall-packages system has the right std output.
• nvm reinstall-packages: On systems where npm ls -g --depth=0 does not include npm for some reason, make sure to filter out (empty).

Enhancements (not worth a minor bump)

• Add wrapping curly braces to ensure that the entire scripts are downloaded. If the closing curly brace isn't present, the script will error out.
• Add undocumented nvm debug to print out helpful debugging info.

v0.25.1

Enhancement slash fixes

• Make sure to ignore any curl settings in ~/.curlrc, if it exists.
• Actually try to install from source when the error message says "binary failed, trying source".
• Use uname -m instead of uname -a to detect installation architecture (#744)
• Improve the error message when the binary tarball URL 404s. (#743)

Testing

• Only test the install script in bash, since it only runs in bash.

v0.25.0

Bugfixes

• install.sh: Ensure that the --quiet option is available before trying to use it. (#738, #657)
• When no arguments are passed to nvm run X, use nvm exec to open a REPL (#625, #717)
• Adding .gitattributes to force unix line endings (#728, #741)

New features

• Include npm version when displaying the results of nvm use (#722)
• adding architecture detection for Raspberry Pi 2/armv71 (#742)

Performance

• Consolidate and avoid sed/cut calls, clean up pattern matches (#718)

Misc

• General README improvements (#726, #735)

v0.24.1

• Bugfixes
  • Fix nvm reinstall-packages support for npm linked packages (#693)
  • Fix error message when sourcing nvm.sh on shells that don't support sourcing options (#694)
  • Only filter the package npm, not any package name that contains npm (#690)
  • Make help error output actually output to stderr consistently.
• Performance
  • Improve startup performance. (#703, #705)
  • Combine sed and grep commands in nvm ls code (#710)
  • Consolidate faster default alias lookup, and use that explicit version to avoid a second default alias lookup in nvm use default.
  • Remove some external calls using parameter filtering and case statements. (relates to #709)
  • Cache a few function calls; clean up some logic.
• Testing
  • Make sure npm run test/fast passes whether there's a system node installed or not.
  • Use ksh/zsh travis-ci addons to avoid the need for sudo apt-get install.