**6.11.0

[New] [Fix] stringify: revert 0e903c0; add commaRoundTrip option (#442)
[readme] fix version badge

6.10.5

[Fix] stringify: with arrayFormat: comma, properly include an explicit [] on a single-item array (#434)

6.10.4

[Fix] stringify: with arrayFormat: comma, include an explicit [] on a single-item array (#441)
[meta] use npmignore to autogenerate an npmignore file
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, aud, has-symbol, object-inspect, tape

6.10.3

[Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
[Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
[actions] reuse common workflows
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, object-inspect, tape

6.10.2

[Fix] stringify: actually fix cyclic references (#426)
[Fix] stringify: avoid encoding arrayformat comma when encodeValuesOnly = true (#424)
[readme] remove travis badge; add github actions/codecov badges; update URLs
[Docs] add note and links for coercing primitive values (#408)
[actions] update codecov uploader
[actions] update workflows
[Tests] clean up stringify tests slightly
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, aud, object-inspect, safe-publish-latest, tape

6.10.1

[Fix] stringify: avoid exception on repeated object values (#402)

6.10.0

[New] stringify: throw on cycles, instead of an infinite loop (#395, #394, #393)
[New] parse: add allowSparse option for collapsing arrays with missing indices (#312)
[meta] fix README.md (#399)
[meta] only run npm run dist in publish, not install
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, aud, has-symbols, tape
[Tests] fix tests on node v0.6
[Tests] use ljharb/actions/node/install instead of ljharb/actions/node/run
[Tests] Revert "[meta] ignore eclint transitive audit warning"

6.9.7

[Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
[Fix] stringify: avoid encoding arrayformat comma when encodeValuesOnly = true (#424)
[Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
[readme] remove travis badge; add github actions/codecov badges; update URLs
[Docs] add note and links for coercing primitive values (#408)
[Tests] clean up stringify tests slightly
[meta] fix README.md (#399)
Revert "[meta] ignore eclint transitive audit warning"
[actions] backport actions from main
[Dev Deps] backport updates from main

6.9.6

[Fix] restore dist dir; mistakenly removed in d4f6c32

6.9.5

[Fix] stringify: do not encode parens for RFC1738
[Fix] stringify: fix arrayFormat comma with empty array/objects (#350)
[Refactor] format: remove util.assign call
[meta] add "Allow Edits" workflow; update rebase workflow
[actions] switch Automatic Rebase workflow to pull_request_target event
[Tests] stringify: add tests for #378
[Tests] migrate tests to Github Actions
[Tests] run nyc on all tests; use tape runner
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, browserify, mkdirp, object-inspect, tape; add aud

6.9.4

[Fix] stringify: when arrayFormat is comma, respect serializeDate (#364)
[Refactor] stringify: reduce branching (part of #350)
[Refactor] move maybeMap to utils
[Dev Deps] update browserify, tape

6.9.3

[Fix] proper comma parsing of URL-encoded commas (#361)
[Fix] parses comma delimited array while having percent-encoded comma treated as normal text (#336)

6.9.2

[Fix] parse: Fix parsing array from object with comma true (#359)
[Fix] parse: throw a TypeError instead of an Error for bad charset (#349)
[meta] ignore eclint transitive audit warning
[meta] fix indentation in package.json
[meta] add tidelift marketing copy
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, object-inspect, has-symbols, tape, mkdirp, iconv-lite
[actions] add automatic rebasing / merge commit blocking

6.9.1

[Fix] parse: with comma true, handle field that holds an array of arrays (#335)
[Fix] parse: with comma true, do not split non-string values (#334)
[meta] add funding field
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config
[Tests] use shared travis-ci config

6.9.0

[New] parse/stringify: Pass extra key/value argument to decoder (#333)
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, evalmd
[Tests] parse: add passing arrayFormat tests
[Tests] add posttest using npx aud to run npm audit without a lockfile
[Tests] up to node v12.10, v11.15, v10.16, v8.16
[Tests] Buffer.from in node v5.0-v5.9 and v4.0-v4.4 requires a TypedArray

6.8.3

[Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
[Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
[Fix] stringify: avoid encoding arrayformat comma when encodeValuesOnly = true (#424)
[readme] remove travis badge; add github actions/codecov badges; update URLs
[Tests] clean up stringify tests slightly
[Docs] add note and links for coercing primitive values (#408)
[meta] fix README.md (#399)
[actions] backport actions from main
[Dev Deps] backport updates from main
[Refactor] stringify: reduce branching
[meta] do not publish workflow files

6.8.2

[Fix] proper comma parsing of URL-encoded commas (#361)
[Fix] parses comma delimited array while having percent-encoded comma treated as normal text (#336)

6.8.1

[Fix] parse: Fix parsing array from object with comma true (#359)
[Fix] parse: throw a TypeError instead of an Error for bad charset (#349)
[Fix] parse: with comma true, handle field that holds an array of arrays (#335)
[fix] parse: with comma true, do not split non-string values (#334)
[meta] add tidelift marketing copy
[meta] add funding field
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, tape, safe-publish-latest, evalmd, has-symbols, iconv-lite, mkdirp, object-inspect
[Tests] parse: add passing arrayFormat tests
[Tests] use shared travis-ci configs
[Tests] Buffer.from in node v5.0-v5.9 and v4.0-v4.4 requires a TypedArray
[actions] add automatic rebasing / merge commit blocking

6.8.0

[New] add depth=false to preserve the original key; [Fix] depth=0 should preserve the original key (#326)
[New] [Fix] stringify symbols and bigints
[Fix] ensure node 0.12 can stringify Symbols
[Fix] fix for an impossible situation: when the formatter is called with a non-string value
[Refactor] formats: tiny bit of cleanup.
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, browserify, safe-publish-latest, iconv-lite, tape
[Tests] add tests for depth=0 and depth=false behavior, both current and intuitive/intended (#326)
[Tests] use eclint instead of editorconfig-tools
[docs] readme: add security note
[meta] add github sponsorship
[meta] add FUNDING.yml
[meta] Clean up license text so it’s properly detected as BSD-3-Clause

6.7.3

[Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
[Fix] stringify: avoid encoding arrayformat comma when encodeValuesOnly = true (#424)
[Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
[readme] remove travis badge; add github actions/codecov badges; update URLs
[Docs] add note and links for coercing primitive values (#408)
[meta] fix README.md (#399)
[meta] do not publish workflow files
[actions] backport actions from main
[Dev Deps] backport updates from main
[Tests] use nyc for coverage
[Tests] clean up stringify tests slightly

6.7.2

[Fix] proper comma parsing of URL-encoded commas (#361)
[Fix] parses comma delimited array while having percent-encoded comma treated as normal text (#336)

6.7.1

[Fix] parse: Fix parsing array from object with comma true (#359)
[Fix] parse: with comma true, handle field that holds an array of arrays (#335)
[fix] parse: with comma true, do not split non-string values (#334)
[Fix] parse: throw a TypeError instead of an Error for bad charset (#349)
[Fix] fix for an impossible situation: when the formatter is called with a non-string value
[Refactor] formats: tiny bit of cleanup.
readme: add security note
[meta] add tidelift marketing copy
[meta] add funding field
[meta] add FUNDING.yml
[meta] Clean up license text so it’s properly detected as BSD-3-Clause
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, tape, safe-publish-latest, evalmd, iconv-lite, mkdirp, object-inspect, browserify
[Tests] parse: add passing arrayFormat tests
[Tests] use shared travis-ci configs
[Tests] Buffer.from in node v5.0-v5.9 and v4.0-v4.4 requires a TypedArray
[Tests] add tests for depth=0 and depth=false behavior, both current and intuitive/intended
[Tests] use eclint instead of editorconfig-tools
[actions] add automatic rebasing / merge commit blocking

6.7.0

[New] stringify/parse: add comma as an arrayFormat option (#276, #219)
[Fix] correctly parse nested arrays (#212)
[Fix] utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and a truthy non-array source, also with an array source
[Robustness] stringify: cache Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty
[Refactor] utils: isBuffer: small tweak; add tests
[Refactor] use cached Array.isArray
[Refactor] parse/stringify: make a function to normalize the options
[Refactor] utils: reduce observable [[Get]]s
[Refactor] stringify/utils: cache Array.isArray
[Tests] always use String(x) over x.toString()
[Tests] fix Buffer tests to work in node < 4.5 and node < 5.10
[Tests] temporarily allow coverage to fail

6.6.1

[Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
[Fix] fix for an impossible situation: when the formatter is called with a non-string value
[Fix] utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and an array source
[Fix] utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and a truthy non-array source
[Fix] correctly parse nested arrays
[Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
[Robustness] stringify: cache Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty
[Refactor] formats: tiny bit of cleanup.
[Refactor] utils: isBuffer: small tweak; add tests
[Refactor]: stringify/utils: cache Array.isArray
[Refactor] utils: reduce observable [[Get]]s
[Refactor] use cached Array.isArray
[Refactor] parse/stringify: make a function to normalize the options
[readme] remove travis badge; add github actions/codecov badges; update URLs
[Docs] Clarify the need for "arrayLimit" option
[meta] fix README.md (#399)
[meta] do not publish workflow files
[meta] Clean up license text so it’s properly detected as BSD-3-Clause
[meta] add FUNDING.yml
[meta] Fixes typo in CHANGELOG.md
[actions] backport actions from main
[Tests] fix Buffer tests to work in node < 4.5 and node < 5.10
[Tests] always use String(x) over x.toString()
[Dev Deps] backport from main

6.6.0

[New] Add support for iso-8859-1, utf8 "sentinel" and numeric entities (#268)
[New] move two-value combine to a utils function (#189)
[Fix] stringify: fix a crash with strictNullHandling and a custom filter/serializeDate (#279)
[Fix] when parseArrays is false, properly handle keys ending in [] (#260)
[Fix] stringify: do not crash in an obscure combo of interpretNumericEntities, a bad custom decoder, & iso-8859-1
[Fix] utils: merge: fix crash when source is a truthy primitive & no options are provided
[refactor] stringify: Avoid arr = arr.concat(...), push to the existing instance (#269)
[Refactor] parse: only need to reassign the var once
[Refactor] parse/stringify: clean up charset options checking; fix defaults
[Refactor] add missing defaults
[Refactor] parse: one less concat call
[Refactor] utils: compactQueue: make it explicitly side-effecting
[Dev Deps] update browserify, eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, iconv-lite, safe-publish-latest, tape
[Tests] up to node v10.10, v9.11, v8.12, v6.14, v4.9; pin included builds to LTS

6.5.3

[Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
[Fix]utils.merge`: avoid a crash with a null target and a truthy non-array source
[Fix] correctly parse nested arrays
[Fix] stringify: fix a crash with strictNullHandling and a custom filter/serializeDate (#279)
[Fix] utils: merge: fix crash when source is a truthy primitive & no options are provided
[Fix] when parseArrays is false, properly handle keys ending in []
[Fix] fix for an impossible situation: when the formatter is called with a non-string value
[Fix] utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and an array source
[Refactor] utils: reduce observable [[Get]]s
[Refactor] use cached Array.isArray
[Refactor] stringify: Avoid arr = arr.concat(...), push to the existing instance (#269)
[Refactor] parse: only need to reassign the var once
[Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
[readme] remove travis badge; add github actions/codecov badges; update URLs
[Docs] Clean up license text so it’s properly detected as BSD-3-Clause
[Docs] Clarify the need for "arrayLimit" option
[meta] fix README.md (#399)
[meta] add FUNDING.yml
[actions] backport actions from main
[Tests] always use String(x) over x.toString()
[Tests] remove nonexistent tape option
[Dev Deps] backport from main

6.5.2

[Fix] use safer-buffer instead of Buffer constructor
[Refactor] utils: module.exports one thing, instead of mutating exports (#230)
[Dev Deps] update browserify, eslint, iconv-lite, safer-buffer, tape, browserify

6.5.1

[Fix] Fix parsing & compacting very deep objects (#224)
[Refactor] name utils functions
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, tape
[Tests] up to node v8.4; use nvm install-latest-npm so newer npm doesn’t break older node
[Tests] Use precise dist for Node.js 0.6 runtime (#225)
[Tests] make 0.6 required, now that it’s passing
[Tests] on node v8.2; fix npm on node 0.6

6.5.0

[New] add utils.assign
[New] pass default encoder/decoder to custom encoder/decoder functions (#206)
[New] parse/stringify: add ignoreQueryPrefix/addQueryPrefix options, respectively (#213)
[Fix] Handle stringifying empty objects with addQueryPrefix (#217)
[Fix] do not mutate options argument (#207)
[Refactor] parse: cache index to reuse in else statement (#182)
[Docs] add various badges to readme (#208)
[Dev Deps] update eslint, browserify, iconv-lite, tape
[Tests] up to node v8.1, v7.10, v6.11; npm v4.6 breaks on node < v1; npm v5+ breaks on node < v4
[Tests] add editorconfig-tools

6.4.1

[Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
[Fix] fix for an impossible situation: when the formatter is called with a non-string value
[Fix] use safer-buffer instead of Buffer constructor
[Fix] utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and an array source
[Fix]utils.merge`: avoid a crash with a null target and a truthy non-array source
[Fix] stringify: fix a crash with strictNullHandling and a custom filter/serializeDate (#279)
[Fix] utils: merge: fix crash when source is a truthy primitive & no options are provided
[Fix] when parseArrays is false, properly handle keys ending in []
[Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
[Refactor] use cached Array.isArray
[Refactor] stringify: Avoid arr = arr.concat(...), push to the existing instance (#269)
[readme] remove travis badge; add github actions/codecov badges; update URLs
[Docs] Clarify the need for "arrayLimit" option
[meta] fix README.md (#399)
[meta] Clean up license text so it’s properly detected as BSD-3-Clause
[meta] add FUNDING.yml
[actions] backport actions from main
[Tests] remove nonexistent tape option
[Dev Deps] backport from main

6.4.0

[New] qs.stringify: add encodeValuesOnly option
[Fix] follow allowPrototypes option during merge (#201, #201)
[Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
[Fix] chmod a-x
[Dev Deps] update eslint
[Tests] up to node v7.7, v6.10,v4.8; disable osx builds since they block linux builds
[eslint] reduce warnings

6.3.3

[Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
[Fix] fix for an impossible situation: when the formatter is called with a non-string value
[Fix] utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and an array source
[Fix]utils.merge`: avoid a crash with a null target and a truthy non-array source
[Fix] stringify: fix a crash with strictNullHandling and a custom filter/serializeDate (#279)
[Fix] utils: merge: fix crash when source is a truthy primitive & no options are provided
[Fix] when parseArrays is false, properly handle keys ending in []
[Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
[Refactor] use cached Array.isArray
[Refactor] stringify: Avoid arr = arr.concat(...), push to the existing instance (#269)
[Docs] Clarify the need for "arrayLimit" option
[meta] fix README.md (#399)
[meta] Clean up license text so it’s properly detected as BSD-3-Clause
[meta] add FUNDING.yml
[actions] backport actions from main
[Tests] use safer-buffer instead of Buffer constructor
[Tests] remove nonexistent tape option
[Dev Deps] backport from main

6.3.2

[Fix] follow allowPrototypes option during merge (#201, #200)
[Dev Deps] update eslint
[Fix] chmod a-x
[Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
[Tests] up to node v7.7, v6.10,v4.8; disable osx builds since they block linux builds

6.3.1

[Fix] ensure that allowPrototypes: false does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties (thanks, @snyk!)
[Dev Deps] update eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, browserify, iconv-lite, qs-iconv, tape
[Tests] on all node minors; improve test matrix
[Docs] document stringify option allowDots (#195)
[Docs] add empty object and array values example (#195)
[Docs] Fix minor inconsistency/typo (#192)
[Docs] document stringify option sort (#191)
[Refactor] stringify: throw faster with an invalid encoder
[Refactor] remove unnecessary escapes (#184)
Remove contributing.md, since qs is no longer part of hapi (#183)

6.3.0

[New] Add support for RFC 1738 (#174, #173)
[New] stringify: Add serializeDate option to customize Date serialization (#159)
[Fix] ensure utils.merge handles merging two arrays
[Refactor] only constructors should be capitalized
[Refactor] capitalized var names are for constructors only
[Refactor] avoid using a sparse array
[Robustness] formats: cache String#replace
[Dev Deps] update browserify, eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config; add safe-publish-latest
[Tests] up to node v6.8, v4.6; improve test matrix
[Tests] flesh out arrayLimit/arrayFormat tests (#107)
[Tests] skip Object.create tests when null objects are not available
[Tests] Turn on eslint for test files (#175)

6.2.4

[Fix] parse: ignore __proto__ keys (#428)
[Fix] utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and an array source
[Fix] utils.merge: avoid a crash with a null target and a truthy non-array source
[Fix] utils: merge: fix crash when source is a truthy primitive & no options are provided
[Fix] when parseArrays is false, properly handle keys ending in []
[Robustness] stringify: avoid relying on a global undefined (#427)
[Refactor] use cached Array.isArray
[Docs] Clarify the need for "arrayLimit" option
[meta] fix README.md (#399)
[meta] Clean up license text so it’s properly detected as BSD-3-Clause
[meta] add FUNDING.yml
[actions] backport actions from main
[Tests] use safer-buffer instead of Buffer constructor
[Tests] remove nonexistent tape option
[Dev Deps] backport from main

6.2.3

[Fix] follow allowPrototypes option during merge (#201, #200)
[Fix] chmod a-x
[Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
[Tests] up to node v7.7, v6.10,v4.8; disable osx builds since they block linux builds

6.2.2

[Fix] ensure that allowPrototypes: false does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties

6.2.1

[Fix] ensure key[]=x&key[]&key[]=y results in 3, not 2, values
[Refactor] Be explicit and use Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call
[Tests] remove parallelshell since it does not reliably report failures
[Tests] up to node v6.3, v5.12
[Dev Deps] update tape, eslint, @ljharb/eslint-config, qs-iconv

6.2.0

[New] pass Buffers to the encoder/decoder directly (#161)
[New] add "encoder" and "decoder" options, for custom param encoding/decoding (#160)
[Fix] fix compacting of nested sparse arrays (#150)

**6.1.2

[Fix] follow allowPrototypes option during merge (#201, #200)
[Fix] chmod a-x
[Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
[Tests] up to node v7.7, v6.10,v4.8; disable osx builds since they block linux builds

6.1.1

[Fix] ensure that allowPrototypes: false does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties

6.1.0

[New] allowDots option for stringify (#151)
[Fix] "sort" option should work at a depth of 3 or more (#151)
[Fix] Restore dist directory; will be removed in v7 (#148)

6.0.4

[Fix] follow allowPrototypes option during merge (#201, #200)
[Fix] chmod a-x
[Fix] support keys starting with brackets (#202, #200)
[Tests] up to node v7.7, v6.10,v4.8; disable osx builds since they block linux builds

6.0.3

[Fix] ensure that allowPrototypes: false does not ever shadow Object.prototype properties
[Fix] Restore dist directory; will be removed in v7 (#148)