v9.0.0-preview.1

This is a preview release which is not intended for use in production and has been published under the npm next tag.

To install the latest preview release, run npm install arangojs@next.

See the migration guide for detailed instructions
for upgrading your code to arangojs v9.

Removed

• Removed Node.js 14 and Node.js 16 support

  With Node.js 14 and 16 having reached their end of life, arangojs will no
  longer support these versions of Node.js going forward.

  For more information, see the Node.js release schedule.

• Removed Params and Headers types

  These can mostly be replaced with the native URLSearchParams and Headers
  types but most public methods still accept the equivalent Record types for
  convenience.

• Removed deprecated FulltextIndex and related types

  Fulltext indexes have been deprecated in ArangoDB 3.10 and should be replaced
  with ArangoSearch.

• Removed browser build

  The browser build has been removed from the repository and will no longer be
  published to npm. The npm package can still be used in the browser by using
  common frontend tooling like webpack or rollup.

Changed

• Replaced request logic with native fetch API (#788, DE-578, DE-758)

  The node-specific request logic using the http and https modules has been
  replaced with all-new logic using the web standard fetch API, which should
  work in Node.js, browsers and other conformant environments.

• Unicode names are now no longer automatically NFC normalized (DE-65)

  This change affects all database, collection, graph, view and analyzer names
  using unicode characters. Starting with arangojs v7.7.0 these names were
  automatically NFC normalized. This behavior has now been reverted to match
  the behavior of other ArangoDB drivers and help detect normalization issues
  in user code.

• Changed return type of aql and the AQL join helper function to AqlQuery

  Previously the internal GeneratedAqlQuery type was exposed as the return
  type of these functions, leading to complexity when handling generic type
  arguments.

• Removed dependency on Node path module or its browserify equivalent

  This change should be backwards-compatible but may produce different results
  when using non-normalized paths and base-paths in custom routes. This
  should help support more environments and reduce the size of the browser
  bundle.

Added

• Added ESM support (DE-236)

  The driver now supports being imported as an ES module or CommonJS module
  and provides exports for both types of environments. This change should be
  backwards-compatible.