Release 6.21.0

6.21.0 (2026-06-30)

Features

• build hooks (preBuild, postBuild, per-file transform) (#273) (3667383), closes package.json#pkg
• bump fetch 3.6.3 with node 22.22.3, 24.15.0 and 26.2.0 (#277) (546bbf0)
• bump fetch 3.6.4 with nodejs 22.23.1, 24.18.0, 26.4.0 (#288) (3520d26)

Bug Fixes

• detector: pick up six more silent-drop shapes (re-exports, new URL, multi-arg path.join, path.resolve(__dirname,…), createRequire aliases, import.meta.resolve) (#272) (ea66111), closes #269
• sea: set process.pkg in worker threads (#270) (376e2a4)

Test added

• fetch-all: track supported node majors, drop node20 (#286) (1b0002f)
• split unit tests into node:test suite, add c8 coverage (#271) (26f10a3), closes #267 #267

Chores

• add worktrees to gitignore (d585e27)
• deps: bump esbuild to >=0.28.1 to fix security vuln (#282) (#284) (68f41d5)

Release 6.19.0

6.19.0 (2026-04-24)

Features

• config: accept CLI-only build flags in pkg config (#263) (a8e91df)

Bug Fixes

• deps: update @roberts_lando/vfs to version 0.3.3 (#266) (d155e24)
• detector: stop silent dependency drops in SEA mode (ESM parse, dynamic import, decorators) (#268) (81c6c88)
• sea: silence benign LIEF warnings during postject injection (#265) (974df53)

Release 6.18.2

6.18.2 (2026-04-22)

Bug Fixes

• sea: match blob generator to target Node version (#247) (ad2a336), closes #236
• sea: strip trailing slashes in manifest key lookup (#261) (af0c086)

Release 6.18.1

6.18.1 (2026-04-21)

Bug Fixes

• pkg: ship all .d.ts files in npm package (#258) (7e10ce2)

Release 6.18.0

6.18.0 (2026-04-20)

Features

• api: typed options object for exec() (#253) (f061f72), closes #242
• auto-discover .pkgrc / pkg.config.{js,cjs,mjs} (#254) (53ce68b), closes #238

Documentation

• tighten guide pages — remove AI-slop headings and verbose framing (cc331fa)

Release 6.17.0

6.17.0 (2026-04-18)

Features

• sea: add per-file compression to SEA archive (closes #250) (#251) (fdf8046)

Documentation

• add in-depth comparison vs Bun and Deno (#249) (0cf75a8)

Release 6.16.0

6.16.0 (2026-04-17)

Features

• add --fallback-to-source flag for bytecode failures (#246) (5eb4681), closes #87 #181

Bug Fixes

• docs: repair migration link and mermaid label clipping (#237) (7a97430)
• fall back to source on bytecode fabrication failure (46a7f8e), closes #87 #181
• sea: prevent sentinel duplication when pkg is in dependencies (#243) (79f3f2d)

Documentation

• add dotenvx sponsor logo to README (d315eaa)
• host documentation on GitHub Pages with VitePress (#234) (22fc2ed), closes #231 #231 #87 #181 #229

Release 6.15.0

6.15.0 (2026-04-14)

Features

• enhanced SEA mode with walker integration and VFS (#229) (daf76c5), closes #204 #204 #1492 #1611 nodejs/node#62726 nodejs/node#62726

Bug Fixes

• update default release type to empty in workflow inputs (073bc88)

Chores

• update Node.js version in release workflow to 22.22.1 (985fbc7)

Documentation

• update README with new npm badges and correct target node versions (95f4f63)

Release 6.14.2

6.14.2 (2026-04-01)

Features

• add workflow to bump pkg-fetch dependency automatically (7450d31)
• bump fetch 3.5.33 with nodejs 20.20.2, 22.22.2, 24.14.1 (#226) (439c64e)

Bug Fixes

• improve formatting of pull request title for pkg-fetch version bump (022f69d)

Chores

• switch to npm trusted publisher with OIDC provenance (#225) (b9fd3fd)

Release 6.14.1

6.14.1 (2026-02-20)

Bug Fixes

• MODULE_NOT_FOUND for ESM internal .mjs imports at runtime (#218) (290d9ba)

Chores

• add CLAUDE.md referencing shared copilot instructions (#216) (2bd6e47)