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[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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

[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)

[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)

[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

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

[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

[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)

[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

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

[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)

[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

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

Revert ES6 requirement and restore support for node down to v0.8.

#127 Fix engines definition in package.json

#124 Use ES6 and drop support for node < v4

[Fix] ensure key[]=x&key[]&key[]=y results in 3, not 2, values

#64 Add option to sort object keys in the query string

#117 make URI encoding stringified results optional
#106 Add flag skipNulls to optionally skip null values in stringify

#114 default allowDots to false
#100 include dist to npm

#98 make returning plain objects and allowing prototype overwriting properties optional

#89 Add option to disable "Transform dot notation to bracket notation"

#80 qs.parse silently drops properties
#77 Perf boost
#60 Add explicit option to disable array parsing
#74 Bad parse when turning array into object
#81 Add a filter option
#68 Fixed issue with recursion and passing strings into objects.
#66 Add mixed array and object dot notation support Closes: #47
#76 RFC 3986
#85 No equal sign
#84 update license attribute

#73 Property 'hasOwnProperty' of object # is not a function
2.4.0
- #70 Add arrayFormat option
2.3.3
- #59 make sure array indexes are >= 0, closes #57
- #58 make qs usable for browser loader
2.3.2
- #55 allow merging a string into an object
2.3.1
- #52 Return "undefined" and "false" instead of throwing "TypeError".
2.3.0
- #50 add option to omit array indices, closes #46
2.2.5
- #39 Is there an alternative to Buffer.isBuffer?
- #49 refactor utils.merge, fixes #45
- #41 avoid browserifying Buffer, for #39
2.2.4
- #38 how to handle object keys beginning with a number
2.2.3
- #37 parser discards first empty value in array
- #36 Update to lab 4.x
2.2.2
- #33 Error when plain object in a value
- #34 use Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call instead of obj.hasOwnProperty
- #24 Changelog? Semver?
2.2.1
- #32 account for circular references properly, closes #31
- #31 qs.parse stackoverflow on circular objects
2.2.0
- #26 Don't use Buffer global if it's not present
- #30 Bug when merging non-object values into arrays
- #29 Don't call Utils.clone at the top of Utils.merge
- #23 Ability to not limit parameters?
2.1.0
- #22 Enable using a RegExp as delimiter
2.0.0
- #18 Why is there arrayLimit?
- #20 Configurable parametersLimit
- #21 make all limits optional, for #18, for #20
1.2.2
- #19 Don't overwrite null values
1.2.1
- #16 ignore non-string delimiters
- #15 Close code block
1.2.0
- #12 Add optional delim argument
- #13 fix #11: flattened keys in array are now correctly parsed
1.1.0
- #7 Empty values of a POST array disappear after being submitted
- #9 Should not omit equals signs (=) when value is null
- #6 Minor grammar fix in README
1.0.2
- #5 array holes incorrectly copied into object on large index