2.0.0: Milestone Release

Migration from 1.x

• Node-RED now requires Node.js 12.x or later.

• The following nodes have had significant dependency updates. Unless stated, they should be fully backward compatible.

  • RBE: Relabelled as 'filter' to make it more discoverable and made part of the core palette, rather than as a separate module.
  • Tail: This node has been removed from the default palette. You can reinstall it from node-red-node-tail
  • HTTP Request: Reimplemented with a different underlying module. We have tried to maintain 100% functional compatibility, but it is possible some edge cases remain.
  • JSON: The schema validation option no longer supports JSON-Schema draft-04
  • HTML: Its underlying module has had a major version update. Should be fully backward compatible.

• functionExternalModules is now enabled by default for new installs. If you have an existing settings file that contains this setting, you will need to set it to true yourself.

  The external modules will now get installed in your Node-RED user directory, (~/.node-red) rather than in a subdirectory. This means all dependencies will be listed in your top-level package.json. If you have existing external modules, they will get reinstalled to the new location when you first run Node-RED 2.0.

Runtime

• Fix missing dependencies (#3052, #2057) @kazuhitoyokoi
• Ensure node.types is defined if node html file missing
• Fix reporting of type_already_registered error
• Move install location of external modules (#3064) @knolleary

Editor

• Update translations (#3063) @kazuhitoyokoi
• Add a slight fade to tab labels that overflow
• Show config node details when selected in outliner
• Fix layout of info outliner for subflow entries

Nodes

• Delay: let msg.flush specify how many messages to flush from node (#3059) @dceejay
• Function: external modules is now enabled by default (#3065) @knolleary
• Function: external modules now supports both ES6 and CJS modules (#3065) @knolleary
• WebSocket: add option for client node to send automatic pings (#3056) @knolleary

2.0.0-beta.2: Beta Release

Runtime

• Add node-red admin init (via node-red-admin@2.1.0)
• Move to GH Actions rather than Travis for build (#3042) @knolleary

Editor

• Include hasUser=false config nodes when exporting whole flow (#3048)
• Emit nodes:change for any updated config node when node deleted/added
• Fix padding of compact notification Closes #3045
• Ensure any html in changelog is escaped before displaying
• Add support for Map/Set property types on Debug (#3040) @knolleary
• Add 'theme' to default settings file
• Add RED.view.annotations api (#3032) @knolleary
• Update monaco editor to V0.25.2 (#3031) @Steve-Mcl
• Lower tray zIndex when overlay tray being opened Fixes #3019
• Reduce z-Index of Function expand buttons to prevent overlap Part of #3019
• Ensure RED.clipboard.import displays the right library Fixes #3021
• Batch messages sent over comms to prevent flooding (#3025) @knolleary
• Allow RED.popover.panel to specify a closeButton to ignore click events on
• Use browser default language for initial page load
• Add css var for node font color
• Fix label padding of toggleButton
• Give sidebar open tab a bit more room for its label
• Various Monaco updates (#3015) @Steve-Mcl
• Log readOnly on startup (#3024) @sammachin
• Translation updates (#3020 #3022) @HiroyasuNishiyama @kazuhitoyokoi

Nodes

• HTTP Request: Fix proxy handling (#3044) @hardillb
• HTTP Request: Handle basic auth with @ in username (#3017) @hardillb
• Add Japanese translation for file-in node (#3037 #3039) @kazuhitoyokoi
• File In: Add option for file-in node to include all properties (default off) (#3035) @dceejay
• Exec: add windowsHide option to hide windows under Windows (#3026) @natcl
• Support loading external module sub path Fixes #3023

2.0.0-beta.1: Beta Release

Runtime

• [MAJOR] Set minimum node version to 12.
• [MAJOR] Fix flowfile name to flows.json in settings (#2951) @dceejay
• [MAJOR] Update to latest i18n in editor and runtime (#2940) @knolleary
• [MAJOR] Deprecate usage of httpRoot (#2953) @knolleary
• Add pre/postInstall hooks to npm install handling (#2936) @knolleary
• Add engine-strict flag to npm install args (#2965) @nileio
• Restructure default settings.js to be more organised (#3012) @knolleary
• Ensure httpServerOptions gets applied to ALL the express apps
• Allow RED.settings.set to replace string property with object property
• Update debug tests to handle compact comms format
• Updates to encode/decode message when passed over debug comms link
• Remove all input event listeners on a node once it is closed
• Move hooks to util package
• Rework hooks structure to be a linkedlist
• Update dependencies (#2922) @knolleary

Editor

• [MAJOR] Change node id generation to give fixed length values without '.' (#2987) @knolleary
• [MAJOR] Add Monaco code editor (#2971) @Steve-Mcl
• Update to latest Monaco (#3007) @Steve-Mcl
• Update Node-RED Function typings in Monaco (#3008) @Steve-Mcl
• Add css named variables for certain key colours (#2994) @knolleary
• Improve contrast of export dialog JSON font color
• Switch editableList buttons from to elements
• Add option to RED.nodes.createCompleteNodeSet to include node dimensions
• Fix css of node help table of contents elements
• Improve red-ui-node-icon css and add red-ui-node-icon-small modifier class
• Add RED.hooks to editor
• Add viewAddPort viewRemovePort viewAddNode viewRemoveNode hooks to view
• Use paletteLabel if set in help sidebar
• Add missing args from JSONata $now signature

Nodes

• [MAJOR] Relabel RBE node as 'filter' and move into core. Also remove tail (#2944) @dceejay
• [MAJOR] HTTP Request: migrate to 'got' module (#2952) @knolleary
• [MAJOR] Move Inject node to CronosJS module (#2959) @knolleary
• [MAJOR] JSON: Update ajv to 8.2.0 - drop support for JSON-Schema draft-04 (#2969) @knolleary
• [MAJOR] HTML node: cheerio update to 1.x (#3011) @knolleary
• Join: change default manual mode to object (#2931) @knolleary
• File node: Add fileWorkingDirectory (#2932) @knolleary
• Delay node enhancements (#2294) @kazuhitoyokoi (#2949) @dceejay
• Add Japanese translations for delay node enhancements (#2958) @kazuhitoyokoi
• Inject node: reorder TypedInput options (#2961) @dceejay
• HTTP Request: update to work with proxies (#2983) @hardillb (#3009) @hardillb
• HTTP Request: fix msg.responseUrl (#2986) @hardillb
• TLS: Add ALPN support to TLS node (#2988) @hardillb
• Inject: add "Inject now" button to edit dialog (#2990) @Steve-Mcl