check-outdated/CHANGELOG.md

Light-weight CLI tool to ensure that your dependencies are up to date, otherwise the process is terminated with status code 1.

# Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

## [Unreleased]

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## [2.14.0] - 2025-11-18

### Changed

- Updated dependencies

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## [2.13.0] - 2025-03-20

### Changed

- Updated dependencies
- Ignore dependencies if package.json specifies "*" as the version, meaning any version is acceptable

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## [2.12.0] - 2023-08-11

### Changed

- Updated dependencies

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## [2.11.0] - 2022-09-24

### Added

- `--ignore-packages` now support semver ranges like `foo@^2`, `foo@~2.3.4`, `foo@2.*`, `foo@2.3.x`

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## [2.10.2] - 2021-09-25

### Fixed

- Fixed syntax error with Node.js v13 and below

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## [2.10.0] - 2021-09-18

### Changed

- Now supporting other "base" branches than `master` on GitHub, to find the CHANGELOG.md

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## [2.9.0] - 2021-09-09

### Changed

- For reverted versions, the "Type" column shows "reverted"
- The package names of reverted versions are shown in red
- The package name color of major-updates changed to yellow, and of minor-updates changed to cyan

### Added

- Added `--types` option to restrict the visible versions.

### Fixed

- Show `wanted` and `latest` version numbers even if `current` is empty

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## [2.8.0] - 2021-05-22

### Changed

- Rename `name` column to `package`
- Changed the minimum required NodeJS version to v10.0.0

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## [2.7.0] - 2021-03-24

### Added

- New `--prefer-wanted` option, which compares the the `Current` version to the `Wanted` version, instead of the `Latest` version. This allow you to ensure that your installed version is the latest in the specified version range, but not necessary the latest available version ([#7](https://github.com/jens-duttke/check-outdated/issues/7))

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## [2.6.0] - 2021-03-14

### Changed

- Change colorization of dependency name
- Reorder default columns
- Remove "Type" from default columns

### Added

- Added "Color legend"
- Group dependencies by their type

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## [2.5.1] - 2021-02-26

### Fixed

- Remove ".git" extension from GitHub repository URLs

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## [2.5.0] - 2020-12-16

### Fixed

- Sub-packages in mono-repositories on GitHub (like Gatsby) are now considered for CHANGELOG.md-link generation

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## [2.4.1] - 2020-09-29

### Changed

- Improve CHANGELOG.md detection

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## [2.4.0] - 2020-09-26

### Fixed

- Only link to CHANGELOG.md files on GitHub if they have content

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## [2.3.2] - 2020-08-04

### Changed

- Optimize detection of item in package.json for generting the Reference link

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## [2.3.1] - 2020-08-04

### Fixed

- Fix missing Reference link, if the installed package version does not match the version in the package.json

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## [2.3.0] - 2020-06-24

### Added

- If a CHANGELOG.md exists in the GitHub repository, the Changes row, will link to this file, instead of the Releases page

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## [2.2.0] - 2020-05-16

### Added

- Add "Reference" column, which contains a link to the line and column of the dependency in the package.json.
  By using a terminal which supports clicking on such links, you can navigate directly the the item.

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## [2.1.1] - 2020-05-08

### Fixed

- Handle the issue that npm may return an empty current information for packages (thanks to Jonathan Graf for reporting this problem)

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## [2.1.0] - 2020-05-08

### Removed

- Remove consideration of CHANGELOG.md from changes column

### Changed

- Changed the minimum required NodeJS version to v8.6.0

### Added

- Add functionality to optionally ignore a specific version of a package (e.g. to skip a broken version)
- Add new changesPreferLocal column, which behaves like the old changes column

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## [2.0.0] - 2020-04-26

### Added

- Add --columns argument to hide/show and reorder the columns.
- Add new columns "Changes" (changes), "Homepage" (homepage) and "npmjs.com" (npmjs)

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## [1.4.3] - 2020-03-16

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## [1.4.2] - 2019-09-08

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## [1.4.1] - 2019-08-30

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## [1.3.0] - 2019-08-09

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## [1.2.0] - 2019-08-02

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## [1.1.0] - 2019-08-02

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## [1.0.1] - 2019-08-01

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## [1.0.0] - 2019-08-01

Initial commit