Breaking

• The deprecated FeedHandler class has been removed #1166
  • See #1166 for how to migrate.
• Typescript >= 4.5 is now required; see #1242
• The types from domhandler and domutils have changed, the deprecated normalizeWhitespace option was removed #1164
• The parser was updated to no longer concatenate strings. This led to several changes of internal interfaces. #1045
  • This reduces the memory overhead when parsing streams, and avoids copying memory.
  • Breaking if you were previously extending internals.

Features

• htmlparser2 is now a dual CommonJS & ESM module #1165

Other changes

• Updated for entities' updated decoding tree structure #1146
• Highlight special close-implies-open logic by @vassudanagunta in #1047
• Update Events/07 test to clarify interpretation of tag end slashes by @vassudanagunta in #1046
• Suggest parse5 for HTML compliance by @vassudanagunta in #1147

New Contributors

• @vassudanagunta made their first contribution in #1047

Full Changelog: v7.2.0...v8.0.0