7.0.0 (2022-07-08)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• drop support for Node 4, 6, 8, 10 (#1764)
• move command line tool to a new package named protobufjs-cli (#1234)
• encoding of empty Buffers (#1514)

Features

• add --no-service option for pbjs static target (#1577) (d01394a)
• add alt-comment CLI option (#1692) (7558ef0)
• add configurable Root.prototype.fetch (ad3cffd)
• add getTypeUrl method to generated code (#1463) (d13d5d5)
• add null-defaults option (#1611) (6e713ba)
• add support for buffer configuration (#1372) (101aa1a)
• allow message.getTypeUrl provide custom typeUrlPrefix (#1762) (8aad1dd)
• better comment parse (#1419) (7fd2e18)
• move command line tool to a new package named protobufjs-cli (#1234) (da34f43)
• parsed options (#1256) (7a25398)
• prepare initial publication of cli (#1752) (64811d5)
• proto3 optional support (#1584) (6c4d307)
• support parsing of complex options (#1744) (b1746a8)
• update dependencies / general cleanup (#1356) (42f49b4)

Bug Fixes

• allow for an optional semicolon where there is an optional comma in parseOptionValue (#1571) (af1b449)
• allow Windows unc paths to be resolved and normalized (#1351) (cd4aeda)
• deps: patch minimatch vulnerability (#1704) (bac61b8)
• deps: update dependency long to v5 (#1751) (dadc65e)
• deps: use eslint 8.x (#1728) (fa01883)
• do not fail if no process (#1440) (f2faa8c)
• do not let setProperty change the prototype (#1731) (3357ef7)
• docs: update CHANGELOG to match format of release-please (#1376) (15ed8a0)
• drop support for Node 4, 6, 8, 10 (#1764) (50370dd)
• encoding of empty Buffers (#1514) (b4cae07), closes #1500 #885
• es6 export enum (#1446) (9f33784)
• fix util.global (#1441) (742b8dc)
• fromObject should not initialize oneof members (#1597) (90afe44)
• google.protobuf.Any type_url fixes (#1068) (192f5f1)
• handling of map entries with omitted key or value (#1348) (b950877)
• handling properly fields with leading and trailing comments after field with trailing comment (#1593) (9011aac)
• make node detection a bit more forgiving (#1445) (4e75f6d)
• make parsedOptions appear in method JSON representation (#1506) (3d29969)
• proper relative path to protobufjs in cli (#1753) (a1d6029)
• properly parse empty messages in options (#1429) (7fbc79f)
• proto3 optional scalars should default to null in reflection API (#1693) (d9144de)
• replace deprecated String.prototype.substr() (#1701) (e33a84a)
• scope variable for map field to avoid redeclaration (#1717) (#1718) (1d3c02a)
• support for options with repeated_value: [ "foo", "bar" ] (#1574) (f5b893c)
• typo in pbjs help text (#1552) (7f46dbe)
• update minimal.js to evade override mistake (#1742) (e2f33a0)
• updated isNode check (#1221) (#1363) (5564e7b)
• utf8 -> utf16 decoding bug on surrogate pairs (#1486) (75172cd)