smartipc/changelog.md

Changelog

2025-08-24 - 2.0.0 - BREAKING CHANGE(core)

Refactor core IPC: replace node-ipc with native transports and add IpcChannel / IpcServer / IpcClient with heartbeat, reconnection, request/response and pub/sub. Update tests and documentation.

• Replaced node-ipc with native Node.js transports (net module) and length-prefixed framing
• Added transport abstraction (IpcTransport) and implementations: UnixSocketTransport, NamedPipeTransport, TcpTransport plus createTransport factory
• Introduced IpcChannel with automatic reconnection (exponential backoff), heartbeat, request/response tracking, pending request timeouts and metrics
• Implemented IpcServer and IpcClient classes with client registration, pub/sub (subscribe/publish), broadcast, targeted messaging, client management and idle timeout handling
• Exported factory API via SmartIpc.createServer / createClient / createChannel and updated ts/index accordingly
• Updated and expanded README with usage, examples, advanced features and migration guidance; added readme.plan.md
• Added and updated comprehensive tests (test/test.ts, test/test.simple.ts) to cover TCP transport, messaging patterns, reconnection and metrics

2025-08-23 - 1.0.8 - chore

Metadata and configuration updates; repository/org migration.

• Update package description and general project metadata.
• Update TypeScript configuration (tsconfig).
• Update npmextra.json githost entries (multiple updates).
• Switch to new organization scheme for the repository.
• Miscellaneous minor updates.

2019-04-09 - 1.0.1 - 1.0.7 - core

Initial release and a series of patch fixes to core components.

• 1.0.1: initial release.
• 1.0.2 → 1.0.7: a sequence of small core fixes and maintenance updates (repeated "fix(core): update" commits).