# change log
## 9.0
- No default export, only named exports.
## 8.0
- Recursive descent parser for extglob, allowing correct support
for arbitrarily nested extglob expressions
- Bump required Node.js version
## 7.4
- Add `escape()` method
- Add `unescape()` method
- Add `Minimatch.hasMagic()` method
## 7.3
- Add support for posix character classes in a unicode-aware way.
## 7.2
- Add `windowsNoMagicRoot` option
## 7.1
- Add `optimizationLevel` configuration option, and revert the
default back to the 6.2 style minimal optimizations, making the
advanced transforms introduced in 7.0 opt-in. Also, process
provided file paths in the same way in optimizationLevel:2
mode, so _most_ things that matched with optimizationLevel 1 or
0 _should_ match with level 2 as well. However, level 1 is the
default, out of an abundance of caution.
## 7.0
- Preprocess patterns to simplify complicated patterns and reduce
out `..` pattern portions where possible. Note that this means
a pattern like `a/b/../*` will be equivalent to `a/*`, and will
_not_ match the string `a/b/../c`. If this causes problems, it
can be addressed in a patch release by resolving `..` portions
in the test string.
## 6.2
- Add nocaseMagicOnly flag
## 6.1
- Handle UNC paths on Windows
This adds some slightly modified behavior when a pattern or path starts
with `//` on Windows.
- In the case of `//?/<drive letter>:/...`, the `?` is treated as a
literal character, rather than a wildcard. That is, `//?/c:` will
_not_ match `//x/c:`.
- UNC patterns starting with `//?/<drive letter>:/` will match file paths
starting with `<drive letter>:` if the drive letters match
case-insensitively.
- File paths starting with `//?/<drive letter>:/` will match file
patterns starting with `<drive letter>:` if the drive letters match
case-insensitively.
- Add `{preserveMultipleSlashes:true}` option to suppress the
behavior where multiple consecutive `/` characters would be
effectively coerced into a single path portion separator.
## 6.0
- hybrid module supporting both `require()` and `import`
- exported types
## 5.1
- use windowsPathNoEscape/allowWindowsEscape opts
- make character classes more faithful to bash glob behavior
- fix handling of escapes
- treat invalid character classes as non-matching pattern
rather than escaped literals
## 5.0
- brace-expansion: ignore only blocks that begins with $
- Expect exclusively forward slash as path sep, same as node-glob
## 4.2
- makeRe: globstar should match zero+ path portions
- Fix bug with escaped '@' in patterns
## 4.1
- treat `nocase:true` as always having magic
- expose GLOBSTAR marker
## 4.0
- Update to modern JS syntax
- Add `allowWindowsEscape` option
## 3.x
- Added basic redos protection
- Handle unfinished `!(` extglob patterns
- Add `partial: true` option
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