Bumps axios from 1.15.2 to 1.16.0.
Sourced from axios's releases.
This release adds support for the QUERY HTTP method and a new A handful of fixes in this release are either security-adjacent or change observable behaviour. Please review before upgrading:
We are thrilled to welcome our new contributors. Thank you for helping improve axios:
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Sourced from axios's changelog.
This release adds support for the QUERY HTTP method and a new A handful of fixes in this release are either security-adjacent or change observable behaviour. Please review before upgrading:
We are thrilled to welcome our new contributors. Thank you for helping improve axios:
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Release notes
v1.16.0 — May 2, 2026
ECONNREFUSED error constant, lands a substantial wave of HTTP, fetch, and XHR adapter bug fixes around redirects, aborts, headers, and timeouts, and welcomes 23 new contributors.
⚠️ Notable Changes
maxBodyLength and maxContentLength. These limits were silently ignored on the fetch adapter prior to 1.16.0 — anyone relying on them as a safety net (DoS protection, accidental large uploads) had no protection. (#10795)
Host headers. Previously, the proxy path could overwrite a custom Host. Virtual-host-style routing through a proxy will now behave correctly. (#10822)
https://user:p%40ss@host), the decoded value is what now goes on the wire. (#10825)
parseProtocol now strictly requires a colon in the protocol separator. Strings that loosely parsed as protocols before may no longer match. (#10729)
unescape() replaced with modern UTF-8 encoding. Non-ASCII URL handling is now spec-correct; consumers depending on legacy unescape() quirks may see different output bytes. (#7378)
transformRequest input typing change was reverted. The typing change introduced in #10745 was reverted in #10810 after follow-up review — net behavior is unchanged from 1.15.2. (#10745, #10810)
🚀 New Features
ECONNREFUSED as a constant on AxiosError so callers can match connection-refused failures without comparing string literals (closes #6485). (#10680)
encode helper from buildURL so userland param serializers can reuse the same encoding logic that axios uses internally. (#6897)
🐛 Bug Fixes
requestDetails argument on beforeRedirect, preserved user-supplied Host headers when forwarding through a proxy, and properly URL-decoded basic auth credentials. (#10794, #10800, #6241, #10822, #10825)
AxiosError when a stream is aborted after headers arrive, honoured the timeout option during the connect phase when redirects are disabled, and resolved an unsettled-promise hang when an aborted request was combined with compression and maxRedirects: 0. (#10708, #10819, #7149)
maxBodyLength / maxContentLength in the fetch adapter, set the User-Agent header to match the HTTP adapter, preserved the original abort reason instead of replacing it with a generic error, and deferred global access so importing the module no longer throws a TypeError in restricted environments. (#10795, #10772, #10806, #7260)
cancelToken and AbortSignal listeners on the error, timeout, and abort code paths to prevent leaked subscriptions. (#10787)
AxiosError when JSON.parse fails inside dispatchRequest, prevented settle from emitting undefined error codes, and tightened the parseProtocol regex to require a colon in the protocol separator. (#10724, #7276, #10729)
CancelToken typings with the ESM build, fixed a compiler error caused by RawAxiosHeaders, and re-exported create from the package index. (#7414, #6389, #6460)
unescape() call with a modern UTF-8 encoding implementation. (#7378)
🔧 Maintenance & Chores
utils module and XHR adapter to use ES6 features, and tidied the multipart boundary error message. (#10588, #7419)
FormData EPIPE failures, fixed Win32 platform support for the pipe tests, and corrected an incorrect test assumption. (#10820, #10791, #10796)
paramsSerializer.encode for strict RFC 3986 query encoding, updated the parseReviver TypeScript definitions and configuration docs for ES2023, added timeout guidance to the README's first async example, and expanded notes around the recent type changes. (#10821, #10782, #10759, #10804)
transformRequest input typing change from #10745 after follow-up review. (#10745, #10810)
actions/setup-node, the github-actions group, and postcss (in /docs) to their latest versions. (#10785, #10813, #10814)
🌟 New Contributors
Changelog
v1.16.0 — May 2, 2026
ECONNREFUSED error constant, lands a substantial wave of HTTP, fetch, and XHR adapter bug fixes around redirects, aborts, headers, and timeouts, and welcomes 23 new contributors.
⚠️ Notable Changes
maxBodyLength and maxContentLength. These limits were silently ignored on the fetch adapter prior to 1.16.0 — anyone relying on them as a safety net (DoS protection, accidental large uploads) had no protection. (#10795)
Host headers. Previously, the proxy path could overwrite a custom Host. Virtual-host-style routing through a proxy will now behave correctly. (#10822)
https://user:p%40ss@host), the decoded value is what now goes on the wire. (#10825)
parseProtocol now strictly requires a colon in the protocol separator. Strings that loosely parsed as protocols before may no longer match. (#10729)
unescape() replaced with modern UTF-8 encoding. Non-ASCII URL handling is now spec-correct; consumers depending on legacy unescape() quirks may see different output bytes. (#7378)
transformRequest input typing change was reverted. The typing change introduced in #10745 was reverted in #10810 after follow-up review — net behavior is unchanged from 1.15.2. (#10745, #10810)
🚀 New Features
ECONNREFUSED as a constant on AxiosError so callers can match connection-refused failures without comparing string literals (closes #6485). (#10680)
encode helper from buildURL so userland param serializers can reuse the same encoding logic that axios uses internally. (#6897)
🐛 Bug Fixes
requestDetails argument on beforeRedirect, preserved user-supplied Host headers when forwarding through a proxy, and properly URL-decoded basic auth credentials. (#10794, #10800, #6241, #10822, #10825)
AxiosError when a stream is aborted after headers arrive, honoured the timeout option during the connect phase when redirects are disabled, and resolved an unsettled-promise hang when an aborted request was combined with compression and maxRedirects: 0. (#10708, #10819, #7149)
maxBodyLength / maxContentLength in the fetch adapter, set the User-Agent header to match the HTTP adapter, preserved the original abort reason instead of replacing it with a generic error, and deferred global access so importing the module no longer throws a TypeError in restricted environments. (#10795, #10772, #10806, #7260)
cancelToken and AbortSignal listeners on the error, timeout, and abort code paths to prevent leaked subscriptions. (#10787)
AxiosError when JSON.parse fails inside dispatchRequest, prevented settle from emitting undefined error codes, and tightened the parseProtocol regex to require a colon in the protocol separator. (#10724, #7276, #10729)
CancelToken typings with the ESM build, fixed a compiler error caused by RawAxiosHeaders, and re-exported create from the package index. (#7414, #6389, #6460)
unescape() call with a modern UTF-8 encoding implementation. (#7378)
🔧 Maintenance & Chores
utils module and XHR adapter to use ES6 features, and tidied the multipart boundary error message. (#10588, #7419)
FormData EPIPE failures, fixed Win32 platform support for the pipe tests, and corrected an incorrect test assumption. (#10820, #10791, #10796)
paramsSerializer.encode for strict RFC 3986 query encoding, updated the parseReviver TypeScript definitions and configuration docs for ES2023, added timeout guidance to the README's first async example, and expanded notes around the recent type changes. (#10821, #10782, #10759, #10804)
transformRequest input typing change from #10745 after follow-up review. (#10745, #10810)
actions/setup-node, the github-actions group, and postcss (in /docs) to their latest versions. (#10785, #10813, #10814)
🌟 New Contributors
Commits
df53d7d chore(release): prepare release 1.16.0 (#10834)
9d92bcd fix: gadgets and smaller issues (#10833)
5107ee6 fix: prevent undefined error codes in settle (#7276)
e573499 fix(fetch): defer global access in fetch adapter (#7260)
ad68e1a fix(http): honor timeout during connect without redirects (#10819)
2a51828 fix(http): decode URL basic auth credentials (#10825)
0e8b6bb fix(http): preserve user-supplied Host header when forwarding through a proxy...
79f39e1 docs: document paramsSerializer.encode for strict RFC 3986 query encoding (#1...
0fe3a5f [Docs/Types] Update parseReviver TypeScript definitions for ES2023 and add ...
cd6737f chore: matches the sibling responseStream.on(aborted) handler and added tests...