node-red 0.18.0

0.18: Milestone Release

on Node.js NPM

Runtime

• Beta: Projects - must be enabled in settings file
• Allow port zero for Express (#1363)
• Better error reporting when module provides duplicate type
• Update jsonata to 1.5.0
• add express-session memorystore without leaks (#1435)
• Allow adminAuth.user to be a Function Fixes #1461
• Ensure RED.server is set even if admin api disabled
• Ensure strategy login button uses relative URL Fixes #1481
• ignore _msgid when merging full objects
• Move node install to spawn to allow for big stdout Fixes #1488
• SIGINT handler should wait for stop to complete before exit

Editor

• allow a node's icon to be set dynamically (#1490)
• Batch messages sent over comms to increase throughput
• Migrate deploy confirmations to notifications
• oneditdelete should be available to all node types Closes #1346
• Sort typeSearch results based on position of match
• Update ACE to test and add python highlighter (#1373)
• Clear mouse state when typeSearch cancelled Fixes #1517
• Handle scoped modules via palette editor
• TypedInput: handle user defined value/labels options Fixes #1549

Nodes

• add msg. select to range and yaml nodes
• add property choice to xml, sentiment nodes
• mqtt: Add 'name' to mqtt-broker node, and label it by this if it is set. (#1364)
• Add option to JSON node to ensure particular encoding
• add parts support for HTML node (#1495)
• Add passphrase to TLS node
• Add rc property to exec node outputs 1 and 2 (#1401)
• Add skip first n lines capability to csv node (#1535)
• Add support for rejectUnauthorized msg property
• Add TLS options to WebSocket client
• Added parsed YAML support for template node (#1443)
• Allow delay node in rate-limit mode to be reset Fixes #1360
• Allow setTimeout in Function node to be promisified in node 8
• Debug to status option (#1499)
• enable template config via msg.template for stored or generated templates (#1503)
• HTTP REQUEST: Adding PROPPATCH and PROPFIND http methods (#1531)
• Initial support of merge & reduce mode for JOIN node (#1546)
• Initial support of new BATCH node (#1548)
• Initial support of sequence rules for SWITCH node (#1545)
• initial support of SORT node (#1500)
• Inject node - let once delay be editable (#1541)
• Introduce nodeMaxMessageBufferLength setting for msg sequence nodes
• Let CSV correct parts if we remove header row.
• let default apply if msg.delay not set in override mode. (#1397)
• let trigger node be reset by boolean message (#1554)
• Let trigger node support per topic mode (#1398)
• let HTML node return empty array for no matching input (#1582)
• MQTT node - if Server/URL config contains '//' use it as a complete url; enabled ws:// and wss://
• clone messages before delayed send (#1474)
• Decrement connected client count rather than show disconnected
• Don't end mqtt client on first error Fixes #1566
• File out - create dirs synchronously to ensure they exist Fixes #1489
• Fix debug message format for Buffer (#1444)
• Fix global.keys() bug in function node (#1417)
• Handle escape characters in template node which uses Mustache format and JSON output mode (#1377)
• Move all node.send to end of timer functions in trigger node (issue #1527) (#1539)
• Publish null/undefined to mqtt as blank not toString Fixes #1521
• remove inject node at specific time spinner
• restrict inject interval to less that 2^31 millisecs
• tag UDP ports in use properly so they get closed correctly (#1508)