• SECURITY fixing URI.parseQuery() to prevent overwriting __proto__ in parseQuery() - disclosed privately by @NewEraCracker
• SECURITY fixing URI.parse() to handle variable amounts of \ and / in scheme delimiter as Node and Browsers do - disclosed privately by ready-research via https://huntr.dev/
• removed obsolete build tools
• updated jQuery versions (verifying compatibility with 1.12.4, 2.2.4, 3.6.0)