- Discontinued support for all node versions except for 0.12, 4.0 and 5.0. We should focus on the future and that will be Node 5 and ES6.
- Removed the client code. It was simple wrapper that really doesn't belong in a full ledged node.js library. If you want browser support you could just conditionally import it the WebSocket server.
var WS = window.WebSocket || require('ws') - Fixed a zlib issue that caused thrown errors.
- Binary addons have been completely removed. Even as optional dependency, it seems that npm is just unable to properly handle the builds causing installations to fail and lead to massive developer issues. While the dependencies have been removed, you can still optionally install things. See https://github.com/websockets/ws#opt-in-for-performance for additional information.
So future.. Ideally I want to start rewriting parts of the library in ES6 and completely clean up the code base. Pull requests for this are encouraged and appreciated <3 as this takes a lot of time.