v3.0.0-rc2

Note

Prebuilds are currently only available for Linux (x64, glibc), macOS (x64) and Windows (x64). Please give this version a try and let us know if you run into issues!

npm install canvas@next

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This release notably changes to using N-API. 🎉

Breaking

• Dropped support for Node.js 16.x and below.

Changed

• Migrated to N-API (by way of node-addon-api) and removed libuv and v8 dependencies
• Change from node-pre-gyp to prebuild-install
• Defer the initialization of the op variable to the default switch case to avoid a compiler warning. (#2229)
• Use a default switch case with a null statement if some enum values aren't suppsed to be handled, this avoids a compiler warning. (#2229)
• Migrate from librsvg's deprecated rsvg_handle_get_dimensions() and rsvg_handle_render_cairo() functions to the new rsvg_handle_get_intrinsic_size_in_pixels() and rsvg_handle_render_document() respectively. (#2229)
• Avoid calling virtual methods in constructors/destructors to avoid bypassing virtual dispatch. (#2229)
• Remove unused private field backend in the Backend class. (#2229)
• Add Node.js v20 to CI. (#2237)
• Replaced dtslint with tsd (#2313)

Added

• Added string tags to support class detection

Fixed

• Fix a case of use-after-free. (#2229)
• Fix usage of garbage value by filling the allocated memory entirely with zeros if it's not modified. (#2229)
• Fix a potential memory leak. (#2229)
• Fix the wrong type of setTransform