v5.0.0

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

Changed

• Rewrite as N-API addon (#540, #559) (@ralphtheninja)
• Use prebuildify instead of prebuild (#549, #562, #571) (@ralphtheninja)
• Update minimum node version required (#552) (@ralphtheninja)
• Upgrade Snappy from 1.1.4 to 1.1.7 as a git submodule (#522, #535) (@filoozom)
• Upgrade abstract-leveldown from ~5.0.0 to ~6.0.0 (@ralphtheninja, @vweevers) (#511)
• Implement abstract _serializeKey() and _serializeValue() (#506) (@vweevers)
• Implement abstract _seek() instead of seek() (#506) (@vweevers)
• Invoke abstract tests from single function (#495) (@ralphtheninja)
• Use suite.common() in test/common.js (7b0f6d9) (@ralphtheninja)
• Handle location in LevelDOWN constructor, as location was removed from abstract-leveldown (#494) (@ralphtheninja)
• Pass a factory function to abstract tests (#494) (@ralphtheninja)
• Use tempy in tests, removing need for cleanup (#494) (@ralphtheninja)
• Use level-concat-iterator in tests (#494) (@ralphtheninja)
• Make callback of makeTest an error-first callback (#518) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade standard devDependency from ^11.0.1 to ^12.0.0 (#503) (@ralphtheninja)
• Upgrade slump devDependency from ~2.0.0 to ~3.0.0 (#504) (@vweevers)
• Normalize gyp files (indentation and double quotes) (#539) (@ralphtheninja)
• Tweak benchmarks (#545, #546) (@vweevers, @ralphtheninja)
• Tweak changelog (#483) (@ralphtheninja)
• Tweak copyright years for less maintenance (98cbb4f) (@ralphtheninja)
• Document new platform support and prebuilt binaries (#558, #563) (@vweevers)
• Replace remark-cli with hallmark (#548) (@vweevers)
• Update .npmignore (@vweevers)
• Apply common project tweaks (#580, #582, 1c90e8f) (@vweevers, @ralphtheninja)
• Introduce override and final keywords following C++ Core Guidelines (#600) (@vweevers)

Added

• Add linux-armv7, linux-arm64, android-armv7 and android-arm64 prebuilds (#584, #585, #587) (@ralphtheninja, @vweevers)
• Add segfault tests (#514) (@vweevers)
• Add nyc and coveralls for code coverage (#497, #591) (@ralphtheninja, @vweevers)
• Copy type checks of approximateSize() to compactRange() (#517) (@vweevers)
• Document that value may not be null or undefined (#511) (@vweevers)
• Document batch() (array and chained form), sync option and db references (#556) (@vweevers)
• Add publish instructions and download-prebuilds npm script (#564) (@vweevers)

Removed

• Remove node 6 and 9 from Travis (0f5f554, #562) (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove 32 bits from AppVeyor (#560) (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove unused .jshintrc (1d122b0) (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove copyright headers from code (508027d) (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove contributors from package.json (8a29ecc) (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove g++-4.8 apt package from Travis (#489) (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove unused key argument from ChainedBatch#_clear (#519) (@vweevers)
• Remove redundant db.close() from test/approximate-size-test.js (d04f233) (@ralphtheninja)
• Moved seek tests to abstract-leveldown (#508) (@vweevers)
• Remove unused iota-array and lexicographic-integer devDependencies (#508) (@vweevers)
• Remove xcacheSize and xmaxOpenFiles from leak tests (#569) (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove legacy bindings dependency (#583) (@peakji)

Fixed

• Serialize compactRange() arguments (#517) (@vweevers)
• Prevent segfault: when calling iterator() on non-open db (#514) (@vweevers)
• Prevent segfault: add PriorityWorker to defer closing until put is done (#597) (@vweevers)
• Prevent segfault: keep persistent references to iterators until they are ended (#597) (@vweevers)
• Gitignore Debug builds of LevelDB and Snappy (#597) (@vweevers)
• Fix subtests by adding t.plan() (#594) (@vweevers)