All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See [standard-version](https://github.com/conventional-changelog/standard-version) for commit guidelines.
- 🐞 Fix recent regression when using `path` option. return to historical behavior: do not attempt to auto find `.env` if `path` set. (regression was introduced in `16.4.3`) [#814](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/pull/814)
- Optionally pass `DOTENV_KEY` to options rather than relying on `process.env.DOTENV_KEY`. Defaults to `process.env.DOTENV_KEY` [#754](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/pull/754)
- Removed `browser` keys for `path`, `os`, and `crypto` in package.json. These were set to false incorrectly as of 16.1. Instead, if using dotenv on the front-end make sure to include polyfills for `path`, `os`, and `crypto`. [node-polyfill-webpack-plugin](https://github.com/Richienb/node-polyfill-webpack-plugin) provides these.
ℹ️`.env.vault` extends the `.env` file format standard with a localized encrypted vault file. Package it securely with your production code deploys. It's cloud agnostic so that you can deploy your secrets anywhere –without [risky third-party integrations](https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/05/circleci-breach/). [read more](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv#-deploying)
### Changed
- Fixed "cannot resolve 'fs'" error on tools like Replit [#693](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/pull/693)
- Export `env-options.js` and `cli-options.js` in package.json for use with downstream [dotenv-expand](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv-expand) module
`v15.0.0` is a major new release with some important breaking changes.
### Added
- _Breaking:_ Multiline parsing support (just works. no need for the flag.)
### Changed
- _Breaking:_ `#` marks the beginning of a comment (UNLESS the value is wrapped in quotes. Please update your `.env` files to wrap in quotes any values containing `#`. For example: `SECRET_HASH="something-with-a-#-hash"`).
..Understandably, (as some teams have noted) this is tedious to do across the entire team. To make it less tedious, we recommend using [dotenv cli](https://github.com/dotenv-org/cli) going forward. It's an optional plugin that will keep your `.env` files in sync between machines, environments, or team members.
### Removed
- _Breaking:_ Remove multiline option (just works out of the box now. no need for the flag.)
- Removed `load` alias for `config` for consistency throughout code and documentation.
## [6.2.0] - 2018-12-03
### Added
- Support preload configuration via environment variables ([#351](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/issues/351))
## [6.1.0] - 2018-10-08
### Added
-`debug` option for `config` and `parse` methods will turn on logging
## [6.0.0] - 2018-06-02
### Changed
- _Breaking:_ drop support for Node v4 ([#304](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/pull/304))
## [5.0.0] - 2018-01-29
### Added
- Testing against Node v8 and v9
- Documentation on trim behavior of values
- Documentation on how to use with `import`
### Changed
- _Breaking_: default `path` is now `path.resolve(process.cwd(), '.env')`
- _Breaking_: does not write over keys already in `process.env` if the key has a falsy value
- using `const` and `let` instead of `var`
### Removed
- Testing against Node v7
## [4.0.0] - 2016-12-23
### Changed
- Return Object with parsed content or error instead of false ([#165](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/pull/165)).
### Removed
-`verbose` option removed in favor of returning result.
## [3.0.0] - 2016-12-20
### Added
-`verbose` option will log any error messages. Off by default.
- parses email addresses correctly
- allow importing config method directly in ES6
### Changed
- Suppress error messages by default ([#154](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/pull/154))
- Ignoring more files for NPM to make package download smaller
### Fixed
- False positive test due to case-sensitive variable ([#124](https://github.com/motdotla/dotenv/pull/124))
### Removed
-`silent` option removed in favor of `verbose`
## [2.0.0] - 2016-01-20
### Added
- CHANGELOG to ["make it easier for users and contributors to see precisely what notable changes have been made between each release"](http://keepachangelog.com/). Linked to from README
- LICENSE to be more explicit about what was defined in `package.json`. Linked to from README
- Testing nodejs v4 on travis-ci
- added examples of how to use dotenv in different ways
- return parsed object on success rather than boolean true
### Changed
- README has shorter description not referencing ruby gem since we don't have or want feature parity
### Removed
- Variable expansion and escaping so environment variables are encouraged to be fully orthogonal
## [1.2.0] - 2015-06-20
### Added
- Preload hook to require dotenv without including it in your code
### Changed
- clarified license to be "BSD-2-Clause" in `package.json`
### Fixed
- retain spaces in string vars
## [1.1.0] - 2015-03-31
### Added
- Silent option to silence `console.log` when `.env` missing
## [1.0.0] - 2015-03-13
### Removed
- support for multiple `.env` files. should always use one `.env` file for the current environment
