v3.0.0

BREAKING CHANGES

• React, jQuery and Element interfaces moved to dedicated packages at linkify-react,linkify-jquery and linkify-element respectively:
• Remove default class="linkified" from all discovered links. Opt back in by setting the className option:

  linkifyStr(str, { className: 'linkified' })

• Remove default target="_blank" attribute for discovered URLs. Opt back in by setting the target option:

  linkifyHtml(str, {
    target: (href, type) => type === 'url' && '_blank'
  })

• React component: Remove outer <span> tag wrapper in favour of tag-less React.Fragment for React >=16. To opt back-in, set tagName='span':

  <Linkify tagName='span'>{content}</Linkify>

• AMD module interface is no longer provided. Use an ESM bundler instead.
• Plugins imported after linkify is called on a string for the first time will not longer work. Import all plugins before calling a linkify core or interface function.
• Custom plugin API is not compatible with previous API in Linkify v2
• Dropped support for Internet Explorer versions 9 and 10. IE11 is still supported
• Dropped support for React versions <15

Deprecations

• Use dedicated packages linkify-string and linkify-html instead of linkifyjs/string and linkifyjs/html. The embedded packages will be removed in v4.0
• Use dedicated plugin packages linkify-plugin-[PLUGIN] instead of linkifyjs/plugin/[PLUGIN]. The embedded packages will be removed in v4.0

All Changes

• Full Internationalized Domain (IDN) and Emoji domain support 🇺🇳🌍✈️🎉💃! Detect URLs, #hashtags and @mentions in any language
• ~10x faster startup; ~4x faster combined startup + first run
• Custom protocols with linkify.registerCustomProtocol('protocol')
• Modernized codebase and build system
• Add new rel option at top level as an alternate way of including it in attributes
• New and improved plugin API
• TypeScript definitions included in published packages
• linkify.find() output includes start and end indexes for where in the string a link was found
• Plugins no longer need to be called on linkify after import

  // Before
  import * as linkify from 'linkifyjs'
  import hashtag from 'linkifyjs/plugins/hashtag'
  hashtag(linkify)
  
  // After
  import * as linkify from 'linkifyjs'
  import 'linkifyjs/plugins/hashtag'