Upgrade Guide

This document describes breaking changes and how to upgrade. For a complete list of changes including minor and patch releases, please refer to the changelog.

1.0.0

This is the initial release of level-transcoder, which was forked from level-codec. Ultimately level-transcoder got a completely different API, so the two modules are not interchangeable. That said, here are the high-level differences from level-codec just for the record:

Throws if an encoding is not found, rather than falling back to 'id' encoding
The 'binary' encoding has been renamed to 'buffer', with 'binary' as an alias
The 'utf8' encoding of level-codec did not touch Buffers. In level-transcoder the same encoding will call buffer.toString('utf8') for consistency. Consumers can use the 'buffer' encoding to avoid this conversion.
The 'id' encoding (aliased as 'none') which wasn't supported by any active abstract-leveldown implementation, has been removed.
The 'ascii', 'ucs2' and 'utf16le' encodings are not supported.

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