9.0.0-alpha.0 (2024-04-12)

⚠ BREAKING CHANGES

• locale: remove unused global locale faker instance (#2789)
• locale: remove deprecated locale aliases (#2787)
• date: birthdate improvements (#2756)
• date: stricter error handling of between (#2719)
• date: fail on invalid dates (#2757)
• location: remove v8 deprecated location methods (#2753)
• remove v8 deprecated type aliases (#2754)
• commerce: remove v8 deprecated commerce method (#2752)
• location: remove default_country definitions (#2740)
• helpers: remove v8 deprecated helpers methods (#2729)
• number: remove v8 deprecated number parameter (#2738)
• company: remove v8 deprecated company methods (#2726)
• phone: add new style parameter (#2578)
• finance: remove v8 deprecated finance methods (#2727)
• git: remove v8 deprecated git method (#2716)
• phone: remove v8 deprecated phone format (#2712)
• date: remove v8 deprecated date methods (#2704)
• helpers: stricter checking for function signature passed to multiple (#2563)
• internet: remove v8 deprecated internet methods (#2699)
• random: remove v8 deprecated image methods (#2697)
• high precision random number generator (#2357)
• person: flatten jobs definitions (#2505)
• datatype: remove v8 deprecated datatype methods (#2694)
• helpers: use const generics where possible (#2685)
• random: remove deprecated random module (#2678)
• remove v8 deprecated faker class parts (#2682)
• helpers: remove v8 deprecated unique (#2661)
• switch to tsup (#2391)
• image: remove v8 deprecated providers (#2634)
• image: randomize defaults (#2472)
• deps: update dependency typescript to v5 (#1953)
• drop NodeJS v14 and v16 support (#2121)

Features

• animal: add more simple animals to animal.type() (#2786) (f47dfe5)
• food: new module (#2484) (9aab7c2)
• helpers: stricter checking for function signature passed to multiple (#2563) (2b15f2e)
• helpers: use const generics where possible (#2685) (c45537f)
• high precision random number generator (#2357) (4ab0731)
• music: add additional genres (#2621) (7dae52b)
• number: add multipleOf to faker.number.int (#2586) (5ef8ef1)
• phone: add new style parameter (#2578) (e130549)

Bug Fixes

• commerce: return fractional prices (#2458) (9348138)
• internet: add Hebrew username charMapping (#2781) (5860783)
• person: add dedicated first names in ko locale (#2773) (47f008a)
• person: delete set of invalid names in en_NG (#2764) (2884552)
• restore support for moduleResolution Node* (#2749) (2f07483)
• tree-shaking (#2790) (fb65976)

infra

• drop NodeJS v14 and v16 support (#2121) (1e0df8b)

• commerce: remove v8 deprecated commerce method (#2752) (8c80877)

• company: remove v8 deprecated company methods (#2726) (19bcf88)

• datatype: remove v8 deprecated datatype methods (#2694) (682a427)

• date: birthdate improvements (#2756) (b498d1f)

• date: fail on invalid dates (#2757) (3485e7e)

• date: remove v8 deprecated date methods (#2704) (e868060)

• date: stricter error handling of between (#2719) (da35c51)

• deps: update dependency typescript to v5 (#1953) (bc3ebb7)

• finance: remove v8 deprecated finance methods (#2727) (a536a9d)

• git: remove v8 deprecated git method (#2716) (b3afc8f)

• helpers: remove v8 deprecated helpers methods (#2729) (1169a05)

• helpers: remove v8 deprecated unique (#2661) (4382fd9)

• image: randomize defaults (#2472) (92207b7)

• image: remove v8 deprecated providers (#2634) (44d698e)

• internet: remove v8 deprecated internet methods (#2699) (3024d9e)

• location: remove default_country definitions (#2740) (a409b46)

• location: remove v8 deprecated location methods (#2753) (6dee178)

• number: remove v8 deprecated number parameter (#2738) (a672d27)

• person: flatten jobs definitions (#2505) (0d4cba6)

• phone: remove v8 deprecated phone format (#2712) (660da4c)

• random: remove deprecated random module (#2678) (64ff107)

• random: remove v8 deprecated image methods (#2697) (e99fba9)

• remove v8 deprecated faker class parts (#2682) (a9dc701)

• remove v8 deprecated type aliases (#2754) (2ec602b)

• switch to tsup (#2391) (db88a15)

New Locales

• locale: add location for uz_UZ_latin (#2775) (80730e9)
• locale: add uzbek locale (uz_UZ_latin) (#2686) (f7471a2)
• locale: extend Uzbek locale for commerce (#2750) (b6b18d7)
• locale: extend Uzbek locale for date and color (#2724) (776a625)
• locale: support street and street address for ja (#2193) (501f4b3)

Changed Locales

• locale: normalize animal data (#2791) (03b965a)
• locale: remove deprecated locale aliases (#2787) (03ac471)
• locale: remove unused global locale faker instance (#2789) (b505a70)

8.4.1 (2024-02-06)

• JSDocs improvements

8.4.0 (2024-01-24)

Features

• helpers: add support for complex intermediate types (#2550) (24482a3)
• number: add parameter fractionDigits in float (#1855) (41d8778)
• person: add job titles for fr (#2531) (ba28ab6)

Bug Fixes

• finance: correct VG IBAN format (#2552) (b8049d1)
• internet: username method to return value that always includes… (#2506) (0ee1c67)
• locale: incomplete airline names in zh_CN (#2558) (5525b55)
• number: improve float generation for precisions of form 10^-n (#2581) (39c715d)

8.3.1 (2023-11-14)

Bug Fixes

• remove [@internal](https://github.com/internal) from module parent classes (#2548) (77f54ad)

8.3.0 (2023-11-14)

Features

• person: use fake patterns for jobTitle (#2528) (b40ad45)

Bug Fixes

• date: ensures correct range for birthdate (#2535) (7ce8c28)
• finance: maskedNumber has incorrect defaults (#2494) (e0ba50b)
• locale: improve Swedish phone numbers format (#2520) (e4865df)

Changed Locales

• locale: remove fr_CH data which is identical to fr (#2526) (fafcba4)

New Locales

• locale: add person to fr_SN (#2537) (ef965da)
• locale: add Senegal locale (#2525) (6df70bc)
• locale: add streets to location fr_SN (#2536) (36fc517)
• locale: and location to fr_SN (#2533) (f730125)

8.2.0 (2023-10-14)

Features

• support custom randomizer (#2284) (5410239)

Bug Fixes

• docs: revert filter code that breaks search in docs (#2425) (c498c09)
• locale: Dutch phone number (#2400) (005369b)

New Locales

• locale: add airline database science commerce and vehicle for zh_CN (#2395) (9c96c0a)
• locale: add street_name to en_US, en_GB and en (#2371) (491d319)
• locale: add unionpay credit card for zh_CN (#2338) (74eeccc)

8.1.0 (2023-09-19)

Features

• color: migrate hu human colors (#2157) (19635a7)
• commerce: add method for generating ISBN-10 and ISBN-13 (#2240) (cb4ef28)
• image: add image dataUri with base64 (#2273) (869b9b4)
• location: add en_IE postcodes (#2149) (e92c313)
• location: add ne postcodes (#2148) (36d1d3a)
• location: add states for mk (#2271) (1b3e5eb)
• location: add states for pt_PT (#2269) (a4631db)
• location: add states for sr_RS_latin (#2270) (1de471f)
• location: es province should be county (#2156) (bbda1d7)
• location: fi addresses (#2146) (1da6785)
• location: Support ISO 3166-1 numeric country codes (#2325) (82b779d)
• location: update en county list (#2238) (6bb4775)
• lorem: seed AR lorem (#2147) (6137801)
• metadata: add method to access metadata (#2143) (fd8cfe5)
• split SimpleFaker class from Faker (#2369) (d6a4f8c)

Bug Fixes

• helpers: prevent uniqueArray from hanging (#2239) (3dece09)
• image: dataUri is not random (#2316) (a7d25fa)
• locale: invalid date definitions (#2293) (3cecae9)
• locale: limited ja first names without passing sex (#2190) (5de8874)
• locale: remove continent from ja countries (#2194) (cdd162a)
• locale: remove duplicated countries in ja locale (#2189) (785a38a)
• location: avoid hyphenated surnames in city patterns (#2119) (7a4bb43)
• location: Czech postcode format (#2268) (37898ca)
• location: Dutch postal codes can never start with '0' (#2326) (f195e06)
• location: Pad en_US ZIP codes left to 5 characters if needed (#2278) (0ca1e44)
• remove unrelated from de_CH country codes (#2304) (aa1bb13)
• test: fix imports for jsdocs example verification (#2281) (2fe1308)
• test: typedoc signature test issues (#2280) (02fc7ca)

Changed Locales

• locale: cs_CZ state_abbr not applicable (#2140) (e86f3b6)

New Locales

• locale: add bio, animal, word, music for zh_CN (#2332) (8e4ea67)
• locale: add company name to zh_CN (#2203) (c3b540f)
• locale: add da person category (#2331) (466b804)
• locale: add database for German (de) (#2226) (ee12c32)
• locale: add direction to ja (#2191) (2fa60de)
• locale: add Dutch province abbreviations (#2232) (4a15bd0)
• locale: add Esperanto (#2230) (d91057d)
• locale: add finance module for zh_CN (#2370) (aea4c9b)
• locale: add GB subdivision codes (#2233) (5eec65f)
• locale: add hacker for zh_CN (#2337) (9176fcb)
• locale: add minimal da locale, start with location (#2324) (c158b38)
• locale: add person data for yo locale (#2363) (76886ad)
• locale: add states for Croatia (hr) (#2142) (8a6ce49)
• locale: add states for Turkey (tr) (#2231) (2afa23f)
• locale: add states to vi locale and fix city name (#2128) (bc2aaab)
• locale: add word category for da (#2359) (8e5bc22)
• locale: added commerce and company data for da (#2378) (604d52d)
• locale: added word and music to Farsi (#2210) (7687511)
• locale: fix wide month and add music for zh_CN (#2380) (501602b)
• locale: improve persons and locations for zh_CN (#2318) (87d3423)
• locale: improve zh_TW (#2320) (c5dfe27)
• locale: support color and date for zh_CN (#2223) (6736cbf)
• locale: update Dutch locale (nl) (#2237) (12a511c)

8.0.2 (2023-05-27)

Bug Fixes

• git: limit need for Intl to specific method (#2172) (a5e73f8)
• locale: en_HK last_name_patterns should be last_name_pattern (#2154) (03cc391)
• locale: ro_MD city should be city_pattern (#2155) (c173150)

8.0.1 (2023-05-15)

• docs: switch doc links to stable (#2152) (8f741bd)

8.0.0 (2023-05-11)

Bug Fixes

• docs: fix faker v7 code example for locale migration (#2125) (b570461)
• locales: add real cities for zu_ZA and af_ZA, update en_ZA city list (#2141) (ee8c97c)