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Bring back the root option, albeit with slightly different semantics than in v8 and before.
Support { absolute:false } option to explicitly always return relative paths. An unset absolute setting will still return absolute or relative paths based on whether the pattern is absolute.
Add magicalBraces option to treat brace expansion as "magic" in the hasMagic function.
Add dotRelative option
Add escape() and unescape() methods

9.0

This is a full rewrite, with significant API and algorithm changes.

High-Level Feature and API Surface Changes

Only support node 16 and higher.
Promise API instead of callbacks.
Exported function names have changed, as have the methods on the Glob class. See API documentation for details.
Accept pattern as string or array of strings.
Hybrid module distribution.
Full TypeScript support.
Exported Glob class is no longer an event emitter.
Exported Glob class has walk(), walkSync(), stream(), streamSync(), iterate(), iterateSync() methods, and is both an async and sync Generator.
First class support for UNC paths and drive letters on Windows. Note that glob patterns must still use / as a path separator, unless the windowsPathsNoEscape option is set, in which case glob patterns cannot be escaped with \.
Paths are returned in the canonical formatting for the platform in question.
The hasMagic method will return false for patterns that only contain brace expansion, but no other "magic" glob characters.
Patterns ending in / will still be restricted to matching directories, but will not have a / appended in the results. In general, results will be in their default relative or absolute forms, without any extraneous / and . characters, unlike shell matches. (The mark option may still be used to always mark directory matches with a trailing / or \.)
An options argument is required for the Glob class constructor. {} may be provided to accept all default options.

Options Changes

Removed root option and mounting behavior.
Removed stat option. It's slow and pointless. (Could bring back easily if there's demand, but items are already statted in cases where it's relevant, such as nodir:true or mark:true.)
Simplified cwd behavior so it is far less magical, and relies less on platform-specific absolute path representations.
cwd can be a File URL or a string path.
More efficient handling for absolute patterns. (That is, patterns that start with / on any platform, or start with a drive letter or UNC path on Windows.)
Removed silent and strict options. Any readdir errors are simply treated as "the directory could not be read", and it is treated as a normal file entry instead, like shells do.
Removed fs option. This module only operates on the real filesystem. (Could bring back if there's demand for it, but it'd be an update to PathScurry, not Glob.)
nonull:true is no longer supported.
withFileTypes:true option added, to get Path objects. These are a bit like a Dirent, but can do a lot more. See http://npm.im/path-scurry
nounique:true is no longer supported. Result sets are always unique.
nosort:true is no longer supported. Result sets are never sorted.
When the nocase option is used, the assumption is that it reflects the case sensitivity of the filesystem itself. Using case-insensitive matching on a case-sensitive filesystem, or vice versa, may thus result in more or fewer matches than expected. In general, it should only be used when the filesystem is known to differ from the platform default.
realpath:true no longer implies absolute:true. The relative path to the realpath will be emitted when absolute is not set.
realpath:true will cause invalid symbolic links to be omitted, rather than matching the link itself.

Performance and Algorithm Changes

Massive performance improvements.
Removed nearly all stat calls, in favor of using withFileTypes:true with fs.readdir().
Replaced most of the caching with a PathScurry based implementation.
More correct handling of ** vs ./**, following Bash semantics, where a ** is followed one time only if it is not the first item in the pattern.

8.1

Add windowsPathsNoEscape option

8.0

Only support node v12 and higher
\ is now only used as an escape character, and never as a path separator in glob patterns, so that Windows users have a way to match against filenames containing literal glob pattern characters.
Glob pattern paths must use forward-slashes as path separators, since \ is an escape character to match literal glob pattern characters.
(8.0.2) cwd and root will always be automatically coerced to use / as path separators on Windows, as they cannot contain glob patterns anyway, and are often supplied by path.resolve() and other methods that will use \ path separators by default.

7.2

Add fs option to allow passing virtual filesystem

7.1

Ignore stat errors that are not ENOENT to work around Windows issues.
Support using root and absolute options together
Bring back lumpy space princess
force 'en' locale in string sorting

7.0

Raise error if options.cwd is specified, and not a directory

6.0

Remove comment and negation pattern support
Ignore patterns are always in dot:true mode

5.0

Deprecate comment and negation patterns
Fix regression in mark and nodir options from making all cache keys absolute path.
Abort if fs.readdir returns an error that's unexpected
Don't emit match events for ignored items
Treat ENOTSUP like ENOTDIR in readdir