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From: Rodney Rehm <mail+github@rodneyrehm.de>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 12:16:35 +0200
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+# URI.js - Changelog #
+
+The release notes tracked in this document are also made available on the [releases page](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/releases)
+
+### 1.16.1 (September 19th 2015) ###
+
+Package Management Cleanup - no changes to source code!
+
+* renaming package to "urijs", was "URIjs" (because npm decided to go lower-case at some point and maintaining capitals in your package name poses all sorts of stupid issues)
+* removing [jam](http://jamjs.org/), [spm](http://spmjs.org/), `component.json` and `URI.jquery.json` as nobody cared that URI.js was stuck on 1.14 for a year
+
+### 1.16.0 (July 24th 2015) ###
+
+* **SECURITY** fixing [`URI.parseHost()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-parseHost) to rewrite `\` to `/` as Node and Browsers do - [Issue #233](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/233)
+* fixing [`.host()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-host) and [`.authority()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-authority) to raise an error if they contain a path segment (extending [Issue #233](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/233))
+
+### 1.15.2 (July 2nd 2015) ###
+
+* fixing [`URI.parseQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-parseQuery) to accept `?foo&foo=bar` - [Issue #220](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/220)
+* fixing [`.segmentCoded()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segmentCoded) to encode (instead of decode) array input - [Issue #223](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/223)
+* fixing [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to properly resolve `/foo/..` to `/` - [Issue #224](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/224)
+* fixing [`.relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) to resolve `/foo/` and `/foo/bar` to `./` instead of empty string - [Issue #226](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/226)
+* fixing `bower.json`'s `"main": "src/URI.js"` - [Issue #227](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/227)
+
+### 1.15.1 (April 5th 2015) ###
+
+* fixing `URI()` to match behavior of `new URI()` (caused by [#196](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/196)) - [Issue #205](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/205)
+* fixing [`URI.removeQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#search-remove) to accept RegExp for name and value arguments - ([Issue #204](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/204), [peterwillis](https://github.com/peterwillis))
+
+### 1.15.0 (April 1st 2015 - no joke, promise!) ###
+
+* fixing `URI(undefined)` to throw TypeError - ([Issue #189](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/189), [Issue #196](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/196), [eakron](https://github.com/eakron)) - *tiny backward-compatibility-break*
+* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) - ([Issue #200](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/200), [giltayar](https://github.com/giltayar))
+* fixing [`.pathname()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-pathname) to properly en/decode URN paths - ([Issue #201](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/201), [mlefoster](https://github.com/mlefoster))
+* fixing URI normalization to properly handle URN paths based on [RFC 2141](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2141.txt) syntax - ([Issue #201](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/201), [mlefoster](https://github.com/mlefoster))
+  * fixing [`.normalize()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize) and [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to properly normalize URN paths
+  * adding `URI.encodeUrnPathSegment()`
+  * adding `URI.decodeUrnPathSegment()`
+  * adding `URI.decodeUrnPath()`
+  * adding `URI.recodeUrnPath()`
+
+### 1.14.2 (February 25th 2015) ###
+
+* fixing inclusion of LICENSE in packages - ([Issue #174](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/174))
+* fixing [`URI.parseHost()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-parseHost) to not interpret colon in path as IPv6 hostname - ([Issue #190](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/190))
+* adding meta data for [SPM](http://www.spmjs.io/) package manager - ([Issue #176](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/176))
+* adding license meta to `bower.json`
+
+### 1.14.1 (October 1st 2014) ###
+
+* fixing handling of String instances (not string primitives) - ([Issue #146](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/146))
+* fixing Firefox [`.watch()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/watch) interfering with `.parseQuery()` - ([Issue #169](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/169))
+* fixing [`addQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#search-add) to not throw error on null value - ([Issue #171](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/171))
+
+### 1.14.0 (September 8th 2014) ###
+
+* adding Hungarian second level domains - ([Issue #159](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/159))
+* adding `<audio src="…">` and `<video src="…">` to supported DOM attributes - ([Issue #160](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/160)), ([Issue #161](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/161))
+* fixing `file://hostname/path` parsing - ([Issue #158](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/158))
+* fixing `.decodePathSegment()` to not throw malformed URI error - ([Issue #163](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/163))
+
+### 1.13.2 (May 29th 2014) ###
+
+* changes to package management manifests only
+
+### 1.13.1 (April 16th 2014) ###
+
+* fixing IPv6 normalization (bad variable name) - ([Issue #145](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/145))
+* adding grunt and jshint
+* changing code style to 2 spaces indentation, single quote strings
+* applying `'use strict';` everywhere
+* fixing jshint warnings
+
+### 1.13.0 (April 15th 2014) ###
+
+* fixing [`URI.parseHost()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-parseHost) and [`URI.buildHost()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-buildHost) to properly parse and build the IPv6 examples given in [RFC2732 Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2732#section-2) - ([Issue #144](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/144))
+* adding performance improvements to SecondLevelDomain - ([PR #122](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/122), [gorhill](https://github.com/gorhill))
+
+### 1.12.1 (March 8th 2014) ###
+
+* fixing [`.encodeQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-encodeQuery) and [`.decodeQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-decodeQuery) to respect [`URI.escapeQuerySpace`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#setting-escapeQuerySpace) - ([Issue #137](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/137))
+* fixing fragment plugins to return URI for simpler loading - ([Issue #139](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/139))
+
+### 1.12.0 (January 23rd 2014) ###
+
+* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to comply with [RFC3986 Reference Resolution Examples](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.4) - ([Issue #113](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/113))
+* fixing [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to maintain leading parent references (`../`) for relative paths, while removing them for absolute paths - ([Issue #133](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/133))
+* fixing `URI.protocol_expression` to properly accept `.` in compliance with [RFC 3986 - Scheme](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.1) - ([Issue #132](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/132))
+* fixing [`URI.withinString()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-withinString) to not use backtracking prone regular expression `URI.find_uri_expression` anymore - ([Issue #131](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/131))
+* fixing [`URI.withinString()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-withinString) to accept options `ignore` and `ignoreHtml` to allow better control over which detected URLs get handled - ([Issue #117](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/117))
+* fixing [`URI.withinString()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-withinString) to accept option `start` to specify the RegExp used for finding the beginning of an URL (defaults to `/\b(?:([a-z][a-z0-9.+-]*:\/\/)|www\.)/gi`) - ([Issue #115](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/115))
+
+### 1.11.2 (August 14th 2013) ###
+
+* fixing regression for Node.js introduced by `fixing unsafe eval by using UMD's root` - ([Issue #107](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/107))
+* fixing parser to accept malformed userinfo (non-encoded email address) - ([Issue #108](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/108))
+
+### 1.11.1 (August 13th 2013) ###
+
+* fixing inconsistent [`.relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) results caused by inconsistent URI component handling - ([Issue #103](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/103))
+* fixing unsafe eval by using UMD's root - ([Issue #105](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/105))
+* fixing [`.segment()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segment) to allow appending an empty element - ([Issue #106](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/106))
+* fixing [`.segment()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segment) to collapse empty elements in array notation
+
+### 1.11.0 (August 6th 2013) ###
+
+* adding [`.segmentCoded()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segmentCoded) to provide en/decoding interface to `.segment()` - ([Issue #79](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/79))
+* optimize [`.relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) results - ([Issue #78](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/78), [Issue #95](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/95))
+* removing obsolete code fragments from `URI.parse()` and `relativeTo()` - ([Issue #100](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/100))
+* adding setting [`URI.escapeQuerySpace`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#setting-escapeQuerySpace) to control if query string should escape spaces using `+` or `%20` - ([Issue #74](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/74))
+* updating [Punycode.js](https://github.com/bestiejs/punycode.js/) to version 1.2.3
+* fixing internal `strictEncodeURIComponent()` to work in Firefox 3.6 - ([Issue #91](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/91))
+* fixing [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to properly resolve `/.` and `/.//` to `/` - ([Issue #97](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/97))
+* fixing [`.path()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-pathname) to return empty string if there is no path - ([Issue #82](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/82))
+* fixing crashing of `URI.decodeQuery()` on malformed input - now returns original undecoded data - ([Issue #87](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/87), [Issue #92](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/92))
+* fixing build tool - ([Issue #83](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/83))
+* fixing for-loop to make closure compiler happy - ([Issue #93](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/93))
+* adding [`URI.noConflict()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-noConflict) - ([Issue #84](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issue/84))
+* fixing whitespace in code - ([Issue #84](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issue/84))
+* fixing [`.readable()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#readable) to decode the hash value as well - ([Issue #90](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issue/90))
+* prevent `jquery.URI.js` from temporarily using `window.location` as the `href` of an empty attribute of a DOM element - ([Issue #94](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/94))
+* fixing internal `getType()` for IE8 with undefined value - ([Issue #96](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/96))
+* adding DOM elements to [URI constructor](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#constructor) - ([Issue #77](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/77)):
+  * [`<a href="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element)
+  * [`<blockquote cite="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/grouping-content.html#the-blockquote-element)
+  * [`<link href="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/document-metadata.html#the-link-element)
+  * [`<base href="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/document-metadata.html#the-base-element)
+  * [`<script src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/scripting-1.html#script)
+  * [`<form action="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-form-element)
+  * [`<input type="image" src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-input-element)
+  * [`<img src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-img-element)
+  * [`<area href="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-area-element)
+  * [`<iframe src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-iframe-element)
+  * [`<embed src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-embed-element)
+  * [`<source src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-source-element)
+  * [`<track src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-track-element)
+* optimize `jquery.URI.js` to use new DOM element infrastructure
+
+### 1.10.2 (April 15th 2013) ###
+
+* fixing [`relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) - ([Issue #75](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/75))
+* fixing [`normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to not prepend `./` to relative paths - ([Issue #76](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/76))
+
+### 1.10.1 (April 2nd 2013) ###
+
+* adding [`absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to properly resolve relative scheme - ([Issue #71](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/73))
+
+### 1.10.0 (March 16th 2013) ###
+
+* adding [`hasQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#search-has) - ([Issue #71](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/71))
+* fixing URI property detection to return 'src' if none was detected (`jquery.URI.js`) - ([Issue #69](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/69))
+
+### 1.9.1 (February 12th 2013) ###
+
+* fixing IE9 compatibility with location import: `URI(location)`
+* fixing string character access for IE7 - ([Issue #67](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/67)), ([Issue #68](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/68))
+
+### 1.9.0 (February 11th 2013) ###
+
+* adding [`.setQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#search-set) - ([Issue #64](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/64))
+* adding callback argument to [`.query()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-search)
+* adding jQuery 1.9.1 to the test suite
+
+### 1.8.3 (January 9th 2013) ###
+
+* fixing [UglifyJS2](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2) compression - ([Issue #60](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/60), [fidian](https://github.com/fidian))
+
+### 1.8.2 (December 27th 2012) ###
+
+* adding `.fragmentPrefix()` to configure prefix of fragmentURI and fragmentQuery extensions - ([Issue #55](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/55))
+* adding docs for [`.toString()`, `.valueOf()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#toString) and [`.href()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#href) - ([Issue #56](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/56))
+* fixing [`.relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) for descendants - ([Issue #57](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/57))
+
+### 1.8.1 (November 15th 2012) ###
+
+* fixing build() to properly omit empty query and fragment ([Issue #53](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/53))
+
+### 1.8.0 (November 13th 2012) ###
+
+* adding [`.resource()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-resource) as compound of [path, query, fragment]
+* adding jQuery 1.8.x compatibility for jQuery.URI.js (remaining backwards compatibility!)
+* adding default ports for gopher, ws, wss
+* adding [`.duplicateQueryParameters()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#setting-duplicateQueryParameters) to control if `key=value` duplicates have to be preserved or reduced ([Issue #51](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/51))
+* updating [Punycode.js](https://github.com/bestiejs/punycode.js/) to version 1.1.1
+* improving AMD/Node using [UMD returnExports](https://github.com/umdjs/umd/blob/master/returnExports.js) - ([Issue #44](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/44), [Issue #47](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/47))
+* fixing `.addQuery("empty")` to properly add `?empty` - ([Issue #46](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/46))
+* fixing parsing of badly formatted userinfo `http://username:pass:word@hostname`
+* fixing parsing of Windows-Drive-Letter paths `file://C:/WINDOWS/foo.txt`
+* fixing `URI(location)` to properly parse the URL - ([Issue #52](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/52))
+* fixing type error for fragment abuse demos - ([Issue #50](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/50))
+* adding documentation for various [encode/decode functions](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#encoding-decoding)
+* adding some pointers on possible problems with URLs to [About URIs](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/about-uris.html)
+* adding tests for fragment abuse and splitting tests into separate scopes
+* adding meta-data for [Jam](http://jamjs.org/) and [Bower](http://twitter.github.com/bower/)
+
+Note: QUnit seems to be having some difficulties on IE8. While the jQuery-plugin tests fail, the plugin itself works. We're still trying to figure out what's making QUnit "lose its config state".
+
+### 1.7.4 (October 21st 2012) ###
+
+* fixing parsing of `/wiki/Help:IPA` - ([Issue #49](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/49))
+
+### 1.7.3 (October 11th 2012) ###
+
+* fixing `strictEncodeURIComponent()` to properly encode `*` to `%2A`
+* fixing IE9's incorrect report of `img.href` being available - ([Issue #48](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/48))
+
+### 1.7.2 (August 28th 2012) ###
+
+* fixing SLD detection in [`.tld()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-tld) - `foot.se` would detect `t.se` - ([Issue #42](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/42))
+* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to comply with [RFC 3986 Section 5.2.2](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.2.2) - ([Issue #41](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/41))
+* fixing `location` not being available in non-browser environments like node.js ([Issue #45](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/45) [grimen](https://github.com/grimen))
+
+### 1.7.1 (August 14th 2012) ###
+
+* fixing [`.segment()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segment)'s append operation - ([Issue #39](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/39))
+
+### 1.7.0 (August 11th 2012) ###
+
+* fixing URI() constructor passing of `base` - ([Issue #33](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/33) [LarryBattle](https://github.com/LarryBattle))
+* adding [`.segment()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segment) accessor - ([Issue #34](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/34))
+* upgrading `URI.encode()` to strict URI encoding according to RFC3986
+* adding `URI.encodeReserved()` to exclude reserved characters (according to RFC3986) from being encoded
+* adding [URI Template (RFC 6570)](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570) support with [`URITemplate()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/uri-template.html)
+
+### 1.6.3 (June 24th 2012) ###
+
+* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to join two relative paths properly - ([Issue #29](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/29))
+* adding [`.clone()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#clone) to copy an URI instance
+
+### 1.6.2 (June 23rd 2012) ###
+
+* [`.directory()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-directory) now returns empty string if there is no directory
+* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to join two relative paths properly - ([Issue #29](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/29))
+
+### 1.6.1 (May 19th 2012) ###
+
+* fixing TypeError on [`.domain()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-domain) with dot-less hostnames - ([Issue #27](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/27))
+
+### 1.6.0 (March 19th 2012) ###
+
+* adding [URN](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3) (`javascript:`, `mailto:`, ...) support
+* adding [`.scheme()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-protocol) as alias of [`.protocol()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-protocol)
+* adding [`.userinfo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-userinfo) to comply with terminology of [RFC 3986](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.1)
+* adding [jQuery Plugin](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/jquery-uri-plugin.html) `src/jquery.URI.js`
+* fixing relative scheme URLs - ([Issue #19](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/19) [byroot](https://github.com/byroot))
+
+### 1.5.0 (February 19th 2012) ###
+
+* adding Second Level Domain (SLD) Support - ([Issue #17](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/17))
+
+### 1.4.3 (January 28th 2012) ###
+
+* fixing global scope leakage - ([Issue #15](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/15) [mark-rushakoff](https://github.com/mark-rushakoff))
+
+### 1.4.2 (January 25th 2012) ###
+
+* improving CommonJS compatibility - ([Issue #14](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/14) [FGRibreau](https://github.com/FGRibreau))
+
+### 1.4.1 (January 21st 2012) ###
+
+* adding CommonJS compatibility - ([Issue #11](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/11), [Evangenieur](https://github.com/Evangenieur))
+
+### 1.4.0 (January 12th 2012) ###
+
+* adding [`URI.iso8859()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-iso8859) and [`URI.unicode()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-unicode) to switch base charsets - ([Issue #10](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/10), [mortenn](https://github.com/))
+* adding [`.iso8859()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#iso8859) and [`.unicode()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#unicode) to convert an URI's escape encoding
+
+### 1.3.1 (January 3rd 2011) ###
+
+* updating Punycode.js to version 0.3.0
+* adding edge-case tests ("jim")
+* fixing edge-cases in .protocol(), .port(), .subdomain(), .domain(), .tld(), .filename()
+* fixing parsing of hostname in [`.hostname()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-hostname)
+
+### 1.3.0 (December 30th 2011) ###
+
+* adding [`.subdomain()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-subdomain) convenience accessor
+* improving internal deferred build handling
+* fixing thrown Error for `URI("http://example.org").query(true)` - ([Issue #6](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/6))
+* adding examples for extending URI.js for [fragment abuse](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#fragment-abuse), see src/URI.fragmentQuery.js and src/URI.fragmentURI.js - ([Issue #2](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/2))
+
+### 1.2.0 (December 29th 2011) ###
+
+* adding [`.equals()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#equals) for URL comparison
+* fixing encoding/decoding for [`.pathname()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-pathname), [`.directory()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-directory), [`.filename()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-filename) and [`.suffix()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-suffix) according to [RFC 3986 3.3](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.3)
+* fixing escape spaces in query strings with `+` according to [application/x-www-form-urlencoded](http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#form-content-type)
+* fixing to allow [`URI.buildQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-buildQuery) to build duplicate key=value combinations
+* fixing [`URI(string, string)`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#constructor) constructor to conform with the [specification](http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#constructor)
+* adding [`.readable()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#readable) for humanly readable representation of encoded URIs
+* fixing bug where @ in pathname would be parsed as part of the authority
+
+### 1.1.0 (December 28th 2011) ###
+
+* adding [`URI.withinString()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-withinString)
+* adding [`.normalizeProtocol()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-protocol) to lowercase protocols
+* fixing [`.normalizeHostname()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-host) to lowercase hostnames
+* fixing String.substr() to be replaced by String.substring() - ([Issue #1](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/1))
+* fixing parsing "?foo" to `{foo: null}` [Algorithm for collecting URL parameters](http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#collect-url-parameters)
+* fixing building `{foo: null, bar: ""}` to "?foo&bar=" [Algorithm for serializing URL parameters](http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#url-parameter-serialization)
+* fixing RegExp escaping
+
+### 1.0.0 (December 27th 2011) ###
+
+* Initial URI.js
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bc42618a..52eb3a6b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 * [Documentation](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html)
 * [jQuery URI Plugin](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/jquery-uri-plugin.html)
 * [Author](http://rodneyrehm.de/en/)
+* [Changelog](./CHANGELOG.md)
 
 ---
 
@@ -240,303 +241,4 @@ URI.js is published under the [MIT license](http://www.opensource.org/licenses/m
 
 ## Changelog ##
 
-### 1.16.1 (September 19th 2015) ###
-
-Package Management Cleanup - no changes to source code!
-
-* renaming package to "urijs", was "URIjs" (because npm decided to go lower-case at some point and maintaining capitals in your package name poses all sorts of stupid issues)
-* removing [jam](http://jamjs.org/), [spm](http://spmjs.org/), `component.json` and `URI.jquery.json` as nobody cared that URI.js was stuck on 1.14 for a year
-
-### 1.16.0 (July 24th 2015) ###
-
-* **SECURITY** fixing [`URI.parseHost()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-parseHost) to rewrite `\` to `/` as Node and Browsers do - [Issue #233](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/233)
-* fixing [`.host()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-host) and [`.authority()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-authority) to raise an error if they contain a path segment (extending [Issue #233](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/233))
-
-### 1.15.2 (July 2nd 2015) ###
-
-* fixing [`URI.parseQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-parseQuery) to accept `?foo&foo=bar` - [Issue #220](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/220)
-* fixing [`.segmentCoded()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segmentCoded) to encode (instead of decode) array input - [Issue #223](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/223)
-* fixing [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to properly resolve `/foo/..` to `/` - [Issue #224](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/224)
-* fixing [`.relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) to resolve `/foo/` and `/foo/bar` to `./` instead of empty string - [Issue #226](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/226)
-* fixing `bower.json`'s `"main": "src/URI.js"` - [Issue #227](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/227)
-
-### 1.15.1 (April 5th 2015) ###
-
-* fixing `URI()` to match behavior of `new URI()` (caused by [#196](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/196)) - [Issue #205](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/205)
-* fixing [`URI.removeQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#search-remove) to accept RegExp for name and value arguments - ([Issue #204](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/204), [peterwillis](https://github.com/peterwillis))
-
-### 1.15.0 (April 1st 2015 - no joke, promise!) ###
-
-* fixing `URI(undefined)` to throw TypeError - ([Issue #189](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/189), [Issue #196](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/196), [eakron](https://github.com/eakron)) - *tiny backward-compatibility-break*
-* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) - ([Issue #200](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/200), [giltayar](https://github.com/giltayar))
-* fixing [`.pathname()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-pathname) to properly en/decode URN paths - ([Issue #201](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/201), [mlefoster](https://github.com/mlefoster))
-* fixing URI normalization to properly handle URN paths based on [RFC 2141](https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2141.txt) syntax - ([Issue #201](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/201), [mlefoster](https://github.com/mlefoster))
-  * fixing [`.normalize()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize) and [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to properly normalize URN paths
-  * adding `URI.encodeUrnPathSegment()`
-  * adding `URI.decodeUrnPathSegment()`
-  * adding `URI.decodeUrnPath()`
-  * adding `URI.recodeUrnPath()`
-
-### 1.14.2 (February 25th 2015) ###
-
-* fixing inclusion of LICENSE in packages - ([Issue #174](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/174))
-* fixing [`URI.parseHost()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-parseHost) to not interpret colon in path as IPv6 hostname - ([Issue #190](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/190))
-* adding meta data for [SPM](http://www.spmjs.io/) package manager - ([Issue #176](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/176))
-* adding license meta to `bower.json`
-
-### 1.14.1 (October 1st 2014) ###
-
-* fixing handling of String instances (not string primitives) - ([Issue #146](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/146))
-* fixing Firefox [`.watch()`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/watch) interfering with `.parseQuery()` - ([Issue #169](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/169))
-* fixing [`addQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#search-add) to not throw error on null value - ([Issue #171](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/171))
-
-### 1.14.0 (September 8th 2014) ###
-
-* adding Hungarian second level domains - ([Issue #159](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/159))
-* adding `<audio src="…">` and `<video src="…">` to supported DOM attributes - ([Issue #160](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/160)), ([Issue #161](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/161))
-* fixing `file://hostname/path` parsing - ([Issue #158](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/158))
-* fixing `.decodePathSegment()` to not throw malformed URI error - ([Issue #163](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/163))
-
-### 1.13.2 (May 29th 2014) ###
-
-* changes to package management manifests only
-
-### 1.13.1 (April 16th 2014) ###
-
-* fixing IPv6 normalization (bad variable name) - ([Issue #145](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/145))
-* adding grunt and jshint
-* changing code style to 2 spaces indentation, single quote strings
-* applying `'use strict';` everywhere
-* fixing jshint warnings
-
-### 1.13.0 (April 15th 2014) ###
-
-* fixing [`URI.parseHost()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-parseHost) and [`URI.buildHost()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-buildHost) to properly parse and build the IPv6 examples given in [RFC2732 Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2732#section-2) - ([Issue #144](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/144))
-* adding performance improvements to SecondLevelDomain - ([PR #122](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/pull/122), [gorhill](https://github.com/gorhill))
-
-### 1.12.1 (March 8th 2014) ###
-
-* fixing [`.encodeQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-encodeQuery) and [`.decodeQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-decodeQuery) to respect [`URI.escapeQuerySpace`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#setting-escapeQuerySpace) - ([Issue #137](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/137))
-* fixing fragment plugins to return URI for simpler loading - ([Issue #139](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/139))
-
-### 1.12.0 (January 23rd 2014) ###
-
-* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to comply with [RFC3986 Reference Resolution Examples](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.4) - ([Issue #113](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/113))
-* fixing [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to maintain leading parent references (`../`) for relative paths, while removing them for absolute paths - ([Issue #133](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/133))
-* fixing `URI.protocol_expression` to properly accept `.` in compliance with [RFC 3986 - Scheme](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.1) - ([Issue #132](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/132))
-* fixing [`URI.withinString()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-withinString) to not use backtracking prone regular expression `URI.find_uri_expression` anymore - ([Issue #131](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/131))
-* fixing [`URI.withinString()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-withinString) to accept options `ignore` and `ignoreHtml` to allow better control over which detected URLs get handled - ([Issue #117](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/117))
-* fixing [`URI.withinString()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-withinString) to accept option `start` to specify the RegExp used for finding the beginning of an URL (defaults to `/\b(?:([a-z][a-z0-9.+-]*:\/\/)|www\.)/gi`) - ([Issue #115](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/115))
-
-### 1.11.2 (August 14th 2013) ###
-
-* fixing regression for Node.js introduced by `fixing unsafe eval by using UMD's root` - ([Issue #107](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/107))
-* fixing parser to accept malformed userinfo (non-encoded email address) - ([Issue #108](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/108))
-
-### 1.11.1 (August 13th 2013) ###
-
-* fixing inconsistent [`.relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) results caused by inconsistent URI component handling - ([Issue #103](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/103))
-* fixing unsafe eval by using UMD's root - ([Issue #105](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/105))
-* fixing [`.segment()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segment) to allow appending an empty element - ([Issue #106](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/106))
-* fixing [`.segment()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segment) to collapse empty elements in array notation
-
-### 1.11.0 (August 6th 2013) ###
-
-* adding [`.segmentCoded()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segmentCoded) to provide en/decoding interface to `.segment()` - ([Issue #79](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/79))
-* optimize [`.relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) results - ([Issue #78](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/78), [Issue #95](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/95))
-* removing obsolete code fragments from `URI.parse()` and `relativeTo()` - ([Issue #100](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/100))
-* adding setting [`URI.escapeQuerySpace`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#setting-escapeQuerySpace) to control if query string should escape spaces using `+` or `%20` - ([Issue #74](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/74))
-* updating [Punycode.js](https://github.com/bestiejs/punycode.js/) to version 1.2.3
-* fixing internal `strictEncodeURIComponent()` to work in Firefox 3.6 - ([Issue #91](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/91))
-* fixing [`.normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to properly resolve `/.` and `/.//` to `/` - ([Issue #97](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/97))
-* fixing [`.path()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-pathname) to return empty string if there is no path - ([Issue #82](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/82))
-* fixing crashing of `URI.decodeQuery()` on malformed input - now returns original undecoded data - ([Issue #87](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/87), [Issue #92](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/92))
-* fixing build tool - ([Issue #83](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/83))
-* fixing for-loop to make closure compiler happy - ([Issue #93](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/93))
-* adding [`URI.noConflict()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-noConflict) - ([Issue #84](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issue/84))
-* fixing whitespace in code - ([Issue #84](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issue/84))
-* fixing [`.readable()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#readable) to decode the hash value as well - ([Issue #90](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issue/90))
-* prevent `jquery.URI.js` from temporarily using `window.location` as the `href` of an empty attribute of a DOM element - ([Issue #94](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/94))
-* fixing internal `getType()` for IE8 with undefined value - ([Issue #96](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/96))
-* adding DOM elements to [URI constructor](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#constructor) - ([Issue #77](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/77)):
-  * [`<a href="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/text-level-semantics.html#the-a-element)
-  * [`<blockquote cite="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/grouping-content.html#the-blockquote-element)
-  * [`<link href="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/document-metadata.html#the-link-element)
-  * [`<base href="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/document-metadata.html#the-base-element)
-  * [`<script src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/scripting-1.html#script)
-  * [`<form action="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-form-element)
-  * [`<input type="image" src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/forms.html#the-input-element)
-  * [`<img src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-img-element)
-  * [`<area href="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-area-element)
-  * [`<iframe src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-iframe-element)
-  * [`<embed src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-embed-element)
-  * [`<source src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-source-element)
-  * [`<track src="...">`](http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-content-0.html#the-track-element)
-* optimize `jquery.URI.js` to use new DOM element infrastructure
-
-### 1.10.2 (April 15th 2013) ###
-
-* fixing [`relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) - ([Issue #75](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/75))
-* fixing [`normalizePath()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-path) to not prepend `./` to relative paths - ([Issue #76](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/76))
-
-### 1.10.1 (April 2nd 2013) ###
-
-* adding [`absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to properly resolve relative scheme - ([Issue #71](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/73))
-
-### 1.10.0 (March 16th 2013) ###
-
-* adding [`hasQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#search-has) - ([Issue #71](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/71))
-* fixing URI property detection to return 'src' if none was detected (`jquery.URI.js`) - ([Issue #69](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/69))
-
-### 1.9.1 (February 12th 2013) ###
-
-* fixing IE9 compatibility with location import: `URI(location)`
-* fixing string character access for IE7 - ([Issue #67](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/67)), ([Issue #68](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/68))
-
-### 1.9.0 (February 11th 2013) ###
-
-* adding [`.setQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#search-set) - ([Issue #64](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/64))
-* adding callback argument to [`.query()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-search)
-* adding jQuery 1.9.1 to the test suite
-
-### 1.8.3 (January 9th 2013) ###
-
-* fixing [UglifyJS2](https://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS2) compression - ([Issue #60](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/60), [fidian](https://github.com/fidian))
-
-### 1.8.2 (December 27th 2012) ###
-
-* adding `.fragmentPrefix()` to configure prefix of fragmentURI and fragmentQuery extensions - ([Issue #55](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/55))
-* adding docs for [`.toString()`, `.valueOf()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#toString) and [`.href()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#href) - ([Issue #56](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/56))
-* fixing [`.relativeTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#relativeto) for descendants - ([Issue #57](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/57))
-
-### 1.8.1 (November 15th 2012) ###
-
-* fixing build() to properly omit empty query and fragment ([Issue #53](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/53))
-
-### 1.8.0 (November 13th 2012) ###
-
-* adding [`.resource()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-resource) as compound of [path, query, fragment]
-* adding jQuery 1.8.x compatibility for jQuery.URI.js (remaining backwards compatibility!)
-* adding default ports for gopher, ws, wss
-* adding [`.duplicateQueryParameters()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#setting-duplicateQueryParameters) to control if `key=value` duplicates have to be preserved or reduced ([Issue #51](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/51))
-* updating [Punycode.js](https://github.com/bestiejs/punycode.js/) to version 1.1.1
-* improving AMD/Node using [UMD returnExports](https://github.com/umdjs/umd/blob/master/returnExports.js) - ([Issue #44](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/44), [Issue #47](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/47))
-* fixing `.addQuery("empty")` to properly add `?empty` - ([Issue #46](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/46))
-* fixing parsing of badly formatted userinfo `http://username:pass:word@hostname`
-* fixing parsing of Windows-Drive-Letter paths `file://C:/WINDOWS/foo.txt`
-* fixing `URI(location)` to properly parse the URL - ([Issue #52](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/52))
-* fixing type error for fragment abuse demos - ([Issue #50](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/50))
-* adding documentation for various [encode/decode functions](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#encoding-decoding)
-* adding some pointers on possible problems with URLs to [About URIs](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/about-uris.html)
-* adding tests for fragment abuse and splitting tests into separate scopes
-* adding meta-data for [Jam](http://jamjs.org/) and [Bower](http://twitter.github.com/bower/)
-
-Note: QUnit seems to be having some difficulties on IE8. While the jQuery-plugin tests fail, the plugin itself works. We're still trying to figure out what's making QUnit "lose its config state".
-
-### 1.7.4 (October 21st 2012) ###
-
-* fixing parsing of `/wiki/Help:IPA` - ([Issue #49](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/49))
-
-### 1.7.3 (October 11th 2012) ###
-
-* fixing `strictEncodeURIComponent()` to properly encode `*` to `%2A`
-* fixing IE9's incorrect report of `img.href` being available - ([Issue #48](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/48))
-
-### 1.7.2 (August 28th 2012) ###
-
-* fixing SLD detection in [`.tld()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-tld) - `foot.se` would detect `t.se` - ([Issue #42](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/42))
-* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to comply with [RFC 3986 Section 5.2.2](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-5.2.2) - ([Issue #41](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/41))
-* fixing `location` not being available in non-browser environments like node.js ([Issue #45](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/45) [grimen](https://github.com/grimen))
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-### 1.7.1 (August 14th 2012) ###
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-* fixing [`.segment()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segment)'s append operation - ([Issue #39](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/39))
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-### 1.7.0 (August 11th 2012) ###
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-* fixing URI() constructor passing of `base` - ([Issue #33](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/33) [LarryBattle](https://github.com/LarryBattle))
-* adding [`.segment()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-segment) accessor - ([Issue #34](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/34))
-* upgrading `URI.encode()` to strict URI encoding according to RFC3986
-* adding `URI.encodeReserved()` to exclude reserved characters (according to RFC3986) from being encoded
-* adding [URI Template (RFC 6570)](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570) support with [`URITemplate()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/uri-template.html)
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-### 1.6.3 (June 24th 2012) ###
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-* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to join two relative paths properly - ([Issue #29](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/29))
-* adding [`.clone()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#clone) to copy an URI instance
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-### 1.6.2 (June 23rd 2012) ###
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-* [`.directory()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-directory) now returns empty string if there is no directory
-* fixing [`.absoluteTo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#absoluteto) to join two relative paths properly - ([Issue #29](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/29))
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-### 1.6.1 (May 19th 2012) ###
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-* fixing TypeError on [`.domain()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-domain) with dot-less hostnames - ([Issue #27](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/27))
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-### 1.6.0 (March 19th 2012) ###
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-* adding [URN](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3) (`javascript:`, `mailto:`, ...) support
-* adding [`.scheme()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-protocol) as alias of [`.protocol()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-protocol)
-* adding [`.userinfo()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-userinfo) to comply with terminology of [RFC 3986](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.1)
-* adding [jQuery Plugin](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/jquery-uri-plugin.html) `src/jquery.URI.js`
-* fixing relative scheme URLs - ([Issue #19](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/19) [byroot](https://github.com/byroot))
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-### 1.5.0 (February 19th 2012) ###
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-* adding Second Level Domain (SLD) Support - ([Issue #17](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/17))
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-### 1.4.3 (January 28th 2012) ###
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-* fixing global scope leakage - ([Issue #15](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/15) [mark-rushakoff](https://github.com/mark-rushakoff))
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-### 1.4.2 (January 25th 2012) ###
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-* improving CommonJS compatibility - ([Issue #14](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/14) [FGRibreau](https://github.com/FGRibreau))
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-### 1.4.1 (January 21st 2012) ###
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-* adding CommonJS compatibility - ([Issue #11](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/11), [Evangenieur](https://github.com/Evangenieur))
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-### 1.4.0 (January 12th 2012) ###
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-* adding [`URI.iso8859()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-iso8859) and [`URI.unicode()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-unicode) to switch base charsets - ([Issue #10](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/10), [mortenn](https://github.com/))
-* adding [`.iso8859()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#iso8859) and [`.unicode()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#unicode) to convert an URI's escape encoding
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-### 1.3.1 (January 3rd 2011) ###
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-* updating Punycode.js to version 0.3.0
-* adding edge-case tests ("jim")
-* fixing edge-cases in .protocol(), .port(), .subdomain(), .domain(), .tld(), .filename()
-* fixing parsing of hostname in [`.hostname()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-hostname)
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-### 1.3.0 (December 30th 2011) ###
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-* adding [`.subdomain()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-subdomain) convenience accessor
-* improving internal deferred build handling
-* fixing thrown Error for `URI("http://example.org").query(true)` - ([Issue #6](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/6))
-* adding examples for extending URI.js for [fragment abuse](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#fragment-abuse), see src/URI.fragmentQuery.js and src/URI.fragmentURI.js - ([Issue #2](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/2))
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-### 1.2.0 (December 29th 2011) ###
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-* adding [`.equals()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#equals) for URL comparison
-* fixing encoding/decoding for [`.pathname()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-pathname), [`.directory()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-directory), [`.filename()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-filename) and [`.suffix()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#accessors-suffix) according to [RFC 3986 3.3](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.3)
-* fixing escape spaces in query strings with `+` according to [application/x-www-form-urlencoded](http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#form-content-type)
-* fixing to allow [`URI.buildQuery()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-buildQuery) to build duplicate key=value combinations
-* fixing [`URI(string, string)`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#constructor) constructor to conform with the [specification](http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#constructor)
-* adding [`.readable()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#readable) for humanly readable representation of encoded URIs
-* fixing bug where @ in pathname would be parsed as part of the authority
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-### 1.1.0 (December 28th 2011) ###
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-* adding [`URI.withinString()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#static-withinString)
-* adding [`.normalizeProtocol()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-protocol) to lowercase protocols
-* fixing [`.normalizeHostname()`](http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-host) to lowercase hostnames
-* fixing String.substr() to be replaced by String.substring() - ([Issue #1](https://github.com/medialize/URI.js/issues/1))
-* fixing parsing "?foo" to `{foo: null}` [Algorithm for collecting URL parameters](http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#collect-url-parameters)
-* fixing building `{foo: null, bar: ""}` to "?foo&bar=" [Algorithm for serializing URL parameters](http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#url-parameter-serialization)
-* fixing RegExp escaping
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-### 1.0.0 (December 27th 2011) ###
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-* Initial URI.js
+moved to [Changelog](./CHANGELOG.md)
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