# Change Log
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

## [3.0.0]
### Changed
- **BREAKING**: `jwt.verify` now requires an `algorithm` parameter, and
  `jws.createVerify` requires an `algorithm` option. The `"alg"` field
  signature headers is ignored. This mitigates a critical security flaw
  in the library which would allow an attacker to generate signatures with
  arbitrary contents that would be accepted by `jwt.verify`. See
  https://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-token-libraries/
  for details.

## [2.0.0] - 2015-01-30
### Changed
- **BREAKING**: Default payload encoding changed from `binary` to
  `utf8`. `utf8` is a is a more sensible default than `binary` because
  many payloads, as far as I can tell, will contain user-facing
  strings that could be in any language. ([6b6de48])

- Code reorganization, thanks [@fearphage]! ([7880050])

### Added
- Option in all relevant methods for `encoding`. For those few users
  that might be depending on a `binary` encoding of the messages, this
  is for them. ([6b6de48])

[unreleased]: https://github.com/brianloveswords/node-jws/compare/v2.0.0...HEAD
[2.0.0]: https://github.com/brianloveswords/node-jws/compare/v1.0.1...v2.0.0

[7880050]: https://github.com/brianloveswords/node-jws/commit/7880050
[6b6de48]: https://github.com/brianloveswords/node-jws/commit/6b6de48

[@fearphage]: https://github.com/fearphage
