Version 4.0.0-beta.1

4.0.0-beta.1 (2024-10-03)

Enhancements

• Use fetch API instead of XMLHttpRequest both in browser and Node trackers and refactor emitter and event store interfaces (#1076)
• Make cookie writes async by default to improve tracker performance (#1340)
• Fix message when a resource triggers errors (#1341)
• Add event delegation for form tracking (#1329)
• Add support for named global context (#1331)
• Add a filter function to plugins to filter out events so that they are not tracked (#1326)
• Add event delegation for link click tracking (#1325)
• Add browser-tracker-core default for os_timezone (#1338)
• Revise Node.js initialization API

Removed deprecated functionality

• Remove browser-features, optimizely, ecommerce and consent plugins, deprecate enhanced ecommerce and performance timing plugins and add web vitals by default (#1345)
• Revise default plugins included on the JavaScript tracker (#1147)

Upgraded internals

• Upgrade UUID to 8.3.2 (#1138)
• Update browser targets for compilation (#1131, #1132)
• Update Node.js to v14 (#1129, #1130)

Other improvements and fixes

• Change default tracker initialization parameters for JS/Browser v4 (#1144)
• Fix SelfDescribingJson type to allow optional keys in type parameter (#1330)
• Fix newTracker optional typing (#1237)
• Fix newTracker typing to accurately return null or undefined (#1167)