nips/BREAKING.md

Breaking Changes

This is a history of NIP changes that potentially break pre-existing implementations, in reverse chronological order.

Date	Commit	NIP	Change
2024-11-12	2838e3bd	29	kind: 12 and kind: 10 were removed (use kind: 1111 instead)
2024-11-12	926a51e7	46	NIP-05 login was removed
2024-11-12	926a51e7	46	create_account method was removed
2024-11-12	926a51e7	46	connect params and result were changed
2024-10-29	f1e8d2c4	46	bunker URL should use remote-signer-key
2024-10-15	1cda2dcc	71	some tags were replaced with imeta tag
2024-10-15	1cda2dcc	71	kind: 34237 was dropped
2024-10-07	7bb8997b	55	some fields and passing data were changed
2024-08-18	3aff37bd	54	content should be Asciidoc
2024-07-31	3ea2f1a4	45	444ad28d was reverted
2024-07-30	444ad28d	45	NIP-45 was deprecated
2024-07-26	ecee40df	19	nrelay was deprecated
2024-07-23	0227a2cd	01	events should be sorted by id after created_at
2024-06-06	58e94b20	25	8073c848 was reverted
2024-06-06	a6dfc7b5	55	NIP number was changed
2024-05-25	5d1d1c17	71	'aes-256-gcm' tag was removed
2024-05-07	8073c848	25	e-tags were changed to not include entire thread
2024-04-30	bad88262	34	'earliest-unique-commit' tag was removed (use 'r' tag instead)
2024-02-25	4a171cb0	18	quote repost should use q tag
2024-02-21	c6cd655c	46	Params were stringified
2024-02-16	cbec02ab	49	Password first normalized to NFKC
2024-02-15	afbb8dd0	39	PGP identity was removed
2024-02-07	d3dad114	46	Connection token format was changed
2024-01-30	1a2b21b6	59	'p' tag became optional
2023-01-27	c2f34817	47	optional expiration tag should be honored
2024-01-10	3d8652ea	02	list entries should be chronological
2024-01-10	3d8652ea	51	list entries should be chronological
2023-12-30	29869821	52	'name' tag was removed (use 'title' tag instead)
2023-12-27	17c67ef5	94	'aes-256-gcm' tag was removed
2023-12-03	0ba45895	01	WebSocket status code 4000 was replaced by 'CLOSED' message
2023-11-28	6de35f9e	89	'client' tag value was changed
2023-11-20	7822a8b1	51	kind: 30001 was deprecated
2023-11-20	7822a8b1	51	the meaning of kind: 30000 was changed
2023-11-11	cbdca1e9	84	'range' tag was removed
2023-11-10	c945d8bd	32	'l' tag annotations was removed
2023-11-07	108b7f16	01	'OK' message must have 4 items
2023-10-17	cf672b76	03	'block' tag was removed
2023-09-29	7dc6385f	57	optional 'a' tag was included in zap receipt
2023-08-21	89915e02	11	'min_prefix' was removed
2023-08-20	37c4375e	01	replaceable events with same timestamp should be retained event with lowest id
2023-08-15	88ee873c	15	'countries' tag was renamed to 'regions'
2023-08-14	72bb8a12	12	NIP-12, 16, 20 and 33 were merged into NIP-01
2023-08-14	72bb8a12	16	NIP-12, 16, 20 and 33 were merged into NIP-01
2023-08-14	72bb8a12	20	NIP-12, 16, 20 and 33 were merged into NIP-01
2023-08-14	72bb8a12	33	NIP-12, 16, 20 and 33 were merged into NIP-01
2023-08-11	d87f8617	25	empty content should be considered as "+"
2023-08-01	5d63b157	57	'zap' tag was changed
2023-07-15	d1814405	01	since and until filters should be since <= created_at <= until
2023-07-12	a1cd2bd8	25	custom emoji was supported
2023-06-18	83cbd3e1	11	'image' was renamed to 'icon'
2023-04-13	bf0a0da6	15	different NIP was re-added as NIP-15
2023-04-09	fb5b7c73	15	NIP-15 was merged into NIP-01
2023-03-29	599e1313	18	NIP-18 was bring back
2023-03-15	e1004d3d	19	1: relay was changed to optionally

Breaking changes prior to 2023-03-01 are not yet documented.

NOTES

• If it isn't clear that a change is breaking or not, we list it.
• The date is the date it was merged, not necessarily the date of the commit.