JavaScript library for Node.js that calculates the Damerau Levenshtein distance between two strings. It returns an object with the edit steps, a relative value based on the longer string length, and a derived similarity score useful for string comparison and fuzzy matching.
Project status
- The upstream repository shows a last push on 2024-07-19, which suggests the project is still being maintained, though the latest tagged update in the provided notes is v1.0.8 (2021-12-20).
- Apparent update cadence (based only on the provided v1.0.6 to v1.0.8 notes) is low, with no clearly evidenced updates after v1.0.8 in late 2021.
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Recent updates
v1.0.8
12/20/2021v1.0.8 primarily updates developer tooling, including a security-motivated upgrade of the dev dependency Mocha. The library runtime code is not shown changing in the provided diff, and README examples were corrected for a misspelled import usage. The largest churn is in package-lock.json due to dependency tree upgrades.
Securityv1.0.7
5/5/2021No publisher release notes were provided for v1.0.7. The actual diff shows a package version bump, a change to the maintainer script scripts/update-changelog.sh, and updates to transitive development dependencies in package-lock.json (notably lodash and y18n).
v1.0.6
1/27/2020Release v1.0.6 was published on 2020-01-27. No release notes were provided, so there is no information available about new features, bug fixes, breaking changes, security updates, or migration steps for developers.
v1.0.5
5/9/2019Release v1.0.5 mainly updates development tooling and documentation. The diff shows a Mocha devDependency upgrade, README examples for ES modules and TypeScript, and new repo maintenance automation (update-changelog script) plus addition of LICENSE and package-lock.json. No runtime/library source changes are present in the provided diff, so the published function API is not shown to change.
v1.0.4
3/24/2017v1.0.4 makes a small code change to ensure the Damerau-Levenshtein implementation works under JavaScript strict mode. The diff also updates the test script to run Mocha with strict mode enabled.
v1.0.3
9/26/2016This release is a metadata-only update. It bumps the npm package version to 1.0.3 and enriches package.json and CHANGELOG.md with contributor, repository, and bug tracker information.
v1.0.2
9/26/2016v1.0.2 updates the Damerau-Levenshtein module to add and correctly compute additional metrics (relative and similarity) alongside the edit distance steps. The release notes do not include any documented changes, but the code and tests show behavior changes around how the result object is constructed, especially for empty-string inputs.
BreakingFeaturesv1.0.1
9/11/2016This release updates the Damerau-Levenshtein implementation to fix incorrect results for a transposition case, and introduces an initial Mocha test suite. The repository release notes themselves were not provided, so the CHANGELOG.md file added in this diff is effectively the only documentation of what changed.
Featuresv1.0.0
2/25/2016Release v1.0.0 (published 2016-02-25) has no release notes provided by the publisher. As a result, there is no documented information about new features, fixes, or breaking changes in this release.