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ai/nanoid

The project's story from its own changelog, releases and history: the calls it made, the ones it reversed, and the pages it keeps. Not reviewed by its maintainers.

October 2026

Oct 1–7

The team reduced JS bundle size with nanoid, now about 118 bytes
Bundle size shrink improves load performance across the app

ai/nanoid reached 1 turning point.

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ai/nanoid decided: Reduced JS bundle size further (still ~118 bytes). (CHANGELOG 6.0.2)
Oct 5

July 2026

Jul 8–14

Team removed Node.js 18 and 20 support
Project now has no Node runtime support, requiring different environment

ai/nanoid reached 1 turning point.

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ai/nanoid decided: Removed Node.js 18 and 20 support, leaving no Node runtime support. (CHANGELOG 6.0.0)
Jul 12

September 2023

Sep 8–14

The team removed async API and dropped old Node support
They switched to a browser‑based crypto method for ID generation

ai/nanoid reached 1 turning point.

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ai/nanoid decided: Removed async API and Node.js 14/16 support; moved to Web Crypto API. (CHANGELOG 5.0)
Sep 12

June 2022

Jun 8–14

Maintainers dropped Node.js 10 and 12 support
Maintainers removed CommonJS; library now works only as ES module

ai/nanoid reached 2 turning points.

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ai/nanoid decided: Removed CommonJS support; library works only as an ES module. (CHANGELOG 4.0)
Jun 8
ai/nanoid decided: Dropped support for Node.js 10 and 12. (CHANGELOG 4.0)
Jun 8

August 2017

Aug 1–7

The team launched version 0.1 of the nanoid library
Developers added the core identifier generator

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ai/nanoid: Initial 0.1 release introduced the core `nanoid()` generator. (CHANGELOG 0.1)
Aug 6

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SECURITY.md
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README.md
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CHANGELOG.md
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