Security Bugfixes

• #2997 Escape the group_label — fixes XSS issue in #2996

Packaging

• #2988 Chosen is now available via Composer on packagist.org

Bugfixes

• #2989 Revert previous clip-deprecation fixes in favor of hybrid clip and clip-path

Bugfixes

• #2970 Update publish-package.sh to include LICENSE file. (#2945)

Bugfixes

• #2966 Copy license to build output directory. (#2945)
• #2910 Do not highlight first result or clear search input when holding control/meta key. (#2888)
• #2943 Remove forgotten usage of css clip. (#2942)
• #2962 Use two inputs for Chosen’s focus and search. (#2953)
• #2950 Do not apply empty style attributes. (#2949)

Bugfixes

• #2939 Remove clip property by moving chosen-single’s search input. (#2816)

Documentation

• #2897 Add docs for group_search option

Bugfixes

• #2881: Escape optgroup label when appending to HTML.

Bugfixes

• #2879: Fix escaping in group names, no results message.
• #2877: Fix Chosen for non-ASCII languages (#2821)
• #2880: Only trim input_width to container_width when calculable. (#2480)

Bugfixes

• #2844 Don't search HTML escaped text
• #2867 Clear search input value, reset results when using hide_results_on_select option (#2809)

Enhancements

• #1483 Use word boundary matching to better match user expectations for searches.
• #2860 Remove deprecation warnings on jQuery 3

Packaging

• #2813 All compiled source files (including minified) are now included in the package for bower and npm.
• #2859 Update dev dependencies to use up-to-date packages

From this version on, until further notice, no new features will be added, so pull requests for features will not be accepted. However, pull requests for bugfixes are still very much appreciated.

Bugfixes

• #2692 Update regex for highlighting (#2623)
• #2713 Prevent bubbling of escape key (#1256, #2653)
• #2712 Escape default text (#2314)
• #2709 Do not clear search text on multi selection (#2549)
• #2717 Unbind label click (#2238), only remove bound events (#2461)
• #2721 Prevent activation of disabled fields (#2567)
• #2710 Restore focus after removing an option (#2429)
• #2722 Prevent action on clipboard events when select is disabled (#2460)
• #1731 Focus input in multi select on container click (#1729)

Features

• #2687 Add option to keep results open for multi-select (#1546)
• #2483 Use node-sass for building sass
• #1510 Right to Left initialisation option (#1485)
• #2704 Bye bye simulate
• #2723 Update implementation regarding Content-Security-Policy (#2423)

Documentation

• #2634 Update README to reflect npm support
• #2719 Update the version of jQuery in the docs to the latest 1.X (#2557)

View all changes since v1.6.2

Packaging

• #2643 Add PNG files to npm package