🐕 Retriever

v5.0 - 13 Aug 2026

Added

• Arrays passed as data on POST, PUT, PATCH and DELETE are sent as JSON automatically, no json_encode() needed
• Added timeout support in seconds, per-request or app-wide via Fetch::config()
• Added verifyHost and verifyPeer options with correct TLS semantics
• JSON responses are decoded for you
• Added a Pest test suite, run through Alchemy (fetch's first)

Fixed

• cURL failures throw a clear exception naming the failing URL, instead of failing quietly
• Every documented option is honoured — options you set no longer silently do nothing
• Cleaned up functional-mode initialization

Changed

• Fetch now requires PHP 8.2+ and jumps from v0.3 to v5.0 to version alongside the rest of Leaf 5

📡 Signal

v0.3 – 22 Dec 2025

Added

• Automatic formatting of request headers into proper Header: value strings.
• Support for application/x-www-form-urlencoded payloads
• Explicit handling for Basic Auth via auth.username and auth.password.
• Improved extensibility by allowing user-provided cURL options to be merged cleanly.

Fixed

• Inconsistent header handling when custom headers were provided.
• Incorrect POST body handling when sending array data.
• Edge cases where HEAD requests still returned a response body.
• Potential SSL verification misconfiguration when verifyHost was disabled.
• Header/body parsing reliability by consistently using header_size.

Changed

• Switched from internal multiple curl_setopt calls to a single curl_setopt_array call.
• JSON payloads are now explicitly encoded before being sent.
• Improved internal request flow readability and maintainability.
• Deprecated inline cURL auth configuration in favor of structured auth input.

Removed

• Legacy HTTP auth logic
• Implicit header passing without normalization.

☢️ Gamma

v0.2 - 27 Oct 2024

Added

• Made fetch function friendly
• Added support for building full requests by passing array into fetch()

Fixed

• Removed fetch() function dependence on namespace

Changed

• fetch() now works without Leaf's functional mode

v0.1

v0.1 - 13th October, 2021