• Bump levelup to fix API parity with abstract-leveldown (bd73ace) (Vincent Weevers).

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

• Breaking: bump abstract-leveldown, encoding-down, levelup (60bd660) (Vincent Weevers)
• Breaking: hide private properties with Symbol (1f9d550) (Vincent Weevers)
• Refactor: use addRestOptions() for iterator (717066e) (Vincent Weevers)
• Modernize syntax and bump standard (0bd41cc) (Vincent Weevers)

• Add db.getMany(keys) (#107) (0ff2b68) (Vincent Weevers)
• Add manifest (Level/community#83) (f7ee1e3) (Vincent Weevers)
• Clarify scope of keys in README examples (58a628a) (Vincent Weevers)

• Breaking: drop Node.js 6 and 8 (ab713d1) (Vincent Weevers).

• Run abstract-leveldown tests on levelup interface (#90) (8928189) (@vweevers)

• Don't mutate arguments object, which fails in strict mode (#93) (5513c83) (@andymatuschak)

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

• Breaking: parent db must support deferredOpen (#89) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade dependency-check devDependency from ^3.3.0 to ^4.1.0 (b47f991) (@vweevers)

• Breaking: fix iterating buffer keys that contain bytes 196-255 (#88) (@vweevers)

• Fix double prefixes (#81) (@vweevers)
• Fix open() test (#80) (@vweevers)

• Use reachdown package (Level/community#82) (#75) (@vweevers)

• Upgrade standard devDependency from ^13.0.1 to ^14.0.0 (#71) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade hallmark devDependency from ^1.0.0 to ^2.0.0 (#72) (@vweevers)

• Remove outdated example.js (3ef72c9) (@vweevers)

• Polish clear() (#74) (@vweevers)
  • Bump levelup, abstract-leveldown and encoding-down to prevent dedupe
  • Opt-in to new clear() tests
  • Prefer optimized implementation of clear()

• Upgrade memdown devDependency from ^4.0.0 to ^5.0.0 (#70) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade hallmark devDependency from ^0.1.0 to ^1.0.0 (#68) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade standard devDependency from ^12.0.1 to ^13.0.1 (#67) (@vweevers)

• Relax isAbstract() check (fbbf525) (@vweevers)

• Upgrade nyc devDependency from ^13.3.0 to ^14.0.0 (#63) (@vweevers)

• Support seeking (#66) (@MeirionHughes)

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

• Upgrade abstract-leveldown from ^5.0.0 to ^6.0.2 (#61) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade encoding-down from ^5.0.3 to ^6.0.1 (#61) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade levelup from ^3.0.1 to ^4.0.1 (#61) (@vweevers)
• Avoid unnecessary copy of batch operations (#61) (@vweevers)
• Invoke abstract tests from single function (#61) (@vweevers)
• Add mandatory db argument to abstract iterator (#61) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade memdown devDependency from ^3.0.0 to ^4.0.0 (#61) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade nyc devDependency from ^12.0.2 to ^13.3.0 (#61) (@vweevers)
• Upgrade standard devDependency from ^11.0.1 to ^12.0.1 (#61) (@vweevers)
• Apply common project tweaks (#58, #59) (@vweevers)

• Test that errors from open() and iterators bubble up (#61) (@vweevers)
• Test without a user-provided levelup layer (#61) (@vweevers)
• Gitignore coverage directory (#61) (@vweevers)

• Remove obsolete _batch() checks (#61) (@vweevers)
• Remove dummy location from abstract-leveldown constructor call (#61) (@vweevers)

• Serialize non-buffer keys to strings (#61) (@vweevers)

• Add nyc and coveralls (@ralphtheninja)

• Remove node 9 (@ralphtheninja)

• Pass on fillCache option to SubIterator (@Nocory)

If you are upgrading: please see UPGRADING.md.

• Test that iterator options are forwarded (@ralphtheninja)
• Test concatenating Buffer keys (@ralphtheninja)

• Call cleanup() cb synchronously (@ralphtheninja)

• Remove makeExistingDbTest() from test/common.js (@ralphtheninja)

• Upgrade levelup from ^1.2.1 to ^3.0.1 (@ralphtheninja)
• Upgrade abstract-leveldown from ^2.4.1 to ^5.0.0 (@ralphtheninja)
• Upgrade memdown devDependency from ^1.1.0 to ^3.0.0 (@ralphtheninja)
• Upgrade tape devDependency from ^4.2.2 to ^4.9.0 (@ralphtheninja)
• Upgrade standard devDependency from ^5.3.1 to ^11.0.1 (@ralphtheninja)
• Update links in package.json (@ralphtheninja)
• Replace util.inherits with inherits module (@ralphtheninja)
• SubIterator should inherit from AbstractIterator (@ralphtheninja)
• Use underscore methods to properly override (@ralphtheninja)
• Change SubDown#type from subdown to subleveldown (@ralphtheninja)
• Rewrite SubDown#_open to handle any inner *downs (@ralphtheninja)
• Update sublevel specific tests to handle levelup + encoding-down (@ralphtheninja)
• Update README (@ralphtheninja, @vweevers)

• Depend on encoding-down for encoding logic (@ralphtheninja)
• Add node 6, 8, 9 and 10 to Travis (@ralphtheninja)
• Test SubDown constructor (@ralphtheninja)
• Test main subdb (@ralphtheninja)
• Test encodings (@ralphtheninja)
• Test wrapping a closed levelup and re-opening it (@ralphtheninja)
• Test nested sublevels (@ralphtheninja)
• Add temporary down() and isAbstract() functions (@ralphtheninja)
• Add UPGRADING.md (@ralphtheninja)

• Remove node 0.12 from Travis (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove SubDown#destroy (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove SubDown#repair (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove SubDown#setDb (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove SubDown#approximateSize (@ralphtheninja)
• Remove SubDown#getProperty (@ralphtheninja)

• Fix deprecated new Buffer() (@ralphtheninja)

• Use standard for linting (@mafintosh)
• Upgrade abstract-leveldown from ^2.1.0 to ^2.4.1 (@mafintosh)
• Upgrade levelup from ^0.19.0 to ^1.2.1 (@mafintosh)
• Upgrade memdown devDependency from ^1.0.0 to ^1.1.1 (@mafintosh)
• Upgrade tape devDependency from ^3.0.3 to ^4.2.2 (@mafintosh)
• Add opts parameter to SubDown for custom open logic (@mafintosh)
• Add opts.open open hook (@mafintosh)

• Do not strip separator when nested for more transparent usage (@mafintosh)

• Rename subdown.js to leveldown.js (@mafintosh)

• Fix binary end (@mafintosh)

• Fix iterator issue (@mafintosh)

• Do not require prefix and forward separator (@mafintosh)

• Add missing tape dependency (@mafintosh)

• Document api in README (@mafintosh)
• Use levelup and memdown in example.js (@mafintosh)
• Respect binary encoding in key prefixes (@mafintosh)

• Add node 0.10 to Travis (@mafintosh)
• Add abstract-leveldown test suite (@mafintosh)

• Forward all iterator options (@mafintosh)

🌱 Initial release.