🥳 New @small-web/kitten (Kitten globals) release.

• Improved type information.
• Now plays nice with tsconfig.json and tsc.
• Adds `rawBody` to `KittenRequest`.

This is not really a breaking change (in that it won’t break your apps) but I’m releasing it as a major version update so as not to surprise you if you notice the type information is different (more detailed than before).

To update in your kitten apps:
npm install @small-web/kitten@7

For more information on how to use this module, see the Kitten Type Safety tutorial:
https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/type-safety/

Full change log:
https://codeberg.org/kitten/globals/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#7-0-0-2026-03-19

Enjoy!

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🥳 New Kitten¹ Release

• Fixes: Page infinitely refreshes if class does not extend `kitten.Page`

Kitten now shows a helpful error message for this authoring error.

(The issue was due to the page getting rendered without the necessary scaffolding provided by the base class for maintaining the web socket connection,. leading to Kitten thinking the socket connection had failed and triggering a reload to reestablish it.)

Full changelog of today’s updates: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2026-03-18

Thanks to @joshhatesgithub (https://codeberg.org/joshhatesgithub) for discovering and reporting this last night.

Enjoy!

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¹ https://kitten.small-web.org

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🥳 New Kitten¹ Release

• Adds `rawBody` to non-multipart POST requests.

This property, which is a Buffer, is necessary if you want to verify signatures (e.g., for webhooks).

I had to fork express-busboy as they already ruled out adding it. The fork (@small-web/kitten-busboy²) also allowed me to type the middleware extension point for Polka³ instead of Express (Kitten uses Polka) so that’s one @ts-ignore removed (hey, dev is a string of little wins) :)

Change log: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2026-03-18

Caught a bug and feeling a little under the weather at the moment (nothing major, mom and dad – no need to worry) so apologies if I’m not responsive here.

Enjoy!

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¹ https://kitten.small-web.org
² https://codeberg.org/kitten/busboy
³ https://github.com/lukeed/polka

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