remark-gfm is a unified (remark) plugin that adds support for GitHub Flavored Markdown features, including autolink literals, footnotes, strikethrough, tables, and tasklists, so you can parse and serialize those extensions. It is useful when you want your markdown tooling to match what users expect from GitHub-style GFM syntax.
Project status
- remark-gfm appears quiet rather than actively maintained, with the last upstream push and most recent updates dated 2025-02-10 (about 16 months ago relative to 2026-06-09).
- The apparent update cadence is low, with infrequent major changes in 2021 to 2023 and only a small 4.x update in 2025, suggesting long gaps between meaningful updates.
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Recent updates
4.0.1
Version 4.0.1 primarily updates TypeScript type exposure and declaration generation, and refreshes README documentation (notably adding the `firstLineBlank` footnote/serialization option). The runtime plugin code changes are limited to type/JSDoc annotation updates, with no logic changes apparent in the diff.
4.0.0
v4.0.0 refactors remark-gfm’s plugin entry point and updates the project’s ecosystem to newer unified/remark tooling. The release notes call out Node.js 16 as a requirement and switching to package.json `exports` to avoid private import paths.
Breaking3.0.1
Release 3.0.1 is primarily described as documentation improvements. The code diff, however, shows minimal runtime code changes, plus a change to an autolink-literal output fixture that implies a behavioral or serialization difference not mentioned in the release notes.
3.0.0
remark-gfm 3.0.0 adds support for GFM footnotes directly in the plugin, and updates documentation/examples accordingly. The release notes mention removing any external remark-footnotes usage and aligning remark-rehype configuration.
Features2.0.0
remark-gfm 2.0.0 moves the package to ESM, adds JSDoc-based typings, and removes the legacy warning aimed at remark 12 users. The implementation now wires micromark and mdast extensions via ESM imports and exposes a default export plugin.
BreakingFeatures1.0.0
Release 1.0.0 was published on 2020-10-04, but the provided release notes contain no technical information (only a generic symbol). No new features, breaking changes, bug fixes, security updates, performance improvements, or migration details can be extracted from the release notes alone.