diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 57505cf..f09222f 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 sudo: false
 language: node_js
 node_js:
+  - '12'
+  - '10'
   - '8'
-  - '6'
-  - '4'
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
index 9193ebd..213ad06 100644
--- a/index.js
+++ b/index.js
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ const extractFile = (input, output, opts) => runPlugins(input, opts).then(files
 
 		return makeDir(path.dirname(dest))
 			.then(() => {
+				if ((x.type === 'link' || x.type === 'symlink') && opts.symlinks === false) {
+					return;
+				}
+
 				if (x.type === 'link') {
 					return fsP.link(x.linkname, dest);
 				}
@@ -83,12 +87,12 @@ module.exports = (input, output, opts) => {
 		output = null;
 	}
 
-	opts = Object.assign({plugins: [
+	opts = {plugins: [
 		decompressTar(),
 		decompressTarbz2(),
 		decompressTargz(),
 		decompressUnzip()
-	]}, opts);
+	], ...opts};
 
 	const read = typeof input === 'string' ? fsP.readFile(input) : Promise.resolve(input);
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ff67270..4052dd1 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 		"url": "github.com/kevva"
 	},
 	"engines": {
-		"node": ">=4"
+		"node": ">=7.6.0"
 	},
 	"scripts": {
 		"test": "xo && ava"
@@ -35,15 +35,34 @@
 		"decompress-targz": "^4.0.0",
 		"decompress-unzip": "^4.0.1",
 		"graceful-fs": "^4.1.10",
-		"make-dir": "^1.0.0",
-		"pify": "^2.3.0",
-		"strip-dirs": "^2.0.0"
+		"make-dir": "^3.0.0",
+		"pify": "^4.0.1",
+		"strip-dirs": "^3.0.0"
 	},
 	"devDependencies": {
 		"ava": "*",
-		"is-jpg": "^1.0.0",
-		"path-exists": "^3.0.0",
+		"esm": "^3.2.25",
+		"is-jpg": "^2.0.0",
+		"path-exists": "^4.0.0",
 		"pify": "^2.3.0",
 		"xo": "*"
+	},
+	"ava": {
+		"require": [
+			"esm"
+		]
+	},
+	"xo": {
+		"rules": {
+			"promise/prefer-await-to-then": "warn"
+		},
+		"overrides": [
+			{
+				"files": "test.js",
+				"rules": {
+					"import/default": "ignore"
+				}
+			}
+		]
 	}
 }
diff --git a/test.js b/test.js
index d145ba0..2f28c62 100644
--- a/test.js
+++ b/test.js
@@ -50,7 +50,13 @@ test.serial('extract file to directory', async t => {
 	await fsP.unlink(path.join(__dirname, 'test.jpg'));
 });
 
-test('extract symlink', async t => {
+test.serial('extract without symlink', async t => {
+	await m(path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures', 'symlink.tar'), __dirname, {strip: 1, symlinks: false});
+	t.false(fs.existsSync(path.join(__dirname, 'symlink')));
+	await fsP.unlink(path.join(__dirname, 'file.txt'));
+});
+
+test.serial('extract symlink', async t => {
 	await m(path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures', 'symlink.tar'), __dirname, {strip: 1});
 	t.is(await fsP.realpath(path.join(__dirname, 'symlink')), path.join(__dirname, 'file.txt'));
 	await fsP.unlink(path.join(__dirname, 'symlink'));
@@ -99,7 +105,7 @@ test.serial('set mtime', async t => {
 	await fsP.unlink(path.join(__dirname, 'test.jpg'));
 });
 
-test('return emptpy array if no plugins are set', async t => {
+test('return empty array if no plugins are set', async t => {
 	const files = await m(path.join(__dirname, 'fixtures', 'file.tar'), {plugins: []});
 	t.is(files.length, 0);
 });