Uncaught TypeError: ___browserSync___.io is not a function

Browser Sync + Gulp

I am using Browser-sync with Gulp. There was no error so far, everything was good but recently I am getting this error in the console. The server starts and when I change the code I see the “reloading browser” text but it does not reload the page. No idea what to look and change, I really appreciate it if you can guide me to where to change or what could possibly cause this error. And of course tried to search for the same error but couldn’t find anything that related to this error.

Here is a ss of error:

Versions

node: v6.9.0 browser-sync:2.17.5, gulp: 3.9.1

OS: Windows 10

my gulpfile.js

var gulp = require("gulp");
var browserSync = require('browser-sync').create();

var plugins = require("gulp-load-plugins")({
    pattern: ['gulp-*', 'gulp.*', 'browser-sync', 'imagemin-jpeg-recompress', 'imagemin-pngquant'],
    replaceSting: /\bgulp[\-.]/,
    rename: { // Rename/shorten usage for plugin names
        'imagemin-jpeg-recompress': 'imageminJpeg',
        'imagemin-pngquant': 'imageminPng'
    }
});

var reload  = browserSync.reload;

gulp.task('sync', ['js', 'css', 'sass'], function () {
    // Change bold with your project's folder name
    browserSync.init({
        proxy: "localhost/bold/"
    });
});

// Js
// Concat + Minifiy Js Files and move to vendor folder
var jsFiles = ['assets/js/plugins/*.js'];
var jsDest = 'assets/js/';

gulp.task('js', function () {
    return gulp.src(jsFiles)
        .pipe(plugins.order([
            'jquery.min.js',
            'bootstrap.min.js',
            'imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js',
            '*.js',
        ]))
        .pipe(plugins.concat('plugins.js'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(jsDest))
        .pipe(plugins.rename({ suffix:'.min' }))
        .pipe(plugins.uglify())
        .pipe(gulp.dest(jsDest));
});

// Css
// Concat + Minifiy Css Files and move to vendor folder
var cssFiles = 'assets/css/plugins/*.css';
var cssDest = 'assets/css/';

gulp.task('css', function () {
    return gulp.src(cssFiles)
        .pipe(plugins.order([
            'bootstrap.min.css',
            '*.css'
        ]))
        .pipe(plugins.concat('plugins.css'))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(cssDest))
        .pipe(plugins.rename({ suffix:'.min' }))
        .pipe(plugins.cssmin({keepSpecialComments : 0 }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(cssDest));
});

// Sass
var sassFile = 'assets/sass/style.scss';
var sassDest = 'assets/css/';
gulp.task('sass', function () {
    return gulp.src(sassFile)
        .pipe(plugins.sass({outputStyle: 'expanded'})) // expanded - compressed - compact - nested
        .pipe(plugins.autoprefixer({
            browsers: ['last 2 versions', 'ie 9'],
            cascade: false
        }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(sassDest))
        .pipe(browserSync.stream());
});


// call - gulp htmlmin
// Html files minify 
// this will make your html files minified 
// make sure to copy all html files before using this
gulp.task('htmlmin', function () {
    return gulp.src('*.html')
        .pipe(plugins.htmlmin({
            collapseWhitespace: true,
            removeComments: true,
            minifyJS: true, // minify js too
            minifyCSS: true // minify css too
        }))
        .pipe(gulp.dest(''))
});

// Images - Optimize jpeg and png images
gulp.task('imagemin', function () {
    return gulp.src('assets/images/**/*')
        .pipe(plugins.imageminJpeg({loops: 3})())
        .pipe(plugins.imageminPng({quality: '65-80', speed: 4})())
        .pipe(gulp.dest('assets/images'));
});

// Default Task
gulp.task('default', ['js', 'css', 'sass', 'sync'], function() {
    // watch js files
    gulp.watch(jsFiles, ['js']);

    // watch scss files
    gulp.watch(['assets/sass/*.scss', 'assets/sass/*/*.scss'], ['sass']);

    // watch css files
    gulp.watch(cssFiles, ['css']);

    gulp.watch([
        '*.html',
        'assets/js/main.js'
    ]).on('change', reload);
});

[haoss]

backup to 2.14.0 - all works fine

[patrickbussmann]

Is there any solution except downgrade?