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io.js ChangeLog

v3 v2 v1
3.3.1
3.3.0
3.2.0
3.1.0
3.0.0
 2.5.0
2.4.0
2.3.4
2.3.3
2.3.2
2.3.1
2.3.0
2.2.1
2.2.0
2.1.0
2.0.2
2.0.1
2.0.0
 1.8.4
1.8.3
1.8.2
1.8.1
1.7.1
1.7.0
1.6.4
1.6.3
1.6.2
1.6.1
1.6.0
1.5.1
1.5.0
1.4.3
1.4.2
1.4.1
1.4.0
1.3.0
1.2.0
1.1.0
1.0.4
1.0.3
1.0.2
1.0.1
1.0.0

2015-09-15, io.js Version 3.3.1 @rvagg

Notable changes

  • buffer: Fixed a minor errors that was causing crashes (Michaël Zasso) #2635,
  • child_process: Fix error that was causing crashes (Evan Lucas) #2727
  • crypto: Replace use of rwlocks, unsafe on Windows XP / 2003 (Ben Noordhuis) #2723
  • libuv: Upgrade from 1.7.3 to 1.7.4 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #2817
  • node: Fix faulty process.release.libUrl on Windows (Rod Vagg) #2699
  • node-gyp: Float v3.0.3 which has improved support for Node.js and io.js v0.10 to v4+ (Rod Vagg) #2700
  • npm: Upgrade to version 2.14.3 from 2.13.3, includes a security update, see https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.14.2 for more details, (Kat Marchán) #2696.
  • timers: Improved timer performance from porting the 0.12 implementation, plus minor fixes (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2540, (Julien Gilli) nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8751 nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#8905

Known issues

See https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some uses of computed object shorthand properties are not handled correctly by the current version of V8. e.g. [{ [prop]: val }] evaluates to [{}]. #2507
  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [b73ff52fe6] - bindings: close after reading module struct (Fedor Indutny) #2792
  • [aa1140e59a] - buffer: SlowBuffer only accept valid numeric values (Michaël Zasso) #2635
  • [574475d56e] - build: clean up the generated tap file (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2837
  • [aa0001271e] - build: remote commands on staging in single session (Rod Vagg) #2717
  • [1428661095] - build: fix v8_enable_handle_zapping override (Karl Skomski) #2731
  • [5a51edd718] - build: add --enable-asan with builtin leakcheck (Karl Skomski) #2376
  • [618caa5de0] - child_process: use stdio.fd even if it is 0 (Evan Lucas) #2727
  • [7be4e49cb6] - child_process: check execFile and fork args (James M Snell) #2667
  • [7f5d6e72c6] - cluster: allow shared reused dgram sockets (Fedor Indutny) #2548
  • [e68c7ec498] - contextify: ignore getters during initialization (Fedor Indutny) nodejs/io.js#2091
  • [610fa964aa] - cpplint: make it possible to run outside git repo (Ben Noordhuis) #2710
  • [4237373dd7] - crypto: replace rwlocks with simple mutexes (Ben Noordhuis) #2723
  • [777eb00306] - deps: upgraded to node-gyp@3.0.3 in npm (Kat Marchán) #2822
  • [b729ad384b] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.14.3 (Kat Marchán) #2822
  • [b09fde761c] - deps: update libuv to version 1.7.4 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #2817
  • [4cf225daad] - deps: float node-gyp v3.0.0 (Rod Vagg) #2700
  • [118f48c0f3] - deps: create .npmrc during npm tests (Kat Marchán) #2696
  • [b3fee8e6a6] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.14.2 (Kat Marchán) #2696
  • [4593539b92] - deps: backport 75e43a6 from v8 upstream (saper) #2636
  • [2d1438cfe0] - doc: fix broken link in repl.markdown (Danny Nemer) #2827
  • [9dd9c85a48] - doc: fix typos in README (Ionică Bizău) #2852
  • [476125d403] - doc: add tunniclm as a collaborator (Mike Tunnicliffe) #2826
  • [0603a92d48] - doc: fix two doc errors in stream and process (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2549
  • [da2902ddfd] - doc: use "Calls" over "Executes" for consistency (Minwoo Jung) #2800
  • [5e93bc4fba] - doc: use US English for consistency (Anne-Gaelle Colom) #2784
  • [3ee7fbcefd] - doc: use 3rd person singular for consistency (Anne-Gaelle Colom) #2765
  • [4fdccb9eb7] - doc: fix comma splice in Assertion Testing doc (Rich Trott) #2728
  • [28c2d310d6] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg)
  • [324c073fb9] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-09-02 (Rod Vagg) #2674
  • [8929445686] - doc: update url doc to account for escaping (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2605
  • [512dad6883] - doc: reorder collaborators by their usernames (Johan Bergström) #2322
  • [8372ea2ca5] - doc,test: enable recursive file watching in Windows (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2649
  • [daf6c533cc] - events,lib: don't require EE#listenerCount() (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2661
  • [d8371a801e] - http_server: fix resume after socket close (Fedor Indutny) #2824
  • [7f7d4fdddd] - node-gyp: float 3.0.1, minor fix for download url (Rod Vagg) #2737
  • [91cee73294] - src: use ZCtxt as a source for v8::Isolates (Roman Klauke) #2547
  • [ac98e13b95] - src: s/ia32/x86 for process.release.libUrl for win (Rod Vagg) #2699
  • [ca6c3223e1] - src: use standard conform snprintf on windows (Karl Skomski) #2404
  • [b028978a53] - src: fix buffer overflow for long exception lines (Karl Skomski) #2404
  • [e73eafd7e7] - src: fix memory leak in ExternString (Karl Skomski) #2402
  • [d370306de1] - src: only set v8 flags if argc > 1 (Evan Lucas) #2646
  • [ed087836af] - streams: refactor LazyTransform to internal/ (Brendan Ashworth) #2566
  • [993c22fe0e] - test: remove disabled test (Rich Trott) #2841
  • [1474f29d1f] - test: split up internet dns tests (Rich Trott) #2802
  • [601a97622b] - test: increase dgram timeout for armv6 (Rich Trott) #2808
  • [1dad19ba81] - test: remove valid hostname check in test-dns.js (Rich Trott) #2785
  • [f3d5891a3f] - test: expect error for test_lookup_ipv6_hint on FreeBSD (Rich Trott) #2724
  • [2ffb21baf1] - test: fix use of common before required (Rod Vagg) #2685
  • [b2c5479a14] - test: refactor to eliminate flaky test (Rich Trott) #2609
  • [fcfd15f8f9] - test: mark eval_messages as flaky (Alexis Campailla) #2648
  • [1865cad7ae] - test: mark test-vm-syntax-error-stderr as flaky (João Reis) #2662
  • [b0014ecd27] - test: mark test-repl-persistent-history as flaky (João Reis) #2659
  • [74ff9bc86c] - timers: minor _unrefActive fixes and improvements (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2540
  • [5d14a6eca7] - timers: don't mutate unref list while iterating it (Julien Gilli) #2540
  • [6e744c58f2] - timers: Avoid linear scan in _unrefActive. (Julien Gilli) #2540
  • [07fbf835ad] - tools: open test.tap file in write-binary mode (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2837
  • [6d9198f7f1] - tools: add missing tick processor polyfill (Matt Loring) #2694
  • [7b16597527] - tools: fix flakiness in test-tick-processor (Matt Loring) #2694
  • [ef83029356] - tools: remove hyphen in TAP result (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2718
  • [ac45ef9157] - win,msi: fix documentation shortcut url (Brian White) #2781

2015-09-02, Version 3.3.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • build: Add a --link-module option to configure that can be used to bundle additional JavaScript modules into a built binary (Bradley Meck) #2497
  • docs: Merge outstanding doc updates from joyent/node (James M Snell) #2378
  • http_parser: Significant performance improvement by having http.Server consume all initial data from its net.Socket and parsing directly without having to enter JavaScript. Any 'data' listeners on the net.Socket will result in the data being "unconsumed" into JavaScript, thereby undoing any performance gains. (Fedor Indutny) #2355
  • libuv: Upgrade to 1.7.3 (from 1.6.1), see ChangeLog for details (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #2310
  • V8: Upgrade to 4.4.63.30 (from 4.4.63.26) (Michaël Zasso) #2482

Known issues

See https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some uses of computed object shorthand properties are not handled correctly by the current version of V8. e.g. [{ [prop]: val }] evaluates to [{}]. #2507
  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [1a531b4e44] - (SEMVER-MINOR) Introduce --link-module to ./configure (Bradley Meck) #2497
  • [d2f314c190] - build: fix borked chmod call for release uploads (Rod Vagg) #2645
  • [3172e9c541] - build: set file permissions before uploading (Rod Vagg) #2623
  • [a860d7fae1] - build: change staging directory on new server (Rod Vagg) #2623
  • [50c0baa8d7] - build: rename 'doc' directory to 'docs' for upload (Rod Vagg) #2623
  • [0a0577cf5f] - build: fix bad cherry-pick for vcbuild.bat build-release (Rod Vagg) #2625
  • [34de90194b] - build: only define NODE_V8_OPTIONS if not empty (Evan Lucas) #2532
  • [944174b189] - build: make ci test addons in test/addons (Ben Noordhuis) #2428
  • [e955f9a1b0] - crypto: Use OPENSSL_cleanse to shred the data. (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #2575
  • [395d736b9d] - debugger: use strict equality comparison (Minwoo Jung) #2558
  • [1d0e5210a8] - deps: upgrade libuv to 1.7.3 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #2310
  • [34ef53364f] - deps: update V8 to 4.4.63.30 (Michaël Zasso) #2482
  • [23579a5f4a] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-08-12 (Rod Vagg) #2438
  • [0cc59299a4] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-08-26 (Rod Vagg) #2591
  • [6efa96e33a] - doc: merge CHANGELOG.md with joyent/node ChangeLog (Minqi Pan) #2536
  • [f75d54607b] - doc: clarify cluster behaviour with no workers (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2606
  • [8936302121] - doc: minor clarification in buffer.markdown (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #2574
  • [0db0e53753] - doc: add @jasnell and @sam-github to release team (Rod Vagg) #2455
  • [c16e100593] - doc: reorg release team to separate section (Rod Vagg) #2455
  • [e3e00143fd] - doc: fix bad merge on modules.markdown (James M Snell)
  • [2f62455880] - doc: minor additional corrections and improvements (James M Snell) #2378
  • [3bd08aac4b] - doc: minor grammatical update in crypto.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [f707189370] - doc: minor grammatical update (James M Snell) #2378
  • [6c98cf0266] - doc: remove repeated statement in globals.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [48e6ccf8c2] - doc: remove 'dudes' from documentation (James M Snell) #2378
  • [b5d68f8076] - doc: update tense in child_process.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [242e3fe3ba] - doc: fixed worker.id type (James M Snell) #2378
  • [ea9ee15c21] - doc: port is optional for socket.bind() (James M Snell) #2378
  • [0ff6657a50] - doc: fix minor types and grammar in fs docs (James M Snell) #2378
  • [94d83c04f2] - doc: update parameter name in net.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [04111ce40f] - doc: small typo in domain.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [c9fdd1bbbf] - doc: fixed typo in net.markdown (missing comma) (James M Snell) #2378
  • [27c07b3f8e] - doc: update description of fs.exists in fs.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [52018e73d9] - doc: clarification on the 'close' event (James M Snell) #2378
  • [f6d3b87a25] - doc: improve working in stream.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [b5da89431a] - doc: update path.extname documentation (James M Snell) #2378
  • [1d4ea609db] - doc: small clarifications to modules.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [c888985591] - doc: code style cleanups in repl.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [105b493595] - doc: correct grammar in cluster.markdown (James M Snell) #2378
  • [51b86ccac7] - doc: Clarify the module.parent is set once (James M Snell) #2378
  • [d2ffecba2d] - doc: add internal modules notice (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2523
  • [b36debd5cb] - env: introduce KickNextTick (Fedor Indutny) #2355
  • [1bc446863f] - http_parser: consume StreamBase instance (Fedor Indutny) #2355
  • [ce04b735cc] - src: only memcmp if length > 0 in Buffer::Compare (Karl Skomski) #2544
  • [31823e37c7] - src: DRY getsockname/getpeername code (Ben Noordhuis) #956
  • [13fd96dda3] - src: missing Exception::Error in node_http_parser (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2550
  • [42e075ae02] - test: improve performance of stringbytes test (Trevor Norris) #2544
  • [fc726399fd] - test: unmark test-process-argv-0.js as flaky (Rich Trott) #2613
  • [7727ba1394] - test: lint and refactor to avoid autocrlf issue (Roman Reiss) #2494
  • [c56aa829f0] - test: use tmpDir instead of fixturesDir (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2583
  • [5e65181ea4] - test: handling failure cases properly (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2206
  • [c48b95e847] - test: initial list of flaky tests (Alexis Campailla) #2424
  • [94e88498ba] - test: pass args to test-ci via env variable (Alexis Campailla) #2424
  • [09987c7a1c] - test: support flaky tests in test-ci (Alexis Campailla) #2424
  • [08b83c8b45] - test: add test configuration templates (Alexis Campailla) #2424
  • [8f8ab6fa57] - test: runner should return 0 on flaky tests (Alexis Campailla) #2424
  • [0cfd3be9c6] - test: runner support for flaky tests (Alexis Campailla) #2424
  • [3492d2d4c6] - test: make test-process-argv-0 robust (Rich Trott) #2541
  • [a96cc31710] - test: speed up test-child-process-spawnsync.js (Rich Trott) #2542
  • [856baf4c67] - test: make spawnSync() test robust (Rich Trott) #2535
  • [3aa6bbb648] - tools: update release.sh to work with new website (Rod Vagg) #2623
  • [f2f0fe45ff] - tools: make add-on scraper print filenames (Ben Noordhuis) #2428
  • [bb24c4a418] - win,msi: correct installation path registry keys (João Reis) #2565
  • [752977b888] - win,msi: change InstallScope to perMachine (João Reis) #2565

2015-08-25, Version 3.2.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • events: Added EventEmitter#listenerCount(event) as a replacement for EventEmitter.listenerCount(emitter, event), which has now been marked as deprecated in the docs. (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2349
  • module: Fixed an error with preloaded modules when the current working directory doesn't exist. (Bradley Meck) #2353
  • node: Startup time is now about 5% faster when not passing V8 flags. (Evan Lucas) #2483
  • repl: Tab-completion now works better with arrays. (James M Snell) #2409
  • string_bytes: Fixed an unaligned write in the handling of UCS2 encoding. (Fedor Indutny) #2480
  • tls: Added a new --tls-cipher-list flag that can be used to override the built-in default cipher list. (James M Snell) #2412 Note: it is suggested you use the built-in cipher list as it has been carefully selected to reflect current security best practices and risk mitigation.

Known issues

See https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some uses of computed object shorthand properties are not handled correctly by the current version of V8. e.g. [{ [prop]: val }] evaluates to [{}]. #2507
  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [1cd794f129] - buffer: reapply 07c0667 (Fedor Indutny) #2487
  • [156781dedd] - build: use required platform in android-configure (Evan Lucas) #2501
  • [77075ec906] - crypto: fix mem {de}allocation in ExportChallenge (Karl Skomski) #2359
  • [cb30414d9e] - doc: sync CHANGELOG.md from master (Roman Reiss) #2524
  • [9330f5ef45] - doc: make the deprecations consistent (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2450
  • [09437e0146] - doc: fix comments in tls_wrap.cc and _http_client.js (Minwoo Jung) #2489
  • [c9867fed29] - doc: document response.finished in http.markdown (hackerjs) #2414
  • [7f23a83c42] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) #2505
  • [cd0c362f67] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) #2318
  • [2c7b9257ea] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-07-29 (Rod Vagg) #2437
  • [aaefde793e] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-08-19 (Rod Vagg) #2460
  • [51ef9106f5] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-06-03 (Rod Vagg) #2453
  • [7130b4cf1d] - doc: fix links to original converged repo (Rod Vagg) #2454
  • [14f2aee1df] - doc: fix links to original gh issues for TSC meetings (Rod Vagg) #2454
  • [87a9ef0a40] - doc: add audio recording links to TSC meeting minutes (Rod Vagg) #2454
  • [f5cf24afbc] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-07-22 (Rod Vagg) #2436
  • [3f821b96eb] - doc: fix spelling mistake in node.js comment (Jacob Edelman) #2391
  • [3e6a6fcdd6] - (SEMVER-MINOR) events: deprecate static listenerCount function (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2349
  • [023386c852] - fs: replace bad_args macro with concrete error msg (Roman Klauke) #2495
  • [d1c27b2e29] - module: fix module preloading when cwd is ENOENT (Bradley Meck) #2353
  • [5d7486941b] - repl: filter integer keys from repl tab complete list (James M Snell) #2409
  • [7f02443a9a] - repl: dont throw ENOENT on NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE (Todd Kennedy) #2451
  • [56a2ae9cef] - src: improve startup time (Evan Lucas) #2483
  • [14653c7429] - stream: rename poorly named function (Ben Noordhuis) #2479
  • [1c6e014bfa] - stream: micro-optimize high water mark calculation (Ben Noordhuis) #2479
  • [f1f4b4c46d] - stream: fix off-by-factor-16 error in comment (Ben Noordhuis) #2479
  • [2d3f09bd76] - stream_base: various improvements (Fedor Indutny) #2351
  • [c1ce423b35] - string_bytes: fix unaligned write in UCS2 (Fedor Indutny) #2480
  • [e4d0e86165] - test: refactor test-https-simple.js (Rich Trott) #2433
  • [0ea5c8d737] - test: remove test-timers-first-fire (João Reis) #2458
  • [536c3d0537] - test: use reserved IP in test-net-connect-timeout (Rich Trott) #2257
  • [5df06fd8df] - test: add spaces after keywords (Brendan Ashworth)
  • [e714b5620e] - test: remove unreachable code (Michaël Zasso) #2289
  • [3579f3a2a4] - test: disallow unreachable code (Michaël Zasso) #2289
  • [3545e236fc] - test: reduce timeouts in test-net-keepalive (Brendan Ashworth) #2429
  • [b60e690023] - test: improve test-net-server-pause-on-connect (Brendan Ashworth) #2429
  • [11d1b8fcaf] - test: improve test-net-pingpong (Brendan Ashworth) #2429
  • [5fef5c6562] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tls: add --tls-cipher-list command line switch (James M Snell) #2412
  • [d9b70f9cbf] - tls: handle empty cert in checkServerIndentity (Mike Atkins) #2343
  • [4f8e34c202] - tools: add license boilerplate to check-imports.sh (James M Snell) #2386
  • [b76b9197f9] - tools: enable space-after-keywords in eslint (Brendan Ashworth)
  • [64a8f30a70] - tools: fix anchors in generated documents (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2491
  • [22e344ea10] - win: fix custom actions for WiX older than 3.9 (João Reis) #2365
  • [b5bd3ebfc8] - win: fix custom actions on Visual Studio != 2013 (Julien Gilli) #2365

2015-08-18, Version 3.1.0, @Fishrock123

Notable changes

  • buffer: Fixed a couple large memory leaks (Ben Noordhuis) #2352.
  • crypto:
    • Fixed a couple of minor memory leaks (Karl Skomski) #2375.
    • Signing now checks for OpenSSL errors (Minqi Pan) #2342. Note that this may expose previously hidden errors in user code.
  • intl: Intl support using small-icu is now enabled by default in builds (Steven R. Loomis) #2264.
    • String#normalize() can now be used for unicode normalization.
    • The Intl object and various String and Number methods are present, but only support the English locale.
    • For support of all locales, node must be built with full-icu.
  • tls: Fixed tls throughput being much lower after an incorrect merge (Fedor Indutny) #2381.
  • tools: The v8 tick processor now comes bundled with node (Matt Loring) #2090.
    • This can be used by producing performance profiling output by running node with --perf, then running your appropriate platform's script on the output as found in tools/v8-prof.
  • util: util.inspect(obj) now prints the constructor name of the object if there is one (Christopher Monsanto) #1935.

Known issues

See https://github.com/nodejs/io.js/labels/confirmed-bug for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [3645dc62ed] - build: work around VS2015 issue in ICU <56 (Steven R. Loomis) #2283
  • [1f12e03266] - (SEMVER-MINOR) build: intl: converge from joyent/node (Steven R. Loomis) #2264
  • [071640abdd] - build: Intl: bump ICU4C from 54 to 55 (Steven R. Loomis) #2293
  • [07a88b0c8b] - build: update manifest to include Windows 10 (Lucien Greathouse) #2332
  • [0bb099f444] - build: expand ~ in install prefix early (Ben Noordhuis) #2307
  • [7fe6dd8f5d] - crypto: check for OpenSSL errors when signing (Minqi Pan) #2342
  • [605f6ee904] - crypto: fix memory leak in PBKDF2Request (Karl Skomski) #2375
  • [ba6eb8af12] - crypto: fix memory leak in ECDH::SetPrivateKey (Karl Skomski) #2375
  • [6a16368611] - crypto: fix memory leak in PublicKeyCipher::Cipher (Karl Skomski) #2375
  • [a760a87803] - crypto: fix memory leak in SafeX509ExtPrint (Karl Skomski) #2375
  • [f45487cd6e] - crypto: fix memory leak in SetDHParam (Karl Skomski) #2375
  • [2ff183dd86] - doc: Update FIPS instructions in README.md (Michael Dawson) #2278
  • [6483bc2e8f] - doc: clarify options for fs.watchFile() (Rich Trott) #2425
  • [e76822f454] - doc: multiple documentation updates cherry picked from v0.12 (James M Snell) #2302
  • [1738c9680b] - net: ensure Socket reported address is current (Ryan Graham) #2095
  • [844d3f0e3e] - path: use '===' instead of '==' for comparison (Sam Stites) #2388
  • [7118b8a882] - path: remove dead code in favor of unit tests (Nathan Woltman) #2282
  • [34f2cfa806] - src: better error message on failed Buffer malloc (Karl Skomski) #2422
  • [b196c1da3c] - src: fix memory leak in DLOpen (Karl Skomski) #2375
  • [d1307b2995] - src: don't use fopen() in require() fast path (Ben Noordhuis) #2377
  • [455ec570d1] - src: rename Buffer::Use() to Buffer::New() (Ben Noordhuis) #2352
  • [fd63e1ce2b] - src: introduce internal Buffer::Copy() function (Ben Noordhuis) #2352
  • [5586ceca13] - src: move internal functions out of node_buffer.h (Ben Noordhuis) #2352
  • [bff9bcddb6] - src: plug memory leaks (Ben Noordhuis) #2352
  • [ccf12df4f3] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add total_available_size to v8 statistics (Roman Klauke) #2348
  • [194eeb841b] - test: drop Isolate::GetCurrent() from addon tests (Ben Noordhuis) #2427
  • [46cdb2f6e2] - test: lint addon tests (Ben Noordhuis) #2427
  • [850c794882] - test: refactor test-fs-watchfile.js (Rich Trott) #2393
  • [a3160c0a33] - test: correct spelling of 'childProcess' (muddletoes) #2389
  • [e51f90d747] - test: option to run a subset of tests (João Reis) #2260
  • [cc46d3bca3] - test: clarify dropMembership() call (Rich Trott) #2062
  • [0ee4df9c7a] - test: make listen-fd-cluster/server more robust (Sam Roberts) #1944
  • [cf9ba81398] - test: address timing issues in simple http tests (Gireesh Punathil) #2294
  • [cbb75c4f86] - tls: fix throughput issues after incorrect merge (Fedor Indutny) #2381
  • [94b765f409] - tls: fix check for reused session (Fedor Indutny) #2312
  • [e83a41ad65] - tls: introduce internal onticketkeycallback (Fedor Indutny) #2312
  • [fb0f5d733f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tools: run the tick processor without building v8 (Matt Loring) #2090
  • [7606bdb897] - (SEMVER-MINOR) util: display constructor when inspecting objects (Christopher Monsanto) #1935

2015-08-04, Version 3.0.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • buffer:
    • Due to changes in V8, it has been necessary to reimplement Buffer on top of V8's Uint8Array. Every effort has been made to minimize the performance impact, however Buffer instantiation is measurably slower. Access operations may be faster in some circumstances but the exact performance profile and difference over previous versions will depend on how Buffer is used within applications. (Trevor Norris) #1825.
    • Buffer can now take ArrayBuffers as a constructor argument (Trevor Norris) #2002.
    • When a single buffer is passed to Buffer.concat(), a new, copied Buffer object will be returned; previous behavior was to return the original Buffer object (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #1937.
  • build: PPC support has been added to core to allow compiling on pLinux BE and LE (AIX support coming soon) (Michael Dawson) #2124.
  • dgram: If an error occurs within socket.send() and a callback has been provided, the error is only passed as the first argument to the callback and not emitted on the socket object; previous behavior was to do both (Matteo Collina & Chris Dickinson) #1796
  • freelist: Deprecate the undocumented freelist core module (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2176.
  • http:
    • Status codes now all use the official IANA names as per RFC7231, e.g. http.STATUS_CODES[414] now returns 'URI Too Long' rather than 'Request-URI Too Large' (jomo) #1470.
    • Calling .getName() on an HTTP agent no longer returns a trailing colon, HTTPS agents will no longer return an extra colon near the middle of the string (Brendan Ashworth) #1617.
  • node:
    • NODE_MODULE_VERSION has been bumped to 45 to reflect the break in ABI (Rod Vagg) #2096.
    • Introduce a new process.release object that contains a name property set to 'io.js' and sourceUrl, headersUrl and libUrl (Windows only) properties containing URLs for the relevant resources; this is intended to be used by node-gyp (Rod Vagg) #2154.
    • The version of node-gyp bundled with io.js now downloads and uses a tarball of header files from iojs.org rather than the full source for compiling native add-ons; it is hoped this is a temporary floating patch and the change will be upstreamed to node-gyp soon (Rod Vagg) #2066.
  • repl: Persistent history is now enabled by default. The history file is located at ~/.node_repl_history, which can be overridden by the new environment variable NODE_REPL_HISTORY. This deprecates the previous NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE variable. Additionally, the format of the file has been changed to plain text to better handle file corruption. (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2224.
  • smalloc: The smalloc module has been removed as it is no longer possible to provide the API due to changes in V8 (Ben Noordhuis) #2022.
  • tls: Add server.getTicketKeys() and server.setTicketKeys() methods for TLS session key rotation (Fedor Indutny) #2227.
  • v8: Upgraded to 4.4.63.26
    • ES6: Enabled computed property names
    • ES6: Array can now be subclassed in strict mode
    • ES6: Implement rest parameters in staging, use the --harmony-rest-parameters command line flag
    • ES6: Implement the spread operator in staging, use the --harmony-spreadcalls command line flag
    • Removed SetIndexedPropertiesToExternalArrayData and related APIs, forcing a shift to Buffer to be reimplemented based on Uint8Array
    • Introduction of Maybe and MaybeLocal C++ API for objects which may or may not have a value.
    • Added support for PPC

See also https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki/Breaking-Changes#300-from-2x for a summary of the breaking changes (SEMVER-MAJOR).

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [60a974d200] - buffer: fix missing null/undefined check (Trevor Norris) #2195
  • [e6ab2d92bc] - buffer: fix not return on error (Trevor Norris) #2225
  • [1057d1186b] - buffer: rename internal/buffer_new.js to buffer.js (Ben Noordhuis) #2022
  • [4643b8b667] - (SEMVER-MINOR) buffer: allow ArrayBuffer as Buffer argument (Trevor Norris) #2002
  • [e5ada116cd] - buffer: minor cleanup from rebase (Trevor Norris) #2003
  • [b625ab4242] - buffer: fix usage of kMaxLength (Trevor Norris) #2003
  • [eea66e2a7b] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) buffer: fix case of one buffer passed to concat (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #1937
  • [8664084166] - buffer: make additional changes to native API (Trevor Norris) #1825
  • [36f78f4c1c] - buffer: switch API to return MaybeLocal (Trevor Norris) #1825
  • [571ec13841] - buffer: switch to using Maybe API (Trevor Norris) #1825
  • [d75f5c8d0e] - buffer: finish implementing FreeCallback (Trevor Norris) #1825
  • [63da0dfd3a] - buffer: implement Uint8Array backed Buffer (Trevor Norris) #1825
  • [23be6ca189] - buffer: allow ARGS_THIS to accept a name (Trevor Norris) #1825
  • [971de5e417] - build: prepare Windows installer for i18n support (Frederic Hemberger) #2247
  • [2ba8b23661] - build: add 'x86' option back in to configure (Rod Vagg) #2233
  • [b4226e797a] - build: first set of updates to enable PPC support (Michael Dawson) #2124
  • [24dd016deb] - build: produce symbol map files on windows (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #2243
  • [423d8944ce] - cluster: do not unconditionally set --debug-port (cjihrig) #1949
  • [fa98b97171] - cluster: add handle ref/unref stubs in rr mode (Ben Noordhuis) #2274
  • [944f68046c] - crypto: remove kMaxLength on randomBytes() (Trevor Norris) #1825
  • [3d3c687012] - deps: update V8 to 4.4.63.26 (Michaël Zasso) #2220
  • [3aad4fa89a] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.4.63.12 (Ben Noordhuis) #2092
  • [70d1f32f56] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update v8 to 4.4.63.9 (Ben Noordhuis) #2022
  • [deb7ee93a7] - deps: backport 7b24219346 from v8 upstream (Rod Vagg) #1805
  • [d58e780504] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: update v8 to 4.3.61.21 (Chris Dickinson) iojs/io.js#1632
  • [2a63cf612b] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) iojs/io.js#990
  • [bf63266460] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.13.3 (Kat Marchán) #2284
  • [ef2c8cd4ec] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dgram: make send cb act as "error" event handler (Matteo Collina) #1796
  • [3da057fef6] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) dgram: make send cb act as "error" event handler (Chris Dickinson) #1796
  • [df1994fe53] - Revert "dns: remove AI_V4MAPPED hint flag on FreeBSD" (cjihrig) iojs/io.js#1555
  • [1721968b22] - doc: document repl persistent history changes (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2224
  • [d12df7f159] - doc: update v8 flags in man page (Michaël Zasso) iojs/io.js#1701
  • [d168d01b04] - doc: properly inheriting from EventEmitter (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2168
  • [500f2538cc] - doc: a listener, not "an" listener (Sam Roberts) #1025
  • [54627a919d] - doc: server close event does not have an argument (Sam Roberts) #1025
  • [ed85c95a9c] - doc,test: documents behaviour of non-existent file (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2169
  • [2965442308] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: fix agent.getName() and add tests (Brendan Ashworth) #1617
  • [2d9456e3e6] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http: use official IANA Status Codes (jomo) #1470
  • [11e4249227] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) http_server: prefinish vs finish (Fedor Indutny) #1411
  • [9bc2e26720] - net: do not set V4MAPPED on FreeBSD (Julien Gilli) iojs/io.js#1555
  • [ba9ccf227e] - node: remove redundant --use-old-buffer (Rod Vagg) #2275
  • [ef65321083] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) node: do not override message/stack of error (Fedor Indutny) #2108
  • [9f727f5e03] - node-gyp: detect RC build with x.y.z-rc.n format (Rod Vagg) #2171
  • [e52f963632] - node-gyp: download header tarball for compile (Rod Vagg) #2066
  • [902c9ca51d] - node-gyp: make aware of nightly, next-nightly & rc (Rod Vagg) #2066
  • [4cffaa3f55] - (SEMVER-MINOR) readline: allow tabs in input (Rich Trott) #1761
  • [ed6c249104] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) repl: persist history in plain text (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2224
  • [f7d5e4c618] - (SEMVER-MINOR) repl: default persistence to ~/.node_repl_history (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2224
  • [ea05e760cd] - repl: don't clobber RegExp.$ properties (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2137
  • [d20093246b] - src: disable vector ICs on arm (Michaël Zasso) #2220
  • [04fd4fad46] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: introduce process.release object (Rod Vagg) #2154
  • [9d34bd1147] - src: increment NODE_MODULE_VERSION to 45 (Rod Vagg) #2096
  • [ceee8d2807] - test: add tests for persistent repl history (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2224
  • [8e1a8ffe24] - test: remove two obsolete pummel tests (Ben Noordhuis) #2022
  • [ae731ec0fa] - test: don't use arguments.callee (Ben Noordhuis) #2022
  • [21d31c08e7] - test: remove obsolete harmony flags (Chris Dickinson)
  • [64cf71195c] - test: change the hostname to an invalid name (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2287
  • [80a1cf7425] - test: fix messages and use return to skip tests (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2290
  • [d5ab92bcc1] - test: use common.isWindows consistently (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2269
  • [bc733f7065] - test: fix fs.readFile('/dev/stdin') tests (Ben Noordhuis) #2265
  • [3cbb5870e5] - tools: expose skip output to test runner (Johan Bergström) #2130
  • [3b021efe11] - vm: fix symbol access (Domenic Denicola) #1773
  • [7b81e4ba36] - vm: remove unnecessary access checks (Domenic Denicola) #1773
  • [659dadd410] - vm: fix property descriptors of sandbox properties (Domenic Denicola) #1773
  • [9bac1dbae9] - win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) iojs/io.js#1433

2015-07-28, Version 2.5.0, @cjihrig

Notable changes

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Using multiple REPL instances in parallel may cause some REPL history corruption or loss. #1634
  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [bf2cd225a8] - process: resize stderr on SIGWINCH (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #2231
  • [99d9d7e716] - benchmark: add remaining path benchmarks & optimize (Nathan Woltman) #2103
  • [66fc8ca22b] - (SEMVER-MINOR) cluster: emit 'message' event on cluster master (Sam Roberts) #861
  • [eb35968de7] - crypto: fix legacy SNICallback (Fedor Indutny) #1720
  • [fef190cea6] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) iojs/io.js#990
  • [b73a7465c5] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.13.2 (Kat Marchán) #2241
  • [0a7bf81d2f] - deps: update V8 to 4.2.77.21 (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #2238
  • [73cdcdd581] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) iojs/io.js#990
  • [04893a736d] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.13.1 (Kat Marchán) #2210
  • [a3c1b9720e] - doc: add GPG fingerprint for cjihrig (cjihrig) #2217
  • [d9f857df3b] - doc: note about custom inspect functions (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2142
  • [4ef2b5fbfb] - doc: Replace util.debug with console.error (Yosuke Furukawa) #2214
  • [b612f085ec] - doc: add joaocgreis as a collaborator (João Reis) #2208
  • [6b85d5a4b3] - doc: add TSC meeting minutes 2015-07-15 (Rod Vagg) #2191
  • [c7d8b09162] - doc: recompile before testing core module changes (Phillip Johnsen) #2051
  • [9afee6785e] - http: Check this.connection before using it (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2172
  • [2ca5a3db47] - https: reuse TLS sessions in Agent (Fedor Indutny) #2228
  • [fef87fee1d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib,test: add freelist deprecation and test (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2176
  • [503b089dd8] - net: don't throw on immediately destroyed socket (Evan Lucas) #2251
  • [93660c8b8e] - node: remove bad fn call and check (Trevor Norris) #2157
  • [afd7e37ee0] - repl: better empty line handling (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2163
  • [81ea52aa01] - repl: improving line continuation handling (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2163
  • [30edb5aee9] - repl: preventing REPL crash with inherited properties (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2163
  • [77fa385e5d] - repl: fixing undefined in invalid REPL keyword error (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2163
  • [8fd3ce100e] - src: make base64 decoding 50% faster (Ben Noordhuis) #2193
  • [c786d6341d] - test: do not use public IPs for timeout testing (Rich Trott) #2057
  • [4e78cd71c0] - test: skip IPv6 part before testing it (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2226
  • [ac70bc8240] - test: fix valgrind uninitialized memory warning (Ben Noordhuis) #2193
  • [ac7d3fa0d9] - test: add -no_rand_screen to s_client opts on Win (Shigeki Ohtsu) #2209
  • [79c865a53f] - test: changing process.exit to return while skipping tests (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2109
  • [69298d36cf] - test: formatting skip messages for TAP parsing (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2109
  • [543dabb609] - timers: improve Timer.now() performance (Ben Noordhuis) #2256
  • [3663b124e6] - timers: remove unused Timer.again() (Ben Noordhuis) #2256
  • [bcce5cf9bb] - timers: remove unused Timer.getRepeat() (Ben Noordhuis) #2256
  • [f2c83bd202] - timers: remove unused Timer.setRepeat() (Ben Noordhuis) #2256
  • [e11fc67225] - (SEMVER-MINOR) tls: add getTicketKeys()/setTicketKeys() (Fedor Indutny) #2227
  • [68b06e94e3] - tools: use local or specified $NODE for test-npm (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1984
  • [ab479659c7] - util: delay creation of debug context (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #2248
  • [6391f4d2fd] - util: removing redundant checks in is* functions (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #2179
  • [b148c0dff3] - win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) iojs/io.js#1433
  • [f90f1e75bb] - win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) iojs/io.js#1433

2015-07-17, Version 2.4.0, @Fishrock123

Notable changes

  • src: Added a new --track-heap-objects flag to track heap object allocations for heap snapshots (Bradley Meck) #2135.
  • readline: Fixed a freeze that affected the repl if the keypress event handler threw (Alex Kocharin) #2107.
  • npm: Upgraded to v2.13.0, release notes can be found in https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.13.0 (Forrest L Norvell) #2152.

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

2015-07-09, Version 2.3.4, @Fishrock123

Notable changes

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

2015-07-09, Version 1.8.4, @Fishrock123

Maintenance release

Notable changes

  • openssl: Upgrade to 1.0.2d, fixes CVE-2015-1793 (Alternate Chains Certificate Forgery) #2141.

Known issues

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.
  • readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see #1403

Commits

  • [c70e68fa32] - deps: update deps/openssl/conf/arch/*/opensslconf.h (Shigeki Ohtsu) #2141
  • [ca93f7f2e6] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to 1.0.2d (Shigeki Ohtsu) #2141

2015-07-04, Version 2.3.3, @Fishrock123

Notable changes

  • deps: Fixed an out-of-band write in utf8 decoder. This is an important security update as it can be used to cause a denial of service attack.

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal. #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760.
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion. #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [030f8045c7] - deps: fix out-of-band write in utf8 decoder (Fedor Indutny)
  • [0f09b8db28] - doc: don't recommend domains for error handling (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #2056
  • [9cd44bb2b6] - util: prepend '(node) ' to deprecation messages (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #1892

2015-07-04, Version 1.8.3, @rvagg

Maintenance release

Notable changes

  • v8: Fixed an out-of-band write in utf8 decoder. This is an important security update as it can be used to cause a denial of service attack.
  • openssl: Upgrade to 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c, introduces DHE man-in-the-middle protection (Logjam) and fixes malformed ECParameters causing infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788). See the security advisory for full details. (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1950 #1958
  • build:
    • Added support for compiling with Microsoft Visual C++ 2015
    • Started building and distributing headers-only tarballs along with binaries

Known issues

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.
  • readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see #1403

Commits

2015-07-01, Version 2.3.2, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • build:
    • Added support for compiling with Microsoft Visual C++ 2015
    • Started building and distributing headers-only tarballs along with binaries

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

2015-06-23, Version 2.3.1, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • module: The number of syscalls made during a require() have been significantly reduced again (see #1801 from v2.2.0 for previous work), which should lead to a performance improvement (Pierre Inglebert) #1920.
  • npm:
  • zlib: A bug was discovered where the process would abort if the final part of a zlib decompression results in a buffer that would exceed the maximum length of 0x3fffffff bytes (~1GiB). This was likely to only occur during buffered decompression (rather than streaming). This is now fixed and will instead result in a thrown RangeError (Michaël Zasso) #1811.

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [e56758a5e0] - async-wrap: add provider id and object info cb (Trevor Norris) #1896
  • [d5637e67c9] - buffer: fix cyclic dependency with util (Brendan Ashworth) #1988
  • [c5353d7c62] - build: remove lint from test-ci on windows (Johan Bergström) #2004
  • [c207e8d223] - build: fix pkg-config output parsing in configure (Ben Noordhuis) #1986
  • [8d8a26e8f7] - build: don't run lint from test-ci (Johan Bergström) #1965
  • [1ec53c044d] - build: simplify execution of built binary (Johan Bergström) #1955
  • [3beb880716] - crypto: add cert check to CNNIC Whitelist (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1895
  • [48c0fb8b1a] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) iojs/io.js#990
  • [6a359b1ce9] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.11.3 (Forrest L Norvell) #2018
  • [6aab2f3b9a] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) iojs/io.js#990
  • [3e12561b55] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.11.2 (Rebecca Turner) #1956
  • [8ac50819b6] - doc: add security section to README.md (Rod Vagg) #1948
  • [1f93b63b11] - doc: change the info to the same as in gitconfig (Christian Tellnes) #2000
  • [0cf94e6856] - doc: mention CI in Collaborator Guide (Rich Trott) #1995
  • [7a3006efe4] - doc: add TOC links to Collaborator Guide (Rich Trott) #1994
  • [30638b150f] - doc: add TSC meeting notes 2015-06-10 (Bert Belder) #1943
  • [c4ec04136b] - doc: reformat authors section (Johan Bergström) #1966
  • [96165f9be2] - doc: minor clarification in the modules API doc. (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #1983
  • [5c2707c1b2] - doc: benchmark/README.md copyedit (Rich Trott) #1970
  • [74fdf732d0] - doc: copyedit COLLABORATOR_GUIDE.md (Rich Trott) #1964
  • [5fe6e83640] - doc: copyedit GOVERNANCE.md (Rich Trott) #1963
  • [428526544c] - doc: add ChALkeR as collaborator (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #1927
  • [5dfe0d5d61] - doc: remove irrelevant SEMVER-MINOR & MAJOR (Rod Vagg)
  • [fb8811d95e] - lib,test: fix whitespace issues (Roman Reiss) #1971
  • [a4f4909f3d] - module: fix stat with long paths on Windows (Michaël Zasso) #2013
  • [a71ee93afe] - module: reduce syscalls during require search (Pierre Inglebert) #1920
  • [671e64ac73] - module: allow long paths for require on Windows (Michaël Zasso)
  • [061342a500] - net: Defer reading until listeners could be added (James Hartig) #1496
  • [5d2b846d11] - test: assert tmp and fixture dirs different (Rich Trott) #2015
  • [b0990ef45d] - test: confirm symlink (Rich Trott) #2014
  • [3ba4f71fc4] - test: check result as early as possible (Rich Trott) #2007
  • [0abcf44d6b] - test: add Buffer slice UTF-8 test (Rich Trott) #1989
  • [88c1831ff4] - test: tmpdir creation failures should fail tests (Rich Trott) #1976
  • [52a822d944] - test: fix test-cluster-worker-disconnect (Santiago Gimeno) #1919
  • [7c79490bfb] - test: only refresh tmpDir for tests that need it (Rich Trott) #1954
  • [88d7904c0b] - test: remove test repetition (Rich Trott) #1874
  • [91dfb5e094] - tools: make test-npm work without global npm (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1926
  • [3777f41562] - tools: enable whitespace related rules in eslint (Roman Reiss) #1971
  • [626432d843] - util: dont repeat isBuffer (Brendan Ashworth) #1988
  • [1d79f572f1] - util: move deprecate() to internal module (Brendan Ashworth) #1988
  • [4b4b1760b5] - v8: cherry-pick uclibc build patch from upstream (Ben Noordhuis) #1974
  • [5d0cee46bb] - vm: remove unnecessary HandleScopes (Ben Noordhuis) #2001
  • [0ecf9457b5] - win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) iojs/io.js#1433
  • [953b3e75e8] - win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) iojs/io.js#1433
  • [3806d875d3] - zlib: prevent uncaught exception in zlibBuffer (Michaël Zasso) #1811

2015-06-13, Version 2.3.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • libuv: Upgraded to 1.6.0 and 1.6.1, see full ChangeLog for details. (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #1905 #1889. Highlights include:
    • Fix TTY becoming blocked on OS X
    • Fix UDP send callbacks to not to be synchronous
    • Add uv_os_homedir() (exposed as os.homedir(), see below)
  • npm: See full release notes for details. (Kat Marchán) #1899. Highlight:
    • Use GIT_SSH_COMMAND (available as of Git 2.3)
  • openssl:
    • Upgrade to 1.0.2b and 1.0.2c, introduces DHE man-in-the-middle protection (Logjam) and fixes malformed ECParameters causing infinite loop (CVE-2015-1788). See the security advisory for full details. (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1950 #1958
    • Support FIPS mode of OpenSSL, see README for instructions. (Fedor Indutny) #1890
  • os: Add os.homedir() method. (Colin Ihrig) #1791
  • smalloc: Deprecate whole module. (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #1822
  • Add new collaborators:

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [9c0a1b8cfc] - cluster: wait on servers closing before disconnect (Oleg Elifantiev) #1400
  • [0f68377f69] - crypto: support FIPS mode of OpenSSL (Fedor Indutny) #1890
  • [38d1afc24d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) crypto: add getCurves() to get supported ECs (Brian White) #1914
  • [a4dbf45b59] - crypto: update root certificates (Ben Noordhuis) #1833
  • [81029c639a] - debugger: improve ESRCH error message (Jackson Tian) #1863
  • [2a7fd0ad32] - deps: update UPGRADING.md doc to openssl-1.0.2c (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1958
  • [6b3df929e0] - deps: replace all headers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1958
  • [664a659696] - deps: add -no_rand_screen to openssl s_client (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1836
  • [42a8de2ac6] - deps: fix asm build error of openssl in x86_win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) iojs/io.js#1389
  • [c66c3d9fa3] - deps: fix openssl assembly error on ia32 win32 (Fedor Indutny) iojs/io.js#1389
  • [86737cf0a0] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to 1.0.2c (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1958
  • [94804969b7] - deps: update asm files for openssl-1.0.2b (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1950
  • [38444915e0] - deps: replace all headers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1950
  • [f62b613252] - deps: add -no_rand_screen to openssl s_client (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1836
  • [f624d0122c] - deps: fix asm build error of openssl in x86_win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) iojs/io.js#1389
  • [dcd67cc8d7] - deps: fix openssl assembly error on ia32 win32 (Fedor Indutny) iojs/io.js#1389
  • [c21b24decf] - deps: upgrade openssl sources to 1.0.2b (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1950
  • [2dc819b09a] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) iojs/io.js#990
  • [f41b7f12b5] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.11.1 (Kat Marchán) #1899
  • [a5bd466440] - deps: update libuv to version 1.6.1 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #1905
  • [aa33db3238] - deps: update libuv to version 1.6.0 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #1889
  • [0ee497f0b4] - deps: add -no_rand_screen to openssl s_client (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1836
  • [b5cd2f0986] - dgram: partially revert 18d457b (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #1889
  • [a3cc43d0a4] - doc: add Trott as collaborator (Rich Trott) #1962
  • [cf5020fc02] - doc: add domenic as collaborator (Domenic Denicola) #1942
  • [11ed5f31ab] - doc: add Olegas as collaborator (Oleg Elifantiev) #1930
  • [f500e1833b] - doc: add ofrobots as collaborator (Ali Ijaz Sheikh)
  • [717724611a] - doc: add monsanto as collaborator (Christopher Monsanto) #1932
  • [7192b6688c] - doc: add rlidwka as collaborator (Alex Kocharin) #1929
  • [9f3a03f0d4] - doc: add references to crypto.getCurves() (Roman Reiss) #1918
  • [ff39ecb914] - doc: remove comma splice (Rich Trott) #1900
  • [deb8b87dc9] - doc: add note about available ECC curves (Ryan Petschek) #1913
  • [89a5b9040e] - doc: fix http.IncomingMessage.socket documentation (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #1867
  • [d29034b34b] - doc: adjust changelog to clarify client revert (Rod Vagg) #1859
  • [a79dece8ad] - docs: add return value for sync fs functions (Tyler Anton) #1770
  • [1cb72c14c4] - docs: delete unused/duplicate css files (Robert Kowalski) #1770
  • [53a4eb3198] - fs: make SyncWriteStream non-enumerable (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #1870
  • [a011c3243f] - fs: minor refactoring (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #1870
  • [8841132f30] - fs: remove inStatWatchers and use Map for lookup (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #1870
  • [67a11b9bcc] - fs: removing unnecessary nullCheckCallNT (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #1870
  • [09f2a67bd8] - fs: improve error message descriptions (Sakthipriyan Vairamani) #1870
  • [2dcef83b5f] - fs: use kMaxLength from binding (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #1903
  • [353e26e3c7] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: Add string encoding option for Stream method (Yosuke Furukawa) #1845
  • [8357c5084b] - fs: set encoding on fs.createWriteStream (Yosuke Furukawa) #1844
  • [02c345020a] - gitignore: don't ignore the debug npm module (Kat Marchán) #1908
  • [b5b8ff117c] - lib: don't use global Buffer (Roman Reiss) #1794
  • [a251657058] - node: mark promises as handled as soon as possible (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #1952
  • [2eb170874a] - openssl: fix keypress requirement in apps on win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) iojs/io.js#1389
  • [a130132c8f] - openssl: fix keypress requirement in apps on win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) iojs/io.js#1389
  • [6e78e5feaa] - (SEMVER-MINOR) os: add homedir() (cjihrig) #1791
  • [d9e250295b] - Revert "readline: allow tabs in input" (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1961
  • [4b3d493c4b] - readline: allow tabs in input (Rich Trott) #1761
  • [6d95f4ff92] - (SEMVER-MINOR) smalloc: deprecate whole module (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #1822
  • [8c71a9241d] - src: hide InitializeICUDirectory symbol (Ben Noordhuis) #1815
  • [5b6f575c1f] - Revert "src: add getopt option parser" (Evan Lucas) #1862
  • [c0e7bf2d8c] - src: add getopt option parser (Evan Lucas) #1804
  • [8ea6844d26] - test: add test for failed save in REPL (Rich Trott) #1818
  • [03ce84dfa1] - test: fix cluster-worker-wait-server-close races (Sam Roberts) #1953
  • [a6b8ee19b8] - test: create temp dir in common.js (Rich Trott) #1877
  • [ff8202c6f4] - test: fix undeclared variable access (Roman Reiss) #1794
  • [d9ddd7d345] - test: remove TODO comment (Rich Trott) #1820
  • [6537fd4b55] - test: remove TODO (Rich Trott) #1875
  • [a804026c9b] - test: fix broken FreeBSD test (Santiago Gimeno) #1881
  • [43a82f8a71] - test: fix test-sync-io-option (Evan Lucas) #1840
  • [4ed25f664d] - test: add -no_rand_screen for tls-server-verify (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1836
  • [4cf323d23d] - test: kill child in tls-server-verify for speed up (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1836
  • [e6ccdcc1fe] - test: improve console output of tls-server-verify (João Reis) #1836
  • [975e5956f0] - test: run tls-server-verify servers in parallel (João Reis) #1836
  • [b18604ba2c] - test: running tls-server-verify clients in parallel (João Reis) #1836
  • [f78c722df5] - test: remove hardwired references to 'iojs' (Rod Vagg) #1882
  • [bd99e8de8e] - test: more test coverage for maxConnections (Rich Trott) #1855
  • [b9267189a5] - test: fix test-child-process-stdout-flush-exit (Santiago Gimeno) #1868
  • [d20f018dcf] - test: loosen condition to detect infinite loop (Yosuke Furukawa) #1857
  • [e0e96acc6f] - test: remove smalloc add-on test (Ben Noordhuis) #1835
  • [8704c58fc4] - test: remove unneeded comment task (Rich Trott) #1858
  • [8732977536] - tls: fix references to undefined cb (Fedor Indutny) #1951
  • [75930bb38c] - tls: prevent use-after-free (Fedor Indutny) #1702
  • [5795e835a1] - tls: emit errors on close whilst async action (Fedor Indutny) #1702
  • [59d9734e21] - tls_wrap: invoke queued callbacks in DestroySSL (Fedor Indutny) #1702
  • [6e4d30286d] - tools: enable/add additional eslint rules (Roman Reiss) #1794
  • [098354a9f8] - tools: update certdata.txt (Ben Noordhuis) #1833
  • [a2d921d6a0] - tools: customize mk-ca-bundle.pl (Ben Noordhuis) #1833
  • [5be9efca40] - tools: update mk-ca-bundle.pl to HEAD of upstream (Ben Noordhuis) #1833
  • [1baba0580d] - tools: Fix copying contents of deps/npm (thefourtheye) #1853
  • [628845b816] - (SEMVER-MINOR) util: introduce printDeprecationMessage function (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #1822
  • [91d0a8b19c] - win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) iojs/io.js#1433

2015-06-01, Version 2.2.1, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • http: Reverts the move of the client property of IncomingMessage to its prototype. Although undocumented, this property was used and assumed to be an "own property" in the wild, most notably by request which is used by npm. (Michaël Zasso) #1852.

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [c5a1009903] - build: avoid passing empty strings to build flags (Johan Bergström) #1789
  • [5d83401086] - doc: put SEMVER-MINOR on pre-load module fix 2.2.0 (Rod Vagg)
  • [4d6b768e5d] - http: revert deprecation of client property (Michaël Zasso) #1852

2015-05-31, Version 2.2.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • node: Speed-up require() by replacing usage of fs.statSync() and fs.readFileSync() with internal variants that are faster for this use-case and do not create as many objects for the garbage collector to clean up. The primary two benefits are: significant increase in application start-up time on typical applications and better start-up time for the debugger by eliminating almost all of the thousands of exception events. (Ben Noordhuis) #1801.
  • node: Resolution of pre-load modules (-r or --require) now follows the standard require() rules rather than just resolving paths, so you can now pre-load modules in node_modules. (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #1812.
  • npm: Upgraded npm to v2.11.0. New hooks for preversion, version, and postversion lifecycle events, some SPDX-related license changes and license file inclusions. See the release notes for full details.

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [a77c330c32] - (SEMVER-MINOR) child_process: expose ChildProcess constructor (Evan Lucas) #1760
  • [3a1bc067d4] - Revert "core: set PROVIDER type as Persistent class id" (Ben Noordhuis) #1827
  • [f9fd554500] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) iojs/io.js#990
  • [c1afa53648] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.11.0 (Forrest L Norvell) iojs/io.js#1829
  • [ff794498e7] - doc: fs.*File() also accept encoding strings (Rich Trott) #1806
  • [98649fd31a] - doc: add documentation for AtExit hook (Steve Sharp) #1014
  • [eb1856dfd1] - doc: clarify stability of fs.watch and relatives (Rich Trott) #1775
  • [a74c2c9458] - doc: state url decoding behavior (Josh Gummersall) #1731
  • [ba76a9d872] - doc: remove bad semver-major entry from CHANGELOG (Rod Vagg) #1782
  • [a6a3f8c78d] - doc: fix changelog s/2.0.3/2.1.0 (Rod Vagg)
  • [2c686fd3ce] - http: flush stored header (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #1695
  • [1eec5f091a] - http: simplify code and remove unused properties (Brian White) #1572
  • [1bbf8d0720] - lib: speed up require(), phase 2 (Ben Noordhuis) #1801
  • [b14fd1a720] - lib: speed up require(), phase 1 (Ben Noordhuis) #1801
  • [5abd4ac079] - lib: simplify nextTick() usage (Brian White) #1612
  • [5759722cfa] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: fix module search path for preload modules (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #1812
  • [a65762cab6] - src: remove old code (Brendan Ashworth) #1819
  • [93a44d5228] - src: fix deferred events not working with -e (Ben Noordhuis) #1793
  • [8059393934] - test: check error type from net.Server.listen() (Rich Trott) #1821
  • [4e90c82cdb] - test: add heap profiler add-on regression test (Ben Noordhuis) #1828
  • [6dfca71af0] - test: don't lint autogenerated test/addons/doc-*/ (Ben Noordhuis) #1793
  • [c2b8b30836] - test: remove stray copyright notices (Ben Noordhuis) #1793
  • [280fb01daf] - test: fix deprecation warning in addons test (Ben Noordhuis) #1793
  • [8606793999] - tools: pass constant to logger instead of string (Johan Bergström) #1842
  • [fbd2b59716] - tools: add objectLiteralShorthandProperties to .eslintrc (Evan Lucas) #1760
  • [53e98cc1b4] - win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) #1763

2015-05-24, Version 2.1.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • crypto: Diffie-Hellman key exchange (DHE) parameters ('dhparams') must now be 1024 bits or longer or an error will be thrown. A warning will also be printed to the console if you supply less than 2048 bits. See https://weakdh.org/ for further context on this security concern. (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1739.
  • node: A new --trace-sync-io command line flag will print a warning and a stack trace whenever a synchronous API is used. This can be used to track down synchronous calls that may be slowing down an application. (Trevor Norris) #1707.
  • node: To allow for chaining of methods, the setTimeout(), setKeepAlive(), setNoDelay(), ref() and unref() methods used in 'net', 'dgram', 'http', 'https' and 'tls' now return the current instance instead of undefined (Roman Reiss & Evan Lucas) #1699 #1768 #1779.
  • npm: Upgraded to v2.10.1, release notes can be found in https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.10.1 and https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v2.10.0.
  • util: A significant speed-up (in the order of 35%) for the common-case of a single string argument to util.format(), used by console.log() (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #1749.

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [9da168b71f] - buffer: optimize Buffer.byteLength (Brendan Ashworth) #1713
  • [2b1c01c2cc] - build: refactor pkg-config for shared libraries (Johan Bergström) #1603
  • [3c44100558] - core: set PROVIDER type as Persistent class id (Trevor Norris) #1730
  • [c1de6d249e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) core: implement runtime flag to trace sync io (Trevor Norris) #1707
  • [9e7099fa4e] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) iojs/io.js#990
  • [c54d057598] - deps: upgrade to npm 2.10.1 (Rebecca Turner) #1763
  • [367ffd167d] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) #1776
  • [2bb2f06b3e] - doc: fix typo in CONTRIBUTING.md (Rich Trott) #1755
  • [515afc6367] - doc: path is ignored in url.format (Maurice Butler) #1753
  • [f0a8bc3f84] - doc: fix spelling in CHANGELOG (Felipe Batista)
  • [86dd244d9b] - doc: add notes to child_process.fork() and .exec() (Rich Trott) #1718
  • [066274794c] - doc: update links from iojs/io.js to nodejs/io.js (Frederic Hemberger) #1715
  • [cb381fe3e0] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: return this from setNoDelay and setKeepAlive (Roman Reiss) #1779
  • [85d9983009] - net: persist net.Socket options before connect (Evan Lucas) #1518
  • [39dde3222e] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net,dgram: return this from ref and unref methods (Roman Reiss) #1768
  • [5773438913] - test: fix jslint error (Michaël Zasso) #1743
  • [867631986f] - test: fix test-sync-io-option (Santiago Gimeno) #1734
  • [f29762f4dd] - test: enable linting for tests (Roman Reiss) #1721
  • [2a71f02988] - tls: emit errors happening before handshake finish (Malte-Thorben Bruns) #1769
  • [80342f649d] - tls: use .destroy(err) instead of destroy+emit (Fedor Indutny) #1711
  • [9b35be5810] - tls: make server not use DHE in less than 1024bits (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1739
  • [214d02040e] - util: speed up common case of formatting string (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #1749
  • [d144e96fbf] - win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) #1763
  • [0d6d3dda95] - win,node-gyp: make delay-load hook C89 compliant (Sharat M R) TooTallNate/node-gyp#616

2015-05-17, Version 1.8.2, @rvagg

Maintenance release

Notable changes

  • crypto: significantly reduced memory usage for TLS (Fedor Indutny & Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #1529
  • npm: Upgrade npm to 2.9.0. See the v2.8.4 and v2.9.0 release notes for details. Summary:

Known issues

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.
  • readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see #1403

Commits

2015-05-15, Version 2.0.2, @Fishrock123

Notable changes

  • win,node-gyp: the delay-load hook for windows addons has now been correctly enabled by default, it had wrongly defaulted to off in the release version of 2.0.0 (Bert Belder) #1433
  • os: tmpdir()'s trailing slash stripping has been refined to fix an issue when the temp directory is at '/'. Also considers which slash is used by the operating system. (cjihrig) #1673
  • tls: default ciphers have been updated to use gcm and aes128 (Mike MacCana) #1660
  • build: v8 snapshots have been re-enabled by default as suggested by the v8 team, since prior security issues have been resolved. This should give some perf improvements to both startup and vm context creation. (Trevor Norris) #1663
  • src: fixed preload modules not working when other flags were used before --require (Yosuke Furukawa) #1694
  • dgram: fixed send()'s callback not being asynchronous (Yosuke Furukawa) #1313
  • readline: emitKeys now keeps buffering data until it has enough to parse. This fixes an issue with parsing split escapes. (Alex Kocharin) #1601
  • cluster: works now properly emit 'disconnect' to cluser.worker (Oleg Elifantiev) #1386
  • events: uncaught errors now provide some context (Evan Lucas) #1654

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.

Commits

  • [8a0e5295b4] - build: use backslashes for paths on windows (Johan Bergström) #1698
  • [20c9a52227] - build: move --with-intl to intl optgroup (Johan Bergström) #1680
  • [36cdc7c8ac] - build: re-enable V8 snapshots (Trevor Norris) #1663
  • [5883a59b21] - cluster: disconnect event not emitted correctly (Oleg Elifantiev) #1386
  • [0f850f7ae7] - deps: provide TXT chunk info in c-ares (Fedor Indutny)
  • [7e1c0e75ed] - deps: sync with upstream bagder/c-ares@bba4dc5 (Ben Noordhuis) #1678
  • [18d457bd34] - dgram: call send callback asynchronously (Yosuke Furukawa) #1313
  • [8b9a1537ad] - events: provide better error message for unhandled error (Evan Lucas) #1654
  • [19ffb5cf1c] - lib: fix eslint styles (Yosuke Furukawa) #1539
  • [76937051f8] - os: refine tmpdir() trailing slash stripping (cjihrig) #1673
  • [aed6bce906] - readline: turn emitKeys into a streaming parser (Alex Kocharin) #1601
  • [0a461e5360] - src: fix preload when used with prior flags (Yosuke Furukawa) #1694
  • [931a0d4634] - src: add type check to v8.setFlagsFromString() (Roman Klauke) #1652
  • [08d08668c9] - src,deps: replace LoadLibrary by LoadLibraryW (Cheng Zhao) #226
  • [4e2f999a62] - test: fix infinite loop detection (Yosuke Furukawa) #1681
  • [5755fc099f] - tls: update default ciphers to use gcm and aes128 (Mike MacCana) #1660
  • [966acb9916] - tools: remove closure_linter to eslint on windows (Yosuke Furukawa) #1685
  • [c58264e58b] - tools: make eslint work on subdirectories (Roman Reiss) #1686
  • [0b21ab13b7] - tools: refactor make test-npm into test-npm.sh (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1662
  • [f07b3b600b] - tools: set eslint comma-spacing to 'warn' (Roman Reiss) #1672
  • [f9dd34d301] - tools: replace closure-linter with eslint (Yosuke Furukawa) #1539
  • [64d3210c98] - win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) #1667

2015-05-07, Version 2.0.1, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • async_wrap: (Trevor Norris) #1614
    • it is now possible to filter by providers
    • bit flags have been removed and replaced with method calls on the binding object
    • note that this is an unstable API so feature additions and breaking changes won't change io.js semver
  • libuv: resolves numerous io.js issues:
    • #862 prevent spawning child processes with invalid stdio file descriptors
    • #1397 fix EPERM error with fs.access(W_OK) on Windows
    • #1621 build errors associated with the bundled libuv
    • #1512 should properly fix Windows termination errors
  • addons: the NODE_DEPRECATED macro was causing problems when compiling addons with older compilers, this should now be resolved (Ben Noordhuis) #1626
  • V8: upgrade V8 from 4.2.77.18 to 4.2.77.20 with minor fixes, including a bug preventing builds on FreeBSD

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.
  • readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see #1403

Commits

  • [7dde95a8bd] - async-wrap: remove before/after calls in init (Trevor Norris) #1614
  • [bd42ba056a] - async-wrap: set flags using functions (Trevor Norris) #1614
  • [4b2c786449] - async-wrap: pass PROVIDER as first arg to init (Trevor Norris) #1614
  • [84bf609fd2] - async-wrap: don't call init callback unnecessarily (Trevor Norris) #1614
  • [04cc03b029] - deps: update libuv to 1.5.0 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé) #1646
  • [b16d9c28e8] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.2.77.20 (Ben Noordhuis) #1639
  • [9ec3109272] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-04-29 minutes (Rod Vagg) #1585
  • [2c7206254c] - doc: fix typo in readme.md (AQNOUCH Mohammed) #1643
  • [71dc7152ee] - doc: fix PR link in CHANGELOG (Brian White) #1624
  • [b97b96d05a] - install: fix NameError (thefourtheye) #1628
  • [6ccbe75384] - js_stream: fix buffer index in DoWrite (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1635
  • [c43855c49c] - src: export the ParseEncoding function on Windows (Ivan Kozik) #1596
  • [8315b22390] - src: fix pedantic cpplint whitespace warnings (Ben Noordhuis) #1640
  • [b712af79a7] - src: fix NODE_DEPRECATED macro with old compilers (Ben Noordhuis) #1626
  • [2ed10f1349] - src: fix minor inefficiency in Buffer::New() call (Ben Noordhuis) #1577
  • [f696c9efab] - src: fix deprecated use of Buffer::New() (Ben Noordhuis) #1577
  • [0c8f13df8f] - tools: remove unused GuessWordSize function (thefourtheye) #1638

2015-05-04, Version 2.0.0, @rvagg

Breaking changes

Full details at https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki/Breaking-Changes#200-from-1x

  • V8 upgrade to 4.2, minor changes to C++ API
  • os.tmpdir() is now cross-platform consistent and no longer returns a path with a trailing slash on any platform
  • While not a breaking change the 'smalloc' module has been deprecated in anticipation of it becoming unsupportable with a future upgrade to V8 4.4. See #1451 for further information.

Note: a new version of the 'url' module was reverted prior to release as it was decided the potential for breakage across the npm ecosystem was too great and that more compatibility work needed to be done before releasing it. See #1602 for further information.

Notable changes

  • crypto: significantly reduced memory usage for TLS (Fedor Indutny & Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #1529
  • net: socket.connect() now accepts a 'lookup' option for a custom DNS resolution mechanism, defaults to dns.lookup() (Evan Lucas) #1505
  • npm: Upgrade npm to 2.9.0. See the v2.8.4 and v2.9.0 release notes for details. Notable items:
    • Add support for default author field to make npm init -y work without user-input (@othiym23) npm/npm/d8eee6cf9d
    • Include local modules in npm outdated and npm update (@ArnaudRinquin) npm/npm#7426
    • The prefix used before the version number on npm version is now configurable via tag-version-prefix (@kkragenbrink) npm/npm#8014
  • os: os.tmpdir() is now cross-platform consistent and will no longer returns a path with a trailing slash on any platform (Christian Tellnes) #747
  • process:
    • process.nextTick() performance has been improved by between 2-42% across the benchmark suite, notable because this is heavily used across core (Brian White) #1571
    • New process.geteuid(), process.seteuid(id), process.getegid() and process.setegid(id) methods allow you to get and set effective UID and GID of the process (Evan Lucas) #1536
  • repl:
    • REPL history can be persisted across sessions if the NODE_REPL_HISTORY_FILE environment variable is set to a user accessible file, NODE_REPL_HISTORY_SIZE can set the maximum history size and defaults to 1000 (Chris Dickinson) #1513
    • The REPL can be placed in to one of three modes using the NODE_REPL_MODE environment variable: sloppy, strict or magic (default); the new magic mode will automatically run "strict mode only" statements in strict mode (Chris Dickinson) #1513
  • smalloc: the 'smalloc' module has been deprecated due to changes coming in V8 4.4 that will render it unusable
  • util: add Promise, Map and Set inspection support (Christopher Monsanto) #1471
  • V8: upgrade to 4.2.77.18, see the ChangeLog for full details. Notable items:
    • Classes have moved out of staging; the class keyword is now usable in strict mode without flags
    • Object literal enhancements have moved out of staging; shorthand method and property syntax is now usable ({ method() { }, property })
    • Rest parameters (function(...args) {}) are implemented in staging behind the --harmony-rest-parameters flag
    • Computed property names ({['foo'+'bar']:'bam'}) are implemented in staging behind the --harmony-computed-property-names flag
    • Unicode escapes ('\u{xxxx}') are implemented in staging behind the --harmony_unicode flag and the --harmony_unicode_regexps flag for use in regular expressions
  • Windows:
    • Random process termination on Windows fixed (Fedor Indutny) #1512 / #1563
    • The delay-load hook introduced to fix issues with process naming (iojs.exe / node.exe) has been made opt-out for native add-ons. Native add-ons should include 'win_delay_load_hook': 'false' in their binding.gyp to disable this feature if they experience problems . (Bert Belder) #1433
  • Governance:
    • Rod Vagg (@rvagg) was added to the Technical Committee (TC)
    • Jeremiah Senkpiel (@Fishrock123) was added to the Technical Committee (TC)

Known issues

See confirmed-bug Issues with confirmed bugs. for complete and current list of known issues.

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.
  • readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see #1403

Commits

  • [5404cbc745] - buffer: fix copy() segfault with zero arguments (Trevor Norris) #1520
  • [3d3083b91f] - buffer: little improve for Buffer.concat method (Jackson Tian) #1437
  • [e67542ae17] - build: disable -Og when building with clang (Ben Noordhuis) #1609
  • [78f4b038f8] - build: turn on debug-safe optimizations with -Og (Ben Noordhuis) #1569
  • [a5dcff827a] - build: Use option groups in configure output (Johan Bergström) #1533
  • [2a3c8c187e] - build: remove -J from test-ci (Rod Vagg) #1544
  • [e6874dd0f9] - crypto: track external memory for SSL structures (Fedor Indutny) #1529
  • [935c9d3fa7] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) #990
  • [56e4255382] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.9.0 (Forrest L Norvell) #1573
  • [509b59ea7c] - deps: enable v8 postmortem debugging again (Ben Noordhuis) #1232
  • [01652c7709] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.2.77.18 (Chris Dickinson) #1506
  • [01e6632d70] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.2.77.15 (Ben Noordhuis) #1399
  • [db4ded5903] - deps: enable v8 postmortem debugging again (Ben Noordhuis) #1232
  • [36cd5fb9d2] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) deps: upgrade v8 to 4.2.77.13 (Ben Noordhuis) #1232
  • [b3a7da1091] - deps: update http_parser to 2.5.0 (Fedor Indutny) #1517
  • [ac1fb39ce8] - doc: add rvagg to the TC (Rod Vagg) #1613
  • [dacc1fa35c] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) #1586
  • [2a3a1909ab] - doc: add require() lines to child.stdio example (Nick Raienko) #1504
  • [02388dbf40] - doc: fix some cross-references (Alexander Gromnitsky) #1584
  • [57c4cc26e2] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-04-22 minutes (Rod Vagg) #1556
  • [b4ad5d7050] - doc: improve http.request and https.request opts (Roman Reiss) #1551
  • [7dc8eec0a6] - doc: deprecate smalloc module (Ben Noordhuis) #1566
  • [1bcdf46ca7] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-04-15 minutes (Rod Vagg) #1498
  • [391cae3595] - doc: Add Known issues to v1.7.0/1.7.1 CHANGELOG (Yosuke Furukawa) #1473
  • [e55fdc47a7] - doc: fix util.deprecate example (Nick Raienko) #1535
  • [5178f93bc0] - doc: Add Addon API (NAN) to working group list (Julian Duque) #1523
  • [f3cc50f811] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-04-08 minutes (Rod Vagg) #1497
  • [bb254b533b] - doc: update branch to master (Roman Reiss) #1511
  • [22aafa5597] - doc: add Fishrock123 to the TC (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1507
  • [b16a328ede] - doc: add spaces to child.kill example (Nick Raienko) #1503
  • [26327757f8] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) #1476
  • [f9c681cf62] - fs: validate fd on fs.write (Julian Duque) #1553
  • [801b47acc5] - gitignore: ignore xcode workspaces and projects (Roman Klauke) #1562
  • [d5ce47e433] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: deprecate the smalloc module (Ben Noordhuis) #1564
  • [7384ca83f9] - module: remove '' from Module.globalPaths (Chris Yip) #1488
  • [b4f5898395] - net: ensure Write/ShutdownWrap references handle (Fedor Indutny) #1590
  • [4abe2fa1cf] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: add lookup option to Socket.prototype.connect (Evan Lucas) #1505
  • [1bef717476] - (SEMVER-MINOR) net: cleanup connect logic (Evan Lucas) #1505
  • [c7782c0af8] - node: improve nextTick performance (Brian White) #1571
  • [b57cc51d8d] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) os: remove trailing slash from os.tmpdir() (Christian Tellnes) #747
  • [ca219b00d1] - repl: fix for a+ fd clearing the file on read (Chris Dickinson) #1605
  • [051d482b15] - repl: fix _debugger by properly proxying repl (Chris Dickinson) #1605
  • [2e2fce0502] - repl: fix persistent history and env variable name (Roman Reiss) #1593
  • [ea5195ccaf] - repl: do not save history for non-terminal repl (Fedor Indutny) #1575
  • [0450ce7db2] - repl: add mode detection, cli persistent history (Chris Dickinson) #1513
  • [c1b9913e1f] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) src: bump NODE_MODULE_VERSION due to V8 API (Rod Vagg) #1532
  • [279f6116aa] - src: fix -Wmissing-field-initializers warning (Ben Noordhuis) #1606
  • [73062521a4] - src: deprecate smalloc public functions (Ben Noordhuis) #1565
  • [ccb199af17] - src: fix deprecation warnings (Ben Noordhuis) #1565
  • [609fa0de03] - src: fix NODE_DEPRECATED macro (Ben Noordhuis) #1565
  • [3c92ca2b5c] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add ability to get/set effective uid/gid (Evan Lucas) #1536
  • [30b7349176] - stream_base: dispatch reqs in the stream impl (Fedor Indutny) #1563
  • [0fa6c4a6fc] - string_decoder: don't cache Buffer.isEncoding (Brian White) #1548
  • [f9b226c1c1] - test: extend timeouts for ARMv6 (Rod Vagg) #1554
  • [bfae8236b1] - test: fix test-net-dns-custom-lookup test assertion (Evan Lucas) #1531
  • [547213913b] - test: adjust Makefile/test-ci, add to vcbuild.bat (Rod Vagg) #1530
  • [550c2638c0] - tls: use SSL_set_cert_cb for async SNI/OCSP (Fedor Indutny) #1464
  • [1787416376] - tls: destroy singleUse context immediately (Fedor Indutny) #1529
  • [2684c902c4] - tls: zero SSL_CTX freelist for a singleUse socket (Fedor Indutny) #1529
  • [2d241b3b82] - tls: destroy SSL once it is out of use (Fedor Indutny) #1529
  • [f7620fb96d] - tls_wrap: Unlink TLSWrap and SecureContext objects (Сковорода Никита Андреевич) #1580
  • [a7d74633f2] - tls_wrap: use localhost if options.host is empty (Guilherme Souza) #1493
  • [702997c1f0] - Revert "url: significantly improve the performance of the url module" (Rod Vagg) #1602
  • [0daed24883] - Revert "url: delete href cache on all setter code paths" (Rod Vagg) #1602
  • [0f39ef4ca1] - Revert "url: fix treatment of some values as non-empty" (Rod Vagg) #1602
  • [66877216bd] - url: fix treatment of some values as non-empty (Petka Antonov) #1589
  • [dbdd81a91b] - url: delete href cache on all setter code paths (Petka Antonov) #1589
  • [3fd7fc429c] - url: significantly improve the performance of the url module (Petka Antonov) #1561
  • [bf7ac08dd0] - util: add Map and Set inspection support (Christopher Monsanto) #1471
  • [30e83d2e84] - win,node-gyp: optionally allow node.exe/iojs.exe to be renamed (Bert Belder) #1266
  • [3bda6cbfa4] - (SEMVER-MAJOR) win,node-gyp: enable delay-load hook by default (Bert Belder) #1433

2015-04-20, Version 1.8.1, @chrisdickinson

Notable changes

  • NOTICE: Skipped v1.8.0 due to problems with release tooling. See #1436 for details.
  • build: Support for building io.js as a static library (Marat Abdullin) #1341
  • deps: Upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
    • Users should see performance improvements when using the crypto API. See here for details.
  • npm: Upgrade npm to 2.8.3. See the release notes for details. Includes improved git support. Summary:
    • 387f889 #7961 Ensure that hosted git SSH URLs always have a valid protocol when stored in resolved fields in npm-shrinkwrap.json. (@othiym23)
    • 394c2f5 Switch the order in which hosted Git providers are checked to git:, git+https:, then git+ssh: (from git:, git+ssh:, then git+https:) in an effort to go from most to least likely to succeed, to make for less confusing error message. (@othiym23)
    • 431c3bf #7699 npm-registry-client@6.3.2: Don't send body with HTTP GET requests when logging in. (@smikes)
    • 15efe12 #7872 Use the new version of hosted-git-info to pass along credentials embedded in git URLs. Test it. Test it a lot. (@othiym23)
    • b027319 #7920 Scoped packages with peerDependencies were installing the peerDependencies into the wrong directory. (@ewie)
    • 6b0f588 #7867 Use git shorthand and git URLs as presented by user. Support new hosted-git-info shortcut syntax. Save shorthand in package.json. Try cloning via git:, git+ssh:, and git+https:, in that order, when supported by the underlying hosting provider. (@othiym23)
  • src: Allow multiple arguments to be passed to process.nextTick (Trevor Norris) #1077
  • module: The interaction of require('.') with NODE_PATH has been restored and deprecated. This functionality will be removed at a later point. (Roman Reiss) #1363

Known issues

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • url.resolve may transfer the auth portion of the url when resolving between two full hosts, see #1435.
  • readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see #1403

Commits

  • [53ed89d927] - Revert "build: use %PYTHON% instead of python" (Rod Vagg) #1475
  • [f23b96352b] - src: revert NODE_MODULE_VERSION to 43 (Chris Dickinson) #1460
  • [431673ebd1] - buffer: fast-case for empty string in byteLength (Jackson Tian) #1441
  • [1b22bad35f] - build: fix logic for shared library flags (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1454
  • [91943a99d5] - build: use %PYTHON% instead of python (Rod Vagg) #1444
  • [c7769d417b] - build: Expose xz compression level (Johan Bergström) #1428
  • [a530b2baf1] - build: fix error message in configure (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [92dfb794f9] - build: enable ssl support on arm64 (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [7de0dcde83] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) #990
  • [4870213f9e] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.8.3 (Forrest L Norvell)
  • [49bb7ded2c] - deps: fix git case sensitivity issue in npm (Chris Dickinson) #1456
  • [4830b4bce8] - deps: add docs to upgrade openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [11bec72c87] - deps: update asm files for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [53924d8ebe] - deps: update asm Makefile for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [418e839456] - deps: update openssl.gyp/gypi for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [02f12ab666] - deps: update opensslconf.h for 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [eb7a23595f] - deps: add x32 and arm64 support for opensslconf.h (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [033a663127] - deps: replace all headers in openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [ae8831f240] - deps: backport openssl patch of alt cert chains 1 (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [71316c46d9] - deps: fix asm build error of openssl in x86_win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [d293a4f096] - deps: fix openssl assembly error on ia32 win32 (Fedor Indutny) #1389
  • [e4872d7405] - deps: upgrade openssl to 1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [a1c9ef3142] - deps, build: add support older assembler (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [76f219c128] - doc: Document forced pushing with git (Johan Bergström) #1420
  • [12e51d56c1] - doc: add Addon API WG (Rod Vagg) #1226
  • [7956a13dad] - http: logically respect maxSockets (fengmk2) #1242
  • [5b844e140b] - module: fix style (Roman Reiss) #1453
  • [3ad82c335d] - (SEMVER-MINOR) module: handle NODE_PATH in require('.') (Roman Reiss) #1363
  • [cd60ff0328] - net: add fd into listen2 debug info (Jackson Tian) #1442
  • [10e31ba56c] - (SEMVER-MINOR) node: allow multiple arguments passed to nextTick (Trevor Norris) #1077
  • [116c54692a] - openssl: fix keypress requirement in apps on win32 (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [62f5f4cec9] - src: remove duplicate byteLength from Buffer (Jackson Tian) #1438
  • [51d0808c90] - stream: remove duplicated expression (Yazhong Liu) #1444
  • [deb9d23d7b] - test: fix error message check for openssl-1.0.2a (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1389
  • [ca8c9ec2c8] - win,node-gyp: optionally allow node.exe/iojs.exe to be renamed (Bert Belder) #1266

2015-04-14, Version 1.7.1, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • build: A syntax error in the Makefile for release builds caused 1.7.0 to be DOA and unreleased. (Rod Vagg) #1421.

Known issues

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see #1403

Commits

2015-04-14, Version 1.7.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • C++ API: Fedor Indutny contributed a feature to V8 which has been backported to the V8 bundled in io.js. SealHandleScope allows a C++ add-on author to seal a HandleScope to prevent further, unintended allocations within it. Currently only enabled for debug builds of io.js. This feature helped detect the leak in #1075 and is now activated on the root HandleScope in io.js. (Fedor Indutny) #1395.
  • ARM: This release includes significant work to improve the state of ARM support for builds and tests. The io.js CI cluster's ARMv6, ARMv7 and ARMv8 build servers are now all (mostly) reporting passing builds and tests.
    • ARMv8 64-bit (AARCH64) is now properly supported, including a backported fix in libuv that was mistakenly detecting the existence of epoll_wait(). (Ben Noordhuis) #1365.
    • ARMv6: #1376 reported a problem with Math.exp() on ARMv6 (incl Raspberry Pi). The culprit is erroneous codegen for ARMv6 when using the "fast math" feature of V8. --nofast_math has been turned on for all ARMv6 variants by default to avoid this, fast math can be turned back on with --fast_math. (Ben Noordhuis) #1398.
    • Tests: timeouts have been tuned specifically for slower platforms, detected as ARMv6 and ARMv7. (Roman Reiss) #1366.
  • npm: Upgrade npm to 2.7.6. See the release notes for details. Summary:
    • b747593#7630 Don't automatically log all git failures as errors. maybeGithub needs to be able to fail without logging to support its fallback logic. (@othiym23)
    • 78005eb#7743 Always quote arguments passed to npm run-script. This allows build systems and the like to safely escape glob patterns passed as arguments to run-scripts with npm run-script <script> -- <arguments>. This is a tricky change to test, and may be reverted or moved to npm@3 if it turns out it breaks things for users. (@mantoni)
    • da015ee#7074 read-package-json@1.3.3: read-package-json no longer caches package.json files, which trades a very small performance loss for the elimination of a large class of really annoying race conditions. See #7074 for the grisly details. (@othiym23)

Known issues

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894
  • readline: split escapes are processed incorrectly, see #1403

Commits

  • [d2b62a4973] - benchmark: don't check wrk in non-http benchmark (Jackson Tian) #1368
  • [fd90b33b94] - build: validate options passed to configure (Johan Bergström) #1335
  • [04b02f5e34] - build: Remove deprecated flags (Johan Bergström) #1407
  • [39d395c966] - build: minor changes to fix rpm build (Dan Varga) #1408
  • [f9a2d31b32] - build: Simplify fetching release version (Johan Bergström) #1405
  • [cd38a4af8f] - build: support building io.js as a static library (Marat Abdullin) #1341
  • [d726a177ed] - build: Remove building against a shared V8 (Johan Bergström) #1331
  • [a5244d3a39] - (SEMVER-MINOR) deps: backport 1f8555 from v8's upstream (Fedor Indutny) #1395
  • [09d4a286ea] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) #990
  • [cc8376ae67] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.7.6 (Forrest L Norvell) #1390
  • [5b0e5755a0] - deps: generate opensslconf.h for architectures (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1377
  • [7d14aa0222] - deps: add Makefile to generate opensslconf.h (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1377
  • [29a3301461] - deps: make opensslconf.h include each target arch (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1377
  • [93a1a07ef4] - doc: remove keepAlive options from http.request (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1392
  • [3ad6ea7c38] - doc: remove redundant parameter in end listener. (Alex Yursha) #1387
  • [2bc3532461] - doc: document Console class (Jackson Tian) #1388
  • [69bc1382b7] - doc: properly indent http.Agent keepAlive options (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1384
  • [b464d467a2] - doc: update curl usage in COLLABORATOR_GUIDE (Roman Reiss) #1382
  • [61c0e7b70f] - doc: update CONTRIBUTING links. (Andrew Crites) #1380
  • [8d467e521c] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-03-18 minutes (Rod Vagg) #1370
  • [8ba9c4a7c2] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-04-01 minutes (Rod Vagg) #1371
  • [48facf93ad] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) #1372
  • [1219e7466c] - lib: reduce process.binding() calls (Brendan Ashworth) #1367
  • [264a8f3a1b] - linux: fix epoll_pwait() fallback on arm64 (Ben Noordhuis) #1365
  • [f0bf6bb024] - readline: fix calling constructor without new (Alex Kocharin) #1385
  • [ff74931107] - smalloc: do not track external memory (Fedor Indutny) #1375
  • [a07c69113a] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: use global SealHandleScope (Fedor Indutny) #1395
  • [a4d88475fa] - src: disable fast math only on armv6 (Ben Noordhuis) #1398
  • [e306c78f83] - src: disable fast math on arm (Ben Noordhuis) #1398
  • [7049d7b474] - test: increase timeouts on ARM (Roman Reiss) #1366
  • [3066f2c0c3] - test: double test timeout on arm machines (Ben Noordhuis) #1357
  • [66db9241cb] - tools: Remove unused files (Johan Bergström) #1406
  • [8bc8bd4bc2] - tools: add to install deps/openssl/config/archs (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1377
  • [907aaf325a] - win,node-gyp: optionally allow node.exe/iojs.exe to be renamed (Bert Belder) #1266
  • [372bf83818] - zlib: make constants keep readonly (Jackson Tian) #1361

2015-04-06, Version 1.6.4, @Fishrock123

Notable changes

  • npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.5. See npm CHANGELOG.md for details. Includes two important security fixes. Summary:
    • 300834e tar@2.0.0: Normalize symbolic links that point to targets outside the extraction root. This prevents packages containing symbolic links from overwriting targets outside the expected paths for a package. Thanks to Tim Cuthbertson and the team at Lift Security for working with the npm team to identify this issue. (@othiym23)
    • 0dc6875 semver@4.3.2: Package versions can be no more than 256 characters long. This prevents a situation in which parsing the version number can use exponentially more time and memory to parse, leading to a potential denial of service. Thanks to Adam Baldwin at Lift Security for bringing this to our attention. (@isaacs)
    • eab6184 #7766 One last tweak to ensure that GitHub shortcuts work with private repositories. (@iarna)
    • a840a13 #7746 Only fix up git URL paths when there are paths to fix up. (@othiym23)
  • openssl: preliminary work has been done for an upcoming upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2a #1325 (Shigeki Ohtsu). See #589 for additional details.
  • timers: a minor memory leak when timers are unreferenced was fixed, alongside some related timers issues #1330 (Fedor Indutny). This appears to have fixed the remaining leak reported in #1075.
  • android: it is now possible to compile io.js for Android and related devices #1307 (Giovanny Andres Gongora Granada).

Known issues

  • Some problems with unreferenced timers running during beforeExit are still to be resolved. See #1264.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

2015-03-31, Version 1.6.3, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • fs: corruption can be caused by fs.writeFileSync() and append-mode fs.writeFile() and fs.writeFileSync() under certain circumstances, reported in #1058, fixed in #1063 (Olov Lassus).
  • iojs: an "internal modules" API has been introduced to allow core code to share JavaScript modules internally only without having to expose them as a public API, this feature is for core-only #848 (Vladimir Kurchatkin).
  • timers: two minor problems with timers have been fixed:
    • Timer#close() is now properly idempotent #1288 (Petka Antonov).
    • setTimeout() will only run the callback once now after an unref() during the callback #1231 (Roman Reiss).
    • NOTE: there are still other unresolved concerns with the timers code, such as #1152.
  • Windows: a "delay-load hook" has been added for compiled add-ons on Windows that should alleviate some of the problems that Windows users may be experiencing with add-ons in io.js #1251 (Bert Belder).
  • V8: minor bug-fix upgrade for V8 to 4.1.0.27.
  • npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.4. See npm CHANGELOG.md for details. Summary:
    • 1549106 #7641 Due to 448efd0, running npm shrinkwrap --dev caused production dependencies to no longer be included in npm-shrinkwrap.json. Whoopsie! (@othiym23)
    • fb0ac26 #7579 Only block removing files and links when we're sure npm isn't responsible for them. This change is hard to summarize, because if things are working correctly you should never see it, but if you want more context, just go read the commit message, which lays it all out. (@othiym23)
    • 051c473 #7552 bundledDependencies are now properly included in the installation context. This is another fantastically hard-to-summarize bug, and once again, I encourage you to read the commit message if you're curious about the details. The snappy takeaway is that this unbreaks many use cases for ember-cli. (@othiym23)
    • fe1bc38#7672 npm-registry-client@3.1.2: Fix client-side certificate handling by correcting property name. (@atamon)
    • 89ce829#7630 hosted-git-info@1.5.3: Part 3 of ensuring that GitHub shorthand is handled consistently. (@othiym23)
    • 63313eb#7630 realize-package-specifier@2.2.0: Part 2 of ensuring that GitHub shorthand is handled consistently. (@othiym23)
    • 3ed41bf#7630 npm-package-arg@3.1.1: Part 1 of ensuring that GitHub shorthand is handled consistently. (@othiym23)

Known issues

  • Some problems exist with timers and unref() still to be resolved. See #1152.
  • Possible small memory leak(s) may still exist but have yet to be properly identified, details at #1075.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

  • [7dd5e824be] - assert: simplify logic of testing buffer equality (Alex Yursha) #1171
  • [a2ea16838f] - debugger: don't spawn child process in remote mode (Jackson Tian) #1282
  • [2752da4b64] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) #990
  • [f166cdecf1] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.7.4 (Forrest L Norvell)
  • [318d9d8fd7] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.1.0.27 (Ben Noordhuis) #1289
  • [269e46be37] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) #990
  • [b542fb94a4] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.7.3 (Forrest L Norvell) #1219
  • [73de13511d] - doc: add WG links in WORKING_GROUPS.md & fix nits (Farrin Reid) #1113
  • [19641b17be] - doc: decouple sidebar scrolling (Roman Reiss) #1274
  • [dbccf8d3ed] - doc: fix spelling error in feature flags (Phillip Lamplugh) #1286
  • [5e609e9324] - Revert "doc: clarify real name requirement" (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1276
  • [45814216ee] - doc: fix format docs discrepancy (Brendan Ashworth) #1255
  • [4e9bf93e9c] - doc: clarify real name requirement (Roman Reiss) #1250
  • [e84dd5f651] - doc: document repl on-demand module loading (Roman Reiss) #1249
  • [c9207f7fc2] - fs: fix corruption in writeFile and writeFileSync (Olov Lassus) #1063
  • [2db758c562] - iojs: introduce internal modules (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #848
  • [36f017afaf] - js2c: fix module id generation on windows (Ben Noordhuis) #1281
  • [1832743e18] - lib: add missing new for errors lib/*.js (Mayhem) #1246
  • [ea37ac04f4] - src: ignore ENOTCONN on shutdown race with child (Ben Noordhuis) #1214
  • [f06b16f2e9] - src: fix minor memleak in preload-modules (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #1265
  • [2903410aa8] - src: don't lazy-load timer globals (Ben Noordhuis) #1280
  • [2e5b87a147] - src: remove unnecessary environment lookups (Ben Noordhuis) #1238
  • [7e88a9322c] - src: make accessors immune to context confusion (Ben Noordhuis) #1238
  • [c8fa8ccdbc] - streams: use strict on _stream_wrap (Brendan Ashworth) #1279
  • [8a945814dd] - string_decoder: optimize write() (Brian White) #1209
  • [8d1c87ea0a] - test: fix race in parallel/test-vm-debug-context (Ben Noordhuis) #1294
  • [955c1508da] - test: reduce sequential/test-fs-watch flakiness (Roman Reiss) #1275
  • [77c2da10fd] - timers: make Timer.close idempotent (Petka Antonov) #1288
  • [776b73b243] - timers: cleanup interval handling (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1272
  • [caf0b36de3] - timers: assure setTimeout callback only runs once (Roman Reiss) #1231
  • [2ccc8f3970] - tls_wrap: fix this incredibly stupid leak (Fedor Indutny) #1244
  • [e74b5d278c] - tls_wrap: fix BIO leak on SSL error (Fedor Indutny) #1244
  • [ba93c583bc] - win,node-gyp: optionally allow node.exe/iojs.exe to be renamed (Bert Belder) #1266
  • [08acf1352c] - win,node-gyp: make delay-load hook optional (Bert Belder) #1266
  • [3d46fefe0c] - win,node-gyp: allow node.exe/iojs.exe to be renamed (Bert Belder) #1251

2015-03-23, Version 1.6.2, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • Windows: The ongoing work in improving the state of Windows support has resulted in full test suite passes once again. As noted in the release notes for v1.4.2, CI system and configuration problems prevented it from properly reporting problems with the Windows tests, the problems with the CI and the codebase appear to have been fully resolved.
  • FreeBSD: A kernel bug impacting io.js/Node.js was discovered and a patch has been introduced to prevent it causing problems for io.js (Fedor Indutny) #1218.
  • module: you can now require('.') instead of having to require('./'), this is considered a bugfix (Michaël Zasso) #1185.
  • v8: updated to 4.1.0.25 including patches for --max_old_space_size values above 4096 and Solaris support, both of which are already included in io.js.

Known issues

  • Possible small memory leak(s) may still exist but have yet to be properly identified, details at #1075.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

  • [fe4434b77a] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.1.0.25 (Johan Bergström) #1224
  • [d8f383ba3f] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg) #1234
  • [bc9c1a5a7b] - doc: fix typo in CHANGELOG (Mathieu Darse) #1230
  • [99c79f8d41] - doc: call js function in null context (Ben Noordhuis) #1125
  • [55abf34be5] - doc: don't use using namespace v8 (Ben Noordhuis) #1125
  • [c4e1b82120] - doc: replace v8::Handle with v8::Local (Ben Noordhuis) #1125
  • [2f1b78347c] - doc: remove unnecessary v8::HandleScopes (Ben Noordhuis) #1125
  • [409d413363] - doc: remove uses of v8::Isolate::GetCurrent() (Ben Noordhuis) #1125
  • [33fea6ed5f] - lib: don't penalize setInterval() common case (Ben Noordhuis) #1221
  • [31da9758a0] - lib: don't penalize setTimeout() common case (Ben Noordhuis) #1221
  • [6fc5e95354] - module: allow require('.') (Michaël Zasso) #1185
  • [9ae1a61214] - node: ensure that streams2 won't .end() stdin (Fedor Indutny) #1233
  • [b64983d77c] - src: reset signal handler to SIG_DFL on FreeBSD (Fedor Indutny) #1218
  • [9705a34e96] - test: move sequential/test-signal-unregister (Ben Noordhuis) #1227
  • [10a9c00563] - test: fix timing issue in signal test (Ben Noordhuis) #1227
  • [999fbe9d96] - test: fix crypto-binary-default bad crypto check (Brendan Ashworth) #1141
  • [2b3b2d392f] - test: add setTimeout/setInterval multi-arg tests (Ben Noordhuis) #1221
  • [849319a260] - util: Check input to util.inherits (Connor Peet) #1240
  • [cf081a4712] - vm: fix crash on fatal error in debug context (Ben Noordhuis) #1229

2015-03-20, Version 1.6.1, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • path: New type-checking on path.resolve() #1153 uncovered some edge-cases being relied upon in the wild, most notably path.dirname(undefined). Type-checking has been loosened for path.dirname(), path.basename(), and path.extname() (Colin Ihrig) #1216.
  • querystring: Internal optimizations in querystring.parse() and querystring.stringify() #847 prevented Number literals from being properly converted via querystring.escape() #1208, exposing a blind-spot in the test suite. The bug and the tests have now been fixed (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1213.

Known issues

  • Possible remaining TLS-related memory leak(s), details at #1075.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

  • [3b9eab9779] - build: make check aliases test (Johan Bergström) #1211
  • [4c731042d4] - configure: use cc and c++ as defaults on os x (Ben Noordhuis) #1210
  • [8de78e470d] - path: reduce type checking on some methods (cjihrig) #1216
  • [c9aec2b716] - querystring: fix broken stringifyPrimitive (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1213
  • [a89f5c2156] - querystring: parse numbers correctly (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1213
  • [2034137385] - smalloc: don't mix malloc() and new char[] (Ben Noordhuis) #1205

2015-03-19, Version 1.6.0, @chrisdickinson

Notable changes

  • node: a new -r or --require command-line option can be used to pre-load modules at start-up (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #881.
  • querystring: parse() and stringify() are now faster (Brian White) #847.
  • http: the http.ClientRequest#flush() method has been deprecated and replaced with http.ClientRequest#flushHeaders() to match the same change now in Node.js v0.12 as per joyent/node#9048 (Yosuke Furukawa) #1156.
  • net: allow server.listen() to accept a String option for port, e.g. { port: "1234" }, to match the same option being accepted in net.connect() as of joyent/node#9268 (Ben Noordhuis) #1116.
  • tls: further work on the reported memory leak although there appears to be a minor leak remaining for the use-case in question, track progress at #1075.
  • v8: backport a fix for an integer overflow when --max_old_space_size values above 4096 are used (Ben Noordhuis) #1166.
  • platforms: the io.js CI system now reports passes on FreeBSD and SmartOS (Solaris).
  • npm: upgrade npm to 2.7.1. See npm CHANGELOG.md for details. Summary:
    • 6823807 #7121 npm install --save for Git dependencies saves the URL passed in, instead of the temporary directory used to clone the remote repo. Fixes using Git dependencies when shrinkwwapping. In the process, rewrote the Git dependency caching code. Again. No more single-letter variable names, and a much clearer workflow. (@othiym23)
    • abdd040 read-package-json@1.3.2: Provide more helpful error messages when JSON parse errors are encountered by using a more forgiving JSON parser than JSON.parse. (@smikes)
    • c56cfcd #7525 npm dedupe handles scoped packages. (@KidkArolis)
    • 4ef1412 #7075 If you try to tag a release as a valid semver range, npm publish and npm tag will error early instead of proceeding. (@smikes)

Known issues

  • Possible remaining TLS-related memory leak(s), details at #1075.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

  • [a84ea66b35] - deps: upgrade to openssl-1.0.1m (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1206
  • [3bc445f6c2] - doc: fix a broken collaborator github link (Aleksanteri Negru-Vode) #1204
  • [813a536126] - buffer: removing duplicate code (Thorsten Lorenz) #1144
  • [1514b82355] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add -r/--require flags for preloading modules (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #881
  • [f600111d82] - test: cache lazy properties, fix style nits (Rod Vagg) #1196
  • [3038b8ee6a] - test: double timeout in tls-wrap-timeout.js (Fedor Indutny) #1201
  • [dd37fb4c48] - build: remove incorrect argument in vcbuild.bat (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1198
  • [2b2e48a4b9] - lib: don't error in repl when cwd doesn't exist (Ben Noordhuis) #1194
  • [2c6f79c08c] - src: don't error at startup when cwd doesn't exist (Ben Noordhuis) #1194
  • [c15e81afdd] - test: Introduce knowledge of FreeBSD jails (Johan Bergström) #1167
  • [fe0f015c51] - src: fix crypto bio integer wraparound on 32 bits (Ben Noordhuis) #1192
  • [2b63bcd247] - doc: add yosuke-furukawa as collaborator (Yosuke Furukawa) #1183
  • [69350baaef] - doc: update test section in CONTRIBUTING.md (Ben Noordhuis) #1181
  • [3c8ae2d934] - doc: add petkaantonov as collaborator (Petka Antonov) #1179
  • [92c1ad97c0] - doc: add silverwind as collaborator (Roman Reiss) #1176
  • [14c74d5326] - doc: add jbergstroem as collaborator (Johan Bergström) #1175
  • [8b2363d2fd] - configure: use gcc and g++ as CC and CXX defaults (Ben Noordhuis) #1174
  • [08ec897f82] - doc: fix typo in buffer module documentation (Alex Yursha) #1169
  • [c638dad567] - benchmark: add output format option [csv] (Brendan Ashworth) #777
  • [97d8d4928d] - benchmark: add plot_csv R graphing script (Brendan Ashworth) #777
  • [22793da485] - v8: fix --max_old_space_size=4096 integer overflow (Ben Noordhuis) #1166
  • [b2e00e38dc] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http: add flushHeaders and deprecate flush (Yosuke Furukawa) #1156
  • [68d4bed2fd] - make: remove node_dtrace from cpplint excludes (Julien Gilli) joyent/node#8741
  • [30666f22ca] - net: use cached peername to resolve remote fields (James Hartig) joyent/node#9366
  • [e6e616fdcb] - doc: fix '\' typos on Windows (Steven Vercruysse) joyent/node#9412
  • [89bf6c05e9] - build: allow custom PackageMaker path (Julien Gilli) joyent/node#9377
  • [f58e59649d] - lib: remove broken NODE_MODULE_CONTEXTS feature (Ben Noordhuis) #1162
  • [2551c1d2ca] - src: use Number::New() for heapTotal/heapUsed (Ben Noordhuis) #1148
  • [4f394998ba] - src: don't create js string twice on error (Ben Noordhuis) #1148
  • [eb995d6822] - path: add type checking for path inputs (cjihrig) #1153
  • [a28945b128] - doc: reflect new require('events') behaviour (Alex Yursha) #975
  • [85a92a37ef] - querystring: optimize parse and stringify (Brian White) #847
  • [65d0a8eca8] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) #990
  • [7d0baf1741] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.7.1 (Forrest L Norvell) #1142
  • [4eb8810a27] - tls: re-enable .writev() on TLSWrap (Fedor Indutny) #1155
  • [e90ed790c3] - tls: fix leak on DoWrite() errors (Fedor Indutny) #1154
  • [056ed4b0c9] - src: revert -r/--require flags (Chris Dickinson) #1150
  • [7a5b023bac] - doc: fix vm module examples (FangDun Cai) #1147
  • [7bde3f1a8f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) src: add -r/--require flags for preloading modules (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #881
  • [53e200acc2] - test: fix test-http-content-length (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1145
  • [d8c4a932c9] - crypto: add deprecated ValiCert CA for cross cert (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1135
  • [82f067e60b] - test: fix ext commands to be double quoted (Shigeki Ohtsu) #1122
  • [5ecdc0314d] - test: add test for reading a large file through a pipe (Santiago Gimeno) #1074
  • [a6af709489] - fs: use stat.st_size only to read regular files (Santiago Gimeno) #1074
  • [0782c24993] - test: fix readfile-zero-byte-liar test (Santiago Gimeno) #1074
  • [e2c9040995] - src: do not leak handles on debug and exit (Fedor Indutny) #1133
  • [8c4f0df464] - v8: fix build on solaris platforms (Johan Bergström) #1079
  • [41c9daa143] - build: fix incorrect set in vcbuild.bat (Bert Belder)
  • [07c066724c] - buffer: align chunks on 8-byte boundary (Fedor Indutny) #1126
  • [d33a647b4b] - doc: make tools/update-authors.sh cross-platform (Ben Noordhuis) #1121
  • [8453fbc879] - https: don't overwrite servername option (skenqbx) #1110
  • [60dac07b06] - doc: add Malte-Thorben Bruns to .mailmap (Ben Noordhuis) #1118
  • [480b48244f] - (SEMVER-MINOR) lib: allow server.listen({ port: "1234" }) (Ben Noordhuis) #1116
  • [80e14d736e] - doc: move checkServerIdentity option to tls.connect() (skenqbx) #1107
  • [684a5878b6] - doc: fix missing periods in url.markdown (Ryuichi Okumura) #1115
  • [8431fc53f1] - tls_wrap: proxy handle methods in prototype (Fedor Indutny) #1108
  • [8070b1ff99] - buffer: Don't assign .parent if none exists (Trevor Norris) #1109

2015-03-09, Version 1.5.1, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • tls: The reported TLS memory leak has been at least partially resolved via various commits in this release. Current testing indicated that there may still be some leak problems. Track complete progress at #1075.
  • http: Fixed an error reported at joyent/node#9348 and npm/npm#7349. Pending data was not being fully read upon an 'error' event leading to an assertion failure on socket.destroy(). (Fedor Indutny) #1103

Known issues

  • Possible remaining TLS-related memory leak(s), details at #1075.
  • Windows still reports some minor test failures and we are continuing to address all of these as a priority. See #1005.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

  • [030a92347d] - benchmark: chunky http client benchmark variation (Rudi Cilibrasi) #228
  • [3b57819b58] - crypto: fix leak in SafeX509ExtPrint (Fedor Indutny) #1087
  • [f8c893dd39] - doc: fix confusion markdown in util.markdown (Yazhong Liu) #1097
  • [e763220f66] - doc: update clang version prerequisite (Brendan Ashworth) #1094
  • [0f7c8ebeea] - doc: replace article "an" with "a" in net docs (Evan Lucas) #1093
  • [cf565b5516] - fs: fix .write() not coercing non-string values (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #1102
  • [1a3ca8223e] - http_client: ensure empty socket on error (Fedor Indutny) #1103
  • [8670613d2d] - node_crypto_bio: adjust external memory size (Fedor Indutny) #1085
  • [528d8786ff] - src: fix memory leak in fs.writeSync error path (Ben Noordhuis) #1092
  • [648fc63cd1] - src: fix mismatched delete[] in src/node_file.cc (Ben Noordhuis) #1092
  • [9f7c9811e2] - src: add missing Context::Scope (Ben Noordhuis) #1084
  • [fe36076c78] - stream_base: WriteWrap::New/::Dispose (Fedor Indutny) #1090
  • [7f4c95e160] - tls: do not leak WriteWrap objects (Fedor Indutny) #1090
  • [4bd3620382] - url: remove redundant assignment in url.parse (Alex Kocharin) #1095

2015-03-06, Version 1.5.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • buffer: New Buffer#indexOf() method, modelled off Array#indexOf(). Accepts a String, Buffer or a Number. Strings are interpreted as UTF8. (Trevor Norris) #561
  • fs: options object properties in 'fs' methods no longer perform a hasOwnProperty() check, thereby allowing options objects to have prototype properties that apply. (Jonathan Ong) #635
  • tls: A likely TLS memory leak was reported by PayPal. Some of the recent changes in stream_wrap appear to be to blame. The initial fix is in #1078, you can track the progress toward closing the leak at #1075 (Fedor Indutny).
  • npm: Upgrade npm to 2.7.0. See npm CHANGELOG.md for details including why this is a semver-minor when it could have been semver-major. Summary:
    • 145af65 #4887 Replace calls to the node-gyp script bundled with npm by passing the --node-gyp=/path/to/node-gyp option to npm. Swap in pangyp or a version of node-gyp modified to work better with io.js without having to touch npm's code! (@ackalker)
    • 2f6a1df #1999 Only run stop and start scripts (plus their pre- and post- scripts) when there's no restart script defined. This makes it easier to support graceful restarts of services managed by npm. (@watilde / @scien)
    • 448efd0 #2853 Add support for --dev and --prod to npm ls, so that you can list only the trees of production or development dependencies, as desired. (@watilde)
    • a0a8777 #7463 Split the list printed by npm run-script into lifecycle scripts and scripts directly invoked via npm run-script. (@watilde)
    • a5edc17 #6749 init-package-json@1.3.1: Support for passing scopes to npm init so packages are initialized as part of that scope / organization / team. (@watilde)
  • TC: Colin Ihrig (@cjihrig) resigned from the TC due to his desire to do more code and fewer meetings.

Known issues

  • Possible TLS-related memory leak, details at #1075.
  • Windows still reports some minor test failures and we are continuing to address all of these as a priority. See #1005.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

  • [b27931b0fe] - benchmark: fix wrk check (Brian White) #1076
  • [2b79052494] - benchmark: check for wrk ahead of running benchmarks (Johan Bergström) #982
  • [31421afe89] - buffer: reword Buffer.concat error message (Chris Dickinson) joyent/node#8723
  • [78581c8d90] - (SEMVER-MINOR) buffer: add indexOf() method (Trevor Norris) #561
  • [37bb1df7c4] - build: remove mdb from io.js (Johan Bergström) #1023
  • [726671cb0e] - build: add basic mips/mipsel support (Ben Noordhuis) #1045
  • [a45d4f8fd6] - build: remove tools/wrk from the tree (Johan Bergström) #982
  • [dee07e2983] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) #990
  • [fe14802fb7] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.7.0 (Forrest L Norvell) #1080
  • [31142415de] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-02-18 minutes (Rod Vagg) #1051
  • [6190a2236b] - doc: remove cjihrig from TC (cjihrig) #1056
  • [9741291fe9] - doc: fix child_process heading depth (Sam Roberts) #1038
  • [c8110692a5] - doc: add explanations for querystring (Robert Kowalski) joyent/node#9259
  • [8fb711e06c] - doc: fix default value of opts.decodeURIComponent (h7lin) joyent/node#9259
  • [6433ad1eef] - doc: add missing newline in CHANGELOG (Rod Vagg)
  • [555a7c48cf] - events: optimize listener array cloning (Brian White) #1050
  • [4d0329ebeb] - (SEMVER-MINOR) fs: remove unnecessary usage of .hasOwnProperty() (Jonathan Ong) #635
  • [4874182065] - http: send Content-Length when possible (Christian Tellnes) #1062
  • [08133f45c7] - http: optimize outgoing requests (Brendan Ashworth) #605
  • [dccb69a21a] - js_stream: fix leak of instances (Fedor Indutny) #1078
  • [4ddd6406ce] - lib: avoid .toLowerCase() call in Buffer#write() (Ben Noordhuis) #1048
  • [bbf54a554a] - lib: hand-optimize Buffer constructor (Ben Noordhuis) #1048
  • [9d2b89d06c] - net: allow port 0 in connect() (cjihrig) joyent/node#9268
  • [e0835c9cda] - node: improve performance of nextTick (Trevor Norris) #985
  • [8f5f12bb48] - smalloc: export constants from C++ (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #920
  • [0697f8b44d] - smalloc: validate arguments in js (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #920
  • [1640dedb3b] - src: fix ucs-2 buffer encoding regression (Ben Noordhuis) #1042
  • [2eda2d6096] - src: fix external string length calculation (Ben Noordhuis) #1042
  • [4aea16f214] - src: rename confusingly named local variable (Ben Noordhuis) #1042
  • [c9ee654290] - src: simplify node::Utf8Value() (Ben Noordhuis) #1042
  • [364cc7e08a] - src: remove NODE_INVALID_UTF8 environment variable (Ben Noordhuis) #1042
  • [826cde8661] - src: fix gc heuristic for external twobyte strings (Ben Noordhuis) #1042
  • [f5b7e18243] - src: remove unused code (Ben Noordhuis) #1042
  • [4ae64b2626] - src: extract node env init out of process init (Petka Antonov) #980
  • [b150c9839e] - src: fix -Wempty-body compiler warnings (Ben Noordhuis) #974
  • [fb284e2e4d] - src: fix compiler warning in smalloc.cc (Ben Noordhuis) #1055
  • [583a868bcd] - stream_wrap: add HandleScope's in uv callbacks (Fedor Indutny) #1078
  • [e2fb733a95] - test: simplify parallel/test-stringbytes-external (Ben Noordhuis) #1042
  • [7b554b1a8f] - test: don't spawn child processes in domain test (Ben Noordhuis) #974
  • [b72fa03057] - test: adds a test for undefined value in setHeader (Ken Perkins) #970
  • [563771d8b1] - test: split parts out of host-headers test into its own test (Johan Bergström) #1049
  • [671fbd5a9d] - test: refactor all tests that depends on crypto (Johan Bergström) #1049
  • [c7ad320472] - test: check for openssl cli and provide path if it exists (Johan Bergström) #1049
  • [71776f9057] - test: remove unused https imports (Johan Bergström) #1049
  • [3d5726c4ad] - test: introduce a helper that checks if crypto is available (Johan Bergström) #1049
  • [d0e7c359a7] - test: don't assume process.versions.openssl always is available (Johan Bergström) #1049
  • [e1bf6709dc] - test: fix racey-ness in tls-inception (Fedor Indutny) #1040
  • [fd3ea29902] - test: fix test-fs-access when uid is 0 (Johan Bergström) #1037
  • [5abfa930b8] - test: make destroyed-socket-write2.js more robust (Michael Dawson) joyent/node#9270
  • [1009130495] - tests: fix race in test-http-curl-chunk-problem (Julien Gilli) joyent/node#9301
  • [bd1bd7e38d] - timer: Improve performance of callbacks (Ruben Verborgh) #406
  • [7b3b8acfa6] - tls: accept empty net.Sockets (Fedor Indutny) #1046
  • [c09c90c1a9] - tls_wrap: do not hold persistent ref to parent (Fedor Indutny) #1078
  • [3446ff417b] - tty: do not add shutdown method to handle (Fedor Indutny) #1073
  • [abb00cc915] - url: throw for invalid values to url.format (Christian Tellnes) #1036
  • [abd3ecfbd1] - win,test: fix test-stdin-from-file (Bert Belder) #1067

2015-03-02, Version 1.4.3, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • stream: Fixed problems for platforms without writev() support, particularly Windows. Changes introduced in 1.4.1, via #926, broke some functionality for these platforms, this has now been addressed. #1008 (Fedor Indutny)
  • arm: We have the very beginnings of ARMv8 / ARM64 / AARCH64 support. An upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2 is one requirement for full support. #1028 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • Add new collaborator: Julian Duque (@julianduque)

Known issues

  • Windows still reports some minor test failures and we are continuing to address all of these ASAP. See #1005.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

2015-02-28, Version 1.4.2, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • tls: A typo introduced in the TLSWrap changes in #840 only encountered as a bug on Windows was not caught by the io.js CI system due to problems with the Windows build script and the Windows CI configuration, see Known Issues below. Fixed in #994 & #1004. (Fedor Indutny)
  • npm: Upgrade npm to 2.6.1. See npm CHANGELOG.md for details. Summary:
    • 8b98f0e #4471 npm outdated (and only npm outdated) now defaults to --depth=0. This also has the excellent but unexpected effect of making npm update -g work the way almost everyone wants it to. See the docs for --depth for the mildly confusing details. (@smikes)
    • aa79194 #6565 Tweak peerDependency deprecation warning to include which peer dependency on which package is going to need to change. (@othiym23)
    • 5fa067f #7171 Tweak engineStrict deprecation warning to include which package.json is using it. (@othiym23)
  • Add new collaborators:

Known issues

  • Windows support has some outstanding failures that have not been properly picked up by the io.js CI system due to a combination of factors including human, program and Jenkins errors. See #1005 for details & discussion. Expect these problems to be addressed ASAP.
  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

  • [25da0742ee] - build: improve vcbuild.bat (Bert Belder) #998
  • [b8310cbd3e] - build: reduce tarball size by 8-10% (Johan Bergström) #961
  • [58a612ea9d] - deps: make node-gyp work with io.js (cjihrig) #990
  • [2a2fe5c4f2] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.6.1 (Forrest L Norvell) #990
  • [84ee2722a3] - doc: minor formatting fixes. (Tim Oxley) #996
  • [cf0306cd71] - doc: update stability index (Chris Dickinson) #943
  • [fb2439a699] - doc: add robertkowalski as collaborator (Robert Kowalski) #977
  • [f83d380647] - doc: update os.markdown (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #976
  • [ae7a23351f] - doc: add roadmap, i18n, tracing, evangelism WGs (Mikeal Rogers) #911
  • [14174a95a5] - doc: document roadmap, workgroups (Mikeal Rogers)
  • [865ee313cf] - doc: add tellnes as collaborator (Christian Tellnes) #973
  • [01296923db] - doc: add mscdex as collaborator (Brian White) #972
  • [675cffb33e] - http: don't confuse automatic headers for others (Christian Tellnes) #828
  • [7887e119ed] - install: new performance counters provider guid (Russell Dempsey)
  • [4d1fa2ca97] - src: add check for already defined macro NOMINMAX (Pavel Medvedev) #986
  • [1ab7e80838] - tls: proxy handle.reading back to parent handle (Fedor Indutny) #1004
  • [755461219d] - tls: fix typo handle._reading => handle.reading (Fedor Indutny) #994

2015-02-26, Version 1.4.1, @rvagg

Note: version 1.4.0 was tagged and built but not released. A libuv bug was discovered in the process so the release was aborted. The tag was straight after a558cd0a61 but has since been removed. We have jumped to 1.4.1 to avoid confusion.

Notable changes

  • process / promises: An 'unhandledRejection' event is now emitted on process whenever a Promise is rejected and no error handler is attached to the Promise within a turn of the event loop. A 'rejectionHandled' event is now emitted whenever a Promise was rejected and an error handler was attached to it later than after an event loop turn. See the process documentation for more detail. #758 (Petka Antonov)
  • streams: you can now use regular streams as an underlying socket for tls.connect() #926 (Fedor Indutny)
  • http: A new 'abort' event emitted when a http.ClientRequest is aborted by the client. #945 (Evan Lucas)
  • V8: Upgrade V8 to 4.1.0.21. Includes an embargoed fix, details should be available at https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=430201 when embargo is lifted. A breaking ABI change has been held back from this upgrade, possibly to be included when io.js merges V8 4.2. See #952 for discussion.
  • npm: Upgrade npm to 2.6.0. Includes features to support the new registry and to prepare for npm@3. See npm CHANGELOG.md for details. Summary:
    • 38c4825 #5068 Add new logout command, and make it do something useful on both bearer-based and basic-based authed clients. (@othiym23)
    • c8e08e6 #6565 Warn that peerDependency behavior is changing and add a note to the docs. (@othiym23)
    • 7c81a5f #7171 Warn that engineStrict in package.json will be going away in the next major version of npm (coming soon!) (@othiym23)
  • libuv: Upgrade to 1.4.2. See libuv ChangeLog for details of fixes.

Known issues

  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

  • [8a1e22af3a] - benchmark: pass execArgv to the benchmarking process (Petka Antonov) #928
  • [234e6916b8] - build: Fix incorrect reference (Johan Bergström) #924
  • [e00c938d24] - build: make test-ci output TAP to stdout and log (Rod Vagg) #938
  • [b2a0d8f65e] - deps: update libuv to 1.4.2 (Ben Noordhuis) #966
  • [a558cd0a61] - deps: revert v8 abi change (Ben Noordhuis) #952
  • [54532a9761] - deps: fix postmortem support in v8 (Fedor Indutny) #706
  • [78f4837926] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.1.0.21 (Ben Noordhuis) #952
  • [739fda16a9] - deps: update libuv to 1.4.1 (Ben Noordhuis) #940
  • [da730c76e9] - deps: enable node-gyp iojs.lib download checksum (Ben Noordhuis) #918
  • [97b424365a] - deps: make node-gyp work again on windows (Bert Belder)
  • [19e3d5e10a] - deps: make node-gyp fetch tarballs from iojs.org (Ben Noordhuis) #343
  • [1e2fa1537f] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.6.0 (Forrest L Norvell) #904
  • [2e2cf81476] - doc: fix process.stdout reference to console.log (Brendan Ashworth) #964
  • [2e63bad7eb] - doc: link & formatting of SHAs in commit list (Tim Oxley) #967
  • [c5050d8e4d] - doc: fix 'dhparam' description of tls.createServer (silverwind) #968
  • [06ee782f24] - doc: document 'unhandledRejection' and 'rejectionHandled' (Benjamin Gruenbaum) #946
  • [b65dade102] - doc: update documentation.markdown for io.js. (Ryan Scheel) #950
  • [87e4bfd582] - doc: link cluster worker.send() to child.send() (Sam Roberts) #839
  • [cb22bc9b8a] - doc: fix footer sizing (Jeremiah Senkpiel) #860
  • [3ab9b92e90] - doc: fix stream _writev header size (René Kooi) #916
  • [4fcbb8aaaf] - doc: use HTTPS URL for the API documentation page (Shinnosuke Watanabe) #913
  • [329f364ea2] - doc: fix PR reference in CHANGELOG (Brian White) #903
  • [0ac57317aa] - doc: fix typo, rephrase cipher change in CHANGELOG (Rod Vagg) #902
  • [1f40b2a636] - fs: add type checking to makeCallback() (cjihrig) #866
  • [c82e580a50] - fs: properly handle fd passed to truncate() (Bruno Jouhier) joyent/node#9161
  • [2ca22aacbd] - (SEMVER-MINOR) http: emit abort event from ClientRequest (Evan Lucas) #945
  • [d8eb974a98] - net: make Server.prototype.unref() persistent (cjihrig) #897
  • [872702d9b7] - (SEMVER-MINOR) node: implement unhandled rejection tracking (Petka Antonov) #758
  • [b41dbc2737] - readline: use native codePointAt (Vladimir Kurchatkin) #825
  • [26ebe9805e] - smalloc: extend user API (Trevor Norris) #905
  • [e435a0114d] - src: fix intermittent SIGSEGV in resolveTxt (Evan Lucas) #960
  • [0af4c9ea74] - src: fix domains + --abort-on-uncaught-exception (Chris Dickinson) #922
  • [89e133a1d8] - stream_base: remove static JSMethod declarations (Fedor Indutny) #957
  • [b9686233fc] - stream_base: introduce StreamBase (Fedor Indutny) #840
  • [1738c77835] - (SEMVER-MINOR) streams: introduce StreamWrap and JSStream (Fedor Indutny) #926
  • [506c7fd40b] - test: fix infinite spawn cycle in stdio test (Ben Noordhuis) #948
  • [a7bdce249c] - test: support writing test output to file (Johan Bergström) #934
  • [0df54303c1] - test: common.js -> common (Brendan Ashworth) #917
  • [ed3b057e9f] - util: handle symbols properly in format() (cjihrig) #931

2015-02-20, Version 1.3.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • url: url.resolve('/path/to/file', '.') now returns /path/to/ with the trailing slash, url.resolve('/', '.') returns /. #278 (Amir Saboury)
  • tls: The default cipher suite used by tls and https has been changed to one that achieves Perfect Forward Secrecy with all modern browsers. Additionally, insecure RC4 ciphers have been excluded. If you absolutely require RC4, please specify your own cipher suites. #826 (Roman Reiss)

Known issues

  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774
  • Calling dns.setServers() while a DNS query is in progress can cause the process to crash on a failed assertion #894

Commits

2015-02-10, Version 1.2.0, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • stream:
    • Simpler stream construction, see readable-stream/issues#102 for details. This extends the streams base objects to make their constructors accept default implementation methods, reducing the boilerplate required to implement custom streams. An updated version of readable-stream will eventually be released to match this change in core. (@sonewman)
  • dns:
    • lookup() now supports an 'all' boolean option, default to false but when turned on will cause the method to return an array of all resolved names for an address, see, #744 (@silverwind)
  • assert:
    • Remove prototype property comparison in deepEqual(), considered a bugfix, see #636 (@vkurchatkin)
    • Introduce a deepStrictEqual() method to mirror deepEqual() but performs strict equality checks on primitives, see #639 (@vkurchatkin)
  • tracing:
    • Add LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation) when compiled with the --with-lttng option. Trace points match those available for DTrace and ETW. #702 (@thekemkid)
  • docs:
    • Lots of doc updates, see individual commits
    • New Errors page discussing JavaScript errors, V8 specifics, and io.js specific error details. (@chrisdickinson)
  • npm upgrade to 2.5.1, short changelog:
  • libuv upgrade to 1.4.0, see libuv ChangeLog
  • Add new collaborators:
    • Aleksey Smolenchuk (@lxe)
    • Shigeki Ohtsu (@shigeki)

Known issues

  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal #690
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library #686
  • process.send() is not synchronous as the docs suggest, a regression introduced in 1.0.2, see #760 and fix in #774 that should appear in the next patch release.

Commits

  • [7e2235a] - doc: add error documentation (Chris Dickinson)
  • [d832be4] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg)
  • [aea9b89] - doc: add shigeki as collaborator (Shigeki Ohtsu)
  • [e653080] - fs: improve readFile performance (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [9681fca] - deps: update libuv to 1.4.0 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
  • [5e825d1] - tracing: add lttng support for tracing on linux (Glen Keane)
  • [b677b84] - events: optimize various functions (Brian White)
  • [c86e383] - test: fix test failure with shared openssl (Shigeki Ohtsu)
  • [1151016] - doc: fix typo in crypto (Haoliang Gao)
  • [7c56868] - doc: change the order of crypto.publicDecrypt (Haoliang Gao)
  • [3f473ef] - assert: introduce deepStrictEqual (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [828d19a] - doc: fix dns.lookup options example (Roman Reiss)
  • [90d2b35] - doc: update antiquated process.versions output (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [789bbb9] - doc: update node.js references in api docs (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [c22e5ac] - https: simpler argument check (Michaël Zasso)
  • [b9d3928] - util: simplify isPrimitive (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [2c3121c] - benchmark: bump eventemitter number of iterations (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [633a990] - dns: allow dns.lookup() to return all addresses (Roman Reiss)
  • [1cd1d7a] - buffer: don't compare same buffers (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [847b9d2] - benchmark: add more EventEmitter benchmarks (Brian White)
  • [96597bc] - doc: add lxe as collaborator (Aleksey Smolenchuk)
  • [7a301e2] - deps: make node-gyp work again on windows (Bert Belder)
  • [b188a34] - deps: make node-gyp fetch tarballs from iojs.org (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [af1bf49] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.5.1 (Forrest L Norvell)
  • [9dc9ec3] - lib: make debug client connect to 127.0.0.1 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [e7573f9] - assert: don't compare object prototype property (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [8d11799] - asyncwrap: fix nullptr parent check (Trevor Norris)
  • [62512bb] - test: accept EPROTONOSUPPORT ipv6 error (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [05f4dff] - asyncwrap: fix constructor condition for early ret (Trevor Norris)
  • [10277d2] - docs: include mention of new crypto methods (Calvin Metcalf)
  • [9a8f186] - child_process: add debug and error details (Zach Bruggeman)
  • [6f7a978] - crypto: clear error on return in TLS methods (Fedor Indutny)
  • [50daee7] - stream: simpler stream construction (Sam Newman)
  • [e0730ee] - benchmark: allow compare via fine-grained filters (Brian White)
  • [96ffcb9] - src: reduce cpu profiler overhead (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [3e675e4] - benchmark: don't use template strings (Evan Lucas)
  • [8ac8b76] - doc: simplified pure consensus seeking (Mikeal Rogers)
  • [0a54b6a] - doc: update streams wg charter (Chris Dickinson)
  • [b8ead4a] - Adjusting for feedback in the PR. (Mikeal Rogers)
  • [3af7f30] - Initial documentation for working groups. (Mikeal Rogers)
  • [513724e] - doc: add GPG fingerprint for chrisdickinson (Chris Dickinson)
  • [4168198] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-01-28 minutes (Rod Vagg)

2015-02-03, Version 1.1.0, @chrisdickinson

Notable changes

  • debug: fix v8 post-mortem debugging.
  • crypto: publicEncrypt now supports password-protected private keys.
  • crypto: ~30% speedup on hashing functions.
  • crypto: added privateEncrypt/publicDecrypt functions.
  • errors
    • better formatting via util.inspect
    • more descriptive errors from fs. This necessitated a NODE_MODULE_VERSION bump.
    • more descriptive errors from http.setHeader
  • dep updates:
    • npm: upgrade to 2.4.1
    • http-parser: rollback to 2.3.0
    • libuv: update to 1.3.0
    • v8: update to 4.1.0.14
  • http.request: inherited properties on options are now respected
  • add iterable interface to buffers (for (let byte of buffer.values()) { })
  • fs: fix fd leak on fs.createReadStream. See 497fd72 for details.
  • installer: on Windows, emit WM_SETTINGCHANGE after install to make other running processes aware of the PATH changes.
  • Added new collaborators:
    • Vladimir Kurchatkin (@vkurchatkin)
    • Micleușanu Nicu (@micnic)

Known issues

  • Surrogate pair in REPL can freeze terminal (#690)
  • Not possible to build io.js as a static library (#686)

Commits

  • [df48faf] - tools: add release tool and docs, remove old tools (Rod Vagg)
  • [14684d3] - v8abbr: ASCIISTRINGTAG => ONEBYTESTRINGTAG (Fedor Indutny)
  • [6a5d731] - gyp: enable postmortem support, fix dtrace paths (Fedor Indutny)
  • [8b88ff8] - deps: fix postmortem support in v8 (Fedor Indutny)
  • [d0b0bb4] - dtrace: fix removal of unused probes (Glen Keane)
  • [3e67d7e] - http: replace util._extend() with [].slice() (Jonathan Ong)
  • [89dd8e0] - benchmark: clean up common.js (Brendan Ashworth)
  • [6561274] - crypto: support passwords in publicEncrypt (Calvin Metcalf)
  • [e9eb2ec] - process: fix regression in unlistening signals (Sam Roberts)
  • [233e333] - events: remove indeterminancy from event ordering (Sam Roberts)
  • [d75fecf] - src: remove unused dtrace probes (Glen Keane)
  • [8c0742f] - net: check close callback is function (Yosuke Furukawa)
  • [207e48c] - dgram: check close callback is function (Yosuke Furukawa)
  • [6ac8bdc] - lib: reduce util.is*() usage (cjihrig)
  • [bce7a26] - deps: make node-gyp work again on windows (Bert Belder)
  • [1bdd74d] - deps: make node-gyp fetch tarballs from iojs.org (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [faf34ff] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.4.1 (Forrest L Norvell)
  • [40e29dc] - assert: use util.inspect() to create error messages (cjihrig)
  • [bc2c85c] - fs: improve error messages (Bert Belder)
  • [0767c2f] - lib: fix max size check in Buffer constructor (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [65b1e4f] - dgram: implicit binds should be exclusive (Sam Roberts)
  • [083c421] - benchmark: remove extra spacing in http options (Brendan Ashworth)
  • [e17e6fb] - util: use on-stack buffer for Utf8Value (Fedor Indutny)
  • [3d4e96f] - crypto: use on-stack storage in HashUpdate (Fedor Indutny)
  • [aca2011] - string_bytes: introduce InlineDecoder (Fedor Indutny)
  • [c6367e7] - node: speed up ParseEncoding (Fedor Indutny)
  • [7604e6d] - docs: add note about default padding in crypto (Calvin Metcalf)
  • [cf3e908] - http: more descriptive setHeader errors (Qasim Zaidi)
  • [cbc1262] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.1.0.14 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [00f822f] - doc: add micnic as collaborator (Micleusanu Nicu)
  • [514b1d9] - doc: add more info to benchmark/README.md (Fishrock123)
  • [097fde7] - deps: update libuv to 1.3.0 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
  • [6ad236c] - build: configure formatting, add final message (Roman Reiss)
  • [dd47a8c] - src: set default signal dispositions at start-up (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [63ae1d2] - src: rework early debug signal handling (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [5756f92] - src: do platform-specific initialization earlier (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [24bd4e0] - test: add http upgrade header regression test (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [6605096] - deps: roll back http_parser to 2.3.0 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [90ddb46] - crypto: remove use of this._readableState (Calvin Metcalf)
  • [45d8d9f] - buffer: implement iterable interface (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [3cbb5cd] - console: allow Object.prototype fields as labels (cjihrig)
  • [87e62bd] - crypto: implement privateEncrypt/publicDecrypt (Fedor Indutny)
  • [b50fea4] - watchdog: fix timeout for early polling return (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
  • [b5166cb] - benchmark: add bench-(url & events) make targets (Yosuke Furukawa)
  • [5843ae8] - Revert "doc: clarify fs.symlink and fs.symlinkSync parameters" (Bert Belder)
  • [668bde8] - win,msi: broadcast WM_SETTINGCHANGE after install (Mathias Küsel)
  • [69ce064] - build: remove artifacts on distclean (Johan Bergström)
  • [1953886] - test: fs.createReadStream().destroy() fd leak (Rod Vagg)
  • [497fd72] - fs: fix fd leak in ReadStream.destroy() (Alex Kocharin)
  • [8b09ae7] - doc: add links for http_parser/libuv upgrades (Michael Hart)
  • [683e096] - src: remove excessive license boilerplate (Aleksey Smolenchuk)
  • [5c7ab96] - doc: fix net.Server.listen bind behavior (Andres Suarez)
  • [84b05d4] - doc: update writable streams default encoding (Johnny Ray Austin)
  • [1855267] - doc: fix minor grammar mistake in streams docs (ttrfwork)
  • [4f68369] - build: disable v8 snapshots (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [c0a9d1b] - versions: add http-parser patchlevel (Johan Bergström)
  • [7854811] - child_process: clone spawn options argument (cjihrig)
  • [88aaff9] - deps: update http_parser to 2.4.2 (Fedor Indutny)
  • [804ab7e] - doc: add seishun as a collaborator (Nikolai Vavilov)
  • [301a968] - child_process: remove redundant condition (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [06cfff9] - http: don't bother making a copy of the options (Jonathan Ong)
  • [55c222c] - doc: add vkurchatkin as collaborator (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [50ac4b7] - Working on 1.0.5 (Rod Vagg)
  • [d1fc9c6] - 2015-01-24 io.js v1.0.4 Release (Rod Vagg)

2015-01-24, Version 1.0.4, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • npm upgrade to 2.3.0 fixes Windows "uid is undefined" errors
  • crypto.pseudoRandomBytes() is now an alias for crypto.randomBytes() and will block if there is insufficient entropy to produce secure values. See https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e5e5980 for details.
  • Patch for V8 to properly detect ARMv6; binaries now work again on ARMv6 (Raspberry Pi etc.)
  • Minor V8 upgrade from 4.1.0.7 to 4.1.0.12
  • 'punycode' core module bumped from stability level 2-Unstable, to 3-Stable
  • Added new collaborators:
    • Thorsten Lorenz (@thlorenz)
    • Stephen Belanger (@qard)
    • Jeremiah Senkpiel (@fishrock123)
    • Evan Lucas (@evanlucas)
    • Brendan Ashworth (@brendanashworth)

Commits

  • [bb766d2] - doc: update "net" section in node to io.js changes (Andres Suarez)
  • [73ddaa6] - tools: remove old updateAuthors.awk script (Rod Vagg)
  • [6230bf9] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg)
  • [33186fa] - doc: adds brendanashworth as collaborator (Brendan Ashworth)
  • [8f9502a] - doc: add evanlucas to collaborators (Evan Lucas)
  • [35a4f11] - doc: alphabetize all.markdown (Brendan Ashworth)
  • [a0831c5] - doc: add Fishrock123 to collaborators (Fishrock123)
  • [5412487] - doc: add qard to collaborators (Stephen Belanger)
  • [8b55048] - deps: make node-gyp work again on windows (Bert Belder)
  • [82227f3] - deps: make node-gyp fetch tarballs from iojs.org (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [f5b35db] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.3.0 (Forrest L Norvell)
  • [f3fed51] - doc: adding thlorenz to list of collaborators (Thorsten Lorenz)
  • [8de89ec] - lib: move default address logic to net._listen2 (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [3143d73] - test: delete parallel/test-process-active-wraps (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [4f95b5d] - test: fix parallel/test-http-destroyed-socket-write2 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [5ba307a] - test: fix parallel/test-dgram-error-message-address (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [f4c536b] - debugger: don't override module binding (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [40ffed8] - stream: use nop as write() callback if omitted (cjihrig)
  • [df0d790] - doc: dns.lookupService has wrong header level (Icer Liang)
  • [8b1db9c] - doc: note in docs about missing interfaces (Todd Kennedy)
  • [2928ac6] - doc: bump punycode api stability to 'stable' (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [328e67b] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-01-21 minutes (Rod Vagg)
  • [e5e5980] - lib,src: make pseudoRandomBytes alias randomBytes (Calvin Metcalf)
  • [c6cd460] - configure: remove unused arm_neon variable (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [7d9d756] - configure: disable vfpv3 on armv6 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [297cadb] - deps: fix v8 armv6 run-time detection (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [d481bb6] - doc: more explicit crypto.pseudoRandomBytes docs (Calvin Metcalf)
  • [7d46247] - src: s/node/io.js/ in iojs --help message (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [069c0df] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.1.0.12 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [ada2a43] - doc: add TC meeting 2015-01-13 minutes (Rod Vagg)
  • [60402b9] - docs: remove incorrect entry from changelog (Bert Belder)
  • [8b98096] - fs: make fs.access() flags read only (Jackson Tian)
  • [804e7aa] - lib: use const to define constants (cjihrig)
  • [803883b] - v8: fix template literal NULL pointer deref (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [5435cf2] - v8: optimize getHeapStatistics (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [5d01463] - benchmark: print score to five decimal places (Yosuke Furukawa)
  • [752585d] - src: silence clang warnings (Trevor Norris)
  • [22e1aea] - src: set node_is_initialized in node::Init (Cheng Zhao)
  • [668420d] - src: clean up unused macros in node_file.cc (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [52f624e] - src: rename ASSERT macros in node_crypto.cc (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [e95cfe1] - src: add ASSERT_EQ style macros (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [ee9cd00] - lib: fix TypeError with EventEmitter#on() abuse (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [77d6807] - test: fix event-emitter-get-max-listeners style (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [767ee73] - test: strip copyright boilerplate (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [86eda17] - fs: define constants with const (cjihrig)

2015-01-20, Version 1.0.3, @rvagg

Notable changes

  • V8 upgrade from 3.31 to 4.1, this is not a major upgrade, the version number "4.1" signifies tracking towards Chrome 41. The 3.31 branch is now not tracking towards a stable release.
  • Re-enable Windows XP / 2003 support
  • npm upgrade to 2.2.0
  • Improved FreeBSD support

Known issues

Commits

  • [9419e1f] - src: fix inconsistency between a check and error (toastynerd)
  • [03ee4d8] - fs: add error code on null byte paths (cjihrig)
  • [e2558f0] - net: fix error details in connect() (cjihrig)
  • [4af5746] - win,build: remove duplicate definition (Bert Belder)
  • [e8d0850] - win: bring back xp/2k3 support (Bert Belder)
  • [4dd22b9] - cluster: avoid race enabling debugger in worker (Timothy J Fontaine)
  • [6b91c78] - test: reland changes from 11c1bae (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [992a1e7] - test: debug-signal-cluster should not be racey (Timothy J Fontaine)
  • [cdf0df1] - test: temporarily back out changes from 11c1bae (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [1ea607c] - test: move sequential/test-debug-port-from-cmdline (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [2f33e00] - test: fix test-debug-port-from-cmdline.js (Julien Gilli)
  • [b7365c1] - repl: make REPL support multiline template literals (Xiaowei Li)
  • [2253d30] - build: remove unused variable (Johan Bergström)
  • [ab04a43] - doc: add optional sudo to make install in README (Glen Keane)
  • [1b1cd1c] - build: shorten configurate script print on stdout (Roman Reiss)
  • [d566ded] - deps: fix V8 debugger bugs (Jay Jaeho Lee)
  • [6f36630] - doc: fix util.isBuffer examples (Thomas Jensen)
  • [3abfb56] - benchmark: fix tcp bench after internal api change (Yosuke Furukawa)
  • [50177fb] - benchmark: stop v8 benchmark clobbering RegExp (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [1952219] - deps: make node-gyp work again on windows (Bert Belder)
  • [a28de9b] - deps: make node-gyp fetch tarballs from iojs.org (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [9dc8f59] - deps: upgrade npm to 2.2.0 (Forrest L Norvell)
  • [e8ad773] - src: remove --noharmony_classes again (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [334020e] - deps: fix v8 build on FreeBSD (Fedor Indutny)
  • [5e7ebc7] - deps: upgrade v8 to 4.1.0.7 (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [ea7750b] - benchmark: add filter option for benchmark (Yosuke Furukawa)
  • [4764eef] - doc: fixed punctuation (Brenard Cubacub)
  • [de224d6] - configure: remove --ninja switch (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [48774ec] - configure: print warning for old compilers (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [daf9562] - doc: change to iojs from node in the usage message (Jongyeol Choi)
  • [3fde649] - build: add tools/gflags to PYTHONPATH (Shigeki Ohtsu)
  • [8b22df1] - doc: add python-gflags LICENSE block (Shigeki Ohtsu)
  • [6242229] - tools: add python-gflags module (Shigeki Ohtsu)

2015-01-16, Version 1.0.2, @rvagg

Notable changes

Commits

  • [265cb76] - build: add new installer config for OS X (Rod Vagg)
  • [8cf6079] - doc: update AUTHORS list (Rod Vagg)
  • [c80a944] - doc: Add http keepalive behavior to CHANGELOG.md (Isaac Z. Schlueter)
  • [9b81c3e] - doc: fix author attribution (Tom Hughes)
  • [fd30eb2] - src: fix jslint errors (Yosuke Furukawa)
  • [946eabd] - tools: update closure linter to 2.3.17 (Yosuke Furukawa)
  • [9e62ae4] - _debug_agent: use readableObjectMode option (Vladimir Kurchatkin)
  • [eec4c81] - doc: fix formatting in LICENSE for RTF generation (Rod Vagg)
  • [e789103] - doc: fix 404s for syntax highlighting js (Phil Hughes)
  • [ca039b4] - src: define AI_V4MAPPED for OpenBSD (Aaron Bieber)
  • [753fcaa] - doc: extend example of http.request by end event (Michal Tehnik)
  • [8440cac] - src: fix documentation url in help message (Shigeki Ohtsu)
  • [24def66] - win,msi: warn that older io.js needs manual uninstall (Bert Belder)
  • [59d9361] - win,msi: change UpgradeCode (Bert Belder)
  • [5de334c] - deps: make node-gyp work again on windows (Bert Belder)
  • [07bd05b] - deps: update libuv to 1.2.1 (Saúl Ibarra Corretgé)
  • [e177377] - doc: mention io.js alongside Node in Punycode docs (Mathias Bynens)
  • [598efcb] - deps: update http_parser to 2.4.1 (Fedor Indutny)
  • [3dd7ebb] - doc: update cluster entry in CHANGELOG (Ben Noordhuis)
  • [0c5de1f] - doc: fix double smalloc example (Mathias Buus)

2015-01-14, Version 1.0.1, @rvagg

Rebuild due to stale build worker git reflogs for 1.0.0 release

  • doc: improve write style consistency (Rui Marinho)
  • win,msi: correct doc website link (Bert Belder)

Below is a summary of the user-facing changes to be found in the io.js v1.0.0 release as compared to the current stable Node.js release, v0.10.35. At the time of the v1.0.0 release, the latest unstable Node.js release is v0.11.14 with much progress made towards a v0.11.15 release. The io.js codebase inherits the majority of the changes found in the v0.11 branch of the joyent/node repository and therefore can be seen as an extension to v0.11.

Summary of changes from Node.js v0.10.35 to io.js v1.0.0

General

  • The V8 JavaScript engine bundled with io.js was upgraded dramatically, from version 3.14.5.9 in Node.js v0.10.35 and 3.26.33 in Node.js v0.11.14 to 3.31.74.1 for io.js v1.0.0. This brings along many fixes and performance improvements, as well as additional support for new ES6 language features! For more information on this, check out the io.js ES6 page.
  • Other bundled technologies were upgraded:
    • c-ares: 1.9.0-DEV to 1.10.0-DEV
    • http_parser: 1.0 to 2.3
    • libuv: 0.10.30 to 1.2.0
    • npm: 1.4.28 to 2.1.18
    • openssl: 1.0.1j to 1.0.1k
    • punycode: 1.2.0 to 1.3.2.
  • Performance and stability improvements on all platforms.

buffer

https://iojs.org/api/buffer.html

  • Added buf.writeUIntLE, buf.writeUIntBE, buf.writeIntLE, buf.writeIntBE, buf.readUIntLE, buf.readUIntBE, buf.readIntLE and buf.readIntBE methods that read and write value up to 6 bytes.
  • Added Buffer.compare() which does a memcmp() on two Buffer instances. Instances themselves also have a compare().
  • Added buffer.equals() that checks equality of Buffers by their contents.
  • Added new Buffer(otherBuffer) constructor.
  • Tweaked SlowBuffer's semantics.
  • Updated the output of buffer.toJSON() to not be the same as an array. Instead it is an object specifically tagged as a buffer, which can be recovered by passing it to (a new overload of) the Buffer constructor.

child_process

https://iojs.org/api/child_process.html

  • Added a shell option to child_process.exec.
  • Added synchronous counterparts for the child process functions: child_process.spawnSync, child_process.execSync, and child_process.execFileSync.
  • Added the path to any ENOENT errors, for easier debugging.

console

https://iojs.org/api/console.html

  • Added an options parameter to console.dir.

cluster

https://iojs.org/api/cluster.html

  • Updated cluster to use round-robin load balancing by default on non-Windows platforms. The scheduling policy is configurable however.
  • --debug has been made cluster-aware.
  • Many bug fixes.

crypto

https://iojs.org/api/crypto.html

  • Added support for custom generator values to DiffieHellman (defaulting to 2 for backwards compatibility).
  • Added support for custom pbkdf2 digest methods.
  • Added support for elliptic curve-based Diffie-Hellman.
  • Added support for loading and setting the engine for some/all OpenSSL functions.
  • Added support for passing in a passphrase for decrypting the signing key to Sign.sign().
  • Added support for private key passphrase in every method that accepts it.
  • Added support for RSA public/private encryption/decryption functionality.
  • Added support for setting and getting of authentication tags and setting additional authentication data when using ciphers such as AES-GCM.

dgram

https://iojs.org/api/dgram.html

  • Added support for receiving empty UDP packets.

dns

https://iojs.org/api/dns.html

  • Added dns.resolveSoa, dns.getServers, and dns.setServers methods.
  • Added hostname on error messages when available.
  • Improved error handling consistency.

events

https://iojs.org/api/events.html

  • Added chaining support to EventEmitter.setMaxListeners.
  • Updated require('events') to return the EventEmitter constructor, allowing the module to be used like var EventEmitter = require('events') instead of var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter.

fs

https://iojs.org/api/fs.html

  • Added fs.access, and deprecated fs.exists. Please read the documentation carefully.
  • Added more informative errors and method call site details when the NODE_DEBUG environment is set to ease debugging.
  • Added option to fs.watch for recursive sub-directory support (OS X only).
  • Fixed missing callbacks errors just being printed instead of thrown.

http

https://iojs.org/api/http.html

  • Added support for response.write and response.end to receive a callback to know when the operation completes.
  • Added support for 308 status code (see RFC 7238).
  • Added http.METHODS array, listing the HTTP methods supported by the parser.
  • Added request.flush method.
  • Added response.getHeader('header') method that may be used before headers are flushed.
  • Added response.statusMessage property.
  • Added Client Keep-Alive behavior. Set keepAlive:true in request options to reuse connections indefinitely.
  • Added rawHeaders and rawTrailers members on incoming message.
  • Removed default chunked encoding on DELETE and OPTIONS.

net

https://iojs.org/api/net.html

  • Changed net.Server.listen such that, when the bind address is omitted, IPv6 is tried first, and IPv4 is used as a fallback.

os

https://iojs.org/api/os.html

  • Added MAC addresses, netmasks and scope IDs for IPv6 addresses to os.networkInterfaces method output.
  • Updated os.tmpdir on Windows to use the %SystemRoot% or %WINDIR% environment variables instead of the hard-coded value of c:\windows when determining the temporary directory location.

path

https://iojs.org/api/path.html

  • Added path.isAbsolute and path.parse methods.
  • Added path.win32 and path.posix objects that contain platform-specific versions of the various path functions.
  • Improved path.join performance.

process

https://iojs.org/api/process.html

  • Added beforeExit event.
  • Added process.mainModule and process.exitCode.

querystring

https://iojs.org/api/querystring.html

  • Added the ability to pass custom versions of encodeURIComponent and decodeURIComponent when stringifying or parsing a querystring.
  • Fixed several issues with the formatting of query strings in edge cases.

smalloc

https://iojs.org/api/smalloc.html

smalloc is a new core module for doing (external) raw memory allocation/deallocation/copying in JavaScript.

streams

https://iojs.org/api/stream.html

The changes to streams are not as drastic as the transition from streams1 to streams2: they are a refinement of existing ideas, and should make the API slightly less surprising for humans and faster for computers. As a whole the changes are referred to as "streams3", but the changes should largely go unnoticed by the majority of stream consumers and implementers.

Readable streams

The distinction between "flowing" and "non-flowing" modes has been refined. Entering "flowing" mode is no longer an irreversible operation—it is possible to return to "non-flowing" mode from "flowing" mode. Additionally, the two modes now flow through the same machinery instead of replacing methods. Any time data is returned as a result of a .read call that data will also be emitted on the "data" event.

As before, adding a listener for the "readable" or "data" event will start flowing the stream; as will piping to another stream.

Writable streams

The ability to "bulk write" to underlying resources has been added to Writable streams. For stream implementers, one can signal that a stream is bulk-writable by specifying a _writev method. Bulk writes will occur in two situations:

  1. When a bulk-writable stream is clearing its backlog of buffered write requests,
  2. or if an end user has made use of the new .cork() and .uncork() API methods.

.cork and .uncork allow the end user to control the buffering behavior of writable streams separate from exerting backpressure. .cork indicates that the stream should accept new writes (up to highWaterMark), while .uncork resets that behavior and attempts to bulk-write all buffered writes to the underlying resource.

The only core stream API that currently implements _writev is net.Socket.

In addition to the bulk-write changes, the performance of repeated small writes to non-bulk-writable streams (such as fs.WriteStream) has been drastically improved. Users piping high volume log streams to disk should see an improvement.

For a detailed overview of how streams3 interact, see this diagram.

timers

https://iojs.org/api/timers.html

  • Removed process.maxTickDepth, allowing process.nextTick to be used recursively without limit.
  • Updated setImmediate to process the full queue each turn of the event loop, instead of one per queue.

tls

https://iojs.org/api/tls.html

  • Added detailed boolean flag to getPeerCertificate to return detailed certificate information (with raw DER bytes).
  • Added renegotiate(options, callback) method for session renegotiation.
  • Added setMaxSendFragment method for varying TLS fragment size.
  • Added a dhparam option for DH ciphers.
  • Added a ticketKeys option for TLS ticket AES encryption keys setup.
  • Added async OCSP-stapling callback.
  • Added async session storage events.
  • Added async SNI callback.
  • Added multi-key server support (for example, ECDSA+RSA server).
  • Added optional callback to checkServerIdentity for manual certificate validation in userland.
  • Added support for ECDSA/ECDHE cipher.
  • Implemented TLS streams in C++, boosting their performance.
  • Moved createCredentials to tls and renamed it to createSecureContext.
  • Removed SSLv2 and SSLv3 support.

url

https://iojs.org/api/url.html

  • Improved escaping of certain characters.
  • Improved parsing speed.

util

https://iojs.org/api/util.html

  • Added util.debuglog.
  • Added a plethora of new type-testing methods. See the docs.
  • Updated util.format to receive several changes:
    • -0 is now displayed as such, instead of as 0.
    • Anything that is instanceof Error is now formatted as an error.
    • Circular references in JavaScript objects are now handled for the %j specifier.
    • Custom inspect functions are now allowed to return an object.
    • Custom inspect functions now receive any arguments passed to util.inspect.

v8

https://iojs.org/api/v8.html

v8 is a new core module for interfacing directly with the V8 engine.

vm

https://iojs.org/api/vm.html

The vm module has been rewritten to work better, based on the excellent Contextify native module. All of the functionality of Contextify is now in core, with improvements!

  • Added vm.isContext(object) method to determine whether object has been contextified.
  • Added vm.runInDebugContext(code) method to compile and execute code inside the V8 debug context.
  • Updated vm.createContext(sandbox) to "contextify" the sandbox, making it suitable for use as a global for vm scripts, and then return it. It no longer creates a separate context object.
  • Updated most vm and vm.Script methods to accept an options object, allowing you to configure a timeout for the script, the error display behavior, and sometimes the filename (for stack traces).
  • Updated the supplied sandbox object to be used directly as the global, remove error-prone copying of properties back and forth between the supplied sandbox object and the global that appears inside the scripts run by the vm module.

For more information, see the vm documentation linked above.

zlib

https://iojs.org/api/zlib.html

  • Added support for zlib.flush to specify a particular flush method (defaulting to Z_FULL_FLUSH).
  • Added support for zlib.params to dynamically update the compression level and strategy when deflating.
  • Added synchronous versions of the zlib methods.

C++ API Changes

https://iojs.org/api/addons.html

In general it is recommended that you use NAN as a compatibility layer for your addons. This will also help with future changes in the V8 and Node/io.js C++ API. Most of the following changes are already handled by NAN-specific wrappers.

V8 highlights

  • Exposed method signature has changed from Handle<Value> Method(const Arguments& args) to void Method(const v8::FunctionCallbackInfo<Value>& args) with the newly introduced FunctionCallbackInfo also taking the return value via args.GetReturnValue().Set(value) instead of scope.Close(value), Arguments has been removed.
  • Exposed setter signature has changed from void Setter(Local<String> property, Local<Value> value, const v8::AccessorInfo& args) void Setter(Local<String> property, Local<Value> value, const v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<void>& args).
  • Exposed getter signature has changed from void Getter(Local<String> property, Local<Value> value, const v8::AccessorInfo& args) void Getter(Local<String> property, Local<Value> value, const v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<Value>& args).
  • Exposed property setter signature has changed from Handle<Value> Setter(Local<String> property, Local<Value> value, const v8::AccessorInfo& args) void Setter(Local<String> property, Local<Value> value, const v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<Value>& args).
  • Exposed property getter signature has changed from Handle<Value> Getter(Local<String> property, Local<Value> value, const v8::AccessorInfo& args) void Getter(Local<String> property, Local<Value> value, const v8::PropertyCallbackInfo<Value>& args).
  • Similar changes have been made to property enumerators, property deleters, property query, index getter, index setter, index enumerator, index deleter, index query.
  • V8 objects instantiated in C++ now require an Isolate* argument as the first argument. In most cases it is OK to simply pass v8::Isolate::GetCurrent(), e.g. Date::New(Isolate::GetCurrent(), time), or String::NewFromUtf8(Isolate::GetCurrent(), "foobar").
  • HandleScope scope now requires an Isolate* argument, i.e. HandleScope scope(isolate), in most cases v8::Isolate::GetCurrent() is OK.
  • Similar changes have been made to Locker and Unlocker.
  • V8 objects that need to "escape" a scope should be enclosed in a EscapableHandleScope rather than a HandleScope and should be returned with scope.Escape(value).
  • Exceptions are now thrown from isolates with isolate->ThrowException(ExceptionObject).
  • Context::GetCurrent() must now be done on an isolate, e.g. Isolate::GetCurrent()->GetCurrentContext().
  • String::NewSymbol() has been removed, use plain strings instead.
  • String::New() has been removed, use String::NewFromUtf8() instead.
  • Persistent objects no longer inherit from Handle and cannot be instantiated with another object. Instead, the Persistent should simply be declared, e.g. Persistent<Type> handle and then have a Local assigned to it with handle.Reset(isolate, value). To get a Local from a Persistent you must instantiate it as the argument, i.e. Local::New(Isolate*, Persistent).

Node / io.js

  • Updated node::Buffer::New() to return a Handle directly so you no longer need to fetch the handle_ property.
  • Updated node::MakeCallback() to require an Isolate* as the first argument. Generally Isolate::GetCurrent() will be OK for this.