Weekly Update - Oct 23rd, 2015

Node.js News — October 23rd

Node.js v5.0.0 release proposal

Node.js v5.0.0 release proposal

This week we have one release proposal: Node.js v5.0.0. Complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub.

Notable changes

• console: console.time has been changed to log with sub-millisecond accuracy (Michaël Zasso) #3166.
  • Values reported by console.time will now have 3 decimals of accuracy added.
• fs: Added file descriptor support to *File functions (Johannes Wüller) #3163
  • fs.readFile, fs.writeFile, and fs.appendFile now also accept a file descriptor as their first argument.

Node.js foundation is considering an iteration on the official logo

• Please click here to post images and ideas.
• The Marketing Committee will look over ideas at some point in the future and potentially select one or take some of the ideas/direction and handoff to a designer.
• Final logo will have to be approved by the Board of Directors.

Node.js foundation announces programming for Node.js interactive

• The Node.js Foundation, a community-led and industry-backed consortium to advance the development of the Node.js platform, announced initial programming for Node.js Interactive.
• This inaugural event, which is being led by the newly formed Node.js Foundation in cooperation with the Linux Foundation, will be held December 8-9, 2015, in Portland, Ore.
• Node.js Interactive will also focus on three tracks: Frontend, Backend and the Internet of Things (IoT).

See /blog/announcements/interactive-2015-programming for more information.

NodeUp Podcast

• NodeUp podcast episode 92 was published this week: http://nodeup.com/ninetytwo.
• The subject of the podcast is Node 4.0 and the participants are Rod Vagg, Evan Lucas, and Rich Trott.

Good First Contribution

• Start getting involved in Node.js with good-first-contribution issues.
• Want to help others with issues? You can start simply, by answering open questions with good-first-contribution tag.

See https://github.com/nodejs/node/labels/good%20first%20contribution for more information.

Community Updates

• Node.js for the Real World, "Node.js as back-end for the user-interface layer is a perfect usecase"

If you have spotted or written something about Node.js, do come over to our Evangelism team repo and suggest it on the Issues page, specifically the Weekly Updates issue.

Upcoming Events

• EmpireNode, October 23rd at New York, US.
• NodeFest, November 7th at Tokyo, Japan
• Node Knockout, November 7 - 8th, Worldwide
• Node Girls London, November 7th at London, UK
• Playnode, November 12nd at Seoul, South Korea
• Nodevember, November 14th - 15th at Nashville, Tennessee, US.
• NodeConf Barcelona, November 21st at Barcelona, Spain
• CampJS VI, November 20 – 23th at Queensland, Australia
• Node.js Interactive, December 8-9th at Portland, US.

Have an event about Node.js coming up? You can put your events here through the Evangelism team repo and announce it in the Issues page, specifically the Weekly Updates issue.