Weekly Update - Jun 26th, 2015

io.js and Node.js News

This week we have one io.js release v2.3.1, complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub.

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:
  • Upgrade to v2.11.2 (Rebecca Turner) #1956.
  • Upgrade to v2.11.3 (Forrest L Norvell) #2018.
• 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 https://github.com/nodejs/node/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 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.

Community Updates

• Slide deck: Bluemix Webinar: Deploying a Full Stack Node.js Application to IBM Bluemix
• Article by RisingStack: How to Use Rust with Node.js When Performance Matters
• Device Atlas API now supports Node.js
• On Maintaining a Native Node Module by Chris Williams
• nodei.co is running with io.js
• npm 3.0.0 pre-release

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