News from 2017

• 15 Jun Node v8.1.2 (Current)

  Fix broken process.release properties in 8.1.1 causing failure to compile native add-ons on platforms other than Windows. This is a fix in the Node.js build process so there are no additional code commits included on top of 8.1.1.

  Windows 32-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-x86.msi
  Windows 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-x64.msi
  Windows 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/win-x86/node.exe
  Windows 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/win-x64/node.exe
  macOS 64-bit Installer: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2.pkg
  macOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-darwin-x64.tar.gz
  Linux 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-linux-x86.tar.xz
  Linux 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-linux-x64.tar.xz
  Linux PPC LE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-linux-ppc64le.tar.xz
  Linux PPC BE 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-linux-ppc64.tar.xz
  Linux s390x 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-linux-s390x.tar.xz
  AIX 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-aix-ppc64.tar.gz
  SunOS 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-sunos-x86.tar.xz
  SunOS 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-sunos-x64.tar.xz
  ARMv6 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-linux-armv6l.tar.xz
  ARMv7 32-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-linux-armv7l.tar.xz
  ARMv8 64-bit Binary: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2-linux-arm64.tar.xz
  Source Code: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/node-v8.1.2.tar.gz
  Other release files: https://nodejs.org/dist/v8.1.2/
  Documentation: https://nodejs.org/docs/v8.1.2/api/

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• 13 Jun Node v8.1.1 (Current)

  • Child processes

    • stdout and stderr are now available on the error output of a failed call to the util.promisify()ed version of child_process.exec. [d66d4fc94c] #13388

  • HTTP

    • A regression that broke certain scenarios in which HTTP is used together with the cluster module has been fixed. [fff8a56d6f] #13578

  • HTTPS

    • The rejectUnauthorized option now works properly for unix sockets. [c4cbd99d37] #13505

  • Readline

    • A change that broke npm init and other code which uses readline multiple times on the same input stream is reverted. [0df6c0b5f0] #13560

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• 08 Jun Node v8.1.0 (Current)
  • Async Hooks
    • When one Promise leads to the creation of a new Promise, the parent Promise will be identified as the trigger [135f4e6643] #13367.
  • Dependencies
    • libuv has been updated to 1.12.0 [968596ec77] #13306.
    • npm has been updated to 5.0.3 [ffa7debd7a] #13487.
  • File system
    • The fs.exists() function now works correctly with util.promisify() [6e0eccd7a1] #13316.
    • fs.Stats times are now also available as numbers [c756efb25a] #13173.
  • Inspector
    • It is now possible to bind to a random port using --inspect=0 [cc6ec2fb27] #5025.
  • Zlib
    • A regression in the Zlib module that made it impossible to properly subclasses zlib.Deflate and other Zlib classes has been fixed. [6aeb555cc4] #13374.

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• 06 Jun Node v6.11.0 (LTS)
  • build:
    • support for building mips64el (nanxiongchao) #10991
  • cluster:
    • disconnect() now returns a reference to the disconnected worker. (Sean Villars) #10019
  • crypto:
    • ability to select cert store at runtime (Adam Majer) #8334
    • Use system CAs instead of using bundled ones (Adam Majer) #8334
    • The Decipher methods setAuthTag() and setAAD now return this. (Kirill Fomichev) #9398
    • adding support for OPENSSL_CONF again (Sam Roberts) #11006
    • make LazyTransform compabile with Streams1 (Matteo Collina) #12380
  • deps:
    • upgrade libuv to 1.11.0 (cjihrig) #11094
    • upgrade libuv to 1.10.2 (cjihrig) #10717
    • upgrade libuv to 1.10.1 (cjihrig) #9647
    • upgrade libuv to 1.10.0 (cjihrig) #9267
  • dns:
    • Implemented {ttl: true} for resolve4() and resolve6(). (Ben Noordhuis) #9296
  • process:
    • add NODE_NO_WARNINGS environment variable (cjihrig) #10842
  • readline:
    • add option to stop duplicates in history (Danny Nemer) #2982
  • src:
    • support "--" after "-e" as end-of-options (John Barboza) #10651
  • tls:
    • new tls.TLSSocket() supports sec ctx options (Sam Roberts) #11005
    • Allow obvious key/passphrase combinations. (Sam Roberts) #10294

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• 30 May Node v8.0.0 (Current)

  The next major release of Node.js brings a range of significant changes and additions, far too many for us to cover adequately in a blog post such as this. This article contains a summary of the most significant changes and features.

  npm, Inc. recently announced the release of version 5.0.0 of the npm client and we are happy to include this significant new version within Node.js 8.0.0.

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• 03 May Node v7.10.0 (Current)
  • crypto: add randomFill and randomFillSync (Evan Lucas) #10209
  • meta: Added new collaborators
    • add lucamaraschi to collaborators (Luca Maraschi) #12538
    • add DavidCai1993 to collaborators (David Cai) #12435
    • add jkrems to collaborators (Jan Krems) #12427
    • add AnnaMag to collaborators (AnnaMag) #12414
  • process: fix crash when Promise rejection is a Symbol (Cameron Little) #11640
  • url: make WHATWG URL more spec compliant (Timothy Gu) #12507
  • v8:
    • fix stack overflow in recursive method (Ben Noordhuis) #12460
    • fix build errors with g++ 7 (Ben Noordhuis) #12392

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• 02 May Node v4.8.3 (Maintenance)
  • module:
    • The module loading global fallback to the Node executable's directory now works correctly on Windows. (Richard Lau) #9283
  • src:
    • fix base64 decoding in rare edgecase (Nikolai Vavilov) #11995
  • tls:
    • fix rare segmentation faults when using TLS
      • (Trevor Norris) #11947
      • (Ben Noordhuis) #11898
      • (jBarz) #11776

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• 02 May Node v6.10.3 (LTS)
  • module:
    • The module loading global fallback to the Node executable's directory now works correctly on Windows. (Richard Lau) #9283
  • src:
    • fix base64 decoding in rare edgecase (Nikolai Vavilov) #11995
  • tls:
    • fix rare segmentation faults when using TLS
      • (Trevor Norris) #11947
      • (Ben Noordhuis) #11898
      • (jBarz) #11776

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• 11 Apr Node v7.9.0 (Current)
  • util: console is now closer to what is supported in all major browsers (Roman Reiss) #10308

  • [9f73df5910] - deps: cherry-pick 22858cb from V8 upstream (Ali Ijaz Sheikh) #11998
  • [b997e62692] - test: add internal/socket_list tests (DavidCai) #12109
  • [c11c23b22b] - doc: make the heading consistent (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #11569
  • [67d21149a2] - crypto: handle exceptions in hmac/hash.digest (Tobias Nießen) #12164
  • [3b765f5366] - doc: fix confusing example in process.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12282
  • [37568c093a] - src: use std::list for at_exit_functions (Daniel Bevenius) #12255
  • [2f9e2fcf3e] - doc: update information on test/known_issues (Jan Krems) #12262
  • [0f4319a14a] - src: use std::string for trace enabled_categories (Sam Roberts) #12242
  • [6826637f11] - doc: fix missing argument for dns.resolvePtr() (Uppinder Chugh) #12256
  • [4a6bb378d4] - doc: fix confusing reference in net.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12247
  • [3e8991cc56] - doc: modernize and fix code examples in modules.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12224
  • [376f5ef1ee] - doc: document the performance team (Gibson Fahnestock) #12213
  • [c0b7c075da] - doc: add refack to collaborators (Refael Ackermann) #12277
  • [83f855d505] - doc: add aqrln to collaborators (Alexey Orlenko) #12273
  • [2fb2289177] - doc: add sub domain to host in url (Steven) #12233
  • [ac200a6122] - test: add a second argument to assert.throws() (dave-k) #12139
  • [3cdd04b1c0] - test: skip irrelevant test on Windows (Rich Trott) #12261
  • [d4d6986551] - build: fix path voodoo in icu-generic.gyp (Refael Ackermann) #11217
  • [a735c16d52] - deps: backport ec1ffe3 from upstream V8 (Daniel Bevenius) #12061
  • [d641164d09] - doc: update pull request template URL layout (Rich Trott) #12216
  • [6feea08587] - buffer: preallocate array with buffer length (alejandro) #11733
  • [a703bdecc4] - build: add checks for openssl configure options (Daniel Bevenius) #12175
  • [b495b6acdf] - build: make configure print statements consistent (Daniel Bevenius) #12176
  • [f60b4553f3] - doc: modernize and fix code examples in https.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12171
  • [74d0266694] - doc: fix string interpolation in Stream 'finish' (Vinay Hiremath) #12221
  • [4b54520a4a] - test: refactor mkdtemp test and added async (Luca Maraschi) #12080
  • [8caf6fd58a] - test: add Unicode characters regression test (Alexey Orlenko) #11423
  • [961c89cc61] - doc: add table of contents to README.md (Jason Marsh) #11635
  • [a11ed6a0b3] - test: more robust check for location of node.exe (Refael Ackermann) #12120
  • [6083e7aa7b] - benchmark: avoid TurboFan deopt in arrays bench (Michaël Zasso) #11894
  • [cf1117bc13] - doc: fix the timing of setImmediate's execution (Daiki Arai) #12034
  • [806c4f3c0c] - doc: fix fs.read arg type (Daiki Arai) #12034
  • [c814c7e9ea] - events: do not keep arrays with a single listener (Luigi Pinca) #12043
  • [36617fd5b8] - doc: add notes to http.get options (Raphael Okon) #12124
  • [9e6b0a4604] - test: performance, remove Popen(shell=True) on Win (Refael Ackermann) #12138
  • [805ebef8b1] - buffer: optimize decoding wrapped base64 data (Alexey Orlenko) #12146
  • [fb34d9c210] - test: increase querystring coverage (DavidCai) #12163
  • [d6e9cf7c22] - doc: fix and update examples in http.md (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12169
  • [f057cc3d84] - benchmark: replace [].join() with ''.repeat() (Vse Mozhet Byt) #12170
  • [b15dc95848] - test: fix flaky test-child-process-exec-timeout (Santiago Gimeno) #12159
  • [72a27b3eb5] - build: use $(RM) in Makefile for consistency (Gibson Fahnestock) #12157
  • [3af9101d20] - doc, inspector: note that the host is optional (Gibson Fahnestock) #12149
  • [b52b3f6710] - test: reduce buffer size in buffer-creation test (Sakthipriyan Vairamani (thefourtheye)) #11177
  • [b5283f9d4b] - doc: add logo to README (Roman Reiss) #12148
  • [305f822a36] - net: rename internal functions for readability (Joyee Cheung) #11796
  • [2f88de1ce3] - vm: use SetterCallback to set func declarations (AnnaMag) #12051
  • [ffbcfdfe32] - src: fix base64 decoding (Nikolai Vavilov) #11995
  • [8823861d9d] - tools: update dotfile whitelist in .gitignore (Michaël Zasso) #12116
  • [87ca9a6ffe] - test: fix flaky child-process-exec-kill-throws (Rich Trott) #12111
  • [fdf76d5aa0] - tools: add missing #include "unicode/putil.h" (Steven R. Loomis) #12078
  • [6130d547a0] - deps: backport 8dde6ac from upstream V8 (Daniel Bevenius) #12060
  • [1ee38eb874] - (SEMVER-MINOR) util: add %i and %f formatting specifiers (Roman Reiss) #10308
  • [5ac719d0d2] - doc: add deprecations page to docs toc (Michaël Zasso) #12268

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• 04 Apr Node v4.8.2 (Maintenance)
  • crypto:
    • fix memory leak if certificate is revoked (Tom Atkinson) #12089
  • deps:
    • upgrade zlib to 1.2.11 (Sam Roberts) #10980

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• 04 Apr Node v6.10.2 (LTS)
• 29 Mar Node v7.8.0 (Current)
• 21 Mar Node v7.7.4 (Current)
• 21 Mar Node v6.10.1 (LTS)
• 21 Mar Node v4.8.1 (LTS)
• 14 Mar Node v7.7.3 (Current)
• 08 Mar Node v7.7.2 (Current)
• 02 Mar Node v7.7.1 (Current)
• 01 Mar Node v7.7.0 (Current)
• 28 Feb Diag WG Update - Many new tools, phasing out some old ones
• 22 Feb Node v7.6.0 (Current)
• 22 Feb Node.js - Quality with Speed
• 22 Feb Node v6.10.0 (LTS)
• 22 Feb Node v4.8.0 (LTS)
• 10 Feb Weekly Update - February 10th, 2017
• 01 Feb Node v7.5.0 (Current)
• 01 Feb Node v4.7.3 (LTS)
• 01 Feb Node v6.9.5 (LTS)
• 27 Jan OpenSSL update, 1.0.2k
• 26 Jan The Node.js Foundation Partners with The Linux Foundation on New Node.js Certification Program
• 20 Jan Node.js Foundation Individual Membership Director election opens Friday, January 20
• 05 Jan Node v6.9.4 (LTS)
• 05 Jan Node v4.7.2 (LTS)
• 04 Jan Node v7.4.0 (Current)
• 04 Jan Node v4.7.1 (LTS)
• 04 Jan Node v6.9.3 (LTS)