Weekly Update - Jul 17th, 2015

Yosuke Furukawa

io.js 2.4.0 is released, Apigee joined our foundation and Intl WG start.

This week we have one io.js release: v2.4.0, complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub.

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.

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.

NodeSource announces N|Support on their blog post. N|Support is a premium support offering for Node.js developers, DevOps and IT operations teams. To learn more about N|Support offerings, check out the solution page.
Apigee is added to the Node Foundation
joyent/docker-node team is moved to nodejs/docker team. As a result, @chorrell and @dcrudgington joined @nodejs/docker team.
Intl WG is launched. They are dedicated to support and improvement of Internationalization and Localization in Node. Intl WG calls for participants in their issue.

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