Weekly Update - Sep 18th, 2015

Yosuke Furukawa

Node.js News — September 18th

Node.js v4.1.1 is released

Node.js v4.1.1 Releases

This week we have one release: Node.js v4.1.1, complete changelog from previous releases can be found on GitHub.

Node.js v4.1.1 Notable changes

• buffer: Fixed a bug introduced in v4.1.0 where allocating a new zero-length buffer can result in the next allocation of a TypedArray in JavaScript not being zero-filled. In certain circumstances this could result in data leakage via reuse of memory space in TypedArrays, breaking the normally safe assumption that TypedArrays should be always zero-filled. (Trevor Norris) #2931.
• http: Guard against response-splitting of HTTP trailing headers added via response.addTrailers() by removing new-line ([\r\n]) characters from values. Note that standard header values are already stripped of new-line characters. The expected security impact is low because trailing headers are rarely used. (Ben Noordhuis) #2945.
• npm: Upgrade to npm 2.14.4 from 2.14.3, see release notes for full details (Kat Marchán) #2958
  • Upgrades graceful-fs on multiple dependencies to no longer rely on monkey-patching fs
  • Fix npm link for pre-release / RC builds of Node
• v8: Update post-mortem metadata to allow post-mortem debugging tools to find and inspect:
  • JavaScript objects that use dictionary properties (Julien Gilli) #2959
  • ScopeInfo and thus closures (Julien Gilli) #2974

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
• 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

• NodeSource announced N|Solid, "a platform built on Node.js and designed specifically for the unique needs of the enterprise" with a focus on insight, control and protection.
• NodeUp nintyone An Onboarding Show.

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Upcoming Events

• Node.js Italian Conference tickets are on sale, October 10th at Desenzano - Brescia, Italy
• JSConf CO, October 16th - 17th at Ruta N, Medellin, Colombia
• EmpireNode, October 23rd at New York, US.
• NodeFest, November 7th at Tokyo, Japan
• Nodevember, November 14th - 15th at Nashville, Tennessee, US.
• NodeConf Barcelona, November 21st at Barcelona, Spain
• Node.js Interactive, December 8-9 at Portland, US.

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